![]() ![]() Great Monday Give: Rabbit and His Friends.Ha! Just when I thought I had the fabulous fours conquered, I am reminded of all the stubbornness left to come. like lima beans and kissing on TV and his railroad pajamas. ![]() It tickles me silly all the little things in here that Alexander can't stand. Some gum in the hair can feel like the end of the world rather than a minor hassle easily fixed with olive oil. And for children, it is that much harder as they have a difficult time grasping the concept of the light at the end of the tunnel. We've all had days like this, when no matter how hard we try, everything manages to go to hell. I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there's gum in my hair and when I got out of bed this morning I tripped on the skateboard and by mistake I dropped my sweater in the sink while the water was running and I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. In this case, Alexander is having a pretty crappy day. I guess it was around that time that psychotherapy boomed and books for children that "dealt with things" started popping up (see Judith's The Tenth Good Thing About Barney if you have to deal with pet death). Though I never personally owned this one, the cover is hugely evocative of my childhood as it was a book you saw everywhere and amazingly has been in print nonstop since it was published in the year of my birth. Judith Viorst ~ Ray Cruz ~ Anteneum, 1972 ![]() Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day ![]()
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![]() ![]() I will say out front, that the horror here stays backstage – there are accounts and inferred rape accusations about the Sheriff, who does nothing when confronted with a murder (guilty through negligence) that impacts the family. ![]() I was totally committed within pages and loved every second in the novel. Each of the sisters has a radically different personality, and added to that mix are a dominating mother, a loving if somewhat irresponsible father, and the mysterious Aunt and her HooDoo. This is a book that transports you from the first page into the easy-flowing and lovingly competitive lives of the three sisters, Pee Wee, Betty, and Ann. Tracy nails the language, details, and atmosphere. Rootwork is written from the varying povs of three black sisters living in Louisiana in 1889. This isn’t a flash in the pan, this is the culmination of a studied application of writing that a writer brings to their game. ![]() Quite aside from the fact that this book is on Mother Horror’s Dark Hart label, Tracy has received both the HWA scholarship from hell for 2022, a Ladies of Horror fiction grant, and a 2019 new voices fellowship from the emerging writer’s festival. I want to start off by focusing the start of this review on Tracy herself. ![]() ![]() Ryker’s flip, conceited, carefree attitude grates on Jacob’s every nerve. Running into a pretty rich boy like Ryker Madsen is putting a damper on his enjoyment of life away from home. will probably be the only time he has to enjoy life, gain acceptance about his sexuality, and live openly before his inevitable return to the farm. Jacob is using his skills in hockey to finance his way to an agricultural science degree. Born and raised in the small rural community of Eden Crossing, Minnesota, he’s the only son of a hard-working but struggling dairy farming family. Jacob Benson has only known hard work and stifling conservative values his whole life. When tragedy rocks his family, his charmed life crumbles, and the only person he can turn to is the same one who claims to hate him. After all trying to get his Owatonna Eagles teammate into bed is less work and more play. He certainly has no place for love, and meeting Jacob is nothing but a useful distraction on the side. He has no room for relationships, people who point out his flaws, or anyone who calls him on his dreams. ![]() Playing college hockey to develop his game is his only focus, and nothing will stand in the way of him working to become the best player. Ryker comes from a long line of championship-winning hockey players. Can two vastly different people find common ground and become the men they want to be? ![]() ![]() (18 Sept 2018)īlurb: Ryker is hockey royalty, Jacob is a poor country boy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Forester (author of the Captain Hornblower series) who asked the young pilot to write down his war experiences for a story he was writing. ![]() It was there that he met famous author C.S. Later in the war Roald Dahl was sent to America. Roald wrote about these experiences in his books Boy and Going Solo. Tragically of the 20 men in his squadron, Roald Dahl was one of only three to survive. But being nearly two metres tall he found himself squashed into his fighter plane, knees around his ears and head jutting forward. With the outbreak of the Second World War Roald Dahl joined the RAF. In Africa he learnt to speak Swahili, drove from diamond mines to gold mines, and survived a bout of malaria where his temperature reached 105.5 degrees (that's very high!). He seems incapable of marshalling his thoughts on paper!' After finishing school Roald Dahl, in search of adventure, travelled to East Africa to work for a company called Shell. When he was at school Roald Dahl received terrible reports for his writing - with one teacher actually writing in his report, 'I have never met a boy who so persistently writes the exact opposite of what he means. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm a huge Anne of Green Gables fan so I was really happy to grab this! Unfortunately, it fell flat for me. Refreshingly bold and unapologetically unique, Anne of Greenville will make you want to stand up and sing! ![]() ![]() In this coming-of-age novel by fan-favorite author Mariko Tamaki, see the classic tale in a whole new light. Is she MTB with Gilly? Or is Berry her true soul mate? Only time (or 304 pages) will tell. Both personality quirks quickly come into play when the soccer team boos the premiere of her disco performance, which-in a roundabout way-introduces her to her new BFF, Berry, and she soon after meets the girl of her dreams, Gilly.įalling quickly into that age-old trap of ignoring the best friend for the new crush, Anne soon becomes embroiled in a series of dramatic and unfortunate events, and quickly finds herself wrapped up in a love triangle she never expected. Recently relocated to middle-of-nowhere Greenville and starting at a new school, Anne has a tendency to A) fall in love quickly, deeply, and effervescently and B) fly off the handle in the face of jerks. In this modern reimagining of Anne of Green Gables, Anne is an ABBA-loving singer/actor/writer of disco-operas, queer, Japanese-American who longs to be understood for her artistic genius. It’s also the story of how I found my true true, and how I needed to maybe come to Greenville, of all places, to make that happen. This is the story of how I became Anne of Greenville. ![]() ![]() ![]() They are the heroes of this book, those who challenge China’s patriarchal policies and institutions and encourage other women to do the same. She writes with the rigor and depth of a journalist, making it easy to understand the struggles and triumphs of the Feminist Five. Leta Hong Fincher is a journalist and scholar who spent years living in China reporting on a wide range of feminist issues, including the “leftover” women. Through interviews with young women, and in particular the story of the Feminist Five, who were detained on International Women’s Day in 2015 for 37 days, Leta Hong Fincher’s Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China is a vivid, insightful read that will empower feminists around the world. In China, a country of contradictions, a feminist movement emerged when women connected with each other using technology and social media. ![]() Book review: Leta Hong Fincher, Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (Verso, 2018) ![]() ![]() ![]() If I hadn’t just read the non-fiction book about wombats, this book might more favorably impress me. If another wombat book is published, I will read it the first one is fabulous so I can’t resist giving any further books a try. The first book is vastly superior and that’s the book I recommend. I smiled some but was not highly amused and was not emotionally touched. I guess it’s supposed to be adorable and amusing, but while some scenes manage to come close to this, overall I was left unmoved. Here, the baby wombat, and at times its mother, spends a great deal of time in close proximity with a human infant. In the first picture book, the wombat’s contact with humans was done perfectly. ![]() And, in the non-fiction book, it was stressed how wombats are wild animals. ![]() It is cute, but for me it lacked the magical quality of the original book. So, with this book, I was looking forward to another charming wombat picture book. I love the earlier book Diary of a Wombat and recently read French’s non-fiction book about wombats, which was just okay for me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Kindle formally entered the Chinese market two years later, I immediately upgraded to the Paperwhite. I bought my first Kindle - a Kindle Touch - while living abroad in 2011. For many Chinese, myself included, it was our introduction to the world of e-books, and even a decade of bad business decisions couldn’t dim our enthusiasm for the device.Īdmittedly, I’m a poster boy for the Kindle lifestyle. Yet unlike Amazon’s other offerings, the Kindle had a devoted, if small fandom among Chinese consumers. In the face of competition from Chinese platforms like JD.com and Taobao, Amazon itself abandoned most of its retail business on the Chinese mainland as early as 2019. ![]() Amazon is hardly the first major company to struggle to crack China’s online markets. It’s easy for outside observers to chalk up the Kindle’s failure as inevitable. Reactions to the move have ranged from indifference to confusion - online, many joked that they only learned the e-reader was for sale in China by reading Amazon’s withdrawal notice - but as a rare Chinese Kindle fan, I couldn’t help but think what might have been. Almost exactly one year from now, Amazon’s Kindle e-reader service will exit the Chinese market, possibly for good. ![]() ![]() ![]() Realizing that Astrid is young and beautiful, but Starr is not so young, she tries to kill the girl. At first, everything goes well, but Starr eventually becomes jealous of Astrid and Starr’s lover Ray. The police arrest her the next day and Ingrid is sent to prison, initially without realizing that she will destroy her life and family ties with her daughter Astrid.Īstrid is forced to move to the temporary guardian named Starr, who lives in a small house with children in a suburb of Los Angeles, California. Strongly worrying about this injustice, the woman decides to punish the ex-boyfriend by poisoning him. However, something happens in Ingrid’s life: she meets with her lover Barry Kolker, who after a while decides to abandon Ingrid. They live together in their independent and amazing world, separated from all other people. The daughter follows many aspects of her mother – Astrid is beautiful, strong and freedom-loving. Ingrid Magnussen, who is an artist, brings up her teenage daughter Astrid alone. ![]() ![]() ![]() We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. 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