![]() They discuss tomorrow’s opening of the orphanage, which was built with her late husband’s funds and intended to honor his memory. She insists that she wants a respectable position, and she asks him to keep her in mind if he hears anything. ![]() He compliments her on how she’s grown up and suggests that she ought to go with her father. Pastor Manders greets Regina and they exchange pleasantries. Engstrand consents to go, but he tells her to listen if the Pastor gives her any advice. She also thinks he needs to leave because Pastor Manders will be here any minute. She doesn’t want to leave and she doesn’t think it is appropriate to keep house for him. He suggests his daughter should come with him and work there, assuring her that she will be well off she’s gotten too hoity-toity here at the Alvings’. ![]() Now that this project is done, he tells Regina his plans to open a home for seamen, insinuating that it would be a brothel but a very good one. She is not at all happy to see her father, whom she regards as dissolute and a drunk.Įngstrand has been working on the “Captain Alving Memorial,” an orphanage/asylum that is opening the next day. ![]() Jakob Engstrand, a ne'er-do-well carpenter, arrives at the garden room wanting to speak with Regina, his daughter, who works as a maid for the Alvings. The play is set in late-19th-century Norway in the wealthy household of the Alvings. ![]()
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Brody Parata has spent the last decade imprisoned in his shifted form. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story revolves around the character of Rin, a war orphan living in a world much like China of yesteryear that has been adopted by abusive step-parents who have a high level of importance in the illegal sale of opium. THE POPPY WAR ( Amazon) is the first book in a planned trilogy by R.F. Got nothing but love for my local library. There are a couple other books like that in my to-read queue right now, but this was the one that took precedence because it was the first one I had free access to it. So I decided I’d better see what all the hubbub was about. A few months ago, there was just this rash of people talking about it in my feed and gushing about how beautiful it was, or what a great book it was. 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