![]() ![]() “Why do you immediately assume that I’m guilty?” asked Rudy in a hurt tone.Ĭhip was taken aback. A lot of what sounded hilarious back in the day sounds like immature name calling now. Reading it again 16 years later, the book just wasn’t as funny, (although, admittedly, that’s a pretty high bar.) That’s not to say I didn’t enjoy it – each scene is still indelibly etched in my mind, and I still love them all. And each time I read it, it had me in splits from start to end. I must have read this book a 150 times in my lifetime. Together, the two of them go out of their way to make life at Camp Algonkian as disruptive as possible for everybody else.Ĭhild me gave this book 5 stars. Mike Webster also hates camp, and finds his only solace in the company of non-conformist, poker faced Rudy. Synopsis: Rudy Miller hates camp, but has been forced to go by his school’s guidance counsellor, who feels that Rudy would benefit greatly from some socialization. ![]() “Well,” said Chip, still smiling, “dinner’s in ten minutes.” ![]() Cover Art for I Want to Go Home by Gordan Korman ![]()
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![]() ![]() LGBTQ characters! BIPOC characters! Disabled characters! Anything-you-can-think-of characters! ② The cast of characters is one of the most scrumptiously diverse ever, thank you very much. ![]() ① The world is uniquely original, originally unique, and bloody shrimping cool. ![]() This book, being a great cure for insomnia, was pretty painful to read and I don’t want to spend the next 12546 hours writing a crappy non-review for it, so let’s just go for a quick Good/Bad thingie, shall we? Yet another Wonderfully Wonderful Buddy Read (WWBR™) courtesy of the MacHalos! We sure know how to pick them! Go us and stuff! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Consequently, many postmodern groups, such as the poets of the Language School, include Olson as a primary and precedent figure. One of the first Melvilleans to advance what has since become known as the "theory of the two Moby-Dicks ," Olson argues that there were two versions of Moby-Dick, and that Melville's reading King Lear for the first time in between the first and second versions of the book had a profound impact on his conception of the saga: "the first book did not contain Ahab," writes Olson, and "it may not, except incidentally, have contained Moby-Dick." If literary critics and reviewers at the time responded with varying degrees of skepticism to the "theory of the two Moby-Dick s," it was the experimental style and organization of the book that generated the most controversy.Ĭharles Olson was a second generation American modernist poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance. One of the most stimulating essays ever written on Moby Dick, and for that matter on any piece of literature, and the forces behind it."- San Francisco Chronicle First published in 1947, this acknowledged classic of American literary criticism explores the influences-especially Shakespearean ones-on Melville's writing of Moby-Dick. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This collection includes the story of Adrián, from Guatemala City, whose mother was shot to death before his eyes. From fending off kidnappers with knives and being locked in freezing holding cells to tearful reunions with parents, Solito, Solita’s narrators bring to light the experiences of young people struggling for a better life across the border. They bring us into their hearts and onto streets filled with the lure of freedom and fraught with violence. What can they teach us about abuse and abandonment, bravery and resilience, hypocrisy and hope? In an era of fear, xenophobia, and outright lies, these stories amplify the compelling voices of migrant youth. Solito, Solita ( Alone, Alone) is an urgent collection of oral histories that tells - in their own words - the story of young refugees fleeing countries in Central America and traveling for hundreds of miles to seek safety and protection in the United States.įifteen narrators describe why they fled their homes, what happened on their dangerous journeys through Mexico, how they crossed the borders, and for some, their ongoing struggles to survive in the United States. They are a mass migration of thousands, yet each one travels alone. ![]() ![]() ![]() Far too often Myles overwhelms her subject with writing that fails to reward the effort required to unpack it. Pat, pat, rubbing behind the ears, looking in your eyes for years.”įor long stretches, however, that kind of amused self-awareness goes missing in action, replaced by a self-conscious and ponderous air of high seriousness. ![]() ![]() “The pathetic thing about humans,” a wry and eloquent Rosie observes, “is they think that everything is in their hands, and their hands are in or on everything. So, in a very different, comic meter, is that imagined talk-show interview of Rosie by Oscar the puppet. Passages about a planned mating session with another dog (“The Rape of Rosie”) and her pet’s decline into incontinence are vividly done. And you muscle around a yellow fireplug.” The hub! And a leaf falls in the still life of the world. A ring a shallow cup around a central gleaming circle. Suddenly even wheels hubcaps are interesting. “Tiny paws on the side of the screen her shadow leads at a decent pace. In re-creating the walks they took together in various places, Myles’ flowing, comma-resistant prose captures the way that ordinary dog behavior can train one’s grateful attention on the transitory, mundane facts of existence. ![]() There is, above all, the consuming power and amplitude of feeling the author had for her canine companion of 16 years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Since I get asked this a lot: No, there's no way to buy my books directly from me. Authors cannot be expected to pump out bestsellers on theoretical money. In the meantime, I had no choice but to write and sell another series, Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor, my Yugioh-inspired Chinese myth & history adventure book, and make YouTube videos to make ends meet. Because it's publishing standard to only pay authors twice per year, and for sales periods months ago, I didn't see another cent until late April 2022, almost 8 months after Iron Widow released. I got exactly 14k USD in 2020, the year I got my book deal, and 4k in 2021, the year it came out and sold at least 65k copies. ![]() Because it's publishing standa Sorry this is going to be so late publishing didn't pay me enough to prioritize writing it. Sorry this is going to be so late publishing didn't pay me enough to prioritize writing it. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars ![]() ![]() Serial Killer Who Is Female Falls For The Fbi Profiler Who Is Looking Into Her Case. ![]() Then, If You Don’t Mind The Dark Subject Matter (Which I’ll Get To In A Moment), First And Foremost… I Thus Find It Difficult To Distinguish What Occurs In One Book From Another. I Don’t Even Recall The Last Time I Binge-watched A Whole Series, Much Alone So Quickly. My Life Was Consumed By It For About A Day And A Half. Since I Read The First Book In This Series And Couldn’t Put It Down, I Had To Write This As A Series Review Rather Than A Review Of A Single Book. Let’s Dive Into The Show And Get Fixated On Me. ![]() If You’re Up For Reading Something That Is A Little Beyond The Typical Romance Parameters, You Won’t Be Able To Put It Down Because I Couldn’t And I Know You Won’t Be Either. Abby’s Mindf*ck Series Is Sinister, Engrossing, And All-consuming. In The Mood For A Romantic Relationship That Will Challenge Your Sense Of Right And Wrong? The Serial Killer And The Fbi Agent Who Is Pursuing Her Fall In Love, But He Is Unaware That She Is The Victim. Abby PDF Free Download, Read Online, Series Pdf Download, The Ultimate Husband Epub, Audiobook. ![]() ![]() One volume presents the paintings with introductory text by the artist the other offers the keyed drawings and alphabetical lists of words. Now, The Ultimate Alphabet: Complete Edition brings these two volumes together in this deluxe slipcase edition. Mike Wilks the Ultimate Alphabet the Letter P 1000-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle by unknown from. The images in this book were first published in 1986 in the best-selling The Ultimate Alphabet, and later in The Annotated Ultimate Alphabet, in which keys to the images were included. The Ultimate Alphabet: Complete Edition brings two best-selling volumes together in this deluxe slipcase edition. Numbered line drawings accompanied by lists of words serve as keys to the paintings. The reader need not go crazy, however, trying to name all of the words represented in the images (at last count, 7,825!). ![]() Each image contains hundreds of items all starting with the same letter. His four-year painting odyssey resulted in a suite of magnificent compilations, all minutely detailed, masterfully rendered, and slightly surreal. The artist Mike Wilks set out in the 1980s to depict as many words as possible in twenty-six images corresponding to the alphabet. ![]() ![]() And NASA astronaut Reid Malenfant, and his wife Emma, are hurtling through the African sky in a training jet, when everything changes forever.For Malenfant and Emma, a reckless flight in a T-38 above the sun-baked continent sends them colliding with a great wheel in the sky. Scientists scramble desperately to understand what is on the big red moon and how it got there. While coastlands flood by the new gravitational forces, millions of people die. on earth and beyond.In the year 2015 a red moon appears in the Earth's orbit: brooding, multitextured, beautiful, and alive. Claiming the legacy of Heinlein and Asimov, Baxter now returns with his third Manifold novel-in which he uses an astounding adventure story to posit a breathtaking vision of the origin of species. ![]() Heralded by Arthur Clark as "a major new talent," Baxter stands time and space on their collective heads, envisions the future reflected in the past, and the past in the galaxy's most distant reaches and unformed speculations. Stephen Baxter's Manifold novels have struck the world of science fiction like a meteor. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead of being broken, Inara believes she is a shadow child-one who is ignored. When he begins questioning her, Victor learns that Inara has been a victim for most of her life. Themes include the reality of illusions and the limits of beauty.Īs Victor watches Inara in the interview room he thinks that she does not looks like a victim. The novel follows as she tells her story to FBI agents Victor Hanoverian and Brandon Eddison. When the girls were discovered by the FBI, Inara was taken in for questioning. ![]() As one of his butterflies, Inara soon became a leader among the girls. ![]() Teenage Inara was living with a group of friends in New York when she was captured by the Gardener, a man who tended a secret garden he filled with beautiful girls marked with tattoos of butterfly wings. Shadow child Inara Morrissey learns that sometimes people do come back in the novel The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison. NOTE: All citations in this Study Guide refer to the Kindle version of The Butterfly Garden, published by Thomas & Mercer, June 1, 2016. ![]() |