Thus, a story of love and loss, of jealousy and of death.Ĭonsequently, more than 2000 years after the Biblical tale was written, Jeffrey Archer takes it upon himself to re-write the ultimate story of sibling rivalry one which certainly mirrors the that of the Biblical brothers. When Abel’s offering is more favourably received, Cain, in a rage of jealousy, kills him. Cain offers his land’s produce Abel, some of his flock. Taken from the book of Genesis, it tells the story of brothers Cain, a farmer and Abel, a shepherd, who make offerings to the Lord. Just before beginning Archer’s debut novel, I called my father, the walking encyclopedia, to enquire about the biblical tale of Cain and Abel in case it should be of relevance to Archer’s Kane and Abel. And so, eager to discover why it had sold more than a million copies in its first week, and indeed why everyone barring myself seemed to have heard of Archer’s most famous novel, I sat down to read. Thus, when I ordered Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer, purely on the basis of its entry in the BBC’s Big Read, I was amazed to hear that a number of people I knew had read it, and even my anti-book colleague Eleanor had an unread copy of it lurking around her flat. It seems a fitting end to my first month of blogging, and indeed the last day of my January book challenge, that I review the first book I’ve read this year that has really blown me away.Īs an avid reader, it always surprises me when I come across a well-known book or author that I’m not familiar with.
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Usability is about people and how they understand and use things, not about technology. However, when Spike is accidentally thrown out of the rink, he runs off, and is pursued by people on a nighttime coyote hunt.Ī sub-plot sees Jenny's boyfriend, Jeff, set up an audition for her, which she is angry about because he did it without consulting her. She and Spike drive around, looking at the desert scenery and spending some time at a roller rink. In this combined animated and live-action special, we meet her, aerobics instructor Jenny, who wants to be a big city jazz dancer. Spike waves to a young woman driving an old red Chevrolet pickup truck through the desert of Needles, California every day it is the highlight of his day. The special has been released on home video only once, that being a VHS release from Paramount Home Media Distribution released on January 9, 1996. A spin-off focused on Spike's unrequited love for a young woman, it was described as being similar to Beauty and the Beast. It is a hybrid of animation and live-action footage, and features Spike instead of the core Peanuts characters. It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown is the 32nd prime-time animated television special based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. This Is America, Charlie Brown (1988–1989). Barry Faris, INS editor-in-chief, wrote Tregaskis that he had turned the manuscript over to Ward Greene, executive editor of King Features, which was owned and operated, as was INS, by newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst. Tregaskis’s manuscript describing his time on Guadalcanal, arranged in an easily understood diary format, was sent to the INS offices in New York City in early November 1942. “That was the way it was with sharp-eyed military censorship in those days.” “And as fast as I could write my manuscript, a naval intelligence officer took my efforts and hacked away with a pencil and a pair of scissors,” Tregaskis reported. Every morning he would go there to work, and every night, his diary was locked in a safe he never got it back and could not find out what happened to it. In Hawaii, his writing had to be done in the Navy offices at Pearl Harbor, under the supervision of a censor. After leaving Guadalcanal on a B-17 Flying Fortress on September 25, Tregaskis went to New Caledonia, where he was waiting for a military transport plane to take him to Honolulu, and began writing his book. She wrote this as her escape from the horrors of war and its many consequences, but rather than avoiding the problems that war raises, she uses these as a basis for the many obstacles that the characters face, from separated families to forced displacement. Written during the 1939-40 Finnish-Soviet Union conflict, or The Winter War, Jansson uses the unusual setting of a natural catastrophe to provide the background of her first children’s book and the first appearance of her beloved Moomin characters. Their journey seems daunting but they forge ahead, with Moominmamma’s kindness and patience giving Moomin the courage he needs to face the strange, unexplored path that lies ahead of them. But before they can settle down, they must cross a dark and sinister forest and find their way through a flood of epic proportions, all the while hoping that they will find Moominpappa again. Moominmamma and Moomintroll need to find a home for the winter, someplace where sun is plentiful and safe from the dangers of the unknown. |