5/8/2023 0 Comments Bright Side by Kim Holden![]() ![]() ![]() It’s kinda funny to me because this book is two years old so most of you have probably read it but still!įrom the beginning, I was skeptical with Katie because if you read as many books as I do, you question any character who believes in “only living once” or “live life to the fullest”. Happy ending or not…Before I continue, I would like to point out that this is NOT spoiler free. My best friend recommended it to me and knowing how alike our tastes in books are, I knew I was going to love It. I went into reading this book knowing that it was going to be deep. So when Kate leaves San Diego to attend college in the small town of Grant, Minnesota, the last thing she expects is to fall in love with Keller Banks. Kate is strong-willed, funny, smart, and musically gifted. She’s endured hardship and tragedy, but throughout it all she remains happy and optimistic (there’s a reason her best friend Gus calls her Bright Side). Kate Sedgwick’s life has been anything but typical. ![]()
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5/8/2023 0 Comments The borrowers novel![]() in 1953 with illustrations by Beth and Joe Krush. Harcourt, Brace and Company published it in the U.S. In the 70th anniversary celebration of the medal in 2007 it was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite. The Borrowers won the 1952 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British author. ![]() ![]() The Borrowers also refers to the series of five novels including The Borrowers and four sequels that feature the same family after they leave "their" house. ![]() It features a family of tiny people who live secretly in the walls and floors of an English house and "borrow" from the big people in order to survive. The Borrowers is a children's fantasy novel by the English author Mary Norton, published by Dent in 1952. ![]() ![]() ![]() Miss Newbury’s List By Megan Walker Book Review.Blood and Moonlight By Erin Beaty Book Review.Please read our disclosure for more information. We select products we love and think you’ll like too. Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate and an affiliate of, we earn from qualifying purchases, meaning we may earn a commission if you purchase from one of our links. Note: Check out our Rating System and Why We Rate by Genre for more on how we write reviews. From historical fiction to clean romance, contemporary romance, classics, YA fantasy, and even one children’s picture book.Įnjoy! And let us know what you’ve been reading. In this roundup, we have lots of variety. RELATED: 72 Movies and TV Shows Reviewed: Andor, Wednesday, New Christmas Movies, & More We took a long break from our mini-book reviews, but after much consideration, we decided to bring it back! By sharing short and sweet reviews, we’ll be able to recommend many more books. This month we’re covering what we’re reading, so the next roundup will be movie and TV reviews. Welcome to Reviews of the Month, where we share “mini” reviews of what we’ve been watching and reading. ![]() 5/7/2023 0 Comments Uprooted novik![]() Novik did a marvelous job of building empathy and sympathy for her through nearly every twist and turn of the plot. Superficially, that could make for an annoying character, but I was enthralled with Nishka and her plight. She constantly challenges his authority, seeks alternate methods for practicing the magical arts and generally acts in a defiant manner. Much to her surprise (but not to any genre reader, I suppose especially because the tale is told through Agnieszka’s first person voice) Agnieszka is chosen and brought to the wizard’s tower.Īgnieszka is not the most agreeable of the Dragon’s students. Nieshka thinks her best friend Kasia will be chosen by the Dragon as the time approaches for his ten-year visit. ![]() Very little is known about what occurs between the two during that time save the woman leaves the tower a practitioner of magic herself and seemingly is no longer connected to her home-village. Every decade or so, the Dragon comes down from his tower and hand-picks a young girl from the village to come live with him for a decade. Agnieszka lives in a small village protected by the wizard known as the Dragon. ![]() 5/7/2023 0 Comments Shine by lauren myracle![]() ![]() Recognition of her novel by the award's judges, she said, had "deeply moved" her because she felt it was "giving voice to the thousands of disenfranchised youth in America – particularly gay youth – who face massive discrimination and intimidation every day. "However, on Friday I was asked to withdraw by the National Book Foundation to preserve the integrity of the award and the judges' work, and I have agreed to do so," said Myracle. The author, whose TTYL series was the most complained about in America in 2009, has now released a statement through her publisher Amulet Books in which she says she was later informed that, although the novel had been included in error, it would remain on the list based on its merits. ![]() I am beyond thrilled to be in the company of four – wait, make that five! – incredibly talented writers, all of whom I admire to the moon and back." I am so frickin' proud of that book, and I'm especially proud of all the sweat and tears my editor and I put into it. Myracle told the Guardian via email last week that she was "thrilled that Shine is a finalist. But the prize later added a sixth competitor, Franny Billingsley's Chime, to the shortlist, admitting that Shine had been mistaken for Chime when the list of titles was read out over the phone. ![]() 5/7/2023 0 Comments Higher ground caryl phillips![]() In addition, I focus on the repercussions of cover illustrations and the partial “misreadings” they may instigate. Strangely enough, it was hardly noticed in the Francophone world. Indeed, through my analysis of “Caryl Phillips on French Ground”, I examine the reasons why a bestselling novel such as The Nature of Blood (1997) enjoyed a huge success in the Anglophone world, both in England and in America, each of his book being simultaneously published in London (by Faber and Faber or Secker and Warburg), and in New York (by Knopf). ![]() Indeed, many shifts both on semantic, stylistic, subscribe to such a “standard” (status) for postcolonial authors in particular. Acknowledging the difficulty of translating Hughes’ “What Happens to a Dream Deferred” into French, Assouline wished translators would become co‑authors. 1 In Avant que les ombres s’effacent (Before the Shadows Vanish, Paris, Éd. Sabine Wespieser, 2017), (.)ġIn his blog for Le Monde, Pierre Assouline expounded on an idea that came to him while listening to Barack Obama quoting Langston Hughes. ![]() ![]() ![]() When I wrote that first account of Oscar’s life I told his story as best I could. In 1895, I was the first to visit him in Wandsworth Gaol following his imprisonment. In 1884, I was the first whom Oscar entertained after his marriage to Constance Lloyd. We were not lovers, but I knew Oscar well. During the seventeen years of our friendship I kept a journal of our times together. We met for the last time in 1900, again in Paris, not long before his untimely death. I was twenty-two, a would-be journalist, an aspiring poet, and quite unknown. ![]() He was then twenty-eight and already famous-as a writer, wit and raconteur, as the pre-eminent ‘personality’ of his day. My name is Robert Sherard and I was a friend of Oscar Wilde. It is that I have put my genius into my life … ![]() Would you like to know the great drama of my life? ![]() |