![]() ![]() ![]() In her past life as an academic, Painter explored historic Black trailblazers and stories. Generation means that I'm in a different place with my Blackness from the ideas that are circulating now." "People who were coming up in a moment of upheaval like 2020 experience it differently from people in my generation, who already lived through this in the '60s and '70s. "When you think Black and the imagery that comes up, it's young people, and I am not young," Painter said. But Painter struggles to identify with what she calls "the current iconography of Blackness." Her research on Sojourner Truth, an abolitionist and women's rights activist, led her to explore art. ![]() Painter has explored Blackness as both an artist and a historian. Painter's age comprises a large part of her identity, she said, and she's found that it has conflicted with another part of herself: Blackness. She followed in the footsteps of her mother, Dona Irvin, who published the book "I Hope I Look That Good When I'm That Old" about coming to terms with her age in 2002. ![]()
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![]() She journeys to a girl with a guitar, calling to her from a photo, "Come to Alaska. While the Vietnam War threatens to take Spencer away, Tracy and her father wage a war of their own, each trying to save the sweet, talented pianist.Īt seventeen, Tracy dresses as a boy and leaves her parents in turmoil, with only the slimmest hope of finding peace within herself. When both are caught with gay partners, their lives and futures are endangered by their homophobic father as their mother struggles to defend them. Though both feel awkward in their own skin, they have to face who they are-queers in the late 60s. ![]() Even her older brother Spencer says so, though he wouldn't finish the thought with, "And I should have been a girl." KIRKUS STARRED REVIEW: "A moving and romantic coming-out story and a triumphant celebration of lesbian liberation." ![]() ![]() Has he truly learned what it means to win-on and off the ice-during his training season? Training Season is a MM romance with a feisty, flamboyant figure skater and an easy-going dominant cowboy, opposites attract, hurt-comfort, single dad, winter holiday highlights, love beyond reason, multiple steamy scenes, and a well-earned happy ending. But to achieve his Olympic dream, Matty will have to face the ultimate test. ![]() Or how to lose.Rob might be a cowboy and a single dad who knows nothing about figure skating, but after only a few months, he's trained a new kind of bravery into Matty's soul. No one has ever made him feel so valuable and adored. No one has ever touched him, loved him, and healed him from the inside out. No one has ever looked at Matty the way rural cowboy Rob Lovely looks at him. Preview and download books by Leta Blake, including Smoky Mountain Dreams, Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() But those coaches are ridiculously expensive, and Matty is financially strapped.Until a lucrative house-sitting gig brings him to rural Montana. His self-esteem is at an all-time low after figure skating coaches and skating judges have told him he's not skinny enough, good enough, or masculine enough to win.Matty wishes he could afford the kind of coach he needs, a top-notch one who specializes in keeping their skaters focused. Can a cowboy's firm hand help discipline this feisty figure skater-on and off the ice? Matty Marcus fears he doesn't have what it takes to achieve his Olympic dream. ![]() ![]() Black, for instance-even the conceptualization of hopping on pop disregards a coherent storyline. While there are characters who are given the equivalent of their own sketch-the thing that can sing and Mr. The effect is to make the text more prominent and dominant than usual.Īs a phonic primer, there is, of course, no actual narrative to speak of. Rarely are the images in a Seuss book self-contained within a geometric frame, but a huge number of these pictures here are situated within a simple square below the text. ![]() The typeface is huge, allowing the text to dominate while the illustrations are of a more limited nature than usual. Technically speaking it is one of, if not the simplest book in the Seuss canon. Seuss takes it upon himself to teach young children how to read, it is a book that subtly seeks to convince kids of the power and joy of learning to read. Hop on Pop is not just a book in which Dr. ![]() We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. ![]() ![]() These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() I liked this book because I like how the author got me interested in this book easily, and how he was good at explaining what was going on at the time. Character's pageĬharlie Joyce has been invited to a hockey camp to play with some of the best hockey players in his league, but when he gets there he notices his ex best friend Jake there to try and mess up his chance of being scouted. Jake is a short fast hockey player, he has short blond spikey hair he's a bully to people he thinks are better then him. ![]() Zan is a bully and doesn’t take anything from anyone.
![]() ![]() It reminds women that they don’t have to settle for less. It’s what makes Michelle Obama an icon.Įloquent rage keeps us all honest and accountable. It’s what makes Beyoncé’s girl power anthems resonate so hard. Black women’s eloquent rage is what makes Serena Williams such a powerful tennis player. ![]() But Cooper shows us that there is more to the story than that. Join the #WFWIBookClub Facebook Group What is Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower about?įar too often, Black women’s anger has been caricatured into an ugly and destructive force that threatens the civility and social fabric of American democracy. As you read this month’s book, don’t forget to join the #WFWIBookClub Facebook Group. We’ve launched a space for readers passionate about women’s power to connect. We hope you’ll join us soon to help build a community of sharing women’s stories and our strength with one another. ![]() ![]() Part memoir, part guide to life, part collection of extracts from diaries the actor has been keeping for decades, Greenlights by Matthew McConoughey is an insightful and intimate exploration of one southern boy’s journey to stardom. ![]() ![]() And while I began the book with almost no expectations, I was soon swept away by McConaughey’s poignant and affecting ode to life. Knowing almost nothing about either Matthew McConaughey or his filmography (other than a long-standing hatred for the time he played an exaggerated version of himself in the Escape from New York episode of Sex and the City) I decided to make it the first book I read in 2021. And while I’m not usually one for celebrity memoirs – indeed I would struggle to tell you the last time I read one – I was intrigued as to what it was about Greenlights that seemed to be taking the reading world by storm. There were people thumbing through it on the beach dog-eared copies sat next to half-drunk cups of coffee in cafes dotted around Bondi, and nearly every time I was in Gertrude & Alice a hopeful shopper would ask if they had it in stock. ![]() Towards the end of 2020, it seemed that almost everywhere I went someone was reading – or talking about – Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While underscoring the heady brew's role in geopolitics and environmental devastation, the book's strength lies in Pendergrast's chronicle of quirky factoids and wanton capitalism as exemplified by the lust for the ambrosia of our times. In his new book, Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World, Mark Pendergrast does his best to educate the drinker and provide some moral alternatives to conspicuous consumption. And yet few coffee consumers know the path-geographical, political, even karmic-that their beloved bean has taken. Now our collective fashions and addictions have made the bean ubiquitous and coffee snobbery de rigeur. Once the exclusive treat of nobility and religious men, coffee would go on to fuel the common man through the industrial age and into the information age. ![]() SINCE THE FIRST BEANS WERE serendipitously discovered by the legendary goatherd Kaldi, in Ethiopia, coffee has been the muse and stimulus of imams, artists, writers, and radicals. UNCOMMON GROUNDS: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed our World By Mark Pendergrast Basic Books, $27.50 APA style: UNCOMMON GROUNDS: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed our World.UNCOMMON GROUNDS: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed our World." Retrieved from MLA style: "UNCOMMON GROUNDS: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed our World." The Free Library. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this case, the thought experiment is quickly revealed: "The king was pregnant," the book tells us early on, and after that we learn more and more about this planet named Winter, stuck in an ice age, where the humans are most of the time neither male nor female, but with the potential to become either. One of the things I like about it is how clearly it demonstrates that science fiction can have not only the usual virtues and pleasures of the novel, but also the startling and transformative power of the thought experiment. For more than 40 years I've been recommending this book to people who want to try science fiction for the first time, and it still serves very well for that. One of my favorite novels is The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K Le Guin. ![]() The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin (1969) Comment by Kim Stanley Robinson, on The Guardian's website: ![]() ![]() ![]() The island became part of Yuge Village in Ehime Prefecture, with the establishment of the modern municipalities system on December 15, 1889. The estate later became property of the temple of Tō-ji in Kyoto and its detailed records from the Kamakura period are regarded as a valuable historic resource. ![]() Around the end of the Heian period, the island was the center of a shōen landed estate ( Yuge Island Shōen ruins) controlled by retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa and was noted for its production of salt. Yugeshima has been inhabited since prehistoric times, and the Kushiyama Kofun is a burial mound dating from the Kofun period. Much of the island consists of limestone. The island is mostly hilly, with its highest point at 210 meters above sea level. Yugeshima has a total area of 8.61 square kilometres (3.32 sq mi). ![]() The island is part of the Geiyo Islands archipelago, and is administratively the seat of the town of Kamijima, Ehime. Yugeshima ( 弓削島) is an inhabited island located in northeastern Ehime Prefecture, Japan, in the Seto Inland Sea between Shikoku and Honshu. ![]() |