![]() ![]() Roberts's style is delightfully intimate and confiding: on the debate over Mrs. As high-profile players married into each other's families, as wives died in childbirth and husbands remarried, it seems as if early America-or at least its upper crust-was indeed a very small world. In rough chronological order, Roberts introduces a variety of women, mostly wives, sisters or mothers of key men, exploring how they used their wit, wealth or connections to influence the men who made policy. ![]() ![]() ABC News political commentator and NPR news analyst Roberts didn't intend this as a general history of women's lives in early America-she just wanted to collect some great "stories of the women who influenced the Founding Fathers." For while we know the names of at least some of these women (Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Eliza Pinckney), we know little about their roles in the Revolutionary War, the writing of the Constitution, or the politics of our early republic. ![]()
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So I thought of an idea and started to write. ![]() Hey guys! With the read-along in the fan group, the cover re-design, the 2 year anniversary party, and writing the sequel, I’ve been in a Cinder & Ella kind of mood lately. ![]() ![]() ![]() I GREW UP TO BE A SCHOOLTEACHER! AND A MOTHER! TO A WHOLE LOTTA RUGRATS! PLUS I FELL OFF OF A WATERFALL AND SURVIVED! ![]() OH MY GOD THIS BOOK MADE ME LAUGH!!! SO FUNNY! IT WAS FUNNY BUT WITH A SAD AND SORTA DESPERATE CORE TO IT, JUST LIKE ME! HAHAHAHAHA! I’M NOT SURE I UNDERSTOOD EVERYTHING BUT I LIKED WHAT I UNDERSTOOD! HA! OK I’M JUST KIDDING, I UNDERSTOOD EVERYTHING BUT SOMETIMES I PRETEND NOT TO UNDERSTAND THINGS BECAUSE, WELL, I DON’T KNOW WHY! JUST BECAUSE! ANYWAY, GOOD BOOK! I make more money than you can even imagine. Unfortunately, I was a +1 to that group of adjunct friends my own Basic Eight mainly indulged in binge drinking on our parents’ various boats. Overall the novel felt somewhat realistic to me because I engaged in many ‘Basic Eight’ activities during high school such as talks about The Arts while listening to classical music over a sophisticated dinner. She’s the sort of chick I also gravitate towards. I particularly enjoyed the character of Natasha. I enjoyed the dark, intelligent humor because I gravitate towards darkness and intelligence when it comes to my entertainment. ![]() On a technical level the novel is somewhat impressive, given that it is a first novel from a novice author. REALISTIC ☻ PRIVILEGE ☻ SARCASM ☻ SAN FRANCISCO This review of THE BASIC EIGHT features my very own Basic Eight from Los Alamitos, Orange County. The novel is about love and murder and friendship in high school. The "Basic Eight" are a group of teenage friends. ![]() ![]() ![]() Writing weird-ass nonsense because it’s fun to do, to see where it goes. For better or worse, Choujin X feels like this. Here’s something incredibly relatable: after finishing Ghoul and taking a break to do stuff besides sweat over comics for a few years, Ishida felt the compulsion to return to the medium he loves, and was horrified to realize he’d completely forgotten how to do it. Ishida is the creator of the massively popular manga Tokyo Ghoul. Choujin X’s chase sequence started out on, of all things, razor scooters? But once the farm girl finds a tractor and the choujin in pursuit of her teams up with a biker gang of sheep-headed cryptids, the Hideaki Sorachi zaniness began to take on a Taiyō Matsumoto flavor. She drives it through a couple apartments, through a guard rail, and into a river. Early on in Gintama, when the alien girl gets robbed and steals a police car to try to run over the thief. ![]() When I say hard turn, I mean like driving an automobile through the side of a house. I thought I was reading a somewhat rote lovers’ conflict when, with fingers curled around the syringe, Ishida drops the main story altogether and has a bicycle race. In Sui Ishida’s new manga series, a breakthrough in evil choujin technology makes body-morphing superpowers injectable. The premise of Choujin X was interesting enough, teenage best friends who are made to fight demons decide to become demons themselves. ![]() ![]() What sold me on this book was things taking a hard turn into the unexpectedly insensate. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Suitably wacky cartoon art accompanies the text, which is simple enough for beginning readers ready to soar to a chapter-book format. Though the pet show judges tell Buzz that flies don't qualify as pets, Fly Guy rises to the occasion and wows the judges with various feats, clinching the prize for smartest pet. In one of the book's funniest pictures, Fly Guy is dwarfed by the hot dog Buzz places in his jar, most of which he happily consumes. " the amazed boy replies, "You know my name! You are the smartest pet in the world!" Buzz shows his new pet, which he names Fly Guy, to his parents his father announces that flies are pests and grabs a swatter-until the sly fly lands on Buzz's nose and calls him by name. ![]() After the infuriated insect stomps his foot and says, " Buzz! ") and the lad captures it in a glass jar. The two equally and comically bug-eyed beings meet when the fly collides with the human hero's nose (" boink The Fly Guy book series by multiple authors includes books Hi Fly Guy, Super Fly Guy, Shoo, Fly Guy, and several more. At the same time, "A boy went walking." The winged fellow is looking for food and the boy is searching for a critter for the upcoming Amazing Pet Show. ) brief, playful tale, structured in three chapters. A fly went flying," opens Arnold's ( Parts ![]() |