At this point in the book--so very early on--all I could think was "White Man's Burden" which is not a theme I want to find in a book published in 2013. Their monthly subscription offers children’s books and their popular date night with a book subscription as well as a few others. Each month you will surprise book, along with hot chocolate, tea and a bookmark. All you need to do is let them know your five favourite books and your choice of genre. You can leave everything to them. So, if you like a blind date with a book motif, you will enjoy this subscription service.

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The characters were a bit too bland. The surrounding plot was ok, but the interactions were just ordinary. If you want to know why, you can unhide the spoilers. Choose wisely. The spoilers below include major plot points that will either ruin the novel, or save you a deal of time and money, depending on your point of view (and on how fast you read, or whether you got this book from the library). Thirty-seven years in the force, and if I was allowed to choose just one thing to erase from my mind, what’s inside that room would be it.’ If you manage to look past this sometimes silly feeling 'twist' though, the rest is pretty great. Good characters (even if the narrator is perhaps my least favorite): "The Deacon" - incredibly strong, interesting, often unreadable. "J C" - so French that not even a Frenchman can complain of him being a stereotype and Lady Katherine Christina Regina Bromley-Montfort "Reggie", well, who's not a bit smitten by Reggie?Bromley is lost and presumed dead. But these proto-Nazis – exhibiting the tenacity that made them the bane of a certain Dr. Indiana Jones – are after Deacon, J.C., and Smith, on the off-chance that they might discover Bromley’s body, and the secret it contains. Eva Ibbotson (born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner) was a British novelist specializing in romance and children's fantasy.

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Some of the dangers at high altitudes already begin to plague the climbers - dehydration, headaches, vomiting, hallucinations come "from our bodies beginning to die on Mount Everest near and above 8000 meters...this mountain makes everyone stupid. (268) Such "stupidity" could cause fatal mistakes. Dan Simmons has done a lot of research for this book and he wants to make sure that you know it. And believe me you, you will. The Abominable takes this real event but then overlays it with Simmons’ fictional creations. In this tale we follow what happens in the time after the loss of Mallory and Irvine, when Perry and two other experienced climbers, Jean-Claude Clairoux (usually named J.C.) and their leader Richard Davis Deacon (‘the Deacon’), who together attempt to return to the Himalaya the season after in an unofficial ‘rescue mission’ – or rather to find out what happened to another climber, Lord Percival Bromley, who was lost on the mountain whilst trying to find Mallory and Irvine.but it also had humor. for someone with my personal reading experiments, this is very funny, indeed:

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Dan Simmons enjoys writing about failure. In The Terror he writes about the doomed Franklin Expedition which was lost in the Arctic while searching for the North-West passage. Similarly, in The Abominable, he creates a story of “search-and-rescue” of a mountaineer who disappears at the same time on Mt. Everest when Mallory and Irvine vanish during their unsuccessful Mt. Everest summit effort (in June 1924). And while this book is not about Mallory and Irvine, their failure to summit Mt. Everest plays an important role in setting up the plot of the book. Dan Simmons grew up in various cities and small towns in the Midwest, including Brimfield, Illinois, which was the source of his fictional "Elm Haven" in 1991's SUMMER OF NIGHT and 2002's A WINTER HAUNTING. Dan received a B.A. in English from Wabash College in 1970, winning a national Phi Beta Kappa Award during his senior year for excellence in fiction, journalism and art. As an avid reader, reading books has become a big part of life. However, most of us have busy lives and can’t always search for brand-new releases. That’s where book subscriptions come in! These services deliver a carefully curated selection of books straight to your doorstep, so you never have to worry about searching through new releases to find your next best read: Ibottson began writing with the television drama 'Linda Came Today', in 1965. Ten years later, she published her first novel, The Great Ghost Rescue. Ibbotson has written numerous books including The Secret of Platform 13, Journey to the River Sea, Which Witch?, Island of the Aunts, and Dial-a-Ghost. She won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for Journey to the River Sea, and has been a runner up for many of major awards for British children's literature.On a lonely desert road, a woman hears the voice of her dead child calling out to her, but no one is near. But I needn't have worried. There is indeed plenty of detail here, especially of climbing gear and clothing, and the acts of climbing itself, but it serves the story better than in the other books, and where DROOD especially felt somewhat claustrophobic and dense, ABOMINABLE feels much more expansive and open, and gives a real idea of the joys of being on top of the world, and the freedom that can be felt there.