The sadness of the situation stayed with me, as did my anger at the author for not taking the story where it needed to go either by explaining the problem or by facing it. What a horrible world we live in where love is wrong. All you could believe was that he hid from who he was because of society. Clearly they were soul mates, and never once did we find out why he was so freaked out by his emotions. When the film ended and the man was heartbroken I felt a huge opportunity had been squandered. The entire film I waited for the obvious to happen. She is fine with the situation while he is a huge ball of denial. In it, two cousins, related through identical twins-thus making them genetic half-siblings-have a strong attraction. One chilly fall afternoon I curled up and watched an obscure counter culture film called The Buttercup Chain. I still can’t freaking believe it! In December, I released my fifth novel, Voices Carry, a part of my Rock and Roll Fantasy Collection.įiona: When and why did you begin writing? Where are you from Beautiful San FranciscoĪfter much stress, along with many trials and tribulations, as of November 2015, I am a USA Today Bestselling Author.
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6/26/2023 0 Comments Phyllis reynolds naylor booksFrequently ranked among the most challenged children's authors by the American Library Association (ALA), Naylor utilizes her texts to present candid examinations of the sorts of social issues and concerns that are important to her large body of adolescent female readers. With their realistic depictions of childhood and adolescent situations, Naylor's children's books-particularly her ongoing "Alice" series of young adult novels-have earned her strong sales, considerable critical consideration, and numerous censorship challenges. For further information on her life and career, see CLR, Volume 17. The following entry presents an overview of Naylor's career through 2007. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 1933– INTRODUCTIONĪmerican novelist, essayist, nonfiction writer, and author of picture books, easy readers, juvenile novels and short stories, and young adult novels. 6/26/2023 0 Comments Waterland graham swift summaryThe grandmother died in the great flu epidemic. Tom's grandfather was a prosperous brewer who lived in a big country house. The Crick family is one of those for whom, as it turns out, money could buy happiness. For Tom and Mary Crick, life has been a steady descent from careless teenage happiness to a grim, barren adulthood. We learn these details gradually, as Crick shares them with his class and the film flashes back to show them - sometimes, oddly, with the whole class going along, on a field trip through time. She cannot have children of her own, as the result of a crude and barbarous abortion performed on the fens in the cottage of an old crone. Crick is played in the film by Jeremy Irons as a man whose brow is permanently creased with pain, and whose wife ( Sinead Cusack) has gone mad in her own way, and stolen a baby from in front of a convenience store. His story is told in "Waterland," based on a 1983 novel by Graham Swift that is set entirely in England (the transfer to Pittsburgh is a mystery, but not a serious distraction). 6/26/2023 0 Comments The borrowers book seriesMary Norton’s The Borrowers (1952) has endured as a classic of children’s literature in the UK and in America. In the spirit of those original posts and the original aims of this blog, I’ve paired Mary Norton’s The Borrowers with Kelly Yang’s Front Desk for my final project for CHL429A Rereading Race in Classic Children’s Literature at Simmons University. The first posts on this blog paired a classic with a contemporary text in order to explore the connections that existed between them and to bridge the gap between children’s literature scholarship and actual children. Bookishly Bright started as Contextualizing the Classics in fall 2017 as a final project for a course at Kansas State University on Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie. 6/25/2023 0 Comments The end of faith in sam harris“Where is heaven, exactly, given that we have multiple telescopes up there beaming back tens of billions of years of information?”Īpparently, this holder of a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from UCLA and a bachelor’s in philosophy from Stanford thinks that he’s scored another debating point. “I’m not going to make magical claims about flying saviors who are literally coming down,” Harris said, gesticulating. Unfortunately for the outspoken prophet of the New Atheism, too many people were listening to an interview he gave earlier this week. In short, when Sam Harris talks, people listen. Five of his books attempting to debunk Christianity and theism have been on The New York Times Best Seller list. Harris, author of the influential book The End of Faith, has gone toe-to-toe with prominent Christian heavyweights such as William Lane Craig and Rick Warren. Sam Harris has been described as one of the “Four Horsemen of Atheism”-along with Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett. 6/25/2023 0 Comments Wolverine by Jeff LemireLewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. 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These box sets often have a really strong opening, and Time in a Bottle is no exception to that pattern. Time in a Bottle by Emma Reeves and Matt Fitton And involving the Doctor (Tom Baker) can only make things worse… When River Song (Alex Kingston) visits a place where time has vanished, a genie escapes its bottle… the Discordia are freed – nihilistic time pirates, in devilish form, altering the past to make sure they never lose. So, basically another Tuesday for River Song. But before we get to hear her meet the Fourth Doctor, she must first travel through time and space to escape the Discordia – a race of time traveling aliens who look like the common image of the Devil and are bent on ruling all of time and space. It’s a lot of fun hearing her interact with Doctors from the classic era, and her interactions with the Fourth Doctor in The Diary of River Song – Series 4 is no exception. River Song is one of my favorite characters that Steven Moffat created for Doctor Who. I love how her story ended up in the show and I love getting to see (or hear) more from her via these box sets. I am really enjoying these Diary of River Song box sets from Big Finish Production. Growing up in Big Stone Gap in Virginia, America, Adriana Trigiani found she had a passion in both reading and literature from an early age, as she went on to become a comedy writer for the stage as well as the screen. After some time she managed to build herself a reputation that became well established throughout both the media and the literary industry, setting up a loyal audience to this very day. Not only that, but she also has had and illustrious career in the media industry as well, having written for such big name companies like Jim Henson Studios and Showtime, working on a lot of high-profile and long-running series. A best-selling author for some time now, Adriana Trigiani is an Italian American writer who has been writing for a number of years now, having been born and raised in the United States, as she writes her heart-warming slice-of-life novels. Slowly but surely, they are rising above the din to create their niche. Over the past few years, the voices of the generation are making their way into the world of literature. Among the members of the generation, growing awareness of different social and global concerns also distinguishes it from its predecessor. The advent of social media earned the generation the moniker digital natives. On the backdrop, the generation grew up in a period of rapid technological development, making it as well the first generation to grow in the Internet age. Born in a period of globalization, Generation Y is considered to be the first global generation. Generation Y is also characterized by several firsts. The children of baby boomers and early Generation Xers, Generation Y typically covers people who were born between 19. Also popularly referred to as Generation Y, or Gen Y, millennials pertain to a demographic group that bridge Generation X and Generation Z. It has become a vogue, like a social branding that one carries around. The term millennial has become ubiquitous nowadays. 6/24/2023 0 Comments Blankets comic bookHe never brings himself to actually go through with it, however. Feeling alone and unhappy, Craig becomes infatuated with the idea of running away he thinks about it all the time. On top of this, his parents are unsympathetic, and his father is abusive and terrorizes the boys to keep them in line. Home life isn’t always a respite: A male babysitter sexually abuses both brothers, and Craig later feels intense guilt for not being able to protect his little brother. He is ceaselessly tormented by bullies at school, beaten up on a regular basis, and derided publicly. The early novel also details Craig’s unhappy relationship with his peers. As it begins, Craig and Phil are crowded uncomfortably into a single bed they’re unhappy about it aside from the times that they use their imagination to construct fantastical scenarios in their bed together. The first part of the novel concentrates on the relationship between Craig and his younger brother, Phil. Blankets takes place in Wisconsin, USA and in Michigan, USA. |