![]() ![]() Honoring multiple poetic traditions, They Call Me Güero is a classic in the making and the recipient of a Pura Belpré Honor, a Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award, a Claudia Lewis Award for Excellence in Poetry, and a Walter Dean Myers Honor. ![]() And when life gets tough for this Mexican American border kid, he knows what to do: He writes poetry. ![]() Güero faces the start of seventh grade with heart and smarts, his family’s traditions, and his trusty accordion. (Don’t cross Joanna - she's tough as nails.) Together, they joke around and talk about their expanding world, which now includes girls. Güero is also a reader, gamer, and musician who runs with a squad of misfits called Los Bobbys. He feels at home on both sides of the river, speaking Spanish or English. Like the Mexican boxer Canelo Álvarez, 12-year-old Güero is puro mexicano. Sometimes people only go off of what they see. They call him Güero because of his red hair, pale skin, and freckles. One says it is not derogatory but can be used that way. Here’s a source that offers a couple of different definitions. Guero (pronounced WHERE-oh) is a Spanish slang term generally used to refer to white people. ![]() An award-winning novel in verse about a boy who navigates the start of seventh grade and life growing up on the border the only way that feels right - through poetry. OK, a bit of linguistics so we’re all on the same page here. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Women who forgive men because they had reasons to do what they did. ![]() I detest this plot from the bottom of my heart and part of it is because I don’t wanna read anymore about women who accept men who don’t deserve them. I will maybe go back and read the rest in the series, but this story was the wrong one for me. I liked some of DP’s books but in others, I’ve noticed she does have a tendency to sometimes write men who are problematic. We need to raise the bar both fictional and real one. ![]() Those have no place here unless they are part of the book but not the relationship. But I’m tired of the misogyny, audacity of men and generally the low expectations that women have. But seriously, I can put up with a lot of shit in romance and I take it with a grain of salt. Note: most of this review will read like an essay on female anger. I almost never rate books this low but I’m freaking fuming. I’m giving it this rating mostly out of fury and annoyance - the writing was great and the story was well told. ![]() ![]() Samantha writes about knights and finding true love even though she is not sure she knows what true love is. She has purchased a rundown castle which is her first real home. Samantha Montgomery is a historical romance writer who has fled to England after a failed romance. Marcus wants to be in his dragon form again, which he is promised if he brings his hoard to the Council. ![]() He can still bring forth his wings to fly and communicate using telepathy, but none of this is good enough. As a human, Marrkiya is now called Marcus Aquara. He is hunted and transformed into a human against his will by the Council of Elders led by Padgora, who has control of the Phoenix Amber. ![]() He is of the Aqua line and is the last of his kind. Marrkiya is a beautiful, arrogant and proud Drakkon. SCORCHED (Rulers of the Sky, #1) by Paula Quinn Is an original dragon shapeshifter paranormal romance that BLEW ME AWAY! The world-building, all of the characters and the love story were all completely engaging. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Those who were critical of The American Scene essential Iy saw it as a negative assessment of modern America written in a densely textured style that only highlighted the aristocratic superiority of its author. More importantly, it also offered the public, the press, and the intellectual community the opportunity to judge James's art in terms of a subject the audience itself had strong opinions about. ![]() America had never been a subject one could be neutral about, but couple that subject with a world-renowned author who seemingly had questioned the very capability of America to provide a compatible environment for the artist and the result was what one critic would call, in Jamesian tones, a "case." The publication of The American Scene capstoned a two-and-a-half-year debate, initiated by James's return to the United States in 1904, over the implications of James's expatriation. However, The Amer ican Scene was unique in that it became the focal point of one of the most spirited public controversies of James's long literary career. Henry James's The American Scene: Its Genesis and Its Reception, 1905-1977 by Rosalie Hewitt, Northern Illinois University Henry James's The American Scene (1907) was his last book in a substantial body of travel writing which also included works on France, Italy, England, and an earlier America. ![]() In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]() ![]() ![]() SLA Virtual Weekend Course: Empowering Pupils for the Future 208 pages / Ages 6+ / Reviewed by Jayne Gould, school librarian. ![]() Lively and funny, these illustrated chaotic canine capers will keep young readers entertained and eagerly anticipating further installments of Junior's diaries. However once Junior realizes what is expected of him, and with the threat of being sent back to doggy prison hanging over him, he does try his best to work with his person-pal, Ruff. ![]() Despite being determined to show how clever he is, Junior is quite easily distracted, especially when raccoons are involved, so these don't always go to plan. He introduces his new human family and doggy friends in the neighbourhood before describing his experiences at obedience classes. Junior guides his readers round his new kennel, exploring all the new spaces including the Sleep Room, the Food Room and the Picture Box Room, as well as the Backyard and the Hallway Closet. This family might be better known to some readers as the Khatchadorians, with Rafe the central character in the Middle School series by James Patterson. He has been adopted by the Catch-A-Doggy-Bone family and is the particular friend of the youngest, Ruff. Junior is very excited to be able to tell his story through the pages of his diary. ![]() ![]() Sales are normally discussed in Keith Caulfield’s “ Ask Billboard” column, but I can tell you that our director of charts, Geoff Mayfield, writes in the Nov. 5 is great for someone who is putting out their 60th release! ![]() I seem to recall that there have been others that have sold more, but I would think that the amount of sales for Aiken would put him somewhere near the top. 1 with a whopping 613,000 copies sold, I started to wonder which CDs have sold the most copies in their debut week. Are you asking me, or Clay Aiken’s fans? Which brings up the sobering thought that in the last week of October 2043, Clay will be 64 years old. What other acts in this week’s top-10 can do the same in 2043? 7 with “Elvis’ Golden Records, Volume 3.” As you know, both acts are in this week’s top-10 as well. 8 with “The Second Barbra Streisand Album” while Elvis Presley was at No. ![]() Did you notice that 40 years ago this week on Billboard’s Top LPs chart (Oct. ![]() ![]() Levy confronts a harsh truth for women with control and choice: we lay claim to everything, but the universe is often indifferent to our demands. In short order, she loses baby, spouse and house. “My life had been an ugly, roiling mess, but I was going to pull it all together at the last minute.” Enamored with the idea of being a pregnant correspondent, she travels to Mongolia for work. Ariel Levy The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir Kindle Edition by Ariel Levy (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 815 ratings 3.7 on Goodreads 31,917 ratings Editors pick Best Biographies & Memoirs See all formats and editions Kindle 5.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Great on Kindle Great Experience. But after watching a friend struggle to get pregnant, Levy realizes she could lose the opportunity to have a family she didn’t know she wanted. ![]() A member of the first generation of women told they could do anything, Levy, now 42, spent her 20s and 30s consumed by wanderlust, evading the claustrophobia of monogamy and motherhood: “To become a mother, I feared, was to relinquish your status as the protagonist of your own life.” As a result of her nomadic existence, she cheats on the woman she marries. Never has trying to “ have it all” felt as visceral as it does in The New Yorker writer Ariel Levy’s memoir, The Rules Do Not Apply. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thrust into an unfamiliar and treacherous court, with a husband who mistrusts her, stepsons who resent her and a bewitching rival who covets her crown, Emma must defend herself against her enemies and secure her status as queen by bearing a son.Determined to outmaneuver her adversaries, Emma forges alliances with influential men at court and wins the affection of the English people. ![]() A rich tale of power and forbidden love revolving around a young medieval queenIn 1002, fifteen-year-old Emma of Normandy crosses the Narrow Sea to wed the much older King Athelred of England, whom she meets for the first time at the church door. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Regarding a Black tour guide’s arm hairs: “I noted them and wished I could be them.”) Several years later and back home in Edward, Pa., Harry’s racist parents slide toward financial catastrophe as Harry graduates high school and Covid-19 takes hold, spurring vaccination checkpoints and a national “bubble registry.” Eager to distance himself from his family, Harry moves to New York and starts to identify as Black, going by “G-Dawg” and joining a “Transracial-Anon” support group. In 2016, 14-year-old Harry Sylvester Bird develops an enduring fascination with Blackness while on a safari in Tanzania. The inventive if messy latest from Okparanta ( Under the Udala Trees) chronicles the coming-of-age of a young white man who is convinced he is Black. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Such is the occupation of this man of the Kung family!” Above, he pays allegiance to the sovereign of the age below, he transforms the ordinary people through education, and in this way brings profit to the world. Tzu-lu was still framing his reply when Tzu-kung answered, “This man of the K’ung family in his inborn nature adheres to loyalty and good faith, in his person practices benevolence and righteousness he brings a beautiful order to rites and music and selects what is proper in human relationships. “This man of the K’ung family,” said the stranger, “what’s his occupation?” The stranger then asked what family he belonged to, and Tzu-lu replied, “The K’ung family.” “He is a gentleman of Lu,” replied Tzu-lu. ![]() The stranger pointed to Confucius and said, “What does he do?” Then he beckoned to Tzu-kung and Tzu-lu, both of whom came forward at his call. He walked up the embankment, stopped when he reached the higher ground, rested his left hand on his knee, propped his chin with his right, and listened until the piece was ended. His beard and eyebrows were pure white, his hair hung down over his shoulders, and his sleeves flapped at his sides. He had not gotten halfway through the piece he was playing when an old fisherman appeared, stepped out of his boat, and came forward. Book: Resonance and Transcendence with Great NatureĬONFUCIUS, AFTER STROLLING through the Black Curtain Forest, sat down to rest on the Apricot Altar.1 While his disciples turned to their books, he strummed his lute and sang. ![]() |