![]() Chang, especially towards the end of the novel when Julia realizes that they share something in common. I loved reading her relationship with Mrs. Their interactions in the story were easily the bits of the novel that stole the spotlight.Īctually, Julia’s interactions with other characters just felt very genuine and spot on. Julia’s loss of her beloved dog, Ramon, causes her to feel so much sadness, but in her sadness you see a beautiful young woman developing understanding, especially when it comes to Olive, another Munchkin in the production of Wizard of Oz who has dwarfism. There’s a lot of beauty in the way in which she understands the world around her. Julia wants to know anything and everything, and it’s so apparent in the story to the reader that she is nothing if not filled with good intentions. ![]() She’s curious, endearing, kind and understanding. Julia’s narrative is absolutely infectious. In fact, I love the dual meaning of the title given that this book refers to life being “too short” and that Julia is in fact “short.” Short is her latest effort, and it’s a pretty endearing little story of life, death, and friendship. ![]() I have heard nothing by praise for Holly Goldberg Solan’s Counting by 7s, and it’s a book I’ve been meaning to get to (and will, I hope!). ![]()
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![]() ![]() Why am I rambling on about this when you could be reading shorter and more informative reviews, you ask? It’s because this story runs parallel to the Death of the Family arc (for a while anyway), and I have noticed an obsession with Batman writers (except maybe Snyder) regarding the Bat persona and neglecting the everyday side of Bruce. ![]() Ok, the latter camp is something I made up, but it was a cool way to open the review.Īnyway, I belong to the third faction (population: 1) that believes that neither Batman nor Bruce Wayne is the real person, but something in between, a mixed personality that we never get to see.įor the purposes of this review, let’s refer to the middle ground between Batman and Bruce Wayne as the Dark Knight. There are two kinds of people in the world: the ones who believe Batman is the real personality and the ones that believe Batman is the persona. ![]() Batman: Detective Comics, Volume 1: Faces of Death by Tony S. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unknown to Angrail and Ephynia, evil lurks in the shadows. When she unwittingly stumbles upon the one being who can end her loneliness, the battered Angrail, her life changes forever. He's determined to find those responsible for killing an innocent woman and the child she carried, no matter the cost to himself.Įphynia, a demoness with scars, has spent a lifetime serving Nerafail, Lord of the Dead. What could be more dangerous than loving a rogue?Ĭondemned as a rogue and punished by his master, Angrail, one of the Seven Paradise Walkers, has wandered mortal and immortal worlds for centuries. ![]() ![]() I just fucking stood there when the car came past me, shooting. I remember the screech of the tyres, and I knew what was coming, and everyone was shouting, ‘get down, get down’, and I froze. “They went through a series of exercises with me,” he says, “breaking Coke bottles so I would get used to the popping sound and start bending my knees. Some of the residents, concerned or even embarrassed that this outsider could have been killed during one of his regular visits, began training Venkatesh in drive-by preparedness. ![]() He would have been even harder to miss back then, almost 20 years ago, when he was a hippyish middle-class sociology student with a long ponytail and a tie-dyed t-shirt, conducting field research in Chicago’s biggest, poorest housing project, the Robert Taylor Homes. “Like a tree.” Venkatesh is a tall man – a big target. ![]() THE first time that Sudhir Venkatesh witnessed a drive-by shooting, he remained upright while everyone around him dropped to the pavement. ![]() ![]() ![]() Part gripping memoir, part fascinating account of the ecology of the countryside, Wilding is, above all, an inspiring story of hope”. Wilding-The Return of nature to a British farmĪccording to its current publisher, Panmacmillan, Wilding tells the story of using “free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife. The project is cited as an outstanding example of landscape-scale restoration in the UK Government’s 25 Year Environment Plan. ![]() It tells the story of the Knepp Wildland Project, a pioneering rewilding experiment on Knepp Estate in West Sussex, the United Kingdom. Wilding – the return of nature to a British farm was published in 2018. Before she wrote Wilding, she was also known for her book ‘The Kumaris’, on Nepal’s Kumari’s or girls treated like a living goddess, until they reach puberty. Isabella Tree, the author of Wilding-The return of nature to a British farm, is a British author and travel journalist. ![]() ![]() ![]() Keep in mind that this and the following steps only apply to the tasks you designed as actionable. When you worked on clarifying your tasks, you got a head start on this step, but now it’s time to organize each of these items specifically by type. If there are any tasks you can complete in fewer than 10 minutes, go ahead and do them now. Or you can throw those items out entirely. ![]() Then, set aside any tasks that aren’t actionable or necessary as reference materials so you can tend to them later. From there, you can determine which ones you need to delegate among your team, which ones you need to tackle immediately, and so on and so forth. To start, gather all of your actionable tasks. In this step, you want to take any ambiguity out of your tasks and make them as clear and straightforward as possible. This way, you can determine how to later proceed. Now that you have items in your inbox, you need to review and process them and place them into their appropriate categories. ![]() ![]() ![]() Books save lives.” Listen to the interview below:Īll memberships to The Philadelphia Citizen are renewed annually. I want to provide that for other people,” says Gino. If I had had visibility of people like me, my life would be different now. Without giving kids access to books like Melissa, “You end up with adults who are either hurt and scarred, or who don’t know how to interact with a trans person - and that’s where you get epidemic levels of violence against trans people, especially trans women of color.” “Most children do not have spending money to go to the bookstore,” they say, “School is the place where they can get that information, where they can get needed tools for figuring out who they are - and for figuring out who other people are.” As the gender queer author of a banned book about growing up trans, “To be told what is wrong with the book is my existence is a real hit to the gut,” says Gino.īanning a kids’ book can increase its visibility and sales, says Gino, but it still reduces access. ![]() In this episode of #VelshiBannedBookClub, Gino and Citizen Board Member and MSNBC host Ali Velshi speak about the dangers of book banning. This year, author Alex Gino renamed the multi-award-winning book to befit the true name of the main character, a child whose assigned gender at birth did not match her gender identity. Melissa is a middle-grades work of fiction that was, from 2015 to 2022, titled George. ![]() ![]() ![]() Collaborating with folks to help them feel more lovingly connected to themselves, and to each other, is Lura's passion (and coincidentally, Lura says, the way to transform our world)! Lura loves to be in relationship with people, animals, and nature. The research is part of the Human Cell Atlas initiative to map every cell type in the human body. It also predicts how the cells communicate to keep the heart working. She believes that with support, we all have an innate capacity to shine our unique light. The atlas shows the huge diversity of cells and reveals heart muscle cell types, cardiac protective immune cells and an intricate network of blood vessels. ![]() Lura was a PSU Oregon Registry Master Trainer, received the COCC Diversity Education Program award in 2015, is Safe Zone certified, has extensive DEI training, and has offered numerous DEI community workshops and discussions.Currently, Lura has a small online private practice with plans to offer groups and retreats. Her favorite classes included How to Thrive, Critical Thinking, Families in Poverty, and Mindfulness & Resilience. Biography: Lura Reed is a clinical psychologist who taught at OSU-Cascades for many years. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the fact that he’d never heard the Simpletons, not at a fest or a showcase, hadn’t run across an EP or had a friend mention them, that felt like a bad omen. He didn’t resent their success-god knows, anyone who could escape the Value-Village-sweater life was a good omen for the rest. It made his throat hurt, dry and burning like an approaching cold. They were local too, started out playing together at some high school on the Danforth, branched out to east end bars, signed to Arts & Crafts. The cover story was an article about a band he hadn’t heard of, called the Simpletons. He put the bags at his feet, knowing that he was no longer really at the bus stop, that if the bus came he stood a lesser chance of it stopping for him back here, but it was a cold day and he was tired. ![]() He waited at the bus stop for a while, trying to read a copy of the free arts weekly he’d shoved in with his groceries, but the wind kept yanking at the pages, rattling them until he staggered back into the doorway of an out-of-business costume shop to get out of the wind. ![]() ![]() ![]() The finely drawn characters capture readers’ attention in this debut.Īutumn and Phineas, nicknamed Finny, were born a week apart their mothers are still best friends. Ty-respectful of the struggling desert ecosystem from humblest succulent to deadliest snake, perceiving each element as part of a fragile, interconnected web-has kidnapped Gemma, in violation of her human rights and needs, and imprisoned her thousands of miles from home. While the landscape is beautifully portrayed and deftly mined for subtext and symbolism, the novel can’t overcome its central contradiction. When Gemma’s escape attempts end in near death, Ty rescues her, returning her to captivity, using such handy teachable moments to instruct her on outback ecology. ![]() Abandoned child turned wasted drifter and stalker, Ty is now an expert survivalist, bent on teaching his abductee admiration and respect for the harsh world in which he’s imprisoned her. Her captor, Ty, in his late 20s, is a less-successful creation. Privileged Gemma, 16, is sympathetic and believable. From its compelling opening, the novel delivers taut suspense and a riveting plot in a haunting setting. This debut novel about an English teen’s abduction and imprisonment in the Australian outback unfolds as a letter from captive to captor. ![]() |