reviews Crank and Glass سے طرف کی Ellen Hopkins

Dr. Graham Tattersall*
239 pages
2010

A Guide to Answering the Unanswerable, Making Sense of the Nonsensical, and Solving the Unsolvable

How big is your vocabulary?
How heavy is your house?
Do the dead outnumber the living?
What are the best words to use
in a personal ad?

We humans are a curious species, prone to think, ruminate, reflect, cogitate, mull over, and philosophize. We long to explain away the world aruond us, to answer all those seeming unanswerables. Why are we here? Is there a God? Is there life after death? And, above all, how many houseflies does it take to pull a car?

A confirmed and...

How and why I wrote Theta Head سے طرف کی Greg Dawe

Twenty years پہلے I was a young man wielding a freshly dispensed adult لائبریری card, roaming the aisles of my local public library. I found myself trying to find myself there – searching for something that might explain what this life thing was all about. Time and again I found myself gravitating to the ‘alternative’ section – the runes and pagans, the spiritual and metaphysical. I was on the lookout for something different, mysterious – Tibetan monks with extraordinary powers, out of body experiences. And just there, tucked between UFO Abductions...

Uninvited Guests...

    “What is it?” Asked Patty Dransiena, “how did it get in here?”
John Dransiena couldn’t speak, he could only stare at the trembling creature that looked so innocent, yet so scary.
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    As John stepped out of his steaming car, he reflected on his day. He had been yelled at سے طرف کی his, then on his way home, some idiot had tried to cut in front of him and had nearly knocked him off the cliffs that lined the boundaries...

FYI: Just because the series is about cats, DOESN'T mean it's kiddie!

"YOU ARE FIRE, AND آپ WILL BLAZE THROUGH THE FOREST..." Bluestar--leader of ThunderClan--has been prophesied to guide her Clan to power in a time of great turmoil. But closely guarded secrets form the past haunt her every paw step, and dark shadows whisper in her ears. Will she protect her Clan? یا collapse under the weight of her desiny?


A selection from the book:

...Bluefur pushed herself onto her haunches and leaned against Oakheart, enjoying the smoothness of his pelt and the firmness of his muscles beneath. He still smelled...