![]() ![]() ![]() 1998)ġ921 – Bob Merrill, American composer, and screenwriter (d. READ MORE-ġ911 – Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish-American actress (d. An autopsy report released on February 9 found that Saget had blunt head trauma from an accidental blow to the back of his head, most likely from a fall, he was infected with COVID-19 at the time. On January 9, 2022, Saget was found unresponsive in his room at a Ritz-Carlton hotel near Williamsburg in Orange County, Florida. He was also known for his adult-oriented stand-up comedy, and his 2014 album That's What I'm Talkin' About was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album. He was the original host of America's Funniest Home Videos (1989–1997), and the voice of narrator Ted Mosby on the sitcom How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014). Saget portrayed Danny Tanner on the sitcom Full House (1987–1995) and its sequel Fuller House (2016–2020). ![]() This Day In History □ Remembering Bob Saget on his Birthday Robert Lane Saget was born on May 17, 1956, in Philadelphia, PA. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() As time runs out, Sasha finds herself torn between two worlds, two lives, and two young men vying for her love-one who knows her secret, and one who believes she's someone she's not. If Sasha succeeds in fooling everyone, she will be returned home if she fails, she'll be trapped in another girl's life forever. To prevent imminent war, Sasha must slip into the life of an alternate version of herself, a princess who has vanished on the eve of her arranged marriage. Sasha never believed such worlds were real-until now, when she finds herself thrust into one against her will. When she was young, she loved her grandfather's stories of parallel worlds, inhabited by girls who looked like her but led totally different lives. Sixteen-year-old Sasha Lawson has only ever known one small, ordinary life. Many worlds, many lives-infinite possibilities. Such a fun and addictive read A captivating tale of rebellion and romance that spans parallel worlds. Read the book that Marie Lu, New York Times bestselling author of the LEGEND trilogy called, A fascinating world of parallel universes, sexy doppelgangers, and breathtaking action. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is poignant in a way that Japanese novels specifically are. While I do recognize that this is a translation and that hugely affects how this novel turned out, I love that the writing was to the point, matter-of-fact. For me, reading Strange Weather in Tokyo has been a welcome change – a sudden stop: to breathe and slow down.īut then again, wasn’t a sensation just that kind of indistinct notion that slips away, no matter how you try to contain it? When you’re used to reading fast-paced books with big characters and bigger endings, reading a quiet book like this would feel like a shock to the system. As their friendship deepens, Tsukiko comes to realise that the solace she has found with Sensei might be something more. ![]() Together, they share edamame beans, bottles of cold beer, and a trip to the mountains to eat wild mushrooms. After this first encounter, Tsukiko and Sensei continue to meet. Tsukiko is drinking alone in her local sake bar when by chance she meets one of her old high school teachers and, unable to remember his name, she falls back into her old habit of calling him ‘Sensei’. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bennet is a dry, history buff, who has recently suffered a health scare bringing Liz and her older sister (nearly 40) Jane home from New York where sisters Mary, Lydia and Kitty greet their two older siblings with something less than unadulterated enthusiasm. Her mother is an annoying shop-aholic with a penchant for seeing all five of her girls married well Mr. This Liz lives in New York and writes for “Mascara” magazine but hails from an upper middle-class family living in a deteriorating Tudor in Cincinnati’s tony Hyde Park neighborhood. In Eligible, Curtis Sittenfeld has written a Lizzie Bennet for the modern American woman. ![]() If only I could have stopped the narrative, run from the car, and found female readers’ own favorite protagonist - Lizzie Bennet - having lunch as described! The questions I would ask her! The advice I would offer! The friendship we would develop!Īlas, as all in carnations of Elizabeth Bennet inevitably are, this one too was fictional. A place of business less than a stone’s throw from my own back door. I was driving along, returning to my home from an out of town visit and listening to a book on tape, ( Eligible, Curtis Sittenfeld) when the narrator mentioned Doodles restaurant in Lexington, Kentucky. Gentle reader, imagine my delighted surprise. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The members of the large, chaotic Shilling family are full of entertaining quirks and idiosyncrasies, but it’s the growing understanding between the Josie and her sisters that steals the show, particularly her recognition that one of her older sisters, Sarah, feels just as lonely and overlooked as she does. But it isn’t long before Josie realizes that although her family loves Hamlet, the city isn’t where he belongs simultaneously, she comes to see that her future in gymnastics may be fleeting and that another interest might be as rewarding. ![]() She recruits her friends to persuade her family that the pig, named Hamlet, should stay permanently at the Shillings’ cramped city home in Ohio. Eleven-year-old Josie Shilling immediately falls in love with the piglet her college-age brother, Tom, rescues and brings home at Thanksgiving. ![]() ![]() ![]() Taking refuge in a cave, Lynch notices they have switched off his sonic shield, and his pursuers' leader, Colonel Bao, orders him to hand himself over for a quick death. The visitors are assured by their Chinese hosts that they are perfectly safe, that nothing can go wrong.īill Lynch, a herpetologist from America, is fleeing from a group of hostile Chinamen, who want to liquidate him before he can ruin their facility's reputation following an incident where people died. ![]() VIPs and journalists, including reptile expert Dr Cassandra Jane 'CJ' Cameron, are invited to see the beasts for the first time. The Chinese are ready to unveil their fabulous creatures in the greatest zoo ever constructed. They have found a species of animal no one believed even existed. It is a secret the Chinese government has been keeping for forty years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But as the pressure mounts and Dylan becomes distant with his closest friends and family, he pushes Jordan for answers. Jordan forces Dylan to keep his symptoms a secret. When the boys start spending time together, Dylan begins feeling all kinds of ways, and when he spikes a fever for two weeks and is suddenly coughing flames, he thinks he might be suffering from something more than just a crush. Then, in walks Jordan, a completely normal (and undeniably cute) boy who also happens to run at a cool 110 degrees Fahrenheit. ![]() Sixteen-year-old Dylan Highmark thought his winter was going to be full of boring shifts at the Dairy Queen, until he finds himself in love with a boy who’s literally too hot to handle.ĭylan has always wanted a boyfriend, but the suburbs surrounding Philadelphia do not have a lot in the way of options. ![]() ![]() I read the trilogy in the 1970's when it first came out. In 1976, Ken Campbell adapted Illuminatus! for the stage, creating a 10-hour epic that went on to open the Royal National Theatre in London under the patronage of Queen Elizabeth II. Part I: The Eye in the Pyramid is performed by the incomparable Ken Campbell and Chris Fairbank. ![]() The trilogy tackles all the cover-ups of our time, from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on the one-dollar bill, and suggests a mind-blowing truth. In a breakneck race against an awesome deadline, Goodman plunges down the trail of the ultimate conspiracy as the days fall away toward Apocalypse.įilled with sex, violence, and rock-and-roll, in and out of time and space, Illuminatus! is only partly a work of the imagination. The Illuminati, an inside joke? The lunatic fringe? Or a vast conspiracy hidden for centuries, unleashing it's power on a naive, defenseless world? It was the lousy luck of Saul Goodman, a tough, streetwise New York detective, to smell the trail in a bombed-out office - the heavy case he'd always dreaded. For the first time in audiobook form, the unabridged epic is presented in all its grandeur, spookiness, hilarity, and brilliance. So begins this original trilogy of conspiracies, Illuminatus!. "It was the year when they finally immanentized the Eschaton". ![]() ![]() Add a mysterious power that could be supernatural in origin or a symptom of psychological imbalance and throw in a sexy love interest that is mysterious and appears to know more than he should about her and who she is. Take a feisty young woman with a past shrouded in tragedy, living with an aunt, uncle and a bitchy cousin. But a normal date is hard to come by when Nash seems to know more about the dark forces behind Kaylee’s power before she does.Īnd when classmates start dropping dead for no apparent reason and only Kaylee knows who’ll be next, she realises that finding a boyfriend is the least of her worries. ![]() Kaylee just wants to enjoy having caught the attention of the hottest boy in school. And when that happens, a force beyond her control compels her to scream bloody murder. She can sense when someone near her is about to die. Something is wrong with Kaylee Cavanaugh… ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When the narrator is a young girl, her mother shows her some of these objects, explaining memories attached to each one. The unnamed narrator’s mother can remember every forgotten object and hides many of these objects in a chest of drawers hidden in their basement. If they are caught with disappeared objects or indicate that they retain memories, they are taken away by the Memory Police. Most residents accept the disappearance, discard the object if possible, then continue with their lives. ![]() The disappearances have become such an integral, accepted part of life that each subsequent disappearance garners little response. Whenever something disappears, the residents lose all affective ties, memories, and even understanding of whatever the object was. The island’s residents always have a sense of when something is about to go, even if they never know what it will be. The disappearances range from mundane objects, such as hats or perfume, to wildlife like roses and birds. The unnamed island of Yoko Ogawa’s novel, The Memory Police (originally published in Japanese in 1994 and translated into English by Stephen Snyder in 2019), is a hazy, unsettling place where things inexplicably disappear. ![]() |