![]() ![]() The story was set during the American Revolution and featured George Washington as a character. ![]() His first novel, Precaution, modeled on Jane Austen, was not successful, but his second, The Spy, influenced by the popular writings of Sir Walter Scott, became a bestseller, making Cooper the first major American novelist. Having drifted for a decade, Cooper began writing a novel after his wife challenged him to write something better than he was reading at the moment. When Cooper was about 20, his father died, and he became financially independent. Cooper attended Yale but joined the Navy after he was expelled for a prank. One of the earliest distinctive American novels, the book is the second of the five-novel series called the “Leatherstocking Tales.”Ĭooper was born in 1789 in New Jersey and moved the following year to the frontier in upstate New York, where his father founded frontier-town Coopersville. ![]() On February 4, 1826, The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper is published. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Steph and her lover Joe Morelli almost set a wedding date, but again she avoids commitment, still attracted to fellow bounty hunter Ranger. Stephanie's much-resented sister Valerie returns from California with her two daughters, her "perfect" marriage ended, and moves in with her parents, to their dismay. The usual characters inhabit the novel: Steph's former high school buddies, the zonked-out Dougie and Mooner and Evanovich's best creation, feisty Grandma Mazur. ![]() The heart's whereabouts define the darkly hilarious trajectory of the plot. While in Virginia picking up the cigarettes he's charged with smuggling into New Jersey, he stole the heart from the recently dead body of his enemy, Louis DeStephano. In her seventh outing (after 2000's Hot Six), Stephanie's employer, her bailbondsman cousin, Vinnie, gives her an easy job: pick up vicious senior citizen Eddie DeChooch, who is constantly sighted racing around Trenton in a borrowed white Cadillac, but whom no one can grab. ![]() It's always a treat to go out on a case with Stephanie Plum, the sassy, adventurous, but not always successful Trenton, N.J., bounty hunter. ![]() ![]() ![]() Also, it isn’t talked about but how did Scare end up in the corncob mansion? Maybe, Ozma found out about his creations and casted him out?Īnyways, the lion’s was my favorite of the three. I liked Ozma as soon as she stepped up and didn’t allow any more deaths caused by Jinjur. It makes sense that he wouldn’t want to feel like how Lion and Lulu made him feel (when they were getting ready to fight against Jinjur and he was ignored/forgotten). I liked how we find out why Scare wanted to make an army. And then Scare’s ideas get ignored and Glinda offers him an answer, he takes it without question. Scare just wants to fill his brain with knowledge. In Scare’s story, Jinjur invades the palace where Scare is the temporary king. Also, I wondered why Dorothy went to see the lion and Scarecrow before Tin.Īs I read Scare’s story, I wasn’t sure if I wanted Scare’s story before Tin’s or after. I thought it was so sad how Norbert was suffering but Tin allowed it because he thought it might look good for Dorothy. So much that he allows his loyal subject to be surgically practiced on and deformed into a monster. ![]() In the Tin Woodman’s story, Dorothy is back and Tin just wants Dorothy to love him. ![]() I think out of the 3 stories, Lion’s was my favorite. ![]() This is half review, half review of everything that happened. ![]() |