![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Led by spirited Judy, they run wild at their rambling riverside home – until a tragedy strikes that will change their lives forever. The rules and regulations of stern Captain Woolcot are no match for his seven little Australians. We invite you to join us in this fun book related challenge, by linking your bingo card entries in the comments section of this post or by visiting Theresa Smith Writes. To keep things interesting for ourselves and those following along with us, the choice of bingo square to be covered will be entirely down to us. To accommodate all the squares, we will be posting additional entries in the months of March and June, this will ensure that we stay on track to complete the book bingo game by December. The book bingo card contains a total of 25 squares, which we will complete over the course of the year. Twice a month, on the first and third Saturday of the month, Theresa and I will complete a book review post, outlining our respective bingo card entries. How does it work? We have devised our own personalised book bingo card game. #Book Bingo 2018 is a collaboration challenge I am completing with my favourite blogger, Theresa Smith Writes. ![]()
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![]() A story of brothers and sisters or lovers, Old Ghosts reads like a horror story down one man’s memory lane. There’s old ghosts everywhere, but, now, as far as I’m concerned, there’s only one Old Ghosts, and it’s Nik Korpon’s.”-Stephen Graham Jones, author of Mongrels “Nik Korpon brings us back to a Baltimore we haven’t seen since The Wire and answers the question of what might’ve been if The Grifters’ Roy Dillon had tried to settle down, go straight and have a kid. ![]() Praise for OLD GHOSTS: “Who you are is who you’ve been, for better or for worse. But when a pair of old childhood friends come into town unannounced and threaten to tear apart Beto's life by exposing his criminal past, Beto learns that not all family is blood, and no amount of blood can save all family. What they really want is a child, but because of Beto’s accident with a piece of rebar, they are unable. ![]() ![]() After barely escaping Boston with his life, Beto has settled in Baltimore and now leads a quiet life, working construction and carving a tiny existence for him and his wife, Luz, whose family was driven from Mexico by warring cartels. ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, my experience is that these illustrations are not enough to make the book readable. I think this must be the reason people like it so much, after all we, human beings, are visual learners. The only thing good about this book is that it comes with lots of illustrations. I regret buying this book, not only because there are better books than this one, but mostly because the instructions are so brief and incomplete that more often than not, when trying to use it, I've found myself being forced to look for another source (either another book or the Internet). Claims by the publishers such as "the ultimate book." or "no other book covers the field so comprehensively" are plain lies, this book is anything but comprehensive and there are much more complete books out there.Ģ. The reasons I rate it with such a bad score are:ġ. ![]() This book is not so bad, it may deserve more than the two stars I'm giving it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet of one thing she is absolutely She has become an object of scorn and a burden to her son’s wife. None in the village know this, and Güde herself worries that perhaps her mind has begun to wander-certainly she has outlived all but one of her peers in Tierkinddorf. Güde Müller, an elderly woman, has stark and frightening visions-recently she has seen things that defy explanation. Neighbors wonder aloud who has cursed them and how quickly can she be found? They begin sharing secrets with the friar. The friar promises he will identify the guilty woman who has brought God’s anger upon the town she will be burned, and bounty will be restored. The friar has a book called the Malleus Maleficarum-“The Witch’s Hammer”-a guide to gaining confessions of witchcraft. The friar’s arrival is a miracle, and when he claims he can restore the town to prosperity, the men and women gathered to hear him rejoice. The village has been suffering a famine, and the villagers are desperately hungry. ![]() The year is 1507, and a friar has arrived in Tierkinddorf, a remote German village nestled deeply in the woods. ![]() |