5/23/2023 0 Comments Float by daniel miyares![]() ![]() I love all of the portraits so much! Each one has such personality shining through. ![]() We also have some incredible art happening! Thanks to Maggie in the Art and Discovery studio, we had the opportunity to paint our portraits with water colour paints. “Did you get an opportunity to be a writer or did you just do it?”Īnd they loved the read aloud! It looked something like this. I think my favourite question she was asked was this one: Students didn’t want to stop talking with her! Part of our celebration of writing was having author Bree Galbraith visit to talk with us about writing and to share her book Milo and Georgie. There are some beautiful samples of student writing shared there. My post on Sunday shared how we are Growing Writers. Writing has been a beautiful thing in our classroom. My Monday posts now also contain some sharing from my week in the classroom. The book love went to fly vomit and squishy spiders. Our #classroombookaday titles supported our study of insects and arachnids. Dory Fantasmagory fans being bothered by an even bigger Dory fan, their teacher (me!) being all excited that Dory is getting lots of love! I did leave them in peace after my happy dance. ![]() Each week I share at least one reading photo of the week. ![]()
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5/23/2023 0 Comments Fated by Benedict Jacka![]() ![]() He lives in a place that is part of our world, only it is hidden, tucked away in plain sight. The chapter cliffhangers of Benedict Jacka’s books have been especially praised.Īlex Verus is special. The author has since garnered considerable curiosity and interest from young as well as older readers, with the critical reception being largely positive. The first Alex Verus book in the series, for which he is best known, didn’t hit the shelves until 2012. The world was to be populated by a group of teenage elementals, the primary characters of the books he would set within this particular landscape. At the beginning of the new millennium, Benedict developed a new fantasy setting within which he would set his future books. It wasn’t until he wrote ‘To Be a Ninja’ that Benedict Jack finally saw success, this being his first non-fantasy children’s book. ![]() ![]() The first three fantasy books he wrote for children, unfortunately, went unpublished for various reasons. IN choosing to pursue writing as a career, Jacka chose children’s books as his playground. It was during his days in Cambridge that Jacka met Sophie Hicks, his editor from Ed Victor Ltd. He eventually graduated with a degree in Philosophy. He went to the City of London School before joining Cambridge University. He is primarily known for his work on the Alex Verus series of novels.īenedict Jacka was born in England. Benedict Jacka is a British author born in 1980. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Raven titans book![]() ![]() Trigon spared her and Arella after satisfying himself that, upon his return when she reached adulthood, he could seduce Raven into becoming his ally. ![]() Later, after Azar's death (in which she entered another plane of existence), when Raven was plagued by prophetic dreams of Trigon and, defying her teachers, she confronted her demon father in Limbo at his bidding. Azar, the spiritual leader of the temple, then took the young Raven under her personal tutelage, instructing her in the truth of her parentage, and in pacifism, meditation, and the submergence of her emotions to resist Trigon's influence, while perfecting her powers of teleportation, astral projection, and empathic healing. Fearing that the child would bring evil among them, Juris, a magistrate of Azarath, attempted to cast the infant Raven into Limbo, only to be destroyed himself. In their inter-dimensional world, Raven, Arella's daughter by Trigon, was born. ![]() Abandoned by the demon, Arella was bent on suicide (while carrying Raven) when she was taken in by the pacifistic disciples of Temple Azarath, a group who had centuries earlier forsaken life on Earth to pursue their own nonviolent lifestyle. ![]() Arella, Raven's mother, was chosen to become the bride of the demonic Trigon. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Hernan diaz trust review![]() ![]() The novel consists of four parts - a novel-within-a-novel, sketches of an autobiography, a memoir, and a journal. Trust holds a lot of promise, but it just didn't work for me. The result is a novel that spans over a century and becomes more exhilarating with each new revelation.Īt once an immersive story and a brilliant literary puzzle, TRUST engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the deceptions that often live at the heart of personal relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts. Hernan Diaz’s trust elegantly puts these competing narratives into conversation with one another-and in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth-all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. ![]() He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. ![]() An unparalleled novel about money, power, intimacy, and perceptionĮven through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. ![]() ![]() ![]() He taught at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), from 1966 to 1971 he then returned to UC Berkeley, where he remained until his retirement in 2003. He was the first in his family to attend college, graduating from the College of Wooster, and he earned his PhD in American history from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1967. During his youth, he was known as Ten-Toes Takaki for his hang-ten style of surfing. The grandson of Japanese immigrant plantation laborers in Hawaii, Ronald Toshiyuki Takaki was born in Honolulu. ![]() By highlighting their voices in songs, poetry, and oral history, Takaki made US history both readable and relatable. His lyrical storytelling featured the lives of seemingly ordinary people who made extraordinary contributions to the US economy, politics, and culture. His research and teaching foregrounded the experiences of racial and ethnic groups who had been excluded or marginalized in traditional historical accounts. ![]() On May 26, 2009, the historical discipline lost Ronald Takaki, one of the most preeminent scholars of American multicultural history. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Counterpoint by Rachel Haimowitz![]() ![]() The path of the Song of the Fallen novels was both particularly easy and particularly fraught- Counterpoint is now at its third publisher (if you count a brief interlude of self-pub), and Crescendo, the second book in the duology, is also at its third publisher without any self-pub interludes. One of the questions I-and probably most published authors-get asked the most often is how I got published. ![]() Hello all, and thank you so much for joining me to chat about the queer high fantasy duology Song of the Fallen! This series holds a particularly special place in my heart, not just because I absolutely adore high fantasy and sloooooooooooooow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance and there isn’t nearly enough of any of that to go round in queer fiction, but also because Counterpoint, the first book in the duology, was the first novel I ever sold. ![]() ![]() ![]() In essays that range from using fashion to present as high-functioning to the depths of a rare form of psychosis, and from the failures of the higher education system and the dangers of institutionalisation to the complexity of compounding factors such as PTSD and Lyme disease, Wang's analytical eye, honed as a former lab researcher at Stanford, allows her to balance research with personal narrative. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, Wang discusses the medical community's own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness, and then follows an arc that examines the manifestations of schizophrenia in her life. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esme Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the "collected schizophrenias" but to those who wish to understand it as well. ![]() An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. ![]() ![]() ![]() As all sides try to obtain the gold-glowing contents of the trunk, talking dolphins and a giant crocodile also make the scene. Several sea chases and battles and a couple of shipwrecks later, all the key players end up on the island of Mollusk. But all is not smooth sailing, as pirate Black Stache and his mates (including Smee) get wind of the treasure. On board, Peter meets Molly Aster (sharp readers will surmise she is an ancestor of Wendy), who reveals herself to Peter as a Starcatcher and imparts secrets of certain falling stars and the precious "starstuff" cache below deck. To be servants to the cruel King of Rundoon. ![]() Norbert's Home for Wayward Boys are shipped off on the ship Never Land As the novel opens, Peter and several others from St. Those curious about how Captain Hook lost his hand, why Peter never ages and can fly, and how a band of boys came to live in Never Land, will be sated by the magic-dusted plot points and the lively pirate confabulation here. Bestselling adult authors Barry and Pearson imagine a rollicking adventure as a prequel to J.M. ![]() ![]() An unexpected message arrives, begging her to travel to the remote and mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic. She thinks no one will take it seriously. And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was raised by strangers, she's used to being alone and she follows the rules.with one exception: an online account, where she posts videos "pretending" to be a witch. As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don't mingle and draw attention. ![]() ![]() ![]() A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family-and a new love-changes the course of her life. ![]() ![]() Pingback: How an inmate hacker hid computers in the ceiling and turned his prison upside down | BerniceMaxma. ![]() Pingback: How an inmate hacker hid computers in the ceiling and turned his prison upside down - Da Congregation Ent Pingback: How an inmate hacker hid computers in the ceiling and turned his prison upside down - We Are 10,000 ![]() Note: This story originally posted on October 24, 2013. “When people know the real stories of real people, they will recognize that our incarceration mania is a real problem.” ![]() While telling her story, Kerman makes a plea to the inmates in the audience: talk about your experience. “There are 700,000 people coming home from prison and jail every single year in this country,” she says. This real story fills in the gaps and answers some questions.” There is a mystery about things that happen in the dark and behind bars and fences. “Prison and prisoners are much hidden and unknown. “The men who curate and attend the TEDxMarionCorrectional repeatedly asked if we thought inviting her would bring the issue up to people who normally wouldn’t give it a thought,” they said. ( Watch three talks from it in 2012.) Event organizers Jo Dee Davis and Jordan Edelheit shared with the TED Blog their rationale for inviting Kerman to speak. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the well-heeled Smith College. ![]() This talk is especially powerful because it was given at TEDxMarionCorrectional, an event held inside a prison in Ohio that features talks from inmates and employees of the prison system. With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. ![]() |