![]() ![]() Nicholas Woode-Smith has captured the essence of what makes us humanitarian. ![]() Brett has evolved beside Kat, leaving behind his hatred, his need of vengeance, learning and understanding that not all monsters and creatures from the In-between are evil, just like the humans, some are good and others bad. But, I can’t judge them, because each one of them were victims of their own tragic pasts. A Corps created on vengeance to slay monsters and protect humanity, driven by despair, where every fight, every battle was only to get rid of the monsters, not taking into account the base nor morality of their actions. Brett and Guy’s POV were excellent as Corps members, incorporated as a child soldier. The grit that kept someone going, that makes you a human. I’m so wrung up I may bounce like a coil, so much tension, my lower lip is all chewed up! So much tension, cracking nerves, and nail biting, heart wrenching moments! A life of pain. And while some become beasts, they aren’t so different from humans. ![]() “Not all wolves are monsters, they’re just different. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In his anecdote, Bob Ong was on the path of discovering himself in his early years as an elementary student in a public school. It also didn’t leave out his adult stage wherein he faced what reality really is. It included the famous FLAMES game, crushes, and the let downs of university life told in the funniest and most witty way possible. ![]() It follows the story of the author’s journey from elementary, high school and college, recounting all of his pranks and childhood memories, up to the confused teenage phase, while not leaving out the times where he was in the lowest of the lows. ABNKKBSNPLAKo could be treated as one of classic Filipino book staple because of its humorous narration of what school life is for an ordinary Filipino student. ![]() ![]() ![]() Interestingly, Where the Wild Things Are was originally supposed to depict the story of a child who escaped to a land filled with horses but because Sendak couldn’t draw horses well, he changed the animals to “Wild Things.” The book was voted by readers of the School Library Journal the number one picture book of all time in 2012. Sendak was originally just an illustrator but soon decided to write his own books as well. Where The Wild Things Are was first published in 1963 – it would win the Caldecott Medal the next year - and follows the adventures of the troublemaking Max, who after being sent to bed without dinner, ends up on a mysterious jungle island with the “wild things” of the title. One of the most famous and most beloved children’s picture books of all time. ![]() With all issue points on both the book and dust jacket for the true first. A small chip at the base of the spine and marginal wear at the crown. In a Near Fine dust jacket with some overall age toning, most noticeably at the spine. A few little finger smudges to margins of the pages, otherwise a clean, attractive copy. Book in Near Fine condition having been protected by it's original dust jacket. ![]() A lovely copy of Sendak's most famous work. ![]() ![]() ![]() If I go by how it was for me as a reader, and my interests, I would say 4 stars, I liked it, but if I can imagine an audience of hijab-wearing girls, I would say definitely 5 stars. ![]() And dealing with prejudice, staying strong through that. Wait, what's with all the counting (steps, and so on) and numbers in this book?! This book is really about celebrating differences. Olympic medalist and social justice activist Ibtihaj Muhammad. It was written By Olympic medalist, social activist (and hijab-wearing!) athlete Ibtihaj Muhammed with the help of (writer) She. ![]() This is book #18 (of 20) of 2019, and we liked it. My family reads all the Goodreads-award-nominated picture books every year. ![]() ![]() ![]() At twilight, when the students of the Day Class return to their dorm, they cross paths with the Night Class on their way to school. Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students: the Day Class and the Night Class. ![]() She was adopted by the headmaster of Cross Academy, and now works alongside Zero to guard the Academy's secret. Synopsis: Yuki Cross has no memory of her past prior to the moment she was saved from a vampire attack ten years ago. I think I might even be enjoying it more now than back in the day. It's also quite amusing that it has held up really well for me. I'm enjoying all of the YA goodness of this story. I didn't think jumping into my old faves from high school would work well, but it shockingly has! The potential love triangle, the drama, and the fantasy are all vibing really well with me. I have to admit, I'm totally digging this manga. Is she who she says she is? She seems like she's gonna be one of our big baddies, at least for the next couple of volumes. We're also introduced to Maria, who is clearly up to something shady. I felt more engaged with the story and way more interested. ![]() There's lots of history and super cute pictures explored in this volume and I think it really adds something to the story. Once you get over the lack of action in the first couple of volumes then a lot more starts happening. Honestly, this story just keeps getting better. Vampire Knight continues in the 3rd Volume with a lot of Yuki's history being explored. ![]() ![]() I first met Jessica about 10 years ago after I had written to her complaining about a shortage of cat food. ![]() These same people have now evolved into the establishment, middle-management and people with disposable income and now our target audience. ![]() Girl eats boy! Thankfully, this is not the plot of the book which I now compel you to read – the continuing Twisted saga that catapulted Jessica Zafra to success and acclaim as the voice of Generation-X and the displaced youth who read her in the mid 1990s (although she won’t admit to this). ![]() Friends! Please email me at or if you want to get a copy of Filipino writer/ columnist/blogger Jessica Zafra’s newest book “Twisted 8: The Night of the Living Twisted.” You can also avail of autographed copies – just specify the name of the person you want it “dedicated to” when you purchase. ![]() ![]() ![]() Al Diaz Miami-Dade County’s mayor has COVID-19 again. ![]() And on a road trip up the California coast together, he intends to show her exactly what a falling star will do to catch the woman he loves: anything at all. Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava speaks during the County Commission meeting in Miami on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. But he’s determined to keep his improbably short, impossibly stubborn, and extremely endearing minder in his life any way he can. When another scandal lands Alex in major hot water and costs Lauren her job, she’ll have to choose between protecting him and offering him what he really wants-her. But the more time they spend together, the harder it gets to keep her professional remove and her heart intact, especially when she discovers the reasons behind his recklessness…not to mention his Cupid fanfiction habit. Compared to her previous work, watching over handsome but impulsive Alex shouldn’t be especially difficult. When all that reckless emotion explodes into a bar fight, the tabloids and public agree: his star is falling.Įnter Lauren Clegg, the former ER therapist hired to keep him in line. ![]() But the showrunners have wrecked his character, he's dogged by old demons, and his post-show future remains uncertain. A starring role as Cupid on TV’s biggest show, Gods of the Gates. "An absolutely witty, swoon worthy behind the scenes romp! Delightful from beginning to end!"-Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin'Īlexander Woodroe has it all. Following Spoiler Alert, Olivia Dade returns with another utterly charming romantic comedy about a devil-may-care actor- who actually cares more than anyone knows- and the no-nonsense woman hired to keep him in line. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “At a Male Allies Plenary Panel, a group of women engineers circulated hundreds of handmade bingo boards among attendees. The city streaked past, the bridge cables flickering like a delay, or a glitch.” "You're allowed to enjoy your life," she said. Your job can be in service of the rest of your life." She reached out to squeeze my wrist, then leaned her head against the window. Why did it feel so taboo, I asked, to approach work the way most people did, as a trade of my time and labor for money? Why did we have to pretend it was all so fun? While perhaps not unique to tech-it may even have been endemic to a generation-the expectation was overbearing. In this respect, it was not unlike book publishing: talking about doing work for money felt like screaming the safe word. ![]() Was that just buying into the industry's own narratives about itself? I tried to summarize the frantic, self-important work culture in Silicon Valley, how everyone was optimizing their bodies for longer lives, which would then be spent productively how it was frowned upon to acknowledge that a tech job was a transaction rather than a noble mission or a seat on a rocket ship. “Was I trying too hard to make this mean something? I asked Leah. ![]() ![]() ![]() The most problematic part for me personally, was that one character was outed as bisexual and a bitch in the same paragraph. But because one of them is a female character she gets praised for it because she is feisty and strong and sharp-tongued and funny (when really all she does is being hurtful to those around her) while the male character is now the new evil everyone hates and whishes dead. I'll just say that there were two characters who basicially both handled their PTSD by not handling it and abusing the people arround them. In addition to that, PTSD was handled very poorly in this. It just made them seem like complete assholes lol. And by that I don't mean it was inappropriate because of the sex itself but because of the curcumstances under which the characters down and dirty. ![]() Maas so she had to put in a inappropriate sex scene for no reason. ![]() I wasn't interested, so much boring politics, and the main character is just getting more and more annoying.Īlso, it's Sarah J. ![]() ![]() ![]() They married in 1950, and had two children, Deborah, a children's author, and David. Rudomin met Walter Hautzig, a concert pianist, while en route to America on a student visa in 1947. Hautzig reportedly wrote The Endless Steppe at the prompting of Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson, to whom she had written after reading his articles about his visit to Rubtsovsk. After the war, when she was 15, she and her family moved back to Poland, although in her heart, Esther wanted to stay. Her award-winning novel The Endless Steppe is an autobiographical account of those years in Siberia. Her family was uprooted and deported to Rubtsovsk, Siberia, where Esther spent the next five years in harsh exile. Her childhood was gravely interrupted by the beginning of World War II and the conquest in 1941 of eastern Poland by Soviet troops. BiographyĮsther Hautzig (previously known as Esther Rudomin) was born in Vilna, Poland (present-day Vilnius, Lithuania). Hautzig (Hebrew: אסתר האוציג, born Octo– died Novemin America) was a Polish-born American writer, best known for her award-winning book The Endless Steppe (1968). ![]() |