![]() ![]() Mother of two, Pam French, who set up the petition said the café helped her to integrate into new surroundings when she moved to Cardiff five years ago. ![]() Café owner, Melissa Boothman, received a notice to quit from the council, meaning her business has to leave the premises by August 2, after months of unsuccessful lease renewal negotiations. The petition, titled 'stop Cardiff Council evicting Secret Garden Café from Bute Park' was launched on Friday May 12 and has received just over 9,700 signatures in four days.Ĭardiff Council said a direct award of a lease renewal for the café, which has been at the Bute Park for five years, could not be made because its tenancy has expired and "a new management agreement and associated lease are now required". A petition launched to save a popular Cardiff café which is expected to leave its current site this summer has received thousands of signatures. ![]()
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![]() She’s calm, calculating and reserved, but shows the softer side of herself around Finbarr, who she’s been in love with for many years. Nan is the protagonist and the character whose viewpoint we read from. The Christie Affair offers us an enigmatic fictionalised version of real life events, centering around five main characters: Nan O’Dea, Finbarr (Nan’s childhood sweetheart), Archie Christie (Agatha’s husband), Detective Chiltern, and Agatha Christie herself. She told nobody where she was going that evening, so when her car was found abandoned on the edge of a chalk pit in Guildford, nobody knew where she was or what had happened to her. The Christie Affair is a reimagining of the infamous eleven-day period when Agatha Christie went missing from her home on December 4th, 1926. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thanks to Midas PR and the publisher for sending me a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Sad testament for someone who claims to be a writer, I know) Now I have dedicated readership from all over the world and this makes me prouder than I could ever express in words. ![]() I love to write and spend time in this universe. ![]() There are 34 handwritten 500-600 page books in the Galactic Chronicles series. Our RPG evolved into the Galactic Chronicles and I am now almost 22 years in that Universe. Not really satisfied with the selection of commercially available RPGames, I created a new one called Action World. It all started in 1989 when my friends and I played Role Playing Games such as AD, Midgard, Traveler etc. ![]() ![]() ![]() One by one, the boys will do things no person could ever imagine. Within his body is a bioengineered nightmare, a horror that spreads faster than fear. He is shockingly thin, disturbingly pale, and voraciously hungry-a man in unspeakable torment who exposes Tim and the boys to something far more frightening than any ghost story. ![]() An unexpected intruder, stumbling upon their campsite like a wild animal. Something wicked… It comes to them in the night. But for some reason, he can’t shake the feeling that something strange is in the air this year. For the most part, they all get along and are happy to be there-which makes Scoutmaster Tim’s job a little easier. There’s Kent, one of the most popular kids in school Ephraim and Max, also well liked and easygoing then there’s Newt the nerd and Shelley the odd duck. This is old-school horror at its best.” -Stephen King Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip-a tradition as comforting and reliable as a good ghost story around a roaring bonfire. “The Troop scared the hell out of me, and I couldn’t put it down. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the second part of the book, the narrator undergoes a change of mindset (Lewis would use the term conversion) and understands that her initial accusation was tainted by her own failings and shortcomings, and that the gods are lovingly present in humans' lives.Ĭlive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. ![]() ![]() The story is set in the fictive kingdom of Glome, a primitive city-state whose people have occasional contact with civilized Hellenistic Greece. The first part of the book is written from the perspective of Psyche's older sister Orual, as an accusation against the gods. This was his last novel, and he considered it his most mature, written in conjunction with his wife, Joy Davidman. ![]() As a consequence, his retelling of the story is characterized by a highly developed character, the narrator, with the reader being drawn into her reasoning and her emotions. This story had haunted Lewis all his life, because he realized that some of the main characters' actions were illogical. Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold is a retelling of a story about Cupid and Psyche. This carefully crafted ebook: "TILL WE HAVE FACES" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. ![]() ![]() ![]() And Notting Hill director Richard Curtis. Like Nicholas Sparks, author of The Notebook. When it comes to cinematic romance, these are folks you can trust. ![]() Not just any filmmakers, actors and writers, either. ![]() To help us curate this list, we chatted to more than 100 filmmakers, actors and writers, including those from Time Out. That makes choosing the greatest films about love a difficult task – frankly, there’s just so many of them. So it makes sense that filmmakers turn to it for inspiration more than any other. But even if a scant few of us would ever, say, rob a bank in the name of love, the fact is that love is perhaps the most elemental emotion a human being can feel. At least, that’s how it’s portrayed in the movies. It makes us do things we’d never think of doing normally, like sing or dance or commit crimes. It can drive you wild with passion or make you feel like you’re losing your mind. It’s also plenty painful, and sometimes absurdly hilarious. ![]() ![]() ![]() While Beagle’s sci-fi novel has sold 6.5 million copies in 25 languages, the film has been seen by tens of millions of people, according to Connor Cochran, Beagle’s dedicated business manager. ![]() The above exposition - which is straight-up awesome in and out of context - makes much more sense when you know that Beagle is the author of the 1968 science fiction novel “The Last Unicorn.” When animation legends Rankin/Bass wanted to translate his story into an animated film, Beagle demanded to write the screenplay the result, 1982’s lushly animated “The Last Unicorn,” is one of the best-loved children’s films of the ’70s and ’80s. ![]() But she’s different now because she does know regret, and she does know sorrow, and she’s forever cursed.” “The unicorn has become unique even among her own people in the sense that she will always be the one who regrets,” Beagle said earlier this week via telephone. Beagle was talking about his writing, his art, his character development and his best-known work - which is to say that Beagle was talking about unicorns. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu ![]() ![]() It is so one sided and inflammatory and caustic that it is not fun to read. It’s written in format that of letters, texts, emails. ![]() Not all earns their stars which is disappointing, but this one truly failed to entertain or engage. ![]() Once again, I’m lured in by the title that contains the word bookseller (or bookstore or library, etc.). That said, this might simply be my being the wrong reader for this novel. Further, none of the anecdotes Fawn found herself in were all that amusing (to be frank, I honestly couldn’t believe she was running her own business) and I kept thinking that had this book been told in a different format, the storyline might have flowed a bit better and I might have enjoyed it more.įor me, in the end, there was just something missing. ![]() Told through a series of emails, letters, blog posts and tweets, also known as epistolary novel, this way of storytelling unfortunately made it hard to like and/or connect with any of the characters in "Confessions of a Curios Bookseller." Fawn came across as delusional, rude, and self-involved which made it hard for me to enjoy the story as I typically have to like the characters I’m reading about in order to like a novel. Though Fawn has always made the best of things, her situation goes from bad to worse when a hip independent bookstore opens up down the block, creating competition where there once was none. Thank you to Goodreads Giveaway and Lake Union Publishing for providing me with a copy of this novel.įawn is the owner of a struggling bookstore in Philadelphia. ![]() ![]() ![]() In modified form, Darwin’s scientific discovery remains the foundation of biology, as it provides a unifying logical explanation for the diversity of life.ĭarwin developed his interest in natural history while studying medicine at Edinburgh University, then theology at Cambridge. ![]() The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and the general public in his lifetime, while his theory of natural selection came to be widely seen as the primary explanation of the process of evolution in the 1930s, and now forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory. Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, eminent as a collector and geologist, who proposed and provided scientific evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process he called natural selection. ![]() ![]() King planned the book to be released under the pseudonym Richard Bachman but his identity was discovered before the book’s release. ![]() King has outlined the creation of Misery in his memoirs, and mentioned that the image of Annie Wilkes came to him in a dream. The novel’s title carries separate meanings it is the name carried by the central heroine of Paul’s book series, and King described such a state of emotion during the novel’s writing. Gradually, Paul realizes that he is a prisoner and is forced to indulge his captor’s whims. When Paul is seriously injured following a car accident, former nurse Annie brings him to her home, where Paul receives treatment and doses of pain medication. ![]() The novel’s narrative is based on the relationship of its two main characters – the popular writer Paul Sheldon and his psychotic fan Annie Wilkes. Misery is an American psychological horror thriller novel written by Stephen King and first published by Viking Press on June 8, 1987. ![]() |