![]() Many YA novels featuring LGBT characters rely on “coming out” as a main point of tension-not so with Amelia Westlake. The two main characters are each other’s perfect comedic foil, but they also come across as real people. Will is abrasive about every injustice, imagining the worst of everyone and not realizing her own biases. Harriet imagines that those in positions of authority know best, preferring not to rock the boat even when she is the one being mistreated. ![]() Will and Harriet take on sexual harassment, systemic bias, and economic privilege, all while maintaining their own separate journeys that are relatable and not without fault. ![]() Another thing they find hard to resist? Each other.Īmelia Westlake Was Never Here is a fun and engrossing YA novel that manages to be about social justice without being exhausting or didactic. Amelia quickly becomes the talk of the school, and Will and Harriet find it hard to resist using Amelia to right all the injustices of the administration. ![]() After accidentally collaborating on a comic about his behavior, the two create a pseudonym, Amelia Westlake, to get the comic printed in the student-run newspaper. The only thing they have in common at Rosemead private school for girls is that they both think something needs to be said about Coach Hadley, the prized staff member at Rosemead who keeps making inappropriate comments to the students. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() Taylor, one of the leaders, worked at the same institute that Hideo’s mother worked at. ![]() Tremaine gets some information for Emika about the Blackcoats. Emika goes with the Phoenix Riders to this party. He shows Emika how to do that, accidentally revealing a memory of his old life. Zero tells Emika that she has to contact Hideo, meet him and then get into his head during the tournament so that she can insert a virus to stop the algorithm from happening. Criminals have started committing suicide and all because of it. Jax takes her to Zero who explains how Hideo’s algorithm has the ability to control people. She’s at the top of the list of people to be assassinated. Emika is contacted by Zero and offered the job again to work for the Blackcoats. There are only a few days before the Closing Ceremony of the tournament until all the contact lenses become tied to the algorithm. The book starts right where Warcross ended. At first, she tries to stop him but then gets confused but the book ends with a happy-ever-after so your typical YA story. Emika Chen knows the truth behind Hideo Tanaka’s NeuroLink. ![]() ![]() Again, though, the Georgics are more complex than they first seem, as the work shifts between praising the ease and joy of farming, and highlighting the tragedies of disease and natural disasters. His second major work, the Georgics, follows the form of earlier didactic Greek works, supposedly teaching lessons about farming. On the surface, these poems are about singing shepherds and countryside life, but they already contain the themes of love, heartbreak, and loss of homeland that run throughout so much of Virgil's work. ![]() At around age 28, he began writing his first major work, the Eclogues, a collection of ten pastoral poems. ![]() He was probably from a well-off, landowning family, because they had the money to send him to study throughout Italy. No biography of Virgil from his time survives, but scholars have pieced together his probable life story from commentaries on his works. ![]() ![]() ![]() As Bulfinch wrote, "Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. ![]() He provides lively versions of the myths of Zeus and Hera, Venus and Adonis, Daphne and Apollo, and their cohorts on Mount Olympus the love story of Pygmalion and Galatea the legends of the Trojan War and the epic wanderings of Ulysses and Aeneas the joys of Valhalla and the furies of Thor and the tales of Beowulf and Robin Hood. For the Greek myths, Bulfinch drew on Ovid and Virgil, and for the sagas of the north, from Mallet's Northern Antiquities. The stories are divided into three sections: The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes (first published in 1855) The Age of Chivalry (1858), which contains King Arthur and His Knights, The Mabinogeon, and The Knights of English History and Legends of Charlemagne or Romance of the Middle Ages (1863). For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of the gods and goddesses, Greek and Roman antiquity Scandinavian, Celtic, and Oriental fables and myths and the age of chivalry have been known. ![]() ![]() ![]() While reading, I thought, “I, too am tuna salad at my core.” Throughout my life, I’ve understood my desirability as in conflict with my tuna salad core. ![]() If tuna is obtrusively smelly, ethnically distinct, and unsexy, in Milk Fed, Broder gives it an overt and lively sexuality. I’m a tuna fish salad sandwich.īroder’s latest novel, Milk Fed, is a reclaiming of tuna salad identity. He’s in love with this girl Brenda who is from a nouveau-riche, more Americanized, nose-jobbed, Jewish family. Philip Roth, may he rest in peace-in Goodbye, Columbus, the narrator is from a poor, Newark, mayonaisy, tuna salady, white fish salady Jewish family. I identify at my core level as a tuna salad sandwich. In her podcast “Eating Alone in my Car,” she gives a literary framing for her conceit of tuna salad as a symbol of marginality and unassimilated Jewishness: Broder allowed me to think of this act as feminist. ![]() Let it be known that I have eaten a tuna salad sandwich on an everything bagel during rush hour on the subway. From her popular twitter account Broder tweeted, “The seventh wave of feminism is a moist tuna salad sandwich ingested on public transport.” ![]() The “salad” part, as she points out, adds to the embarrassment one feels when ordering at a deli. I’ve long related to Melissa Broder’s musings on tuna salad. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But as they dig their way closer the truth, they find themselves in danger from forces who will do anything to keep it buried. Determined to get to the bottom of things, Inspector Pitt begins his investigation within the proper channels while his intrepid wife Charlotte renews a tie from her past to get inside Lord Fitzroy-Hammond's world. While the doctor insists Lord Fitzroy-Hammond died a natural death, the Pitts find the situation anything but natural. ![]() Even more shocking-it is the body of a peer of the realm who had been decently buried the week before. After a wonderful night at the theatre, Thomas and Charlotte find themselves confronted with a corpse in the driver's seat of a hansom cab. |a Fourth in the series of Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mysteries, Anne Perry's Resurrection Row explores the dark undercurrents that run through the lives of the idle rich in Victorian England. |a 1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 10 min.)) : |b digital. |a 1449879535 |q (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Billy Lynn, one of eight surviving members of the celebrated Bravo Squad, returns stateside from Iraq for an eight-day victory tour, he finds himself a national hero. But one novel this year blew the top of my head off like no other, and that was Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain. I've been crowing about a number of novels this year, from Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins, to Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette, both brilliant and inventive. The last novel that knocked me for this kind of a whammy was Hesh Kestin's criminally underappreciated The Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats, which left me breathless with its mastery of character and suspense.Ģ012 has been a banner year for literary fiction. In many cases, I'll purchase this novel, over and over and over, and put it in the hands of readers. Jonathan Evison's latest novel is The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving.Įvery two or three years, if I'm lucky, I get my hands on a novel that I simply can't shut up about, a novel I shout from my humble mountaintop to anyone who will listen, a novel that I hand-sell any time I have a literate audience of one or more. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Author Ben Fountain ![]() ![]() ![]() Initially the police force, headed up by Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, a plump, middle-aged detective from the Sûreté du Quebec, believe her death to be the result of a hunting accident however as the investigation continues, Gamache comes to the realization that the popular and much-loved Jane Neal was murdered - and by someone who knew her. Set in a small village community in Quebec called Three Pines, we meet retired school teacher Jane Neal, who, after years spent painting in private, is now ready to display her latest piece of art - however, before her work goes on general display, she is found dead in the woods killed by an arrow straight through the heart. ![]() ![]() Louise Penny’s murder mystery novels have been recommended to me by more than one person, so, having owned the first of the Inspector Gamache novels for a while, I thought the time had come for me to actually read it. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, with a little experience, people realize the fulcrum moves in the direction the bottom of the foot faces when placed on the foot wheel. Some may find this counter intuitive, since usually things are tightened by turning clockwise. To stiffen the spring (as if tightening it), the foot wheel is usually turned counter clockwise. The fulcrum on competitive diving boards travels over a range of 0.61 metres (24 inches), and is set by way of a foot wheel that is approximately 0.35 m (14 in) in diameter. Typically the resonance frequency can be adjusted over a range of a 2:1 or 3:1 ratio. Since the resulting system is in an approximately linear regime, it may be modeled fairly accurately by a second order differential equation. When loaded with a diver, the combination of the diver's approximately constant mass, and the constant stiffness of the spring(board) result in a resonance frequency that is adjustable by way of the spring constant (set by the fulcrum position). Springboards are usually operated in a linear regime where they approximately obey Hooke's law. The spring constant of a springboard is usually adjusted by way of a fulcrum that is located approximately mid way along the springboard. Adjusting fulcrum with foot prior to a dive ![]() ![]() ![]() And with the liberation of Rome in June 1944, ultimate victory at last began to seem inevitable.ĭrawing on a wide array of primary source material, written with great drama and flair, this is narrative history of the first rank. Led by Lieutenant General Mark Clark, one of the war’s most complex and controversial commanders, American officers and soldiers became increasingly determined and proficient. ![]() The battles at Salerno, Anzio, and Monte Cassino were particularly difficult and lethal, yet as the months passed, the Allied forces continued to drive the Germans up the Italian peninsula. ![]() But once under way, the commitment to liberate Italy from the Nazis never wavered, despite the agonizingly high price. The Italian campaign’s outcome was never certain in fact, Roosevelt, Churchill, and their military advisers engaged in heated debate about whether an invasion of the so-called soft underbelly of Europe was even a good idea. Now, in The Day of Battle, he follows the strengthening American and British armies as they invade Sicily in July 1943 and then, mile by bloody mile, fight their way north toward Rome. In An Army at Dawn-winner of the Pulitzer Prize-Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. “A triumph of narrative history, elegantly written, thick with unforgettable description and rooted in the sight and sounds of battle.” ![]() The Day of Battle The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 Volume Two of the Liberation Trilogy ![]() |