Keeper of the Bees by Meg Kassel Genre: YA Paranormal Release Date: September 4th 2018 Entangled Teen Summary: “ Beauty and the beast like you’ve never imagined! ” — New York Times bestselling author Pintip Dunn KEEPER OF THE BEES is a tale of two teens who are both beautiful and beastly, and whose pasts are entangled in surprising and heartbreaking ways. Dresden is cursed. His chest houses a hive of bees that he can’t stop from stinging people with psychosis-inducing venom. His face is a shifting montage of all the people who have died because of those stings. And he has been this way for centuries—since he was eighteen and magic flowed through his homeland, corrupting its people. He follows harbingers of death, so at least his curse only affects those about to die anyway. But when he arrives in a Midwest town marked for death, he encounters Essie, a seventeen-year-old girl who suffers from debilitating delusions and hallucinations. His bees want to sting her on sight. But Essie does...
This was going to go up later in the week, but as it's Hiddleston's birthday, I thought it appropriate to do it today! Title: Coriolanus Writer: William Shakespeare Directed by: Josie Rourke Major cast: Tom Hiddleston, Hadley Fraser, Seen at: the cinema, NT Live screening. Performed at the Donmar Warehouse. Warnings: graphic gore Review: Caius Martius has been fighting with Coriolus. Returning to Rome, he is placed in as a senator and given the name Coriolanus. However, with his rude attitude, and the fact that he was made more for war and not politics, this doesn't go well and leads to his exil e and downfall. I didn't know much about the play. I hadn't heard of it before, and I'm glad it's being done (rarely done plays being done make me happy). I went to see it because a friend of mine really likes Tom Hidldeston and we went to go with her. We went to a livescreen version (National Theatre, I love you for doing these things) and had a short feature w...
