![]() ![]() I honestly only gave this book 4 stars because I didn't foresee the ending coming from the beginning. ![]() I really just struggled to connect with this book. The characters aside the author was not very sensitive in writing certain topics and tried to get away with big topics by making it the identity of a character. The Maxwell's just scream creepy and suspicious, but we don't even question anything they do. ![]() She is unable to tell the truth about her past to Adrian, which was really just annoying. let me tell my theory to absolutely everyone I know. First off, she doesn't question ANYTHING really just takes it all in stride, and oh this kid is possessed by a ghost. ![]() Mallory is unlikable basically every time she thinks or opens her mouth. none of them were relatable or even made sense. While it had a plot twist and the creep factor to the max, especially with the drawings included, I had so many different issues with this book. It had a huge plot twist that I didn't actually see coming, which is why I'm giving it 4 stars. I thought I had figured it out, but it wasn't until like the last 5 chapters that I actually figured out a piece of what was actually happening. you just know how it's going to turn out. So I was intrigued by this book because it has all the perfect elements of a fun horror movie: a kid doing something creepy, a babysitter nobody would believe, and a ghost. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Panas emotion scale developed by Wason et al. Readers' emotion algorithm, this study uses the relevant scale to investigate. The algorithm parameters take the data commonly used in wlda model, where 50 is equal to 0.01, and the number of keywords to judge the subject's emotional tendency is C, which is equal to 100. The emotion seed words used in the experiment are from the Chinese word set used for emotion analysis in the Internet HowNet. The corpus used in the experiment is Haruki Murakami's novel Norwegian forest. The wlda algorithm model is used to segment the data, remove the stop words, and then the algorithm is used to verify the emotional tendency of the novel. Using complex network is to preprocess the data, extract the information in the article by using word frequency statistics, then build a complex network according to word frequency, find out the key points of complex network according to the principle of structural hole, complex network, and analyze the emotional tendency to be expressed in the article. This paper uses complex network and wlda algorithm to analyze the mood of Norwegian forest. ![]() ![]() By stopping after each page, he teaches the reader how to be more aware of how their feelings are being affected as the story unfolds. ![]() He begins with Chekhov’s “ In the Cart ,” pausing after each page to give a commentary on the state of the story as it changes and develops. “A Swim in the Pond in the Rain” includes each translated short story in full, with Saunders’ analysis of each one, as well as his afterthoughts, which are meditations on writing and life inspired by each work. He writes with a voice so intimate, warm and unpretentious that it is like listening to the words of an old friend. Saunders examines what these stories have to teach us about good storytelling in paragraphs that are easy to understand, compelling and highly enjoyable. “A Swim in the Pond in the Rain” is full of lessons on life, art, death and the power of fiction. ![]() His latest book, “ A Swim in the Pond in the Rain ,” is a condensed version of that class, where Saunders gives a moving analysis of seven Russian short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy and Gogol. ![]() George Saunders, Booker prize-winning author of “ Lincoln in the Bardo,” has taught a class on the Russian short story in translation at Syracuse University in New York for over 20 years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Carly, who is cast adrift when her mother, Viv’s sister, dies, comes to Fell, NY, to try to unravel the mystery of her aunt’s disappearance. ![]() Viv is drawn into investigating a mystery involving several missing and murdered women because of eerie encounters at the motel. James, sat on my shelf for at least a week before I peeked at it, but once I peeked, I was hooked! The plot follows two women, one a night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in 1982 and the other the current night clerk, and switches between stories and timelines.Ĭarly, the current clerk, is the niece of Viv, who vanished while working in 1982. While I’ve been lurking and getting book ideas, I have had a terrible time focusing enough to write up any of the (few) books I’ve actually managed to finish – I blame the pandemic. ![]() ![]() ![]() His journals, video diary and recordings leave a trail of breadcrumbs into a series of radical experimental procedures conducted on patients without their consent. With the opportunity to break the story, Eddie voluntarily commits himself into the asylum. ![]() Connecting the RIGHT readers with the RIGHT booksĭescription SEVEN-X is a bone-chilling exploration into the root of evil within us.įreelance Investigative Reporter Eddie Hansen gets a tip on a missing death row prisoner, Annette Dobson, known as “The SIDS Killer.” Eddie adamantly believes Dobson’s execution was staged and that she was secretly shipped to a Behavioral Health Center in a remote location outside the small town of Dell City, Texas. ![]() ![]() ![]() When it occurred to her that she was never going to be able to grow her own spectacular walrus moustache, she decided that Agatha Christie was the more achieveable option. ![]() When she was twelve, her father handed her a copy of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and she realised that she wanted to be either Hercule Poirot or Agatha Christie when she grew up. ![]() She has been making up stories all her life. Robin was born in California and grew up in an Oxford college, across the road from the house where Alice in Wonderland lived. She is also the author of The Guggenheim Mystery, the sequel to Siobhan Dowd's The London Eye Mystery. Robin's books are: Murder Most Unladylike (Murder is Bad Manners in the USA), Arsenic for Tea (Poison is Not Polite in the USA), First Class Murder, Jolly Foul Play, Mistletoe and Murder, Cream Buns and Crime, A Spoonful of Murder, Death in the Spotlight and Top Marks for Murder. ![]() ![]() ![]() In each successive picture, the menacing creature draws nearer to the flat surface of the Polaroid film as if it intends to break through. No matter where Kevin aims the camera, it produces a photograph of an enormous, vicious dog. There's something wrong with his gift, though. Kevin Delevan wants only one thing for his fifteenth birthday: a Polaroid Sun 660. ![]() Now he found himself wondering if maybe he hadn't gotten that backward. It's mine - that was what he had thought when his finger had pushed the shutter-button for the first time. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's novella The Sun Dog, published in his award-winning 1990 story collection Four Past Midnight, is now available as a standalone publication. Aircraft & Spacecraft: General Interest.Ships, Boats & Waterways: General Interest.Road & Motor Vehicles: General Interest.Fishing, Field Sports & Outdoor Activities.Sports Studies & PE: Textbooks & Study Guides. ![]() Literary Studies: Textbooks & Study Guides.Anthologies, Essays, Letters & Miscellaneous.Inventions & Technology: General Interest.Environment & Ecology: General Interest.Popular Culture & Media: General Interest.Politics & Government: Textbooks & Study Guides. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "4 1/2 Stars! Top Pick! Darling Beast is wondrous, magical and joyous - a read to remember."- RT Book Reviews "Hoyt's exquisitely nuanced characters, vividly detailed setting, and seemingly effortless and elegant writing provide the splendid material from which she fashions yet another ravishingly romantic love story."- Booklist (starred review) on Darling Beast read to remember."- RT Book Reviews on Dearest Rogue "4 1/2 Stars! Hoyt takes an unlikely pair of characters and, through the magic of her storytelling, turns them into the perfect couple. ![]() When it comes to incorporating a generous measure of dangerous intrigue and lush sensuality into a truly swoonworthy love story, Hoyt is unrivaled."- Booklist (starred review) on Dearest Rogue ![]() "his superbly executed historical romance is proof positive that this RITA Award-nominated author continues to write with undiminished force and flair. Hoyt does it again!"- RT Book Reviews on Sweetest Scoundrel "4 1/2 Stars! Top Pick! It is a story that takes your breath away and leaves you uplifted. Kudos to a master storyteller!"- RT Book Reviews on Duke of Sin "4 1/2 Stars! Top Pick! Hoyt delivers a unique read on many levels: a love story, a tale of redemption and a plot teeming with emotional depth that takes readers' breaths away. "4 1/2 Stars! Top Pick! Always unique, wonderfully romantic and highly sensual, Hoyt's stories take readers' breath away."- RT Book Reviews on Duke of Pleasure RT Book Reviews Top Pick! "4.5 Stars! A thrilling end this addictive series!"- RT Book Reviews on Duke of Desire ![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimately, I was left with one of the simplest organisational methods of all for this piece. They were new when I discovered them, regardless of whether they had been discovered by other readers days, months, years or even decades before. ![]() I didn't think there was much point to ordering them by publication date either. Most of them I read in that space of true discovery, from the age of nine or so to maybe seventeen or eighteen. I couldn't order them chronologically from when I read them because I mostly couldn't remember when I did. All were and are important to me in many different ways and for many different reasons. All the books I wanted to mention I remembered because they were great books. ![]() The first dredging of the deep sludge of my mind made it clear I was also unable to organise the books in any meaningful way. First of all, I couldn't possibly fit in all the significant books and authors of my childhood. Then I junked what I'd written, because I didn't like how it was coming out. A bit more got done during the long flight home to Sydney. I did a little more in a hotel in Washington D.C. I began writing it in a hotel in Vancouver. There were several false starts to this list, which I originally wrote for the journal of the Children's Book Council, USA. BOOKS REMEMBERED Garth Nix's favourite books from childhood ![]() ![]() ![]() Once again, Amelia is working in an isolated, overgrown graveyard, and once again she always stays until sunset, thus putting herself at the mercy of a host of ghosts and other entities-some quite sinister-who come out only at night. ![]() They erected all these fine monuments to honor the dead, but they couldn't or wouldn't give them their names." Woodbine's caretaker explains to Amelia, "Woodbine is where the well-to-do used to bury their secrets.Their bastards and mistresses.People they kept on the fringes of their lives. ![]() Although the author does provide minimal context for some of the events, she doesn't provide enough background for new readers to fully integrate the past events into the current story line.Īmelia is restoring Charleston's Woodbine Cemetery, a small, badly neglected burial ground in which the graves have no names, just expensive, anonymous headstones. Let me begin by saying that this is not a standalone novel because Stevens frequently reaches back to events in previous book, particularly The Kingdom. ![]() |