![]() Du Bois, once wrote about the Problem of race in America, and what he called ‘Double Consciousness,’ a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. ‘As brilliant as it is necessary, as intimate as it is expansive’ ANGIE THOMAS, author of The Hate U GiveĪ breathtaking and ambitious debut novel that chronicles the journey of multiple generations of one American family, from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous era, by prize-winning poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. ![]() ‘Beautiful … In Jeffers' deft hands, the story of race and love in America becomes the Great American Novel’ JACQUELINE WOODSON, author of Red at the Bone 'The kind of book that comes around only once a decade…Simply magnificent' Washington Post ![]() Publisher : Fourth Estate (5 September 2021)Ībout the Book AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB SELECTION. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments A thousand pieces of you series![]() ![]() ![]() 80% of this book is introspective thought, usually about a boy, then the narrator, then family. Instead it's a book that too hard tries to make the tension from a love triangle last as long as possible. I thought this would be an updated version of Sliders from Sci-fi. Not going to point out an essay on the iPhone, but. ![]() Is she doomed to repeat the same betrayal?Īs Marguerite races through these wildly different lives - a grand duchess in a Tsarist Russia, a club-hopping orphan in a futuristic London, a refugee from worldwide flooding on a station in the heart of the ocean - she is swept into an epic love affair as dangerous as it is irresistible. ![]() In each new world Marguerite leaps to, she meets another version of Paul that has her doubting his guilt and questioning her heart. With the help of another physics student, Theo, Marguerite chases Paul through various dimensions. She doesn't know if she can kill a man, but she's going to find out. Before the law can touch him, Paul escapes into another dimension, having committed what seems like the perfect crime. When Marguerite's father is murdered, all the evidence points to one person - Paul, her parents' enigmatic star student. Yet nothing is more astounding than her mother's latest invention - a device called the Firebird, which allows people to leap into alternate dimensions. Marguerite Caine grew up surrounded by cutting-edge scientific theories, thanks to her brilliant physicist parents. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Storm by Brigid Kemmerer![]() ![]() Also character wise I loved both these characters. I was pretty much hooked the moment I started reading and before I knew it I was more than a 100 pages in! The book alternated with POV’s from Chris and Becca. I love reading about people who have a thing with the elements. Not to mention they are hot! Also the title and synopsis drew me in. The four guys on the cover makes it very different from other book covers I’ve seen lately. The first time I saw this cover was probably somewhere on Goodreads and I just knew I had to read this book soon. Hot guys, brothers, elements, twists and turns on every corner… How could I not love this book? It was fantastic! I knew it would be but damn, Brigid Kemmerer is one amazing writer. But then Hunter goes head-to-head with Chris, and Becca wonders who’s hiding the most dangerous truth of all. When Hunter, the mysterious new kid around school, turns up with a talent for being in the wrong place at the right time, Becca thinks she can trust him. ![]() Secrets are hard to keep when your life’s at stake. Marked for death.Īnd now that she knows the truth, so is Becca. Way different: he can control water just like his brothers can control fire, wind, and earth. Then she saves Chris Merrick from a beating in the school parking lot. Ever since her ex-boyfriend spread those lies about her. ![]() Publication: April 24th 2012 by Kensingtonįirst Line: The self-defense class had been a waste of sixty bucks.īecca Chandler is suddenly getting all the guys – all the ones she doesn’t want. ![]() ![]() ![]() When he later discovers that his friend's entire family is in imminent danger, Marcel knows he can help - but it will involve taking a risky bicycle ride to pass along covert information. Now there are soldiers everywhere, interrupting Marcel's rides with checkpoints and questioning.Then Marcel learns two big secrets, and he realizes there are worse things about the war than a canceled race. But ever since Germany's occupation of France began two years ago, in 1940, the race has been canceled. ![]() He dreams of someday competing in the Tour de France, the greatest bicycle race. Annotation: Marcel loves riding his bicycle, whether he's racing through the streets of his small town in France or making bread deliveries for his parents' bakery.Subject: History and Historical Fiction. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz![]() A potent unfulfilled lust informs her dreams and empowers her fantasies. She never perceived genuine love between the residents of the filth-laden alley. A beautiful, well built, brown-skinned and an orphan who is raised by a foster mother and who is slowly drawn into a life of prostitution. ![]() Of all the people in the neighborhood who are yearning for an escape from tradition and the poverty that seems to be its permanent handmaiden, none stands out more than the young and beautiful Hamida who is the novel’s central character. It is ironic that by disavowing the source of Freedom we are losing our passion for life as well as our authenticity as free individuals (Hasmi, n.d.) ![]() To a society that has forfeited the joys and challenges of romantic courtship for “recreational sex” as a youthful pastime, the idea that life can be enriched by exposure to the history, philosophy, and art of human culture no longer seems meaningful. ![]() We live by proxy on the fringe of a man-made reality, deluding ourselves in the notion that our mission in life is to measure up to its standards. ![]() As a consequence, our lives are largely wasted in meaningless pursuits that enable us to exchange freedom for a lifetime of dependency-whether monetary, moral, or psychic. The tragedy of life in our “liberated” society is not that freedom is denied us but that we don’t know how to deal with it (Hashmi, n.d.), Rather than accept what is our natural birthright, we defer to external authority and seek out distractions in order to avoid the responsibilities implicit in the exercise of free will. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments American Elves by John E. Roth![]() But I'm not locking down a definitive shortlist or charting bestsellers: More simply, these are the books that, to my mind, have been the truest mirrors to American society in our time, or have attempted innovative forms of storytelling, or revealed new subject matter, or generated schools of imitators, or done all of these. I haven't read all the important fiction since 1972 - hardly - and am likely to miss any number of favorite writers and books. ![]() Still, on an anniversary, near the end of a century, it's fun to look back on 25 years of American fiction, to make a few guesses, cheerlead for the underappreciated, observe the trends. Will she stay there? Will Hemingway make a comeback? Wait and see. A front-runner like Hemingway now seems ready for the pasture, or even the knacker's yard, while a late-starter such as Zora Neale Hurston recently swept into the winner's circle of the Library of America. ![]() PICKING THE WINNERS in fiction's race for the canon really is a mug's game, especially since teachers and critics keep changing the track rules. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Meditations marcus![]() ![]()
5/29/2023 0 Comments Run For It by Marcelo d'Salete![]() ![]() ![]() My favourite aspect of this work was the art. Mileage may vary on this next point, but I also had issue with all the sexual violence that the women experience. The stories were occasionally hard to follow as the art style is kind of sketchy. This is more in line with narrative non-fiction, or historical fiction (though it's obvious that a lot of research went into these stories and that they are ones that actually happened).Īlso, and this is also my fault, I had a hard time deciphering what was going on at times. I think why I didn't love this more than I did is because I was expecting straight up non-fiction and a more. I can't remember where I first found out about this title, but when I discovered the subject matter, I was immediately intrigued. I really like comics that explore largely-unknown subjects, especially historical ones. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Damia by Anne McCaffrey![]() Frustrating her mother, terrorizing the Tower staff into panic, never doing anything exactly "wrong" but she was too much for the little station when her telekinetic abilities surfaced when she was two years old. How long will he have to wait till the woman he finds to SEE Afra the man? Damia Gwen-Raven, was a early bloomer to her talents. Afra waits and searches for the lover that will be his life mate, to reach a Meeting of Minds with her. ![]() He watches his friend fall in love and helps break her of her psychosis and becomes a part of her family helping to raise her children. He becomes her confidant and friend, but to his boss Prime Ridinger disappointment he never became her lover. Sixteen year old Afra Lyon travels to meet the Rowan who is a Tower Prime and unable to travel off the station around Jupiter's Orbit. ![]() There are battles and romance, conflict and growth. ![]() This is a story about love and discovery, two lives are followed till they reach a "Meeting of Minds". ![]() ![]() About a boy at 7 and a girl at 5 were married at a young age. ![]() "Enjoyed listing to another book.Somewhere I'll find you by Lisa Kleypas. and her proud, passionate, and independent heart. And he is astonished to discover his “bride” is none other than the exquisite lady he’d hoped to make his mistress!īut though his wife by law, Julia will never truly be Damon’s-until he conquers her fears, his formidable rivals. and cannot love.įor years Damon Savage has been searching for the stranger his parents wed him to without his consent, hoping to legally free himself from matrimony’s invisible chains. But the glamorous leading lady guards a shocking secret: a mystery husband whom she does not know, dares not mention. ![]() ![]() “Kleypas is a romance gem, a queen among a vast royal court of historical romance authors.” -Entertainment WeeklyĪ classic Lisa Kleypas love story in which a marriage in name only becomes something more…Īll London is at Julia Wentworth’s feet-and anything she desires is hers for the asking. ![]() |