![]() Gage loves and protects Ari, but she’s the one who makes the mature decision to reclaim the childhood that homelessness is stripping away from her. ![]() While the story is sad, it’s also powerfully optimistic. Tradition is a theme throughout the book, including an elementary school protest in defense of their student activities that gives a nod to civil disobedience. Her game of “Paper Things,” a dollhouse world made of catalog cutout pictures, lets her grieve for her parents and visualize her ideal home and family at the same time. When Ari overhears classmates making fun of her dirty hair, it’s a double blow, reminding her that she doesn’t have easy access to a shower. ![]() Paper Things uncovers an often-unknown reality that is often hiding in plain sight.Īuthor Jennifer Richard Jacobson ( Small as an Elephant) perfectly captures the reality of being rootless while still trying to present a normal facade. Staying with friends and occasionally at a juvenile shelter, they do the best they can, but the stress is overwhelming. ![]() ![]() When Gage has a falling out with their guardian, he takes to the streets with Ari in tow. Eleven-year-old Ari Hazard is living in the shadow of her mother’s dying wishes: She must get into the prestigious Carter middle school and stick by older brother Gage no matter what. ![]()
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Call me zebra review6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() A natural-born raconteur, Zebra takes the reader on a irresistible journey through her thoughts, as she conceives elaborate theories about art and is increasingly convinced that her mother has been reincarnated as a cockatoo. Her first stop is Barcelona, where she meets the Italian Ludo, who becomes her lover, intellectual sparring partner and travelling companion in her picaresque meanderings around Catalonia. After the death of her father, an exiled Iranian man of letters, the bookish twenty-two-year-old Zebra finds herself alone in New York and decides to retrace the steps of her traumatic flight with her family from their homeland in the 1980s, hoping that in the process she will be inspired to write a major manifesto on literature. ![]() Chaos theory gleick6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() It my be counterintuitive, but small changes in input don’t necessarily result in small changes in output.Ĭomputer programs exhibit the Butterfly Effect. The weather is an example of non-linear behavior. The Butterfly Effect happens when a tiny input change results in large output change. Lorenz’s computer simulation of the weather showed that it’s impossible to predict the weather more than a few days ahead because of The Butterfly Effect. You know it will change your luck, but you don’t know whether for better or worse.” It would be like giving an extra shuffle to an already well-shuffled pack of cards. But if you did, then you would never know what it would otherwise have done. You could make it do something different from what it would otherwise have done. ![]() Chaos emerges as a new approach to science in the latter half of the 20th century. ![]() And they lived steven salvatore6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But Chase throws everything into question for Jack, who is still discovering his sexual identity, having grown up in close-knit conservative family. Then Chase meets Jack Reid, a pragmatic poet who worships words and longs to experience life outside of his sheltered world. If only he can pull together a short for the freshman animation showcase at the end of the semester. When Chase starts his freshman year of college, he has to navigate being away from home and missing his sister, finding his squad, and contending with his ex-best friend Leila who is gunning for the same exclusive mentorship. Ĭhase Arthur is a budding animator and hopeless romantic obsessed with Disney films and finding his true love, but he’s plagued with the belief that he’s not enough for anyone: he’s recovering from an eating disorder and suffers from body dysmorphia fueled by his father, and can’t quite figure out his gender identity. Published MaAmazon | Bookshop | Goodreads About And They Lived. ![]() The falling kingdoms series6/24/2023 ![]() The story is told from the perspective of a number of characters. ![]() That being said, the emphasis is placed on the distinct nature of the three kingdoms, which vary rather drastically, not only in their cultures but economic status as well. The concepts are simpler and the conflict between the three kingdoms doesn’t descend to the convoluted levels witnessed in George R.R. The series plays with betrayal, love, lies and political intrigue, though the novels shy away from the explicit sex and violence that is so vividly explored in the “Song of Ice and Fire’ novels.ĭespite this comparison, Falling Kingdoms is a very simple read. ![]() ![]() However, conflict begins to brew as the confrontations between the kingdoms grow more heated.įalling Kingdoms has been aptly described by some people as Game of Thrones for Younger readers. Mytica has been at peace, albeit with a lingering tension between the kingdoms, for a very long time. Mytica is a land divided amongst the kingdoms of Limeros in the North, Paelsia in the Middle and Auranos in the South. This young adult series revolves around a group of teenagers caught up in a conflict amongst the kingdoms of Mytica.įalling Kingdoms follows Princesses Cleo and Lucia, Prince Magnus and Jonas the Wine Seller’s Son. Falling Kingdoms is a series of fantasy novels written by Morgan Rhodes. ![]() Ship of fools book richard paul russo6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() The early sections of the novel deal a lot with ship politics, and it's actually pretty interesting due to all the shady plots of insurrection going on behind the captain's back. ![]() Some, like the ship's bishop, believe it has always existed. The ship has been traveling through the galaxy for so long in search of a habitable planet that no one really knows the ship's origin. It's told in the first person by Bartolomeo, resident of the upper levels of the generation starship Argonos, which is where the more privileged citizens of the ship reside (government officials, ship crew, etc.), while the bottom levels are reserved for the lower classes. The horrors here are much more psychological than the "slasher in space" feel of the movie, however. ![]() Though considering Alien is probably my all-time favorite horror film, and a top two or three science-fiction film ( Blade Runner will always be tops in my book), I may be slightly biased, as this does have a pretty similar feel, in that a seemingly-abandoned alien spaceship is discovered by the crew of a human-occupied ship. I see a lot of mixed reviews here, but to me, Ship of Fools was an extremely eerie and intense hybrid of horror and space opera*. ![]() Antonia willa cather6/24/2023 ![]() She befriended a Jewish couple who had a large library, and, with the example of the local physician, she set her sights on a medical career. Willa was an avid reader and, early on, displayed the broad-mindedness, doubtless fostered in her family, which would feature in her novels. Whatever it was, it lodged deeply in Willa’s creative spirit. Perhaps it was in the trauma of the journey from the hill country of northern Virginia to a land uncompromisingly flat, or in the sight of earth and sky stretching out unhampered by any barriers. However, there was something about the Great Plains outside her door that caught her imagination. Her father, Charles, became a businessman, and her mother had been a schoolteacher, so Cather’s destiny as a town-dweller and intellectual seemed set. ![]() ![]() ![]() “There was nothing but land not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made… I had the feeling that the world was left behind, that we had got over the edge of it, and were outside man’s jurisdiction… Between that earth and that sky, I felt erased, blotted out.” This child’s-eye view of the Great Plains, the grassy seas of Nebraska, comes from one of America’s greatest observers, Willa Cather, “speaking” here as young Jim Burden in her novel My Àntonia.Ĭather, born Wilella Cather in 1873, was nine when her family moved from Virginia to Nebraska, first trying to farm and then settling in the town of Red Cloud. ![]() Fates and furies book6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. MONTAGNE: And book lovers, join MORNING EDITION tomorrow, when we unveil the 2015 National Book Award shortlist of nominees.Ĭopyright © 2015 NPR. When you're done, email the recording to That's one word - We just might put your question to Lauren Groff when she joins our MORNING EDITION Book Club in two weeks. GREENE: And try, if you can, to keep it on the brief side. Use your smartphone to record a voice memo. So if there's something you want to ask, here's what you can do. MONTAGNE: Well, this time around Lauren Groff will be taking your questions. And their marriage is this way to dig pretty deeply into some of the things that I resist about marriage that I had not known that I resisted until I put them in words over the course of five years. So I see marriage as sort of this vehicle. It's how I talk about larger ideas - right? - ideas about creativity, about privilege, about sex, about time, about female rage, you know. I mean, it's sort of - it's what holds the book together. ![]() LAUREN GROFF: It's not a book about marriage. But when Lauren Groff spoke with NPR's Rachel Martin about the book a few weeks ago, she said it is about more than that. ![]() "Fates" focuses on the husband's story.Īnd "Furies" focuses on the wife. In the next installment of the MORNING EDITION Book Club, writer Lauren Groff joins MORNING EDITION to talk about her newest novel, "Fates And Furies." It's the story of a marriage in two parts. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Three new chapters have been added to the section on ‘Themes in Spatial Organization’, covering ‘Occupying the In-between’, ‘Inhabited Wall’ and ‘Refuge and Prospect’. Notably, the chapter on ‘Basic Elements of Architecture’ has been enlarged to discuss the ‘powers’ various architectural elements offer the architect. This new edition of Analyzing Architecture is revised and expanded. With copious illustrations from his own notebooks, the author dissects examples from around the world and all periods of history to explain underlying strategies in architectural design and show how drawing may be used as a medium for analysis. ![]() Aimed primarily at those wishing to become professional architects, it also offers those in disciplines related to architecture (from archaeology to stage design, garden design to installation art), a clear and accessible insight into the workings of this rich and fascinating subject. Now in its fifth edition, Analyzing Architecture has become internationally established as the best introduction to architecture. ![]() Pluto urasawa vol 16/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Edition of International Material-Asia, and is a three-time recipient of the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award, a two-time recipient of the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize, and also received the Kodansha Manga Award. No stranger to accolades and awards, Urasawa received the 20 Eisner Award for Best U.S. ![]() ![]() Many of his books have spawned popular animated and live-action TV programs and films, and 2008 saw the theatrical release of the first of three live-action Japanese films based on 20th Century Boys. ![]() Well-versed in a variety of genres, Urasawa’s oeuvre encompasses a multitude of different subjects, such as a romantic comedy ( Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl), a suspenseful human drama about a former mercenary ( Pineapple ARMY story by Kazuya Kudo), a captivating psychological suspense story ( Monster), a sci-fi adventure manga ( 20th Century Boys), and a modern reinterpretation of the work of the God of Manga, Osamu Tezuka ( Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka co-authored with Takashi Nagasaki, supervised by Macoto Tezka, and with the cooperation of Tezuka Productions). Naoki Urasawa’s career as a manga artist spans more than twenty years and has firmly established him as one of the true manga masters of Japan.īorn in Tokyo in 1960, Urasawa debuted with BETA! in 1983 and hasn’t stopped his impressive output since. ![]() |