![]() ![]() “How do you expect to survive a week in the car together if you can’t even get through dinner?” their mother chides in exasperation. Once upon a time, for then-4-year-old Raina, meeting newborn Amara was love at first sight alas, Amara’s response was an ear-piercing “WAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!” Adulthood must have calmed the friction electrifying these pages, because almost immediately, Raina is screaming “Why did I ever ask for a sister?!” after nearly coming to fisticuffs. Raina begins with “For Amara, obviously” – that’s her on the right of that cover, otherwise known as Raina’s younger sister. ![]() That missing 1/5 – Raina’s father – claims work responsibilities and opts to fly. That pivotal summer before, 4/5 of the family climbs into a VW microbus without air conditioning and road-trips from California to Colorado for a family reunion. In Sisters, she’s hasn’t quite shed her braces, but she’s heading to high school come fall. If the cover looks somewhat familiar, that’s because Sisters continues Raina Telgemeier’s highly entertaining (for the reader, certainly) coming-of-age escapades she shared in Smile, published four years ago to bestselling success. ![]()
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![]() In her review of A Complicated Kindness Magdalene Redekop, who identifies as Mennonite, discloses that she "had that rare and irrational feeling that this was a novel written just for me," which is exactly the same feeling that overcame me, a non-Mennonite, when I read All My Puny Sorrows. All My Puny Sorrows is viewed in this discussion as the final novel of Toews's trilogy of autofiction and is contextualized within a tradition of "sister-texts." The loss of home as experienced in the loss of the sister is felt as "the presence of absence." The essay argues that the consolation provided by reparative nostalgia engages the imagination, dream, and vision in ways that reinforce the inward movement to the heart and new directions of intimacy. ![]() ![]() ![]() This essay examines sister-loss and home-loss in Miriam Toews's All My Puny Sorrows, arguing that the novel's movement inward to the heart breaks away from established patterns of tension between past and present and between perceived margins and centers in Canadian Mennonite fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() The developer’s assistant resents his boss, and suspects that the developer was not only involved with the victim, but is being scammed by the arsonist. A property developer grieves too much over the victim’s death, while his wife shuts him out. The victim’s estranged husband has holes in his alibi. The quest for love and home becomes deadly when Detectives Erik Jansson and Deb Metzger search for the killer of an adulterous real estate agent.Ī volatile real estate market, unrest in a homeless encampment, jealousies among would-be lovers, a case of arson-these circumstances thwart G-Met detectives Erik Jansson and Deb Metzger as they investigate the murder of an adulterous woman. Priscilla Paton submerges the reader in a fast-paced mystery that tackles the societal implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on the housing market. NORTHFIELD, MN – A two-time Foreword Indie Book Award finalist returns with a thrilling addition to the Twin Cities mystery series, “When the House Burns” (Coffeetown Press, February 14th, 2023). ![]() ![]() ![]() This summer, she will serve as the Writer in Residence at Odyssey, a six-week summer intensive workshop at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire. She also teaches in the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing Program, offered through the University of Southern Maine. ![]() She writes a column for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Bulletin. She is an editor and writer of comic books, graphic novels, and pulp fiction for Moonstone Books, where much of her work centers around Sherlock Holmes. ![]() Her anthology, Outsiders, was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in 2005. She has also sold approximately two hundred short stories and essays on writing and popular culture. ![]() She has sold many novels and book projects set in the MTV Teen Wolf, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Saving Grace, Hellboy, and Smallville universes. She is also the author of the young adult horror series, Possessions, for Razorbill. They have continued their collaboration with the Crusade and the Wolf Springs Chronicles series, and are hard at work on a teen thriller. She and Debbie Viguié coauthored the New York Times bestselling Wicked series for Simon and Schuster. A five-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association, she has also received accolades from the American Library Association, the American Reading Association, the New York Public Library, and Romantic Times. Nancy’s work has appeared on many bestseller lists. ![]() ![]() ![]() They start growing into her skin and then they work. That imagery is the sort of visual that sticks with me. "The wings arrive in the mail and she has to put them together, feather-by-feather. I like that sort of magic that feels everyday - magic that can come in the mail. I probably had my first Kafka exposure when I was like seven or eight. The comic book is actually a retelling of Kafka's The Metamorphosis. It's about a girl who sends away for a pair of wings from an ad in the back of a comic book. "Mail-Order Wings is a middle-grade book. He reads in his closet to be alone with the story, something I did when I was little. "I did a thing with The Starless Seawhere I gave a quality that I had as a child to the main character Zachary. Beatrice Gormley is an American author of children's books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Good thing Oliver is such perfect HUSBAND MATERIAL. But it'll take more than four weddings, a funeral, and a hotly contested rainbow balloon arch to get these two from "I don't know what I'm doing" to "I do". Now it seems like everyone around them is getting married, and Luc's feeling the social pressure to propose. In BOYFRIEND MATERIAL, Luc and Oliver met, pretended to fall in love, fell in love for real, dealt with heartbreak and disappointment and family and friends.and somehow figured out a way to make it work. WANTED: One (very real) husband, nowhere near perfect but desperately trying his best "Our favourite chaos demon & stern brunch daddy return in this delicious, ridiculous, and often poignant romcom about all the ways love can grow." -Talia Hibbert, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author ![]() ![]() The play consists primarily of dialog among the women in organizing their movement, and later discussions between choruses of women and men justifying their positions. She gathers representative women from all the city-states engaged in the war and persuades them to withhold sex from their husbands and lovers until peace is concluded.īut for some minor scuffling for control of the Acropolis between the women and the men of Athens who are too old to be fighting the Spartans, very little action takes place. ![]() Seeing no likely prospect of an end to the war, Lysistrata, an Athenian woman, takes matters into her own hands and proposes desperate measures. Last summer I was assigned, for a yearly symposium I attend at Notre Dame, the reading of Lysistrata, authored by the Greek playwright Aristophanes and first performed in 411 BCE.Īs the play begins, the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta (431–404 BC) has been going on interminably, with nearly all the young men away from home or otherwise engaged in the conflict. ![]() Translation of comedy is always a challenge, particularly when the jokes are 25 centuries old. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ramanujan was born in Mysore City on 16 March 1929. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award posthumously in 1999 for The Collected Poems. Though he wrote widely and in a number of genres, Ramanujan's poems are remembered as enigmatic works of startling originality, sophistication and moving artistry. He published works on both classical and modern variants of this literature and argued strongly for giving local, non-standard dialects their due. His academic research ranged across five languages: English, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, and Sanskrit. ![]() Ramanujan was a poet, scholar, linguist, philologist, folklorist, translator, and playwright. Ramanujan was also a professor of Linguistics at University of Chicago. ![]() MacArthur Fellowship, Sahitya Akademi Award and Padma ShreeĪttipate Krishnaswami Ramanujan (16 March 1929 – 13 July 1993) was an Indian poet and scholar of Indian literature and Linguistics. ![]() ![]() ![]() But more than just a riotously funny story about cinematic hubris, “ The Disaster Artist is one of the most honest books about friendship I’ve read in years” ( Los Angeles Times). In The Disaster Artist, Greg Sestero, Tommys costar, recounts the films bizarre journey to infamy, explaining how the movies many nonsensical scenes and. ![]() Greg Sestero, Tommy’s costar, recounts the film’s bizarre journey to infamy, explaining how the movie’s many nonsensical scenes and bits of dialogue came to be and unraveling the mystery of Tommy Wiseau himself. ![]() Hailed by The Huffington Post as “possibly the most important piece of literature ever printed,” The Disaster Artist is the hilarious, behind-the-scenes story of a deliciously awful cinematic phenomenon as well as the story of an odd and inspiring Hollywood friendship. Ten years later, it’s an international cult phenomenon, whose legions of fans attend screenings featuring costumes, audience rituals, merchandising, and thousands of plastic spoons. Described by one reviewer as “like getting stabbed in the head,” the $6 million film earned a grand total of $1,800 at the box office and closed after two weeks. In 2003, an independent film called The Room-starring and written, produced, and directed by a mysteriously wealthy social misfit named Tommy Wiseau-made its disastrous debut in Los Angeles. Now a major motion picture-directed by and starring James Francoįrom the actor who somehow lived through it all, a “sharply detailed…funny book about a cinematic comedy of errors” ( The New York Times): the making of the cult film phenomenon The Room. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the other path, Addie is being pursued by the hottest guy in school-but she never wanted to be a quarterback’s girlfriend. In one potential future, Addie is adjusting to life outside the Compound as the new girl in a Norm high school where she meets Trevor, a cute, sensitive artist who understands her. One Search six weeks into the future proves it’s not. Addie loves her life just as it is, so her answer should be easy. ![]() ![]() When Addie’s parents ambush her with the news of their divorce, she has to pick who she wants to live with-her father, who is leaving the paranormal compound to live among the “Norms,” or her mother, who is staying in the life Addie has always known. It’s the ultimate insurance plan against disaster. Knowing the outcome doesn’t always make a choice easier…Īddison Coleman’s life is one big “What if?” As a Searcher, whenever Addie is faced with a choice, she can look into the future and see both outcomes. A mix of fate and choice with a paranormal twist – sounds like a great flavor for an ice-cream sundae. ![]() |