![]() ![]() Pretty realistic with all of the bureaucratic bull…I mean,uh, drama. You sometimes thought you knew what was going to happen and then something else would occur. It was definitely an exciting read and you never really knew what was going to happen next. ![]() ![]() I only grabbed it because of that and also because it looked to be a quick read.Īn exciting thrill ride from beginning to end. Naturally I went, ‘oh, what is this’ and just had to check it out. I had come across this book in my library and it caught my eye because it was BRIGHT yellow and also had a bio warning symbol on the front. These four different narrators, each with their own stories, must cope in unique, surprising manners, changing in ways they wouldn’t have predicted, trying to find solace, safety, and escape at a time when the adults are behaving badly. This is a gripping look at people and how they can-and must-change under the most dire of circumstances. Among the hundreds of trapped shoppers are four teens. At first nobody knows if it’s even life threatening, but then the entire complex is quarantined, people start getting sick, supplies start running low, and there’s no way out. “A biological bomb has just been discovered in the air ducts of a busy suburban mall. Jin Book Reviews / Books / Fiction tagged books by mylibrarycardworeout ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() David is a girl who longs for acceptance. To me, it wasn't an accurate representation of what it was like to be trans, and this goes on the list of 'disappointing trans books' along with 'What We Left Behind' by Robin Talley.ĭavid longs to be a girl. I can't really put it into words because my brain is silly, but as a trans person, I felt uncomfortable reading this, especially as it was written by a cis author and it was specifically taking about someone being trans. (I can't remember any specifics because I have lent the book to a friend, but I remember this.) And Leo also says some transphobic things to David, which was odd, as he's trans too?Īlso, David uses he/him pronouns throughout the whole book which I guess goes with the whole 'wants to be a girl' thing. Understandably, David has some internalized transphobia and says some pretty transphobic things to Leo. And that 'wanting' to be a girl shtick continues through the whole story. ![]() We actually are that gender, but have been seen as our birth gender. In the blurb: "Two boys." and "David wants to be a girl."īeing trans isn't about wanting to be another gender. The book isn't written by a trans person, and that was my first clue. I know that trans people have different experiences and points of view on their gender, but so many things about this book seemed off to me. However, once I started reading I was honestly very disappointed. It had a cool cover and a premise I was personally interested in. I'm a trans person and when I saw this book I was super excited. ![]() ![]() Leonard had a complicated relationship with his estranged uncle. Leonard’s uncle who raised him, Chester, has passed away & he wants Hap to come to the funeral with him. Hap owes Leonard after what happened, so when Leonard shows up at the rose fields asking for his help. Mucho Mojo (much bad magic) follows two crime-solving best friends, Hap Collins & Leonard Pine, shortly after the events in book one. That guy had more masks than a gaggle of trick-or-treaters.” “There’s no balance in having a good side when you got the other side he had. The only things standing in their way is a houseful of felons, a vicious killer, and possibly themselves. Leonard, being a black man in east Texas, persuades him this is not a good idea, and together they set out to clear Chester’s name on their own. Hap is of course going to be there for his best friend, and when the two are cleaning up Uncle Chester’s dilapidated house, they uncover a dark little secret beneath the house’s rotting floor boards-a small skeleton buried in a trunk. ![]() Synopsis: Leonard is still nursing the injuries he sustained in the duo’s last wild undertaking when he learns that his Uncle Chester has passed. ![]() ![]() ![]() She believed that her books would speak for her clearly enough over the years." Hyman insisted the darker aspects of Jackson's works were not, as some critics claimed, the product of "personal, even neurotic, fantasies", but that Jackson intended, as "a sensitive and faithful anatomy of our times, fitting symbols for our distressing world of the concentration camp and the Bomb", to mirror humanity's Cold War-era fears. ![]() Jackson's husband, the literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman, wrote in his preface to a posthumous anthology of her work that "she consistently refused to be interviewed, to explain or promote her work in any fashion, or to take public stands and be the pundit of the Sunday supplements. In her critical biography of Shirley Jackson, Lenemaja Friedman notes that when Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery" was published in the June 28, 1948, issue of The New Yorker, it received a response that "no New Yorker story had ever received." Hundreds of letters poured in that were characterized by, as Jackson put it, "bewilderment, speculation and old-fashioned abuse." She is best known for her dystopian short story, "The Lottery" (1948), which suggests there is a deeply unsettling underside to bucolic, smalltown America. She has influenced such writers as Stephen King, Nigel Kneale, and Richard Matheson. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. ![]() Shirley Jackson was an influential American author. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though he survived Vietnam, Fred was changed in irrevocable ways. To this day Fred doesn’t know what it was exactly, but it may have had something to do with that dang rosary! ![]() He endured seven more months of constant change and surprise, but one companion was constant―a voice inside his head that helped him find the right course of action to keep him alive. After becoming injured and returning from the hospital he gave up the M-60 to become a squad leader for Special Forces. Sent into combat as an M-60 machine gunner, for almost seven months Fred faced danger from booby traps, enemy combatants, and the jungle itself. This turned out to be a life-changing, maybe even life-saving, decision. He figured it was worth a shot and chose his First Communion rosary. Before leaving for Vietnam, twenty-one-year-old Fred Krebsbach received a piece of advice from his uncle: carry something with you into combat that will give you comfort in a time of need. ![]() ![]() ![]() |a Poor |z United States |0 |v Juvenile literature. |a Examines the nature of poverty in America, its effects on children, women, the elderly, and racial minorities, and past and present efforts to fight it. |a 122 pages : |b illustrations, portraits |c 24 cm Shop for Laine Lavender products online in Muscat, a leading shopping store for Laine Lavender products at. ![]() |a Poverty in America / |c by Milton Meltzer. ![]() ![]() Through the wide-flung systems of humanity, Colonel Aliana Tanaka hunts for Duarte’s missing daughter.and the shattered emperor himself. ![]() In the dead system of Adro, Elvi Okoye leads a desperate scientific mission to understand what the gate builders were and what destroyed them, even if it means compromising herself and the half-alien children who bear the weight of her investigation. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again. The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the 1,300 solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. Corey’s Hugo-award winning space opera that inspired the Prime Original series. ![]() ![]() The biggest science fiction series of the decade comes to an incredible conclusion in the ninth and final novel in James S.A. ![]() ![]() His début novel, Sugarless, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and shortlisted for the 2010 William Saroyan International Writing Prize. James Magruder’s fiction has appeared in the Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Subtropics, Bloom, the Normal School, Gargoyle, New Stories from the Midwest, and elsewhere. ![]() At least, I was curious.… August 15, 2016Īn Evening With James Magruder, Jen Michalski, and Amber Sparks When you get an e-newsletter listing an upcoming reading of something called Blackass, you have to admit you’re curious. Join me for another peek into the Local Reading Treasure Trove series and discover four more books for your reading pile. Now when you log on from a device, our reviews will appear stacked, not side-by-side, for… August 15, 2016 ![]() We’re happy to announce the Independent is now more mobile-friendly! That means things just got a whole lot easier for those of you who’ve been squinting to make out our articles on your smartphones. ![]() ![]() ![]() Told in alternative viewpoints and set against the backdrop of Los Angeles in the springtime, when the rainy season rolls in and the Santa Ana's can still blow-these two girls are about to learn that in the city of dreams, anything is possible-even love. ![]() She never did really get over that first crush, even if Rachel can barely stand to be in the same room as her. This is her third novel, following Not the Girls Youre Looking For and Tell Me How You Really Feel. She lives in Los Angeles, California, with her partner and cat. Safi was the winner of the We Need Diverse Books short story contest, and that story appeared in the anthology Fresh Ink. Rachel was furious that Sana tried to prank her by asking her on a date.īut when it comes time for Rachel to cast her senior project, she realizes that there's no more perfect lead than Sana-the girl she's sneered at in the halls for the past three years. Aminah Mae Safi is a Muslim-American writer. Rachel is a film buff and aspiring director, and she's seen Carrie enough times to learn you can never trust cheerleaders (and beautiful people). ![]() The first time Sana Khan asked out a girl–Rachel Recht-it went so badly that she never did it again. ![]() Aminah Mae Safi's Tell Me How You Really Feel is an ode to romantic comedies, following two girls on opposite sides of the social scale as they work together to make a movie and try very hard not to fall in love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. If you’d like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for $69 per month.įor cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the “Settings & Account” section. 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