![]() ![]() Yet as Zuri and Darius are forced to find common ground, their initial dislike shifts into an unexpected understanding.īut with four wild sisters pulling her in different directions, cute boy Warren vying for her attention, and college applications hovering on the horizon, Zuri fights to find her place in Bushwick's changing landscape, or lose it all. She especially can't stand the judgmental and arrogant Darius. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. ![]() Pride and Prejudice gets remixed in this smart, funny, gorgeous retelling of the classic, starring all characters of color, from Ibi Zoboi, National Book Award finalist and author of American Street. ![]()
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![]() ![]() You know what else so many dads do well? They read books to their kids before bed. Dads wipe away tears, braid ponytails, and cheer on kids at sports games and piano recitals. They symbolize courage, bravery, and sensitivity. To many little ones, daddies are heroes and idols. ![]() ![]() My Dad regularly says this to me even now, as a grown woman. Those words will forever be etched in my memory. When I was a child, not a day went by without my dad telling me he was proud of me.Įven when we had rip-roaring battles and stood across the kitchen table from one another, arms crossed tightly against our chests, eyes locked in a stare-down as we both tried to get in just one last word, it wasn’t long before he would once again utter that one little phrase that always meant so much: Children’s books about dads are the best way to celebrate fatherhood! ![]() ![]() But Asher’s most transgressive act is painting the “blasphemous” Brooklyn Crucifixion in an attempt to capture his mother’s suffering. Painting female nudes is obviously problematic within the context of Hasidism. But the wonderful thing about it is he’s made the narration interactive, and we have a great actor, David Reale, who’s really able to engage the audience (as Asher).”Īlex Poch-Goldin plays the men in Asher’s life - his father, his uncle, his artistic mentor, the Rebbe, etc – while Ellen David plays the women, including Asher’s mother, an art gallery owner, and Rachelle, a model. “Aaron Posner says he was influenced by one-person shows, by radio plays, and you can sense that,” says Schipper. Posner, who once worked alongside Potok on an adaptation of The Chosen, has concentrated the novel’s broad canvas down to a cast of three. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]() ![]() Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I loved the prose and originality and the way the story reveals itself in a way to be believable (in a surreal manner) and an enjoyable way to spend a day of reading. I didn't love the conclusion although it is not disturbing. This will eventually lead them to the charismatic and possibly dangerous cult and persona of Ariston Day.įeel free to leave any pre-conceived ideas about Genesis and "In the beginning." The beginning may have begun before. The story gathers speed even in nineteenth century England, as Maddie and Jane try to solve the mystery of Nathan's disappearance. Unfortunately, Jane knows little of human nature and petty jealousies. Sometimes deafening and disturbing and other times calming and complete, Jane shares her gift with her best friends, Maddie and Nathan. Jane, a somewhat backward girl, senses the living souls of matter. The first ten pages are confusing but slowly the conflict takes shape. Literary masterpiece! The story itself is odd yet compelling. ![]() ![]() ![]() The only explanations I can come up with are padding, the director’s friends needed jobs, or to prove that Alex Restarick is an avant-garde theatrical type.Ĭould it be Walter Hudd’s mysterious purchase of a horse for his wife, Gina? At no point are we given a reason why Walter buys the horse. Was it the mysteriously added scene where Miss Marple and her old friend Ruth van Rydock watch a bizarre performance of modern dance set to a modernistic, challenging, virtually atonal score? The three dancers wear what looks like body paint (one rather Satanic) and roll around on the stage with enthusiasm. It was flat, flat, flat flat like the surface of the pond at the climax but without the sparkle. Up till now, all the Joan Hickson Miss Marple films have been good to excellent. It was obvious! And not just because I read the book! It never came to life, allowing me plenty of time to ask why this murder was so hard to solve. ![]() There’s also the weird addition of modern dance, Walter’s horse, and a survivor of murder who died in the book. It was far more dramatic than the novel - necessary for a film - but badly thought out. ![]() Minor characters get removed, Inspector Slack replaces Inspector Curry, a name change here or there. ![]() ![]() ![]() WICKED LOVERS BUNDLE: 3 NOVELLAS BY SHAYLA BLACK.MIDNIGHT BREED BUNDLE: 3 NOVELLAS BY LARA ADRIAN.LAURELIN PAIGE: DIRTY FILTHY BILLIONAIRE.RACHEL VAN DYKEN: THE ANTI-FAN AND THE IDOL.DARYNDA JONES: THE GRAVESIDE BAR AND GRILL.KRISTEN ASHLEY: GOSSAMER IN THE DARKNESS. ![]() MASTERS AND MERCENARIES BUNDLE: 3 NOVELLAS BY LEXI BLAKE.KREWE OF HUNTERS BUNDLE: 3 NOVELLAS BY HEATHER GRAHAM.MACKENZIE FAMILY BUNDLE: 3 NOVELLAS BY LILIANA HART.DEMONICA UNDERWORLD BUNDLE: 3 NOVELLAS BY LARISSA IONE.BLACKTOP COWBOYS® BUNDLE: 3 NOVELLAS BY LORELEI JAMES.HARD INK CROSSOVER BUNDLE: 3 NOVELLAS BY LAURA KAYE.ETERNAL GUARDIANS BUNDLE: 3 NOVELLAS BY ELISABETH NAUGHTON.DARK PROTECTORS BUNDLE: 3 NOVELLAS BY REBECCA ZANETTI.Armentrout #1 New York Times and #1 International Bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout lives in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. All the rumors you’ve heard about her state aren’t true. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Voyager was launched, its primary mission was to visit Jupiter and Saturn. Currently, it has travelled further out into the reaches of space than any other human made object. Even now, with most of its instruments frozen and its radioactive decay pile slowly leaking, Voyager continues to beam back information to Earth. Voyager 1 was constructed to such a high standard of engineering that it is still in operation today, forty years or so after its launch. There, it would began its long and lonely journey towards the edge of the solar system. The seeds for the creation of this image began in 1977, when NASA (the National Aeronautic Space Administration) sent the 722 kilogram Voyager 1 space probe up into orbit. This is an especially crucially reminder with so many social and cultural pressures upon us. ![]() It is an image that provides a fundamentally important lesson about the place and value of humanity. ![]() Yet in this photograph of gauzy dark and spectral lines, once you know what this single speck of light actually is, you realise it is ever so meaningful. ![]() ![]() ![]() Knocks the socks off almost everything written on this little island in the past fifty years. * * The Times * * Lanark, the first novel and arguably the masterpiece of gouges a dwelling place in your imagination and leaves it forever altered. In Gray's hands, the simple, direct prose found him a wide readership. Lanark is a work of loving and vivid imagination, yielding copious riches - William Boyd * * Times Literary Supplement * * From a lesser writer, stygian darkness and baroque structure might see off a mass audience and reduce a book to cult status. ![]() It has changed the landscape - Allan Massie * * The Scotsman * * Undoubtedly the best work of fiction written by a Scottish author for decades * * Time Out * * Remarkable. A saga of a city where reality is about as reliable as a Salvador Dali watch - Brian Aldiss A quite extraordinary achievement, the most remarkable thing in Scottish fiction for a very long time. the best Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott - Anthony Burgess When dawn comes up and retires in dismay, we find ourselves in the presence of an overpowering surreal imagination. it marked the beginning of a new era - James Campbell * * Observer * * It was time Scotland produced a shattering work of fiction in the modern idiom. I think it's the best in Scottish literature this century - Iain Banks Probably the greatest novel of the century. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While in flight, Binti and her entire cohort from Earth are killed by Medusa-like beings (the Meduse) who are enemies of the dominant ethnic group in Binti’s area, the Khoush (Ethiopian descendants perhaps, or Northeast Africa?). In the first book, Binti sneaks off to be the first of her tribe to attend the interstellar university, Oomza Uni, which fills a planet far from the deserts of Africa. Binti is a “master harmonizer,” someone who is able to use a genius for mathematics, a training in advanced technological development, and the customs of her people to “speak” into the world, bringing people and worlds together in harmony or challenge. ![]() Binti’s community is closely modelled on the Himba people of southwest Africa, including the special braiding of her hair and the red-clay otjize that coats her skin for beauty, protection, and an embodied sense of culture. Nnedi Okorafor has given us a living, vibrant, complex character in literary SF prose.īinti is the award-winning novella of a young African woman with a special gift enhanced and challenged by her rugged stubbornness, deep love, and dynamic intelligence. ![]() What a discovery Binti has been for me! In Binti (2015), Home (2017), and The Night Masquerade (2018), Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although, Imma be truthful here: it feels like it hit spot on exactly what all those smut readers want when they say they want YA with spice, which you know, shouldn’t be a thing. I didn’t go into it expecting it to be YA, however I am still reviewing it because I feel quite passionately about a few things and need to get them out of my head, and this is my blog and I can do what I want with it. ![]() I didn’t really feel like Lightlark was a YA courtesy of the suggestive content which had more in common with indie smut than trad YA fantasy: as it happens, those two genres happen to be my favourite and I read a fair bit in both. To survive, Isla must lie, cheat, and betray.even as love complicates everything. ![]() They are feared and despised, and are counting on Isla to end their suffering by succeeding at the Centennial. Isla Crown is the young ruler of Wildling-a realm of temptresses cursed to kill anyone they fall in love with. To destroy the curses, one ruler must die. The Centennial offers the six rulers one final chance to break the curses that have plagued their realms for centuries. The invitation is a summons-a call to embrace victory and ruin, baubles and blood. #BookTok phenomenon and award-winning author Alex Aster delivers listeners a masterfully written, utterly gripping YA fantasy novel.Įvery 100 years, the island of Lightlark appears to host the Centennial, a deadly game that only the rulers of six realms are invited to play. ![]() |