![]() Her story is an open, honest, and deeply personal look at her struggles to fight back against her eating disorder, stop self-harming, and learn more about her sexuality." - Ana Valens, The Mary Sue ![]() "Sheds light on the complicated emotional and mental dynamics involved in lesbian relationships. "The self-discovery that follows is utterly fascinating." - Abraham Riesman, Vulture And let’s face it: that is all of us." - Judith Utz, Teen Vogue ![]() "While the subject matter is by no means light, this moving and honest slice of life will resonate with anyone who has questioned themselves or ever been conflicted in their lives. Winner of the 2018 Harvey Award for Best Manga and the 2017 Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best Manga, and acclaimed in Vox's top books of the decade, The Advocate 's Best LGBT Graphics Novels of 2017, the NPR Guide to 2017’s Great Reads, and the Publishers Weekly Best Books 2017. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() I had spent the last five years writing about my dating life at a tiny Texas newspaper, and the number of failed dates I went on, and eventually wrote about, made me wary of my first date with a girl in L.A. ![]() She seemed funny, and her Instagram proved that she was cute and clever. We spent the days leading up to the date making small talk while I tried to lower my big expectations. Also, she was super cute, so that made saying yes easier. No one had ever slid into my DMs until Emilia. And rather than pay $14.99 for Bumble Boost to extend the match, she boldly went where no woman had gone before. She told me we matched on Bumble, but because neither of us messaged each other (oops), the match expired. Emilia was real, and she was asking me on a date. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s about compassion, but it shows insensitivity.” ![]() It’s about kindness, but it shows arrogance. As the playwright herself puts it, “The play is not about doctors or even about cancer. What we as her audience take away from this remarkable drama is a keener sense that, while death is real and unavoidable, our lives are ours to cherish or throw away-a lesson that can be both uplifting and redemptive. Margaret Edson’s powerfully imagined Pulitzer Prize–winning play examines what makes life worth living through her exploration of one of existence’s unifying experiences-mortality-while she also probes the vital importance of human relationships. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Oppenheimer Award ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Shortly before it came out she explained to a friend that my "mind works with most freedom and the keenest sense of poetry in my remotest past", and her first two novels had indeed truffled her own prehistory. Unusually for such an intensely autobiographical novel, The Mill on the Floss was not Eliot's first work of fiction, but her third. ![]() The brother and sister who, like Tom and Maggie, had once "roamed the daisied fields together" in loving childhood, would never meet again. This silence was to stretch bleakly over the coming quarter of a century. Even more hurtfully, he had instructed their sister to break off contact too. Ever since she had written to Isaac Evans three years before to explain that she was now cohabiting in London with the married Lewes – "Mrs Lewes" was a term of social convenience, her legal name remained Mary Ann Evans – the rigidly respectable Isaac had refused to have anything to do with her. More than mere melodrama, the watery hug represented a wishful reworking of Eliot's fractured relationship with her own adored brother, with whom she had grown up on the Warwickshire family farm in the 1820s. ![]() ![]() Then, led by a young and charismatic preacher, they elect to isolate themselves in a fatal quarantine. ![]() Desperate, the villagers turn to sorcery, herb lore, and murderous witch-hunting. So begins the Year of Wonders, in which a Pennine village of 350 souls confronts a scourge beyond remedy or understanding. The tailor who cut the cloth had no way of knowing that the damp fabric carried with it bubonic infection. The north of England remained untouched until, in a small community of leadminers and hill farmers, a bolt of cloth arrived from the capital. In 1666, plague swept through London, driving the King and his court to Oxford, and Samuel Pepys to Greenwich, in an attempt to escape contagion. ![]() A young woman's struggle to save her family and her soul during the extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly struck a small Derbyshire village. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'March' and 'People of the Book'. ![]() ![]() ![]() In WtWFLttF, Lydia Davis is referenced as an inspiration, which applies here as well. Some read more like outlines of a story/character to be expanded upon later. ![]() (This is my observation, not a criticism.) Together it reads like a daily writing exercise, characters the author neither wanted to explore further nor abandon completely. Also, these stories are mostly comprised of inner-thoughts rather than forward action. There is some overlap with stories from WtWFLttF, but not too many. ![]() It would likely seem funnier if read aloud, which would highlight how recognizably mundane some of these moments are. Often humor is in the details of writing, but here the details try way too hard to be quirky. This ho-ho humor isn't the type I find fulfilling. Whether targeting the Bush administration, the voting public, irritating plane passengers or writing that lacks subtlety, Eggers' own writing here lacks subtlety in its snarky condemnations. ![]() Though not every story, as a whole this book is more bitter tasting than Eggers' other flash fiction collections ( What the Water Feels Like to the Fishes and Jokes Told in Heaven About Babies, the latter under the pseudonym Lucy Thomas). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here’s what I asked Kara Swanson about her latest book: How did you come up with the idea for Dust? Yep! I know many of you Lost Boys and Girls would love to have a sneak peak inside the world of Dust by Kara Swanson – and luckily, I desperately did too! But the good news for you is that if you visit every stop on this mystery adventure, you get bucket loads of treasure (Remember – if you go to Dust Blog Tour Kickoff you’ll get to hear everything!) Did you say… EXCLUSIVE interview? For all us Neverlanders out there, the mission itself sounds like loads of fun. ![]() Special keywords and stardust have been hidden all over the internet (like this blog), and it’s your job to find every stop and collect the treasure before Captain Hook and his mean, stinky pirates do! Here’s the quick summary, dear lost ones: we have a new, very important mission. If you hop over to the Dust Blog Tour Kickoff post, you’ll get to hear all the details and will be able to start at the beginning in order to win some exciting treasure! And in case you haven’t pre-ordered, you can do so here.īut now, we’ve got even more exciting news to share. Yup – that’s sooo close! You may remember my post about the cover reveal ( here’s the link). For those of you just joining up, here’s what you’ve missed (trust me, you’ll want to know!)Īuthor Kara Swanson is coming out with Dust, the first book in the Heirs of Neverland Duology, July 21st. ![]() ![]() ![]() Walking with God in the Classroom: Christian Approaches to Teaching and Learning.(This resource explains how a Christian worldview affects. Steppingstones to Curriculum: A Biblical Path.Harro Walter Van Brummelen has been listed as a noteworthy Education educator by Marquis Who's Who. ![]() Teacher, principal, Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) Christian H.S., 1969-1977 Įducation coordinator, Society Christian Schools B.C., Surrey, 1977-1986 Ĭhair education department, Trinity Western U., Langley, B.C., Canada, 1986-1994 Īssistant dean faculty social science and education, Trinity Western U., Langley, B.C., Canada, since 1991. Teacher mathematics, Toronto District Christian H.S., Woodbridge, 1965-1969 Teacher mathematics, King City (Ontario) Secondary School, 1963-1965 Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1972 ĭoctor of Education, U. ![]() arrived in Canada, 1953.īachelor of Science, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1963 Son of Henry William and Nancy (Ryksen) Van Brummelen. Education, Government B.C., Victoria, 1992,Award for Exceptional Contributions, Christian Schools International, 1995.īrummelen, Harro Walter Van was born on Januin The Hague, The Netherlands. Harro Walter Van Brummelen, Canadian Education educator. ![]() ![]() How their first summer at an artsy camp Spirit-in-the-Woods and future inter-relationships develop, as they become adults in the fast-changing world, is the focus of this very reflective, character-driven book. In this book, the central stage first take six teenagers: (i) awkward, but funny Jules, our main heroine (ii) lovable and charming Ash (iii) Ash’s handsome, but slightly troubled brother Goodman (iv) not particularly attractive, but friendly and ingenious Ethan (v) dreamy and artistic Jonah (vi) and beautiful and emotional Cathy. ![]() Her novel The Interestings is also a bestseller which is as impressive. ![]() Meg Wolitzer is an American novelist known for such books as The Wife and The Ten-Year Nap. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reading it again today, I find the book holds as much allure as ever it did. When I moved to First Grade the book continued to be popular among those who were no longer in my classroom. I recently came upon a copy of T he Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless while strolling through the aisles of the local jumble shop, and I picked it up immediately. The class rule was everyone had to have a turn to read it once…. Ahmet Zappa’s The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless never lay on the classroom library for more than a day before being checked out again. Not so with books featuring action, gross and fun available. ![]() Boys especially seem to lose much interest in reading. That is a good thing the middle grades are a time when many kids do not want to read much of anything. It had great popularity among both girl and boy readers. ![]() I first read Ahmet Zappa’s The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless while teaching 4 th grade back in the mid 2000s. The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearlessĪudio CD, February 13, 2007, ISBN-13: 978-0739338803 ![]() |