5/28/2023 0 Comments Dark places by gillian flynnIn the many years since that horrible night, she has been living off of donations from well-wishers but she’s old news now. Libby Day is the lone survivor of a massacre that killed her sisters and mother and put her brother behind bars for committing the crime. Libby is sheltered and mean, defensive and entitled, damaged and ruined before she even had a chance to begin her life. It isn’t a good life it isn’t even a passable life. Call it a sophomore slump, but while it’s still better than most of the crap posing as thrillers these days, this one just missed the mark.ĭark Places takes us into the life of Libby Day. Her second novel, Dark Places, proves that she is fallible. In her third, the bestselling Gone Girl, her characters were less likable but her plotting was absolutely brilliant. In her first book, Sharp Objects, author Gillian Flynn brought us a deeply flawed and fragile heroine in a perilous and sadly familiar situation.
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5/27/2023 0 Comments The castle of glass bookI held out with mixed emotions and still find myself amazed and thinking about the journeys taken.…I am the same age as Jeannette Walls. Must tell you… at first I wanted to put the book down and not hear about the “abusive” nature of the story. "Have been meaning to thank you again for another sleepless night reading! "Just finished Glass Castle…wonderful book…I was sad when it ended because I wanted to keep reading!" "I just finished the book and thought it was a knockout" 8 (Thursday): Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle, speaks at Convocation: 6 p.m. Ongoing: View the video of the 2011 Convocation ceremony. More info: 81 or email 5 (Wednesday): CSUN students to experience " poverty simulation" sponsored by Unified We Serve RSVP to 81 or email 1 (Tuesday): Food Security Panel, Community Engagement Discussion Series. 1 (Tuesday): Unfied We Serve Thanksgiving Banquet: launch of the Third Annual Campus Food & Clothing Drive. 1-17 (Tuesday-Thursday): Third Annual Campus Food & Clothing Drive. 16 (Wednesday): Campus Food Drive Display, Oviatt Library Grand Staircase. 17 (Thursday): Closing ceremony, Campus Food Drive. 1 (Wednesday-Thursday): Freshman Celebration, USU Grand Salon. Song of the Sun God is about the wisdom, mistakes and sacrifices of our past that enable us to live more freely in the future. Funny, warm and tender, we see Nala and Rajan’s family navigate war, migration, old loyalties and new beginnings, relying on the philosophy of their religion, their ancestors and each other. Song of the Sun God spans three continents and three generations of a family that remains dedicated to its homeland, whilst learning to embrace its new home. Over time, Nala and Rajan teach their family why some parts of their history and heritage are worth holding onto and why some parts and people have to be left behind. Arranged in marriage, they learn to love each other and protect their growing family, against the backdrop of increasing ethnic tension.Īs the country descends into a bloody civil war, Nala and Rajan must decide which path is best for their family and live with the consequences of their mistakes. Nala and Rajan, a young couple, begin their married life in 1946, on the eve of Ceylon’s independence from Britain. Song of the Sun God spans three continents and three generations of a family that remains dedicated to its homeland, whilst learning to embrace its new home. 5/27/2023 0 Comments Alone book lisa gardnerAs others close to Catherine begin dying, investigators go after both her and Bobby, claiming that he was lured into some intricate murder conspiracy by Catherine Gagnon. He also blames her for the unexplained illnesses that have plagued his grandson. Her father-in-law, powerful Judge Gagnon, blames Catherine for his son's death via Bobby's bullet. Now, twenty years later, she suddenly finds herself in the media limelight once more. But she survived and eventually identified Richard Umbrio as the man who'd kidnapped and abused her. For weeks she was kept alive only by a cruel killer's whim. Again through his scope, he watches as the man falls dead at his wife's feet - and is then stunned when she turns, looks right at him, and mouths ' thank you'.Īs an innocent ten-year-old, Catherine Gagnon was snatched in broad daylight by a child predator and buried alive. Bobby has only seconds to make a life altering decision. Through his sniper scope, Bobby sees the man's finger tightening on the trigger. This time a gun wielding man has barricaded himself, his wife and his son in the upper floor of a Back Bay mansion. As one of the Team's snipers, his skills are even more critical in some instances. As a member of STOP (' State Police Special Tactics and Operations') he's used to being called out at least three times a month and on almost every holiday. Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge has just finished his shift when his beeper goes off, notifying him that a hostage situation is in progress. 5/27/2023 0 Comments Yoko writes her nameWhat’s in a name? For some children, it’s a link to their past, a reason to be bullied, a special meaning that boosts their self-esteem. In an immigration journey, a name is something that might be changed because it is hard to pronounce and remember. Perhaps one day he will appreciate the significance of it. Our son, more than his sisters, does not like his ethnic middle name. Korean tradition does NOT use names of relatives, but it was our way to remembering my husband’s father who passed away when he was very young. My daughters have Japanese names - Keiko and Miyako my son middle name, Gyung-Won, is the name of his Korean grandfather. Encourage empathy among kids by reading these children’s books about names! Inspirational stories to share the meaning and importance of names.Įach of my three children have a middle name that reflects part of their Korean/Japanese/Chinese ethnicity. 5/27/2023 0 Comments Wake by rebecca hallWe also follow Rebecca's own story as the legacy of slavery shapes her life, both during her time as a successful attorney and later as a historian seeking the past that haunts her. Using a "remarkable blend of passion and fact, action and reflection" (NPR), Rebecca constructs the likely pasts of Adono and Alele, women rebels who fought for freedom during the Middle Passage, as well as the stories of women who led slave revolts in Colonial New York. But Rebecca decides to look deeper, and her journey takes her through old court records, slave ship captain's logs, crumbling correspondence, and even the forensic evidence from the bones of enslaved women from the "negro burying ground" uncovered in Manhattan. The accepted history of slave revolts has always told her that enslaved women took a back seat. Rebecca Hall, a historian, granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. Women warriors planned and led revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage. A Best Book of 2021 by NPR and The Washington Post Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour de force that tells the "powerful" ( The New York Times Book Review) story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall's efforts to uncover the truth about these women warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record. 5/27/2023 0 Comments Boo! by Nick PageantThe main character signs up for a pageant to embarrass / rebel against her OTT pageant queen mom, played by Jen Aniston. Note: this point was better made by TLC when they discovered Honey Boo Boo. The main point of Dumplin is that overweight people can be in pageants. (Note: this point was better made by Kirstie Alley’s repeated appearances on Dancing with the Stars). The main point of Hairspray is that overweight people can be on arcane dancing reality shows. Pictured: us trying to work out why this movie is different from Hairspray. Dove Cameron plays the same character in Hairspray that she does in this - a bitchy skinny girl that’s a bitch just because she’s skinny. Cue “You Can’t Stop the Beat” from Hairspray…(and then continue to have that song stuck in your head for all of 2019). At its bones, this is just another liberation movie for overweight people. 5/27/2023 0 Comments Blade Runner by Philip K. DickDoug Trumbull had one of the best screening rooms I’ve ever seen. I planned on showing it to Dick in EEG’s screening room, which was pretty remarkable. “She told me to assemble an effects reel showing the best of the best. Dick was coming down at three in the afternoon for a screening,” Dryer recalls. “I got a call from one of the ladies at the production department saying that Philip K. But with barely two months left to live, Dick was able to see some footage of the film itself during a special screening arranged just for him-footage whose outstanding quality radically changed the writer’s mind. Dick worried that Blade Runner was going to trash his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, so he remained wary of the production, never visiting the set during filming. And we’re lucky enough to present a fascinating excerpt. With Blade Runner 2049 in theaters this week, interest is high for all things Runner-related – thus we have a new, “revised and updated edition” of the definitive behind-the-scenes account of its production, FUTURE NOIR: The Making of Blade Runner by Paul Sammon. Gradually, therefore, a turn to Black slavery occurred, as planters found that slaves were easier to control, cheaper in the long run, and solved the dangerous reliance on white indentured servitude. The roving population of poor white bachelors, constantly increasing (partly because of longer lifespans), posed a threat to the social order. They lacked land because of pressure from Indians on the borders, competition from other ex-servants, and the rich’s monopoly over ‘safe’ land. The problem was that as indentured servants (usually young men) kept being imported to work on plantations, rising numbers of poor ex-servants who lacked access to land swelled the colony. Morgan points out that almost up to the end of the seventeenth century in Virginia, social tensions between the ‘rabble’ and the large landowners continually threatened to break out into open conflict, as in Bacon’s Rebellion (1676). Also, perhaps, at least in Virginia, the limited democracy that existed in the late eighteenth century. The collection is accompanied by an essay from photography critic Owen Edwards and an interview with Zoltan Levay, who explains how the pictures are composed. Ultra-high resolution and taken with almost no background light, these pictures have answered some of the most compelling questions of time and space while also revealing new mysteries, like the strange "dark energy" that sees the universe expanding at an ever-accelerating rate. On the 30th anniversary of its launch into low-earth orbit, this updated edition of Expanding Universe presents 30 brand new images, unveiling more hidden gems from the Hubble's archives. With investigations into everything from black holes to exoplanets, the Hubble Telescope has changed not only the face of astronomy but also our very sense of being in the universe. |
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