Her limbs rejoiced to be outdoors again, out of her tiny cabin whose log walls had grown furry and overbearing during the long spring rains. Her body was free to follow its own rules: a long-legged gait too fast for companionship, unself-conscious squats in the path where she needed to touch broken foliage, a braid of hair nearly as thick as her forearm falling over her shoulder to sweep the ground whenever she bent down. She loved the air after a hard rain, and the way a forest of dripping leaves fills itself with a sibilant percussion that empties your head of words. But if she'd troubled to inspect her own mind on this humid, sunlit morning, she would have declared herself happy. She was frustrated, it's true, to be following tracks in the mud she couldn't identify. He would have judged her an angry woman on the trail of something hateful. If someone in this forest had been watching her - a man with a gun, for instance, hiding inside a copse of leafy beech trees - he would have noticed how quickly she moved up the path and how direly she scowled at the ground ahead of her feet. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot every choice is a world made new for the chosen. But solitude is only a human presumption. Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits.
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It helps to select the format and device so that the illustrations and text are clear and easy to read aloud. However, some modern editions have tiny type and no illustrations.Ĭopyright on the books has expired and free digital versions are available from the Internet Archive. Paperback reprints are often obtainable on the used book market for a few dollars. Also, both you and your audience will want to keep reading to the point of absolute exhaustion. Your listeners might grab the book when your back is turned and read ahead. The cliff hangers are the only problem with the series. Dorothy is stuck in the evil Nome King’s cave. The Scarecrow is stuck halfway up a cliff with the birds pecking out his straw. Baum anticipates television, Face Time and a host of other “new” inventions, as well as some inventions that will no doubt be familiar to future generations such as commuting by tornado.Īs Baum hit his stride in the later books, every chapter ends with a cliff hanger. And they are surprisingly modern in tone. You will find that the Oz books are absolutely magical when read aloud. Volume 2: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, The Road to Oz, and The Emerald. Next, start reading the books aloud, a chapter at a time. Volume 1: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Marvelous Land of Oz, and Ozma of Oz by L. They only get better as Baum abandons literary pretense and concentrates on fun. You do not want to run out unexpectedly and it is best to read them in order. I think part of the reason the later thirteen volumes are not as popular is that modern readers don’t know how to read them in the best manner. In time, Lisbeth realizes she has freedoms and opportunities that Mattie does not have, though she’s confined by the societal expectations placed on women born to privilege. 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A must-read that topples the idea that emotions don't belong in the workplace. The author has also allegedly lied about having cancer and requested donations for medical bills. In truth, it’s being said that the author is actually female, a married female, who is using her husband as the face of Santino Hassell. Santino Hassell has, it seems, been pretending to be a bisexual single father for the sake of selling books, which are all MM romances. We all know better than to believe all we read on social media (especially Twitter) but you can usually find some grain of truth in all things. But the more I looked into things, the more it started to seem that there may be truth to the allegations. I can’t count the amount of times authors have been falsely accused for one reason or the other (remember Sherrilyn Kenyon’s accusations against Cassandra Clare?). At first, I didn’t think it would be too big a deal because there would have been a bigger splash if that were the case. Santino Hasell is being accused of catfishing, lying and manipulation. In the comments, I was informed of some recent controversy surrounding one of the authors. Yesterday, I posted the review for Strong Signal by Megan Erickson and Santino Hassell. The Opening of the Second Book of Angelfall: A Tragic gif Play!Ĭaitlin is walking down the road one day when, sight of all sights, a copy of the Second Angelfall book appears! She was able to maintain her dignity and composure as its tantalizing cover sparkled in the sun yeah, right, she totally freaked out :Īnd she just can't resist breaking into song:Īs Caitlin slowly approaches what could be the best book of her life, she places her hands on the cover:Īs her out of control emotions rocket into the stratosphere, she looks around to see if this is a joke: Can you all imagine what the second book is going to be like if the whole book is like that last chapter? Just think about it. I mean, come on! The first book was freaking amazing, and that last chapter.that last freaking chapter. This is me right now waiting for this sure-to-be-amazing book with a lot of my Goodreads friends: |