![]() The narrator of the story tells us that everyone in Sleepy Hollow is, as the name would suggest, dreamy and sleepy at all times. It is a quiet town, between the Tappan Zee and Hudson rivers and a very small market town named Tarry Town. The story begins in the small town of Sleepy Hollow. It works, and Ichabod has never seen in the town again. However, Brom finds this tale a little too amusing and it is implied that he dressed up as the Horseman to frighten Ichabod into leaving. When he is not found, the superstitious townspeople assume that he has been taken by the Horseman. The next morning, Ichabod's horse is found and the town searches for him. Eventually, the horseman vanishes but not before throwing his decapitated head at Ichabod, knocking the man off his horse. The Headless Horseman leaps out of the town's legends and chases Ichabod down. Disappointed, he leaves to head back home and stumbles across a nightmare on the way. While there he confesses his feelings to Katrina and she rejects him. One night, Ichabod is invited to the Van Tassel's farm for a party. Ichabod loves to hear ghost stories and learns of a local legend, a headless horseman who is supposed to ride through the town at night looking for his disembodied head. Ichabod is opposed in this by a rival for the ladies affection, a man named Brom Van Brunt. ![]() The short story tells the tale of a small town schoolmaster named Ichabod Crane who attempts to woo a beautiful young heiress named Katrina Van Tassel. ![]()
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![]() ![]() One is the rafting guide, Seldom Seen Smith, a Mormon with questionable morals and marginal commitments to the Church of LSD, oops I mean LDS. It is hard not to cheer them on along the way even though it is obvious from the beginning they are on a quixotic mission.ĭuring a white water rafting trip in Utah, four trickster-type individuals start drinking by their campfire and talk about how great it would be to sabotage all the industrial development taking place across the American Southwest. Instead of doing that, he wrote a counter-cultural novel called The Monkey Wrench Gang and it is all about people who blow things up. Edward Abbey was certainly paying attention to the destruction of nature and he felt like blowing things up. ![]() But really, if you haven’t fantasized about blowing something up at some point in your life, you’re probably not paying much attention to what’s happening in the world. Besides, my weapon-making skills are non-existent, I’m clumsy, have shaky hands, and can’t tell the difference between saltpetre and cialis so you wouldn’t want to be near me while I’m carrying a box of high-powered explosives. I don’t want to end up in jail and it probably wouldn’t do much to make the world a better place in the long run anyways. Who hasn’t felt like blowing things up from time to time? I know I have, not that I would actually do something like that. ![]() ![]() ![]() All three are able to escape, and Kennedy starts to believe Lukas and Jared and some of the craziness they are telling her. It throws knives at them, locks them in the house, and pretty much destroys the place. They all are in her kitchen as the boys try to explain what is going on when a poltergeist starts attacking them. The next day, Lukas and Jared (the two young men) are waiting for Kennedy outside her house. ![]() Two young men come in and destroy the vengeance spirit that is using the cat to steal Kennedy’s breath (basically the spirit is trying to kill her). As she is spending her last night in their house, she wakes up with her cat on her and unable to breathe. ![]() The story follows Kennedy just as her world is falling apart. It did have some of the characteristics that are kind of common in YA lit (new/confusing situation, love triangley, etc.), but the story itself was one that I have not really seen before. It was easy to read, and it stayed interesting the whole time. Kami Garcia co-authored the Beautiful Creaturesseries, and this is her first book on her own. Unbreakable is the first book in the Legion series. ![]() |