5/12/2023 0 Comments Gated by amy christine parkerPerfect for fans of creepy thrillers and contemporary fiction alike. Amy Christine Parker's beautiful writing creates a chilling, utterly unique YA story. But Gated tells the story from the inside looking out, and from behind the gates things are not quite so simple. As Pioneer cleverly manipulates his flock toward disaster, the real question is: Will Lyla follow her heart or follow Pioneer over the edge?įrom the outside looking in, it's hard to understand why anyone would join a cult. And if there's one thing not allowed in the Community, it's doubt. Here, life seems perfect.īut after meeting Cody, an outsider boy, Lyla starts questioning Pioneer, her friends, her family-everything. Her family was happy to be chosen by Pioneer to join such an lovely gated neighborhood. Lyla Hamilton is a loyal member of the Community. A fast-paced, nerve-fraying contemporary thriller that questions loyalties and twists truths.
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With his help, Annabel takes a crash course in pharmacology. A resident from another specialty notices the same troubling pattern. However, she soon realizes that studying for exams and taking care of patients is only part of the complex burden of her role as a surgical team member.˃˃˃ It’s A Mystery Wrapped In An EnigmaGrappling with a third-year resident who hates her and a dreamy infatuation for her chief resident, Annabel discovers that patients are dying within twenty-four hours of their procedures without apparent surgical complications. She has high hopes of mastering the basics of patient care like her famous neurosurgeon father. What if you were suddenly paralyzed in the recovery room?Finally liberated from the two-year confinement of lecture halls and gross anatomy, Annabel Tilson is a medical student working in her first clinical rotation. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Girl Mans Up by M.E. GirardThe Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. For any lover of queer YA or a library wanting to have a solid base of LGBTQ YA books, these seven novels are must-haves. The following queer YA coming out novels are some of my personal favorites that sit firmly within this YA subgenre while at the same time rising above its generic formula and expectations. But the great thing in recent queer YA is that even when queer authors are writing in the LGB teen coming out genre, they’re doing new and exciting things that subvert and challenge the genre conventions. In the fallout, things usually get a lot worse before they get better.” There are certainly plenty of novels that follow this model to a T, and they can be heavy and intense. Queer YA novelist Malinda Lo describes the general formula of the YA coming out / of age novel as: “character struggles with homosexual desire in a homophobic world character falls in tormented, transformative love character is unceremoniously outed. New to the coming of gayge genre? Looking to read or buy some of the best examples of the queer coming out YA genre? This list is for you! 5/11/2023 0 Comments The kreutzer sonata by leo tolstoyHe then relates how he used to visit prostitutes when he was young, and complains that women's dresses are designed to arouse men's desires. Convention dictates that two married people stay together, and initial love can quickly turn into hatred. When a woman argues that marriage should not be arranged but based on true love, he asks "what is love?" and points out that, if understood as an exclusive preference for one person, it often passes quickly. Tolstoy's novella inspired the 1901 painting The Kreutzer Sonata by René-Xavier Prinet.ĭuring a train ride, Pozdnyshev overhears a conversation concerning marriage, divorce and love. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Rebel belleFeatured artists in the exhibition include Anni Albers, Judy Chicago, Bessie Harvey, Wendy Red Star, and Liz Williams from the Asheville Art Museum’s 74 years of collecting, and Marilyn Minter, Catherine Opie, Jennifer Rubell, Tschabalala Self, Cindy Sherman, and Mickalene Thomas from the Don & Mera Rubell’s 54 years of collecting. Rebel/Re-Belle showcases the viewpoints of artists whose identities exist at the intersection of many lived experiences, including gender, race, and socio-economics in two sections: Rebel and Re-Belle. Artists working in the United States have created artworks in support of and in response to these activist movements, including the Civil Rights Movement, feminist movements, and movements for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) rights. The 20th and 21st centuries are defined by movements to uplift the voices of the otherwise silenced and give agency to authentic expression. Expressions of identity are at the core of many artists’ work, and artists have long used colors, imagery, gestures, and media to tell their stories and share their points of view. Rebel/Re-Belle: Exploring Gender, Agency, and Identity | Selections from the Asheville Art Museum and Rubell Museum combines works from two significant collections of contemporary art to explore how artists have innovated, influenced, interrogated, and inspired visual culture in the past 100 years. 5/11/2023 0 Comments The Black Cloud by Fred HoyleAs the novel approaches the end, it amazes the reader with many details. This question is exactly the opposite of the thought of invasion thought. Although scientists are close to reality, the cloud remains a mystery for society as a taboo.Īs we approach the end of the novel, another question starts to appear in the minds. In these approaches, it is not possible to make a qualification as true or false. This shows how different the individual’s approach to the cloud can be. With the formation of communities with different ideas, it is possible to see that while some groups accept the situation as a fact that comes from God, while others push the upper levels to concentrate on political issues. The society, which is facing an unknown formation, has found its place in the novel at regular intervals, although it has not been handled individually. Facing the truth and focusing on the relations 5/10/2023 0 Comments Innocent traitorOne criticism I would have against this as with too many books on Jane Grey is that some of the usual myths sneak through occasionally, such as Frances Brandon beating her daughter into accepting marriage when no such contemporary evidence supported it. This is a very deeply and sensitive book, all characters are more or less shown in a sympathetic light and without prejudice. Gloves were hand made and such a personal item, I found that very touching. I am sorry I didn’t cry at the end, only one book ever made me cry, but the little touches during Jane’s last moments are deeply saddening and moving, particularly when she removes her gloves and hands them to one of her ladies. First of all, thanks for sharing a lovely and moving review of one of the better books on Lady Jane Grey. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Waltz With Bashir by Ari FolmanDenying a catastrophe is required to celebrate independence. We’re tempted to ask: Why did it take so long to remember? But on top of the widely experienced suppression of war trauma, Folman’s forgetting is helped along by a willful amnesia that’s inseparable from Israeli’s national story. Their stories become flashbacks that fill the animated documentary, as Folman, hounded by a troubling lack of memory, tries to piece together his own role in Ariel Sharon’s butchering of Beirut. In the film’s opening scene a graying Folman listens to his war comrade Boaz tell of a recurring nightmare: the 26 guard dogs he killed during the invasion hound his sleep.įolman, for his part, says he recalls almost nothing about the war: “It’s not in my system,” he tells Boaz.Īt the advice of a therapist friend (Folman underwent analysis while making the film), he seeks out friends who saw combat. First, he had to remember the war.įolman was 19 during his stint with the IDF in Beirut, stationed a few hundred yards from the massacres of hundreds (some claim thousands) of Palestinians in the city’s Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. IT TOOK ARI Folman 25 years to make “Waltz With Bashir,” his animated film about Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon. Paul Abowd (“Vals im Bashir” in Hebrew)Īn animated documentary film written and directed Dancing with Death: "Waltz with Bashir" | Solidarity 5/10/2023 0 Comments Stephen king dreamcatcher reviewYet the ferocious needle-toothed ""shit-weasel"" that escapes from him is only one of three varieties of invader the protagonists, and eventually a black-ops containment force, face: the others are Grays, classic humanoid aliens, and byrus, a parasitical growth that threatens to overtake life on Earth. The first chunk of the text offers a tour de force of terror bound in darkest humor, depicting the arrival at the four guys' remote hunting cabin of a man who's fatally ill because he harbors in his bowels an alien invader. The action shuttles between present and past, following primarily the tribulations of a band of five males four regular guys from Derry, Maine (setting of King's It and Insomnia), and their special friend, Duddits, a Down's child (then man) with telepathic abilities. In its suspenseful depiction of an alien invasion, it superficially harkens back to King's early work (e.g., the 1980 novella ""The Mist""), but it also features the psychological penetration, word-magic and ripe imagination of his recent stuff (particularly Bag of Bones). Yet despite its excessive length, the novel one of the most complex thematically and structurally in King's vast output dazzles and grips, if fitfully. So much for the theory that it's word-processing alone that leads to logorrhea. In an author's note to this novel, the first he's written since his near-fatal accident, King allows that he wrote the first draft of the book by hand. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Shantaram hardcoverThe keys to unlock the mysteries and intrigues that bind Lin are held by two people. The search leads him to war, prison torture, murder, and a series of enigmatic and bloody betrayals. As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city' s poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter Bombay' s hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere. 'Shantaram' is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear. ''It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.'' So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. |