![]() ![]() Whereas Bailey is more serious but lets himself loosen up a little with Chad. But when it comes to their relationship, his honestly and vulnerability make him very likable. Chad is a goofy, easy-going guy prone to juvenile pranks. Now I’m not particularly fond of the frat thing, but it was pretty fun to read about because the characters treated the rivalry as a good-natured game.Ĭhad and Bailey work great together. They belong to rival frats, and while Bailey isn’t too invested in the frat, Chad is all about the pranks. But there’s still some kind of plot thread or conflicts going on at all times so that it doesn’t feel like it’s stalled. It’s lighthearted enough to be enjoyable. And it’s certainly a tone that works for me. ![]() It feels like she finally found the tone that works for her. Of all of Saxon’s solo books, this one is definitely my favourite so far. Because as someone who’s read a bit of the genre, the cover and title gave me an idea of what to expect from the story-a light, fun and fast-paced read with a cute romance. Just a few reviews ago, I mentioned how we kinda should judge books by their covers (if we’re familiar with the genre). ![]() Genre: New Adult, Contemporary Romance, M/M ![]()
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![]() ![]() This was well-written, literate, with characters that felt all too real-although be warned, it's also brutal and heartbreaking. Particularly, as with the reviewer below, I do find frustrating the kind of story where no one believes the protagonist. ![]() The tension between them and suspense becomes more and more unbearable to take as a reader, especially in those last hundred pages. ![]() Yet the core of the horror of this book is how easily isolated and vulnerable Amy is, to his authority as a parent since she's not yet of age, as he becomes increasingly controlling and prey to a zealous religious mindset that may be influenced by the dark forces surrounding them. ![]() She's a typical teenager, in ways I could imagine being maddening if I were her parent: body piercings, shaved head, plays loud music, smokes marijuana, pigsty of a room, sullen and uncommunicative her father has good reason for concern. is Campbells first supernatural novel since The House on Nazareth Hill. Nazareth Hill is where witches once danced and where an insane asylum once housed them after witch hunts went out of fashion-and there are strange happenings going on there-ones witnessed by several people, particularly a fifteen year old girl, Amy Priestly. Gale Academic OneFile includes Survey of four decades of Ramsey Campbell by S.T. This one took a while for me to get into, I almost stopped at fifty pages where nothing had happened yet but a truly boring tenants meeting However, the setting of modern Northern England as written by a British writer had an inherent fascination for me. ![]() ![]() ![]() Johnson Sirleaf’s life story is remarkable. We grew up in a way where we crossed two different worlds.” She laughs as if I’ve underestimated her and she’s relishing putting me right. ![]() ![]() “We went to school in the city, and spent the vacations here in my father’s village. “I learned to swim in that river,” she says. “This is where I grew up,” she gestures towards the view of the impossibly lush farm from a large window opposite her bed.Īs we continue our tour of her house she points towards a gash in the distance, where the luminous green bush makes way for a rush of wild, fresh water. An uncooperative key gives way and we are suddenly inside her “quarters”, a supremely modest room, with its small double bed, plain wooden dressers – one with a neat stack of baseball caps on top – and a light alcove that serves as a wardrobe, a dozen regal African cloth outfits queuing up on a single rail. We are in the poetically named village of Julejuah (pronounced Jool-ay-joo-ah), where Johnson Sirleaf’s family – the descendants of a local Gola chief – still live, and where she has built a small farmhouse as a weekend retreat. ![]() ![]() ![]() Waiting charms and startles us with its depiction of a China that remains hidden to Western eyes even as it moves us with its piercing vision of the universal complications of love. ![]() Tracing these lives through their summer of decision and beyond, Ha Jin vividly conjures the texture of daily life in a place where the demands of human longing must contend with the weight of centuries of custom. This time, Lin promises, will be different. Every summer, his compliant wife agrees to a divorce but then backs out. In a culture in which the ancient ties of tradition and family still hold sway and where adultery discovered by the Party can ruin lives forever, Lin's passionate love is stretched ever more taut by the passing years. ![]() But back in the traditional world of his home village lives the wife his family chose for him when he was young-a humble and touchingly loyal woman, whom he visits in order to ask, again and again, for a divorce. This is the story of Lin Kong, a man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different women as he moves through the political minefields of a society designed to regulate his every move and stifle the promptings of his innermost heart.įor more than seventeen years, this devoted and ambitious doctor has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. In Waiting, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author Ha Jin draws on his intimate knowledge of contemporary China to create a novel of unexpected richness and feeling. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has no feminist tenants, understanding the messiness of listening to rap music or enjoying reality tv. I did like that she talked openly about her personal history, and how that compared to the chapter theme. ![]() I was moved by the critiques of herself and not by the books she did or didn't liked. I enjoyed her first few and last few chapters more so than the middle. The word feminism has a wide range of standards, and she knows that she can't live up to all of them. The book also contains some of her personal history as way to show that she isn't the feminits police. Her book is an ode to being human, not in a flawed way, but in a realistic way. She uses a feminist perspective to expand our thoughts on what should and shouldn't be acceptable in popular culture and some ways we could improve. Everything from the lack of Black people in HBO's Girls (set in the multicultural haven that is NYC) to Tyler Perry's morality in his movies. Gay's book contains her critique of current television shows, movies, and book reviews. Bad Feminist has been collecting dust on my shelf for a while and why not continue on this feminist train I started with Adichie? One aspect of Black & Bookish is to get out of my comfort zone so I chose a book outside of my normal genre that I thought I would enjoy. I can't remember the last time I read a collection of essays outside of a homework assignment. ![]() ![]() ![]() Michael relates the story of growing up in the shadow of his old brother Francis who is more socially adept and desirable. What's so beautiful about Chariandy's narrative is how he subtly captures the sense of a family who essentially loves and cares for each other, but whose status as West Indian immigrants has made them into perpetual outsiders and these internalized feelings make them unknown even to each other. They are both haunted by a sense of loss and penned in by their circumstances. Michael struggles to get enough shift work at his low-paid job and spends the bulk of his time caring for his mentally-precarious mother. He still sleeps in the bunk bed of his childhood, but now the top bunk is empty and gradually we discover what happened to his absent brother Francis over the course of the novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Michael lives with his grieving and fragile mother in a tower block in Scarborough, a district of Toronto with a high immigrant population. It's difficult to capture the slow-burning sense of alienation that someone can feel within family life, but in “Brother” David Chariandy powerfully depicts the story of a working class mother and her two sons in a way that gives a fully rounded sense of this. ![]() ![]() ![]() How there were theories circulating about what caused the infections, the need to quarantine, and how physicians were franticly searching for a cure. I kept wondering whether Townsend planned to include these things or was it just coincidental? The way she captured the fear, speculation and rumors surrounding the unknown. ![]() I will totally admit I was surprised by the parallels I was feeling between the story's plot and the current pandemic. But then the various attacks in the story began to happen and with it came the realization that a pandemic or outbreak type situation was happening. I started to get confused by all the names and it took me a little while to get into the swing of things. This was purely a me thing, too much time having passed between reading Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow and Hollowpox. Diving back into the world of Nevermore was a bit of a slow start for me. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kids will take the story at face value, but there is plenty of humor for adults, too. The Tour de France, Impressionist art, and berets also make their way into the book (Duck makes a beret out out of an acorn cap). Up in the belltower, he finds "a bent-over fellow ringing the bells." There's a nice visual of this hunchbacked bellringer. I think the funniest is when the duck goes to investigate the bells ringing in Norte Dame. There are lots of funny bits in Dodsworth in Paris. And Dodsworth's appreciation for his feathered friend comes across on every page. But the duck keeps Dodsworth on his toes, and open to new adventures. This might have been ok, except that he made the planes from the money that Dodsworth was carrying in his backpack. For example, the duck decides to fly paper airplanes off of the observation deck of the Eiffel Tower. Dodsworth is the practical one, while the duck is constantly trying new things and getting into scrapes. ![]() Dodsworth in Paris is a very early reader (four chapters, with color illustrations taking up more than half of each page) in which Dodsworth, a humanized and human-sized mouse, and his friend the duck continue their travels. I loved the first two books in Tim Egan's Dodsworth series: The Pink Refrigerator and Dodsworth in New York, and I was eager to get my hands on this third one. ![]() ![]() Don't forget to check out our study of John when it launches in January 2003. It'll make you a terrific student of Scripture. Perhaps he means to communicate Peter's ongoing struggle with human weakness that continues to need Christ's merciful grace. John is an incredibly careful writer and the difference between Jesus’ “agape” question and Peter's “phileo” answer is probably pregnant with significance. I don't know what the theological suggestion there might be, but I would suspect you are right to think there is one. You are right Jesus uses a variant of “agape” in the first two questions to Peter and then changes to a variant of “phileo”. Lewis wrote a wonderful book called The Four Loves on this theme. There are actually four words for love in Greek: agape, divine love eros, erotic love phileo, friendship and storge, affection.Ĭ.S. How are we to interpret this dialogue between Peter and Jesus? Was there something about Peter’s response that Jesus was not fully satisfied with? Did Peter respond with the wrong form of love man should show to God? What else can we gather from understanding the dialogue in Greek? I appreciate any insight you’re able to give me. Is it true there are three types of love having three distinct Greek words that refer to them? In the gospel of John (21:15-19), when Jesus asks Peter three times if he loves Him, does not Jesus ask the question the first two times using the highest kind of love? ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s even a ghost who throws cornmeal on one character every night while he sleeps, so he will finally let her go and live his life. Two of my favorite things about this book are the magical realism and the food in her stories as a mean of love and care. They all seem to be healing from painful pasts, but they’re all come together to work toward a new beginning. They are all a bit quirky and all probably hiding something. One has an invisible bird, another has escaped a cult, and even another survived abandonment as a child. The characters are are all somewhat broken with terrible backstories. Other Birds is a story about finding your family. I secretly would love to live at The Dellawisp and meet all these people. “When Zoey Hennessey comes to claim her deceased mother’s apartment at The Dellawisp, she meets her quirky, enigmatic neighbors including a girl on the run, a grieving chef whose comfort food does not comfort him, two estranged middle-aged sisters, and three ghosts. I don’t know about you, but I’d much rather be an other bird than just the same old thing.” “There are birds, and then there are other birds. How do you keep the Whipped Milk Ice Cream?.How do you serve Whipped Milk Ice Cream & Cornbread?.How do you make Whipped Milk Ice Cream & Cornbread?.How do you make Whipped Milk Ice Cream?.Ingredients to make Whipped Milk Ice Cream and Cornbread. ![]() |