![]() ![]() The girls live on their own in a cabin in a forest 32 miles from the city of Redwood, California. Eva, though older, is the more romantic of the two, a sensitive, sophisticated ballet dancer with a natural desire to live fully in the present and take advantage of all the beauty in the here and now. Not a day to celebrate, but a day to endure, just another "white square on a calendar that is almost out of dates." As Nell writes, she reveals her character: She is sensible, smart, and cautious. But this year, Christmas-and every other day-are markedly different. ![]() ![]() It is Christmas Day, prompting Nell to remember Christmases past, when her parents were alive and she and Eva would excitedly tear open their presents, followed by a family dinner, and then a gathering around a candlelit nativity scene. ![]() The book opens with 17-year-old Nell picking up pen and paper after not writing anything for many months. Told through Nell's journal entries, the girls' struggle unfolds as Nell recalls memories from a time before-a time when things like water and food and basic technology were not luxuries-and grapples with the possible future ahead…and all the hope and terror contained therein. Set in the woods of Northern California in the not-too-distant future, it is the tale of two teenage sisters, Nell and Eva, who must learn to survive on their own after the collapse of civilization. Into the Forest (1996) is a dystopian novel by American author Jean Hegland. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I have several in the works, but with a short story just submitted today, my main focus for the next little while will be a novel, Learning Curve. I’m supposed to tag 4 people to post a week after me, but so many people have already done it that I don’t think I can find any! So instead, at the end of my post, I’ve linked to some other posts for you to check out. I was tagged for The Next Big Thing Blog Hop by Sui Lynn. Shobana Appavu: Naked Tails, Sidecar, Tattoos & Teacups, Technically DeadĪnne Cain: The Cool Part of His Pillow, Saving Sean, Speechless While I have nothing against bare-torsoed hot men, I generally prefer something different. ![]() ![]() I’ve mentioned it elsewhere, but I’m a big fan of book covers that break the romance mold. The Rancher and the Rock Star-Lizbeth Selvig One True Thing/One Small Thing–Piper Vaughn & M.J. ![]() Inherit the Sky/Chase the Stars-Ariel Tachna I’ve been having problems with my wrists that make it painful to hold a hard-copy book for any length of time, so those are taking me some time to work through!) (Do keep in mind that I have yet to read several well-regarded books, mainly some I have in paperback. Here’s a list of the favorite things I read and the best book covers I saw in 2012 (all books published this year). I’ve included a link for each author and/or book, so you can find any you might have missed. I was going to get all fancy with this and give reviews and kudos and all that, but things kind of came to a head all at once the past couple of weeks, so I’m keeping it simple. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Chang the Good tries vainly to find her, he is killed by hunters who think they are aiming at a marauding leopard. ![]() Kung Shi Fair, in her boat made of cassia, fig leaves and orchid banners, bravely sails off to join her lover but drowns in the surging river. When her wealthy father opposes Kung Shi Fair's marriage to Chang the Good, a lowly fisherman, the stage is set for tragedy. She weaves in elements from the traditional legend surrounding the blue willow plate (which is of English design, not Chinese), but the development of themes and characters seem secondary to the working out of the plot. Next to Gallagher's (The Selfish Giant) luminous paintings of a quaint, storybook China, this lengthy story seems contrived the late Conrad's (The Tub People) text has an unfinished quality. ![]() ![]() Now, to the reason I’m writing again, my beloved Puerto Rico, which inspired when nothing else could, and, as a result, ‘ The Caribbean Tales’ series was born. ![]() ![]() ![]() You all will start seeing installments from ‘ By Degrees’ in 2019. I am a tough costumer, especially when it comes to my own work, and I’m committed to only releasing my best, so my apologies for the delay but I had to make sure the story was up to my standards. It is the reason I sat on ‘Six Degrees of Agony,’ a story my readers have been waiting both patiently and not-so-patiently for years. I wasn’t inspired to write and when I did write, I wasn’t satisfied with the stories. It was at that time I found out I had a voice and was a chronic plotter with anal tendencies that needs a title and a playlist before I start writing, and the rest, as they say, is history.Īs everyone who knows me or has read me knows, I’ve been on hiatus since 2014. I can spot plot holes ten miles away and I love characterization, but that was it…until a friend asked me to co-write something with her to keep her accountable, as she had started writing several stories but was finding it difficult to finish any of them. I’ve always been good at editing stories in my head, though. Why ‘accidental’ you ask? Because writing, let alone publishing, was never a dream of mine. Donovan, a part-time, accidental author of gay romantic fiction and suspense. Welcome to Queer in Color! Please introduce yourself to our readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Eyeth may be a pun, but it’s not a joke-it’s a myth.” ![]() The point of view switches in third person between Charlie and other main characters with each chapter, denoted by the ASL symbol for the first letter of their name, but even when readers can’t focus exclusively on her point of view, chapter-break lessons allow us to look over Charlie’s shoulder at her coursework or research. ![]() Unfortunately, River Valley is at risk of losing its funding and shuttering. Her cochlear implant has created language deprivation and family strife rather than improved hearing, but after her parents’ divorce, Charlie gets the opportunity to enroll in the fictional River Valley School for the Deaf, experiencing Deaf culture for the first time over the course of the book. Eye: Deaf Mythology,” one of the many brief lessons sprinkled between the chapters of Sara Nović’s realistic fiction novel True Biz, released March 29 by Random House.Ĭharlie Serrano is a Deaf high school student in Ohio. “Eyeth-get it? In the Deaf storytelling tradition, utopia is called Eyeth because it’s a society that centers the eye, not the ear, like here on Earth.” Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & Recreation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He had no control over his own movements, his property, or even his own name. As an African and a slave, Equiano had no identity. The book's main narrative is that of a man who is allowed no identity early in life, but perseveres to shape one in spite of the world. Though different masters show Equiano wildly varying degrees of cruelty or kindness, they are all complicit in its horrors, and hence does he endeavor through his work to show them the error of their ways. Even white men were corrupted by the slave trade, since it pushed them towards their baser instincts and turned otherwise decent people into monsters. Deleterious behavior resulted from the unnatural elevation of the white man over black. The chastity of female slaves was violated. They were subject to the most horrible punishments, delivered for capricious and unjust reasons. were almost obliterated by the dominant society that kept them as chattel. Any sense of history, culture, tradition, values, etc. Slaves were given new names, their identities virtually erased. The bonds of mother and child, husband and wife, and brother and sister were destroyed. Africans, including children, were kidnapped from their homes and severed from their families. ![]() Equiano's own life bears testament to how terribly it harms everyone involved. Perhaps more than anything else, the work is centered around the destructiveness of the slave trade. Buy Study Guide The destructiveness of the slave trade ![]() ![]() ![]() I owe him a great deal ( but refuse to repay him) * Richard Ayoade * Joe Dunthorne's new book is a pleasure - I was very fortunate to get to read his book Submarine early and reading this one was equally thrilling. A deft, brilliant, surprising joyride * The Art Desk * It's one not to be missed * Bookseller *Ī sharp satire of contemporary London and the modern urban male * Tatler *īlisteringly funny and brimming with caustic charm - a joyous diagnosis of our modern ills that made me laugh out loud even when it was breaking my heart * Paul Murray *ĭark, beautifully wry, and side-splittingly excruciating, The Adulterants is a triumph of voice and vision * Tea Obreht *Ī tale of modern manhood, full of malaise, melancholy and wryly funny observations * S Magazine *Ī richly illuminating comedy of disappointment, uproarious and mournful, that places Joe Dunthorne triumphantly in the tradition of Evelyn Waugh and (that other Swansea resident) Kingsley Amis. a pin-sharp skewering of a certain type of modern urban thirtysomething male, trapped in a protracted adolescent state. Joe Dunthorne is one of our best young writers * Metro * The Adulterants is thrust-the-book-at-the-person-next-to-you hilarious * New Statesman * ![]() ![]() ![]() The "Wolf-Men" were engineered to have superhuman strength, speed, sensory capability, stamina, and a total lack of fear, and Loup, named for and sharing her father's wolf-like qualities, is marked as an outsider.Īfter her mother dies, Loup goes to live among the misfit orphans at the parish church, where they seethe from the injustices visited upon the locals by the soldiers. A fugitive "Wolf-Man" who had a love affair with a local woman, Loup's father was one of a group of men genetically manipulated and used by the U.S. military base inside a demilitarized buffer zone between Texas and Mexico. Loup Garron was born and raised in Santa Olivia, an isolated, disenfranchised town next to a U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() He listened to the records of Blind Lemon Jefferson and Lonnie Johnson on an aunt's Victrola. ![]() His earliest musical memories were the hollers of fellow field workers and his first exposure to the guitar came in church, where he heard the Reverend Archie Fair play. He then lived with his maternal grandmother, his father in nearby Lexington, and on his own, supervised by an extended family of aunts, uncles, and caring white plantation owners. His parents separated when he was four, and he lived with his mother until her death when he was nine. King was born September 16, 1925, on a farm near Itta Bena, Mississippi. ![]() His rise from picking cotton in Mississippi to touring the world has become part of the mythology of the American Dream. His story is one of the most amazing in American music. King is credited with bringing vibrato to the electric guitar, and the stinging, fluttering sound of his guitar, named Lucille, was totally unique and instantly recognizable. Although he never attained the widespread commercial success enjoyed by others, King rose to his billing "King of the Blues" without compromising his style or musicianship. His fusion of acoustic country blues with jazz set the stage for a half century of development in African American music. No blues or rock 'n' roll musician in the postwar era in America could escape his influence, either directly or indirectly. King is the literal personification of blues. ![]() ![]() ![]() A crisp copy with minor scattered stains and clean tears (no loss). Bound in contemporary English calf ruled in blind, neatly rebacked retaining the original spine, corners mended, later end-leaves. Written in the vernacular of the Florentine language, it is considered a masterpiece of classical early Italian prose. In addition to its literary value and widespread influence (for example on Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales), it provides a document of life at the time. Tales of wit, practical jokes, and life lessons contribute to the mosaic. The various tales of love in The Decameron range from the erotic to the tragic. ![]() Boccaccio probably conceived the Decameron after the epidemic of 1348, and completed it by 1353. The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men sheltering in a secluded villa just outside Florence to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city. The Decameron is a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313â "1375). Folio, 2 volumes, bound in full morocco by Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, all edges gilt, errata leaf at end of volume one, B1 is a cancellans, woodcut titles each with 6 vignettes, 98 woodcut vignettes in text chiefly repeating the title vignettes, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. First edition in English of Boccaccio's masterpiece, published by Jaggard published three years prior to his printing of the Shakespeare First Folio. ![]() |