![]() Nat Cassidy, author of this year’s Mary: An Awakening of Terror, put it best, describing King as his “mother tongue.” He is not just a writer he is an industry, an aesthetic, a genre of one. I have interviewed hundreds of horror writers from all across the genre’s wide spectrum, and when asked for their inspirations and their gateways to fearful fiction, so many leap immediately to King. But for millions of readers and writers, he is our North Star, our Southern Cross. Such prolificacy has often led to sniffing criticism from those who consider him “merely” a horror writer (as if horror is anything “mere”). ![]() ![]() Almost everything he has ever written has been optioned or adapted for the screen, in some cases several times. King has regularly published two or three books per year, a stream of words that flows incessantly west towards Hollywood. He arrived during a resurgent interest in all things frightening–following the success of Ira Levin's Rosemary’s Baby (1967) and William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist (1971)-and quickly set about reshaping the genre in his own image. ![]() Since the publication of his first novel Carrie, just shy of fifty years ago, King has held dominion over the landscape of horror. There will probably never be another author like Stephen King. ![]()
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![]() Doy DuncanĪbandon Ship!: The Post-War Memoirs of Captain Tony McCrum RN by Tony McCrumĪbsolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War by Chris BellamyĪccidental Captives: The Story of Seven Women Alone in Nazi Germany by Carolyn GossageĪces, Warriors & Wingmen: The Firsthand Accounts of Canada’s Fighter Pilots in the Second World War by Wayne RalphĪdolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall by Spike MilliganĪdventures of a Child of War by Lin Acacio-FloresĪftermath: Martin Bormann and the Fourth Reich by Ladislas FaragoĪfter Stalingrad: The Red Army’s Winter Offensive, 1942-1943 by David M. ![]() Thanks!įTC Disclosure: Links will take you to an Amazon Affiliate page No purchase is required, though appreciated to cover postage and shipping costs of challenge prizes.Ībandoned at Leyte: The World War II Memories of Dr. ![]() Obviously, we haven’t read all of these, so if you read one and discover that World War II is not a primary or secondary theme, please e-mail us and let us know so we can take it off the list. ![]() Most of these books are listed because World War II or the Holocaust is mentioned in the description. Thanks! (**We are constantly adding to this page**) If you’d like us to add a book, please e-mail us at warthroughgenerations AT gmail DOT com. This is a list of the World War II books we own or have come across in our travels. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you would like to avoid spoilers and have the possibly best reading experience, then this is the place to stop. In this review of Made to Stick, we dive into the details of this story framework. The authors introduce the SUCCES framework of good stories.īased on the framework a story should be: We got the characteristics of the best stories and a simple framework (or checklist) to construct our own compelling stories. Made to stick is an easy and interesting read on how to tell better stories. ![]() If we want to have an impact through what we do then both should be equally important. ![]() I am good at researching stuff, and coming up with conclusions but using these learnings to impact any decision whether that be in marketing or in life is not my strongest point.Īs Chip & Dan Heath, the authors of Made to Stick explain, we are spending a significant amount of time getting the Answer, but compared to that we nearly don’t even think about how to present the outcome. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eventually, the little girl’s time at her grandparents’ house is over and her parents come to pick her up. She loves to think that anyone could pass by the Hello, Goodbye Window, and spends a lot of time just sitting next to it and imagining the range of people and animals who could come by. ![]() During the day, the little girl tells us about playing in her grandma’s garden and getting sprayed with the hose by Grandpa. The little girl loves playing in the kitchen, listening to her grandpa play the harmonica, and pretending that the window is a mirror when it gets dark outside. ![]() She explains that the Hello, Goodbye Window might be a normal kitchen window to others, but it is special because it is where she and her grandparents can spend extra time together. This is the story of a little girl and her adventures at her grandparents’ house. Genre: Modern Realistic Fiction Caldecott Medal Winner 2006 Publisher: Michael di Capua Books/Hyperion Books for Children ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() But one year the warm weather and the birds arrived a month early. Since dancing is ridiculous without music, the weasels’ dance season didn’t usually start till May, when the songbirds fly in from the south. These pines are forever shedding their needles, and the needles make the ground an excellent dance floor: slick as can be, perfect for sliding and gliding. And tucked away in the middle of the scrub oaks there remains a fine old stand of pines. Still, the Wainscott woods haven’t disappeared completely. The woods have shrunk, too, for the same reason. But thanks to what human beings call “development,” the farms have been shrinking, their fields gobbled up by summer houses. A few farms, some woods, and the beach-that was it. Wainscott used to be about the sleepiest spot on the South Fork of Long Island. During the winter these lucky creatures take a lot of long naps. In Wainscott, weasels are blessed with free time. Most weasels have to devote nearly all their waking hours to hunting-but not in Wainscott. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hamilton, Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, Patricia Briggs, and Stephanie Meyers aficionados, and any reader who craves a walk on the wild, dark side. Rachel’s sexy, supernatural adventures have consistently landed atop bestseller lists from coast-to-coast, and A Perfect Blood is no exception-another supremely satisfying excursion to a deliciously eerie fantasy realm that’s certain to delight Kim Harrison’s voracious army of fans…not to mention Laurell K. Harrison takes us back in A Perfect Blood, as former bounty hunter witch-turned-reluctant daywalking demon Rachel Morgan investigates a series of ritual murders, only to discover to her horror that whomever-or whatever-is responsible is actually seeking her blood. There’s nothing more darkly satisfying than time spent in the Hollows- New York Times bestseller Kim Harrison’s alternate urban fantasy Cincinnati where vampires, pixies, and werewolves roam free. Pulled in to help investigate by the FIB, former witch turned day-walking demon Rachel Morgan soon realizes a horrifying truth-a would-be creator is determined to make his (or her) own demons. “I wouldn’t miss a Kim Harrison book for anything.” A Perfect Blood Ritually murdered corpses are appearing across Cincinnati, terrifying amalgams of human and other. ![]() ![]() ![]() That might be because I have read so many other memoirs, some stronger, and also seen some war myself in Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and, Afghanistan. The first and second times I read it, it seemed kind of shocking. ![]() I have to say I was less impressed this time. I also wanted to see what had captured me so much in the previous readings. ![]() I realized recently I hadn’t looked at it in about 20 years, so picked it up to see how it felt now. I read Graves’ memoir again in my 20s, at Yale, and then in my 30s, in Washington, D.C. I can’t think of any other book that I have read four times, except perhaps for some of Shakespeare’s tragedies. (I have no idea how I happened to come across it there in Afghanistan, or why picked it up.) I think it was the first book of military history that ever really grabbed me, for which I remain grateful. I read it first as a teenager in Kabul in 1970. I just finished reading Robert Graves’ autobiography of World War I service for the fourth time. ![]() ![]() ![]() I am glad that people are willing to explore that at least.” “I would be curious, and I would try to have an open mind, but I’m not sure what it would be. I’ll be honest, that doesn’t work for me, but he is a fan, and I think as a fan, he probably understands to some degree that Star Trek has to have some of this messaging,” said Roddenberry. “I do not think you could say we’re going to do a Reservoir Dogs Star Trek. Still, Roddenberry said he would be “curious” to hear a Tarantino pitch for Star Trek. That’s what makes it different than Star Wars, and I love Star Wars, but they can both coexist.” If you create a Star Trek, that is just action that is not Star Trek, in my opinion. ![]() It’s the optimism and the messaging in there that make Star Trek what it was,” he told Forbes. “I mentioned that I grew up with fans coming up to me out saying how Star Trek inspired them and gave them hope for the future. Erik Lomis CinemaCon Tribute: May His "Light Shine Brightly on Now"Ī fan of Tarantino’s work, Roddenberry said his reaction was not personal, but important in order to protect the brand. ![]() ![]() There are at least three other countries trying to get their own probes launched first, and they play dirty. If he accepts, he becomes a prime target. If he declines the honor, he'll be switched off, and they'll try again with someone else. The stakes are high: no less than the first claim to entire worlds. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street.īob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. Alternate Cover Edition can be found here.īob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. ![]() |