Billy comes up with his own plan and after two whole years of working and saving his money, he finally has enough to buy his dogs he’s always wanted. His family doesn’t have a lot of money, so no matter how hard he tries to convince his parents to buy him the dogs, it’s just not possible. Where the Red Fern Grows is a story about a boy named Billy who dreams about owning his own hound dogs. This one had me at both! Take some time this summer and pick up an old classic, they are usually quick reads, but they remind us of many memories and qualities that we had hoped for ourselves when we read these books when we were young! I’m a huge dog lover, so I know that when I pick up a dog related book that I’m either going to tear up because it gets sad or tear up because there’s unrelenting compassion for the animals. I had planned for the weekend to do a lot of relaxing, which includes READING! I picked up this classic at the library, thinking it would be fun to read a book that I read when I was younger but somewhat forgot the premise of what happens in the book…I’m glad I did!
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5/21/2023 0 Comments Swansea by Geoff BrookesIt is only the third time since 1941 that a NSW Labor government has been defeated. The Coalition picked up a 34-seat swing to win a strong majority, with 69 seats–the largest majority government, in terms of percentage of seats controlled, in NSW history. From 48 seats at dissolution, Labor was knocked down to 20 seats-the worst defeat of a sitting government in New South Wales history, and one of the worst of a state government in Australia since federation. Labor suffered a two-party swing of 16.4 points, the largest against a sitting government at any level in Australia since World War II. The 16-year-incumbent Labor Party government led by Premier Kristina Keneally was defeated in a landslide by the Liberal– National Coalition opposition led by Barry O'Farrell. The bottom map shows the final two-party preferred vote result by electorate.Įlections to the 55th Parliament of New South Wales were held on Saturday, 26 March 2011. The top map shows the first party preference by electorate. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Sherronda j brown bookBrown advocates for the A in LGBTQIA+, affirming that to be asexual is to be queer-despite the gatekeeping and denial that often says otherwise. She takes an incisive look at how anti-Blackness, white supremacy, patriarchy, heteronormativity, and capitalism enact harm against asexual people, contextualizing acephobia within a racial framework in the first book of its kind. Brown offers new perspectives on asexuality. In this exploration of what it means to be Black and asexual in America today, Sherronda J. For asexual folks, it means that ace and A-spec identity is often defined by a queerness thats not queer enough, seen through a lens of perceived lack: lack of pleasure, connection, joy, maturity, and even humanity. And it impacts the most marginalized among us. Its intertwined with our ideas about capitalism, race, gender, and queerness. The notion that everyone wants sex-and that we all have to have it-is false. Everything you know about sex and asexuality is (probably) wrong. About the Book An interrogation of sex-obsessed culture and an exploration of what it means to be Black and asexual in America today- Book Synopsis For readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality-and an incisive interrogation of the sex-obsessed culture that invisibilizes and ignores asexual and A-spec identity. 5/21/2023 0 Comments 84 charing cross road summaryHer long dreamed of sojourn to England was made possible by this little book and in return we are blessed with another, her diary of the trip. Due to the popularity of the book, Helene, while not becoming exceedingly famous or wealthy, developed a sort of cult following which enabled her to go to England to promote her book. but a look into what the writing of 84, Charing Cross Road brought to Helene's life. This book though is not a continuation or a building on of the twenty years of correspondences between Helene and Marks & Co. The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street is Helene Hanff's followup to the popular 84, Charing Cross Road. The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff
5/21/2023 0 Comments The Tricksters by Margaret MahyMM: ‘Imagination is the creative use of reality.’ Is this true for you?Ī guy called Rex Visible bought a car for me. I would really like to go back to the house to see if he’s still there but I fear that if he’d been done away with I wouldn’t cope. When we moved house he obviously couldn’t come too and it was a very tearful goodbye. His name was Fish Willopy and he was a brilliant conversationalist. When I was four years old my best friend was a mud heap in the back yard all gnarled up with tangled tree roots to create a mound big enough for me to sit on while we chatted. Adolescence should be miserable like a Smiths song or you are simply not doing it right.ģ. Hah! Does anyone ever say yes to this question? Looking back I think there were those kids at school who had shiny adolescences – all I can say is they obviously peaked too soon and their life was an exercise in mediocrity from there on in. During the height of adolescence, was it good changeover? This made me cringe to do myself so I asked my daughter and she said: courageous, funny, An Intellectual.Ģ. 5/20/2023 0 Comments Time's Tempest by M.J. MooresThe Tempest has been put to varied interpretations, from those that see it as a fable of art and creation, with Prospero representing Shakespeare, and Prospero's renunciation of magic signaling Shakespeare's farewell to the stage, to interpretations that consider it an allegory of Europeans colonizing foreign lands. In Act IV, a wedding masque serves as a play-within-a-play, and contributes spectacle, allegory, and elevated language.Īlthough The Tempest is listed in the First Folio as the first of Shakespeare's comedies, it deals with both tragic and comic themes, and modern criticism has created a category of romance for this and others of Shakespeare's late plays. It explores many themes, including magic, betrayal, revenge, and family. The play contains music and songs that evoke the spirit of enchantment on the island. After the first scene, which takes place on a ship at sea during a tempest, the rest of the story is set on a remote island, where Prospero, a complex and contradictory character, lives with his daughter Miranda, and his two servants: Caliban, a savage monster figure, and Ariel, an airy spirit. The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that he wrote alone. Title page of the part in the First Folio 5/20/2023 0 Comments The bacchaeAll the female offspring of the house of Kadmos, 35 as many as are women, I have made to leave the house with madness, and they, mingled with the sons of Kadmos, sit on roofless rocks beneath green pines. Therefore have I driven them from the house with frenzy, and they dwell in the mountains, out of their phrenes and I have given them the compulsion to wear the outfit of my mysteries. For my mother’s sisters-the very ones for whom it was least becoming-claimed that I was not the child of Zeus, but that Semele had conceived a child from a mortal father and then blamed her sexual misconduct on Zeus, 30 Kadmos’ plot, for which reason they claim that Zeus killed her, because she had told a false tale about her marriage. 20 In Hellenic territory I have come here to Thebes first, having already established my khoroi and mysteries in those other lands so that I might be a daimōn manifest among mortals, and have raised my cry here, fitting a fawn-skin to my body and 25 taking a thyrsos in my hand, a dart of ivy. I have left the rich lands of the Lydians and Phrygians, the sunny plains of the Persians, and 15 the walls of Bactria, passing over the harsh land of the Medes, and fertile Arabia, and all of Asia which lies along the coast of the sea, its beautifully-towered cities replete with a mixture of Hellenes and barbarians. 5/20/2023 0 Comments Murder on the orient express bookThat one’s a clear reference to another famous Poirot mystery, Death on the Nile. The film ends with Poirot being called away to yet another case, this time in Egypt. Published in 1934, Murder on the Orient Express follows the Belgian detective Poirot, who had become a staple of her work by then. Poirot certainly arrives a very Agatha Christie-like solution ( The policeman did it!) but that particular case does not occur in any of Christie’s books and seems to have been totally invented for the film. Branagh’s Poirot puts a gun on the table and insists that the suspects will have to shoot him to keep his silence the gun turns out to be unloaded, and Poriot eventually decides he will present the police with the assassin theory and “learn to live with the imbalance.”Īt the beginning of the film, before we even get to the mystery we came for, we join Poirot in Jerusalem, where he must determine whether a priest, a rabbi, or an imam is responsible for stealing a sacred relic. Hubbard, he announces that he can’t live with the injustice of keeping the killers’ secret (something he has in common with David Suchet’s more religious Poirot in the 2010 ITV adaptation of the novel). After presenting both theories and extracting a confession from Mrs. Branagh’s Poirot is not nearly as relaxed about the whole thing. 5/20/2023 0 Comments Consider me by becka mack epubNow, she is always excited for life’s next greatest adventure. Because she knew that life was too short to live it any other way. Growing up, her ambition was to be able to create a dream world for readers to slip on into, a place to fall in love and escape, much like the ones that she had enjoyed getting lost in herself.Įven though she has always been an avid reader and dreamt forever of becoming an author, she only started writing books after the loss of her brother. When she is not staring blankly at her computer screen or deleting almost two hundred occurrences of the word ‘just’ from her manuscript, she can be found teaching kindergarten in Ontario, Canada, and mom-ing with her beautiful and sweet young boy and her animals. Becka Mack is a self-proclaimed sarcasm queen, steamy romance author, professional procrastinator, and a superfan of dragging her fans through hell and back while on the way to a happy ending. 5/20/2023 0 Comments Saving the team by alex morganThe good news is, Devin quickly makes friends with funny, outgoing Jessi shy but sweet Zoe and klutzy Emma. And Devin is easily one of the most talented players. Their coach couldn’t care less whether the girls win or lose. Twelve-year-old Devin loves to play soccer. THE KICKS: SAVING THE TEAM is Alexs first. What's Saving the Team About Publisher Summary From star soccer player and Olympic gold medalist Alex Morgan comes the New York Times bestselling first book in an empowering, fun-filled middle grade series about believing in yourself and working as a team. When Devin shows up for tryouts, she discovers that the Kentville Kangaroos-otherwise known as the Kicks-are an absolute mess. The team beat Japan, 2-1, in a match watched by nearly 80,300 people-the largest soccer crowd in Olympic history. After all, some of the best players on the US national team come from California. If she hadn’t just left Connecticut to move across the country, she would have been named seventh-grade captain on her school soccer team.īut now that Devin is starting seventh grade in Kentville, California, all bets are off. From star soccer player and Olympic gold medalist Alex Morgan comes the New York Times bestselling first book in an empowering, fun-filled middle grade series about believing in yourself and working as a team. |