Fugitive pieces book review5/29/2023 Leading us through the journey of Jakob Beer, a child in Poland orphaned during the war, saved by a Greek geologist and later brought to Toronto, Michaels transposed textures from her own travels in a work of densely packed metaphorical prose that could anywhere on the page be atomized as poetry. An archeological excavation of hidden strata of memory, pain and loss, it was researched for years like a work of non-fiction while the telling was freighted with the evocative descriptiveness of verse in relaying a fractured, epic narrative. This remarkable and justly celebrated debut novel by the Canadian poet Anne Michaels toils across the entire spectrum of letters. We are asking our readers for the most influential Canadian books published in the last quarter century. This post is part of the LRC’s 25 year anniversary project.
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The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley5/29/2023 And an experimental relationship unfolds with Bennett playing the role of a white prisoner, with Blakey as his black jailer. But there are a few conditions:Īs a kind of self-punishment, Bennett transforms the basement into a locked cage. One day, Anniston Bennett, a wealthy, 57-year-old WASP, appears at Charles' doorstep and offers $50,000 to rent his basement for the summer. Mosley pursues that goal by matching two characters whose lives are worlds apart.Ĭharles Blakey, the protagonist, is an African-American slacker who has lived a directionless life since being fired from his latest job. "I wanted to show a meeting between evil and innocence," he tells NPR's Cheryl Corley during a discussion of his book and its underlying themes. But this time he has even more fundamental mysteries in mind. Walter Mosley's latest novel, The Man in My Basement, examines race, power and identity - core subjects of much of his past work. Realm of the Goddess by Sabina Khan5/29/2023 Her parents are devastated and decide to whisk Rukhsana off to Bangladesh, where she is thrown headfirst into a world of arranged marriages and tradition. But when her parents catch her kissing her girlfriend Ariana, all of Rukhsana’s plans fall apart. Luckily, only a few more months stand between her carefully monitored life in Seattle and her new life at Caltech. She rolls her eyes when they blatantly favor her brother, and saves her crop tops and makeup for parties her parents don’t know about. Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali tries her hardest to live up to her conservative Muslim parents’ expectations, but lately she’s finding that impossible to do. Fiction (Young adult) The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali Wayfarer alexandra bracken5/29/2023 When help arrives, it comes from the last person Etta ever expected-Julian Ironwood, the Grand Master’s heir who has long been presumed dead, and whose dangerous alliance with a man from Etta’s past could put them both at risk. After losing the one thing that would have allowed her to protect the Timeline, and the one person worth fighting for, Etta awakens alone in an unknown place and time, exposed to the threat of the two groups who would rather see her dead than succeed. You can read this before Wayfarer (Passenger, #2) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Īll Etta Spencer wanted was to make her violin debut when she was thrust into a treacherous world where the struggle for power could alter history. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Wayfarer (Passenger, #2) written by Alexandra Bracken which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Wayfarer (Passenger, #2) by Alexandra Bracken Ferguson doom5/29/2023 For example, Ferguson’s exposition of network theory, in the book’s fourth chapter, “Networld,” explores the phenomenon of what goes viral from the point of view of social science, statistics and physics, and summarises cutting-edge thinking about social networks, such as Stanley Milgram’s small-world experiment (no man is an island), Miller McPherson’s work on homophily (birds of a feather flock together), and Mark Granovetter’s article, “The Strength of Weak Ties”-thus introducing these gems to a broader audience. Then, in the final three chapters, he addresses the challenges and lessons of the current global pandemic (as he saw them at the time of writing, in August 2020), and discusses our handling of the pandemic, its economic implications, and how it has changed the future of American–Chinese relations.ĭoom is a beautiful primer for the intellectually curious. His overarching theme is that “all disasters are at some level man-made political disasters,” and each of the first eight chapters examines a particular kind of influence on these disasters, such as human psychology, behavioural economics and what he sees as an overly optimistic view of the history of medicine. To address these questions, Ferguson takes readers on a whirlwind intellectual journey from antiquity to modernity. As Niall Ferguson acknowledges in his new book, Doom, “a general history of catastrophe” must address three main questions: Why do some societies outperform others? Why do some collapse while others thrive? And what role does politics play in precipitating catastrophe? Looking for Me by Betsy Rosenthal5/29/2023 Looking for Me is a sweet and informative peek inside the life of a second generation Russian immigrant in Baltimore in the 1930’s. The author does create some beautiful imagery “In a year my entire planet will shrink to one locked hallway” and “Every time we came back to each other, his arms around me felt like the native country.” But the good moments were few and much of the text felt jostled and disjointed. This can be used successfully but in this piece feels clunky. Part of the problem is that the poems jump through time one in present tense, the next several years earlier and then into the future again. This book however reads terse, forced and unpolished. Her writing hits quick points, is passionate and powerful. Unfortunately, unlike the work of Ellen Hopkins ( Crank, Identical) which tackles difficult subject matter in a free flowing prose format. When I first started reading it seemed as if the book might be using an interesting and seldom used technique to delve into a persistent teen issue. Although the exercise of writing the book perhaps provedĬathartic for Corrigan, the reader gleans little from the disjointed prose and partially realized anecdotes. You Remind Me of You is a poetry memoir of author Corrigan’s experience living with an eating disorder and being partnered with a boyfriend who is a heavy drug user and attempts suicide. To say farewell to National Poetry Month I read one collection of poems for children the other for young adults. Books similar to ba paris5/29/2023 After losing her parents as a child, she ekes out a living in London, seemingly hitting the jackpot when she marries handsome billionaire Jed Hawthorne. The spunky (and very naive) protagonist we follow across the 305 pages or so is Amelie, who has grown up a survivor. It’s a shame too because on paper, The Prisoner actually has a solid premise and there’s definitely some good momentum attached to this, especially early on in the story. The Prisoner is basically like a Netflix B-movie brought to life through the pages of a book it’s certainly readable but you’re unlikely to come away feeling wholly satisfied. Unfortunately, it’s all downhill from there, as the story sputters in its middle chapters and eventually ends with a whimpering sigh at the end, becoming ever more ruinous and incredulous as time goes by. The Prisoner is a gripping, tense and claustrophobic thriller… at least for the first 100 or so pages. Moonshine by kat bostick5/28/2023 Sensitive readers should be mindful of mature themes, including violence, mention of sexual assault, sexuality, death, and starvation.Ģ.5 stars. It is not a closed-door romance, but it is low on the spice scale. Moonshine is a slow burn new adult romance in a dystopian/end of the world setting. After all, no one survives the end of the world alone. The longer I look, the more I begin to see the man behind the harsh words and unkempt beard.Īs reluctant as he is to keep me, Joshua just might need me. At a glance, he seems to be nothing more than an off-kilter backwoods prepper with a grudge against humanity. It’s hard to earn his trust and even harder to keep it. With a cabin, a farm, and a lifetime of survival skills, Joshua was the perfect companion for the apocalypse. Death was on my heel when I landed at the feet of an unwilling savior. That hope was quickly snuffed out, leaving me all alone in the world. I fled the west coast with a small group, chasing a sliver of hope. There was power rumored in the east, settlements with wind energy that were still thriving amidst the chaos. One minute there was Instagram and ice cream and the next, nothing. What I didn’t expect was that I would change into someone starving, filthy, and prone to sleeping tangled in blackberry bushes to protect myself from predators of the animal and human variety. When I started college in Seattle, I expected that I would change. How to Get a Job by Me, the Boss (2011).How to Get Married, by Me, the Bride (2010).Lift the Flap Bible (Lift-the-Flap Book) (2010).How To Be a Baby, by Me, the Big Sister (2009).Being a Pig Is Nice: A Child’s-Eye View of Manners (2009).The Ultimate Guide to Grandmas & Grandpas! (2008).
The queen thief5/28/2023 One day, he is abruptly taken from his home and brought to the palace to be an attendant to the king. Pheris, the oldest grandson of Baron Erondites, is born physically disabled and spends most of his childhood isolated from the world. Return of the Thief is divided into two volumes, both narrated from a first-person point of view by Pheris, the disabled grandson of Baron Erondites. Features a cast list of the characters in the Queen’s Thief novels, as well as two maps-a map of the world of the Queen’s Thief, and a map exclusive to this edition. The New York Times–bestselling Queen’s Thief novels are rich with political machinations, divine intervention, dangerous journeys, battles lost and won, power, passion, and deception. As the treacherous Baron Erondites schemes anew and a prophecy appears to foretell the death of the king, the ruthless Mede empire prepares to strike. Neither accepted nor beloved, Eugenides is the uneasy linchpin of a truce on the Lesser Peninsula, where he has risen to be high king of Attolia, Eddis, and Sounis. |