![]() ![]() When I tell you that I DEVOURED this book, it's an understatement. This book was nothing short of PHENOMENAL and I'm honest to God astonished over what I've just read. I am sitting here in awe, in stunned silence, in utter disbelief as I reflect back on the MASTERPIECE that is Hook Shot. I am sitting here with absolutely no idea how to even BEGIN to put thoughts down about what I just experienced on these pages. I am sitting here with my thoughts spinning, with my heart pounding, with my breath slowly returning to a normal rhythm. He never gives up, and now.I'm not sure I want him to. Keeps knocking down my defenses and stealing my excuses The one they call Gladiator.Kenan Ross charged into my life smelling all good, looking even better and snatching my breath from the moment we met. ![]() She's not the plan I made, but she's the risk I have to take.Ī warrior. ![]() I promised myself I wouldn't trust a woman again,īut I've never wanted anyone the way I want Lo. Lotus DuPree is a kick to my gut and a wrench in my plans ![]() My perfect life blew up in my face and I'm still picking up the pieces.Ī wildflower. Traded to a losing squad.Cheated on, betrayed, exposed. A deeply emotional standalone romance set in the worlds of professional basketball and high fashion.ĭivorced. ![]()
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![]() The book concentrates most of its attention on the social and technological advances of the ninety-sixth century and some of Macnie's forecasts and predictions are notably prescient. He learns from Utis and others about the structure and institutions of this future society. He is introduced to the massive city of "Nuiorc," the future development of New York City and he travels with his guide to Utis's home in the suburbs. The novel begins with a scene in which the first-person narrator undergoes an episode of "mesmerism," or hypnosis, and wakes up in the far future he has suddenly passed "from the nineteenth to the ninety-sixth century." In the company of a friend and guide named Utis Estai, the narrator begins to learn the nature of this future world. The Diothas has been called "perhaps the second most important American nineteenth-century ideal society" after Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward ( 1888). The Diothas or, A Far Look Ahead is a 1883 utopian novel written by John Macnie and published using the pseudonym " Ismar Thiusen". ![]() ![]() ![]() However, his family disapproves, and for a good reason. She realizes the secret he’s hiding, and the two form a relationship. Bella is a teen who just moved back home with her father and met the mysterious Edward. However, it makes this list because when it first came out, it excited people to read again, and the fantasy elements were attractive. Now many people think this book is overhyped and the phenomenon is over. This is a series that will make you cry, laugh, and make you believe in love. It’s fun determining who is who and learning the characters’ motivations. Kiss Of Deception is told from three points of view. The other problem? She’s falling in love. One happens to be an assassin sent to kill her, the other the fiance she jilted at the altar. The problem is she meets two mysterious strangers. She doesn’t want to get married, and she doesn’t want to do her duty as a first daughter and be forced into it, either. If you’re looking for a series that will have you love the characters, engage in the story and genuinely feel as if you’re inside the book, this is the one. Each move they make has a dangerous set of consequences, and if she doesn’t win the contest and save Tella, she’ll be gone forever. Now Scarlett has to find her sister before something terrible happens. Her sister Tella accompanies her when she finally gets an invite, but she gets kidnapped. It’s a performance that only appears once a year, and she’s never been invited. Scarlett has always dreamed of seeing Caraval. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I actually still have another like 50 titles I can add, but this would be posted at the end of the month at the rate I’m going. (If you’re looking for a specific genre, Ctrl + F is your friend.) You’ll find a little of everything here and, of course, a whole lot of YA and contemporary romance. When I started, I already knew this was going to be a complete list, but shoutout to all the Asian authors out there because there are a lot of you!įrom picture books to cookbooks, memoirs to sci-fi, Asian authors are writing any and everything, and this list is just a small representative of that. ![]() I can count on one hand the number of Asian authors I read growing up, so what I thought might be a fun quick project quickly turned into a daunting endeavor as I started working on this post. And if you know of more please tell me/send me!!- Vanessa Chan February 27, 2023Īs publishing is getting more diverse, we’re getting to hear more Asian voices, which is definitely worth celebrating for Asian Heritage Month. Frustrating I have seen no written roundup in media so here's a start. There is a lot of exceptionally brilliant Southeast Asian-authored books coming in 2023 (and 2024!) and it makes my heart so happy to see it. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2010, Denzel Washington and Davis both earned Tony Awards for their revival of Fences on Broadway. Set in 1936 Pittsburgh during the aftermath of the Great Depression, The Piano Lesson follows the lives of the Charles family in the Doaker Charles household and an heirloom, the family piano, which is decorated with designs carved by an enslaved ancestor and polished with the tears and blood of their late mother. The ensemble cast for the movie adaptation includes Ray Fisher, Till actress Danielle Deadwyler, Michael Potts and Corey Hawkins. Jackson, on Broadway opposite Brooks and John David Washington in Wilson’s stage drama about African Americans wrestling with the painful past. The Piano Lesson screen adaptation follows LaTanya Richardson Jackson directing her husband, Samuel L. Denzel Washington will produce the film along with Todd Black. Viola Davis Reveals Directing Ambitions at Chaplin Awards Galaĭenzel’s son Malcolm Washington will direct the film adaptation of The Piano Lesson, based on a screenplay he penned with Virgil Williams. ![]() ![]() ![]() She discusses the importance of dismantling structural racism, not merely on an institutional or individual level, but also on a transnational level. Crucially, it also gave momentum to a movement that investigates Western, neoliberal global systems of oppression.ĭavis’s book is a compilation of her interviews, speeches, and essays put together by Frank Barrat, a human rights activist, and herself. This crafted a space for transnational solidarity on a virtual medium. ![]() In response, many tweeted advice and statements of solidarity to those in Ferguson. ![]() At the same time, Palestinians were facing a brutal fifty-one day assault in Gaza.įrom the viral photos, the Palestinian people recognised that the same tear gas that was being used against them was also being used against the Ferguson protestors. In 2014, pictures from the Ferguson protests circulated the internet. Davis works to enlarge our perspective on the vast geographies and temporalities of these issues in Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement.Ĭonfronting structural racism, police brutality, and the prison-industrial complex are at the forefront of today’s activism, especially with regards to the Black Lives Matter Movement. She advocates for women’s liberation, Black liberation, prison abolition, and an international solidarity with Palestine. ![]() Davis is queer, Black, an activist, author, speaker, and scholar. ![]() ![]() ![]() Death Comes to Pemberley is a distinguished work of fiction, from one of the best-loved, most- read writers of our time. In their six years of marriage, Elizabeth and Darcy have forged a peaceful, happy life for their family at Pemberley, Darcys. Inspired by a lifelong passion for the work of Jane Austen, PD James masterfully recreates the world of Pride and Prejudice, and combines it with the excitement and suspense of a brilliantly-crafted crime story. As it pulls up, Lydia Wickham - Elizabeth's younger, unreliable sister - stumbles out screaming that her husband has been murdered. Plot summary edit The novel begins in October, 1803, six years after the events in Pride and Prejudice which resulted in the marriage of Mr. James that continues Jane Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice with a murder mystery. But all this is threatened when, on the eve of the annual autumn ball, the guests are preparing to retire for the night when a chaise appears, rocking down the path from Pemberley's wild woodland. Death Comes to Pemberley is a 2011 British mystery fiction novel by P.D. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the nursery, Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane and her husband Bingley live nearby and the orderly world of Pemberley seems unassailable. The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. ![]() James masterfully recreates the world of Pride and Prejudice, and combines it with the excitement and suspense of a brilliantly-crafted crime story. James - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK See all titles by P.D. ![]() ![]() If you were married to yourself could you stay with yourself? My house would be frightening and wild. ![]() Loving someone who hates themselves is a special kind of violence. Yrsa Daley-Ward blends her West Indian (Jamaican) and West African (Nigerian) cultures beautifully in this collection, especially with her references to foods like Jollof rice, stereotypical Black woman mannerisms like eye-rolling and sucking of teeth etc. Most of the poems in bone have recurring themes of death, sex, family, relationships and Christianity. I enjoyed reading the long poems in this collection, as they read like short stories and were packed with lots of suspense and emotion! Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishingīone is a brilliant collection of poems. Yrsa Daley-Ward and Warsan Shire were on that list and I finally read their collections (e-books) a couple of months ago.īelow are two mini reviews of the poetry collections by two popular poets grabbing peoples’ attention in 2016. by Nayyirah Waheed, I listed a bunch of contemporary poets and my keen interest to enjoy their works in the near future. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() emperor of China, to deploy his vast army in such a way as to mimic the circuitry of a modern computer, each soldier holding aloft a black or white flag and so, in aggregate, building millions of the logic gates that comprise a motherboard. In a memorable scene, the 20 th century mathematician John von Neumann convinces Qin Shi Huang, the 3 rd century B.C. In the first book, he wends into his story a surreal immersive online game called “Three-Body.” It’s full of jarring anachronisms, as figures from world history grapple with the gyrating geometry of the Trisolaran system: three suns orbiting a single planet, the gravity of each pulling the others into chaotic orbits. Liu’s literary strength is the marriage of his vaulting imagination to startling set-piece narration. ![]() ![]() ![]() a tweetle beetle noodle poodle bottled paddled muddled duddled fuddled wuddled fox in socks, sir! Knox then declares that the game is finished, thanking the Fox for the fun, and walks away while the beetles, a poodle, and the stunned Fox watch. Finally, after the Fox gives an extended dissertation on Tweetle Beetles who fight (battle) with paddles while standing in a puddle inside a bottle (a Tweetle Beetle Bottle Puddle Paddle Battle Muddle), Knox acts on his frustration by stuffing Fox into the bottle, reciting a tongue-twister of his own: When a fox is in the bottle where the tweetle beetles battle with their paddles in a puddle on a noodle-eating poodle, THIS is what they call. As the book progresses the Fox describes each situation with rhymes that progress in complexity, with Knox periodically complaining of the difficulty of the tongue-twisters. ![]() After taking those four rhyming items through several permutations, more items are added (chicks, bricks, blocks, clocks), and so on. Knox") along with some props (a box and a pair of socks). 40 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified Laugh along with irrepressible Fox in Socks and his hilarious tongue-twisters and. The book begins by introducing Fox and Knox (sometimes called "Mr. ![]() |