6/30/2023 0 Comments Lemons by Melissa Savage![]() "Melissa Savage's astoundingly good debut novel is packed with humor, mystery, friendship, family secrets, and even Bigfoot! I think you'll love it, too. And Lem realizes that maybe she can make lemonade out of her new life after all. But along the way, Lem and Tobin end up discovering more than they ever could have imagined. After he invites Lem to be his assistant for the summer, they set out on an epic adventure to capture a shot of the elusive beast on film. by Melissa Savage RELEASE DATE: May 2, 2017. Then she meets eleven-year-old Tobin Sky, the CEO of Bigfoot Detectives Inc., who is the sole Bigfoot investigator for their small town. After he invites Lem to be his assistant for the summer, they set out on an epic adventure to capture a shot of the elusive beast on film. Her desire to write purposeful, issue-driven. ![]() ![]() Savage is a writer and a child and family therapist. ![]() But Lem can’t possibly make lemonade out of her new life in Willow Creek, California-the Bigfoot Capital of the World-where she’s forced to live with a grandfather she’s never met after her mother passes away. 9781524700126 1524700126 9781524700133 1524700134 Melissa D. ![]() Lemonade Liberty Witt’s mama always told her: When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. The search for Bigfoot gets juicy in this funny and touching story that’s perfect for fans of Kate DiCamillo’s Flora & Ulysses and the movie Smallfoot! ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments She's My Dad by Iolanthe Woulff![]() ![]() Woulff has an amazing ability to paint the character portraits with incredible sharpness and clarity so you don’t lose sight of who is doing what. In addition to the intelligence of the book, it is witty, clever, and engaging-full of suspense and mystery. Actually, there are interesting words that pique one’s curiosity of how the characters interact with each other however, not so many as to bog down the flow of the storyline. It is not written in the typical fifth-grade English that most novels today are. ![]() The college openly accepts everyone through their doors who wants an education but, there are some people who were bred in Southern tradition and are set about what they feel should be right and proper-and, they are not happy about Windfield College. It is a modern day allegory that shows the inside truth of people set in a northern Virginia college town. Even though the book does have a transsexual person in it, it is not about the process or the whys and whatnots. It is not a journey of mismatched sour romances nor it is a book of soul searching, familiar movies, or transsexuals. ![]() “She’s My Dad” is not what I expected it to be. And, even though I do review books I am happy to report that all the reviews are accurate. My first thought when I saw the high ratings for “She’s My Dad” was the author must have a lot of friends-the book cannot be that good. ![]() ![]() The Darkest Minds, published December 18, 2012, is the first novel of the series. The Rising Dark: A Darkest Minds Collection, published Januby Quercus Children's Books, is a collection of short stories that take place before The Darkest Minds. It takes place during the aftermath of a fictional disease known as 'IAAN' which killed most of the children in the United States and left the surviving children with supernatural abilities. The series follows a teenage girl named Ruby, a 16-year-old girl with special abilities that she has only just begun to understand. The first novel, The Darkest Minds, spent eight weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list for a children's series, peaking at number three. The series was first published in the United States in 2012 by Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Publishing Worldwide. The Darkest Minds, written by American author Alexandra Bracken, is a young adult dystopian fiction series consisting of four novels and several novellas compiled in Through the Dark. Hyperion Books for Children / Disney Publishing Worldwide ![]() ![]() ![]() During my search, I happened to stumble across the Czech literature section and picked up a copy of ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ by Milan Kundera as it was on my TBR list and isn’t available at my local library. Due to the absence of signs and being completely unfamiliar with the Library of Congress classification system, it took me nearly an hour to even find the sections relevant to my course. Last week, I visited the main university library for the first time and got hopelessly lost. The upside is that I now have access to different libraries and a 10% student discount at my favourite bookshop in the world, Foyles, so when I do have time to read for pleasure, I will be pretty spoilt for choice. The downside of starting my postgraduate degree next week is that I will have a lot less time to read fiction and also a lot less time for blogging than I’ve had over the summer. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Ghazals of Ghalib by Ghalib![]() ![]() ![]() The resulting variety of interpretation is remarkable, and indicates the evocativeness of Ghalib's poetry. These versions were then given to the American poets who made poetic interpretations of those ghazals which interested them. The ghazals (poems consisting of at least five unrelated couplets) show a time when old values were breaking down with no new ones to take their place.Īijaz Ahmad began by selecting thirty-seven of the ghazals for literal translation. ![]() This imaginative approach to the work of the Urdu poet Ghalib (1797-1869) presents highly original renderings, made by seven well-known American poets, of Ghalib's ghazals. ![]() |