![]() ![]() His ship landed in the American countryside, near the fictional town of Smallville. When he was a baby, his parents sent him to Earth in a small spaceship moments before Krypton was destroyed in a natural cataclysm. Superman was born on the fictional planet Krypton and was named Kal-El. Superman has been adapted to a number of other media, including radio serials, novels, films, television shows, theater productions, and video games. The character was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, and debuted in the comic book Action Comics #1 ( cover-dated June 1938 and published April 18, 1938). Superman is a superhero who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. Strength, Stamina, Endurance, Speed, Agility, Reflexes, Intelligence, Longevity, HearingĮM Spectrum Vision, Infra-red Vision, Microscopic Vision, Telescopic Vision, X-ray Vision ![]()
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![]() ![]() He gets run over by a train and lives to tell about it he kisses his first girl, and survives that too. ![]() As the newlyweds' chaperone, conspirator, and confidant, Will is privy to his one-armed, renegade grandfather's second adolescence meanwhile, he does some growing up of his own. Boggled by the sheer audacity of it all, and not a little jealous of his grandpa's new wife, Will nevertheless approves of this May-December match and follows its progress with just a smidgen of youthful prurience. And young Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a major scandal. Rucker Blakeslee announces one July morning in 1906 that he's aiming to marry the young and freckledy milliner, Miss Love Simpson - a bare three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her reward - the news is served up all over town with that afternoon's dinner. The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around - fast. ![]() ![]() I wanted to find answers! I wanted to know the truth! What the heck was going on?Okay, Vee isn't the main character she's actually Nora's best friend. ![]() ![]() Hush, Hush is so full of mystery that it totally draws you in and has you begging for more. Man, I was hooked!This book is intriguing. It took me two days to get through 120 pages of Seraphina, but only about two hours to get through the same amount of pages in Hush, Hush. ![]() So when I cast Seraphina aside unfinished, I was grumpy and wanted an awesome book. Booknook - Young Adult book reviewsBefore starting Hush, Hush, I was about 120 pages into Seraphina by Rachel Hartman and totally stuck. ![]() ![]() Chaol Westfall, the young Captain of the Adarlan Guard struggles to trust Celaena, believing her to be a danger to Dorian, but as Dorian becomes infatuated with Celaena, Celaena and Chaol form a tentative friendship as he trains her for the competition. Celaena is living undercover: She is actually Aelin Galathynius, the lost princess of the conquered kingdom of Terrasen, though this is never explicitly revealed in Throne of Glass.Īt Rifthold, Celaena discovers an ominous clock tower surrounded by mysterious runes. Celaena agrees and journeys to the glass castle at Rifthold, Adarlan’s capital, to compete.Ĭelaena despises the royal family because the tyrannical King of Adarlan murdered her family. In return, Celaena will be free after four years of service. ![]() Dorian proposes to sponsor Celaena, notorious for assassinating many members of the King’s court before her imprisonment, in order to annoy his father. The King of Adarlan is holding a tournament to determine his Champion-really a personal assassin on retainer-and members of the court have been invited to sponsor competitors. ![]() ![]() After a year enslaved in the Endovier Salt Mines, teenage assassin Celaena Sardothien is brought before Dorian Havilliard, the Crown Prince of the country of Adarlan. ![]() ![]() ![]() An old sanatorium high in the Swiss Alps that has been converted into a fancy but sinister hotel – it doesn’t get much better than this. Let’s start with the things I did enjoy, and the setting is definitely a treat. Given the atmospheric, claustrophobic setting in the Swiss Alps during a blizzard I expected to like this book much more than I did – I wonder what went wrong here? ![]() And she's the only one who could have warned them just how much danger they are all in. With the storm closing off all access to the hotel, the longer Laure stays missing, the more the remaining guests start to panic.Įlin is under pressure to find Laure, but no one has realized yet that another woman has gone missing. ![]() And when they wake the following morning to discover Laure is missing, Elin must trust her instincts if they hope to find her. But Elin's taken time off from her job as a detective, so when her estranged brother, Isaac, and his fiancée, Laure, invite her to celebrate their engagement at the hotel, Elin really has no reason not to accept.Īrriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge-there's something about the hotel that makes her nervous. ![]() Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel.Īn imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. Half hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dad and Mom used to work for the CIA, helping to keep America safe. That's spy lingo for Don't get us busted with your loud yapping. We don't want to compromise our position." "Something you might want to try for your brain," added Beck. "You guys?" I whispered as Mom and Storm focused on the parking-garage entrance. As the youngest, we were supposed to "sit still and observe" because this mission could, according to Dad, "go south fast." They were both decked out in commando gear: black shoes, black pants, black turtlenecks, and black watch caps (Tommy complained his was giving him a serious case of hat hair).īeck and I were in the middle seats. Dad and our teenage brother, Tommy, were in the back, where you're supposed to stow luggage. ![]() Storm was up front, keeping her night-vision goggles trained on the garage entrance. The street was so old and narrow, it was probably built way back in the Middle Ages before the rich Medici family jump-started the Renaissance by sponsoring guys like Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello, and Leonardo (the artists, not the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles). That's why the six of us-the entire Kidd family-were crammed into an electric, solar-powered van staking out a garage on a dark cobblestoned street in the middle of the night. There are all sorts of art treasures in Florence, Italy-including the stolen kind. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many frames and scenes in the first issue are later reference in The Dark Knight. ![]() Continuing with the theme of Halloween, this time we follow a serial killer who kills on holidays, starting with a bombing at the house of Harvey and Gilda Dent on Halloween. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow, “Madness” is a game between Mad Hatter and Batman inspired by Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland, while “Ghosts”, the finale, has Batman traveling through the past, present and future with members of his rogues gallery a la Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.ĭC kept the pair together and in 1998 Loeb and Sale began to produce The Long Halloween. “Fears”, the first tale, is a cat and mouse game between Batman and Dr. Haunted Knight (1996) is a special collection from the authours, three halloween tales that is, like a Simpsons Halloween special, a retelling of three stories that was the first pairing of the two. ![]() ![]() ![]() Honestly, I was skeptical to read it because so many people were reading it. There is a copy on my shelf of “Traveling Mercies” that someone at the college lost but it remains unread. Part 1 of 3: Helpįorgive me but this is the first Anne Lamott book that I’ve read. ![]() “Help, Thanks, Wow: Three Essential Prayers” by Anne Lamott. ![]() So, here is my first blog attempt at rabbit trails (notes in the margins), reflection and reviews of pages that I’ve read recently. As an evangelist for the written word (as opposed to films, television and most music with the exception of The Weepies), I hope to share readable, thought-provoking books with others so that you might enjoy them as much as I have. For some time, I wanted to write about books that are worth suggesting to others to enjoy and be inspired by. ![]() ![]() When an act of violence wounds her family, Cinnamon and her theatre squad determine to solve the mysteries and bring her worlds crashing together. They are a story of magic or alien science, but the connection to Cinnamon's past is unmistakable. That won't necessarily stop her! But her family life is a tangle of mysteries and secrets, and nobody is telling her the whole truth.īefore her brother died, he gave Cinnamon The Chronicles of the Great Wanderer-a tale of a Dahomean warrior woman and an alien from another dimension who perform at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. But she's always been theatrically challenged. Highly recommended." - The New York TimesĪndrea Hairston's historical fantasy Will Do Magic for Small Change presents a tale of alien science and earthbound magic and the secrets families keep from each other.Ĭinnamon Jones dreams of stepping on stage and acting her heart out like her famous grandparents, Redwood and Wildfire. ![]() ![]() ![]() The noose fits so tightly around Haller’s neck that it’s got to be a frame-up, but why, and by whom? Identifying the most likely perp as Louis Opparizio, a Vegas mobster Haller made look guilty on the stand nine long years ago, doesn’t clear things up. The evidence is neck-deep that Haller’s ex-client, chronic con man Sam Scales, was dumped into the trunk of the attorney’s trademark car and then shot to death inside his garage as Haller slept above-or, as prosecutor Dana Berg, a true believer in Haller’s guilt, maintains, watched it all from a lot closer. Mickey Haller, the Lincoln Lawyer who’s mostly played second fiddle to his half brother, Harry Bosch, in recent years, gets a most unwelcome star turn when he’s arrested for murder. ![]() |