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![]() ![]() Aside from that, it’s a ‘clean’ series in terms of sex (there’s some kissing so far) and language, despite it not being a ‘Christian’ novel. ![]() Like in the Hunger Games, there’s also a considerable amount of violence and death, just so you know. The first two books in the series, Divergent and Insurgent, were so good that I’m really bummed to have to wait for the release of the third and last book later this year.ĭivergent is the first book in a young adult series written by Veronica Roth in the style of the Hunger Games, in the sense that it takes place in a fictional futuristic world, in this case Chicago. Reading the first two books of the Divergent Series reminded me while I promised myself I’d never start reading a trilogy again before all books were published. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Through the seven different points of view, we experience the minds of fifth graders. Terupt’s class visits a special needs class, who teach them about love, acceptance, and the worth of every individual. His creative games encourage the kids to get out of their comfort zone, enrich their minds, and become friends with classmates whom they misjudged. He challenges them to open their eyes to new experiences. He knows how to relate to each student in a way unique to their personalities. Terupt is the teacher who makes you want to succeed. Terupt makes each student feel special and encourages them to become their best selves in the classroom and at home…until the unthinkable happens. Luke loves school because he’s smart, but his annoying classmates get on his nerves. ![]() Jeffrey’s family lost a son, and he has a cynical view of the world. Peter is the class clown who thinks he can get away with anything. Anna’s mother is a shunned teenage mom, and Anna thinks it was her fault. Danielle is overweight and has trouble standing up for herself. Alexia is a bully whom no one can really figure out. Jessica’s parents split up, and she just moved across the country to a new school. Terupt follows the narratives of seven 5 th grade students who are all insecure for different reasons. Have you ever had a teacher who changed your life? I’ve had many. ![]() ![]() ![]() She won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing in 1977 for Star Wars, having previously been nominated for 1973's American Graffiti. Lucas is probably best known for her work editing the original three Star Wars movies. ![]() ![]() There were things I didn't like about the casting, and things I didn't like about the story, and things I didn't like - it was a lot of eye candy. And I thought had such a rich vein to mine, a rich palette to tell stories with. I cried because I didn't think it was very good. "I remember going out to the parking lot, sitting in my car and crying," Lucas writes. Just awful."Īnd perhaps to set the record straight, Lucas also directs her wrath at her ex-husband's prequel trilogy, revealing her disappointment in Episode I literally brought her to tears in 1999. "And they think it's important to appeal to a woman's audience, so now their main character is this female, who's supposed to have Jedi powers, but we don't know how she got Jedi powers, or who she is. Lucas seems to have little love for Daisy Ridley's Rey either, pointing to the many unanswered questions surrounding the character and her background pre-Episode IX (when this foreword appears to have been commissioned). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent seven years on chain gangs. ![]() Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager. "A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear." -Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHYīooklist #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year * African American Literary Book Club (AALBC) #1 Nonfiction Bestseller * Named a Best Book of the Year by: NPR, Publishers Weekly, BookPage, Barnes & Noble, Hudson Booksellers, ARTnews, and more * Amazon Editors’ Pick * Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Nonfiction Longlist ![]() ![]() On one hand, the past, thoroughly glorified, represents the lost Ottoman Empire. The past and present comparison exists as the centerpiece guiding Orhan’s narrative. Overall, with the help of Orhan’s dichotomous comparisons, the reader can diaphanously observe and examine the paradoxical nature of Istanbul and the deep, collective melancholy arising with the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Exploring the vicissitudes of Orhan’s childhood to adulthood, the reader garners a greater understanding of life in Istanbul and the conflicts confronting its inhabitants at the start of a new Westernized era. The narrator creates dual, often conflicting thematic trends, unfolding Istanbul both internally and externally in terms of past and present, East and West and black and white. ![]() Orhan Pamuks’s Istanbul: Memories of a City pseudo-memoir weaves an intimate and often meandering portrait of Istanbul and its inhabitant’s collective experience of hüzün. Orhan Pamuks’s Istanbul: Memories of a City ![]() ![]() ![]() Lewis takes the reader on an overwhelmingly grim odyssey that highlights the striking wilderness landscape and Elka’s grit. ![]() Elka, now 17, can barely remember a time when she didn’t live deep in the woods of BeeCee (presumably British Columbia) with a man she calls Trapper. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's. The Wolf Road is an intimate, cat-and-mouse tale of justice and revenge, played out against a vast, unforgiving landscape-told by an unforgettable, tough-as-nails young heroine whose struggle to escape the terrors of her past and rejoin humanity are at once horrifying and heartbreaking. But Elka is woefully ill-prepared to handle the human predators who cross her path. THE WOLF ROAD by Beth Lewis RELEASE DATE: JA girl on the run in a post-apocalyptic wilderness soon realizes that your past can not only haunt you, it can kill you. Trapper’s years of tutelage have well equipped Elka with the hunting, tracking, and other skills she will need to try to elude both him and a relentless magistrate, Jennifer Lyon, who gets on his (and her) trail. ![]() He’s wanted for multiple murders, in which she will soon be sought as an accomplice. On a rare visit to a distant town for supplies, Elka gets an alarmingly different picture of her protector. ![]() Known to her as Trapper, he’s the only parental figure she has known. A stern woodsman took in Elka when she was seven. Elka, the 17-year-old orphan who narrates this arresting, if grisly, debut from Titan Books managing editor Lewis, struggles for survival in the land once known as British Columbia, which has been laid waste by two wars that destroyed most of humankind. ![]() ![]() ![]() Those who called themselves Frenchmen She was all innocence - Epilogue: "Saint Joan."Ĭut texts on some texts due to tight bindingĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:01:52 Boxid IA40098009 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier The maid Like an angel from God A heart greater than any man's A creature in the form of a woman I will be with you soon A simple maid Fear of the fire - Part Three. This war, accursed of God Like another Messiah Desolate and divided - Part Two. Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-314) and indexĬast of characters - Family trees - Maps - Introduction: "Joan of Arc" - Prologue: The field of blood - Part One. "Originally published in England in 2014 by Faber & Faber"-Title page verso We meet this extraordinary girl amid the tumultuous events of her extraordinary world where no one-not Joan herself, nor the people around her, princes, bishops, soldiers or peasants-knew what would happen next"-Provided by publisher ![]() Instead of an icon, she gives us a living, breathing woman confronting the challenges of faith and doubt, a roaring girl who, in fighting the English, was also taking sides in a bloody civil war. ![]() In Joan of Arc : a history, Helen Castor tells this gripping story afresh: forwards, not backwards. "The story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world, as you have never read it before. ![]() ![]() ![]() Prior to this one, Full Dark, No Stars was the only other grouping of King novellas that I’d read. Actually, I can’t believe I haven’t consumed them by now, considering they’re the source material for some of King’s best film adaptations: The Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil, Stand By Me, Hearts in Atlantis, and The Mist, etc. I’ve read several of King’s short story collections, and it looks like I’m going to have to go back and finally read his novella collections, too. If It Bleeds is a collection of four novellas-the literary form that is sneakily dethroning the short story to become my favorite type of prose fiction. ![]() And thankfully, If It Bleeds is a book that I admire quite a bit! And given that my adoration is not an allegiance-there are a few King books that I did not enjoy at all-I was nervous that this would have to be a negative critique. So when I set out to read his newest book, I knew that I had to write about it, whether I liked it or not. King was not my introduction to the genre, but he certainly solidified my obsession with it. The man is without a doubt the artist who has shaped my life the most, as the person to blame for my love of horror. I’ve been reading Stephen King since I was 12 years old, and yet this is my first time writing a review of his work. Does anyone else read “Dear Constant Reader” and feel like they are being addressed directly? Because I do. ![]() ![]() ![]() there’s something just completely unhinged about it that i love lmao. The Gallavich vibes i got from these two? ✨delicious✨ im a basic bitch, but two guys who beat the shit out of each other bcos they’re actually in love is my kryptonite, okay? i was a whore for it in Tryst Six Venom too. it was just rife with brutal tension, these undertones of anxiety bcos you couldn’t predict what either of them were gonna do next□ both of them as bad as each other, giving as good as they got. ![]() They low-key reminded me of Winter and Caiden, with Asher being Winter and Levi being Caiden, with their ridiculous but hilarious pranks and antics. Caiden and Winter lured me in and got me reading Steele’s entire backlist bcos i loved their trilogy- their enemies to lovers arc was so damn good but nothing has truly captured me since them. I think Becca Steele at her roots excels at enemies to lovers. none of them gave me what i always craved from her. Cassius and Jessa, Weston and Lena, her recent novellas. We loathed each other with a hatred that was like a living thing, feeding off our animosity.īecca Steele and i haven’t seen eye to eye with her last few releases. ![]() |