If you can get past the admittedly slow, fairytale-like start, you’ll find a worthy fantasy story that refreshingly doesn’t take thousands of pages to unfurl. The Wood is a malevolent force with its own agenda, minions, and abilities, and discovering all its reasoning and intentions as the plot unfurls is incredibly rewarding. Never have I felt such fear and terror of this world’s uniquely antagonistic location. The book effortlessly bounds between genres in relatively short time, giving us breathtaking romance, character-driven political intrigue, exciting chase sequences, dramatic battles, and exhilarating moments of action-horror that reminded me of Aliens in all the right ways.Īnd then there’s The Wood. The way Novik describes spellcasting in this world is sublime, evoking a beautiful symphony of poetry, music, and emotion. Agnieskha isn’t a typical fantasy hero reluctant may even be too strong a word, but once we get over her awkward pragmatism and she begins learning how to cast spells her own way, we can’t help but root for her (pun intended). The story starts off a bit slow, and first-person narration always takes a bit for me to get used to. Uprooted is somehow all of these things, telling a wonderfully intriguing fantasy story that builds and builds, and more importantly, satisfyingly concludes, within 350 pages. Uprooted is a compassionate and intelligent look at the process of leaving behind one home and garden built up over 34 years and moving to another place and making it home.
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"One of the best books I have ever read! I loved the plot twists, unique concept, and beautiful descriptions. Lots of mystery and intrigue. I finished reading this book in awe." - Carly Wilson, Goodreads ★★★★★ This story was utterly unique." - Justine, Book Catharsis ★★★★★ I couldn't have been more wrong! An exhilarating, emotional, fast paced read that I couldn't put down. I thought I had this one all figured out from the very beginning. I almost always anticipate the plot twists. "I have read hundreds of books and it is extremely rare for me to be surprised or give 5 stars. What readers are saying about THE UNKNOWN: **THE UNKNOWN has been selected by educators as recommended or required reading for middle school and high school students across the United States.** Where in the world are they? Why were they taken away from their families? Will they ever get to go back home? And the most frightening question of all: Will this be the place where they die? They were ripped from their beds in the middle of the night and transported to an unfamiliar and unforgiving new world where there are strict rules, and they are punished if they refuse to obey.Īs the kids grapple with their mysterious new reality, they struggle with disconcerting questions. Eight kids, ages nine to seventeen, awaken to find that almost everything they have ever known has been stolen from them. These intricate, magical drawings from Secret Garden by Johanna Basford are just waiting to be brought to life.' The Guardian It has been translated into over 44 languages. Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Colouring Book was her first book. Johanna Basford has sold over 21 million books worldwide. Use felt tip pens to add a splash of colour or a black pen with a fine nib to create your own doodles and details. There are pictures to colour, mazes to solve, patterns to complete and lots of space for you to add your own inky drawings. This interactive colouring book takes you on a ramble through a garden created in beautifully detailed pen-and-ink illustrations by Johanna Basford. Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Colouring Bookby Johanna Basford is one of the world's bestselling adult colouring books with 96 colouring pages waiting to be brought to life with colour. Waters is already having fun imagining which pieces will be on view - and in which parts of the museum. The gift agreement also stipulates that an inaugural exhibition of Waters’ collection will be held by the end of 2025, and that five artworks, including one created by Waters, will be prominently displayed in the museum at all times. Waters had personal relationships with many of the artists he collected, and the meticulous files he assembled on the artworks will be part of the bequest. I wanted the art that I’ve been collecting for 50 years to go to the place that taught me from the very beginning how powerful and how exciting art is and how much trouble it can cause.” “But I’m not going to penalize the Baltimore museum. “I was against the deaccessioning,” he said, using the art world parlance for selling works owned by a museum. Though Waters sided with opponents of the proposed sale, the public dispute didn’t dissuade him from going ahead with his gift. His beloved, award-winning, and bestselling picture books include We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball Thunder Rose, written by Jerdine Nolen Ellington Was Not a Street, written by Ntozake Shange Salt in His Shoes, written by Deloris Jordan and Roslyn M. Sibert Award, two Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Awards, and the 2005 Society of Illustrators Gold Medal. Nelson’s work has won the Coretta Scott King Award, the Robert F. Kadir Nelson is an award-winning American artist whose works have been exhibited in major national and international publications, institutions, art galleries, and museums. She is a professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband. Her novel Zel was named an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a Bulletin Blue Ribbon, and a School Library Journal Best Book, and a number of her novels have been selected as ALA Best Books. She won the Golden Kite Award for Stones in Water in 1997. Donna Jo Napoli is the acclaimed and award-winning author of many novels, both fantasies and contemporary stories. By asking someone to pay close, sustained attention to their inner world, people struggling with trauma can experience flashbacks, dissociation, and even retraumatization. Unbeknownst to many, mindfulness practice can exacerbate trauma symptoms. Inspired by what mindfulness can offer, you’ve taken on the responsibility of guiding people through practices that can significantly improve the quality of their lives.īut are you aware of the challenges people struggling with trauma can face when practicing mindfulness? You may have experienced benefits of practice such as increased mental clarity, enhanced emotional regulation, and a greater sense of self-awareness.īecause of this, you may be offering mindfulness practices to others-as a meditation or yoga teacher, for instance, or as a therapist, coach, or classroom teacher. If you’re a member of the CMind community, you know how powerful mindfulness can be. The brides’ not-so-secret goal: to enable Andee and her ex, Robin Barnes, to finally patch things up. And they have a request: They want the old gang to take that infamous road trip they always talked about in college but never set into motion. Now, ten years later, two of her oldest friends, Elizabeth and Heather, are getting married in Vermont. A decade ago, her heart was broken by a devastatingly beautiful woman–the woman she thought she’d spend the rest of her life with. Would you take a thousand-mile road trip with your best friends…and the ex-girlfriend who broke your heart? The Thousand Mile Love Story by Natalie Vivien I hope you find at least one you’ll enjoy. I put together a list of 15 sapphic books featuring a road trip. Read up on the rules of the Sapphic Reading Challenge and download your PDF so you can keep track of the books you read this year. If you are only discovering the Sapphic Reading Challenge now, the good news is you can still join! It’s a year-long challenge, so it runs until December 31, 2021. Read up on the rules of the Sapphic Reading Challenge They don’t necessarily have to take a car any vehicle, including a plane, a boat, or a horse-drawn wagon, will do as long as they travel from one place to another and it’s more than just their daily commute. This week’s Sapphic Reading Challenge category features books in which the main characters take a trip together. What if every human being who ever lived was resurrected simultaneously on an alien planet in idyllic but clearly engineered circumstances? This is the setting for Philip José Farmer’s famous Riverworld series:
It has been published in 50 countries and translated into 39 languages. The first book, Beautiful Creatures reached International Bestseller Status and is on The New York Times Best Seller List. It is set in the fictional small town of Gatlin, South Carolina in the Southern United States, and deals with a group of townspeople, friends, witches (called "Casters" in the books), and numerous other magical creatures. The series currently consists of four books and a novella and is generally classified as a contemporary young adult fantasy novel, with particular interest for teens. She is the co-author along with her friend Margaret Stohl of the Caster Chronicles book series, starting with Beautiful Creatures. In addition to teaching, she was a professional artist.Ĭareer Caster Chronicles series She formerly taught in the Washington D.C. Garcia is a teacher and reading specialist with an MA in education, and leads book groups for children and teenagers. area, but currently resides in Los Angeles, California. She is known for writing young adult fiction and graphic novels for DC Comics. Kami Garcia (born March 25, 1972) is an American writer. Kami Garcia at the 2013 Texas Book FestivalĬhildren's fantasy, science fiction, adventure novels As her mother increasingly withdraws her approval, however, Annie asserts her own personality, though the lack she feels at her mother’s missing support remains painful, and she and her mother become more careful and guarded toward one another”.Īnnie’s relationship with her mother becomes more strained as the book progresses. To an extent, Annie at first wants to be able to misbehave, but she also wants to receive the maternal approval that she needs. Thomas Cassidy writes about Annie’s reaction to her mother’s rejection writing, “This realization leads Annie to “act up” more, and in ways that her mother frequently cannot abide. Annie forms an image for her mother as an evil figure to distance herself from the relationship, so she can become her own independent woman, who creates her own rules. Bloom’s Literature “Glossing Over Annie John’s Rebellion”, Annie, “deliberately shunning and depriving herself of a female model, fixating on her mother as treacherous, she molds herself into an exciting, desirable subject who obeys and disobeys at will”. Annie learns a sense of independence through the rejection of her mother’s relationship. In Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John, Kincaid uses Annie’s rejection of her mother, her relationship with Gwen, the Antiguan culture, and heteronormative standards to illustrate that rejection can lead to learning, growth, and independence. |