![]() ![]() What she gets especially right is the teenagers themselves. There are some really difficult topics dealt with in this book – mental disorder, abuse, religious intolerance, community violence, teen sexuality – and Reardon handles them all with humor, plausibility and intelligence. Add onto this the sudden apparent interest of a handsome boy he’s been yearning for, and the added complication that adds to his life, and you can imagine the veritable monsoon of emotional storms battering Ethan Poe. Then his little rural Maine town stumbles into a separation of church and state fracas over the teaching of evolution in the local high school, and Ethan is pushed to the edge of his ability to ignore things that make him uncomfortable. This is one of those books that stands out, because the title character, Ethan Poe, undergoes a dramatic transformation during the few months in which the story unfolds, while at the same time remains exactly what he is the whole time: a sixteen-year-old boy.Įthan’s life seems to be crashing down around him: his parents, his best friend, his brother – all of them seem to be going off the rails. What prompts me to give any given book five stars is individuality – of style, of character, of setting, of plot arc. ![]() How did I miss this for nine years? Now, I’ve read a lot of YA books with LGBT main characters. ![]() ![]() “I don’t pay a lot of attention it’s not something I care about.” ![]()
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![]() Among her many honors, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2013 and won the 2017 Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement. She headed the graduate playwriting program at Brown University until 2008, when she became chair of the playwriting department at Yale School of Drama, where she still teaches as of 2017. Since the 1980s, Vogel has run playwriting “boot camps,” challenging participants to create plays in 48 hours. Paula Vogel was born on 16 November 1951 in Washington, District of Columbia. ![]() ![]() In 2017 she was nominated for a Tony award for Indecent, which investigated the censorship of Sholem Asch’s 1923 play God of Vengeance for its treatment of religion and lesbian romance. ![]() By Aisling Murphy Staff Reporter Wed., Oct. In 1992 she won an Obie award for The Baltimore Waltz, which focused on the AIDS crisis, and followed this success with a Pulitzer prize in 1997 for How I Learned to Drive, a play about child abuse. Indecent premiered on Broadway in 2017 when Vogel was 65 and had already won a Pulitzer Prize for How I Learned to Drive. She debuted her first play, Swan Song of Sir Henry, in 1974 and went on to produce new plays every few years. Vogel graduated from the Catholic University of America in 1974 and earned a master’s degree from Cornell in 1976. ![]() Although she made her Broadway debut with Indecent in 2016, playwright Paula Vogel has long been hailed for her unflinching exploration of taboo topics, from the AIDS crisis to child abuse. ![]() ![]() ![]() Presented with so much blatant man flesh walking about, leaving Kaia flustered Still worse than that is the struggle she is having with herself upon being The moment her scent is ripe, she is to be mated by all Herįears are validated when one of them complacently informs her that her Noticing they are all pregnant, Kaia fears her fate. The following day, she realises she sees no wolves around, but does see several Shivering cold, half naked andīound, she startles awakes to the feel of warm breath blowing out over her Fainting in sheer terror, the next thing Kaia knows, she is beingĭragged through the snow back to their lair. Out on the path, wolves emerge from the trees, surrounding her and spooking her Sends his only daughter to the village on his horse to obtain help for her Maiden Kaia is days away from being married to the handsome Leif when her ![]() ![]() We operate a Platform on which participating retailers, merchants, stores or owners of websites of online stores (“Merchants”) offer you the option to make payment for their goods and/or services (“Merchant Services”) on a deferred and interest-free basis (“Deferred Payment Structure”). 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By using the Platform and the Atome Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms and are deemed to have executed these Terms electronically. ![]() Please read these Terms of Service (“Terms”) carefully. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe I am in a curmudgeonly mood this morning, but I honestly have been more than a trifle disappointed with Margaret Wise Brown's 1947 The Golden Egg Book. Margaret saw herself as something else - a writer of songs and nonsense. ![]() They say she was a creative genius who made a room come to life with her excitement. Margaret died after surgery for a bursting appendix while in France. The puppies had licked all the paint off the paper. When he woke up, the papers he painted on were bare. ![]() The illustrator painted many pictures one day and then fell asleep. One time she gave two puppies to someone who was going to draw a book with that kind of dog. She also taught illustrators to draw the way a child saw things. She tried to write the way children wanted to hear a story, which often isn't the same way an adult would tell a story. She said she dreamed stories and then had to write them down in the morning before she forgot them. There are many scraps of paper where she quickly wrote down a story idea or a poem. She thought this made children think harder when they are reading. Sometimes she would put a hard word into the story or poem. She liked to write books that had a rhythm to them. ![]() Most of her books have animals as characters in the story. Even though she died nearly 70 years ago, her books still sell very well. Margaret Wise Brown wrote hundreds of books and stories during her life, but she is best known for Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Deciding to make himself scarce for a bit, he drives to a local pub where he meets Fen, all lithe grace, pink-tipped hair and attitude … and is mesmerised. ![]() He’s returned home for his best mate’s wedding, where he accidentally outs himself in quite the spectacular fashion at the reception. Hall’s books, and now I can see why it’s a funny, awkward, sexy, poignant and gorgeously romantic story featuring two wounded, lovely and lonely people that had me smiling one minute and tearing up the next – and sometimes both at once.Īlfie Bell left his home town of South Shields in the North East of England for a plum job in London, and now has a six-figure salary, a swanky penthouse apartment and the car of his dreams. I know several people who cite this as their favourite of Mr. I finished listening to Alexis Hall’s Pansieswith a happy sigh and the biggest, sappiest smile on my face. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kel has survived four years as a page, and is moving on to being a squire under either an active duty knight or a desk knight in the palace. Genre: ( Young Adult) Fantasy / Magic / Adventure ![]() This first book in the quartet has plenty of action and adventure, and allows us to revisit good ol’ Tortall while getting us familiar with the new characters. Her tenacity and firm belief in doing the right thing particularly stand out in my mind, since the plotline allows those characteristics to shine through. I fell in love with Kel and her gang in this book – Kel is so different compared to Alanna in that Kel is quieter and more “average” in terms of looks, so maybe that’s why I could relate with her more. Kel is determined to show everyone that she can make it, and in the process, gains some valuable friends and makes some enemies too. ![]() However, she’s been put on probation by the training master, and has to handle bullying from the boys and being at a physical disadvantage. Long story short, the realm of Tortall is finally accepting its first girl into the knighthood training program in a hundred years ( Alanna didn’t count since she hid that she was a girl), and ten-year-old Keladry of Mindelan stepped up at the chance. Genre: ( Middle Grade) Fantasy / Magic / Adventure ![]() ![]() ![]() Not just the one film deal either, but two, as he’s also managed to get deal with CBS Films who want to adapt his debut novel ‘The Atlantis Gene’ along with 20th Century Fox for his book ‘Departure’. Whilst this may have been a somewhat recent development, he’s still had time to carve himself a career, and even a film deal, within a relatively short amount of time. This is something he held with him throughout his life until he finally got to achieve his dream and become the novelist that he had always wanted to be. Riddle always had a keen interest in writing, as literature was always his first and primary passion. Growing up in Boiling Springs in North Carolina, America, A.G. ![]() With 20th Century Fox having acquired the rights to his novel ‘Departure’, he’s well on his way to becoming a well established name within his particular field. ![]() Focusing on the genres of thriller, action and science-fiction, he’s managed to build his career over the years, even managing to secure himself a film adaptation deal in the process. ![]() Riddle has created a niche for himself within the literature industry and has already amassed a large amount of fans. An American fiction writer with an extensive backlog of novels that’s growing day-by-day, the writer A.G. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maju tells her that it is her fate to save the heart of a nation. There is a prophecy that Shahrazad may be the greatest storyteller of all time. Maju teaches Shahrazad to have faith in herself and not worry about being different.Īfter the other children are cruel to her, Shahrazad renounces society and chooses to live a solitary life, especially after Maju dies and Shahrazad magically inherits her blindness. ![]() Both she and the daughter she bears, Shahrazad, are considered outsiders in their home, though future king Shahrayar maintains a curiosity about Shahrazad from childhood. While on an expedition in a far off land, the vizier falls in love with a storyteller named Maju, whom he brings back to his native land. The vizier of the father becomes the vizier of the son, Shahrayar. Upon his death, the two sons divide his kingdom equally and hold each other in high esteem. A long time ago, a good and just king has two sons, Shahrayar and Shazaman. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is barely able to write, “I AM ALIVE,” before it disappears, and she awakens in real life. ![]() She returns to The Midnight Library, but it is self-destructing. Through The Midnight Library, she has learned both to envision the life she wants and to live it with less fear. The more alternate lives Nora lives, the more perspective she gains and the easier it is for her to imagine a better life for herself. She lives various alternative lives, only to realize she no longer wants to die. She can pick a regret and then match it to the alternate life to see how things may have been different. One other book, The Book of Regrets, is different. ![]() The librarian explains that “between life and death there is a library… Every book provides a chance to choose another life you could have lived.” Nora may choose from books to see the array of alternative lives she may have lived. She takes a bottle, hoping to die, but wakes up at midnight in a massive library. These, and additional, sad occurrences leave Nora feeling unneeded in the world. Then, she is fired from her job of twelve years. In The Midnight Library, thirty-five-year-old Nora finds out from a handsome young surgeon, Ash, that her beloved cat has been killed. ![]() NOTE: This summary of The Midnight Library includes spoilers. The Midnight Library Book Club Questions. ![]() |