![]() ![]() This one is from Killers, the band's second album, and who else but the Irons could write a song about the classic story told from the Ourang-Outang's point of view?Īlan Parsons Project, "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1976) Iron Maiden, "Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1981) We have to give props to anyone who can rhyme " Milton" and "Paris Hilton" and give shout out to Michael Moore and somehow make it all work. The guest list is pretty impressive, with contributions from Ornette Coleman, Jane Scarpantoni, Laurie Anderson, Steve Buscemi and Willem Dafoe, giving his best Norman Osborn treatment to the titular poem. This double CD (or truncated single disc, if you're in a hurry) features songs and spoken-word pieces inspired by the Poester. You gotta hand it to Lou, he isn't exactly hemmed in by convention. Innumerable musical acts cite the author or The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart as an influence as well. Why do we care? Because Poe's legacy isn't just confined to the literary. That's why Rocks Off is happy to report that this weekend, 160 years after the fact, Edgar Allan Poe is finally getting a proper funeral. ![]() But getting buried in an unmarked grave after a three minute "service" is an indignity usually reserved for pet rabbits that escape from their hutch and die under the sofa. Kicking the bucket at the age of 40 is bad enough, especially when, to this day, nobody's really sure how you died (everything from syphillis to rabies to political "cooping" has been thrown out there as a possible cause). ![]()
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NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review.NAMED ONE OF PASTE ’S BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF THE DECADE.“One of the year’s strongest fantasy novels” (NPR), an imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale from the bestselling author of Uprooted. ![]() ![]() ![]() And, while (based on my love for More Happy Than Not) I anticipated liking it, I did not anticipate falling so hard, so fast. If you follow me on twitter you might have noticed that I simply loved this book. ![]() If Griffin is ever to rebuild his future, he must first confront his history, every last heartbreaking piece in the puzzle of his life. ![]() He’s losing himself in his obsessive compulsions and destructive choices, and the secrets he’s been keeping are tearing him apart. But no matter how much they open up to each other, Griffin’s downward spiral continues. ![]() To make things worse, the only person who truly understands his heartache is Jackson. But now, the future he’s been imagining for himself has gone far off course. Even though Theo had moved to California for college and started seeing Jackson, Griffin never doubted Theo would come back to him when the time was right. When Griffin’s first love and ex-boyfriend, Theo, dies in a drowning accident, his universe implodes. Published by Soho Press on January 17th 2017 History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this ARC from Publisher for free in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() The son of a struggling single mother, Tia, Jamie just wants to have a normal childhood. Jamie Conklin is a young boy with a very unusual problem: he can see and talk to the spirits of the recently deceased. However, his latest novel, Later, caught my eye and I decided that it would be a good opportunity to expand my Stephen King knowledge. Honestly, I have only started getting into horror novels in the last couple of years (it is still not my favourite genre TBH) and I have completely failed to make time to check out some of King’s more recent releases. ![]() Despite this, I haven’t read many of King’s novels before, aside from Cell and the novel he co-wrote with his son, Owen King, Sleeping Beauties. ![]() King needs absolutely no introduction, with a decades-long career of amazing horror novels, thrillers and heartfelt pieces of fiction, most of which have been turned into iconic films and television shows. ![]() Since I started this blog, one major author that I have neglected is the master of horror fiction, Stephen King. Publisher: Simon and Schuster Audio (Audiobook – 2 March 2021) ![]() ![]() ![]() The way Bowditch pursues his education against all odds, even when his dream of attending Harvard becomes impossible is admirable and inspiring. This book is a wonderful celebration of learning which provides an excellent role model for self-motivated education. Bowditch is a fictionalized account of Bowditch's story that won the Newbery Medal in 1956. All the while, he taught himself the subjects that interested him using books, later making a name for himself as a navigator when he uncovered errors in various navigational books sailors of his day relied upon heavily. First he was indentured to a chandler, then he worked as a surveyor, and after that he became a supercargo on a merchant ship. ![]() ![]() Nathaniel Bowditch planned to attend Harvard, but a series of events in his young life sent him on a different path instead. ![]() ![]() ![]() While Elizabeth has her daughter, Emma, to take care of, Tristan is a loner and considered the town a$hole. It is truly touching and I honestly went through the entire spectrum of emotions from the very first chapter.Īnother reason is the strong and well-developed characters.īoth Elizabeth and Tristan have suffered immeasurable loss, and they are each trying to survive and recover after losing their loved ones. There are these amazing little sparkling gems of wisdom and beauty scattered throughout the book. One reason you won’t be able to forget this story is the writing. It’s also a truly unforgettable and mesmerizing story, and I was enthralled from the very first page. ![]() It is an emotional journey of healing, learning to let go of the past, and finding the ability to love again. The Air He Breathes by Brittainy C Cherry is the beautiful and heartbreaking story of Tristan and Elizabeth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Warning: graphic violence, mentions of past sexual abuseīe assured this is a spoiler-free review since it would be a disservice to give anything away about this book that kept me on edge until the final pages. So how can Jeremy rescue the man of his dreams from a situation that seems to get crazier and more dangerous by the day? By getting close to the couple next door, Jeremy not only puts a potential love in jeopardy, but eventually his very life. Some days, Cole is the mild-mannered John and then, one night in a bar, he’s the sassy and vivacious drag queen Vera. But the feeling of something being off only begins with Cole being a hard-fisted bully-it ends with him seeming to be different people at different times. Jeremy would never go after another man’s boyfriend, so he reaches out to Shane in friendship while suppressing his feelings of attraction. Until the couple next door moves in and Jeremy sees the man of his dreams, Shane McCallister, pushed down the stairs by a brute named Cole. But the one thing he really wants-someone to love-seems elusive. Jeremy Booth leads a simple life, scraping by in the gay neighborhood of Seattle, never letting his lack of material things get him down. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sure enough, the next day the Trojans make a successful counterattack, led by Hektor, their greatest warrior. She gets Zeus, the king of the gods, to agree to Achilleus's request. That and he prays to his mother, Thetis, who happens to be a goddess, to pull some strings with the other gods so that the Achaians will start getting defeated in battle and realize how much they depend on him. Even though Achilleus gives her up, he becomes so enraged that he refuses to fight any more. Agamemnon eventually agrees, but only if he gets to take Briseis, the girlfriend of Achilleus, the greatest warrior of the Achaians. ![]() After nine days of plague, the Achaians assemble again and demand that Agamemnon give the girl back. ![]() When Agamemnon refuses, the priest prays to the god Apollo to send a plague against the Achaians. First, the priest Chryses comes to ask their leader, King Agamemnon, to release his daughter, whom Agamemnon was holding captive. In the tenth year of the Trojan War, tensions are running high among the Achaians (a super-ancient name for the Ancient Greeks). ![]() ![]() ![]() Unmoored by her sister’s death and a lifetime of constant moving from base to base, Luz turns for the comfort her service-hardened mother cannot offer to the “Smokinawans,” the “waste cases,” who gather to get high every night in a deserted cove. ![]() Luz’s older sister, her best friend and emotional center, has just been killed in the Afghan war. Air Force brat, lives with her strictly-by-the-rules sergeant mother at Kadena Air Base in Okianawa. Above the East China Sea tells the entwined stories of two teenaged girls, an American and an Okinawan, whose lives are connected across seventy years by the shared experience of profound loss, the enduring strength of an ancient culture, and the redeeming power of family love. In her most ambitious, moving, and provocative novel to date, Sarah Bird makes a stunning departure. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was made of stout birch-bark, and its full surface rested on the snow. Leather harness was on the dogs, and leather traces attached them to a sled which dragged along behind. Their breath froze in the air as it left their mouths, spouting forth in spumes of vapour that settled upon the hair of their bodies and formed into crystals of frost. ![]() Down the frozen waterway toiled a string of wolfish dogs. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen- hearted Northland Wild.īut there WAS life, abroad in the land and defiant. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness - a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. ![]() |