Farsighted by Emlyn Chand5/31/2023 Okay, a lot a bit, but I still do manage to get a crazy amount accomplished. Okay, I procrastinate *a little bit* on Facebook. If I want to get something done, I get it done. HyperSpeed-because that’s how I live my life. If you were a superhero what would your name be? This one book everyone should attempt regardless of genre preference. It’s just beautiful-that’s the only word for it. Also the characters in that novel seem more real than those from any other I’ve ever read. The novel has so many layers and entertains on so many levels. My favorite book is A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, definitely. We’d have quite the literary round table while eating… I don’t know… shepherd’s pie? Gotta accommodate my dead British author friends! I’d also take along DH Lawrence and JK Rowling. Oh, gosh! Um… James Joyce, Edgar Allan Poe, and Ken Kesey – all enormously talented authors all certifiably insane (and therefore they’d make interesting dinner guests). If you could invite any 5 people to dinner who would you choose?
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Catch a falling star by kim culbertson5/31/2023 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission of the publisher. scholastic, point, and associated logos are trademarks and/ or registered trademarks of Scholastic Inc. Published by Point, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., Publishers since 1920. CIP information to be included in bound book.Ĭopyright © 2014 by Kim Culbertson All rights reserved. 557 Broadway, New York, NY 10012 For information, contact us at: UNCORRECTED PROOF – NOT FOR SALE If any material is to be quoted, it should be checked against the bound book. Title: Catch a Falling Star Author: Kim Culbertson Publication Date: ApFormat: Jacketed Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-7 Retail Price: $17.99 US Ebook ISBN: 978-5-4 Ebook price: $17.99 Ages: 12 and up Grades: 7 and up LOC Number: 2013029467 Length: 304 pages Trim: 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches Classification: Social Issues / Friendship Love & RomanceĪn Imprint of Scholastic Inc. Catch a falling star KIM CULBERTSON UNCORRECTED PROOF | NOT FOR SALE John le carre 1979 spy novel5/31/2023 That book introduced readers to George Smiley, le Carré’s most famous character. Forbidden from even mentioning either service, le Carré instead amalgamated them into a single fictional institution: the Circus. Britain’s government then did not even publicly avow the existence of its intelligence services. At the time, both services were heavily shrouded in secrecy, far more so than today. He wrote his first novel, Call for the Dead (1961), a minor masterpiece, while commuting by train to MI5’s London headquarters-making it surely the best novel ever written on a train-though he had moved to MI6 by the time it was published. And for the same reason, le Carré’s fiction had the rare distinction of tangibly influencing his subject-the intelligence world.Īlthough he worked for British intelligence for only a few years, in low-level positions-le Carré was the only novelist to have served in both MI5 (Britain’s domestic-focused Security Service) and MI6 (foreign intelligence)-his experiences shaped his entire subsequent writing career. Like espionage itself, they are about human frailty-moral ambiguity, intrigue, nuance, doubt, and cowardice. Unlike others in that tradition, however, his books transcend their spy-novel genre. 12 at the age of 89, came from a long tradition of British writers who were also spies. David Cornwell, who wrote for six decades under his famous penname, John le Carré, and who died Dec. |