![]() It is one of the most popular fanfics in the Merlin fandom. Given the similar premises, the comparison is not particularly surprising. When it comes to Modern AUs, the story often gets described as "right up there with Drastically Redefining Protocol". As of October 2021, the story has more than 2500 comments, 18500+ Kudos, 6500 bookmarks and a very impressive 715,000+ hits on AO3. The story was also crossposted on Dreamwidth, where the final chapter received 90 comments. ![]() This occured in January 2012, when the AO3 version of this fic had more than 800 comments and over 90,000 hits. The Student Prince was for a time the story with the second highest number of hits on fanfiction website Ao3. FayJay also recorded the podfic of this story. The serial format contributed to the popularity of the novel because people were talking about it after every new part which created a lot of buzz so that more and more people checked it out. ![]() It was written and posted in 35 chapters as a work in progress with a new part every day. The Student Prince is a popular Merlin/Arthur college and modern royal family AU, written and recorded by FayJay. ![]()
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![]() Jonathan Winters, George Hearn and Lewis Arquette also are featured. Love means more than fame and glory." Voices: Henry Gibson provides the voice of the Cat in the Hat and Tim Curry gives a delicious reading as agent Finagle. Quote of Note: "That's the moral of this story. However, with the help of the Cat in the Hat, Mayzie learns the value of true friends. After a daisy sprouts from the head of Mayzie McGrew, she becomes the target of jealous schoolmates, well-meaning adults, hungry bees and a smooth-talking agent. ![]() Story: As presented by the Cat in the Hat, "Daisy-Head Mayzie" is a cautionary tale of the perils of overnight success. "Daisy-Head Mayzie" also was released in book form last month. Audrey Geisel discovered the story while sorting through her late husband's papers. Background: This new half-hour animated musical, produced by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons and Tony Collingsworth Productions, is based on a 20-year-old manuscript by Theodor Geisel (Dr. Repeats at 7:30, 8 and 8:30 Saturday at 5 p.m. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The toys help the creature leave a surprise for Marcella. ![]() The Rabbit Chase: Fido is initially perplexed by a rabbit, but when it gets into the nursery, he learns that it's an Easter Bunny. The Taffy Pull: While the family is away for a few days, the toys sneak into the kitchen and have a merry time making candy, which they ultimately give to a pair of poor children. They sneak out of the nursery for a needle and thread, and as Raggedy Ann sews his arm back on, she recalls doing the same decades earlier when Andy got caught in a spinning wheel. The Spinning Wheel: Raggedy Andy instigates a pillow fight with the other toys and loses his arm in the process. The Nursery Dance: Raggedy Andy arrives in the nursery, meets the other toys, and tells how he spent decades locked in an attic keeping company to a family of mice. The next morning, he finds Andy has fallen over and Ann is cradling his head in her lap. He reunites him with Raggedy Ann and leaves the dolls alone in his office to catch up. How Raggedy Andy Came: Daddy receives Raggedy Andy bundled up in the mail. ![]() ![]() There’s a good chance you’ll like it more than me (now that you’ve been warned) and will want the whole trilogy sitting on your shelf. So, just make sure your expectations are a little more realistic than mine were, and you’ll probably love Ancillary Justice. It is Leckies debut novel and the first in her 'Imperial Radch' space opera trilogy, followed by Ancillary Sword (2014) and Ancillary Mercy (2015). You’re free to enjoy its benefits without troubling your conscience. per Wikipedia: Ancillary Justice is a science fiction novel by the American writer Ann Leckie, published in 2013. One of the many advantages of civilization is that one doesn’t generally have to see that, if one doesn’t wish. However, I was disappointed because all that praise made me think was going to be one of the most amazing science fiction books ever written, and that my life would be fundamentally different after reading it. 330 quotes from Ann Leckie: Luxury always comes at someone else’s expense. I’m looking forward to reading the rest of the trilogy. Clever, fun, inventive, occasionally shocking, and overall a great read with fascinating characters. Newspapers nationwide heaped praise on it.Īnd you know what? It’s a really good book. ![]() In an act of treachery, the Justice of Toren is destroyed, and the AI-now going by the name of Breq-is a single human body filled with unanswered questions and a burning desire for vengeance.Īncillary Justice is the only novel ever to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. ![]() These AI-run soldiers are known as ancillaries. That intelligence also linked thousands of human soldiers, each soldier’s mind completely run by the AI. ![]() The Justice of Toren was a colossal starship run by an artificial intelligence. ![]() ![]() ![]() But not youngest son Bode, who quickly finds a new friend living in an empty well and a new toy, a key, that offers hours of spirited entertainment. ![]() Older kids Tyler and Kinsey aren't much better. Their mother, Nina, is too trapped in her grief-and a wine bottle-to notice that all in Keyhouse is not what it seems: too many locked doors, too many unanswered questions. The epic begins here:įollowing their father's gruesome murder in a violent home invasion, the Locke children return to his childhood home of Keyhouse in secluded Lovecraft, Massachusetts. that, like the doors of Keyhouse, will transform all who open it. ![]() ) has created a gripping story of dark fantasy and wonder-with astounding artwork from Tells a sprawling tale of magic and family, legacy and grief, good and evil. ![]() ![]() ![]() This acclaimed Newbery Honor Book is a great choice for readers of Kate DiCamillo, Rita Williams-Garcia, and Rebecca Stead.Ĭash, Fitch, and Bird Nelson Thomas are three siblings in seventh grade together in Park, Delaware. Newbery Medalist and New York Times-bestselling author Erin Entrada Kelly transports readers to 1986 and introduces them to the unforgettable Cash, Fitch, and Bird Nelson Thomas in this pitch-perfect middle grade novel about family, friendship, science, and exploration. ![]() Anyone interested in science, sibling relationships, and friendships will enjoy reading We Dream of Space."- Time for Kids A Newbery Honor Book - BookPage Best Books - Chicago Public Library Best Fiction - Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee - Horn Book Fanfare - New York Times Notable Children's Book - School Library Journal Best Book - Today Show Pick - An ALA Notable Book ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() More than one character gets a paragraph describing their thirst after greedily downing a glass of water. Taylor’s motifs through the rest of the stories sit in a similar vein, with many dealing with complicated interpersonal relationships, sexuality and desire, as well as various outpourings of emotion, but all too often these feel more recycled than cohesive throughlines. ![]() This larger narrative follows Lionel, a suicide survivor, as he attempts to find a new place within regular life and academia, and balance the difficult relationship he strikes up with Charles and Sophie-two dancers in an open relationship. Unfortunately, despite offering a handful of scenes that sing, much of the collection languishes, too often missing the mark on the balance between subtlety and earnestness.įilthy Animals contains 11 stories, though from the first story on, every other story continues the same narrative thread, feeling as much like a novella punctuated by asides as a collection of isolated stories. Filthy Animals sees Taylor revisit many of the same themes that he first tackled in Real Life, with many characters being scientists or mathematicians, both since-reformed and unrepentant, as well as a wide variety of characters who struggle with how they fit into their relationships or sexuality. After bursting onto the literary scene with last year’s Real Life, Brandon Taylor is back with another book-this time a collection of stories called Filthy Animals. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. "Nefertari tells her story simply, humbly, and in a clear voice that will attract readers."– Romantic Times Destined to be the most powerful Pharaoh in Egypt, he is also the man who must confront the most famous exodus in history. While political adversity sets the country on edge, Nefertari becomes the wife of Ramesses the Great. Yet all of Egypt opposes this union between the rising star of a new dynasty and the fading star of an old, heretical one. Soon Nefertari catches the eye of the Crown Prince, and despite her family’s history, they fall in love and wish to marry. But this changes when she is taken under the wing of the Pharaoh’s aunt, then brought to the Temple of Hathor, where she is educated in a manner befitting a future queen. Nefertari is pushed aside, an unimportant princess left to run wild in the palace. The girl’s deceased family has been branded as heretical, and no one in Egypt will speak their names. A devastating palace fire has killed the Eighteenth Dynasty’s royal family–with the exception of Nefertari, the niece of the reviled former queen, Nefertiti. The winds of change are blowing through Thebes. In ancient Egypt, a forgotten princess must overcome her family’s past and remake history. ![]() ![]() ![]() In it she anticipates a lot of what I'd like to say about the collection: That there are seeds in here of her celebrated novels that these stories track the development of her craft and her voice, see her shed hesitation and reluctance around talking about race and racialized bodies that they also constitute a very deliberate decision to imagine futures that contain people of color. ![]() I want to dwell in Jemisin's introduction, because I love when writers are good readers of their own work. That story is among 22 included in How Long 'Til Black Future Month, Jemisin's first collection of short fiction - one that begins, deliciously, with "Once upon a time, I didn't think I could write short stories." But her very first award nomination was for short fiction: "Non-Zero Probabilities," a short story imagining a New York City where probability's been skewed so that the most improbable things happen on a regular basis, was nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula awards back in 2010. ![]() Jemisin made history when she became the first author to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel for three consecutive years, each volume in her Broken Earth trilogy receiving science fiction and fantasy's highest honor. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title How Long 'til Black Future Month? Subtitle Stories Author N. ![]() |