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Eragon is your basic boy-meets-dragon story. The titular hero is a teenage boy who finds a strange blue stone that turns out to be an egg. The egg hatches into a beautiful, powerful and somewhat sassy blue dragoness named Saphira with whom Eragon forms a telepathic bond. It's an irresistible premise: she's exactly the kind of perfect friend a smart, lonely mountain boy would invent for himself, although Paolini doesn't feel as though he missed out on anything growing up in Montana. "I don't think I'd have written anything like...
They ended up working 12-hour days, taking tourists through the lighthouse, maintaining trails on the island, selling souvenirs at the gift shop and repairing the somewhat dilapidated keeper's house, where they lived. But they would do it again--if that particular caretaking position weren't so sought after. Instead, the couple returned to a home on Maquoit Bay, Maine, where they house-sit nine months of the year while the owner is in the Cook Islands doing research on whales...
...50’s ubiquity made photographs unnecessary. Aside from making music, 50 manages a record label; has his own clothing, shoe, and watch lines; sells “Formula 50” vitamin water; and appears in his own video game. 50 is everywhere, and his omnipresence detracts somewhat from the appeal of “From Pieces to Weight” because fans feel like they know him already...
...Their group of skill kids, especially their offense, may be the best in the league,” Bagnoli said. “That doesn’t include the other five teams. In any given week in this league, anyone can beat anyone else. It somewhat surprised me, the distance between Harvard and Penn and Brown, though...
...effort into the job that I fear my mind can’t help but attach to it some cosmic significance—some self-satisfied feeling that what I just did must have been worth the effort, and so must have actually made me happy. Expos papers were somewhat similar...