5/9/2023 0 Comments Beyond magenta book cover![]() ![]() Not all of the Printz criteria need to be applied to declare a book exceptional but I find that theme and possibly design are the main elements to examine for literary quality here, and I’m not sure that they show the very best work of the year. ![]() Susan Kuklin has edited and arranged the six stories that appear in the book but I keep thinking that the things that moved, enlightened, and challenged me in Beyond Magenta were the teens’ voices-their stories and their analysis of their identities. I guess what I’m really struggling with is how to asses a book that is shaped largely by the personal narratives of individuals told in their own words. It’s easily one of the strongest contenders for this year’s YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction-but will it be a serious Printz contender? ![]() Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out, Susan Kuklinĭoes literary quality mean that a writer has to have a strong authorial presence? I bring this up because Beyond Magenta is a wonderful nonfiction book. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Rather than calming Sarah, however, the birth of Isaac only inflamed her animosity toward Hagar. These two half-brothers were named as the ancestors of the two great peoples of the Near East: Ishmael, the Arabs, and Isaac, the Jews. At this point of the story, Abraham is 100 and Sarah 90 years old! But, just as God says, Sarah gave birth to a child – a son, called Isaac. God then appeared to Abraham and told him that he would have another child, but this time by Sarah. ![]() Then Sarah badly mistreated the pregnant slave – just before she gave birth to Abraham’s son, Ishmael. Sarah became deeply jealous, while Hagar flaunted and revelled openly in her pregnancy. Abraham went along with the plan.īut when Hagar conceived, the relationship between the two women soured. Initially, the two women seem to have lived side-by-side in harmony – so much so that when Sarah was unable to conceive a child of her own, she told Abraham that he should raise an heir with Hagar. Sarah was wife to the patriarch, Abraham, and Hagar was their Egyptian slave. Let’s begin with a quick sketch of their tale. This is the key message: The story of Sarah and Hagar teaches us to be understanding. Their own relationship, sadly, was a fraught and bitter one – and yet their story offers a useful lesson, one at the heart of Christian teachings. One a free woman, the other enslaved, each played an instrumental role against the patriarchal backdrop of the ancient world. Early in the Bible we encounter two women – Sarah and Hagar. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Steven pinker now![]() ![]() In the ensuing years, he also taught at MIT University of California, Santa Barbara and New College of the Humanities, London. Pinker then began his professional career as an assistant professor at Harvard and Stanford. In 1979, he received his Doctorate of Philosophy in experimental psychology from Harvard University and subsequently, spent a year as a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A native of Quebec, Pinker grew up in a middle-class but well-educated family. At present, he serves as the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. ![]() ![]() Steven Arthur Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist and linguist, who has garnered recognition for advocating evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. ![]() 5/8/2023 0 Comments Commuting Wife by Dean McCoy![]() ![]() The writer, like most recent writers making that spurious claim, cited the West Virginia Encyclopedia. ![]() Devil Anse was never a member of the Logan Wildcats, much less their leader. Of course anyone who has studied the real history knows that the Logan Wildcats were Company D of the 36 th Virginia Infantry, and they never operated within a hundred miles of Tug River. Surfing the net for “feud” stuff the other day, I again ran into the “Devil Anse had a guerrilla group that was known as The Logan Wildcats” claim. In response to an inquirer who offered to bring the documentary proof that the Encyclopedia’s article was in error, the editor said he didn’t need to see the evidence, because he liked the story and would leave it the way it was. ![]() We saw the lack of concern for the historical record in my blog post a few months ago on the Encyclopedia’s handling of the Abner Vance story. The West Virginia Encyclopedia is extremely damaging to the study of real history, simply because it has the State’s imprimatur upon it. ![]() ![]() ★ “ Every detail is meticulously inscribed into a multi-layered narrative that is as wise, honest, and moving as it is cunningly worked. ★ “ A sumptuous feast of a novel, rich in mood, character, and emotion.”- SLJ, Starred Review Revolution spans centuries and vividly depicts the eternal struggles of the human heart.Īn ABA Indies Choice Young Adult Book of the YearĪn ALA-YALSA Top Ten Best Book for Young AdultsĪ School Library Journal Best Book of the YearĪ Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book Revolution artfully weaves two girls’ stories into one unforgettable account of life, loss, and enduring love. ![]() It’s the same fire that consumes Andi, and Andi finds comfort in it-until, on a midnight journey through the catacombs, words transcend paper and time, and the past becomes terrifyingly present. Alexandrine, the owner of the journal, lived during the French Revolution. And when she finds a centuries-old diary, the ghosts begin to walk off the page. And her father has determined that accompanying him to Paris for winter break is the solution for everything.īut Paris is a city of ghosts for Andi. She’s angry at her father for leaving, angry at her mother for not being able to cope, and heartbroken by the loss of her younger brother, Truman. ![]() Readers of If I Stay and Elizabeth George will love Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly, New York Times bestselling author of Stepsister, Poisoned, These Shallow Graves, and the award-winning novel A Northern Light.Īndi Alpers is on the edge. ![]() 5/8/2023 0 Comments Autoboyography characters![]() ![]() ![]() Being in high school can be rough enough, and yet, he makes his way through. He’s struggling with his identity in a town where most of the population is not as accepting as his parents are. The main character Tanner is quite relatable for many young LGBT people. Tanner’s experience as a Jewish and bisexual person in a conservative town provides the reader with a great insight into just how much a supportive family can help LGBT youths. Being half-Jewish in a Mormon town can and will be difficult, especially when crushing on the bishop’s son, as another guy, but Tanner makes his way through it. Throughout the book, it is found that the story has conflict. It takes him a while to realize that Sebastian is a brother at the church. Tanner meets Sebastian, a prodigy at the Seminar, and he immediately falls in love. ![]() Of course, this is where the romance begins. In the novel, Tanner’s friend Autumn dares him to take the prestigious Seminar, where students have to make a draft of a book in one semester. His family had always accepted his sexuality, but moving to Utah drove him to move back into the closet.Īt the time of his move, he only has one semester left of high school, and tries his best to endure the remainder of it, so he can move out of Utah and head off to college. “Autoboyography” has a lot of character development throughout the story and starts off with a bisexual, half-Jewish teenage boy named Tanner who moves from his home in California to a Mormon town in Utah. ![]() 5/8/2023 0 Comments Sempre by jm darhower![]() ![]() I hate to say it, but I was on the mafia's side in this one. He falls in love with his slave, and she falls in love with him, and it's all hearts and cuddles and tender moments - until the mafia steps in and says, "Hell no." The story, without all that fluff, is pretty simple. Most of those 500 pages? They're all padding. It wasn't even spectacularly awful - just dismally so. I read SEMPRE for our book of the month over at URR, and am only just now finishing it because of how awful it was. Questions like, "Why is this book so long?" "How did this even get published?" And, most pressingly, "What is it about this book that people actually like?" ![]() Good books make you ask questions - but sometimes, bad books make you ask questions, too. □ Read for the Unapologetic Romance Readers Halloween 2017 Reading Challenge for the category of: a romance novel with blood on the cover □ ![]() 5/8/2023 0 Comments In the weeds borison![]() ![]() ![]() Fells is truly such a favorite spot for photos and it really felt like the cool and quiet December morning was the perfect little story-setting scene. And on that note, if you haven’t heard, this series was just signed on as a 5 book deal with Berkley Romance! YAY! Major congratulations to you Becca, and major smiles reading all of your fans’ excited comments!! Such cool news and can’t wait to see you continue to flourish as an author and creative!!! Congrats!īecca and I met up on a crisp cool morning in Baltimore around the holidays for her official author portraits, and had a great time catching up, and finding lots of beautiful little nooks to snap photos in. Borison!) is one of them – both in my memory and in the present! It’s been just a little more than a few years since we were pals and classmates churning out journalistic excellence on our high school newspaper ) so it’s honestly so cool to see her take off as the beloved author of the Lovelight Series – including Lovelight Farms, In the Weeds, and Mixed Signals. There are some people who you can just instantly feel the warmth and welcoming vibes from and Becca (also known as author B.K. ![]() 5/7/2023 0 Comments The book zero fail![]() ![]() The agency is necessary, as Leonnig easily demonstrates by citing statistics surrounding threats to Barack Obama, which earned him protection a full year ahead of his formal eligibility as a candidate. In a seamy example, while on duty in Cartagena, agents solicited prostitutes, some of whom were revealed to have cartel connections. It has regularly “been ranked as the most hated place to work in the federal government,” a fiefdom of clashing bosses who demand personal loyalty, in exchange for which they’re willing to look the other way on certain matters. The agency’s mission should be simple, but it has become mired in morale problems, malfeasance, and poor leadership. The Secret Service was born after the failure of a bodyguard to protect Abraham Lincoln from an assassin’s bullet. Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post reporter Leonnig paints a damning portrait of a federal agency in crisis. ![]() ![]() ![]() During the summer of 1997, the Williamstown Theater Festival staged All My Sons (directed by Barry Edelstein) and The Ride Down Mount Morgan (directed by Scott Elliott) shortly thereafter these productions moved to New York City. One thinks of the Roundabout Theater's 1992 revival of The Price, the National Actors Theater's production of The Crucible, the 1994 Olivier Best Play Award for the London production of Broken Glass, and the successful 1996 Nicholas Hytner film version of The Crucible. It is hoped that the aura of Salesman in its 50th year enhances and does not erase the accomplishments of Arthur Miller during the last decade, when new plays and revivals have kept his words before audiences around the world. ![]() ![]() Whatever stirred the spirit in Cobb, he did perform mightily, along with the rest of the cast, and from that night forward audiences and critics have praised the play as precisely that "continuation of a long and undying past" stretching from the Greek theater to the present day. We thought of ourselves, still, as a kind of continuation of a long and undying past. We sat on either side of him in a box, inviting him, as it were, to drink of the heroism of that music, to fling himself into his role tonight without holding back. We were now aware that Willy's part was among the longest in dramatic literature, and Lee was showing signs of wearying. ![]() |