![]() ![]() I didn’t get a high-mark on this one and I’m pretty sure my prof didn’t bother to read my paper at all. Let me share with you guys what 17-year old naive and closeted Christian passed to his professor. ![]() Out of the hundreds of books I’ve finished, The Perks of Being a Wallflower was the one I chose to write about. Like Charlie, I spent so much time in my head that I didn’t actively participate in life or outside in the real world.ĭuring one of my classes in college, we were told to do a book review. I was shy and didn’t have the confidence to step out and join in on others. Mostly I kept to a corner during social situations, fully satisfied with quietly observing everyone. I too pretty much kept to myself and felt out of place in school. As an introvert who also happens to be a writer, I deeply identified with Charlie’s character. Growing up, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” is one of my favorite books. “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” has also been adapted into a movie last 2012 starring Logan Lerman, Emma Waston, and Ezra Miller. But as his new friends start to leave for college, memories from the past resurface threatening Charlie’s newfound confidence. ![]() Charlie starts to discover the joy of friendship, first love, and music. The book follows the story of Charlie, a socially-awkward freshman in high school who meets two free-spirited seniors, Sam and Patrick. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a coming-of-age book written by Stephen Chbosky. ![]()
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6/7/2023 0 Comments Imagine me series in order![]() ![]() This power of hers posed a big burden as it became more difficult to live among normal people. A single touch from her is enough to suck the life out of anybody and she also taps energy from organisms around her. The story revolves around 17-year-old Juliette Ferrars who has a fatal touch among other abilities. What’s The Shatter Me Series About?Īlso known as The Juliette Chronicles, Shatter Me is a young adult dystopian suspense series packed with paranormal elements and in case you are wondering, there is a titillating touch of romance in the books. ![]() However, following the right order to read the book is quite easy and the trick is discussed in this piece. ![]() While Divergent and Hunger Games, as well as many other similar books, were completed as a trilogy, Shatter Me has continued to get more additions since the first one was released in 2011. This is part of the reason why readers need to know the particular order to follow while reading the Shatter Me series. Originally planned as a trilogy, Mafi ended up with more books after the series became popular following the publication of the first three. Mafi split the series into six novels and five novellas, making it easy for readers to follow up. Written by Tahereh Mafi, the book series is a young adult dystopian hexalogy with a storyline that revolves around a teenage girl who has to live with a lethal touch. Fans of Divergent and The Hunger Games book series will easily fall in love with the Shatter Me series. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments The blue sword book![]() ![]() Here’s the back cover blurb from my Firebird edition, which hits all the high points: Okay, this sounds a bit dismissive, and I don’t mean it to be, because this is a very decent example of its genre, a fast-moving bildungsroman incorporating a truly generous number of fantasy-fiction tropes, with undoubted inspiration from those who went this way before, most obviously perhaps our old friend J.R.R. There we have it in a nutshell.Įmbellishments include a rather good invented world based recognizably on colonial Great Britain and one of its more troublesome hot-place colonies, wonderfully psychic horses, stellar swordplay (our heroine is a natural, of course), giant domesticated cheetah-like cats (I want one!), not-quite-human bad guys, and a fair bit of magic.Īlso a strong silent type who just happens to be a king, and who does he fall for? ![]() Orphaned misfit tomboy rather unwillingly travels to a new home, finds herself, falls in love and is fallen in love with, saves a kingdom. This edition: Firebird (Penguin Putnam), 2002. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Hercules 1 by Dan Abnett![]() The character is fun, but he often doesn’t have much of a goal. ![]() Hercules has kind of been aimless most of his comic book career. The story is an interesting tale of redemption…but it has a major problem. Here, Hercules is facing the consequences of this behavior. He was part of the team when I started reading, and I always liked his “likes to fight” nature. Falling under Marvel’s “All-New All-Different” line, the collection features art primarily by Luke Ross but with additional art by Emilio Laiso, Goran Sudzuka and Dalibor Talajic. Written by Dan Abnett, Hercules: Still Going Strong is a six-issue limited series. ![]() ![]() Hercules, Gilgamesh, and others who once thought themselves unkillable are facing a new threat…and this danger might be too great for even Hercules to overcome! There is something hunting immortals and the Rising Storm seems to make the term “immortal” a thing of the past. Hercules is trying to change all of it, but his decision might have come too late. His carefree style of fighting has brought destruction and damage and his drunken revelry are just as legendary as his labors. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments George saunders bardo![]() ![]() ![]() In a graveyard in Georgetown, the president cradles his son’s body while Willie’s soul and many others look on. It’s the 58-year-old Saunders’s first novel and first work of historical fiction, but it’s also, perhaps unsurprisingly, very, very weird. Lincoln in the Bardo, out today, shows us Abraham Lincoln in Civil War-torn 1862, mourning the death of his 11-year-old son Willie. But Tenth turns out to have been a warm-up for Saunders, a bridge to something completely new. The best-selling collection (not an oxymoron) was called “the best book you’ll read all year” on the cover of The New York Times Magazine. ![]() The 2013 publication of Tenth of December, George Saunders’s fourth collection of loopy satirical stories about consumerism, compassion, dystopian theme parks, and American failures, was hailed as the apotheosis of his art. ![]() ![]() He illustrates this distinction with the difference between a wink and a twitch. Anthropology requires ‘thick description’, which is to say, the anthropologist strives to express his or her understanding of cultural activity as something meaningful ( Geertz 1973, p. That, following the philosopher Gilbert Ryle, he terms ‘thin description’. Yet description cannot be of mere physical behaviour. His central, and surprisingly bold, claim is that anthropology concerns the description of the activities and events of small social groups. ![]() He has championed interpretative approaches to the study of cultures. ![]() Clifford Geertz’s (1926- 2006) work defined the field of interpretive social science, and he is regarded as one of the most influential and widely cited American cultural anthropologists of the second half of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ayer thinks it is perfectly meaningful to say that the human eye is staggeringly complex or the probability of life evolving on Earth is mindbogglingly unlikely. If we are describing unusual patterns or regularities in nature, we are making factual statements. It has no factual or logical content at all. This means that religious language seems to be telling us something about the world, but it isn't really. Statements that aren't verifiable in this way are, according to Ayer, "meaningless" or "nonsensical".Īyer argues that religious language (he calls it "God-talk") is always meaningless, because God can't be factually observed or logically deduced. These statements are VERIFIABLE: you can check the first one by looking at the roses you can check the second and third by consulting an abacus or a dictionary. ![]()
6/6/2023 0 Comments Brave by Svetlana Chmakova![]() ![]() Brave, the new instalment, takes all the great elements from Awkward and just gives readers even more to love. I've read practically everything this artist has put out over the years, and this new series set in the middle school years really strikes a chord with me as a teacher. I read Awkward, the first book of this series, back in 2015, and to this day I can't say enough good things about it. The charming world of Berrybrook Middle School gets a little bigger in this highly anticipated follow-up to Svetlana Chmakova's award-winning Awkward with a story about a boy who learns his own way of being brave! Will those daring daydreams of his finally work in his favour, or will he have to find real solutions to his real-life problems? Jensen has always played the middle school game one level at a time, but suddenly, someone's cranked up the difficulty setting. And the pressure's on even more once the school newspaper's dynamic duo, Jenny and Akilah, draw Jensen into the whirlwind of school news, social-experiment projects, and behind-the-scenes club drama. ![]() But his middle school reality is VERY different - math is hard, getting along with friends is hard.Even finding a partner for the class project is a huge problem when you always get picked last. In his dreams, Jensen is the biggest hero that ever was, saving the world and his friends on a daily basis. ![]() Genre: Children's/Young Adult Graphic Novel, Realistic Fiction ![]() 6/5/2023 0 Comments Until You by Penelope Douglas![]() ![]() Some people hate me for it, while others are scared of me. Traveling between fury and indifference with no stops in between. Have you ever been so angry that hitting things felt good? Or numb to all emotions? The past few years have been like that for me. I could not put it down! 5 stars!!"-Aesta's Book Blog "A heated and passionate novel, full of feeling and intensity that will appeal to the reader seeking an emotional rush." ![]() Praise for Bully: "Bully was a wonderfully addictive read that kept my heart racing from start to finish. She left for a year and came back a different girl. But then she went and screwed everything up. Engaging, challenging, bullying her-it's the last part of me that feels anything human. ![]() We used to be friends, but I found out that I couldn't trust her or anyone else. But none of them can hurt me, because I don't care about anything or anyone. ![]() 6/5/2023 0 Comments Frida kahlo hayden herrera![]() ![]() ![]() Steel bars penetrated her and ripped apart her body. When she was young, she was the victim of a terrible bus accident that affected her for the rest of her life. To give a better understanding of Kahlo's beginnings and her education, these situations are fully covered, including the people with whom Kahlo became friends and letters written at the time. The biography starts with Kahlo's early days and gives a detailed account of her family life. ![]() With this in mind, the biography of Kahlo allows the reader to have a greater understanding of and appreciation for the life of Kahlo and her impressive array of artistic works. Many people that knew Kahlo thought that she was intricately linked to her paintings and that it was impossible to separate the woman from the artist. The biography covers important events in her life, including relationships and events that influenced her and her famous paintings. Frida is a total biographical account of the life of Frida Kahlo, the important Mexican painter. ![]() |