![]() ![]() ![]() As Bud says, ""I ain't seen so much fun since my pa caught his tie in the toaster""-and Peck is off again. All of this occasions much yelling and jumping from Aunt Augusta and laughing fit to be tied from the kids. She also gets her thumb caught in the trigger (BBBRRRAAATTT-TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT) and her toe up against a hornet, which works its way up her stocking and inside her undies. Well somehow the noise of the gun frightens Augusta so that she flips out of the hammock and onto Skip and Bud. ![]() Peck tries hard for hilarity in this anecdote about rural Vermont tomboy Elizabeth Trigman, who gets the boys to call her Trig when she becomes the possessor of a ""Melvin Purvis official Junior G-man machine gun."" To warm up the audience, Peck has Trig compare her cow to her teacher even though ""one's a Holstein and one's a Methodist."" Then a visiting uncle gives her the gun and she enlists neighbors Skip and Bud in a cops-and-robbers game, with Aunt Augusta, who is sunning unaware in the hammock, as the bad guy. ![]()
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![]() Persepolis Rising feels like the story of the necessarily messy history between A and B. ![]() ![]() History is full of grey, contradictions, and passionate people with good intentions committing atrocities for their causes. There are good and bad people on multiple sides of every argument. That rise to power is fraught with great and terrible things. “Your empire’s hands look a lot cleaner when you get to dictate where history begins, and what parts of it count.”Īs far as the story goes: The only constant is change, and empires aren’t built overnight. We are now nearing the end of the long Expanse arc that began with Leviathan Wakes in 2011, and it is thrilling to see where we’re heading. ![]() I assumed that the pace was going to quicken, since Persepolis Rising is moving us into the final three Expanse novels, but I am in awe at how much this book moved the series forward from where we left off in Babylon’s Ashes. ![]() ![]() ![]() But I really wish I had just stopped there and savoured my good memories. If you read my review of Slammed, you’ll know that I quite enjoyed the book. ![]() Will is left questioning how he can prove his love for a girl who can't seem to stop "carving pumpkins." Upon finding the answers that may bring peace back into their relationship, the couple comes across an even greater challenge-one that could change not only their lives but the lives of everyone who depend on them. Layken is left questioning the very foundation on which her relationship with Will was built. ![]() Their connection is on the brink of being destroyed forever and it will take an extraordinary amount of willpower to keep their love afloat. But the two lovers could not have expected that the things that brought them together may ultimately be the things that tear them apart. ![]() In the second book in the Slammed series by New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover, Layken and Will's relationship has endured through hardships, heartache, and a cruel twist of fate, further solidifying the fact that they belong together. Published by: Atria Books on August 10, 2012 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Black Beauty tells us about his life, his cruel and kind owners, the best way to treat horses and the relationship between man and beast. ![]() Black Beauty is narrated by the horse in question, Black Beauty in the form of a sort of autobiography. Black Beauty is a very simple yet incredibly powerful story of the relationship between human and animals, in this case horses. I had a very pleasant trip down memory lane re-reading this classic. ![]() I haven’t read the book for about 25 years. Over the hedge on one side we looked into a ploughed field, and on the other we looked over a gate at our master’s house, which stood by the roadside at the top of the meadow was a grove of fir trees, and at the bottom a running brook overhung by a steep bank.īlack Beauty was a favourite when I was eight or nine. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end. The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it. A wonderful story that will remain with you and your child. This gentle book follows the life a well bred horse, from his early childhood in a pleasant meadow, through a myriad of owners-some kind and some cruel-until fate returns him to the meadow in which he was born. HTTP://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/BLACK_BEAUTYīlack Beauty is the autobiography of a horse. ![]() |