6/12/2023 0 Comments Tarzan book series booksThe Tarzan of the title is the son of privilege, his English upper crust parents done in by dark forces while in Africa. The stuff of cartoons, hurtful cartoons.ĮRB with Maureen O’Sullivan and Johnny Weismuller - from Black Africans were regarded by the ignorant as barely human, cannibalistic, and of inferior moral substance (unlike King Leopold). Burroughs was a product of and reflects his time. Not nearly far enough, but some distance nonetheless. It was published in 1912, not all that long after the Bronx Zoo displayed a pygmy in the monkey house. At first blush it appears incredibly dated, awash in the racism of its era. In looking at it anew with a bit more lifetime and some extra inches under my belt, a few things stand out. Tarzan is introduced to the world in October 1912 - from Maybe it was not sci-fi enough for my pre-adolescent self. While I am a fan of ERB's Barsoom series, I was never all that taken with jungle boy. I had first read this, of course, back in my wastrel youth, in the early 60s most likely. Tarzan of the Apes was a free download from somewhere I cannot recall. iTouch reading is of a different sort, at least it has been to date. I save my hardcore reading for when I am sitting and can take notes. As it is not comfortable wrangling the actual book I am reading at a given time while standing, I lift my trusty iTouch and am able to read a bit until the crowd thins. Coming home, though, I often have to stand for a good while before I can get a seat. One of the advantages of riding the subway to work is getting extra reading time.
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Like a sister by kellye garrettStraight laced, nerdy, Lena Scott has nothing in common with her younger 25 year old sister, Desiree Pierce. So why is no one listening to her?ĭespite the bitter truth that the two haven’t spoken in two years, torn apart by Desiree’s partying and by their father, Mel, a wealthy and influential hip-hop mogul, Lena becomes determined to find justice for her sister, even if it means untangling her family’s darkest secrets-or ending up dead herself And Desiree would never travel above 125th Street. A graduate student at Columbia, Lena has spent the past decade forging her own path far from the spotlight, but some facts about Desiree just couldn’t have changed since their childhood. It’s a tragedy, certainly, but not a crime.īut Desiree’s half-sister Lena Scott knows that can’t be the case. When the body of disgraced reality TV star Desiree Pierce is found on a playground in the Bronx the morning after her 25th birthday party, the police and the media are quick to declare her death an overdose. A twisty, voice-driven thriller for fans of Megan Miranda and Jessica Knoll, in which no one bats an eye when a Black reality TV star is found dead in the Bronx-except her estranged half-sister, whose refusal to believe the official story leads her on a dangerous search for the truth. 6/12/2023 0 Comments Stephen king cell reviewAnyone who remembers the deadly levitating Coke machine would agree.Ħ2. Full of anger at himself and the eighties, The Tommyknockers is a white-hot mess. Writing with “his heart running at a hundred and thirty beats a minute and cotton swabs stuck up my nose to stem the coke-induced bleeding” (as he would later describe it), King filled his book with addicts and thinly veiled metaphors for what he was going through. The Tommyknockers : This tale of a Maine writer (you’ll be seeing a lot of these) who accidentally comes across a piece of alien metal in her backyard and finds herself compelled to dig up the flying saucer that it’s attached to was written at the height of King’s addiction troubles. The combination of the real (the title character, the battered women’s shelter she ends up with, her monster of a husband) with the supernatural (a magical painting that offers a gateway to a Greek myth-tinged world) feels less convincing here than it does in any other of King’s books.Ħ3. This one was the last and least of the bunch. Rose Madder : In the early nineties, King wrote a set of novels focused on abused women and the horrible men who beat and haunt and entrap them. Every Stephen King Movie, Ranked From Worst to BestĦ4. 6/12/2023 0 Comments The Heart of Redness by Zakes MdaThe failed prophecy split the Xhosa into Believers and Unbelievers, dividing brother from brother, wife from husband, with devastating consequences. There in the nineteenth century a teenage prophetess named Nonqawuse commanded the Xhosa people to kill their cattle and burn their crops, promising that once they did so the spirits of their ancestors would rise and drive the occupying English into the ocean. Disillusioned by the problems of the new democracy, he follows his "famous lust" to Qolorha on the remote Eastern Cape. The result is a novel of great scope and deep human feeling, of passion and reconciliation.Īs the novel opens Camugu, who left for America during apartheid, has returned to Johannesburg. In The Heart of Redness - shortlisted for the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize - Zakes Mda sets a story of South African village life against a notorious episode from the country's past. A startling novel by the leading writer of the new South Africa 6/12/2023 0 Comments Thomas jefferson the art of powerAnd that is why I am now ranking Jefferson over Adams because he appeals to me more, I identify with him more. Where John Adams felt insecure about his intellectual abilities and struggled to better himself, Thomas Jefferson was a natural Renaissance man who loved nothing else but to read, think and write. Science, architecture, as well as political and legal philosophy were on Jefferson’s mind. His curiosity knew no bounds in the best tradition of the Enlightenment. Jefferson was tall, soft-spoken and reserved like Washington, but an intellectual, a true Renaissance man. As I said in the previous book review, Adams was loud, passionate with a temper, short and round. The two presidents who succeeded each other in the Presidency, couldn’t be more different. And as the title suggests, he was not only a master of ideas, but also a master in utilizing power. But the story of his life, more than Washington’s, is as the author writes: “Jefferson’s capacity to live with contradiction was nothing less than epic.” Thomas Jefferson v. Some call him the true ideological founder of the American Republic. After JFK, Obama now follows Thomas Jefferson. So I now have four presidents on my all-time favorite US President list. 6/11/2023 0 Comments Angels and demons first editionLangdon’s worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican’s holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces he has hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City. The Illuminati has surfaced from the shadows to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy… the Catholic Church. When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol - seared into the chest of a murdered physicist - he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati… the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. 6/11/2023 0 Comments Ally condieIndividuals are happy and everything is great. The environment is embeded in a dystopian environment. I’m anticipating reviewing the next one in this series.Wow! Matched Audiobook Free. It’s insane with lots of risk, intrigue, terrible tricks, and love. The theme is fantastic– Would certainly you approve loss of agency for the government ensuring your life is peaceful as well as nothing bad takes place? Yet you never ever get to make your own options, or inquiry the government’s options. Guide takes her on a quest to figure out whether she will enable the Society to make all her options for her, or if she will choose for herself. Yet so does Ky, an Aberration that assimilates and also is quiet. Xander, her best friend, turns up on her screen. Cassia goes to her Matching Banquet where she will figure out who the Society has selected for her future mate. Cassia, Xander, and also Ky are the major characters in this one. I read it in 2 days, and when I needed to put it to obtain points done, I could not quit thinking of it. 6/11/2023 0 Comments Steal Me by M. SinclairIt is told from several viewpoints, and I found myself rooting for the. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Steal Me (Rebel Hearts Heists Book 1). Or will Sophie have to leave her dream come true This book was really fun to read. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. That small smidgen of hope I had was like a lifeline. Steal Me (Rebel Hearts Heists Book 1) - Kindle edition by Sinclair, M., Adams, Melissa. Steal Me (Rebel Hearts Heists Book 1) (English Edition) eBook : Sinclair, M., Adams, Melissa: Amazon. I wanted to be stronger than I’d been in the past and focus on healing from the trauma I’d experienced. Explore what staying meant, explore my feelings for the men I found myself living with, and more than anything else… explore who I was becoming as a non-imprisoned woman. Enough to counteract the insecurity I felt on a daily basis of not being wanted. I knew that the seven commanders wanted me here. I was just hoping that the bad-whether that be in the form of the outright harassment experienced at the Red Masque Academy or a possibly much more sinister plan-would not outweigh the good. I had chosen to return to the Horde, and I knew I’d be held to that choice and the consequences associated with it. That was if someone didn’t kill me first due to their hatred of what I represented. The bastard child of one very dead Dark Fae King.Ī refugee of a war that freed me from my three-year imprisonment.Įager to explore a kingdom that, while not welcoming, could hold everything I’d ever dreamed for. 6/10/2023 0 Comments Osnos age of ambitionAs someone who is not really a scholar on China, I was a little disappointed by how little I learned from the book. This is not necessarily a flaw, since it does give a certain amount of character to what is presented, but it does come with the drawback that not everything is particularly interesting from an academic perspective. However, while this approach is engaging as a writing style, the author’s experiences often dominate the text. What I find interesting about Age of Ambition (affiliate link) is that it is a very personal narrative, but it is one which backs up that personal narrative with other events that are meaningful, so that one gets a feel for the people who are presented throughout the book. Of course, that list has grown rather long of late, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Incerto series has claimed more than one spot on that list (I finished Skin in the Game yesterday), which seems unfair to other authors. I found it an interesting read, but I don’t know that I would necessarily place it on my best books that I have listened to in 2019. I’ve recently listened to Evan Osnos’ Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, & Faith in the New China. Download it from this link or stop by the Bowman Library to pick one up, take home to color and decorate, then bring it back to display!ĭo you need some penguin inspiration? You can find great books about our dapper looking friends by typing #pengiuinappreciationday into the search bar. You can also download a special penguin to print to help us decorate the Winter Reading display case at Bowman Library. Our Winter Reading Challenge is in full swing and you have until January 31st to read, log, and win! It’s not too late to join in so go to /YouthWinterReading to learn more. Are you ready to read this week? This week we celebrate one of our favorite snow-loving animals: Penguins! |