![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The entire town comes together to lend a helping hand, and once again, Henry Adams's irrepressible residents show that despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles, family comes in many forms. And in the midst of these trials, Jack and Rocky are trying to plan their wedding. But when Gemma tries to become their foster mother, she's told by Social Services she's not an appropriate candidate, leading to dangerous consequences. She takes them in, and quickly falls in love with the orphaned siblings. CHASING DOWN A DREAM by Beverly Jenkins RELEASE DATE: JThe joyous soap opera that is Jenkins’ Blessings series ( Stepping to a New Day, 2016, etc.) continues as she returns to the small town of Henry Adams, Kansas. Meanwhile, after a horrendous storm, Gemma finds a young boy and his little sister walking on the side of the road. Still, family is family, so Tamar is willing to drop everything for her. About the Book In this next installment in the Blessings series, though residents of Henry Adams face seemingly insurmountable obstacles, each of them will. Tamar July has always had a hate-hate relationship with her cousin Eula, which is why she's shocked when Eula arrives with the news that she's dying and wants Tamar to plan her funeral. There's never a dull day in Henry Adams, Kansas. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It was as if Jon plucked the characters straight from my head. What was it like to work with the brilliant Jon Klassen? Were his illustrations how you pictured the characters / scenes while you were writing them or did they surprise you? ![]() North Twist has been a joyful place to inhabit. I cannot remember! But yes, I chuckled as I wrote. Which scene was most fun to write? Did you ever find yourself laughing out loud while concocting some of the more humorous exchanges? I would like these two sides of myself to reconcile, and be good roommates. And then there’s the Skunk side of me (joyful, playful, full of enthusiasms for nearly everything). I have my Important Rock Work and I fight for focus, focus, focus. In some very real ways, this book is about my struggle with two characteristics of myself. It’s me! I mean, I am both of these characters. Was there a classic odd couple that inspired their characters? ![]() Skunk and Badger are so perfectly paired. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to go beyond the pages and learn more about the process of creating such an irresistibly quirky story. It was clever, funny, and unlike what I have been reading in the early reader category lately. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For the fighting sister, the reader sees how she bravely helps the underground movement to free France and return fallen English and American pilots to their homelands. This epic tale takes the reader through the entire war, pausing at each stage to demonstrate the women adjusting to their new realities. ![]() Whatever her lover’s intentions with the note, Isabelle pursues resistance with even more resolve, simultaneously upset that she is overlooked as a woman and aware that that oversight works to her advantage to break through checkpoints. Your job is to wait for our return.” (34)īut Isabelle refuses to hear that she can’t be useful, even when the love of her life tapes a goodbye note to her chest that reads: “ You are not ready.” (79) And it’s a fact that women are useless in war. ![]() “Don’t be mad,” he said, grinning up at her. Isabelle got to her feet quickly, yanking up her hat and white kid gloves. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this bold retelling of the ancient legend presented for the first time in graphic novel form graphic novelist Andrew Winegarner revitalizes the ultimate adventure story. Written down on cuneiform tablets nearly five thousand years ago, Gilgamesh's story was originally recorded in the form of an epic poem. Ishtar's rage led Gilgamesh to his greatest battle, a battle that shook Gilgamesh to his core and led him to travel further than any other man to the land of the gods on a quest to find immortality. As the king of Uruk, a city in ancient Mesopotamia, Gilgamesh protected his people from harm, battling a multitude of fierce demons with the steadfast help of his brother, Enkidu.īut Gilgamesh's reign faced the ultimate challenge from the power-hungry goddess Ishtar, who proposed marriage only to be unceremoniously spurned by Gilgamesh. Winegarner’s adaptation demonstrates the extensive debt mythology and religion owe this ancient tale." ― Booklistīefore the Bible and legendary figures like Hercules, King Arthur, and Beowulf, there was Gilgamesh. ![]() "With all the graphic adaptations of mythology flying around, it’s about time someone got to old Gilgamesh. ![]() ![]() Nyfain is physically bigger and stronger, true, but Finley is the hero of this book, hands down. What I like most though is the way Breene is playing with gender tropes. So, if that’s your cupcake, you’ll be happy with this book. There is quite a lot of sexual tension and ‘almosts’ though. The steam factor isn’t all that high in this first book, though it’s my understanding that it picks up in book two. Her humor worked a lot better when it had a foil, someone to bounce off and return. However, once Finely and Nyfain met things took a turn for the better. I thought a lot of the humor in the first half-before the main characters had much of a relationship-fell flat and the whole thing felt a little silly. I enjoyed this quite a lot, though the second half significantly more than the first. I can save the whole forgotten kingdom, locked away by the demon king’s power.īut it would mean taming the monster beneath his skin. Seeks to use me.Īpparently, I can save him. Forces me back to the castle as his prisoner. When he catches me trespassing in the forbidden wood, he doesn’t punish me with death, as he’s entitled. The only one keeping this kingdom alive is Nyfain, the golden prince to a stolen throne. Stuck here by a deal between the late king and a demon who seeks our destruction. ![]() The creature that stalks the forbidden wood. Breene‘s A Ruin of Roses, A Throne of Ruin, A Kingdom of Ruin and A Queen of Ruin. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each of the patients Harper writes about taught her something important about recuperation and recovery. The Beauty in Breaking is the poignant true story of Harper's journey toward self-healing. How we recognize those breaks, how we try to mend them, and where we go from there are all crucial parts of the healing process. In the ensuing years, as Harper learned to become an effective ER physician, bringing insight and empathy to every patient encounter, she came to understand that each of us is broken-physically, emotionally, psychically. Her marriage at an end, Harper began her new life in a new city, in a new job, as a newly single woman. They stayed together through medical school until two months before she was scheduled to join the staff of a hospital in central Philadelphia, when he told her he couldn't move with her. Brought up in Washington, DC, in an abusive family, she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. Michele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hockey, India vs Australia Test series, Match 1 as it happened: Hockeyroos win 4-2.Nepal takes a leaf out of Sri Lanka’s book, considers exporting crop-raiding monkeys.Fiction: Meena leaves behind her home in India for a new life in Nepal after marriage.61 Muslims won Uttar Pradesh urban polls on BJP tickets.India supplied $51 million in arms, raw materials to Myanmar military since 2021 coup: UN report.Tracing the culinary history of Kochi’s breudher bread.Metro’ review: Slow-burning drama has moments of acuity No dating, marriage or childbirth: Why South Korean women are done with men.Srinagar is readying for the G20 with dressed-up security bunkers and peacock murals.IPL 2023: Virat Kohli equals Chris Gayle’s tally of most centuries in IPL – ‘Spectacular innings’.How Dabur went from a small manufacturing outlet in Kolkata to a brand in over 100 countries. ![]() ![]() One of these women, a yarn dyer named Adella Colvin, took to Instagram Live to express her concerns. To others, it served as confirmation of something they had long suspected: that Glass had always been a little problematic. There have been only a handful of Black women on the cover of Vogue Knitting in its 89-year history, and women of color in popular media are disproportionately scrutinized and attacked. ![]() To many Black women, the comments felt wildly insensitive. (The answer to the latter was simple: the photo was flipped when it was printed on the cover, which often happens in magazine publishing.) ![]() But over Thanksgiving weekend, a white knitting YouTuber named Kristy Glass took to Instagram to criticize the cover, asking why Obama was not wearing knitwear and why her wedding ring appeared to be on the wrong hand. Last month’s magazine-circulation 206,000-featured former first lady Michelle Obama in a genial conversation about “becoming a knitter.” The cover was widely celebrated by women of color, who rarely see themselves represented in the white-washed world of knitting media. ![]() It started, as approximately zero other controversies have before, with the cover of Vogue Knitting. ![]() ![]() ![]() Suffice to say that there were simply too many themes and character arcs still dangling about for this series to give each their proper time and attention, thus some were handled with great care and others were abruptly brought to a halt. The subplots and themes throughout are entirely too abundant to attempt to address. evil trope, the entire struggle between the main protagonist/antagonist leaned right into the archetypes and felt both contrived and mundane. Furthermore, for all the novel’s attempts to subvert the standard fantasy good vs. The overarching plot dealing with the final battle against the shadow and Robert Jordan’s conception of what the “adversary” truly means for humanity was ultimately concluded in predictable fashion given the clear thematic bent of the overall series. The deep dive SPOILER HEAVY video review is HERE Ultimately the novel brought this grand epic to a fairly satisfying ending, though this book felt like a considerable step down from the previous three. However, like any narrative this grand in scope, there were far too many targets to hit that it is only natural several skewed far from the mark. ![]() The final strokes in a great number of these storylines were masterfully done. ![]() A Memory of Light, the final installment in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time, was a battle strewn mayhem that attempted to bind together its over numerous plot threads, character arcs, and themes. ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s just something about how lighthearted and soft and completely innocent they are that calms me down. But when I start to get crushed by the infamous Anxiety Avalanche, suddenly I start inhaling fluffy Rom-Coms like they’re fresh air and I’m drowning. ![]() Speaking of fictional romances, under normal circumstances, I can be a pretty harsh critic of them. And this is coming from somebody who has a heart of unfeeling stone when it comes to fictional romances. If this electric haters-to-lovers romance doesn’t melt your heart like a slice of cheese on a hot griddle, then I don’t know what will. Naturally, since there’s every reason for Pepper and Jack not to be attracted to each other, they obviously are. ![]() As a result, fierce textual punches are thrown across the blood-soaked cyber battlefield that is Twitter and the subtweeting massacre isn’t pretty. Both restaurants’ social media accounts claim that their gooey, cheesy, sandwichy concoction is far superior. ![]() |