![]() ![]() Although they’re not my favourite characters ever, I enjoyed them nonetheless. While it is a retelling of The Little Mermaid, this book fell flat for me. Since I’m a big Disney fan, I’ve been looking forward to reading this book. ![]() Now Evie will do anything to save her friend’s humanity, along with her prince’s heart - harnessing the power of her magic, her ocean, and her love until she discovers, too late, the truth of her bargain. She can’t stay in Havnestad, or on two legs, unless Evie finds a way to help her. And, as the two girls catch the eyes - and hearts - of two charming princes, Evie believes that she might finally have a chance at her own happily ever after.īut her new friend has secrets of her own. That her own magic wasn’t so powerless after all. A witch.Ī girl with an uncanny resemblance to Anna appears offshore and, though the girl denies it, Evie is convinced that her best friend actually survived. One feared, one royal, and one already dead.Įver since her best friend, Anna, drowned, Evie has been an outcast in her small fishing town. But before that young siren’s tale, there were three friends. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I also post free short YA stories on that group, more than 50 of them so far. You can find me and my book reviews on my author page here on Goodreads - I hang out on Goodreads a lot because I moderate the Goodreads YA LGBT Books group. A complete list with links can be found on my website "Books" page at. I now have a good-sized backlist in ebooks and print, both free and professionally published. I was delighted and encouraged by the reception Mac and Tony received. I have a weakness for closeted cops with honest hearts, and teachers who speak their minds, and I had fun writing four novels and three freebie short stories in that series. My first professionally published book, Life Lessons, came out from MLR Press in May 2011. My husband finally convinced me that after all the years of writing for fun, I really should submit something, somewhere. I’ve been writing far longer than I care to admit (*whispers – fifty years*), mostly for my own entertainment, usually M/M romance (with added mystery, fantasy, historical, SciFi…) I also have a few Young Adult stories (some released under the pen name Kira Harp.) ![]() Minnesota’s a kind, quiet (if sometimes chilly) place and it’s home. I was born in Montreal but have lived for 30 years in Minnesota, where the two seasons are Snow-removal and Road-repair, where the mosquito is the state bird, and where winter can be breathtakingly beautiful. ![]() “Kaje” is pronounced just like “cage” – it’s an old nickname, and my pronouns are she/her/hers. ![]() ![]() ![]() The persona of the poem is a 6-year-old Japanese girl.“And Tim flew the Union Jack when the war was over but Lorraine and her friends spat on us anyway” (Kogawa, 90). This quote delineates how she was treated due to her race. The theme is conveyed throughout the story, by the way the persona continually explains what she went through and how she felt. The theme is, The affects of war and racism. ![]() The persona represents the many children who felt inferior to the “ruling” white race in Canada. The purpose is portrayed in this quote, “Families were made to move in two hours Abandoning everything, leaving pets And possessions at gun point” (Kogawa, 90). The purpose of the poem is to portray what the young Japanese children who were affected by the war, went through and thought about after being taken out of their lives literally.The subject matter is evident when the persona explains the events of the time period when this happened to her. The poem is about a 6-year-old Japanese girl, who’s family alongside herself were unwillingly forced out of their Vancouver home to live in concentration camps in British Columbia, due to the affects of war.What Do I Remember of the Evacuation? By Joy Kogawa Presented by: Arnelle & Edward ![]() ![]() ![]() Using foodstuffs as metaphors as much as things in and of themselves, Chang examines them in the light of economic history. “With increase in international trade, international migration and international travel,” writes Chang, “people everywhere have become more curious about and open to foreign foods.” So it is that Britain became a multiflavored nation even at a time when economics became monocultural. Yet even in the land of toad in the hole and bubble and squeak, global trends began to break through. Economist Chang takes an offbeat approach to the dismal-but delicious-science.īorn in Korea, the author studied in England at a time when the food was inarguably awful. ![]() ![]() ![]() Insight and death go hand in hand, and transfiguration is the reward of those undergoing torture.Īs for the punishment, or torture, however, even the simplicity and precision with which the remarkable "machine" operates cannot convince us that it is justifiable. ![]() ![]() Yet there is also a philosophical meaning to this cult of pain. A moment that might tempt one to get under the Harrow oneself." This is Kafka at his masochistic best. In this story, pain is a major precondition for comprehending one's sins: nobody can decipher the Designer's writing except he who has reached the halfway mark of his ordeal. It was especially Dostoevsky's preoccupation with the interaction between guilt, suffering, and redemption which fascinated Kafka. In his Parerga und Paralipomena, Schopenhauer suggested that it might be helpful to look at the world as a penal colony, and Dostoevsky, whom Kafka re-read in 1914, supplied Kafka with many punishment fantasies. Schopenhauer and Dostoevsky are the two most likely spiritual mentors of this story. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975: Indiscretions of Archie (Gutenberg text) (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975: The Head of Kay's (Gutenberg text) Burt Co., c1924) (page images at HathiTrust) (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975: Golf Without Tears (New York: A. (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975: The Gold Bat (Gutenberg text) (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975: The Girl on the Boat (Gutenberg text) (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975: A Gentleman of Leisure (c1921) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML) ![]() (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975: Death at the Excelsior, and Other Stories (Gutenberg text) (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975: A Damsel in Distress (Gutenberg text) (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975: The Coming of Bill (Gutenberg text) (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975: The Clicking of Cuthbert (Gutenberg text) (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975: Carry On, Jeeves (originally published 1925 this edition 1999) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML) ![]() (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975: The Adventures of Sally (Gutenberg text) (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975)Ī Wikipedia article about this author is available. | The Online Books Page The Online Books Page ![]() ![]() ![]() Mayzie’s parents, a customer from the shoe store, the doctor and his patient and the florist are all in the Principles office causing a raucous. Then he runs after Mayzie back to the school. When she tries to hide behind Office Thatcher he holds his hat up and catches all of the bees in it. She jumps out the window to run away from the bees. ![]() Meanwhile, Mayzie is laying down when a swarm of bees flies in through the window, attracted by the flower. They both leave work and head to the school. McGrew is a welder (image only – see notes below) and Mr. They make Mayzie lie down and then call her parents. Grumm thinks all is well because the daisy will be gone soon, but he quickly realizes that Mayzie seems to be wilting too and discerns that if the daisy dies so will Mayzie! Then the daisy begins to wilt! At first Mr. He researches daisies to find out why there is one growing on Mayzie’s head, but he doesn’t find an answer. Gregory Grumm, is very smart and his office is full of books. So, the teacher, Miss Sneetcher, removes Mayzie from class and takes her to the Principle’s office. This causes an uproar from the class as they shout “Daisy-Head Mayzie” over and over. Other students point it out to the teacher who tries to yank it out unsuccessfully. Daisy-Head Mayzie starts out as just Mayzie McGrew, a young girl sitting in class, but then all of a sudden a daisy grows out of the top of her head. The Cat in the Hat opens the story to tell us that it really did happen. Illustrations based on the Hannah Barbera cartoon special. ![]() ![]() This inspiring book will leave you with a sense of wonder at the capabilities of the mind, and the self-healing power that lies within all of us. ![]() He introduces incredible case histories – blind people helped to see, IQs raised and memories sharpened – and tells the stories of the maverick scientists who are overturning centuries of assumptions about the brain. Here bestselling author, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge reveals the secrets of the cutting-edge science of ‘neuroplasticity’. All these people had their lives transformed by the remarkable discovery that our brains can repair themselves through the power of positive thinking. ‘An utterly wonderful book – without question one of the most important books about the brain you will ever read’ Iain McGilchrist MA, author of The Master and His EmissaryMeet the ninety-year-old doctor who is still practicing medicine, the stroke victim who learned to move and talk again and the woman with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lawhon excels at third-person narrative, and I confess that I favored her other books as a result, all of which had a more literary bent than this first-person book. I continue to appreciate the way the author experiments with timelines, as well. The character is full of pluck, and the story – despite its serious nature – showcased some laugh-out-loud moments. This is the story of Nancy Grace Augusta Wake’s resistance efforts during WWII in France, but also it is a story of her marriage. (Yes, the fictional story is – remarkably – based on a real-life character ). CODE NAME HELENE by Ariel Lawhon was the right book at the right time for me – the story of a tough-as-nails woman whose struggles and bravery make our shelter-in-place woes seem trivial. ![]() |