![]() I can’t let go of the first vintage paperback copy I found, even though it is crumbling and worth nothing. Since 2013 I have found 5 beautiful copies of Lost Horizon and I can’t stop adding them to my collection. I guess it was all of it, the experience as a whole. At the time I was really into hiking and maybe I was drawn to the mountainous cover art, or maybe my wandering soul craved the isolated utopia I found within the book. Perhaps the stunning vintage paperback art style and the striking sprayed pages? Maybe it was the smell of old book that greeted me every time I flipped a page? Or simply that the short tale captured my imagination and took me on an adventure. I honestly couldn’t place what drew me to Lost Horizon. I had never seen or heard of this book before, but when I saw it and had to have it. So I shopped there a lot, always looking to add something to my collection that I didn’t already have. I liked it because they had low prices on classics, and bought used books for store credit. I remember the shop well, it was one of those cozy narrow stores that was crammed full of leaning stacks and overflowing shelves. ![]() It was 2013 and I was browsing old paperbacks in a local bookshop that sadly no longer exists. ![]()
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![]() As I looked at the illustrations, I kept wondering how you merge your individual styles into page spreads that work together so beautifully. Kid Lit Frenzy: I am curious about your collaborative process. Thank you for stopping by and talking about your new book OCEAN MEETS SKY. I am excited to welcome Eric and Terry Fan to Kid Lit Frenzy. He’ll build his own ship and sail out to find this magical place himself!Īnd when he arrives, maybe, just maybe, he’ll find something he didn’t know he was looking for. Where whales and jellyfish soar and birds and castles float.įinn’s grandfather is gone now but Finn knows the perfect way to honor him. Every time he looks out his window it’s a constant reminder of the stories his grandfather told him about the place where the ocean meets the sky. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (May 15, 2018)ĭescription from GoodReads: It’s a good day for sailing.įinn lives by the sea and the sea lives by him. ![]() ![]() ![]() He said for a city to work it must entice people to it, people need to want to go out and spend time there, and it should be made as easily as possible to do so. Much of his work looks at designing a city at a scale for walking between buildings, so he favored mixed use cities, with people coming together from different backgrounds, cultures, and for different reasons to create a bustling, thriving city. In sustainable planning, he was one of many planners, architects, and designers from the 1960s onward to worry about the huge impact of the increasing number of motor vehicles on human life in urban areas and addressed methods to try and reduce their impact. His work involved studying the city from walking around it, addressing perspectives from a human-centered perspective and on a human scale. Jan Gehl was instrumental in developing the idea of planning for cities and urban areas from a person perspective, putting people at the heart of architecture, urban design, and planning. ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s a gorgeous dog and everyone in town thinks she’s lovely. ![]() The only thing of worth the family has is their rough collie, Lassie. Carraclough (Donald Crisp and Elsa Lanchester) and their son, Joe (Roddy McDowell) live out a meager existence out on the moors. The author died in World War II and never got to see this movie come to fruition. Right off the bat, the movie starts off with an opening scroll that hits you right in the heart. ![]() Lassie Come Home is based on the 1940 book of the same name by Eric Knight. My husband eventually found him in the shelter and well, here we are. I was barely holding myself together as it was and there was no way I could write a piece about loving pets with him missing. On a side note, I almost didn’t write this because one of our cats, Dick, had been missing for the past few days. It’s perfect because what’s more pure than an animal’s love for its human? While talking it out with my husband, he suggested Lassie Come Home. It’s not the first movie that comes to mind when thinking about love I’ll grant you, but that’s why I went with it. Last year, I wrote about They Shoot Horses Don’t They?. When trying to think of a movie to write about for Valentine’s Day, I was looking for something a little different. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are those who would refer to this building style as boring or even depressing, but in most cases, concrete does the job just as well as any other building material. This society is renowned for its simple yet functional architecture. ![]() Not only do the mag-trains run on time, but the colossal bureaucratic apparatus required to run an interstellar nation has been greatly streamlined. This society is renowned for its efficiency. Bureaucrat and Priest category jobs produce Edict Fund equal to their Unity output.−20% Administrator category jobs upkeep.Those who survive long enough to learn the game, however, tend to learn it well. Power struggles, shady backroom deals and cloak and dagger scheming are par for the course. The political system in this society is renowned for its intrigue. If the Galactic Paragons DLC is installed each civic will unlock a council position. They can be picked by any empire that is neither a Gestalt Consciousness or Corporate empire, and are heavily influenced by the empire ethics and authority type. Standard civics represent the principles that guide day-to-day life within an empire. ![]() ![]() ![]() When ever I listen to this song, I always felt something deeper than what the story was telling. I saw him crying, watched as he buried her in the sand.Īnd then he climbed my tower, and off of the edge of me he ran.Īnd though I am empty, I still warn the sailors on their way. Then on the next day, my keeper found her washed up on the shore. In me so helpless, as dashed against the rock she met her end. The weather to a raging storm had turned.īut in vain against the wild and terrible wind. She'd had to leave us, my keeper he prayed for a safe return. We had grown closer, 'till his joy meant everything to me.Īnd he was to marry, a girl who shone with beauty and light.Īnd with me watched the sunsets into night.Īnd the waves crashing around me, the sand slips out to sea. I had a keeper, he helped me warn the ships at sea. I was so happy, but joy in this life seldom lasts. I'll tell a story, paint you a picture from my past. I keep my lamp lit, to warn the sailors on their way. ![]() ![]() I am a lighthouse, worn by the weather and the waves. ![]() ![]() Some critics have labeled Babylon as an overstuffed film, but the 1920s and early 1930s was a period of an exhausting amount of success, failure, change, and turmoil in Hollywood. These people lived large, lived fast, and often met tragic ends. The larger-than-life personas on the big screen often had troublesome personal lives. There have been many legends spun about the Fatty Arbuckle trials, the murder of William Desmond Taylor, Wallace Reid’s drug addiction, Clara Bow’s “it” girl persona, and John Gilbert’s alcoholism. ![]() Sam Wasson, co-author of Hollywood: The Oral History, told me that 1920s Hollywood was a “period of decadence before the reckoning.” Babylon offers plenty of decadence and debauchery, something readers of Hollywood lore are certainly familiar with. Movies were an established form of entertainment, the idea of the movie star became solidified forever, money was flowing, and business was good. Hollywood mogul Irving Thalberg (left), Max Minghella as Irving Thalberg in ‘Babylon’ (right) ![]() ![]() ![]() Contents 1 Bibliography 1.1 Space Cadets 1.2 Goosebumps 1.3 Goosebumps Series 2000 1.4 Give Yourself Goosebumps 1.4.1 Give Yourself Goosebumps Special Edition 1.5 Fear Street 1.5.1 New Fear Street 1.5.2 Fear Street Super Chiller 1.5. Stine writes books for two new series, Mostly Ghostly and Rotten School. The Following is a list of every book R.L. Stine also hosted the top-rated Goosebumps television show on Fox. ![]() Stine wrote his first book for Goosebumps, which would quickly became the best-selling children’s book series in history. After Blind Date became an instant best seller, Stine started a young adult horror series called Fear Street. books and humor books for kids including How to Be Funny, 101 Silly Monster Jokes. Stine wrote humor and joke books until one day an editor asked him to write a young adult horror novel. Random House Childrens Books, 1990 - Adventure stories - 66 pages. ![]() Stine’s first children’s book, How to be Funny, was published in 1978. Stine also wrote for Nickelodeon’s television show, Eureeka’s Castle. Stine worked at Scholastic, where he edited and wrote for a humor magazine called Bananas. Stine edited a humor magazine and contributed articles under the name “Jovial Bob.” After college, he moved to New York City with aspirations of becoming a writer. In high school, Stine wrote a humor column for the school newspaper called “Stine’s Lines.”Īt Ohio State University, R.L. He would then circulate these publications to friends during class. ![]() At the age of nine, Stine began typing up his own short stories and humor magazines such as Tales to Drive You Batty. Stine was a rather shy and fearful child, but he did have a clever imagination. Robert Lawrence Stine was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1943. ![]() ![]() HBO Max has come at the forefront of all the popular YA content. However, New Line Cinema and HBO Max picked up this project from Fox 2000 when the division shut down. If Marks’ name sounds familiar to you with this project is because this novel’s movie adaptation was initially in talks with Fox 2000 when it was optioned back in 2017. Hannah Marks is set to direct from a script by Berger and Aptaker. ![]() John Green will also serve as the executive producer on the film, along with Elizabeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker. The movie will be produced by Temple Hill’s Wyck Godfrey, Issac Klausner, and Marty Bowen. As per Deadline, the movie has been officially taken on by New Line Cinema and is set to premiere on HBO Max. 1 NY Times bestseller is officially in the works. If you loved reading the novel Turtles All The Way Down, you would be excited to know that the official movie adaptation of John Green’s No. ![]() ![]() Following the success of his international blockbuster Built to Last, where he and co-author Jerry Porras discovered the secrets of companies that were outstanding at their founding and then sustained greatness, Collins wondered what could be done for the company that is good or mediocre at best? He questioned whether there have been companies that started weak and finished strong, and if so, what can be said about these companies that might help managers turn a mediocre organization into a great one? So Collins and his research team undertook a massive five year study of every company that has made the Fortune 500 since the advent of that listing in 1965, and has crafted a book as practical and insightful as BUILT TO LAST. ![]() In Good to Great, the most widely anticipated management book of the year, Jim Collins presents nothing less than a recipe book on how to make a good company great. Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will prosper in the 21st century and beyond. ![]() |