![]() ![]() Characters are engaging, and the narrative will hook young bibliophiles to the end. Ophidia’s backstory is equally intriguing. Kela’s heartbreak rings true as she struggles to navigate healing over her mother’s loss. Kela makes the wish for her mother’s return, but would never have guessed the terrifying consequences. Of course, the devastated Kela desires nothing else in the world but having her mom back. Through alternating narrators, readers learn that the treasure Kela discovered is a magical comb belonging to Ophidia, who is enraged that someone has taken her comb but is bound under strict magical law to grant a wish to the person who returns the item to her. Kela feels drawn to an odd object on the coral reef and barely manages to grab the strange item to place in her bag before the tide washes everything away. The girls used to be inseparable, but Kela has refused to open up to her close friend after her mother’s death. Rita one day, Kela grudgingly lets Lissy tag along. When Kela and her friend Lissy stumble across an ancient-looking comb in a coral cave, Kela brings it home as her very own treasure. Set in the Caribbean and rich with culture and folklore, the book is a journey of recovery and resilience. While visiting the local coral reef in St. A Comb of Wishes is one of the most creative and captivatin g books I’ve read in a while. Her father has been drowning in his grief, and she feels emotionally frozen in place. Kela is still reeling from the abrupt loss of her mother in a car accident. ![]() Gr 5-8–Readers will be invested in the twisted tale of Black middle schooler Kela and Ophidia, an aging, vindictive mermaid. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In short, Shakespeare invented our understanding of ourselves. This book is a visionary summation of Harold Bloom’s reading of Shakespeare and in it he expounds a brilliant and far-reaching critical theory: that Shakespeare was, through his dramatic characters, the inventor of human personality as we have come to understand it. ![]() How to understand Shakespeare, whose ability so far exceeds his predecessors and successors, whose genius has defied generations of critics’ explanations, whose work is of greater influence in the modern age even than the Bible? In this magisterial interpretation, Bloom explains Shakespeare’s genius in a radical and provocative re-reading of the plays. Harold Bloom, the doyen of American literary critics and author of The Western Canon, has spent a professional lifetime reading, writing about and teaching Shakespeare. ![]() ![]() She promises to help him find the key to destroying all of sirenkind for good-But can he trust her? And just how many deals will Elian have to barter to eliminate mankind’s greatest enemy? When he rescues a drowning woman in the ocean, she’s more than what she appears. Hunting sirens is more than an unsavory hobby-it’s his calling. The ocean is the only place Prince Elian calls home, even though he is heir to the most powerful kingdom in the world. Robbed of her song, Lira has until the winter solstice to deliver Prince Elian’s heart to the Sea Queen or remain a human forever. To punish her daughter, the Sea Queen transforms Lira into the one thing they loathe most-a human. Until a twist of fate forces her to kill one of her own. With the hearts of seventeen princes in her collection, she is revered across the sea. ![]() Princess Lira is siren royalty and the most lethal of them all. ![]() Hi! To Kill A Kingdom by Alexandra Christo is a standalone fantasy book that I absolutely loved! If you want to know if this book is for you, keep reading! ![]() ![]() ![]() Along the way, we get some fascinating tidbits about whaling, the founding of Punahou School (an elite private high school that happens to be our president's alma mater), a Hawaiian princess conflicted about marrying her brother, and a crazy pseudo-Mormon guy named Walter Murray Gibson who made friends with a Hawaiian king, but was excommunicated from the Mormon church for misappropriating funds. all led up to the US's rather underhanded annexation of Hawaii in 1898. of James Michener's Hawaii.)īeginning with King Kamehameha's unification (read as: conquest) of all the islands in the early 19th century and continuing through the arrival of the first American missionaries in 1820, the book explains how various events, factors, influences, etc. (Also, it mercifully allowed me to abandon my original plan to learn Hawaiian history: Trudge through all 1,140 pgs. I've always meant to read Vowell, and never have, so Unfamiliar Fishes provided an opportunity to kill two Hawaiian nene geese with one lava rock: learn history, read Vowell. So I was delighted when I learned that noted witticist Sarah Vowell's new book, Unfamiliar Fishes, provides a quick, glib guide to 19th century Hawaiian history. ![]() Secondly, I know embarrassingly little about Hawaii's history. ![]() First, I suck at pronouncing Hawaiian names. When I made my first trip to Hawaii on vacation earlier this year, I quickly realized two things. ![]() ![]() ![]() I now mostly edit audio pieces and write, and my work has been featured in places like The New York Times and Vox. Once, I made an app that tried to make audio easier to share. I co-produced a video series for TAL that won an Emmy. ![]() Sometimes I still produce and edit audio things. That book, What My Bones Know, is available for purchase here, or at your local independent bookstore.Ībout my career: I used to work as a radio producer for This American Life and Snap Judgment, and I’ve freelanced for podcasts like Invisibilia, The Cut, Nancy, Reply All and 99% Invisible. I told myself that when I finally healed, I would write the book I so wanted to read when I was first diagnosed - a stigma-busting, kind, first-person account with real science and solutions. But because C-PTSD is an under-researched, under-diagnosed condition, it was hard to find material on it, and many of the books I did read made me feel pathologized, stigmatized and alone. After I got diagnosed, I found it impossible to maintain the veneer of perfection I was trying so desperately to uphold, and instead dedicated my life to healing from C-PTSD. In 2018, I was diagnosed with complex PTSD.Īt the time, I looked good on paper - a successful journalist in a happy relationship - but I had been having panic attacks every morning in my office for months. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since I also aim to become a mangaka, I know how it is to grow, to become a better artist, this art book is really guide not only in beautiful art but also a guide where you can see how mangaka can grow and become a better artist. Love her artwork so much! Still keeping up to date with the black butler manga as well! Just recently got the second art book as a birthday present 2 Alexandra UNITED KINGDOM My thoughts 5 All this is impressive not only for anime or manga fans, but also for the artist. The binding and paper in this book are also of the highest quality. This artbook perfectly reflects progress she's made over the years. ![]() 5Īs a Kuroshitsuji fan, I found that I must have this artbook in my collection. 8 Jennifer Mejia COLOMBIA A beautiful piece of art. ![]() It is one of my treasures!I will never get tired of having it. ![]() ![]() ![]() He takes her back with him to California, where she re-invents her life: Wendy now lives more or less on her own in a one-room apartment with a TV set and not much else. Through the eyes of thirteen-year-old Wendy, we gain entrance to the world rarely shown by those who documented the events of that one terrible day: a family's slow and terrible realization that Wendy's mother has died, and their struggle to go on with their lives in the face of such a crushing loss.Ībsent for years, Wendy's real father shows up without warning. An hour later comes the news: A plane has crashed into the World Trade Center-her mother's office building. Wendy is heading to school, eager to make plans with her best friend, worried about how she looks, mad at her mother for not letting her visit her father in California, impatient with her little brother and with the almost too-loving concern of her jazz musician stepfather. It's a Tuesday morning in Brooklyn-a perfect September day. ![]() ![]() ![]() To appease the king, Erland and Kristin have lost their estate at Husaby and the prestige that went with it, and have had to return to inferior land at Jørundgård with their seven sons, who now have a dubious future. Erlend, her reckless husband, was lucky to escape with his life after his treasonous activities against the king, and he owes his salvation to the intercession of Simon, Kristin’s betrothed who she had dumped when she fell for the handsome Erlend. So the #TakeHomeMessage is: (if my review doesn’t put you off altogether, that is) read the whole thing all at once.īook 3, The Cross,, is about the maturing of Kristin as she comes to terms with her fall from grace. And of course my notes are all at home in Australia. Well, here I am in New Zealand, having brought the book with me to finish off Book 3 at last, and once again I was floundering with the characters and the plot. I’d read Books 1 & 2, and couldn’t remember who the characters were and what they did when I’d started Book 3, so I went back to the beginning of the trilogy, making lots of notes as I re-read the two books, and then FWIW I wrote my reviews of the two books. ![]() ![]() Following on from my previous posts about The Wreath ( Kransen, Book 1 of Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy), and Book 2, The Wife (Husfrue), I now find myself in the same boat as before. ![]() ![]() She goes to St Stephens to do her undergrad studies, lands jobs in a couple of media publications immediately after, then heads to Columbia for further studies. Dutt`s account of going through her early life hiding the fact that she belonged to the Bhangi caste, adopting a non-specific surname like Dutt, learning to quickly cover any traceable trace of her origins with a mantle of subterfuge, had me reading the book at the slowest pace I have ever read a book, absorbing facts, learning new facts, flinching at old facts.ĭutt passes for an upper caste girl through some luck that has to do with her skin colour, the fact that her parents held down respectable jobs, and that she was a quick study, able to learn and adopt upper caste traits as quick as she spotted them. ![]() ![]() I have just one word to describe this book: eviscerating. ![]() Book review: Coming Out As Dalit by Yashica DuttĬOMING OUT AS DALIT by Yashica Dutt, Aleph Books. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, Sandy disappears, but King finds him, and agrees to help him escape life with his abusive father. While mourning his loss, King has also broken things off with his best friend, Sandy Sanders, after Khalid (before he died) heard a rumor that Sandy was gay and didn't want King to be pegged as the same. Kingston "King" James' brother, Khalid, has recently died, but King is convinced he has returned to him as a dragonfly. King and the Dragonflies has received a National Book Award for Young People's Literature (2020), a Coretta Scott King Honor Book Award (2021), and a Lambda Literary Award (2021). It is Callendar's second novel that explores the intersection between race, gender roles and sexuality. ![]() King and the Dragonflies is a young adult fiction book published in February 2020 by Scholastic Press and written by Saint Thomian author Kacen Callender. National Book Award for Young People's Literature ![]() |