The Skeleton Book: Get to know your bones, inside out

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I hate LaVerne so much. She's that female character that's so often present in books/movies especially horror. The kind of character where, terrible as it may sound, I feel pleased when someone finally hits her (if it was a real life situation I would NOT feel that way, but this is fictional, and in the realms of fiction my moral compass is different). The Jaunt. Spellbinding science fiction tale that documents the invention of teleportation (in 1987!) and how a family preparing for a jaunt to Mars hundreds of years later comes out the other end with a valuable lesson about space-time travel. This one still blows my mind. Era una spiaggia che non aveva bisogno di un oceano perché era un oceano in se stessa, un mare di sabbia, l'istantanea in bianco e nero di un mare immortalato per sempre in avvallamenti e creste. Dune. Alcune basse, altre scoscese, alcune lisce, alcune corrugate. Cime affilate, cime piatte, cime frastagliate che sembravano dune impilate su altre dune, come tasselli di un domino. Dune, Ma niente oceano."

Insomma, per una raccolta di racconti perfetta io vi suggerirei Stagioni diverse, o anche A volte ritornano; ma Scheletri contiene dei racconti che sono delle opere d’arte in miniatura che meritano di essere lette e amate, quindi una sbirciatina a questo libro gliela darei! Scholastic Reader: Skeletons by Lily Wood. A great introduction to the human skeleton for early readers. Great for kids in grades 1- 3. The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands: A creative curse forces a major character in this one make some difficult decisions in this interesting story. (4/5) P. 94 - David Clayton, our main character, thinks of a character as "looking like a crazy gunslinger in an existential comedy."The Monkey. Not quite as scary as I remember it, but still wonderfully written. A windup monkey with crashing cymbals doesn't quite scare me, but the journey the protagonist takes from orphaned boy to adult and his battle with this evil thing is compelling. PreSchool-Grade 2–From skeletons to vampires, the creepy icons of Halloween are presented in this collection of short, engaging poems. Forms of poetry are varied; some selections are very short, others longer, most rhyming, and some draped across spreads. "What Should I Be?" sets the stage as the narrator must decide on a costume while voicing the ultimate goal of Halloween for most children: "…superhero,/wise old wizard,/goblin for a night./Whatever I decide to be/(monster, hero, beast),/I want to get an early start/collecting all the treats!" Each playful poem is placed on a textured, brightly colored collage created by beads and fabric on canvas. The result is appealing, animated, and appropriate for younger children. While the alliterative language in "Night Flight" is imaginative with its "Flip/flap/floom" and "Dip/dap/doom," bats do not dive through the air "To land right in your hair!" This error is mitigated, however, by the overall appeal of the book and its potential use with a broad age range. Find out how millions of years of evolution has helped the human body to perform so many tasks with precision. Become a fossil detective and see how archaeologists study and reconstruct ancient skeletons. Explore the future with bionic skeletons and 3D printed bones. The Reach: This poor story suffered having bringing up the rear of such a bad story right before it. I redoubled my concentration and got through it. It was pretty touching and dealt with loss and community, which I can relate to. (4/5) As autumn whispers through the trees, it’s a great time to gather your young readers and explore the fascinating world of bones, be it the human skeleton or the amazing bones found in the animal kingdom.

This is interesting because I gave this 4.5 stars when I first read it but this time around I didn't feel a connection too it. I found it too long and too unbelievable to be scary, this story dragged for me and it didn't give me any fear. It's weird. At it's core it is about insanity and how/why someone might so insane and though I usually enjoy books about the mind, this one just didn't do it for me. It is still ok though, but it doesn't stand up to the rest of the collection. This one could be could be seen as a spiritual successor to "The Breathing Method," even going so far as to reference that earlier novella. It revoles around the same, strange story-telling club that we first met in Different Seasons. Now the bad. Let’s forget about the stories themselves and talk about the depiction of women in some of these stories. They were either fat and disgusting or overly sexualised with detailed descriptions of breasts and legs. Now this does crop up every now and again in his older books, and it does irritate me - I think he has gotten better with time, thankfully - but it felt incredibly prominent in this collection. And that was off-putting. The story The Wedding Gig in particular just had me seething with rage. Whew! I started the new year with this collection of novellas and short stories by Stephen King. It’s taken me all year to read it. That seems to sum up my 2020 nicely. Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman#2) - 2 Stars - This story has little to do with the previous one and is as long and rambling as the drunken stories it’s characters tell. It’s my least favourite story in the collection.

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In my experience with King, the good and bad have always gone hand-in-hand. Even his best novels have problematic parts, or sections that have aged poorly. Usually, the good outweighs the bad, often by a wide margin. Skeleton Crew has a closer balance. Every story is readable, and even the worst-conceived of the lot are written with King’s underrated skills. Even when the underlying framework is deplorable, most of the stories are effortlessly entertaining. They are also a bit insidious. On nights that I had read Skeleton Crew, I noticed that my sleep was often disrupted by vivid and unsettling dreams. That Skeleton Crew managed to disrupt my dream life is a compliment of sorts. I'm not sure if this is a connection or not, but when David and a few others make the courageous trek to the pharmacy next door, they encounter an "otherworldly" presence that takes the shape of a spider . . . though they know it's something more. Any relation to IT? Totally possible, as that book was published the following year. Stephen King seems to be a bit hit and miss with me. Sometimes there can be a Joyland and sometimes there can be a Under the Dome. But they have never been bad or unreadable, just seemingly poor, rushed and formulaic. I am noticing that I like his more modern tales greater than his 80s and 90s huge output. A distinctive characteristic of humans as compared with other mammals is erect posture. The human body is to some extent like a walking tower that moves on pillars, represented by the legs. Tremendous advantages have been gained from this erect posture, the chief among which has been the freeing of the arms for a great variety of uses. Nevertheless, erect posture has created a number of mechanical problems—in particular, weight bearing. These problems have had to be met by adaptations of the skeletal system. Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique: