Holly Jackson is a 31 year old young adult author that has made a quick name for herself in the world of young adult fiction. She is best known for her series A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, which includes three of her best-selling novels. Holly has made a significant impact on young adult readers. With her interesting take on the mystery genre, combined with the suspense, and character development, she keeps readers on their toes waiting for the next thing that is going to happen. She has pushed limits to what young adult mystery can be, and has brought more attention to the specific thriller genre. Born in 1992 in the United Kingdom, she grew up in Buckinghamshire, and had always had a niche in the literary world. (“Holly Jackson - Age, Family, Bio”) Noticing this at such a young age she decided to run with her passion for writing and after high school, she went on to college at the University of Nottingham, in Nottingham, …show more content…
She also loves true crime documentaries as she gets to pretend to be a real detective. At 15 years old Holly Jackson wrote her first book, and has not stopped writing since. Throughout her career she has written, and published a total of 6 books. Her newest book, titled The Reappearance of Rachel Price, is coming out April 2nd, 2024. (“Holly Jackson List of Books”) The first novel of her best selling trilogy titled A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, was published in 2019, and follows highschool senior Pippa Fitz-Amobi through an old murder investigation that she re-opened. The other two books in the trilogy are called Good Girl, Bad Blood, and As Good as Dead. They were both published a few years later. As of right now, there is filming to turn A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder into a TV series. However, there is no release date yet. Holly’s best-selling trilogy received much praise and was a New York Times best
The book I choose for the book talk is “Dead and gone” written by Norah McClintock, this book talks about a murder mystery of Tricey Howard. The main character of the story is Mike, an orphan whose parents got killed in a car crash. He lives with his foster father named John Riel, who was once a police officer. During a swim meet, Mike see Mr.Henderson is staring at a girl name Emily without stopping. Then he informs Emily about what happened in the community center. However, as return Emily blackmails Mike to investigate Mr. Henderson. During the investigation, Mike finds nothing suspicious, but realize Emily is the daughter of Tricey Howard. Tricey Howard was murdered years ago, but the police still haven’t find the real killer. At the meantime,
Kathleen Orr, popularly known as Kathy Orr is a meteorologist for the Fox 29 Weather Authority team on WTXF in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was born on October 19, 1965 and grew up in Westckave, Geddes, New York with her family. The information about her parents and her siblings are still unknown. As per bio obtained online, Kathy Orr is also an author. She has written a number of books like Seductive Deceiver, The drifter's revenge and many others. She graduated in Public Communications from S. I. Newhouse which is affiliated to Syracuse University.
The book “Dead Girls Don’t Lie” written by Jennifer Shaw Wolf focuses on a variety of different ideas and topics, mostly fixating the murder of the main character’s best friend Rachel. With this also comes gang violence, lost and found relationships, and the fact that some people will go to great extents in order to keep a lethal secret from the public eye. Rachel and Jaycee were best friends up until 6 months before where the book started. But, an altercation between them caused the breakup of their long lasted friendship. It is soon found out that Rachel was shot through her bedroom window, which is at first suspected to be gang violence.
Faye Carey is a 16 year old girl that has managed to re-home more than 60 dogs. News Hub says that ¨She wants to have a career in animal control.¨ ¨She has made a Facebook page called Animal Re-Home Waikato.¨ Says News Hub. Her Facebook page has nearly 300 likes and a loyal following of new parents. (Of animals). News Hub also said that ¨With Faye being there, when an animal comes into the shelter or animal control, the animal goes right into a new loving home. ¨
One famous quote from Barbara Jordan is “If you’re going to play a game properly, you’d better know every rule .” Barbara Jordan was an amazing woman. She was the first African American Texas state senator. Jordan was also a debater, a public speaker, a lawyer, and a politician. Barbara Jordan was a woman who always wanted things to be better for African Americans and for all United States citizens. “When Barbara Jordan speaks,” said Congressman William L.Clay, “people hear a voice so powerful so, awesome...that it cannot be ignored and will not be silenced.”
Jacqui Ainsley Wiki, Bio, Career, Net Worth, Affair, Married, Boyfriend, Husband Short Bio Jacqui Ainsley is a British model and actress who has worked with various famous modeling agencies in the UK and also in the USA. She has also appeared in several movies and television shows. Jacqui Ainsley was born on November 28, 1981, in Essex, United Kingdom. She was born to parents- father, Robert Ainsley, and mother, Janet Ainsley. Her father was a film teacher and her mother worked as an English teacher.
Ruth Posner is one of the many few holocaust survivors and a great dancer, choreographer and actress. Ruth was born on April 20, 1933, in Warsaw. She was raised in a Jewish family with her parents, but went to a Catholic school. At home, she spoke Polish. Ruth suddenly started hearing offensive comments by some of her close Polish Catholic friends. They said things like “you killed Christ.” It was an incredible shock.” That was just the beginning. By the time she was just 12, and the Second World War was underway, Ruth had lost both her parents and her world as she knew it. She was in the middle of the Holocaust.
Mary Bryant was in the group of the first convicts (and the only female convict) to ever escape from the Australian shores. Mary escaped from a penal colony which often is a remote place to escape from and is a place for prisoners to be separated. The fact that Bryant escaped from Australia suggests that she was a very courageous person, this was a trait most convicts seemed to loose once they were sentenced to transportation. This made her unique using the convicts.
What is it like to live a life with Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)? Narcissism is a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy. People with this disorder can be vindictive, selfish, cunning person. They do not care who is harmed or hurt. Abigail was the leader of all of the girls that were seen dancing and calling on evil spirits. Abigail would threaten the girls by saying if they said anything, she would kill or harm them severely. She wanted what she couldn’t have, so that made her psychologically unstable. Abigail William’s would be convicted in today’s court because she gave many threats to kill the girls who were with her the night they were dancing if they spoke up in court, her behavior caused harm to many even though she may not have physically done damage herself and due to previous court cases, some people diagnosed with Narcissism were found innocent due to their mental instability but others were guilty because they were mentally unstable. As it is shown, Narcissistic Personality Disorder causes her to be selfish, arrogant, dangerous, and obsess over the man she could not have, because Abigail threatened the girls she was with the night they were dancing, to not confess to anything in court.
Katherine Johnson is a memorable African American mathematician and an icon for young black girls around the world. Katherine Johnson loved math. Early in her career, she was called a “computer.” She helped NASA put an astronaut into orbit around Earth, and then she helped put a man on the moon.
Have you ever had big dreams of playing football or baseball for the National Football League or Major League Baseball? Many young kids have this dream but not many attain their dreams. Vincent Edward Jackson better known as Bo Jackson is one of the few men who achieved the goal of getting to play not only one, but both of those sports at the same time. He was born on November 30, 1962 in Bessemer, Alabama. Bo is the son of A.D. Adams and Florence Bond. Bo was one of 10 children in the family. He graduated from McAdory High School and attended Auburn University. Bo Jackson is a phenomenal multi-sport athlete participating in three sports while attending college and two in the professional leagues. Bo was a running back with the Auburn Tigers
Since the last time I have journaled I have finished Magic hour by Kristin Hannah and Just Listen by Sarah Dessen. Magic Hour is about a feral child who was found in the small town of Rain Valley. It follows the police chief, Ellie, and her sister, Julia, while they try to figure out how to help this child. Julia is a psychiatrist who is working to get the girl to speak, while Ellie is trying to find whom the girl belongs to. Just Listen is about Annabel, the youngest sister of three in the Greene family. The family seems like they have a perfect life. The girls all model, Annabel is popular at school, they live in the perfect neighborhood, and they appear to everyone like the perfect family. The reader quickly discovers that this is not the
It travels through the confusing journey of trying to figure out that this charismatic man had a murderous, scandalous double life. Ann Rule is quite an amazing author, and that is especially true for this book. Not only is she already such a talented true crime author, because of her extensive experience in the world of crime, but this book investigates her life, making the story incredibly
More specifically, Holly also narrates the majority of the film. The narration allows the audience to understand what’s going on inside of her mind through her thoughts, which amplify the point-of-view the film has chosen to follow. Through trailing Holly and Holly’s thoughts, we learn more about her character’s personality and her lack of motives. The audience sees first-hand how unaffected she is from her boyfriend’s psychotic personality causing him to go on a killing spree. The clear-cut point-of-view question the morals and values of this film. Holly’s lack of concern really questions the moral values of good vs. evil. She shares with the audience that “I didn't feel shame or fear, but just kind of blah, like when you're sitting there and all the water's run out of the bathtub” (Badlands, 1973). As the spectator, we are placed in a situation where we watch these murders as they take place. The people that surround them obviously become affected, but the characters themselves are never impacted emotionally nor is the world that surrounds them. For these characters, there’s no stopping when it comes to life vs. death due to the fact that the murders are pushed so far. Their mortal selves personally question the morality of good vs. evil as they never feel remorse from committing such a deadly act—literally. It just goes to show that while leadership can exist so does a sense of passiveness in a corrupted
What are we doing here? It is part of human nature to be possessed by this question. It is interesting how this question seems to drive human beings. Additionally, the fact that all humans ask this question and have been asking it for as far back as one can tell, suggests something very important about human nature. This question seems exclusive to human beings.