![]() ![]() Jilin City is one of the oldest cities in Northeast China. In 2007, it co-hosted the Asian Winter Games. Jilin City is also known as the River City because of the Songhua River surrounding much of the city. A prefecture-level city, it is the only major city nationally that shares its name with its province. As of the 2020 census, 3,623,713 people resided within its administrative area of 27,166.37 square kilometres (10,488.99 sq mi) and 1,895,865 in its built-up ( or metro) area consisting of four urban districts. Jilin City ( Chinese: 吉林市 pinyin: Jílín Shì, Mandarin pronunciation: ), alternately romanized as Kirin ( Manchu: ᡤᡳᡵᡳᠨ, IPA:/ki.rin/), is the second-largest city and former capital of Jilin province in northeast China. ![]()
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![]() ![]() When the demon Al flees to earth, he has a score to settle with Rachel and makes a deal with the elf Trent, a criminal mastermind. The master vampire of the city is gunning for her as it was her testimony that put him in jail. Rachel has it but has no intention of giving it to either side because it would change the balance of power and alter civilization. ![]() Vampires and weres want the focus, a statue that changes humans into weres. The FIB needs her help with the death of three werewolf women. She gives it in return for him wearing her mark which means he has to do a favor for her when she asks for it. ![]() ![]() His keeper Minias comes to take him home but he needs Rachel\’s help. One morning the powerful demon Newt tries to possess her because he wants something she has. If she dies before it is removed, she will go straight to the place where the demons live. Rachel, a witch, is one of the supernatural entities that try to do what is right even if she has demons marks from working with them and her souls is black scum. Now they co-exist with humans and like the mortals, some are good and others are very bad. It was the virus in the tomatoes that decimated much of the human race, which led in turn to the Inlanders (the supernatural races) being outed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is more than he thinks, more than he can remember and in the depths of his brain the memory of what he once was is clawing for release. Hunting a prey he cannot not define, driven by a primal instinct he cannot ignore. For just a few, survival is possible only beneath the wrecked streets - if there is time to avoid the slow-descending poisonous ashes.Ī dog wanders the streets, compelled by a ravenous hunger. ![]() The city torn apart, shattered, its people destroyed or mutilated beyond hope. They dominated the others, the dark-furred ones, who foraged for food and brought it back to the lair. The mutant white rat had grown and mated, creating offspring in its own image. It was only when the bones of the first devoured victims were discovered that the true nature and power of these swarming black creatures with their razor sharp teeth and the taste for human blood began to be realised by a panic-stricken city. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Biography: Ken Follett was born in Cardiff, Wales. ![]() As an international clash of military power and personal beliefs sweeps the world, what will this new war mean for those who must live through it? Shaken by the tyranny and the prospect of war, the lives of five families become ever more enmeshed. Many are resolved to oppose Hitler's brutal regime - but are they willing to betray their country?Ī Global Conflict on a Scale Never Seen Before Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. But Daisy is more interested in aristocratic Boy Fitzherbert, a leader in the British Union of Fascists.īerlin is in turmoil. It is 1933 and, at Cambridge, Lloyd Williams is drawn to irresistible socialite Daisy Peshkov, who represents everything that his left-wing family despise. On its own or read in sequence with Fall of Giants and Edge of Eternity, this is a spellbinding epic of global conflict and personal drama. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo Winter of the World is the second novel in Ken Follett's uniquely ambitious Century trilogy. ![]() ![]() It's one of my favorite movies and definitely appealing to more than the "Merchant & Ivory" crowd. The movie is played with sensitivity as well as allowing for the usual David Lean broad strokes of color and light. A Passage to India was published on 4 June 1924 by the British imprint Edward Arnold, and then on 14 August in New York by Harcourt, Brace and Co. ![]() What does or does not happen there becomes a legal and moral crisis that involves all the film's key players as well as the entire city. Forster thus departs from the tradition established by Anglo-Indian fiction, most notably by Rudyard. The major conflict in the movies arrives from an ill fated tourist jaunt to the Marabar Caves some miles away. 2In A Passage to India, language is not indigenized. Guiness's role is in turn played for laughs then for dramatic punch when needed. Alec Guiness is along for the ride in a culture-bending role as a Hindu spiritual man. The great Dame Peggy Ashcroft portrays the fiance's mother who accompanies Davis on her "Passage To India". ![]() Judy Davis stars in one of her earliest films as a woman who travels to India on what she imagines will be a romantic adventure to meet up with and marry a waiting fiance. ![]() Much of the emphasis in the movie is placed on the culture clash between the two countrys. The action takes place during the last days of England's rule over colonial England. David Lean ended his illustrious career on a high note with this haunting love song to the exotic & sensual world of India. ![]() ![]() Ismar DavidThe dust jacket for the original hardback edition of V. Neither the reader nor the American novel will remain unchallenged and unchanged by this astonishing book. Incident piles on incident until, in what amounts almost to a revelation, the pattern of the book and the century it describes emerge with a terrible beauty.Īs for "V.," the unknown lady of the title, she is somebody's mother, somebody's mistress, and a world gone mad with despair. In a madcap, sometimes sad, frequently hilarious way, it captures the ruthlessness and multiplicity of the modern world. Set in various and wonderful places (New York, Alexandria, Cairo, Paris, Florence, Malta, Africa), peopled with vivid characters, V. ![]() Thomas Pynchon's creative imagination appears to be boundless. But no two readers will agree about this book because, like life itself, it is big, mysterious, and absolutely fascinating. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of them is looking for something he has lost the other never had much to lose and so isn't looking for it. It is a wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men. This will almost certainly be the most original novel published in 1963. ![]() ![]() Jane Austen’s words are on the left page, and Shapard’s annotations are conveniently placed on the right. ![]() The Annotated Persuasion may seem long at just over 500 pages, but the actual novel is only half of the book. I’m going to focus more on the annotations by David M. Quick summary: I’m not going to rehash the plot of Persuasion, since this is my second time reading this novel, but you can click here if you’d like to read my thoughts after reading it for the first time. (from The Annotated Persuasion, page 454) ![]() Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. Half an hour’s solitude and reflection might have tranquillized her but the ten minutes only, which now passed before she was interrupted, with all the restraints of her situation, could do nothing towards tranquillity. ![]() Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His books are full of brainy pranks and skirt-chasing honed to a science of its own. ![]() This “noetic Casanova,” as Gleick calls him, put science next to sex, where it belongs in alphabetical order. While Watson admitted that scientists have egos, Feynman confessed that they also have ids. Not since James Watson’s “Double Helix”-a book greatly admired by Feynman-had a scientist exposed himself so brazenly to the public. It was followed after Feynman’s death by another grab bag of stories titled “What Do You Care What Other People Think?,” which also became a bestseller. Feynman!” Assembled by the son of one of his colleagues, this as-told-to book became a bestseller. The Feynman myth began expanding outward to become part of our national heritage in 1985, when he published a collection of autobiographical squibs called “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman-or actually Feynman and his collaborators, since he never really wrote any of the books that bear his name-did a brilliant job of bringing his raucous Broadway patter to the page. The book is ambitious and thorough, but Gleick has a tough assignment when he follows Feynman in retelling stories that the scientist himself had already narrated. He has performed a monumental task of sifting through Feynman’s papers and interviewing many of the important figures in his life. It is Gleick’s aspiration to use Feynman’s life as a window into the history of modern physics, our “modern secular religion,” as Gleick calls it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Spider-Man: The Many Hosts Of Carnage by David Michenlinie ![]() Unlike Venom, Carnage sadly doesn’t come with a built in who’s-who storyline, so if you are new to Carnage, it’s best to do some pre-reading. Also, it’s just fun to read all this before Venom 2: Let There Be Carnage comes out! Pre-Reading Just the other day, I posted part one to my Venom by Donny Cates reading guide, and today I’m continuing it with Absolute Carnage.Ībsolute Carnage is just that: a series that focuses on the symbiote, Carnage, and it’s an integral part of Donny Cates’ Venom run. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It celebrates the nerdy girl in all of us. A must-have for anyone interested in fangirl culture."-Beth Revis, author of the New York Times bestselling Across the Universe series "This FANtastic book embraces and encourages the growing number of women who are unleashing their glorious and gorgeous inner geeks. May this book be with you always."-Bonnie Burton, author of The Star Wars Craft Book and You Can Draw: Star Wars "Part analysis and part celebration, this handbook thoroughly explores geekdom and the way women have made it their own. You'll start reading as student and leave a Jedi Master. Maggs dishes out the best advice on cosplay, gaming, fan fiction, social media and even how to battle trolls. ![]() "If you or someone else in your life could do with an inclusive, funny, super smart, and sweet introduction to the world of female geeks, look no further."-The Mary Sue "Short, thorough, wide-spread, funny, and varied-I wish I'd had this handbook when I first ventured into the fanzones!"-Tamora Pierce, author of The Song of the Lioness series "Everyone could use tips on how to be a better and happier geek from this book. ![]() |