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Losing forever gayle friesen5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() I want to say twelve it's never made entirely clear what age she is. ![]() YA is now a 17-and-up category, but it wasn't always another book I'm set to review, Hope, would probably be shelved in J (Juvenile) along with half of my beloved McKays. Nobody is older than her age in this so far, and that is to Friesen's credit. Losing Forever is a true YA novel in the older tradition of writing for adolescents, about adolescents, about the concerns they were likely to have. I think I forget, when I trawl the shelves for YA I haven't read, that the category has actually come to mean "this used to be where books for adolescents went, but adolescence now lasts into the college years and they're the ones we're writing for these days". It's not a DNF because it's bad it's a DNF because I wasn't connecting with the characters, and that's understandable. ![]() I don't think it's fair for me to rate this. ![]()
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Challenger deep book pages5/27/2023 ![]() It was weird. And, honestly, I found myself wondering, if this had been any other author besides Neal Shusterman (who I have undying faith in), if I would have stuck it out at all because I just didn’t get the twisted maritime world that Caden lived in – or the strange people around him – or just about anything that was happening. It kind of reminded me of listening to my dad’s old drug-induced Pink Floyd albums (or maybe the Beatles’ “I am the Walrus”). Reading from Caden’s perspective when he is having a psychotic episode is … well … psychotic. In fact, it bordered on psychedelic in some places. I kept hovering between four and four-and-a-half stars, even though I think it’s brilliant in a lot of ways. ![]() ![]() Prepare to be confounded. I had a hard time rating this book, to be honest.Normally, I start my reviews with what I loved, but I’m switching things up a little because I feel like I have to get the negative out of the way first, before I can get to what I really loved. This book sheds light on mental illness in a way I have never seen done before (at least not so thoroughly and realistically) – putting you directly into the mind of the mentally ill character and taking you on an enlightening, but also somewhat perplexing journey through his illness. ![]() Challenger Deep is the type of book that you won’t forget long after you’ve finished reading it. ![]()
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A thousand splendid suns pages5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Get the summaries, analysis, and quotes you need. ![]() With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman’s love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival.Ī stunning accomplishment, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love. The best study guide to A Thousand Splendid Suns on the planet, from the creators of SparkNotes. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, the 1 New York Times bestseller A Thousand. ![]() Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today.īorn a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. “Just as good, if not better, than Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling first book, The Kite Runner. ![]()
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Lusitania by Greg King5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() A hundred years after her sinking, Lusitania remains an evocative ship of mystery. ![]() When she left New York on her final voyage, she sailed from the New World to the Old yet an encounter with the machinery of the New World, in the form of a primitive German U-Boat, sent her - and her gilded passengers - to their tragic deaths and opened up a new era of indiscriminate warfare. Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, carrying millionaires and aristocrats, actresses and impresarios, writers and suffragettes - a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the coming influences of the Twentieth Century. On the 100th Anniversary of its sinking, King and Wilson tell the story of the Lusitania's glamorous passengers and the torpedo that ended an era and prompted the US entry into World War I. ![]()
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The ceremony silko5/27/2023 ![]() Auntie takes care of Tayo instead of sending him back to the Veteran’s Hospital, but Tayo knows that Auntie resents him as much as ever for his mixed blood. The story moves back to the time just after Tayo return home from the Veteran’s Hospital. Thinking of Rocky makes Tayo fall off the donkey and throw up. As they ride the burro, Tayo thinks about his cousin Rocky, who joined the army with Tayo but died overseas. Tayo’s friend Harley, a fellow war vet, comes riding on a burro and convinces Tayo to ride with him to the nearest bar, even though Tayo doesn’t like to drink. Tayo thinks back to his return from the Veteran’s Hospital in Los Angeles where he felt like a white spirit and couldn’t keep any food down. ![]() Tayo tells a story about Corn Woman scolding her sister, Reed Woman, who then takes the rain away in her anger. The ranch where Tayo lives in New Mexico, unlike the wet Philippines, is suffering from a drought that came because, Tayo believes, he prayed for the rain to stop while he was in the jungle during the war. One memory in particular bothers Tayo – he was unable to execute a Japanese soldier in the Philippines during World War II because he saw his Uncle Josiah in the Japanese uniform. Tayo, a Pueblo man, wakes up in his spare ranch house, dreaming deliriously of different scenes from his life. ![]() ![]() Stories are the only way to fight off illness and death and stand up to evil. The novel opens by describing Ts’its’tsi’nako, the Thought-Woman, who is telling this entire story. ![]()
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As Darkness Falls by Bronwyn Parry5/27/2023 ![]() Finalist in the Australian Romance Readers Association's Favourite Romantic Suspense Novel for 2015 shortlisted in the Davitt Awards for Best Crime Novel 2016 Escape to Australia's wild places with these two riveting romantic suspense thrillers for the price of one, from multi-award-winning author Bronwyn Parry. The other two novels in the series are AS DARKNESS FALLS and DARK. Voted the Australian Romance Readers Association's Favourite Romantic Suspense Novel for 2013 In STORM CLOUDS, rangers Erin Taylor and Simon Kennedy uncover shocking details and deadly secrets as they investigate a reclusive community on the edge of the national park and race to expose a charismatic and brutal cult leader before a tragedy occurs. DARKENING SKIES is the third novel in Bronwyn Parrys award-winning Dungirri series. ![]() Trapped in the outback and pursued by hunters who can't afford to fail, Jo and her colleague Detective Nick Matheson will need to trust each other and act quickly if they want to survive. ![]() In DEAD HEAT, National Parks ranger Jo Lockwood is often alone in the wilderness, and she likes it that way - until she discovers the body of a man, brutally murdered. Welcome to the small, close-knit community of Goodabri, where friends are loyal but sinister secrets lurk in the heat of the Australian bush. Buy As Darkness Falls by Bronwyn Parry from Waterstones today Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over 25. ![]()
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Jumping off swings by jo knowles5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Scarlett’s pregnancy is the pinnacle around which the story is built, but it is about much more than that. It is not difficult to relate to the characters in this book, and the family dynamics they represent. The question is whether the friendship can stand the tests ahead? Relatable Halley has always followed in her shadow, but now Scarlett needs her friendship for the first time. Sarah Dessen has written the best book about teenage pregnancy, and you will find it impossible to put Someone Like You down until you finish the last page! Life starts to get messy for Scarlett when her boyfriend is killed, and then she discovers that she is pregnant. Here is a list of the best Teenage Pregnancy books. With teenage pregnancy still a major global problem, YA fiction can be an opportunity to reflect the realities of teen pregnancy in a truthful and realistic way. ![]() Then it can then be a wonderful source of information and inspiration. Young adults enjoy reading books that “speak their language”, so the current slang and pop culture must be spot-on. Literature written specifically for adolescents has the unique benefit of being able to be influential, but unthreatening. ![]() Muddling through the stressful years of becoming themselves, teenagers are influenced by many different people and things. Although stories about teen pregnancies are not new (think about Mary and Joseph), they have a particular value in the lives of modern teenagers. ![]()
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I capture the castle by dodie smith5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() I also loved how the sections of the book were arranged in differently priced notebooks, which really demonstrated the progression of the story! Overall, I would recommend this book as a must-read for any preteen/teenage girl. I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith Macmillan, 1948 - Fiction - 343 pages 190 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified One of the 20th. This book was such a wonderful, enchanting and unpredictable read that by the end of it I felt like I almost was Cassandra, since her confessions, recordings and thoughts in her journals gave me a thorough insight into her. ![]() This kind of 'bass-line' plot was all about trying to get him back to work again, and letting the reader get to know Cassandra's brother Thomas a bit more, who does not feature much within the story. ![]() I also loved the underlying story of Cassandra's father, a novelist who wrote one renowned book then, after a short spell in prison, became strangely reserved, writing nothing at all. Each character is totally unique and unpredictable, from beautiful Rose who is convinced she will do anything to escape the poverty that she is living in, to strangely glamorous step-mother Topaz, who is absolutely stunning but whose unusual rituals include prancing naked on the hilltops. ![]() I could certainly relate to Cassandra with her timidity and clumsiness. The characters are vivid and individual, and I think very relatable. ![]()
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I Thought It Was You by Kirsty McManus5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But that becomes difficult when he keeps showing up all over the ship and proving himself to be the perfect guy. The only catch? She isn’t allowed to talk to Wells again. With Liv broke, and a twenty-thousand dollar incentive to help Jamila out, she reluctantly agrees to a week of pretending to be Nina from Louisiana. TV celebrity Jamila Castro begs Liv to take on the role of her rehab nurse to stop a vengeful ex co-star from ruining her career. She discovers that her ex has completely drained her bank account.ģ. Liv meets Wells, a gorgeous charity worker on his way to Cozumel.Ģ. But soon after boarding, three things happen in quick succession:ġ. When Liv Turner takes a cruise to get away from a bad break-up, all she wants to do is hide from the world for a while-and maybe hang out with her brother, who works in the ship’s casino. ![]()
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Lucretius de rerum natura english5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() To the Greek philosopher Epicurus, the unhappiness and degradation of humans arose largely from the dread which they had of the power of the deities and terror of their wrath. ![]() The universe described in the poem operates according to these physical principles, guided by fortuna ("chance"), and not the divine intervention of the traditional Roman deities.ĭe rerum natura code: lat promoted to code: la was written by the Roman poet Lucretius. Namely, Lucretius explores the principles of atomism the nature of the mind and soul explanations of sensation and thought the development of the world and its phenomena and explains a variety of celestial and terrestrial phenomena. The poem, written in some 7,400 dactylic hexameters, is divided into six untitled books, and explores Epicurean physics through poetic language and metaphors. 55 BC) with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. Opening of Pope Sixtus IV's 1483 manuscript of De rerum natura code: lat promoted to code: la, scribed by Girolamo di Matteo de TaurisĮpicureanism, ethics, physics, natural philosophyĭe rerum natura code: lat promoted to code: la ( Latin: On the Nature of Things) is a first-century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius ( c. ![]() |