![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wilde: I’ve been a fan of Kristen Stewart for years, so her relationship with the media was on my mind while I was writing this. Frankly, if I had known more about gaslighting and emotional manipulation growing up, I would have recognised harmful relationships sooner and potentially saved myself a lot of hurt, so I think it’s important that we discuss it more openly as a society. It’s something that can be so subtle and pervasive that oftentimes we don’t even notice it until someone points it out to us, like Chloe does with Emmy in the book. ![]() I think that kind of emotional abuse is, unfortunately, very common – not just in romantic relationships, but within families and friendships also. Wilde: A lot of it stemmed from my own experiences with toxic people and gaslighting behaviour. It’s like you took the stereotype of the “cool parent” and showed us: “no, this is neglect.” How did you come up with those dynamics? With Jessie and Emmy, we rarely see same-sex emotional abuse addressed and Emmy’s parents are so emotionally destructive in how they truly do not care about their daughter. TMS: Two things I really enjoyed about this book, on top of all the other wonderful things, was that it broadened the idea of what abuse can look like. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Which Side Are You On? The Story of a Song. Mason Illustrated by Floyd Cooper Houghton Mifflin Peaceful Pieces: Poems and Quilts about Peace. Atinuke Illustrated by Warwick Johnson Cadwell Kane-Miller Li-Qiong Yu Illustrated by Zhu Chen Liang Candlewick McKissack Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon Schwartz & WadeĪ New Year’s Reunion: A Chinese Story. Maxine Trottier Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault Groundwood ![]() The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families. As well as having to confront Tufan, the class. Aaron works hard with a counselor at school, but he still has problems getting along with and understanding other kids, and he's worried that his dad will think he's weird. Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans. In this stand-alone sequel to The Mealworm Diaries, Aaron is anxiously waiting for his father to return for the first time since Aaron's mother's death eight years earlier. 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When Shenice meets her great-uncle Jack, JonJon’s brother, in an assisted living facility, she learns that her great-grandfather was almost one of the first Black MLB players-until he was kicked out of the league for a theft that Jack insists JonJon was framed for. Now captain of the Fulton Firebirds, the first all-Black team in Georgia’s Dixie Youth Softball Association, her goal is to lead her team to the championship and send a message that “girls like us do belong on the field.” When that goal sees a setback, Shenice’s father gives her Great-Grampy JonJon’s mitt “as a reminder of what’s in you.” But the item that truly captures her attention in JonJon’s off-limits trunk is his leather journal-and his story. As team captain, she'd like nothing more than to help. Shenice Lockwood has her eyes set on the Fastpitch World Series. Twelve-year-old Shenice “Lightning” Lockwood has been playing “base-related ball” her whole life-just like her father, grandfather, and great-grandfather before her. From Nic Stone, the New York Times bestselling author of Clean Getaway, comes a challenging and heartwarming coming-of-age story about a softball player looking to prove herself on and off the pitch. Black girl magic hits a home run in Stone’s (Clean Getaway) latest novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The same division was used in the Polish and Greek editions. It was so long that in the UK, Ireland, Australia, Serbia and Israel, its paperback edition was split in half, Part 1 being published as Steel and Snow in June 2001 (with the one-volume cover) and Part 2 as Blood and Gold in August 2001 (with a specially-commissioned new cover). Its publication was preceded by a novella called Path of the Dragon, which collects some of the Daenerys Targaryen chapters from the novel into a single book.Īt the time of its publication, A Storm of Swords was the longest novel in the series. It was first published on August 8, 2000, in the United Kingdom, with a United States edition following in November 2000. A Storm of Swords is the third of seven planned novels in A Song of Ice and Fire, a fantasy series by American author George R. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, I am also aware that the way the author chose to approach the subject matter has proved to be rather controversial with many readers. And she – all the Trojan women – should be memorialised as much as any other person.” Circe by Madeline Miller was also considered for this award in 2019. Read my review for The Song of Achilles here, whereas my review for The Silence of the Girls is posted here. This book was shortlisted for the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction, and this is not the first retelling of The Iliad to be considered for this accolade The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, for example, won this award in 2012, and The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker was shortlisted in 2019. Today I am reviewing A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes. ![]() ![]() Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “ They are most dangerous weapons, and none are supposed to survive the Revision… Books.”Ĭharacters– Felix and Astra. No books!!! Pretty messed up world it sounds right? That’s the dystopian world of ‘No Ordinary Star’. ![]() How will it feel when there’s no emotions left in human? Men and women are separated? Humans can live for 300 years with no disease, no illness, no need to sleep? No festival, Christmas is forgotten and there are no books. ![]() I loved that cover of the book and futuristic world drew me to this book. Immerse yourself into the icy cold world of this scorching hot new novel. Written in three installments, this is the breathtaking and sensual story of how two unlikely people change the world, and each other, one book at a time. Inspired by the short stories of Ray Bradbury, this futuristic novel is set in a world where Christmas -among other things- is obsolete and a Clock is what keeps the fragile balance of peace. The world hasn’t known hunger or sickness in hundreds of years. She is rescued by the last polar bear left alive.Ī library waits for them both, a library built over a span of a hundred years, forgotten in the basement of an ice shack. He has no idea what to do.Ī girl, hunted for the crime of being born, almost dies out on the ice. Goodreads Blurb-Ī soldier is summoned to the North Pole, days before the year changes, told to fix the great Clock for a celebration. I loved Goodreads blurb so I don’t want to write blurb in my words. No Ordinary Star is first book of the series. ![]() ![]() The role of Zandile, the fierce matriarch of the Zulu family, is played by Khanyi Mbau (Happiness is a Four-Letter Word) and Mondli Makhoba (Umkhokha) reprises his role as Nkosana, the eldest Zulu brother in The Wife. The second season is inspired by the follow-up novel, Zandile the Resolute. ![]() ![]() Her love interest, Mqhele, is played by Bonko Khoza, who burst onto the acting scene as Jabz in the multi-award-winning film Necktie Youth and has since appeared in the likes of Professionals and the Emmy-nominated Roots. Rising star Mbalenhle Mavimbela (Skeem Saam, Isipho) plays “Hlomu the wife”, the journalist who falls in love with a taxi driver, not realising that when you marry a man, you marry his secrets. The first season is inspired by the novel Hlomu the Wife, a bestseller by Dudu Busani-Dube. ![]() The Wife series is a Showmax Original telenovela that follows the lives of the eight Zulu brothers, a formidable crime family, through the eyes of the women they marry. ![]() ![]() ![]() Walter earned a bachelor's degree in English from Southern University at New Orleans. She was born in Sweetville, Louisiana, and raised in nearby Gaytine, both small, segregated sawmill communities in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana Mildred Pitts was born on September 9, 1922, the youngest of seven children to Paul Pitts, a log cutter, and Mary Pitts, a beautician and midwife. She published her autobiography, Something Inside So Strong: Life in Pursuit of Choice, Courage, and Change, in 2019. A native of Louisiana who later moved to Denver, Walter was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Several of her books have won or been named to the honor list of the Coretta Scott King Awards. ![]() Walter has written over 20 books for young readers, including fiction and nonfiction. Mildred Pitts Walter (born September 9, 1922) is an American children's book writer, known for her works featuring African-American protagonists. ![]() ![]() ![]() Patron bonus content starts at: 1:39:15: Wolfe's uncollected Robert E. * Outro from "Uroboros" by Alan Parsons, featuring Tommy Shaw of Styx This episode is sponsored by Serpentes Infrastructure! Of Dreams and Dream Weapons by Mike Farar * Outro from "O Come All Ye Faithful" by Twisted Sister This episode is sponsored by Kith and Kin the Party Game! * Outro from "Swamp Girl" by Frankie Laneįirst, a very unofficial reading of "Christmas Inn" by Gene Wolfe, narrated by Craig. 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Listen to a reading of that story here: Starship Sofa episode 60 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The issues of body image, family troubles, making friendships, fancying a friend, and mental illness. Teenage Rae went through struggles that almost every teenager goes through. This personal account of her thoughts and feelings is a real treasure to explore. You can’t help but sympathise and empathise with this girl, I related so much with Rae whilst reading this, and it actually helped me realise some things about myself. She doesn’t seem to leave any stone unturned, anything she felt she wrote in her diary. Her diary is honest, which is the most important thing about this book. Rae struggled with body image and her mental health, she was admitted to a mental ward when she was 16-years-old and this book is her original diary during the time after she left the hospital and regained contact with her family and friends. This book relates Rae Earl’s complicated teenage years during the late 1980s, published in 2007. One book I recently read again that focuses on this subject is My Mad Fat Diary, originally named ‘My Fat Mad Teenage Diary’, which is one of my all-time favourites. The subject of mental health is something that is being widely spoken about in today’s society and I couldn’t be happier. ![]() |