![]() ![]() "A profoundly successful work of fiction. ![]() Here, Morrison's writing is "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry" ( The New York Times).Ī TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! "So precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry." - The New York Times This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment. In Morrison's bestselling first novel, Pecola Breedlove-an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others-prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison powerfully examines our obsession with beauty and conformity-and asks questions about race, class, and gender with her characteristic subtly and grace. About the Book First published in 1970 by Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, the novel tells the story of 11-year-old Pecola Breedlove, the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Things We Hide From The Light Book 2 in the Knockemout series allows us to revisit the bohemian and the diverse town of Knockemout, Virginia. The powerful and emotionally charged story of Nash and Lina was the perfect sequel to Things We Never Got Over. Things We Hide From The Light Epub Download And I’d be remiss not to mention the chemistry between Lucian and Sloane, which was a fantastic prelude to the third book. The passion and the heat between Nash and Lina was really palpable. Score takes us on a journey to find answers, whether it’s about Nash’s memory loss, self-doubt or Lina’s past, she has done it with compassion and competence.Īt the same time he laughed, cheered and hoped. I fell head over heels in love with the eclectic town of Knockemout and all of its residents. From Nash’s vulnerability, Lina’s strength and cheekiness to Knox and Naomi’s love, we have the long-awaited sequel to Things We Never Got Over. ![]() ![]() “Then I’ll come home and study German and read Bavarian history. She would have coffee out-for atmosphere. She would go to the galleries, museums, and churches. After the midday dinner she would go out and learn the city. ![]() First, each morning, she would have her bath, and then write until noon. (Same reason.)įull of enthusiasm, she planned a schedule. (You didn’t stay in Madeira because Munich is such a center for music and art?)Ħ. Buy a map and learn the city-from end to end, as you told Papa you would.Ĥ. Betsy felt like a heroine in one of her own stories their maids always awakened them that way.Ģ. ![]() Hanni had brought it to her after closing the windows and pushing back the velvet draperies. ![]() It was fun making this list, sitting in bed with her breakfast tray on her lap…hot chocolate, crisp hard rolls, and a pat of butter. For years she had made lists of books she must read, good habits she must acquire, things she must do to make herself prettier-like brushing her hair a hundred strokes at night, and manicuring her fingernails, and doing calisthenics before an open window in the morning. “The next morning, of course, Betsy made a list. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And it is to reconcile these two positions that he seems, at first, to be writing-in distinguishing between the prophet and the politician, in insisting that ""politics is the only effective way of getting certain things done"" and that statecraft presupposes compulsion, ""including, if necessary, violence."" But rather abruptly the ground shifts this text, we're told by editor Morris, was compiled from notes Kaunda made over the years-years during which he apparently soured on pacifists and pacifist arguments. Kaunda led Zambia to independence as a Gandhian disciple of non-violence but when the struggle for self-determination heated up in neighboring Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, he supported the armed insurgents. ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps more intense and detailed than I've read previously. What I enjoyed most about this story was the intensity of the interaction between Owen and Sterling and the BDSM was a big part of that. I highly recommend you follow the link if you haven't already read Jenre's review as she's far more eloquent than I. Though I think I've read reviews of it in a couple of other places. I first read about this on Jenre's Well Read blog. But now he'll have to convince Owen they can have more than a teacher/student relationship, more than just good kink. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the stakes that much higher, Sterling's more determined than ever to win Owen over. It's not as easy as he thinks it will be, and things get even more complicated when Sterling realizes that he's fallen in love with Owen. Determined to get what he wants, Sterling sets out to convince the doubting Owen that he can be the best sub in the world, the fastest learning, the most obedient. When Sterling Baker discovers the wonderful world of BDSM, he's ready to literally throw himself at the feet of the spectacular Owen Sawyer, but Owen is unwilling to take on someone so new to the scene-or so he says. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thought-provoking, ominous, and highly absorbing! Is Ellie on a quest to right the wrongs of the past? And does the house at the end of the street hold the key? Told in dual time periods, The Last House on the Street is a novel of shocking prejudice and violence, forbidden love, the search for justice, and the tangled vines of two families. Kayla’s elderly new neighbor, Ellie Hockley, is more welcoming, but it’s clear she, too, has secrets that stretch back almost fifty years. ![]() It’s clear this woman has some kind of connection to the area…and a connection to Kayla herself. But when she is confronted by an odd, older woman telling her not to move in, she almost agrees. ![]() ![]() But the trophy home in Shadow Ridge Estates, a new development in sleepy Round Hill, North Carolina, will always hold tragic memories. When Kayla Carter’s husband dies in an accident while building their dream house, she knows she has to stay strong for their four-year-old daughter. From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel that perfectly interweaves history, mystery, and social justice. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each of these millennial memoirs was written by someone who may not have racked up the years of experience many of their other literary peers have, but what they’re lacking in age they make up for in experience. ![]() The memoirists on this list defy conventional memoir-writing wisdom, it seems - and readers are grateful for it. Even memoirist extraordinaire, Mary Karr - whose first memoir, The Liars' Club, was published when the writer was 40-years-old herself - argues in her 2015 title The Art of Memoir that young-ish aspiring memoirists might be served well by a few more years under their belts before publication. ![]() The argument makes sense: with age comes experience, with experience comes wisdom, experience plus wisdom equals an engaging and thought-provoking memoir. In literary circles, there are plenty of ideas about who is old enough to write a memoir (and who isn’t.) “Young” memoirists are typically considered to be any writer under 40, while millennial memoirists - those born after 1980 - are even younger. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has been president of CANSCAIP (Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators, and Performers) and has edited many CANSCAIP publications. She taught elementary school for many years and, later, taught creative writing to high-school and adult students. Barbara Greenwood studied at the University of Toronto. The reams of research "left-over" from her first two books was used in A Pioneer Story, an award-winning book which mixes fact, fiction, and hands-on activities as it delves into Ontario's past. The stories she creates are those she would have liked to read at age ten or twelve or fourteen. ![]() The information gleaned from her research becomes grist for the background details and settings of novels which emphasize character development and the human side of history. Now she immerses herself in the subject: reading old diaries, journals, and letters, visiting museums, doing in-depth research at libraries, visiting the areas where her books are set. When she was young she couldn't find novels about Canada's past. Inspired by her own early fascination with historical tales, author Barbara Greenwood specializes in writing historical fiction and biographies for children and young people. ![]() ![]() ‘Should I read …?’, ‘What’s that book?’ posts, sales links, piracy, plagiarism, low quality book lists, unmarked spoilers (instructions for spoiler tags are in the sidebar), sensationalist headlines, novelty accounts, low effort content. 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![]() ![]() ![]() The news arrives on the heels of an email from Anjum, an impassioned yet aloof activist Krishnan fell in love with years before while living in Delhi, stirring old memories and desires from a world he left behind.Īs Krishan makes the long journey by train from Colombo into the war-torn Northern Province for Rani's funeral, so begins an astonishing passage into the innermost reaches of a country. ![]() A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's war-torn north in this searing novel of longing, loss, and the legacy of war from the award-winning author of The Story of a Brief Marriage.Ī Passage North begins with a message from out of the blue: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother's caretaker, Rani, has died under unexpected circumstances-found at the bottom of a well in her village in the north, her neck broken by the fall. ![]() |