6/12/2023 0 Comments Me Squared by Jourdan Cameron![]() The intended audience for this book is a younger group: most likely middle-school level. ![]() Being the person I am, I wish there were more details, and I wish that the thoughts and the feelings of some of the characters stayed consistent with the intended age they are supposed to be. Other times, it was evident that he was a middle schooler. ![]() However, sometimes I felt like Hildan had thoughts that were more appropriate for a high schooler or older. ![]() In this story, Hildan is set to be your average, middle-school boy. However, this is NOT the case for this story! I loved reading about what Hildan thought and felt during various situations. The growth, thoughts, and feelings that absolutely need to take place are taken, but no more than that. To be honest, lately I feel like the books I have been reading are short and precise with everything, including the development of the character. With that being said, I also wished that I knew more about the characters' thoughts and feelings. My reasoning for this is because, I felt like the story was moving on at a fast-pace, and there wasn't much time in-between to savor moments that needed to be savored. Oh, how I wished that it could be a full on book! This could have easily been a book or two and I would have enjoyed reading it. ![]() It was original, strong, and could be worked on in various different ways. When I received a copy of this book, I sat down and read it. ![]()
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![]() Tom agrees, tempted by the offer of money and travel. ![]() As their conversation continues, Greenleaf's request transforms: he wants to pay for Tom to sail to Italy and speak with Dickie in person. Greenleaf asks Tom to write to Dickie and ask him to return, suspecting that Tom will have more influence than his parents. Greenleaf is distraught because his son has gone to live in an Italian village and refuses to return home, even though his mother-Herbert Greenleaf's wife-is very ill with leukemia. Herbert is under the impression that Tom and Dickie were once very close, although Tom barely remembers Dickie. One day, Tom is cornered in a bar by Herbert Greenleaf, the wealthy father of his friend Dickie. Tom resents the aunt who raised him in Boston, though he relies on the small checks she sends him. He has many acquaintances but no close friends, and his parents have been dead since he was young. ![]() He makes his living by scamming elderly people and artists, but lies to his group of friends, fabricating careers and talents in order to seem accomplished. ![]() Tom Ripley is a secretive, troubled young man in New York. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Looking at the moon kit pearson![]() Toronto: Penguin Books Canada Limited, 1993 Puffin Classics, 2014. Toronto: Penguin Books Canada Limited, 1996. Toronto: Penguin, 1998.Īwake and Dreaming. ![]() ![]() Illustrations by Gabrielle GrimmandĪ Perfect Gentle Knight (Penguin, $20) 2-6, 2007 Pearson's A Handful of Time (1987) won a Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award and was preceded a year earlier by her first book, The Daring Game.īe My Love (HarperCollins, 2019) $14.99 978-1-44344-402-6 Looking at the Moon (1991) and The Lights Go On Again (1993) complete the trilogy. Christie's Book Award and the Geoffrey Bilson for Historical Fiction for Young People Prize for The Sky Is Falling (1989), the first of three novels about two English children evacuated to Canada to escape the bombing of World War II. Catherines, North York and Burnaby for ten years prior to receiving the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award, the Mr. ![]() ![]() She attended UBC and worked as a children's librarian in St. Kit Pearson was born in Edmonton in 1947. Kit Pearson received the 11th annual Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence in 2014. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Radio silence oseman![]() This is still a love story, though, because Frances does love Aled, platonically, and he loves her back. And Oseman would have won me over if that were the only thing I liked about this book. This is a love story, but it’s not a love story. So Frances finds solace in an anonymous YouTube podcast called Universe City. She isn’t feeling all that connected to her school friends-they see her as a “study machine” more than the art-loving nerd she is. In real life, of course, things are more complicated. Head Girl at her school, on paper she is a star student: she has her UCAS statement all done, is on track to go to Cambridge, and just needs to ace these AS-level exams. ![]() Most importantly, this book has such strong portrayals of friendships, both platonic and romantic, and I love it so much. I’d heard some good things about this book from people whose opinions I trust, yet still … I wasn’t expecting it to be this good. ![]() With Radio Silence, Alice Oseman accomplishes the literary equivalent of knocking me over with a feather. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Push by sapphire review![]() ![]() When her father rapes her, he calls her a lot of obscene words. ![]() Push especially brings out the victim's point of view very well. There are many cultures where the woman is still blamed for a rape. When I read how Precious' mother blamed her for having sex with her husband, I was enraged. Reading Push was, in a way, a huge reminder to me of that one incident, the one that probably stripped off the fancy glasses from my irises. Several years ago, when I was still in high school and believed that although the world wasn't wholly good, it wasn't too bad either, I came across a news item of an eight-year old girl in a Middle East country, who was repeatedly raped by her father, and thus made pregnant as well. This one gesture from the teacher sets the path for Precious' desire to be free of her mother's clutches and make her own path. Then a teacher from her school begs her to attend a Higher Education Alternative / Each One Teach One school. She had her first child when she was twelve the child itself a victim of Down's Syndrome. As if that is any fault of hers, she is kicked out of her school and her mother verbally assaults her for "stealing" her husband. Sixteen-year-old Claireece Precious Jones is again pregnant. Source: Library | Recommendations from all corners of the blogging world | I read this for the POC Challenge ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Codename villanelle series![]() ![]() This book is a novella compared to most thrillers, it’s quite short, and readers looking for a conclusion will be dissatisfied by the cliffhanger ending. ![]() There are significant differences between the show and the books, but one thing they share is their episodic nature. The basic outline of this story will be familiar to viewers watching the BBC America series starring Sandra Oh. Finding his murderer quickly becomes Eve’s obsession, and it soon becomes clear that Eve and Villanelle have more in common than it seems at first glance. They’re thinking about having a baby when a Russian nationalist is murdered on Eve’s watch. She lives in a cluttered, tiny flat with her adoring husband, Niko, a math teacher. Eve Polastri is Villanelle’s polar opposite. ![]() That’s where she crosses paths with a midlevel functionary in the British intelligence service. Her work for a mysterious consortium called “The Twelve” takes her from Paris to Palermo and then to London. So Oxana becomes Villanelle, and Villanelle is an assassin. ![]() A short, brutal existence in a penal colony is her likeliest future-until a stranger offers her an alternative. Oxana Vorontsova is studying linguistics at university when she's arrested for murder. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you haven’t already, you should absolutely read this book.Īfter The Virgin Suicides, I delved even further back into my reading history by digging out some of the old Point Horror novels that I used to read as a child. If you’re not familiar with the book, it tells the story of the five Lisbon sisters and the months before they took their own lives, told from the perspective of the neighbourhood boys who loved them from afar. It’s been over a decade since I read Jeffrey Eugenides’ tale of teenage suicide and it was just as captivating and tragic as I remembered. To try and combat that, in February I went through my bookshelves and picked out a few old favourites to reread, starting with The Virgin Suicides. ![]() ![]() I’m not sure exactly why, but so far this year I’ve been feeling distinctly underwhelmed when it comes to reading. ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘ Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982‘ is an insightful depiction of contemporary Korean society and family, the challenges, the discrimination and the sexism that Korean women face everyday in a system which is geared against them, the sacrifices they make and how they are taken for granted, and how though it looks like things have changed for the better in recent years, some things never change. Are we able to find out what happened and why Kim Jiyoung behaves strangely? You have to read the book to find out. ![]() ![]() The story then takes us into the past to the time Kim Jiyoung was born, we get to know about her parents, about her life as a child, about her time in school and later university, how she grows up into a young woman, her time at work, about the sacrifices she has to make because she is a girl, the same kind of sacrifices her grandmother made, her mother made, and her elder sister made, and how events progress to the present. Soon she starts assuming the personalities of other people, and it appears that she is not playacting, but she really thinks she is those people. Kim Jiyoung is thirty-three years old, she has been married for three years, she is a housewife and has a one-year old daughter. The story told in ‘ Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982‘ by Cho Nam-Joo goes like this. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Tidelands book summary![]() ![]() Suspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinor’s ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbours. ![]() She shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marsh – not knowing that she is leading disaster into the heart of her life. Instead, she meets James, a young man on the run. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands – the marshy landscape of the south coast.Īlinor, a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. A dangerous time for a woman to be different… ![]() REVIEWED BY BARBARA BEATON England, 1648. Subscribe to our magazine for more great content ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Julian edelman book relentless![]() It was also because he had been counted out in most of his life and career, and he had proved them all wrong. It wasn't only because of his belief in his teammates, led by the master of the comeback, his friend and quarterback Tom Brady-or the coaching staff run by the legendary Bill Belichick. When the Patriots were down 28-3 in Super Bowl LI, there was at least one player who refused to believe they would lose: Julian Edelman. The Super Bowl champion wide receiver for the New England Patriots shares his inspiring story of an underdog kid who was always doubted to becoming one of the most reliable and inspiring players in the NFL. Tom Brady: "It's a privilege for me to play with someone as special as Julian." ![]() ![]() ![]() Bill Belichick: "Julian is the epitome of competitiveness, toughness, and the great things that are possible when someone is determined to achieve their goals." ![]() |