![]() ![]() I loved that from the beginning she had teachers and school staff members who were allies and, importantly, weren't afraid to share with her and the other students what they thought and why. ![]() I love that her view of books was challenged and how she was able to expand her view of the effects of books on herself and others. This allowed her to make friends she never thought she would have. I loved that she had one opinion of Ashton and Jack (what did she call them? The super-supers or something?), but then she had the opportunity to really see them - and, importantly, she took the opportunity. She didn't just accept that she was doing it as a reflex response to what the school was doing. I loved that Clara really questioned her underground library. ![]() This book was full of such insight and heart. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He broke new ground by breaking stereotypes and challenging his audiences by tackling prejudice and racism. He began by focusing on historical dramas, but as he developed as a writer, he began writing comedies and tragedies, including increasingly complex characters. He was well-educated and began his writing career as many of the playwrights of the time did by co-writing. His parents were Anne Hathaway and John Shakespeare. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon. Antagonist: Debatably, the two warring families, the Capulets, and Montagues. ![]() Climax: Romeo being banished and Juliet refusing to marry Paris.Setting: Verona in Italy set around the 13th-14th century.William Shakespeare explores the effects of hubris and hamartia and the impulsivity of love on the children of two warring families in his iconic tragedy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon, this modern day hero finds that blood truly is thicker than water. Saint's entire world is shaken by one man who stands between him and his future destiny. An evil, powerful force threatens the balance. However, the arrival of a third child-a beautiful daughter-poses a threat to Saint's blissful life and could very well bring the destruction of everything he holds dear. Saint Aknaten is a proud husband and father. Committed to his fight for interracial peace for Rainbeaus and black Goddesses across the globe, Dr. ![]() Though it can be read as a stand-alone novel, it is highly suggested that all potential readers first purchase, "The Naughty Sins of a Saint" and "When Saint Goes Marching In." Book Description: Peace comes at a price. Please note: This is the third book of a series. WARNING - This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable. ![]() ![]() When I first saw him, I didn’t think he was dead. Suffocated in an abandoned refrigerator left in a vacant lot. The story quickly becomes a horrific tale of loss: Through their conversation, the second woman learns it’s the first woman’s birthday. Eventually another woman enters the bakery, remarks how strange it is that no one is there, and sits to chat with the first woman. ![]() It’s open, but no one is attending the woman. Strangely, the bakery, which usually has a line going out into the street, is empty. The first story, and for me one of the most disturbing, is “Afternoon at the Bakery.” A woman goes into a bakery to purchase some treat to celebrate her son’s birthday. While each story stands on its own, a large part of the enjoyment is finding out how the stories’ characters and themes come together. Presented as “Eleven Dark Tales,” Revenge is a collection of short stories, of sorts, but in truth they begin to refer to one another in strange ways, finally coming together toward the end. ![]() ![]() ![]() The culture of this place has long influenced my work as a writer at the Strategist. Now as an adult I go home about once a month, and though the city looks different than when I was young (it’s one of the fastest-gentrifying cities in America), it still feels like home. I grew up going to the DMV (D.C., Maryland, and Virginia) on holidays, summers, and long weekends, the result of separated parents sharing custody between two cities. In this recurring series, we find those people who’ve done all the work for you and have them walk us through a particularly wonderful, especially well-thought-out vacation they took that you can actually steal. Photo-Illustration: The Strategist Photos: Tembe Denton-HurstĮveryone knows that person who spends weeks sniffing around travel blogs, going deep into Tripadvisor rabbit holes, collecting Google docs from friends of friends, and creating A Beautiful Mind– style spreadsheets to come up with the best vacations and itineraries possible. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Charlaine began to realize that neither of those series was ever going to set the literary world on fire, she regrouped and decided to write the book she’d always wanted to write. ![]() The books, set in Shakespeare, Arkansas, feature a heroine who has survived a terrible attack and is learning to live with its consequences. Soon Charlaine was looking for another challenge, and the result was the much darker Lily Bard series. Her first Teagarden, Real Murders, garnered an Agatha nomination. After a child-producing sabbatical, Charlaine latched on to the trend of series, and soon had her own traditional mystery books about a Georgia librarian, Aurora Teagarden. The resulting two stand-alones were published by Houghton Mifflin. After holding down some low-level jobs, her husband Hal gave her the opportunity to stay home and write. Though her early output consisted largely of ghost stories, by the time she hit college (Rhodes, in Memphis) Charlaine was writing poetry and plays. Charlaine lives in Texas now, and all of her children and grandchildren are within easy driving distance. A native of the Mississippi Delta, she grew up in the middle of a cotton field. ![]() Charlaine Harris has been a published novelist for over thirty-five years. ![]() ![]() ![]() The musical was written by Robert and Willie Reale and Lobel’s husband, actor Mark Linn-Baker, would later play Toad. ![]() He liked illustrating much more than writing, which he found much more uncomfortable, but he loved infusing his stories for kids with cute animals, humor, and simplicity.Ī Year with Frog and Toad, a musical based on the series, was commissioned by Adrianne Lobel (who also designed the set). I also had and loved Mouse Soup (1977), in which a mouse struggles to not be eaten by a fox, for which he won the Garden State Children’s Book Award from the New Jersey Library Association.Īll together, Lobel wrote and/or illustrated more than 100 books, including 25 in the I Can Read series. ![]() The book combined ridiculous fun stories with morals, and was a tremendous success. Lobel won the 1981 Caldecott from the American Library Association for Fables, which I remember primarily as the book with a bear on the cover who has a frying pan on his head. ![]() ![]() ![]() Plato shared with Socrates the view that democracy was the worst form of leadership because it encouraged the rich to control the powerful sectors in a production system. He advocated for justice, but he was against the idea behind democracy because for him, democracy was the tyranny of the multitude. It is true that Socrates was a threat to various groups in society who never appreciated the existence of justice (Plato, 2002). ![]() Each accuser had his own set of charges meaning that Socrates was tried severally. Moreover, he was accused of inciting the youths against the owners of the means of production. ![]() Three individuals accused Socrates of meddling in the affairs of the state, given the fact that he worshiped a different god other than the culturally accepted one. He accepted to be subjected to the societal laws because he did not want controversies with his accusers. Socrates was a man who valued and he never did something that would amount to discrimination. Plato was of the view that Socrates was accused falsely of inciting the youths against the ruling class yet he was the righteous person in society. ![]() ![]() ![]() The marketing doesn’t do it justice, but it’s a surprisingly faithful adaptation and the best Discworld film to date by a huge margin. I might have welled up at the sight of Terry Pratchett’s name in the opening credits, because I realised this was my kids’ first exposure to his wonderful mind, and vowed to encourage them to explore it further if they showed interest. Rincewind and Twoflower even have brief cameos. It’s remarkably faithful to the book, which is just one in a series that’s dozens long. To my absolute shock and delight, it remained a story of Discworld in its translation to a CGI cartoon for children. And Discworld has never quite become the juggernaut that it always felt like it ought. This is significant, because it’s a Discworld novel. Something extraordinary happened over Christmas: I took my kids to see a big screen adaptation of The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, starring Hugh Laurie and Emilia Clarke, who are Big Name Actors from Popular Things. ![]() ![]() ![]() The "new physics" of Zukav's 1979 book comprises quantum theory, particle physics, and relativity. Some physicists even believe that, but the Wu Li Masters know that they are only dancing with it. Most people believe that physicists are explaining the world. ![]() This book deals not with knowledge, which is always past tense anyway, but with imagination, which is physics come alive, which is Wu Li. The Wu Li Master always begins at the center, the heart of the matter. The Wu Li Master does not teach, but the student learns. ![]() Zukav explains the concept further: The Wu Li Master dances with his student. ![]() Like a Wu Li Master who would teach us wonder for the falling petal before speaking of gravity, Zukav writes in beautifully clear language-with no mathematical equations-opening our minds to the exciting new theories that are beginning to embrace the ultimate nature of our universe.Quantum mechanics, relativity, and beyond to the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen effect and Bell's theorem.Īt an Esalen Institute meeting in 1976, tai chi master Al Huang said that the Chinese word for physics is Wu Li, "patterns of organic energy." Journalist Gary Zukav and the others present developed the idea of physics as the dance of the Wu Li Masters-the teachers of physical essence. Gary Zukav has written "the Bible" for those who are curious about the mind-expanding discoveries of advanced physics, but who have no scientific background. ![]() |