5/29/2023 0 Comments The vacationers by emma straubPlease leave your comments and replies in the comments section below!ġ. The Spanish tapas Leah prepared for our meeting are still on my mind weeks later! One word: chorizo. Also, feel free to present your own prompts to the group, and don’t forget to tell us how your book club gathering unfolded. I encourage you to leave your brilliant comments and replies and we will interact with one another to share our opinions, thoughts, and lessons learned from The Vacationers. The Mediterranean sun is a bit more powerful than the LA sun! Upon completion of the book, I am dying to return to the island and perhaps run into a famous Spanish tennis player of my own!īelow are some questions to spark a conversation about the novel. And even though I have visited beautiful Mallorca, it was years ago and all I did was lie on the beach and get burned to a crisp. I enjoyed getting to know the characters and watching the drama that unfolded on their vacation. In any case, what did you think? Personally, I found the book to be a lovely escape from reality. So, how did you do? Were you able to finish reading the book in its entirety? I introduced the book by calling it the perfect beach read and we held our own Freutcake Book Club meeting on the beach, but perhaps you indulged in a different way – under the covers, while waiting at the doctor’s office, or in between class or work breaks. As July comes to a close, we are wrapping up our discussion of this month’s book club selection, The Vacationers by Emma Straub.
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5/29/2023 0 Comments 5 to 1 by Holly BodgerShe’ll be present on the big screen to answer questions about her book and the writing process. Told in alternating chapters of verse and prose, this novel raises questions about gender roles and stereotypes, the consequences of greed and the misuse of power, and the value of choice.ĭuring the book club, we’ll be joined by the author, Holly Bodger, via Skype! Holly hails from Canada and 5 to 1 is her debut novel. As the Test progresses, Sudasa and Kiran try to break as many rules as possible, usually to the detriment of the other’s plans. Kiran, one of the boys competing for Sudasa’s hand in marriage, is also scornful of the Test and the society in Koyanagar. Sudasa does not want to be married – for her, marriage is simply another form of enslavement. In the walled city of Koyanagar, Sudasa is now marrying age and that means that she must judge 5 boys who are selected to compete in the Test to become her husband. In short, this awesome novel takes place in near future India, where boys outnumber girls by a ratio of 5 to 1. If you haven’t read the Creek Reads blog review of this book yet, check it out here. In less than one month, friends, the library will be hosting our first ever Creek Reads Book Club! I’m very excited for this new program and I hope that we get plenty of students participating in what will surely be a really fun hour of discussion about the book 5 to 1 by Holly Bodger. The Creek Reads Book Club! September 30, 2015 5/29/2023 0 Comments Drawn together by za maxfieldPublisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Anal play/intercourse, violence. What he's not prepared for is his magnetic attraction to the young man, Rory's apparent willingness to overlook his gender, and the fact that their lives are both thrown into chaos when his number one fan (and psycho stalker) shows up to get revenge. So when he meets Rory he's understandably wary, but resigned. He's trusted fans in the past and been tragically wrong. People come to him with teddy bears and chocolates and disappointment by the truckload. Ran Yamane is not a girl, but he gets that a lot. He's going to chuck everything and travel 1,500 miles to Anime Expo in Long Beach to tell her, and no one and nothing is going to stand in his way. He's been in love with the girl of his dreams, reclusive and mysterious artist Ran Yamane, since junior high school. Antoine's Parish Louisiana, but he knows what he wants. Rory might just be a simple southern boy from St. Nine mysterious items have been stolen from Mount Olympus and if Daphne cannot find them, the gods' waning powers will fade away, the mortal world will descend into chaos, and her brother's life will be forfeit. But an unexpected encounter with the goddess Artemis-who holds Daphne's brother's fate in her hands-upends the life she's worked so hard to build. Seventeen-year-old Daphne has spent her entire life honing her body and mind into that of a warrior, hoping to be accepted by the unyielding people of ancient Sparta. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Roots alex haley in tamilBut it cannot possibly have the cultural impact of the first series. THC’s new “Roots” features many admirable performances, and has more thematic complexity and much higher production values than the stodgy, stagey LeVar Burton original. On the principle that historical fiction always tells us more about the present than about the past, we can conclude that Haley’s 1976 book pursuing his ancestry all the way back through the age of slavery and into Africa, and then the 1977 miniseries that was seen by more than half the United States population, described a moment when many Americans were ready to begin reckoning with the darkest areas of our national story. What did we learn from “Roots” in the 1970s, and what can we learn from it now, as a buffed-up action-adventure remake whose final chapter airs Thursday on the History Channel? The important questions, I would say, are about what kind of imaginative work “Roots” is and was, and what image we see reflected when we gaze into it. Four decades after the publication of Alex Haley’s Pulitzer-winning book and the production of an NBC miniseries that reshaped America’s consciousness, it’s definitely not a secret. It wasn’t presented that way at first, which has led to no end of grief and confusion over the years, but at this point that’s hardly an indictment. “Roots,” in its various forms, is largely a work of imagination rather than history. Interactions should not primarily be for personal benefit. Interact with the community in good faith. Respect for members and creators shall extend to every interaction. Visionīuild a reputation for inclusive, welcoming dialogue where creators and fans of all types of speculative fiction mingle. We reserve the right to remove discussion that does not fulfill the mission of /r/Fantasy. We welcome respectful dialogue related to speculative fiction in literature, games, film, and the wider world. r/Fantasy is the internet’s largest discussion forum for the greater Speculative Fiction genre. For updated information regarding ongoing community features, please visit 'new' Reddit. Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Review ancestor troubleIn the West, many of us look to science and genetics for answers to these existential questions we’ll only ever answer in part. The alchemy between our genes and our individuality is a mystery we keep trying to solve. Each person on earth is a particular individual consisting of parts from other particular individuals. All of them took actions, and were forced into situations, that shaped them and that led to us. Beyond all that’s encoded in our twenty-three pairs of chromosomes - our hair, eyes, and skin of a certain shade, our frame and stature, our sensitivity to bitter tastes - we are bundles of opinions and ambitions, of shortcomings and talents.Įvery one of our forebears had hopes and fears, good days and bad. We begin with the sperm of one human being and the egg of another, and then we enter the world and become ourselves. We come from our parents, who came from their parents, who descended, as the Bible would put it, from their fathers and their fathers’ fathers. Over time the simplest facts of human existence have become to me the most unfathomable. 5/28/2023 0 Comments The Culling by Anthony HulseFrom Edinburgh, Cleveland and Lourdes in France, strange and unexplainable episodes occur, which leads Jenny to believe that Devlin is indeed evil. Could the evil carnival be responsible for the burning of churches and their priests? The Culling is a supernatural thriller set in Whitby and Dartmoor. DS Jenny Stiles, believing Devlin is the head of a paedophile ring, soon discovers something more sinister. Through a handicapped boy, they discover that the circus is not what it seems. Crawford is aided in his task by a child psychologist and a priest. Jimmy Crawford, an ex-CID detective turned private investigator is hired by the parents of a teenage girl, who believe her disappearance is linked to the circus. The performers, including a clown, a lion-tamer, a fire-eater, a dwarf, and conjoined twins harbour a terrifying secret. A team of CID detectives are deployed and attempt to unravel the mystery. Summary A series of child abductions are linked to Jules Devlin’s touring circus. But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy! The Culling Anthony Hulse We are sorry! The publisher (or author) gave us the instruction to take down this book from our catalog. 5/28/2023 0 Comments The normal heart by larry kramerNot exactly reassuring preparation for the nation’s most visible theatrical platform. Wolfe to compress a normal four- or five-week rehearsal schedule into an unheard-of 12 days. Originally envisioned in the more modest format of a reading, which would allow the actors to bring their scripts onstage, the revival underwent a last-minute upgrade to a fully staged production, requiring director George C. Larry Kramer’s much-admired, alarm-bell-ringing 1985 drama about the spread of AIDS through the gay community had already been revived many times - and off-Broadway as recently as 2004 - when a plan was hurriedly hatched last year to give it a Broadway debut.Ī theater, the Golden, had suddenly become available, and a powerhouse cast that included Joe Mantello, Jim Parsons and Ellen Barkin had been assembled. If there was a road map for breakout theatrical success, “The Normal Heart” misplaced its copy. 5/28/2023 0 Comments At Home by Bill BrysonJim Crace, for instance, announced his retirement with Harvest, only to realise he “just needed a break. No, definitely Notes from a Small Island), I’m comforting myself with thoughts of authors who changed their minds. Really, really hate it” – while Jonathan Franzen has hinted at something similar.Īs I gently weep into my cup of tea about the lack of any new Brysons to curl up with, and snicker along with (A Walk in the Woods is my favourite … or maybe A Short History of Nearly Everything. Philip Roth said in 2012 that, at the age of 79, “enough is enough! I no longer feel this fanaticism to write that I have experienced in my life.” And he stuck to it until his death in 2018.Īnnie Proulx has said Barkskins would be the last novel she’ll publish – “I cannot bear the signings, interviews, book tours and all the PR stuff. (The first book in that new collaboration is now out, and I can report that Reacher is as gigantic, tough and nomadic as ever.) “I’ve been doing it 24 years now and I couldn’t do it any more,” he said. Lee Child did so at the start of this year, revealing that he’d be handing Jack Reacher over to his brother Andrew. He’s not the first writer to announce plans to hang up his pen. |