Check out this link, it is some of the most beautiful pieces of art you will ever see and all for a love of libraries and books in the community. The sculpter is unknown at this time and I like the person who wrote the article would like to stay that way.
http://community.thisiscentralstation.com/_Mysterious-paper-sculptures/blog/4991767/126249.html
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Life of a Teenage Body Snatcher
From the title you would be expecting another title in the current fad for vampires and werewolves but Life as a Teenage Body Snatcher by Doug MacLeod is a laugh out loud romp through Victorian England with a very likable hero and a cast of fascinating characters.
Kylie took on the job of presenting this book at our recent Children's Book Week Shortlist night and she had raved about the book as soon and she started reading it and I can now see why.
Our young hero Thomas Timewell lives the life a young gentleman in Victorian England, goes to a school with teachers out of a Dicken's book, has a mother who is fashionably drugged on Laudanum and his grandfather has recently passed away. This event leads Thomas on a roller coaster ride through the seamier side of life as he finds himself becoming a 'resurrectionist', someone who removes bodies from coffins to sell to doctors & medical students for the purpose of learning anatomy. Now, you may be thinking how could this be a laugh a minute.
Thomas goes to the graveyard to 'resurrect' his Grandfather's body. Grandfather, who was doctor, wanted his body given to medical students for anatomy practise because he knew how hard it was to for them to got a body to practise on. While at the graveyard exhuming Grandfather, Thomas is discovered by Plenitude, a resurrectionist of dubious background. Thomas doesn't really have any idea about what to do with the body when it is dug up so Plenitude offers him the benefit of his experience and thus begins Thomas's association with the more seamier aspects of life in Victorian England.
Along the way, Thomas falls in love, his haunted by a tattooed gypsy woman, fends of the amorous advances of his mother's friend Mrs Tilly, deals with Mother's laudanum habit and still has to attend school in the morning. I can promise you a lot of laughs with the adventures of Thomas and I hope that Doug MacLeod has plans to resurrect him again.
Kylie took on the job of presenting this book at our recent Children's Book Week Shortlist night and she had raved about the book as soon and she started reading it and I can now see why.
Our young hero Thomas Timewell lives the life a young gentleman in Victorian England, goes to a school with teachers out of a Dicken's book, has a mother who is fashionably drugged on Laudanum and his grandfather has recently passed away. This event leads Thomas on a roller coaster ride through the seamier side of life as he finds himself becoming a 'resurrectionist', someone who removes bodies from coffins to sell to doctors & medical students for the purpose of learning anatomy. Now, you may be thinking how could this be a laugh a minute.
Thomas goes to the graveyard to 'resurrect' his Grandfather's body. Grandfather, who was doctor, wanted his body given to medical students for anatomy practise because he knew how hard it was to for them to got a body to practise on. While at the graveyard exhuming Grandfather, Thomas is discovered by Plenitude, a resurrectionist of dubious background. Thomas doesn't really have any idea about what to do with the body when it is dug up so Plenitude offers him the benefit of his experience and thus begins Thomas's association with the more seamier aspects of life in Victorian England.
Along the way, Thomas falls in love, his haunted by a tattooed gypsy woman, fends of the amorous advances of his mother's friend Mrs Tilly, deals with Mother's laudanum habit and still has to attend school in the morning. I can promise you a lot of laughs with the adventures of Thomas and I hope that Doug MacLeod has plans to resurrect him again.
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