![]() A book like that wouldn't work as well without graphics and diagrams, and the illustrations are colourful and engaging as well as informative. ![]() It's all there: getting measured up for a bra, periods, using towels and tampons, feeling, diet, health and hygiene and there is also a section on what happens to boys.The text is informal, chatty, full of useful facts and packed with considerate advice and support. They aim to help children aged nine and above understand bodily changes and they do this extremely well.Susan Meredith answers the questions young girls want to ask but might feel afraid to. ![]() "Look no further: the What's Happening to Me? Books are nothing short of brilliant. This is a highly illustrated ebook that can only be read on the Kindle Fire or other tablet. This book describes exactly what will happen to your body in a straightforward, easy-to-understand way, and it explains some of your feelings too - all you need to know for this important time in your life. Growing up is a whole lot easier if you have some idea what to expect. Growing Up Is A Whole Lot Easier If You Have Some Idea What To Expect. ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Swans and Klons by Nora Olsen![]() ![]() In Harry Potter, for example, Harry’s move from childish oppression to magical power and fulfillment is accomplished through the discovery of a secret subculture living hidden in plain sight, recognizing one other through secret signs and rituals. And one of the main ways that the division between adult and child is explored, or dramatized, is by making more or less explicit parallels with the division between straight and gay. YA is, for obvious reasons, often focused on the process of growing up it tends to be structured around the division between adults and children. Rowling, for example, has famously said that Dumbledore was gay - but that revelation came at a Q&A with fans, not in the books themselves.īut while gay characters tend to be closeted or simply absent in YA, the gay experience is oddly and insistently prevalent. On the one hand, writers for young readers are often leery about presenting homosexuality. ![]() YA fiction often has a complicated relationship with gay content. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Vivian maier![]() ![]() ![]() Remembered too by some of her subjects and the people she wandered among with her camera and her funny, old-fashioned clothes on the streets of the cities where she had spent her peculiar double life as a children’s nanny and compulsive photographer.Īt some point Maier called herself a spy, and like any good spy she frequently changed the spelling of her name and gave herself different backstories depending on who asked. They filled boxes and suitcases and trunks, which spilled out their contents in avalanches of film rolls and envelopes, carefully preserved and lodged in storage facilities until the money ran out on their lockers and they were auctioned off.Įventually, and serendipitously, they began to come to light when Maier, late in life, was almost destitute and almost certainly mentally ill, more forgotten than remembered except to the families who had employed her as a nanny in Chicago, New York and Minneapolis. Wildly prolific, and with an eye and an attitude all her own, she left more than 150,000 photographs, some printed by herself, many processed as negatives and yet more still undeveloped and left in their canisters. V ivian Maier was unknown as an artist during her lifetime. ![]() ![]() Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch.You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. 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There is nothing special about the day Cushla meets Michael, a married man from Belfast, in the pub owned by her family. If Michael Agnew had not walked through the door of the pub on a quiet night in February in his white shirt. If Seamie McGeown had not found himself alone on a dark street. One by one, she undid each event, each decision, each choice. 'A beautiful, devastating novel' NICK HORNBY 'Intense, unflinchingly honest, it broke my heart a million times' MARIAN KEYES ![]() * WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022 * * SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2022 * * AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2022 * * A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME * _ 'Like Sally Rooney mixed with a political thriller' RUSSELL KANE 1 BESTSELLER ( The Times) * SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023 * * WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR: DEBUT FICTION * ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Heather gays book![]() After typical adolescent experimentation, she was haunted by the thought that her parents would believe her to be “a bad seed.” The author structures her life story according to all the ways she failed, sometimes in her eyes but mostly in the eyes of others: bad daughter, bad missionary, bad wife, bad Mormon. A prevailing metaphor comes early on when, forbidden to leave her yard as a very young girl, she opens the gate and is locked out, portending things to come. (“Born in the covenant: Mormon flex,” she writes with typically arch humor.) Her family wasn’t necessarily doctrinaire, but they were undoubtedly observant, while Gay was a born questioner and explorer. ![]() Gay grew up in a Mormon family so deeply rooted in the faith that they were enrolled as “born in the covenant,” meaning that her parents were married in the temple. Until it didn’t.” It’s a simple declaration but hard won. “Everything in my life confirmed my identity, my faith, and my future. A reality TV personality recounts an upbringing in a religion that she finally rejected. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Elise kova a trial of sorcerers![]() Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff The Unexpected Everything by Morgan MatsonĪ Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen The Upside of Unrequited by Becky AlbertalliĪ Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. ![]() MaasĬhildren of Blood and Bone by Tomi AdeyemiĪ Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass #7) by Sarah J. The Wicked King (Folk of the Air #2) by Holly Black King of Scars (Nikolai Duology #1) by Leigh Bardugo ![]() The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon ![]() Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQusiton You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah JohnsonĪurora Rising by Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufman Need help remembering the events in a book? The folks at Recaptains and Book Series Recaps can help!Īny post with a spoiler in the title will be removed.Īny comment with a spoiler that doesn't use the spoiler code will be removed.Īny user with an extensive history of spoiling books will be banned. Book suggestions, discussions, and questions are definitely encouraged! January Book Club Discussion: A Sky Beyond the Storm (An Ember in the Ashes #4) by Sabaa Tahir Young Adult literature isn't exclusive to only young adults, so here's a place for both the young and the young at heart to discuss books, news, movies based on books, and everything else related to YA. ![]() ![]() ![]() The spare, objective style that he admired in some of Hemingway’s short stories, such as “The Killers” and “Hills Like White Elephants,” was perfectly suited to Carver’s needs. ![]() ![]() It would have been inappropriate to write about simple people in an ornate style, and, furthermore, his limited education would have made it impossible for him to do so effectively. His lifelong experience had been with working-class people. Carver writes about divorce, infidelity, spiritual alienation, alcoholism, bankruptcy, rootlessness, and existential dread none of these afflictions is peculiar to the working class, and in fact, all were once more common to members of the higher social classes.Ĭarver was a minimalist by preference and by necessity. Although it is true that most of Carver’s characters belong to the working class, their problems are universal. Even when the critic is sympathetic, this dual categorization tends to stigmatize Carver as a minor artist writing little stories about little people. Nearly everything written about Raymond Carver (– August 2, 1988) begins with two observations: He is a minimalist, and he writes about working-class people. Analysis of Raymond Carver’s Short Stories ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Hunger by Caleb Wampler![]() ![]() ![]() You may have spoken too soon with the pearls God gave you, and instead threw them before swine. You may find yourself with the promise of calling yet being thrown away by all those who are over you. You may find yourself in a position of favor but resented by everyone else in the room. You may find yourself in proximity to the palace but in the dungeon of its residency. You may find yourself in the shadows of the destiny written over your life. After all, what older brother wanted to hear that they'd be bowing to their little brother? And while his dreams were prophetic in nature and he was sure He had heard from God, he probably could have been a bit more humble in his approach in sharing it. He knew he had favor in his father's eyes, but it sure put a target on his back for those that resented him. He thought of how his father had given him the coat of many colors he was quite proud of it. He was reflecting on his life, realizing that each and every step had led him to right where he was. He was realizing that he had not committed wrong for the things he was accused of, but that he certainly had done wrong in other seasons. In a recent prayer time, I was taken into a vision of Joseph sitting in a prison cell. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Three little words a memoir![]() ![]() And we need to just stop saying it to another generation of writers. But that sentence-that command-doesn’t say that. “Show, don’t tell” isn’t a way of reframing William Carlos Williams’ “so much depends upon a red wheelbarrow,” or that brilliant phrase “no ideas but in things” from his poem, “Paterson.” I know the real goal of “show, don’t tell” is to force a discipline that encourages the writer to see subjectivity emerging through those details. In many ways, the practice of writing is a practice of learning to re-see the world. The details are divine, and we should caress them, as Nabokov instructed. ![]() ![]() And details-pancakes, clenched fists, rainfall-were all I ever wanted, all I ever hoped for as a writer. Chicken soup and a broken figurine of a ceramic goose-there, they make a second life happen, built on images. ![]() I had no idea how much damage those three words would do after I’d depended on them for too long.ĭetail makes the mimesis machine start. The directive countered a school-based tendency toward abstraction and vagueness. And sure, it was good for me, in the way training wheels help in learning to ride a bike. When I learned “show, don’t tell,” I thought I’d discovered a guide that would never fail me. ![]() |