![]() ![]() Joining these haunting works are stories linked to Tremblay’s previous novels. In “Swim Wants to Know If It’s as Bad as Swim Thinks,” a meth addict kidnaps her daughter from her estranged mother as their town is terrorized by a giant monster. In “The Teacher,” a Bram Stoker Award nominee for best short story, a student is forced to watch a disturbing video that will haunt and torment her and her classmates’ lives.įour men rob a pawn shop at gunpoint only to vanish, one-by-one, as they speed away from the crime scene in “The Getaway.” ![]() ![]() Love my public library!!!Ī masterful anthology featuring nineteen pieces of short fiction, Growing Things is an exciting glimpse into Paul Tremblay’s fantastically fertile imagination. I thought this short story collection was bound to be interesting/creepy/provocative. Why I Chose It: I really enjoyed both Disappearance at Devil’s Rock and A Head Full of Ghosts. ![]()
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![]() ![]() No Full Name Given: We don't know the McGregors' first names, nor that of Mrs. ![]() Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Benjamin, Peter, and Benjamin Sr.The Drag-Along: Peter doesn't want anything to do with the garden after his first encounter, but he gets roped into it by the far more carefree Benjamin.Bunny whips Benjamin and Peter with a switch when he finds them in McGregor's garden. Civilised Animal: The rabbits dress like humans, but live in burrows.Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: The Animated Adaptation has a sibling example with Peter's sisters, who teased him when he returned home in the first story with all his clothes missing and made fun of him for being sent to bed, but here they're far more worried about him and are shown hugging him when he's safely returned home.Ambiguously Evil: The cat - she sits on the basket for five hours, trapping the boys under there, but it's stated to be unknown whether she truly wanted to eat the boys, or she just liked the smell of onions. ![]() McGregor's garden to retrieve Peter's clothes, and maybe swipe some vegetables on the way. The Tale of Benjamin Bunny is a children's book by Beatrix Potter published in 1904.Ī sequel of sorts to The Tale of Peter Rabbit, this story is about Peter's cousin Benjamin and how he talked Peter into going back to Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was only a matter of time - and technology - before Michael Tonello came along. It's a venerable truth: Deny the rich what they want, and they'll pay anything to get it. Which only made the Birkin more desirable. Very scarce - at one point, Hermès announced there was a two-year waiting list. Create a luxury item so special it doesn't need a logo. You know: "This isn't a bag, it's a work of art." Why? Oh, because each bag required 48 hours of craftsmanship. Not only was it expensive, you couldn't get one. The Birkin bag, however, was in another league. The datebook Jane Birkin used? It now costs $1,025. Then he named it after her.Įverything at Hermès is expensive. He had his designers make a bag with pockets, and he sent one to Birkin. Her seatmate just happened to the chairman of Hermès. "I'd love a bag with pockets," the English singer/actress told her seatmate. Jane Birkin was flying from London to Paris in 1981 when she reached into her bag for her datebook and everything fell out. ![]() ![]() He spent $350,000 on Birkin bags, among other things." The buying binge took so long, Jay-Z missed his scheduled lunch at Nello, prompting the restaurateur to deliver his food to the store. A spy reports, "Jay was in a private room of Hermes doing last-minute shopping. Her husband, Jay-Z, was spotted shopping at Hermes' plush Madison Avenue boutique on Christmas Eve. ![]() |