5/24/2023 0 Comments Played by Liz Fichera![]() ![]() The entire story had a nice build up and I felt like the ending was just a little short. The ending was one aspect of Hooked that left me wanting more. Oday, I think they were my favorite two minor characters of the book. ![]() The minor characters in the book really come to the forefront with Liz Fichera's great characterization. The prejudices and stereotypes of society play a large role into the problems in the basis of their relationship. I loved that they had their problems to work through and really had to commit to build their relationship. The chemistry between Fred and Ryan was there from the start. It is a different sport that doesn't usually get focused in on, so it was fresh and new. There were so many great moments between Fred and Ryan - both on and off the golf course. Both characters have so much to learn about the other and the lives they had led. Fred knows life on the reservation and Ryan knows his privileged life off the res. There are essentially two different worlds that the characters have known. Liz Fichera has written a masterpiece about the troubles of high school, acceptance, and how to be yourself. Hooked is exactly the right title for this one, because hooked is what I was from page one on. ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Life on mars author pulitzer![]() ![]() ![]() Poetry, perhaps more than even the best books (of other kinds, including fiction and non fiction), can awaken us to the human condition and help us reflect on our role within it.Īnd for those who haven't read poetry since high school English class, allow this list to introduce you to what you've been missing. Whether we've realized it yet or not, we all crave communion with the wonder of the world, even if the specific moments or images that bring that need to the surface are unique to each individual. There's something about verse that speaks to the essential life force that electrifies the human spirit, that universal humanity inside all of us that sparks to life when we see a rainbow, a baby smiles at us or we see someone we love unexpectedly emerging from a crowd of strangers. ![]() Now more than ever, the world needs poetry. ![]() ![]() ![]() As she searches for answers about her own past, she also struggles to reconcile with the legacy of a mother caught between her duty to her chosen family and her calling to lead humankind into a better future. ![]() Years later, Asha Vere reads the journals of a mother she never knew, Lauren Olamina. The fledgling community provides refuge for outcasts facing persecution after the election of an ultra-conservative president who vows to “make America great again.” In an increasingly divided and dangerous nation, Lauren’s subversive colony–a minority religious faction led by a young black woman–becomes a target for President Jarret’s reign of terror and oppression. ![]() In 2032, Lauren Olamina has survived the destruction of her home and family, and realized her vision of a peaceful community in northern California based on her newly founded faith, Earthseed. It’s a personal mission of mine to read all of Octavia Butler’s stories and I’m so happy that I read three of them this year! Keep reading this book review to find out what I thought about this sequel! Summary Having read Parable of the Sower for my book club, I knew I had to rush straight into Parable of the Talents. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Reviews commonwealth ann patchett![]() ![]() ![]() When, in her twenties, Franny begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story of her siblings is no longer hers to control. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond that is based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows up between them. Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny& s mother, Beverly& thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating& s christening party uninvited. The acclaimed, bestselling author& winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize& tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families& lives. ![]() #1 New York Times Bestseller | NBCC Award Finalist | New York Times Best Book of the Year | USA Today Best Book | TIME Magazine Top 10 Selection | Oprah Favorite Book of 2016 | New York Magazine Best Book of The Year Commonwealth is impossible to put down.& & New York Times ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Soul on ice eldridge cleaver book![]() ![]() Or find study tips, learning tools, tips for campus life and much more with a look at our Student Resources Headquarters. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.įor additional study tips and tools, check out our full library of study guides for students. The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of numerous classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. ![]() ![]() Introductions to the Author and the Work Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver 3.5 (4) Paperback 14.99 17.This Study Guide to Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver explores the context and history of this classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons it has stood the literary test of time. Cleaver uses various literary devices and techniques to craft a story of change and redemption. Written during the author’s time in Folsom State Prison in 1965, Soul on Ice, by Eldridge Cleaver, is a memoir and collection of short stories, which guides the reader through the thoughts and experiences of a former Black Panther. ![]() ![]() ![]() Every time I left my house after reading, I saw the world differently. "It taught me so much about slavery and how slavery enabled America to become America. Told through the intimate testimonies of survivors of slavery, plantation records, newspapers, as well as the words of politicians and entrepreneurs, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy. ![]() Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. ![]() Craven Prize from the Organization of American HistoriansĪmericans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution - the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. ![]() A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Initially picturing the slaves toiling "under the hot Texas sun," Lewis later captures their tranquil joy as they gather on a beach in the cool night "as free people." Back matter provides historical context for this powerfully visualized story. Amid the cotton plants, an elderly man cries quietly, several adults bow their heads in prayer, and the girl's mother silently hugs her: "My mama held my hand softly/ and looked beyond,/ as another breeze blew over/ and everything/ fell to a/ hush." Using a lovely, muted palette, Lewis's expressive watercolors convey the impact of the news of freedom, dramatically contrasting the slaves' lives before and after. Johnson's graceful poem is narrated by a girl who heads to the cotton fields one June morning with her family and other slaves, unaware "that soon,/ it would all be different." As word spreads, reactions range from serene contemplativeness to elation. Angela Johnson’s All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom, which Thomas highly recommends. This is a gentle retelling of what this momentous day might have been like. She knows that everything will be all different now. This elegant collaboration by the creators of Lily Brown's Paintings tells of the day that slaves on a Texas plantation learn they are free, more than two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. A young African-American girl tells us the story of this important day and how her family and friends reacted to the news and celebrated their first day of freedom. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments When we were magic![]() ![]() ![]() This piece was written by her - it was the short narrative that went with a holographic art installation created by us for an exhibition called DATACITY in Enghien-les-Bains, Paris. We send our love and condolences to her father Paul, her sister Anouska, her partner Mark and all her close family relations and friends.īright White Ltd will not be the same without her. Lara came to us straight from university in 2012, aged just 22, and worked her way up to become director in 2019. In the studio or out on site, she was the ultimate professional. She was a funny, lively, fascinating person. ![]() She was a great friend, and we always looked forward to the long car journeys or rail journeys with Lara because there was never a dull moment - she made sure of this. ![]() Lara was the perfect company director, being able to assess situations and always help find paths that were professional and respected everybody’s interests. Lara was a highly skilled and creative writer and content developer who turned her hand to any challenge in front of her, being able to inject her passion and love of nature and humanity into every topic. It’s with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our dear friend and company director Lara Munden. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Friday black adjei brenyah![]() ![]() Racial injustice, class struggles, violence, profiling, war, misogyny, genocide, all theses and more feast on the absence of love and fear-monger love away in order to attain power. On the last page I should write ‘I recognize only one duty, and that is to love.’ It seems so simple: to love and to be loved, and one can look to the beauty and love in the world and feel hope but yet far too often we look about and see the absence of love creeping its way like a shadow at dusk through human interactions. ‘ If I had to write a book on morality,’ author and existentialist Albert Camus once wrote in his notebooks, ‘ it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. ![]() ‘ Every inch of my black skin painted the maroon of life.’ ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Book about alice with alzheimer's![]() ![]() ![]() Genova has written several books highlighting the everyday, emotional effects of living with neurologic disorders, including Huntington’s ( Inside the O’Briens), traumatic brain injury ( Left Neglected), autism ( Love Anthony), and, of course, Alzheimer’s ( Still Alice).Īlzheimer’s Association Chief Science Officer, Maria Carrillo, Ph.D., advised on the script to help ensure scientific accuracy. , a neuroscientist who has merged her scientific knowledge with a talent for writing. The movie is based on a novel by Lisa Genova, Ph.D. Watching the film is the first time many people get to see close-up what it’s like to be an Alzheimer’s patient, as well as a caregiver.īringing the issue of early-onset dementia to the forefront This real-life story about how Alice Howland, a linguistics professor at Columbia, and her family deal with her diagnosis of familial Alzheimer’s disease at age 50, is both heartfelt and powerful. ![]() The multiple award-winning film, Still Alice, brings the issue of early-onset dementia to the forefront. ![]() |