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![]() ![]() He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.” (Act 2, Scene 1) “Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.” (Act 3, Scene 1) “I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.” (Act 4, Scene 1) “For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.” (Act 1, Scene 1) “He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. Favorite lines: “I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'Much Ado About Nothing' is still one of the more common plays of Shakespeare to see performing in schools, with Shakespeare companies, and in movies. The play could be called a comedic romance, as the play is centered on. And there are plenty of ticket-buying people that disagree. Much Ado About Nothing is a nonsensical representation of life in Shakespearian times. It probably isn't top half of my favorites, but that is partially because I have a slight bias against Shakespeare's comedies. The central relationship, between Benedick and Beatrice, is. ![]() ![]() Many of the usual Shakespeare tropes (mistaken identities, smart women, dumb men, fools, gender roles, marriage folies). Much Ado About Nothing has long been celebrated as one of Shakespeares most popular comedies. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Summer of 68 by Kevin Millikin![]() ![]() Elementary School - Faculty Pages - Looper, Sara.Elementary School - Faculty Pages - Kerley, Courtney.Elementary School - Faculty Pages - Jarvis, Adrianna.Elementary School - Faculty Pages - Isaac, Mandi.Elementary School - Faculty Pages - Herrmann, Victoria.Elementary School - Faculty Pages - Frye, Shelley.Elementary School - Faculty Pages - Forbes, Lisa.Elementary School - Faculty Pages - Davis, Amy.Elementary School - Faculty Pages - Conatser, RIchard.Elementary School - Faculty Pages - Cearlock, Katrina.Elementary School - Faculty Pages - Casner, Yvette.Elementary School - Faculty Pages - Buhr, Andrew. ![]() Elementary School - Faculty Pages - Bone, Sarah.Elementary School - Faculty Pages - Blickensderfer, Debby.Elementary School - Go to Faculty Pages.Dropdown Toggle Elementary School - Faculty Pages.Unit Office - District Articles - What Makes Cerro Gordo Schools a Great Place for Kids, You Ask?.Unit Office - Go to District Articles.Dropdown Toggle Unit Office - District Articles. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Fantastical series kristen ashley![]() And no matter what our Cora says or does to try to convince him, he won't be convinced. Unfortunately, hot guy, fantasyland Noctorno doesn't like the Cora of his world all that much (to say the least) and he thinks our Cora is her. ![]() Luckily, hot guy, fantasyland Noctorno is there to save her from the clutches of the grotesque vickrants sent by Minerva to capture her. ![]() At this point, her dream world becomes a nightmare. The problem is, she thinks she's in a dream, but she's actually taken the place of the parallel-universe Cora and, without realizing it, our Cora does something that starts a centuries-old curse that will sweep the land if she gets captured by the evil Minerva. Get this audiobook for free when you try Audible:Ĭora Goode has woken up in a fairytale world where she can understand what birds are saying to her, men ride horses and have fluffy feathers in their hats, and furniture zigs, zags, and whirls in miracles of construction. Fantastical by Kristen Ashley on Audible: ![]() ![]() The shocking ending in Crooked House is one of AgathaĬhristie’s greatest. ![]() ![]() ![]() I saved it up for years, thinking about it, working it out, saying to myself: ‘One day, when I’ve plenty of time, and want to really enjoy myself – I’ll begin it.’Ĭrooked House is one of the only Christie crime novels not to be adapted for the screen, although in 2008 it was adapted for BBC Radio 4 in four weekly 30 minute episodes. Agatha Christie writes: ‘This book is one of my own special favourite. Published in the US in March 1949, the title of Crooked House refers to the nursery rhyme ‘ There Was a Crooked Man.’ In the foreword of the book, Agatha Christie describes writing Crooked House as pure pleasure. But the murderer has reckoned without the tenacity of Charles Hayward, fiancé of the late millionaire’s granddaughter. Suspicion naturally falls on the old man’s young widow, fifty years his junior. That is until the head of the household, Aristide, is murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection. In this classic Agatha Christie detective story, former diplomat Charles Hayward has returned from Cairo to London to become a private detective. Crooked house by Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. Audio An illustration of a 3.5' floppy disk. The Leonides are one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. An illustration of two cells of a film strip. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Code red nr walker![]() The story is mostly told from Steve’s perspective. We “see” him through the loving eyes of his security manager/guard, Steve Frost. We get to know him, his trust issues, and his confusion over his sexuality. He’s well developed, and his personality as well as his physical ailment is worked into the story very well. No one knows the full extent of how bad it’s become. He’s a diabetic and his lack or inability to stay on target to the nutritional structure he needs to stay healthy has finally taken over and he’s a total mess. Even though he's only 26, he finds that he's physically breaking down under a decade’s worth of abusing his body and not listening to doctors' instructions. ![]() Another of the band's members, Jeremy, now gets his story and romance told. The band members now find that the unhealthy physical and mental health conditions they now find themselves after years of constant touring and stress are catching up with them. ![]() ![]() This story signals the turmoil that’s ongoing between the band’s label who wants more from them professionally and more management of their personal lives. Walker’s first book, Code Red, about the boyband that finds themselves winding down after years on the road. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments The last lion alone![]() ![]() Manchester also saw patterns that may not have been apparent to most other writers. ![]() The documentation would not pass a professional historian’s muster, but Manchester never wrote for historians, and general readers, as always, will be taken by his boundless abilities as a storyteller. Just before Manchester ( A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance-Portrait of an Age, 1992, etc.) died in 2004, he handed over the task of finishing his Churchill biography to Reid, who retains Manchester’s habit of writing at extreme length, and it’s clear where Manchester left off in his own primary research: Though the book spans the years 1940 to Churchill’s death in 1965, roughly only one-tenth of it covers the “lion’s” last 20 years, while the vast bulk is given over-fittingly enough-to Churchill’s leadership as British prime minister during World War II. ![]() A (very) posthumous study of the late, great British leader by the late, great popular historian, aided by journalist Reid. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Dom of Ages by K.C. Wells![]() ![]() ![]() When he spots Jarod, he recognizes the genuine article-a submissive who is thoroughly a submissive and who shows that in every line of his body, and he knows he won’t be happy unless he can take Jarod home.Įli does indeed take Jarod home, and Jarod begins his service to Eli that very night. Just as he’s ready to give up and never return, he’s approached by a young Dom who seems genuinely interested in him.Įli is only thirty, but he knows what he wants, and he wants a sub who will serve his needs. ![]() He’s trying to get back in the scene because he needs someone to serve, but he’s constantly belittled by other subs and Doms, all of whom think a man who is nearly fifty is way out-of-place in the world of BDSM clubs. He spent twenty-four years with his last Dom, Master Phillip, who perished in a plane crash four years ago. Jarod has been a submissive for nearly thirty years. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth![]() Will they help each other to survive, or will they destroy one another?Ĭarve the Mark is Veronica Roth's stunning portrayal of the power of friendship-and love-in a galaxy filled with unexpected gifts. Then Akos is thrust into Cyra's world, and the enmity between their countries and families seems insurmountable. Once Akos and his brother are captured by enemy Shotet soldiers, Akos is desperate to get his brother out alive-no matter what the cost. Protected by his unusual currentgift, Akos is generous in spirit, and his loyalty to his family is limitless. ![]() But Cyra is much more than just a blade in her brother’s hand: she is resilient, quick on her feet, and smarter than he knows.Īkos is the son of a farmer and an oracle from the frozen nation-planet of Thuvhe. ![]() ![]() Cyra’s currentgift gives her pain and power-something her brother exploits, using her to torture his enemies. In a galaxy powered by the current, everyone has a gift.Ĭyra is the sister of the brutal tyrant who rules the Shotet people. ![]() ![]() ![]() He visits libraries, monasteries, plus all manner of religious sites. ![]() “How do we live in an increasingly secular age? What is our duty to our fellow humans in a time of rising nationalism and tribalism? And what can the Gospel say to someone who thinks he can get all the world’s knowledge from the internet?”Įgan stays on the road for months, traversing snowy mountains and sweltering valleys, getting lost and blistered and lonely, reconnecting with family and buying more comfortable shoes. “I’m interested in the Big Questions,” Egan writes in a personal letter to the Pope. And so Egan becomes a pilgrim, determined to walk the Via Francigena, an ancient route from Canterbury to Rome. He wants to meet Pope Francis, who has captured the attention of the world. He wants to take time away from his many screens. “I don’t know what to believe or what’s ahead.” He doesn’t sugarcoat the difficulties of faith. “I’m not feeling it, Timmy,” she told him. On her deathbed, she still wasn’t sure how she felt about the afterlife. A well-read skeptic and New York Times columnist, Egan shares a telling anecdote about his mother. Timothy Egan is Irish Catholic, thoroughly lapsed. ![]() |