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5/27/2023 0 Comments Fatty legs the book![]() ![]() I'd heard good reviews about the book but had never run across it. I'm hoping that the book was placed in the library after the students had studied it.Īnd I really wanted to read Fatty Legs. Pitts is a teacher at the school the school had done a good bit of learning about the Inuit people in the North. However I did a bit of investigation and discovered that while indeed Mr. Pitts to be a teacher at the school hoping to provide educational books to his students over the summertime and here I was robbing the kids of their opportunity to read this wonderful story about an eight year-old Inuvialuit girl's experience in residential school. ![]() The book had been donated to the library by Mr. So I felt a little bit guilty in filching Fatty Legs especially when I discovered the inscription on the inside cover. In fact there were more adult books than children's. ![]() When I found the Little Free Library at Royal Oak School I expected it would be mostly if not wholly filled with children's books. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I'll see you back when you're eligible to vote. And read a PG-13 book, it's good for your brain. And be nice, sit with the kid who sits alone at lunch. And go to bed early, you're still growing, your body needs sleep. If you aren't eighteen, turn around, go drink your milk and eat your veggies, it's good for your bones. Warning: I'm a devout member of the mama club and don't want to get kicked out by angry mamas. And like everything Crew Vega did in life, when he goes in, he's all in. But when he learned a high level CIA target being investigated for treason was keeping tabs on her? No, he never planned on that. He had a plan, one that didn't include getting involved with his new neighbor, a woman who not only kept cows for pets, but treasured her employees as family, and understood him better than anyone ever had before. All he had to do was train his replacements and he'd be out for good. He'd fulfilled his commitment, done his duty, gone above and beyond to settle the score. Sure, power can be bought, but you can gain a hell of a lot more with knowledge. She'd poured everything she had into her struggling vineyard, because once she's in, she's all in.After giving himself wholly to the job for ten years, Crew Vega was done. From USA Today Bestselling Author Brynne Asher, a forced proximity romantic suspense about a woman on the run and a tortured soul. And not just because people and cows were counting on her. ![]() Experiencing more than her fair share of tragedy and loss, she had plans for her future, one where failure wasn't an option. When the opportunity arose, she settled in horse and wine country. In the Virginia countryside outside of Washington, DC, Addy Wentworth was on a mission to make a new life for herself. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Susan sontag on photography essay![]() ![]() ![]() "In teaching us a new visual code, photographs alter and enlarge our notion of what is worth looking at and what we have the right to observe" and has changed our "viewing ethics." Photographs have increased our access to knowledge and experiences of history and faraway places, but the images may replace direct experience and limit reality. Her essays on photography explores how the convenience of modern photography has created an overabundance of visual material, since "just about everything has been photographed." This has altered our expectations of what we have the right to view, want to view or should view. Sontag's work on photography was important in fertilizing educators' ideas about representation and reality. In her essay, "Against Interpretation," Susan Sontag argues that merely identifying the symbolic features of literature or art is a form of translation that can limit our ability to appreciate the genuine creativity of artistic works. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Madness in Crowds by Denis Kitchen![]() ![]() Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, edited by Qiana Whitted (Ohio State University Press) Hogan’s Alley, edited by Tom Heintjes (Hogan’s Alley) ![]() The Comics Journal, edited by Gary Groth, RJ Casey, and Kristy Valenti (Fantagraphics Books) Tillie Walden, Are You Listening? (First Second Books/Macmillan)īest Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism ![]() Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo (IDW Publishing) Jim Campbell, Black Badge, Coda (BOOM! Studios) Giant Days, Lumberjanes: The Shape of Friendship (BOOM Box!) Rocko’s Modern Afterlife (KaBOOM!) At the End of Your Tether (Lion Forge) Blade Runner 2019 (Titan Comics) Mall, The Plot, Wasted Space (Vault Comics)Ĭlayton Cowles, Aquaman, Batman, Batman and the Outsiders, Heroes in Crisis, Superman: Up in the Sky, Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen (DC Comics) Bitter Root, Pretty Deadly, Moonstruck, Redlands, The Wicked + The Divine (Image) Reaver (Skybound/Image) Daredevil, Ghost-Spider, Silver Surfer Black, Superior Spider-Man, Venom (Marvel Comics)Įmilie Plateau, Colored: The Unsung Life of Claudette Colvin (Europe Comics) Deron Bennett, Batgirl, Green Arrow, Justice League, Martian Manhunter (DC Comics) Canto (IDW Publishing) Assassin Nation, Excellence(Skybound/Image Comics) To Drink and To Eat, vol. ![]() ![]() The Never Game proves once more why "Deaver is a genius when it comes to manipulation and deception" (Associated Press). Encountering eccentric game designers, trigger-happy gamers and ruthless tech titans, he soon learns that he isn't the only one on the hunt: someone is on his trail and closing fast. Is a madman bringing the game to life? "Or die with dignity." Shaw finds himself caught in a cat-and-mouse game, risking his own life to save the victims even as he pursues the kidnapper across both Silicon Valley and the dark Net. In that game, the player has to survive after being abandoned in an inhospitable setting with five random objects. "Escape if you can." When another victim is kidnapped, the clues point to one video game with a troubled past- The Whispering Man. But what seems a simple investigation quickly thrusts him into the dark heart of America's tech hub and the cutthroat billion-dollar video-gaming industry. ![]() ![]() Now he makes a living as a "reward seeker," traveling the country to help police solve crimes and private citizens locate missing persons. The son of a survivalist family, Shaw is an expert tracker. N ow in paperback, the first installment in the new series by master of suspense Jeffery Deaver-about which, Lee Child raves, "No one in the world does this kind of thing better." "You have been abandoned." A young woman has gone missing in Silicon Valley and her father has hired Colter Shaw to find her. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments The casual vacancy review![]() ![]() ![]() The boxing ring is the local parish council the fight is profit versus people.Īt a council meeting we are introduced to a swathe of characters good against bad. He’s married to a beautiful, doting wife and they live together in a gorgeous house, although the bathroom mirror that cracks and reflects nightmare images isn’t so picture perfect.īarry is pitted against the Mollisons – a couple nearing retirement who are fighting on the side of the corporation and trying to clean out Pagford of all its ‘undesirables’. ![]() Rowling was always going to be an event and we’ve been anticipating Sarah Phelps’ adaptation of The Casual Vacancy with excitement and gusto.Īnd so we delved down the rabbit hole into the quaint English town of Pagford, where not everything was as it seems or as idyllic as we’d be led to believe – picture perfect country cottages from the outside, with a sinister twitch behind the net curtains.īarry is our hero – the local fighter for the rights of the underdogs, the mentor to the abused youths and the emergency get out of jail card for the local drug addicts. Being invited in to a world conjured up by the literary superstar J.K. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Anne tyler digging to america![]() ![]() The inoffensive style and milquetoast plot (non-hostile pushes towards assimilation and pushback on the premise that traditions are important, oh my!) dance around characters that are human, but in the most uninteresting way possible. We see the children grow up, but mostly engages their families interacting and occasionally battling each other over their cultural differences (one is of Iranian heritage, the other white bread American). I’ve since lost the sheet that had the total information on it, but I seized this book in order to try and get to know the person who recommended it, to try and built a bridge between our vastly different literary hunting grounds.Īnd so I started Digging to America, a story about two adopted foreign babies and the story of the drastically different families that raise them. This was a book that was on my partner’s all-time favorites. ![]() With a monument forged of papers, management then set about pairing us together and tasked us with recommending books to the other person as an exercise in reader advisory (I work in a library). There were ‘whys’ and titled examples of what drove us to keep reading and what simply drove us crazy. ![]() Digging to America by Anne Tyler – Available HereĪt my work we were given the task of filling out a sheet of paper about the books we liked and the ones we didn’t. ![]() ![]() ![]() Being good cotton lands, Hempstead County would soon be home to many large farms worked by enslaved people. Another advantage of the area was the rich, deep soil of the Gulf Coastal Plain, the natural division encompassing most of southwest Arkansas. Hempstead County was propitiously situated, sitting astraddle the Southwest Trail - the only thing that could be called a road in early Arkansas - which ran diagonally across the state from southeast Missouri to the Spanish province of Texas. Occupying much of southwest Arkansas, Hempstead County stretched westward from the Ouachita River into modern Oklahoma. 15, 1818, the Missouri legislature adopted a bill to create three new counties in what was then Arkansas County - Clark, Pulaski and Hempstead. Hempstead County celebrated its bicentennial in 2018, presenting an opportunity to take a look at one of the most interesting and historically significant counties in Arkansas. ![]() |