Speak novel by laurie halse anderson6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() For me, the story of freshman Melinda and how she copes with being raped at a party by a popular senior, particularly through art, was even more powerful in this format. ![]() Of course, I am very glad I finally read it. And Speak: The Graphic Novel sat on my desk for months before I was able to read it, despite my appreciation for the work of Emily Carroll, who wrote and illustrated the creepy graphic novel Through the Woods and illustrated the superb graphic novel Baba Yaga's Assistant by Marika McCool. I'm not proud of it, but I often shy away from books on difficult topics. It was assigned reading for my older children when they were in high school and was the driving reason why I read it. ![]() Controversial, Speak is banned a often as it is part of high school curriculum. In 1999 Laurie Halse Anderson published the groundbreaking young adult novel about rape, Speak. ![]()
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The five dysfunctions of a team6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Team initiative is very tough, nonetheless it can offer impressive outcomes. ![]() I absolutely believe this magazine would absolutely profit any type of person that requires to lead a team. Lencioni can inform a persuading tale while driving residence the message without being gaudy or shateringly evident. I was attracted to assess just the last location of overview which continues to be in essay kind, nonetheless I celebrate I actually did not. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Audiobook Free. ![]() I have actually tried, yet fiction does not fascinate me. Nevertheless I pushed using, in addition to to my shock, I really valued this magazine. When I saw that the initial area of the book was classified “The Misconception” in addition to developed like story, I rolled my eyes presuming I simply misused my cash. I opened it up, as well as additionally a chilly shudder decreased my spine. Ultimately, I purchased overview as well as additionally was enjoyed assess it. I comprehend it has really been a chosen book amongst supervisors for several years, in addition to I have actually valued hearing Patrick Lencioni talk on a number of events, nonetheless, for one aspect or another, each year this magazine preserved obtaining kicked down the listing. ![]() This magazine has actually hopped on the “to assess” checklist for fairly a long time currently. ![]() Mo willems goldilocks6/12/2023 ![]() Children will note almost immediately that this version deviates wildly from the original as it is made clear that the dinosaur characters are not the innocent bears of the fairytale. The plot and setting remain familiar enough with three dinosaurs, three bowls of food, three chairs, three beds, a house, and a little girl in the woods, but this is where the similarities end. This snarky, humorous retelling of the classic fairytale offers a different take on the characters. Goldilocks makes her way to their house and is in for some big surprises. ![]() Mo Willems retells the classic Goldilocks and the Three Bears, but this time the bears are dinosaurs and they are not so innocent! Mama Dinosaur, Papa Dinosaur, and a dinosaur that is visiting from Norway make their beds, set out their chairs, cook “three bowls of delicious chocolate pudding at varying temperatures” and head out to Someplace Else. ![]() ![]() Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs. New York: HarperCollins, 2012. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Character and beliefs Strenuous life Warrior Religion.Post-presidency (1909–1919) Election of 1908 Africa and Europe (1909–1910) Republican Party schism Battling Taft over arbitration treaties Election of 1912 Republican primaries and convention Roosevelt denounces the election The Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party Assassination attempt Democratic victory South American expedition (1913–1914) Final years World War I League of Nations Final political activities.Presidency (1901–1909) Domestic policies: The Square Deal Trust busting and regulation Coal strike Prosecuted misconduct Railroads Pure food and drugs Conservation Business panic of 1907 Foreign policy Japan Europe Latin America and Panama Canal Media Election of 1904 Second term Rhetoric of righteousness.Emergence as a national figure Assistant Secretary of the Navy War in Cuba Governor of New York Vice presidency (1901).Reentering public life Civil Service Commission New York City Police Commissioner.Early political career State Assemblyman Presidential election of 1884.Early life and family Education Naval history and strategy First marriage and widowerhood. ![]() Burned by Karen Marie Moning6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() I asked May and Sheena to share their thoughts along with myself – and here are our initial reactions. Then we read the blurb and there is a hint that there would be conflict between Mac and Barrons. Not that we don’t love Mac, but we thought this was Dani and Ryodan’s trilogy. And we waited a long time to find out, most of Burned’s narration would be from Mac. So then we waited for Burned and her story to continue. ![]() We were all unsure of how we would like 14 year old Dani as our narrator, and she surprised the hell out of us in a good way. I think we all loved Iced, the previous book in this series (I did a top ten reasons to read post). I think every Smexy girl reads it, although May, Sheena and Mandi slammed through it on day one and are here to share our thoughts. Burned is book seven in the Fever series, an overall excellent urban fantasy series. ![]() Tao te ching stephen mitchell amazon6/11/2023 ![]() All he left us is his book: the classic manual on the art of living, written in a style of gemlike lucidity, radiant with humor and grace and largeheartedness and deep wisdom: one of the wonders of the world. Like an Iroquois woodsman, he left no traces. Even the meaning of his name is uncertain (the most likely interpretations: “the Old Master” or, more picturesquely, “the Old Boy”). But all the information that has come down to us is highly suspect. He may have been an older contemporary of Confucius (551-479 BCE) and may have held the position of archive-keeper in one of the petty kingdoms of the time. ![]() Since it is already well known by its Chinese title, I have let that stand.Ībout Lao-tzu there is practically nothing to be said. Tao Te Ching (pronounced, more or less, Dow Deh Jing) can be translated as The Book of the Immanence of the Way or The Book of the Way and of How It Manifests Itself in the World or, simply, The Book of the Way. ![]() Murder most unladylike order6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() When it occurred to her that she was never going to be able to grow her own spectacular walrus moustache, she decided that Agatha Christie was the more achieveable option. When she was twelve, her father handed her a copy of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and she realised that she wanted to be either Hercule Poirot or Agatha Christie when she grew up. ![]() She has been making up stories all her life. Robin was born in California and grew up in an Oxford college, across the road from the house where Alice in Wonderland lived. She is also the author of The Guggenheim Mystery, the sequel to Siobhan Dowd's The London Eye Mystery. ![]() Robin's books are: Murder Most Unladylike (Murder is Bad Manners in the USA), Arsenic for Tea (Poison is Not Polite in the USA), First Class Murder, Jolly Foul Play, Mistletoe and Murder, Cream Buns and Crime, A Spoonful of Murder, Death in the Spotlight and Top Marks for Murder. ![]() The River Between Us by Richard Peck6/10/2023 ![]() It has such vibrant descriptions and memorable characters. The children learn the story of their dad's family, and a family secret or two. This story is told as a flashback, as Tilly's grandchildren come for a visit in 1916. And why is the Pruitt family harboring southerners? Little do they all know the deep effect they will all have on each others lives and futures. Residents wonder if the darker woman, Calinda, is a slave, or if the two women are spies for the south. ![]() Rumors begin to fly around town immediately. They cannot continue their journey to St. Delphine and her companion Calinda are like nothing the small town of Grand Tower has ever seen. Then a stranger from New Orleans steps off a steamboat headed to St Louis. With their father gone, they are struggling to make ends meet. Tilly Pruitt lives in Illinois with her brother Noah, her sister Cass and their mother. ![]() Behn oroonoko6/10/2023 ![]() Fatefully, his deep fascination with navigation also leads him to board the ship. As we learn from the narrator, every day he is entertained “with globes and maps, and mathematical discourses and instruments.” For Oroonoko, the knowledge imparted by his new European “friend” is a rich source of enlightenment and pleasure. Oroonoko, a West African prince from what is now Ghana, “is introduced to the science and practice of navigation by the commander of an English slave ship,” Sills explains. This critique comes into effect at the very start of the novel, when Behn first refers to navigational instruments. ![]() The novel reflects Behn’s colonial ambivalence and. According to literature professor Adam Sills, Behn sought to challenge readers’ optimistic views of the scientific machinery that propped up the Atlantic slave trade. Behn’s Oroonoko, published in 1688, is about its hero’s love, rebellion, and execution in the erstwhile Dutch and English colony, Surinam. ![]() ![]() A closer look at her fiction, however, suggests that it aspires to much more than a truthful or neutral depiction of reality. In the dedication to her 1688 novel, Oroonoko, Aphra Behn wrote that a “Poet is a Painter in his way he draws to the Life.” Not surprisingly, Behn’s work has been read as an early precursor to literary realism. ![]() Book 1066 and all that6/10/2023 ![]() Duffy undertakes to follow the emergence of ideas and feelings of Englishness from pre-Roman times to the present. The octopus of national myth is the dread and cunning beast faced by the distinguished novelist Maureen Duffy in England: The Making of the Myth. English parodies of English attitudes serve, at times, to reinforce them. To entertain it, even ironically, may involve becoming part of it. Myth is an understandable and necessary modus vivendi, a way for people to characterise themselves to themselves and then to the world of all the Others, but it cannot be neutral. The writer studying mythologies of Englishness is, to put it mildly, spoilt for choice. ![]() If my England takes place in flat-vowelled, coal-fired murk, a perpetual 1950s lit only by black-and-white war movies, what about yours? Pony Club camps and farm holidays? Boarding school? I see. Or c) they live in Scunthorpe and Coalville, mind their own business and do not care to be characterised in any way. ![]() ![]() Alternatively, the English are b) fair-minded, eager to help in a crisis, modest, self-effacing, ironic, brave, stronger in the second half, with profound reserves of romantic feeling, pastoral sensibilities and an unrivalled fund of poetry. ![]() |