![]() ![]() Consequently, the publication of her story offers shocking insights into the way incarcerated women are treated and thus highlights the necessity to talk about these horrifying practices. In her narrative, she draws attention to a number of different issues among them the maltreatment of women of all colors, origins, backgrounds and sexes in American prisons. After her release, she put her experiences in writing to raise awareness of the flaws of the U.S. ![]() As a consequence of her actions in the past, Kerman was sentenced to 13 months in a federal prison facility. In her autobiographical novel also entitled Orange is the new Black, Kerman narrates her life in prison after being convicted of drug offense after 10 years. However, the broadcast and discussion of the story draws attention to the actual narrative by Piper Kerman on which the show is based. ![]() The show has been criticized for inaccurately depicting the story of Piper Chapman, as the main character is called in the series. Orange is the new Black, a TV-series based on Piper Kerman’s autobiographical narrative, is all over the news and in our living rooms attempting to give us an insight of what life behind bars is like for women. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It won the Sue Kaufman award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Book of the Year, and the Debut of the Year at the British Book Awards in 2021. His debut novel, Shuggie Bain, is the winner of the 2020 Booker Prize. His work has been translated into 39 languages. Imbuing the everyday world of its characters with rich lyricism and giving full voice to people rarely acknowledged in the literary world, Young Mungo is a gripping and revealing story about the bounds of masculinity, the divisions of sectarianism, the violence faced by many queer people, and the dangers of loving someone too much.ĭouglas Stuart is a Scottish - American author. And when several months later Mungo's mother sends him on a fishing trip to a loch in Western Scotland with two strange men whose drunken banter belies murky pasts, he will need to summon all his inner strength and courage to try to get back to a place of safety, a place where he and James might still have a future. Yet against all odds, they become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the pigeon dovecote that James has built for his prize racing birds.Īs they fall in love, they dream of finding somewhere they belong, while Mungo works hard to hide his true self from all those around him, especially from his big brother Hamish, a local gang leader with a brutal reputation to uphold. Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars-Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic-and they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. ![]() ![]() ![]() We discover her sad secret origin revealing her parents’ fate and the turbulent courtship of Ingrid commences. I love all the characters but Daisy gets the most attention in this volume which is great as she usually gets the least. Massive kudos to John Allison for putting that into his comic! Here’s a link to a supercut of those gloriously cheesy moments - I don’t know how many times I’ve seen that video but it never fails to make me laugh. ![]() I didn’t think I could love Giant Days more but then, during the burglary story, a David Caruso from CSI: Miami lookalike appeared and bumped up my adoration to the next level! If you don’t know why that’s amazing, Caruso’s character, in the cold opening of an episode, notoriously started a sentence… put on his sunglasses… then finished his sentence immediately followed by the CSI intro which kicks off with a YEAAAAHHHH!!! rock song. ![]() Also, Susan gets sick and is nursed back to health by her pops Big Geoff, Esther gets a job at the local comics shop, and Daisy gets her first girlfriend, the wild and crazy German student Ingrid! ![]() In Giant Days Volume 6, the girls deal with a burglary, a disastrous dinner party and a cranky old neighbour. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instagram - are affiliated with Libro.fm, but all reviews are our true and honest opinions! Instagram □ our code GOODBOOKS at checkout and get two books for the price of your first months membership! ![]() Instagram □ □ Shanna Kay - Vellum and Vellichor We are reading The Lighthouse Witches by CJ Cook for our April book club so pick up a copy and read along with □ Best Book Club with Shanna and Jen You can find them saved in the book club highlights on our profile page!Īnd if you are reading The Sentence for your own book club, you can find our book club kit here! ![]() Thanks to everyone who joined us for the discussion on Instagram and Facebook! If you missed it, don’t worry! You can head over to Instagram and let us know your answers to any of the questions any time you want. This week for Book Club, we are discussing The Sentence by Louise Erdrich. ![]() ![]() GODWIN BOOKS - Read the whole series: Skunked! Counting Sheep Who Gives a Hoot? A Prickly Problem Praise for the Calpurnia Tate, Girl Vet series: Animal husbandry done right for the young reader set. Will Ajax learn to leave other critters alone? From Jacqueline Kelly, the author of the acclaimed books, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate and The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate, comes a series for younger readers, featuring a smart and spunky heroine and the lushly imagined world of turn-of-the-century Texas. Itll take Callies quick thinking and doctoring, along with a little help from Dr. Book Synopsis In this fourth book in the illustrated Calpurnia Tate, Girl Vet chapter book series, a young Callie Vee tackles a conundrum involving the rambunctious family dog and some very prickly quills When the Tate family dog, Ajax, has a run-in with a porcupine, things get prickly-and dangerous-quickly. Will Ajax learn to leave other critters alone? Illustrations.x 7 13/16. ![]() ![]() ![]() About the Book When the Tate family dog, Ajax, has a run-in with a porcupine, things get prickly-and dangerous-quickly. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The problem is that giving in to one’s desires can mean turning away from God and His plan, which can also doom our souls. Once in receipt of this beauty, you'll feel as though you've journeyed over the hills and far away, beyond the field we know-you'll be THAT enchanted! In protective archival bag! NOTE: Light edgewear, age-toning to the insides of the covers, and a small tear to the bottom edge of the front cover near the spine, about 1/6" of an inch. A Mortal Glamour is a powerful tale of people torn between living the lives of saints or giving in to the desires that we all experience, that make us human. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are many oddities the narrator, sometimes accompanieed by local native guide Longhorn, encounters. There is no mention of the city being on another planet other than on Earth. Indeed, the narrator reached it by ship though she can’t remember exactly how. No explanation is given as to how it came to be. Tianaron is a city full of what seems like a variety of sentient, insectoid life. The story is long on strange elements and short on dialogue and a conventional plot except in the sequence of events mentioned in the letters. The 30 letters of varying lengths are addressed to someone, seemingly in Europe, who never answers back. ![]() It is narrated, seemingly, by a woman given that we have a dream with a rapist and mention of a dress she wishes she had. This story is long enough that the anthology’s introdctory blurb calls it a short novel. ![]() ![]() She has been courted by her neighbor, the Alpha werewolf of the Tri-Cities Pack. I’ll confess that I found the book to be very romantic from the growth in the relationship between Adam and Mercy to the secondary storyline which I will try to keep from spoiling for other readers (particularly given our reader discussion yesterday).įor those unfamiliar with the series, Mercy is a coyote shapeshifter who has a natural immunity to magic. As my fellow reviewer, Jayne, would say “Huzzah”. Even though you have increased your writing schedule to include one more book release, it still seems the quality of your work has remained the same. I’m pretty amazed and delighted at the consistency of your writing. ![]() ![]() Jane B Reviews Fae / Magic / Patricia-Briggs / shapeshifters / Urban-Fantasy 11 Comments ![]() MaREVIEW: Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "An egg is clever," in fancy script, for instance, sits alongside examples of camouflage: "An egg might be speckled to resemble the rocks around it." The letters' dramatic curlicues mimic curvy grasses and vines dappled with tiny insect eggs. The main text appears in large, flowery cursive, while a smaller printed typeface serves as labels and brief factual captions. For example, a border that resembles a color test pattern runs down the outer edges of a spread of nearly 40 carefully placed "colorful" examples, set against a white background, which dazzle the eye. Long's (Sylvia Long's Mother Goose) skilled use of contrast and compositional balance prevent monotony. In most spreads, different adjectives (colorful, shapely, textured, etc.) complete the sentence, "An egg is." This repetitive rhythm contrasts with the visual variety of the illustrations. The narrative then launches into a kind of survey about the characteristics of eggs, which follows a simple format. buried beneath the sand," Aston (When You Were Born) begins, as spot illustrations zero in on a hummingbird, emperor penguin and sea turtle, respectively. It sits there, under its mother's feathers. Like the subject matter it describes, this book packages with understated elegance the substantive matter found within it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The original Starship Troopers novel spent more time talking about politics than it did exploring the details of future warfare still, Heinlein's book wound up shaping the archetype of the "future super-soldier" for decades to come in sci-fi novels like Joe Haldeman's The Forever War, James Cameron's Aliens movie, and practically every FPS video game with a Space Marine protagonist. ![]() In the book, we are living in a quite a kind of liberal, tolerant, benevolent. While very different in tone, both the Starship Troopers books and movies follow the same plot in broad strokes on a far-future earth governed by a Terran Federation, a teenage hero named Juan "Johnny" Rico joins an Earth Defense Force called the Mobile Infantry and fights in a war between Earth and a species of alien lifeforms colloquially called Bugs. The difference between the movie adaption and the novel couldnt be more extreme. Related: Aliens: Fireteam Elite's Season 1: Phalanx Class Kit & New Weapons On release, many fans of Robert Heinlein criticized Verhoeven's adaptation for portraying the Mobile Infantry as incompetent, fragile cannon fodder who lacked the Mecha suits of the book and games. Cool military gear aside, the book and film were completely inverted as well while the Starship Troopers book was a Cold War allegory about the clash between the Western and Eastern Blocs, the Starship Troopers movie was a dark satire about the dangers of fascism and glorifying violence (to the point of invoking imagery from the old Nazi propaganda film Triumph Of The Will). More people these days are familiar with Starship Troopers from its 1997 film adaptation by Dutch director Paul Verhoeven. ![]() |