![]() 11) Both loving and lusty, he was not quite the romantic protagonist that he envisioned himself to be, and he struggled with love, the lack of it, in his life. ![]() “Our hero was not one of those Dominican cats everybody’s always going on about-he wasn’t no home-run hitter or a fly bachatero, not a playboy with a million hots on his jock.” (pg. ![]() As he grew up, and out, girls lost interest, but he didn’t. When he was young and charming he was compared to famous Dominican lovers and actors, he was a player. In the novel, Oscar is a hopeless romantic. In his novel “The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” he writes about both familial love and romantic love through the Dominican culture, both in a separate, dynamic ways. He is a modern artist who appeals to modern people through pop culture and brutal honesty. ![]() Junot Díaz is an author known to write on the topic of love. Love is fundamental to being Human. Latinx cultural love is only a different flavor of the same food. Romantic and Familial Love in the Dominican Republic ![]()
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![]() When he looked down the barrel of that gun he believed it was destiny: It's been one year to the day since a tragic act of physics shattered his world. Shandi doesn't know that her blond god Thor has his own complications. She's got enough complications without getting caught in the middle of a stick-up and falling in love with William Ashe, who willingly steps between the robber and her son. Shandi Pierce is juggling finishing college, raising her delightful three-year-old genius son Nathan, aka Natty Bumppo, and keeping the peace between her eternally warring, long-divorced parents. Someone Else's Love Story is beloved and highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Joshilyn Jackson's funny, charming, and poignant novel about science and miracles, secrets and truths, faith and forgiveness about falling in love, and learning that things aren't always what they seem-or what we hope they will be. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The journeys of Jemma and the Woolsey sisters will have readers celebrating those who came before us, who fought for what they knew was right, and became timeless women ahead of their times." Lisa Wingate, number 1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours and The Book of Lost Friends "From Southern spies to nurses on the northern battlefields, Sunflower Sistersweaves an exquisite tapestry of women determined to defy the molds the world has for them. ![]() Kelly tells this story without either romanticizing or sweeping over the horrors that split the nation in the nineteenth century and continues to do so today." The Spokesman Review It's the women and their activism that tell the story of the struggle to end slavery. but there is also much hope and joy in the courage, fortitude and victories of those courageous and determined to succeed and survive." Fredericksburg Free Lance Star Much of Sunflower Sisters is heartbreaking. "Kelly's prose flows beautifully across every page, bringing to life the women impacted by the horrific war that tore apart the country and countless families. It's a read filled with sisterhood, risk, reward, and plenty of fodder for book clubs." Entertainment Weekly Sunflower Sisters took me on a journey that swept me up in its pages and left me pondering deeper truths in the end. "A beautifully written, intricately researched window into the lives of women in a world we can scarcely imagine today. ![]() Jenna rainey watercolor book6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Each painting has its own folder on my computer where I keep all of the scanned pieces. A full sheet painting typically takes about 10 pieces to scan the entire piece. ![]() The colors in this high-quality image accurately represent the colors in my paintings. This will help to ensure that you can access them in the future.Īs a result of scanning my paintings, I find images that are roughly the same size as the paintings themselves. Remove any dust or scratches that may be present. Use a file format that is appropriate for watercolor images. This will help to capture all the small details in your watercolor images. This will help to ensure that your scans are clear and accurate. Here are some tips to get good scans of your watercolor images: 1. Watercolor images can be tricky to scan because they are often delicate and have a lot of small details. ![]() ![]() ![]() Afraid and bewildered, Dorothy and Toto are eventually set down in a mysterious land which they later identify as the Land of Oz. One day, however, a treacherous cyclone sweeps across the prairie and catches hold of the house while Dorothy and her beloved pet dog Toto are still inside. The novel commences with the introduction of Dorothy, a young orphan girl who is taken in and raised by her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em in their dreary farm home in Kansas. Serving as an inspiration throughout generations, the children’s novel has been represented through various cinema adaptations and musicals. Trapped in an unknown land, Dorothy must find a way back home and subsequently embarks on an adventure and meets a group of colorful characters along the way. One of the greatest American novels and a popular culture sensation, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz depicts the adventures of the young Dorothy Gale, who is swept away from her colorless farm home in Kansas by a cyclone, and winds up in the magical Land of Oz. ![]() Lisa fipps books6/7/2023 ![]() It’s also where she can get away from her pushy mom, who thinks criticizing Ellie’s weight will motivate her to diet.įortunately, Ellie has allies in her dad, her therapist, and her new neighbor, Catalina, who loves Ellie for who she is. In the water, she can stretch herself out like a starfish and take up all the room she wants. To cope, she tries to live by the Fat Girl Rules - like “no making waves,” “avoid eating in public,” and “don’t move so fast that your body jiggles.”Īnd she’s found her safe space - her swimming pool - where she feels weightless in a fat-obsessed world. Starfish, by Lisa Fipps, is a story of self-acceptance and self-advocacy.Įver since Ellie wore a whale swimsuit and made a big splash at her fifth birthday party, she’s been bullied about her weight. STARFISH, by Lisa Fipps, Nancy Paulsen Books, March 9, 2021, Hardcover, $17.99 (ages 10 and up) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() runs the risk of collapsing of its own weight. In a review for the New York Times, Janet Maslin describes Chabon's third novel as excitingly imaginative with loving if sometimes windy detail. Ken Kalfus, also writing for the New York Times, celebrates Chabon's passionate. Stewart O'Nan, writing for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, compliments Chabon's larger-than-life comic book style of writing but feels that the length makes this grandiose language exhausting for the reader: ∺t its best, Kavalier and Clay is a heady, frothy concoction, finely drawn and broadly comic, but in its own baroqueness. The book is far more complicated than this short summary can indicate. ![]() ![]() As an adolescent in Prague, Joe trained as a magician and. Home USA Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael. Tom Deignan and other critics have observed that, with The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Chabon has finally come into his own as a writer. The central comic-book hero created by Kavalier and Clay, the Escapist, is paralleled by Joe Kavalier, a real-life escape artist. Sammy finds out that Joe speaks passable English and is an artist. Joe Kavalier, Sam's Czech cousin is dumped onto Sam's bed in an apartment in Brooklyn, NY. When the book starts, Sam's name is Sammy Klayman. Chabon has been popular with readers and favored by critics since the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, in 1988. Chapter 1: Sam Clay is reminiscing about his comic book career. ![]() Scarry on beauty and being just6/6/2023 ![]() Presenting us with a rare and exceptional opportunity to witness fairness, beauty assists us in our attention to justice. Scarry argues that our responses to beauty are perceptual events of profound significance for the individual and for society. ![]() Taking inspiration from writers and thinkers as diverse as Homer, Plato, Marcel Proust, Simone Weil, and Iris Murdoch as well as her own experiences, Scarry offers up an elegant, passionate manifesto for the revival of beauty in our intellectual work as well as our homes, museums, and classrooms. In On Beauty and Being Just Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from the political arguments against it but also argues that beauty does indeed press us toward a greater concern for justice. Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues that it is the handmaiden of privilege and that it masks political interests. ![]() Exile by Shannon Messenger6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Sophie is tasked with helping to train the magical creature so that the Alicorn can be revealed to the people of the lost cities as a sign of hope, and Sophie wants to believe that the recent drama and anguish is gone for good. And it helps that living at Havenfield means getting to spend time with rare, precious species-including the first female Alicorn, who shows herself to Sophie and trusts no one but her. Sophie is settling in nicely to her new home and her new life in the world of the lost cities. ![]() A New York Times bestselling series A USA TODAY bestselling series A California Young Reader Medal-winning series Sophie befriends the mythical Alicorn and puts her mysterious powers to the test in this enchanting second book in the Keeper of the Lost Cities series. ![]() A Winter Book by Tove Jansson6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() (She has plenty of canned food: she is mostly worried about her Madeira.) She keeps putting off her tasks.and then the squirrel arrives. ![]() In "The Squirrel" an aging woman, alone on her island as winter approaches, keeps reminding herself of the supplies she wants to replenish before she can no longer get her boat out. The story that leads off the last section, and the only one written in third-person, is my favorite. ![]() When she is older, she sets out to sail solo around the archipelago, at the wink of her mother, hoping to dodge her father. She rolls a huge stone home up the stairs she tags along oblivious to where she's not wanted she claims an iceberg as her own. The stories of the first two sections are the first-person narrations of an unnamed, feisty, stubborn young child. Not that all of these stories, selected from Jansson's earlier collections and most previously untranslated, are set in winter-or even in the winter of a life, though those of the third, and last, section are. Last July I read Jansson's The Summer Book and then bought this one, saving it for the winter. ![]() |