![]() There are several instances where they end up spending time together- lunch with Maria, dinner with Yaz’s dad and Maria. He’s handsome and she quickly realizes that he is a really good father. Yazmine and Tomas meet when Tomas is participating in a father-daughter dance routine in the recital. Yaz deems him in need of her “Perfect Partner” and they both believe that Yaz is not a perfect partner. Maria’s mom left shortly after her birth and because of that, Tomas is not interested in getting involved in a short term relationship, he wants to make sure Maria has stability and consistency in her life. ![]() He doesn’t intend to be absent in Maria’s life and really desires to make a good life for Maria so that means he works too much. One of her students is little Maria, who has a dad that doesn’t show up when he is supposed to and Yaz is mad at him for it, even though she doesn’t know it. Yaz has been back home for almost two years caring for her father and teaching at the local dance school. Right before her dad fell ill, she was struggling in New York because of a bad relationship and was doubting if it was really for her. She went to New York after high school and was working in the industry but left New York when her dad got cancer. Yazmine, our heroine, has been a dancer since she was a young girl. I was a little worried about reading two dance related books so close together, and although they share several common things like Latinx author, Latinx characters, and dancing, they are very different. ![]() ![]() ![]() His Perfect Partner by Priscilla Oliveras ![]()
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5/23/2023 0 Comments Theory by Dionne Brand![]() ![]() While Brand is best-known for her award-winning poetry, her prose is able to engage with readers through a more complete narrative.īoth Theory and The Blue Clerk were released on Sept. She also read from her new novel, Theory, which centres on a PhD student attempting to write her dissertation. ![]() “I have an unwise amount of faith in what language can do,” Brand said about writing poetry. In it, she details the interactions between an author, and the titular Blue Clerk, who have a turbulent relationship. ![]() The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos is Brand’s newest book of poetry, her last was Ossuaries, released in 2010. Throughout the event, Smith invited the audience to follow along with the poetry readings if they had copies of the book, announcing page numbers to flip to, reminiscent of a class reading a textbook. I think the author’s ambiguity on the narrator’s name, gender and race is curious Brand, a Black Canadian author, is well known for writing about gender, sexuality and race. The event was co-presented by the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival and Guelph Jazz Colloquium. 14, professor and author Dionne Brand spoke about her new works, The Blue Clerk and Theory, with Professor Winston Smith of Seneca College. In an on-stage interview at the Art Gallery of Guelph on Friday, Sept. Poet, novelist, essayist, and U of G professor ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments A scandal in spring![]() But the CBI provides a single voice on common concerns, such as skills or corporate tax. If the CBI is beyond saving, does it matter? Firms also belong to sectoral bodies like the ABI, and the biggest have their own government contacts. “Whether that is possible”, wrote Mr McBride, “I simply don’t know.” ![]() Mr McBride now promises “zero tolerance” of sexual harassment and bullying, top-to-bottom training, improved recruitment procedures and a whistle-blowing channel outside the organisation.Īll this is to regain members’ lost trust before the CBI presents a reformed version of itself to (remaining) members at an extraordinary general meeting in June. It had believed the CBI’s corporate culture “was among the very best”-yet “we failed to filter out culturally toxic people” when hiring them, and “victims of harassment or violence” felt “their only option” was to go to the Guardian. In a contrite letter on April 24th the CBI’s president, Brian McBride, a former head of Amazon’s British arm, told members of his board’s “shame” and “bewilderment”. Some have quit altogether, including the John Lewis Partnership and Kingfisher, two retailers Aviva, an insurer, and the Association of British Insurers ( ABI), a trade body and NatWest, a bank. Ministers and officials have dropped contact so have many of the CBI’s 190,000 members. ![]() ![]() ![]() The CBI’s reputation has gone from worthy-but-dull to downright poisonous. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Forbid Me by M. Robinson![]() The feeling is so intense that it becomes a part of you. Have you ever wanted something so badly that it consumed your very being? Something that you could practically taste on your tongue? Something that was all you thought about, day in and day out? God only knows if we would ever get to that point. It took us a long time to get to this point, but we made it here nonetheless. I know it didn’t make any sense, what woman wanted to be older? No one would understand until they knew our history and walked a mile in my shoes. I secretly loved it when he called me by my full name. I beamed, peeking up at him through my lashes. The possessiveness of his words radiated all around me. I know you’re ancient and all, but fuck.” I grinned, trying to lighten the mood. “Why? Why is it so wrong? I’m not a child anymore. ![]() What we’re doing, what we’ve been doing since you were fifteen behind everyone’s backs is fucking wrong.” I’ve always loved you, but that doesn’t change the fact that this is wrong. It’s that simple for me.” I shrugged again. The gesture immediately reminding me how they felt wrapped around my body. ![]() ![]() He took a deep breath, his masculine chest lifting before he crossed his chiseled, muscular arms over his chest. If I can see them, then they can see us.” We spent endless nights outside together. ![]() It gave me a sense of comfort like it had when I was a child. We were standing outside on the beach that held so many memories. The bright full moon loomed over the horizon like a beacon. “Stop,” Jacob warned as I tried to pull him closer to me by his shirt. ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. The ALC?s leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji?s darkest secret: the cult?s bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all. But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. ![]() Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can?t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. His kingdom is near.Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him?the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world?s population. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Archenemies by marissa meyer![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nova wants vengeance against the so-called heroes who once failed her when she needed them most.īut as Nova, her feelings for Adrian are deepening, despite the fact that he is the son of her sworn enemies and, unbeknownst to Nova, he has some dangerous secrets of his own. She works with Adrian’s patrol unit to protect the weak and maintain order in Gatlon City.Īs Nightmare, she is an Anarchist - a group of villains who are determined to destroy the Renegades. Nova’s double life is about to get a lot more complicated:Īs Insomnia, she is a full-fledged member of the Renegades, a syndicate of powerful and beloved superheroes. The Renegades Trilogy continues, in this fiercely awaited second installment after the New York Times- bestselling Renegades by Marissa Meyer, author of the Lunar Chronicles.īut they are each other’s worst nightmare. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The judges describe the spread as “‘a rich mix of well-established, early career and debut novelists whose work ranges from historical fiction to fabulism and psychologism”. Nardi Simpson’s Song of the crocodile ((on my TBR and will definitely be read this year).Philip Salom’s The fifth season (on my TBR) ( Lisa’s review).Mirandi Riwoe’s Stone sky, gold mountain (on my TBR).Laura Jean Mckay’s The animals in that country (my, I wish I’d read this already, given its popularity on awards lists).Amanda Lohrey’s The Labyrinth ( Lisa’s review).Sofie Laguna’s Infinite Splendours (on my TBR and will definitely be read this year). ![]() Daniel Davis Wood’s At the edge of the solid world.Aravind Adiga’s Amnesty ( Lisa’s review). ![]() ![]() For all the horror and adventure that characterize the stories, you miss the essence of Supernatural if you don’t discuss that, and so we dedicate this book to family. However ironic it might seem, Supernatural Psychology: Roads Less Traveled may be the most down-to-earth book we’ve written yet. Here, we have landed on a version of our contemporary world, one where ghosts lurk in shadows, monsters inhabit the countryside, demons and angels clash while humanity gets caught in between, and two brothers ride ready to take them all on. 2 Other psychologists and accomplices have joined this excursion, crossing space and time in the topics we’ve covered 3 before coming back to the here and now. 1 Through the books that have followed, figures along this road have included zombies, dragons, time travelers, more superheroes, and mortals who must deal with them all. Where does any journey begin, and when? When you get into a vehicle or before that when you pack your bags, when you make the choice, when you develop a preference behind the choice, where your parents met? My life’s journey took a detour when my son Nicholas and I discovered our love of fan conventions, and my decision that summer to write about a bat-themed superhero has kept me off the main highway ever since. We traveled a long road to get here and would be hard pressed to say where the road began or when we merged onto it. ![]() ![]() # The Family That Hunts Together # – I – # Travis Langley, PhD # Editor # ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The slade house book![]() ![]() Here, regular human beings can be born psychic and many different types of souls and soul-eaters exist. Slade House continues building on this mythology, deepening the complex rules of Mitchell's universe. Mitchell's The Bone Clocks, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, is dark and fantasy-driven - set in a world where reincarnation is routine and evil beings consume others' souls to remain immortal. Adding to that original, Slade House is a single novel narrated from five different viewpoints. ![]() After writing a Twitter short story, "The Right Sort," in 280 tweets during the summer of 2014, the author realized that he had the beginnings of a book. ![]() If you've ever wondered what David Mitchell is all about but have never had time to read one of his hefty tomes, the slimmer Slade House delivers an intense yet fully authentic Mitchell experience. This ghost story, that David Mitchell started on Twitter, is his most accessible novel yet. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Three daughters of china book![]() ![]() ![]() This was China still under the rule of warlords. Starting in 1909, Jung Chang starts to tell us about her grandmother Yu-fang who became the concubine of a warlord general at a tender age of fifteen in year 1924. ![]() The book cover gives you a feel for the story that is within and also an indication that it is not a work of fiction. The most interesting part is the side strip showing photographs of three women – three generations – author Jung Chang in the bottom most image, her mother in the middle and her grandmother at the top. The Chinese representation of wild swans in done in red – probably symobilising the red rule. I read the 21 st anniversary edition of the book, published by Harper Press, with a cover page done in soothing marine blue-grey shades showing the name of the book and the author in orange. Wild Swans – Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang | Book Review ![]() |
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