6/29/2023 0 Comments John henry by julius lesterJulius Lester is a celebrated author whose accolades include a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Award. This carefully crafted updating begs to be read aloud for its rich, rhythmic storytelling flow, and the suitably oversize illustrations amplify the text." - Publishers Weekly "A great American hero comes fully to life in this epic retelling filled with glorious, detailed watercolors. "Another winning collaboration from the master storyteller and gifted artist of Tales of Uncle Remus fame." - School Library Journal The story is told with rhythm and wit, humor and exageration, and with a heart-catching immediacy that connects the human and the natural world. * "This is a tall tale and heroic myth, a celebration of the human spirit. Nothing can stop John Henry, and his courage stays with us forever. He's stronger than ten men and can dig through a mountain faster than a steam drill. He grew so fast, he burst right through the porch roof, and laughed so loud, he scared the sun! Soon John Henry is swinging two huge sledgehammers to build roads, pulverizing boulders, and smashing rocks to smithereens. When John Henry was born the birds, bears, rabbits, and even a unicorn came to see him. Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney's warm, humorous retelling of a popular African-American folk ballad.
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6/29/2023 0 Comments Thank you jeeves bookMostly, though, they steer clear of overt racism, generally because his world is lily-white. So we can argue back and forth over how classist Wodehouse’s stories really are. Their relationship suggests that even the most talented and renowned of the working classes won’t rise up against the wealthy classes that have done nothing to earn or maintain that wealth. It can be argued, though, that Jeeves’ contentment with being employed by such a nitwit is itself reassuring. For Jeeves – as Bertie is constantly reminded, to comic effect – has a brilliant mind, and is much more capable than the feckless Bertie. Sure, there’s a subversive bent to Wodehouse’s most famous creations: the dopey bachelor Bertie and the unflappable valet Jeeves. Though immensely charming, his works are essentially nostalgic yearnings for a world of harmlessly genteel and likable aristocrats benefitting from inherited money and titles, employing a vast machinery of servants, and largely oblivious to the outside world (like those pesky world wars). Wodehouse was never going to be beloved of egalitarians. 6/29/2023 0 Comments Just Like Me by Nancy J. CavanaughBut what if you haven’t followed the Roy family drama? There’s plenty of new don’t miss new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you.Īmong the offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists this week are streaming arrival of the latest “John Wick” film, the end of a long drought of new Matchbox Twenty music, a video game that lets you play one of Middle Earth’s most recognizable characters and a television adaptation of the graphic novel “American Born Chinese.” Sure, lots of folks are eagerly anticipating this Sunday’s “Succession” finale. Your adulthood has been a progressive retreat from curiosity and wonder, an endless series of delays and procrastinations. He seems unaware that she has never had an orgasm, so it is hardly surprising that he doesn't realise she is having an affair. Nikki Gemmell, The Bride Stripped Bare tags: loneliness, marriage 11 likes Like No one except your husband knows of the cautiousness at the heart of your life. The husband in The Bride Stripped Bare is a decent bloke in many ways, but utterly oblivious to his wife's sexual discontent. "He's read a bit in the past and said, 'It's all about your past relationships: I just don't want to know.' And I can argue 'til I'm blue in the face and he says, 'I don't want to know, I'm not interested.' And I thought with this one it could just pass him by."īut he had read it, just a couple of days before our interview. "He's Wodehouse and John Mortimer, he's not into my kind of books," she says. Gemmell's husband knew she had written a book she wanted to keep anonymous, but he had not read it. Mum on the other hand, when I rang her, was so excited by the fact it is going to be an erotic novel. "And he said to me, 'Darling, is it all right if I just say I'm so proud of her, and then hang up?' and I thought wow! That is the first time he's ever said that to me. 6/29/2023 0 Comments Four Dead Queens by Astrid ScholteAt the auction however, things get a little dicey as the messenger has turned up presumably to buy back the comm case and deliver his message. We know he was involved in an accident before Kera joined Mackiel and that Kera is to blame for it in some way, but we don’t get much more than that. Keralie “Kera” is the best dipper employed by Mackiel, her childhood friend and when she steals a comm case from a messenger she knows she is going to get a good payday offsetting the guilt she feels after hearing her father is dying. As we are introduced to our protagonist, Keralie, a talented thief I became aware this book was told from multiple perspective which is a love/hate thing for me. There is Archia which value agriculture and is ruled by Iris, Eonia which values technology and is ruled by Corra, Toria values intelligence and is ruled by Marguerite and finally, Ludia value pleasure and is ruled by Stessa. We learn that the world, Quadara, is split into four segments, each rule by a different Queen and values different things. Review: I have read The Vanishing Deep by Astrid Scholte and it was one of my favourite books the year I read it, so I finally decided it was time to pick up her first book, Four Dead Queens but I didn’t know anything about it going into it. The wealth of information contained in all these issues has been compiled into one volume for the first time. Each issue contained tips from her personal experience and from her many readers. This self-styled "Frugal Zealot" wrote and published The Tightwad Gazette for over six years to spread the frugal gospel. Though tightwad seems like a derogatory term, author Amy Dacyczyn wants to assure you that it's okay to be a penny-pincher. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Recipes galore, from penny-pinching pizza to toaster pastries.Using items you were about to throw away (milk jugs, plastic meat trays, and more!). Halloween costumes from scrounged materials.A comparison of painting versus re-siding your house.Ten painless ways to save $100 this year.How to transform old blue jeans into potholders and quilts.Dacyczyn describes this collection as "the book I wish I'd had when I began my adult life." Packed with humor, creativity, and insight, The Complete Tightwad Gazette includes hundreds of tips for anyone looking to save money or get out of debt, such as: Now The Complete Tightwad Gazette brings together all of her best ideas and thriftiest thinking into one volume, along with new articles never published before in book format. In a newsletter published from May 1990 to December 1996 as well as in three enormously successful books, Amy Dacyczyn established herself as the expert of economy. At last-the long-awaited complete compendium of tightwad tips for fabulous frugal living! 6/29/2023 0 Comments Lean in by sheryl sandbergSHERYL SANDBERG is chief operating officer at Facebook, overseeing the firm's business operations. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg – Facebook COO and one of Fortune magazine's Most Powerful Women in Business – draws on her own experience of working in some of the world's most successful businesses and looks at what women can do to help themselves, and make the small changes in their life that can effect change on a more universal scale. Women hold just 20 percent of seats in parliaments globally, and in the world of big business, a meagre eighteen of the Fortune 500 CEOs are women. The statistics, although an improvement on previous decades, are certainly not in women's favour – of 197 heads of state, only twenty-two are women. Ask most women whether they have the right to equality at work and the answer will be a resounding yes, but ask the same women whether they'd feel confident asking for a raise, a promotion, or equal pay, and some reticence creeps in. Sandberg packed theatres, dominated opinion pages, appeared on every major television show and on the cover of Time magazine, and sparked ferocious debate about women and leadership. The book soared to the top of bestseller lists internationally, igniting global conversations about women and ambition. Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In is a massive cultural phenomenon and its title has become an instant catchphrase for empowering women. 6/29/2023 0 Comments After i do by taylor jenkins reidHeartbreaking and hopeful, Reid has crafted a story of love lost and found that is as timely as it is timeless. 'A raw, unflinching exploration of the realities of marriage, the delicate nature of love and the enduring strength of family. She starts to question: When you can have romance without loyalty and commitment without marriage, when love and lust are no longer tied together, what do you value? What are you willing to fight for?Īfter I Do is the story of a couple caught up in an old game – and searching for a new road to happily ever after. These influences, as well as her own healing process and the challenges of living apart from Ryan, begin to change Lauren's ideas about monogamy and marriage. Lauren embarks on a journey of self-discovery, quickly finding that her friends and family have their own ideas about the meaning of marriage. One year apart, and only one rule: they cannot contact each other. They decide to take a year off in the hopes of finding a way to fall in love again. When Lauren and Ryan's marriage reaches breaking point, they come up with an unconventional plan. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, comes a breath taking novel about modern marriage, the depth of family ties, and the year that one remarkable heroine spends exploring both. From the bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo comes an all-new audio production read by Julia Whelan, including a bonus conversation with Julia Whelan and Taylor Jenkins Reid, recorded exclusively for this edition. 6/29/2023 0 Comments Ann leckie ancillaryAnd, once the plot started moving, I was all in. The book starts out slow, but it still took me a while to grok the concept of ancillaries and the idea of this massive AI system, and to orient myself in this universe. On the other hand, I didn't feel like I was guided by the author quite enough through the beginning of Chapter 2 when we're introduced to the flashback on Shis'urna. I felt bombarded by names and places and details in the first chapters, and the explanations didn't feel natural. Simultaneously, too much and too little was explained. Who's Confused? Lexi Pandell, Assistant Research Editor: I'm not a huge reader of sci-fi and, at first, I thought this book wouldn't be for me because of something I find challenging about this genre-world-building bogged down in detail. As for next week's assignment, let's read through chapter 16. Read up on our thoughts below, then join us in the comments for further discussion. Which is, of course, great for our purposes. Not only are most gender pronouns "she," but Leckie isn't exactly generous with her world-building-she holds back on explanation in favor of letting readers do the work. That's what we're discovering as we embark on Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice, the first book in her Imperial Radch trilogy. Good science fiction requires close reading. 6/29/2023 0 Comments One of ours by willa catherHowever, the Pulitzer committee considered it the greatest novel of the year, and this accessible, dramatic novel sold many more copies than Cather’s more famous ones, O, Pioneers! and My Antonia. Mencken said it “drops to the level of a serial in The Lady’s Home Journal, fought out not in France, but on a Hollywood movie-lot,” and Ernest Hemingway panned Cather for not having experienced the front-line herself. One of Ours was considered a failure by some male critics of the day: H. When America joins the Great War, Claude decides to enlist, where he finds excitement and fulfillment-as well as tragedy-on the battlefield. As a young man, Claude is dissatisfied with Nebraska farm as well as his marriage to a childhood friend, desperate for a more cosmopolitan life. The tale follows the ups and downs of the. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1923, One of Ours is the story of Claude Wheeler, the son of a Nebraska farmer. This groundbreaking novel from acclaimed American writer Willa Cather was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. |