She gets some difficult questions from her young readers as well. "Look in the want ads?" one precocious kindergartner answered. She often asks her audience what they think a person should do if he or she wants to become a writer. If you really want to write you should read!" "One thing I always tell young people," she says, "is that I know a lot of people who read and don't write, but I don't know anybody who writes and doesn't read. Widely admired for her positive, realistic portraits of African-American family life and insightful studies of African-American history and culture, she writes in response to what she once describe in a Publishers Weekly article as "a growing demand from Black parents who are looking for books that provide an authentic portrait of the Black experience written with an understanding that Blackness is more than a mere skin color."Ī former kindergarten teacher, Mildred Pitts Walter truly enjoys the company of children and relishes the chance to hear what young people have on their minds during her frequent school and library appearances. Mildred Pitts Walter is one of those rare authors who have mastered both fiction and nonfiction, and who can write as effectively for the picture-book audience as for young adults.
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Some of the murders were committed for the purposes of taking over land and wealth of Osage members, whose land was producing valuable oil and who each had headrights that earned lucrative annual royalties. However, newer investigations indicate that other suspicious deaths during this time could have been misreported or covered up murders, including people who were heirs to future fortunes. Some sixty or more wealthy, full-blood Osage Native Americans were reported killed from 1918 to 1931. The Osage Indian murders were a series of murders of Osage Native Americans in Osage County, Oklahoma, during the 1910s–1930s newspapers described the increasing number of unsolved murders as the Reign of Terror, lasting from 1921 to 1926. ‘Should I read …?’, ‘What’s that book?’ posts, sales links, piracy, plagiarism, low quality book lists, unmarked spoilers (instructions for spoiler tags are in the sidebar), sensationalist headlines, novelty accounts, low effort content. 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Oh, it’s simple stuff it’s the stuff that’s about being a female and owning (female) power. It turns out that my feeling was not inaccurate the book sprung out of an award-winning novellete. Not to mention the novel-length ‘plot’ feels a great deal a series of short stories strung together into a novel. But some of the responsibility needs to go to McIntyre for writing what 100% seems like Women’s Sci-Fi, 1970s-Style. Why? I fully admit much of it is me, in this particular mood in my life at this moment. Read December, 2021 Recommended for people who really like classic sci-fi ★ ★ 1/2 Peter has had decades of being written to be relatable. Sure, he’s a superhero that swings across the skyline saving folks from all kinds of crime, but he’s also a nerd who loves his aunt and gets distracted by cool weird things and makes bad jokes. Even in the recent Spider-Man video games, little and large things alike serve to make you feel like you get insight into Peter Parker’s familiar life. Spider-Man is one of the most relatable superheroes out there and when he’s not relatable, you know he’s not being written well. It’s no secret that part of what launched Into the Spider-Verse into the stratosphere and gained it tons of love from critics and audiences alike was how, for an animated movie starring superheroes and a cartoon pig from another dimension, real and relatable a film it was. MILES’ APARTMENT – BEDROOM MILES MORALES draws HOME-MADE STREET ART NAME-TAGS at a desk, headphones on, singing along to a song he’s too young for (”Sunflower”), but he doesn’t quite know the words yet. In the Rijksmuseum, Gerry shows Stella a Rembrandt painting, The Jewish Bride. MacLaverty understands this, conveys it beautifully. “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are,” said Anaïs Nin. Lifting, floating, eddying upwards, sinking among the others.” At one point, she’s watching a snowstorm through a window: “Stella found herself isolating one particular snowflake – a small one – and watching its progress. Like Gerry, she has an eye for beauty, but her gaze is often tinged with longing and regret. Stella, by contrast, is more drawn to nature and small details. Architecture was about the size of things compared to the human.” In the airport, he sees his wife from afar: “It was a huge concourse and she looked tiny at the far side of it. Gerry, an architect, is highly attuned to the scale of things. The novel is written in close third person, moving seamlessly between Gerry and Stella’s perspectives. In the book, the couple take a “midwinter break” to Amsterdam, visiting museums and wandering the city, arm in arm. Long married and retired, they have one son, living abroad in Canada with their grandchild. The voltage increasing as we turn the pages and get to know the couple.īoth Gerry and Stella are from Northern Ireland but moved to Glasgow at the height of The Troubles. In Midwinter Break, emotion sparks between the sentences. “Sentences are factual, but paragraphs are emotional,” said Gertrude Stein. But, this also being a story of humankind-the importance of kindness. This style allows for moments of reflection, insight and exploration of themes, such as: hope home loss loneliness determination discovery and, this being a dystopia, survival. The book follows Griz’s journey to save his stolen dog, told via a ‘journal’ of sorts, in which Griz records his story. Farming, fishing, hunter-gathering and scavenging (or as Griz puts it ‘ going a viking’) is how people survive. Much of the modern comforts and commodities have faded with time. In the future, humanity is reduced to families and small communities who have little contact with one another unless circumstance requires it. Bear with me on this review, as there’s so MUCH I want to talk about but can’t because…*spoilers*. The ARC came with a request not to reveal any of this book’s ‘secrets’ (this is the first time I have ever seen a publisher emphasise this so much, but I commend them for it!) so I’ll keep the introduction short. It’s stayed with me, not just because of how heart-breaking it was at times, but also how heartfelt and warming it was. I’m still thinking about this book, weeks after finishing it. Seriously, it’s bloody amazing, both cover and contents (and the final cover for the release version is just as incredible). The Full Review: First off, a HUGE thank you to Nazia at Orbit for sending me this STUNNING ARC in exchange for an honest review. Page and Brin's remarkable idea, which they started to develop in 1996, exploits the structure of Web links to locate relevant and valuable information. Epitomizing the industry's low interest in search was Microsoft, which by February 1998 was still mired in the planning stages to construct its own search engine. Although it seems obvious now that the best way to speed navigation as the Web expanded at Big Bang velocity in the 1990s was going to be better search engines, many leading Internet companies, such as Microsoft and America Online, were more enthusiastic about pushing "portals" and "channels" that sent inquiring users to curated Web pages. Levy chronicles how two Stanford University computer science graduate students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founded the company that gave search primacy on the Web. By Steven Levy (Simon & Schuster 424 pages $26) The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry) By Siva Vaidhyanathan (University of California Press 265 pages $26.95)Īlmost nothing can stop a remarkable idea executed well at the right time, as Steven Levy's brisk-but-detailed history of Google, "In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives," convincingly proves. Edward will be joined in conversation by fellow Faber historian Matthew Green. This is the vivid history of this barely known, barely believable episode – a bloody tragedy of operatic proportions, the effects of which would be felt into the twentieth century and beyond. Join us for the launch of The Last Emperor of Mexico by Edward Shawcross. The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World Edward Shawcross. With a head full of impractical ideals – and a penchant for pomp and butterflies – the new ‘emperor’ was singularly ill-equipped for what lay in store. Instead, he walked into a bloody guerrilla war. Keen to spread his own interests abroad, the French emperor had promised Maximilian a hero’s welcome. He had been lured into the voyage by a duplicitous Napoleon III. In 1864, a young Austrian archduke by the name of Maximilian crossed the Atlantic to assume a faraway throne. A page-turning history of imperial hubris and nemesis, deceit and delusion, love and betrayal on a grand scale.’ Sunday Times ‘Hilarious, heartbreaking and utterly extraordinary.’ Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times Books of the Year The bizarre and little known story of how a hubristic Archduke became the puppet Emperor of Mexico – with tragic results and pivotal historical consequences for Europe and America. The Last Emperor of Mexico is the vivid history of this barely known, barely believable episode - a bloody tragedy of operatic. "Wonderful settings that brim with ethical dilemmas, fabulous twists, and an engaging heroine."-ELIZABETH CAMDEN, Christy and RITA Award-winning author "A page-turning journey through three riveting, interwoven historical timelines."-MIMI MATTHEWS, USA Today bestselling author Gabrielle Meyer's writing captivates with. With so much on the line, how can Maggie choose just one life to keep and the rest to lose? While Maggie has sworn off romance until she makes her final choice, an intriguing man tugs at her heart in each era, only complicating the impossible decision she must make, which looms ever closer. And in 2001, she's a brilliant young medical student, fulfilling her dream of becoming a surgeon. In 1941, she is a navy nurse, grappling with her knowledge of the future when she joins a hospital ship going to Pearl Harbor. In 1861, Maggie is the daughter of a senator at the outbreak of the Civil War, navigating a capital full of Southern spies and wounded soldiers. Until she turns twenty-one, when she will have to forfeit two of those lives-and everyone she knows in them-forever. Each night, she goes to sleep in one time period and wakes up in another. Maggie inherited a gift from her time-crossing parents that allows her to live three separate lives in 1861, 1941, and 2001. In This Moment (Timeless Book #2) Gabrielle Meyer |