![]() Is this a story, or is this beyond a story? Valeria Luiselli is one of those brave and eloquent enough to help us see."-Rick Simonson, Elliott Bay Book Company "Appealing to the language of the United States' fraught immigration policy, Luiselli exposes the cracks in this foundation. ![]() ![]() It is a vital contribution to the body of post-Trump work being published in early 2017."-Katharine Solheim, Unabridged Bookstore "While this essay is brilliant for exactly what it depicts, it helps open larger questions, which we're ever more on the precipice of now, of where all of this will go, how all of this might end. It's a rare thing: a book everyone should read." -Stephen Sparks, Point Reyes Books " Tell Me How It Ends evokes empathy as it educates. "Humane yet often horrifying, Tell Me How It Ends offers a compelling, intimate look at a continuing crisis-and its ongoing cost in an age of increasing urgency." -Jeremy Garber, Powell's Books p>"Valeria Luiselli's extended essay on her volunteer work translating for child immigrants confronts with compassion and honesty the problem of the North American refugee crisis. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Her analysis of the dangers of a religious belief beyond personal conviction may be challenging for many readers of faith, but it’s well-argued and illuminating. Without this, her tour de force risks marshaling history to serve her own ideological agenda. to a church, a cemetery, a psychotherapists office and allow us to return justice and vengeance to the separate compartments they supposedly occupy in twentieth-century life.' SUsAN. ![]() could not be further removed from the complicated historical reality of conversion on a large scale.” Missing from Jacoby’s overall argument are the ways that religious belief, practiced in the public square, can contribute to the common good in a democracy. She writes, “The modern American notion of religion as a purely personal choice, nobody else’s business. ![]() From her atheist viewpoint, she attempts to remove the religious and psychological elements of conversion, leaving only the sociopolitical forces. Beginning with the famous Damascus road conversion of Saul to Paul and then moving on to Augustine of Hippo’s Confessions, Jacoby travels through 14th-century forced conversions in Spain, 20th-century “socially-influenced conversions” resulting from mixed marriages, and today’s headlines about ISIS’s brutal religious persecution. Jacoby ( The Great Agnostic and Freethinkers) has spent 15 years writing this fine secular inquiry into the history of religious conversion in the West. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This week, the first photos of actors Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni on the set of It Ends With Us made their way online. And besides, what does it even mean to be “faithful” anyway? ![]() Why wouldn’t you want it as accurate as possible? But it is also an extremely limiting way of viewing the art of adaptation. This is fine, of course: for many readers, the allure of a screen adaptation lies in seeing the world of a book brought to life. When it was announced, for instance, earlier this year, that an extravagant new Harry Potter TV series had been greenlit, the key selling point was that they would be more “faithful” to the original books. In the sickly modern age of “recognisable IP” and reboots of reboots of reboots, “faithfulness”, or fidelity to source material, is a towering dogma. No, I’m talking about faithfulness in the world of film and TV: the idea that screen adaptations of books should mirror their source material as closely as possible. To be clear – lest I sound like some philandering husband in a John Updike novel – I don’t mean in a romantic sense. ![]() ![]() ![]() In addition, he holds the record for most Gold Gloves by any player with 18, and most putouts by a pitcher with 546, including a tied live-ball-era record of 39 putouts in a season (1990, 1991, 1993). Maddux is the only pitcher in MLB history to win at least 15 games for 17 straight seasons. ![]() During those four seasons, Maddux had a 75–29 record with a 1.98 earned run average (ERA), while allowing less than one baserunner per inning. The first to achieve a number of feats and records, he was the first pitcher in major league history to win the Cy Young Award four consecutive years (1992–1995), matched by only one other pitcher, Randy Johnson. With the Braves, he won the 1995 World Series over the Cleveland Indians. Maddux is best known for his accomplishments while playing for the Atlanta Braves and the Chicago Cubs. Gregory Alan Maddux (born April 14, 1966), also known as " Mad Dog" and " The Professor," is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for four teams. ![]() September 27, 2008, for the Los Angeles Dodgers ![]() ![]()
![]() But the honeymoon's over, and Alexander Hamilton and Eliza Schuyler are learning firsthand just how tricky wedded life can be. Goodreads SummaryĪs the war for American Independence carries on, two newlyweds are settling into their new adventure: marriage. For history fans and Hamilton nerds, this sequel is a must-read! Note: I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher for review. Ominously titled Love & War, this sequel retells the couple's resettlement in Manhattan and the struggles that come with being a young power couple in the midst of an emerging country trying to pull itself together. ![]() History is happening in Manhattan and we just happen to beĪlexander Hamilton and Eliza Schuyler's story continues in Melissa de la Cruz's sequel to Alex & Eliza. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They carried them away in bags, and stored them in several hollow stumps near the tree where they had built their nest. Timmy took off his jacket and hung it on a twig they worked away quietly by themselves.Įvery day they made several journeys and picked quantities of nuts. When Timmy and Goody Tiptoes came to the nut thicket, they found other squirrels were there already. Timmy Tiptoes sat out, enjoying the breeze he whisked his tail and chuckled "Little wife Goody, the nuts are ripe we must lay up a store for winter and spring." Goody Tiptoes was busy pushing moss under the thatch "The nest is so snug, we shall be sound asleep all winter." "Then we shall wake up all the thinner, when there is nothing to eat in spring time," replied prudent Timothy. He had a nest thatched with leaves in the top of a tall tree and he had a little squirrel wife called Goody. Once upon a time there was a little fat comfortable grey squirrel, called Timmy Tiptoes. ![]() Author of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," etc. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here, in CJ's words, is a portrait of hurt and healing, and finding the strength to open the door again. And thirteen-year-old CJ knows too much-about losing his father, about his family's pain, and especially about what it means to hold things together when times are the toughest. There are so many ways that a door can close, but it's not just the closing it's the knowing. With a click, a bang, a whisper-or no noise at all. His sermon today is on fathers and I am his congregation. My best friend, Preacher, is being just that. Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe New Talent Award Winner In this beautifully written and powerfully moving novel in poems, Hope Anita Smith tells the story of a young man's struggle to accept a father who has walked out on his family. ![]() ![]() ![]() All before she turns 20.Īguirre’s colourful recollections of these days are tender and occasionally sentimental, as anyone’s telling, tortured by yearning, would be. The first of these stories picks up where 2011’s Something Fierce leaves off, with Aguirre introducing herself as a tough-ass, funny, compassionate revolutionary with an identity driven between disparate nations - the cool-hearted safety of Vancouver, where she moved as a child, to the musical, amber-cast Chile from which she and her family were forced into exile during Augusto Pinochet’s 1973 coup.Ī freedom fighter to her core, Aguirre returns to South America in her late teens as part of the MIR - the Revolutionary Left Movement - and literally marries herself to the resistance in the form of a kind man named Alejandro. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]() ![]() Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was really sad to see Kellan angsting over decisions and how he carried so much on his shoulders. ![]() I particularly enjoyed one scenebetween Kellan and Matt. We see a bit more of each of them and their personalities. I love how we get to see what truly happens when the boys go on tour together, all the fun and antics that happen between them all. However, they will have to overcome a lot of insecurity and fears if they have any shot at making it. This relationship was born out of mistrust initially but what they now have is something they both want to keep. When their relationship is put to the test with long distance pulling them apart for six months, it takes a lot of trust and effort to hold it all together. He is so desperate to hang on to what he has with Kiera that he constantly doubts everything. It is nearly double the length of that story because there is way more going on inside Kellan’s head that we realised. Painful is Kellan’s POV of the second book in this series, Effortless. ![]() All the to-ing and fro-ing, the frustrations and so much angst. If you have read the series you will know how tough an experience it was. I have loved Kellan Kyle since I read Thoughtless for the first time and I still do. ![]() |