Z the story of zelda7/4/2023 It establishes, for example, Zelda Fitzgerald’s reputation for bucking convention in ways considered daring for the time. At its best, Z, based on Therese Anne Fowler’s novel about the flapper-era icon, is a like a much more serious, U.S.-based, Fitzgerald-focused spin on the time-travel sequences in Midnight in Paris.īut there’s ultimately something too restrained about this ten-episode series. Scott Fitzgerald (David Hoflin) and his wife/muse (a fierce, focused Christina Ricci), particularly after the Fitzgeralds marry, join New York’s cultural elite, and famously begin fighting, drinking, and dancing in public fountains. There are moments when it’s exhilarating to be immersed in the 1920s with Great Gatsby author F. Z: The Beginning of Everything, a new Amazon series that starts streaming today, tries to capture the many facets of this complex and conflicted woman, and does so with some success. That is why, nearly 70 years after her death, famous misbehaver Zelda Fitzgerald is still actively being discussed and dissected, in books, films (Hollywood has two in the works at the moment), and, now, on television.
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The Color Monster by Anna Llenas7/4/2023 While that is one way to feel sadness, there are so many others ways to be sad, and so many other behaviors to express sadness. When you're sad, you hide and want to be alone. This book goes so far as to tell children how to experience certain emotions: Telling children that blue is sadness will confuse children who experience blue as tranquility, or power, or curiosity, or any number of other emotions. furthermore, labeling emotions with specific colors doesn't work as a one-size-fits-all solution, since color is a very personal experience people feel very differently about the same color. While it is vital to teach children to identify their emotions, it is just as important to help them understand that it is normal to feel more than one single emotion at a time, even about the same thing/person/idea. Love the collage-y illustrations of this picture book, but the text has some troubling issues. Instead, the country exhibited both coexistence and conflict, tolerance and prejudice. Contrary to the simplistic claims of nationalists and partitioners, she believes Bosnia was neither an ideal, harmonious society nor a land of constant and deep-rooted hatreds where unity was imposed from outside. Bringa weaves a rich tapestry of rural life in Bosnia and explores the nature of Muslim identity and interethnic relations on the eve of the war. A few years later the village was destroyed by Croat nationalist forces, and its four hundred Muslim inhabitants fled or died. The author conducted field work in a Muslim-Croat village in central Bosnia during the late 1980s. Tone Bringa's Being Muslim the Bosnian Way is a classic work of ethnography with a unique political and strategic dimension. The volumes represent specific fields of inquiry - anthropology, history, sociology, journalism, political science, and diplomacy, all of which complement one another to shape a comprehensive picture of Bosnian realities. The six books considered here span a broad spectrum of approaches and interpretations, offering an indispensable and sometimes controversial blend for understanding the roots of the Bosnian tragedy and its long-term ramifications. With Bosnia-Herzegovina poised between peace and partition, a wealth of new analyses has appeared, debating the sources and consequences of the breakup of multinational Yugoslavia and the disintegration of multi-ethnic Bosnia. Moomin reading7/4/2023 Mumintrollet | Moomintroll & Snusmumriken | Snufkin.Lokiitama Fandoms: Mumintroll | Moomins Series - Tove Jansson Language: English Words: 146,681 Chapters: 21/? Comments: 228 Kudos: 272 Bookmarks: 39 Hits: 6547 And Moomintroll wants to figure out what on earth it is that he wants. Snorkmaiden wants to be valued for herself, and finds beautiful magical beads. In which Snufkin wants to be free to be himself, and befriends a strange black fox. What could be messing with the growth cycles in the woods.? moomintroll keeps a diary like a healthy person yet still overthinks every little thing.tags are to be safe not a dark fic just an emotional one.little my neither helps nor hinders she is the embodiment of chaos.Mumintrollet | Moomintroll/Snusmumriken | Snufkin. FizzingWizard Fandoms: Mumintroll | Moomins Series - Tove Jansson, Moominvalley (Cartoon 2019) Demon copperfield7/4/2023 Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the story of an irrepressible boy nobody wants, but readers will love.” (Ron Charles, Washington Post)įrom the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero’s unforgettable journey to maturity "Demon is a voice for the ages-akin to Huck Finn or Holden Caulfield-only even more resilient.” -Beth Macy, author of Dopesick The war outside by monica hesse7/4/2023 Though vastly different, the two girls find themselves attracted to each other in more ways than one. Margot tries to keep her small family together as her pregnant mother sickens and her father is pushed by frustration and persecution into Nazi ideology. Army, and resenting her secretive father for their situation, starts pulling away from her family. Haruko, fearing for her brother, Ken, serving in the 442nd division of the U.S. Different from the War Relocation Authority internment camps, these are specifically meant for enemy aliens, with the possibility of repatriation to their birth countries. In 1944, teenagers Haruko Tanaka and Margot Krukow are imprisoned with their families in Crystal City, a Department of Justice family internment camp for Japanese- and German-born prisoners of war. Interned in a Texas camp during World War II, Japanese-American Haruko and German-American Margot watch their families fall apart and are driven to depend on each other, even if they should not. Vagabond volume 1 english7/4/2023 That’s how subtle and crazy perfect the art is. Imagine trying to draw concealed longing and frustration on a young girl’s face in a single panel - I’m looking at that page right now and Inoue nails it. His character’s are drawn perfectly, there isn’t a single panel in which I felt he’d cut a corner - visually this is definitely a Japanese comic but eschews that cartoony manga aesthetic, opting for straight up drama. But their destinies will change at a small house in the woods where 3 young women live with secrets - and danger is on its way!įirst, second and third points to be made about this book is the art - WOW! There aren’t many colour pages in this, but the opening first page is in colour where we see the battlefield with the rain coming down - it’s so cinematic, but Inoue manages to draw rain so perfectly you can hear and smell it. They set off on the path homewards but encounter enemy soldiers, scavengers and thieves and must fight to survive. We meet Takezo awakening from unconsciousness after the Battle of Sekigahara, somehow still alive with his best friend Matahachi: they are both 17 years old. “Vagabond” is Takehiko Inoue’s graphic novel adaptation of the 1930s historical novel “Musashi” by Eiji Yoshikawa, about a real life historical figure from 17th century Japan, Shinmen Takezo, who would go on to become the legendary sword saint Miyamoto Musashi. Denise giardina7/4/2023 Charlotte is cast as a discontented, prudish yet serially lovesick, selfish, vindictive older sister. In her “reading group guide” notes, she declares how the Brontes’ story has always been Charlotte’s, thus leading to her reimagining of Emily’s story. Giardina seems intentionally to make Anne a thin character and Charlotte a reprehensible one. This last is the most disturbing characteristic of the book. The perspective is hers, the tone is hers, and all the admirable attributes are hers, too. However, the story is Emily’s and Emily’s alone. Insofar as Charlotte and Anne (and even the short-lived Maria and Elizabeth) appear as characters in the book, it is a novel about the Bronte sisters and their whole household. Had this book been touted as an inside look at the underappreciated life of Emily Bronte, I might have enjoyed it more, but I was constantly at odds with it because it most certainly was not “a novel of the Bronte sisters.” Second, the quote from Booklist, which proclaims the book “A convincing imagining of the Bronte story, perfect for Bronte fans.” If devotees of Charlotte and her Jane Eyre may be included among “Bronte fans,” then this statement is a lie. First, the subtitle, A Novel of The Bronte Sisters: This book is not about the Bronte sisters. The cover of Emily’s Ghost makes two misleading statements. Sister killjoy7/3/2023 Her narrative style does not conform to the standards of the traditional novel in that she mixes genres throughout the course of her work as a way of defying Western conventions in storytelling. She reverses the colonial travel narrative and criticizes colonization and its lasting impacts on Africa, the “artificiality” of life and the “coldness” of existence in the West, and Western advancement and technology. Through the character of Sissie, Aidoo challenges Western metaphysics and epistemology on which colonization and its notions of Otherness are grounded. She subverts the discourse of Orientalism, which “constructs and dominates Orientals in the process of knowing them”. In Our Sister Killjoy, the Ghanaian writer, Ama Ata Aidoo, domesticates the novel as a strategy for decolonization by re-presenting the “story of Africa”: employing a narrative style and engaging with subject matter that asserts the difference of Africa and Africans from Europeans. Endless night by richard laymon7/3/2023 stalking/killing innocents Crime Thriller - Yes Crime plotlets: - escape/rescue from kidnappers Is MAIN CHARACTER an EVIL criminal? - Yes If story PRIMARILY about main chr. Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book (people, objects, places) 10% Tone of story - scarey (primal ax-wielding fear) of violence and chases 30% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives 20% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 40% How society works & physical descript. As Evelyn and Jody brave waking up the parents in the house Evelyn is murdered with a spear. Click on a plot link to find similar books! Plot & Themes Composition of Book descript. Jody is sleeping over at her best friend Evelyn’s house when Evelyn shakes her awake in the dead of night and claims that a window downstairs has been broken. Endless Night has a typical Laymon plot - he takes normal people, puts them in a crazy, violent situation, and then makes them run for their lives. |