![]() ![]() For the former, the book started by using a chapter to give us an example of the way Tate had been bullied for several years by a guy who used to be her best friend but turned on her. The book didn't really deliver on either of those. ![]() I really liked the idea of the book for two reasons: 1) I wanted to see how the author handled the subject of bullying and 2) I was intrigued by the promise of a bully being turned into someone we could love. The negatives were flying at me on every page and, after a while, I couldn't ignore them. This book's description didn't sound like the others that are all virtually identical. I'm looking for the NA books which are different and actually tell a good story, even if it is a romance. Despite what you may think from my reactions to most books in the NA experiment, I don't just spend my time looking for things to bitch and moan about in these books. I don't even remember the last time I wanted to like a book this much. I was ready to make excuses for it, try and justify the bad and pretend the good overshadowed it. I was ready to be forgiving of the small negatives. I'm going to work my way through some of the popular New Adult books and see if I can weed out the crap and hopefully find some surprising gems. I am conducting what I'm shelving as a "New Adult (NA) Experiment". ![]()
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![]() ![]() In the Principia, Newton formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation that formed the dominant scientific viewpoint for centuries until it was superseded by the theory of relativity. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for developing infinitesimal calculus. His pioneering book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ( Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), first published in 1687, consolidated many previous results and established classical mechanics. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. ![]() Sir Isaac Newton FRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher. ![]() ![]() ![]() Still other chapters examine subgroups that don’t fit conventional categories of Black heroism and victimhood: maroons who hid out in the Blue Ridge Mountains in the early 1700s Underground Railroad abolitionists who escaped slavery by “strategic passing” as White Black feminists of the 1970s Combahee River Collective who began to embrace “intersectionality” before that term became popular. Other essays recount Black rebellions that have been overshadowed by all the attention paid to Nat Turner and John Brown, including the New York City Revolt of 1712, the Stono River Rebellion of 1739 and the Louisiana Rebellion of 1811. Some identify milestones on a long road of legal dehumanization that began well before the War of Independence or the era of Jim Crow - from the 1667 Virginia Law on Baptism, excluding Blacks from rights otherwise granted to members of the church, to the 1705 Virginia Slave Codes, to the French Code Noir applied in the Louisiana Territory in 1724. Washington and Zora Neale Hurston, there are dozens of mini-chapters on largely forgotten Black history. Along with short takes on well-known figures such as Frederick Douglass, Booker T. ![]() ![]() “Didn’t mean to go on and on,” he mumbled, and urged his horse forward again.” Sir Karel used to say that…” He realized the others were regarding him curiously and he flushed. And even if you did, how would you get it across? It’s just not feasible. You’d never get all that down cliffs like those. “But an army needs equipment-heavy weapons, supply wagons, provisions, tents, spare weapons and blacksmith’s equipment to repair them. Although the longer it took, the more chance word would get out about what you were doing. It would take months, but you could manage it. Given enough time, you could get them down and across. “But surely, if he had enough time…?” he began, but Horace shook his head again, more decisively this time. Apparently, Horace’s learning curve in the past seven or eight months had gone beyond his mere skill with the sword. This was a side of Horace that was new to him. To attack Araluen, he’ll need an army-and he wouldn’t get an army down those cliffs and across with a few ladders and rope bridges.” Will regarded him with interest. ![]() He wouldn’t have needed more than five hundred men for that and they could travel light. “The attack on Celtica was more of a raid than an invasion. ![]() “It’s a different situation,” he said finally. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The text includes sequences in a tuberculosis sanatorium, an encounter with an anti-death protest movement, a society of dream investigators, and an extended visit to the miniscule world of dust mites living on a microscope slide.Ĭombining fiction with autobiography and history, Solenoid ruminates on the exchanges possible between the alternate dimensions of life and art, as various, monstrous dimensions erupt within the Communist present. He is an only child and therefore has no siblings (though he did have a twin who died very young) or, apart from his parents, only the occasional other relative. ![]() We follow a solitary writer, presumably based on Crtrescu himself. The novel is grounded in the reality of late 1970s/early 1980s Communist Romania, including long lines for groceries, the absurdities of the education system, and the misery of family life. Solnode, par Mircea Crtrescu, traduit du roumain par Laure Hinckel, Les Editions Noir sur Blanc, 800 p., 27 euros. Crtrescu’s novels often have a similar approach. One character asks another: when you rush into the burning building, will you save the newborn or the artwork? On a broad scale, the novel's investigations of other universes, dimensions, and timelines reconcile the realms of life and art. A highly-acclaimed master work of fiction from Cartarescu, author of Blindingīased on Cartarescu's own role as a high school teacher, Solenoid begins with the mundane details of a diarist's life and quickly spirals into a philosophical account of life, history, philosophy, and mathematics. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Upon release, Chizuru flees Japan for a new identity and life in the United States. Her father visits her just twice before ultimately disowning her. At school, her bully’s cruelty intensifies, and in a moment of blind rage, Chizuru grabs a Morimoto letter opener from her teacher’s desk and fatally stabs Tomoya Yu in the neck.For the next seven years, Chizuru is institutionalized. When Chizuru’s mother dies suddenly her father offers her no comfort and she is left feeling alone and unmoored. ![]() Overweight and hafu (her mother is white), she is tormented by her classmates and targeted by the most relentless bully of them all, Tomoya Yu. Chizuru Akitani is the twelve-year-old daughter of the famous violinist and Japanese “Living National Treasure” Hiro Akitani. A searing debut novel from one of the most imaginative minds in fiction. ![]() ![]() He is also working on a third book called Wildcat!, about the films of Marjoe Gortner, a former child evangelist who turned to acting as an adult and starred in a number of entertaining and interesting exploitation and drive-in films. Currently, John is co-writing Cartwheels & Halos and Rolling With The Punches, two books on the life of actress/singer and former Hollywood stunt woman Marneen Fields, whom he married in Las Vegas in March of 2016. John has also written the best-selling Headpress book Hip Pocket Sleaze: The Lurid World of Vintage Adult Paperbacks (which featured a chapter on film tie-in paperbacks), and has recently composed the booklet essays for the Australian Blu-ray releases of Thirst, Dead Kids, Snapshot and The Survivor for Glass Doll Films. ![]() John Harrison is a freelance writer and film historian based in Melbourne, Australia who has written for such film-related publications as Fatal Visions, Cult Movies, Is it Uncut?, Filmink, The Headpress Journal, Monster!, Weng's Chop and Metro, as well as penning reviews and liner notes for many DVD and VHS releases from Something Weird Video. ![]() ![]() She is a long-term pupil of the psychoanalyst Carl Jung, her writing digging deep roots into jungian concepts like: " individuation", " synchronicity", " archetypes", " shadow-work" and " the collective unconscious".įor philosophical views, she draws inspiration from the giants of old - among which Nietzsche, Wagner, Goethe and Schopenhauer may hold the most resemblance. ![]() She is also recognized as the creator of a new niche subgenre of science-fiction: NEON SCIENCE-FICTION.īlackwick primarily considers herself a "novelist", although the erudite complexity of her work has been appraised to exceed the fiction arena. Louise Blackwick is a Dutch jungian writer, author of many thought-provoking stories themed on "surrealism", "subjective reality" and "states of altered consciousness".īlackwick is particularly known as the writer of the international bestseller Vivian Amberville, a philosophical fantasy saga that follows the adventures of an orphan from Milton Keynes - England, who learns her imagination can actively reshape the fabric of reality. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Tyson's best-selling memoir Undisputed Truth, he recounted the role D'Amato played in his formative years, legally adopting him at age sixteen after his mother died and shaping him both physically and mentally after years of living in fear and poverty. ![]() When legendary boxing trainer Cus D'Amato first saw thirteen year old Mike Tyson spar in the ring, he proclaimed, "That's the heavyweight champion of the world." D'Amato, who had previously managed the careers of Floyd Patterson and Jose Torres, would go on to train the young boxer for several years, and died a few months before Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion in history. This edition has been cancelled by the publisher.įrom the former heavyweight champion and New York Times bestselling memoirist, an intimate and revealing look at the life and leadership lessons of Cus D'Amato, the legendary boxing trainer and Mike Tyson's surrogate father. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She now lives in Edinburgh with her two children and two cats, Skye and Socks. Each topic is presented in a neat 30-second soundbite, supported by a 3-second flash summary and a full-page colourful artwork. Other interests and passions include camping, cats, outdoor swimming, news and politics, and music - she plays the trombone and has played in many different bands and orchestras, including performing live on a John Peel session in 2002 with Scottish band Ballboy.Īnna was born and grew up in Yorkshire, but has also lived in Canada as a student, Iceland as an au pair, and Costa Rica as a conservation volunteer, where she saw tarantulas, tapirs, monkeys, sloths, crocodiles and giant katydids. Download Insects in 30 Seconds Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle This is the perfect introduction to the largest animal group on Earth for all budding entomologists. She loves making and crafting, especially sewing, and her house is full of fabrics, craft materials, tools and books. She studied English literature at university, but has always been interested in science, technology and art and design as well. Freelance children’s writer and editor, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.Īnna Claybourne writes children's information books on all kinds of topics: science experiments, ancient history, the human body, things to make, the environment, robots, evolution, art, fashion, Shakespeare and many more - as well as retellings of myths, legends and Shakespeare plays, and rhyming stories. ![]() |