Whitcomb, Laura. A certain slant of light.WHITCOMB, Laura. A certain slant of light. Read by Lauren Lauren as a surname may refer to:
vinyl chloride a vinyl group to which an atom of chlorine is attached; the monomer which polymerizes to polyvinyl chloride; it is toxic ; plot, author, reader notes. S From the review of the book in KLIATT, September 2005: "... Helen has been dead for over 100 years, and this is the first time that anyone living ever noticed her. It's not that she hasn't followed humans--she has. In fact, she has had several human hosts over her time as a ghost. Attaching and following a human is the one way she can keep at bay the blackness and cold that threaten to envelop en·vel·op tr.v. en·vel·oped, en·vel·op·ing, en·vel·ops 1. To enclose or encase completely with or as if with a covering: "Accompanying the darkness, a stillness envelops the city" her. But the living, ever her hosts, never take note of her. Then one day she senses that a student in her current host's English class is looking at her. Over the next few days, Helen not only comes to understand why he can see her, but she falls in love with him. Told from the viewpoint of a ghost, the story is neither a typical ghost tale nor a typical teenage love story ... we see the living through the eyes of the non-living ... Older teens drawn to [Anne] Rice's work as well as those who enjoy love stories with a twist will definitely enjoy this insightful and unusual take on life and love." Molina's reading is truly spectral spectral /spec·tral/ (spek´tral) pertaining to a spectrum; performed by means of a spectrum. spec·tral adj. Of, relating to, or produced by a spectrum. . Although much of it is whispery, she captures well all the emotion of a young teen's first love. She has a great voice for the youthful Helen/Jenny as she experiences her first sexual encounter. Although at times Molina seems almost too breathless breath·less adj. 1. Breathing with difficulty; gasping: was breathless from running. 2. Marked by the suspension of regular breathing, as from tension or excitement: , it is a fine rendering See render. (graphics, text) rendering - The conversion of a high-level object-based description into a graphical image for display. For example, ray-tracing takes a mathematical model of a three-dimensional object or scene and converts it into a bitmap image. of Whitcomb's unusual first novel. Nola Theiss, Sanibel, FL S--Recommended for senior high school students. |
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