![]() ![]() A few years back, I read a bit of Mooncakes, back when it was a webcomic on Tumblr. Review: To be honest, I didn’t come to Mooncakes with a completely blank slate. Their latent feelings are rekindled against the backdrop of witchcraft, untested magic, occult rituals, and family ties both new and old in this enchanting tale of self-discovery. Pursued by dark forces eager to claim the magic of wolves and out of options, Tam turns to Nova for help. As a werewolf, Tam has been wandering from place to place for years, unable to call any town home. One fateful night, she follows reports of a white wolf into the woods, and she comes across the unexpected: her childhood crush, Tam Lang, battling a horse demon in the woods. ![]() She works at her grandmothers’ bookshop, where she helps them loan out spell books and investigate any supernatural occurrences in their New England town. ![]() Nova Huang knows more about magic than your average teen witch. Summary: A story of love and demons, family and witchcraft. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I am a sucker for free Kindle books on Amazon. ![]() This book, however, in my opinion, would be painful. ![]() Seuss is just good laugh out loud fun, I'll even concede that Harry Potter seems like the read with children sort, even if it's not my personal cuppa. There are brilliant books for this activity - The Hobbit, The Marvelous Land of Oz books, Dr. One of the most important things I look for in a children's book is whether I would enjoy reading it aloud to a child. The story's potential (and it wasn't a bad story,) was suffocated under this apparent assumption that the target reader would be a moderately dull-witted six year old, which is a shame. The entire time I was reading this, I felt like a Stepford mom was leaning over my shoulder reading, "and then, THIS happened, and then THIS happened, and THEN do you KNOW what that means little girl? Well, I will just have to tell you! Wheeee!" Why is it that some adults can write for children, and create a whole new world for the child to get lost in wonder, and others write as if "child" is synonymous with "stupid?" ![]() ![]() ![]() “To invest intelligently in securities one should be forearmed with an adequate knowledge of how the various types of bonds and stocks have actually behaved under varying conditions – some of which, at least, one is likely to meet again in one’s own experience.”.The key to the book is to provide a basic understanding of investment principles and investor behavior.Follow Graham and you will profit from folly rather than participate in it.” ![]() 8 and 20 – you will not get a poor result from your investments… The sillier the market’s behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business-like investor. ![]()
![]() ![]() Arun Prabha Mukherjee has translated it into English in 2003. Joothan is the first Dalit autobiography in Hindi. Omprakash Valmiki’s Joothan (1996) has become a saga of Dalit consciousness representing the annals of suffering, humiliation, mental anguish, self-realization, rebellion, retaliation, and rehabilitation that are the life spirit of Dalit literature. It has startled not only the Dalits but also the upper caste people of India when they came across the lives of the Dalits caught in a rigid, hypocritical, and orthodox Indian society. Dalits have used autobiography as a genre in a unique way to tell not only their personal experiences but of their entire society across India.ĭalit autobiography has become an important organ of the Dalit movement across India especially in Maharashtra and North India. Autobiography is an interesting and vital genre of literature vastly used by stalwarts of the human society. They have depicted in their works the untold miseries of human atrocities through poetry, drama, short story, novel and autobiography. These principles inspired the new generation of the Dalit writers. The literature written by them has gone a long way in propagating the principles of equality, liberty, fraternity, and compassion for the Dalits. ![]() Download this page in Resisting Caste in Om Prakash Valmiki’s Joothanĭalits have started to raise their voices against social, economic, cultural and political oppression. ![]() ![]() But the separate narratives of pre-war Egypt and end-of-war Italy are disconnected and strangely unengaging in this adaptation of Michael Ondaatje’s Booker Prize winning novel. Intelligent, romantic but emotionally inert, director Anthony Minghella ( Cold Mountain, The Talented Mr Ripley) draws fine performances from Fiennes and Scott. Cared for by a Canadian nurse (Juliette Binoche – Chocolat, Cloud of Sils Maria), lucid and delirious with morphine, Almásy recalls the doomed love affair with Katherine Clifton (Kristin Scott Thomas – Sarah’s Key, Darkest Hour), wife of a British spy in Egypt. A lush, epic, sweeping blockbuster, this Oscar-winning feature is, by today’s standards, overblown and all a little dull and boring.Īs World War II approaches its end, a badly burnt Count Almásy (Ralph Fiennes – Schindler’s List, Harry Potter) lies dying in an abandoned villa on the outskirts of Florence. ![]() ![]() ![]() The push and pull first-generation kids feel is portrayed with humor and love, especially humor. “In this time when immigration is such a hot topic, Malaka Gharib puts an engaging human face on the issue. Malaka's story is a heartfelt tribute to the American immigrants who have invested their future in the promise of the American dream. Malaka Gharib's triumphant graphic memoir brings to life her teenage antics and illuminates earnest questions about identity and culture, while providing thoughtful insight into the lives of modern immigrants and the generation of millennial children they raised. The daughter of parents with unfulfilled dreams themselves, Malaka navigated her childhood chasing her parents' ideals, learning to code-switch between her family's Filipino and Egyptian customs, adapting to white culture to fit in, crushing on skater boys, and trying to understand the tension between holding onto cultural values and trying to be an all-American kid. ![]() I Was Their American Dream is at once a coming-of-age story and a reminder of the thousands of immigrants who come to America in search for a better life for themselves and their children. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR. ![]() Gharib’s wisdom about the power and limits of racial identity is evident in the way she draws.”-NPR “A portrait of growing up in America, and a portrait of family, that pulls off the feat of being both intimately specific and deeply universal at the same time. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, this made a fan out of me right off the bat, because as I stated above, I have recurring nightmares as well. ![]() Perry is having a recurring nightmare (or is she?) that haunts her frequently. The story most definitely starts out with a bang, I must say. I am so happy my friend asked me to read this with her, because if she hadn’t, I most likely would have never gotten the lady balls to read this or to finish it if I had attempted to even start it. I have sworn off scary movies (for the most part, I’m a lot like Perry in this sense) or anything remotely scary that might freak me out and give me more nightmares than those that already plague me. Jump to present day, about 7-8 years later, and I can’t even watch a scary movie commercial. ![]() Hell, we watched so many that I was literally jaded when an actual good scary movie came out-I was never scared. Back in the day, my best friends and I would gather around the basement big screen television and watch every scary movie known to man. I can’t even begin to tell you how exciting it was to read this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then in October 1537 Jane performed the great miracle, and bore Henry a son, who lived and flourished. They married at the end of May 1536, and she became pregnant at about the end of the year, a condition which advanced normally, but which caused the king acute anxiety as the summer of 1537 advanced. She was no great beauty, but came of a good breeding stock, and therein lay his hope. He was forty-four and desperate for the male heir who had so far eluded him, but which Jane's placid disposition and sexual availability seemed to promise. ![]() ![]() She had served both Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn as a Lady of the Privy Chamber, and her failure to find a suitable marriage is something of a mystery. She was twenty-seven when he married her, and came of a solid gentry family with good court connections. Summary: Jane was Henry VIII's third queen, and she was described by him as 'his first true wife', both his first two marriages having been annulled. Publication details: United Kingdom Amberley Publishing 2014 Description: 190 Pages Paperback ISBN: Jane Seymour : Henry VIII's Favourite Wife By: ![]() ![]() All that matters to him now is keeping Eden safe - even if that means giving up June Iparis, the love of his life.Īs the two brothers struggle to accept who they've become since their time in the Republic, a new danger creeps into the distance that's grown between them. These days he'd rather hide out from the world and leave the past behind. But Day is no longer the same young man who was once a national hero. Even though he's a top student at his academy in Ross City, Antarctica, and a brilliant inventor, most people know him only as Daniel Altan Wing's little brother.Ī decade ago, Daniel was known as Day, the boy from the streets who led a revolution that saved The Republic of America. It is set about a decade after the events of Champion, and takes place in Ross City and The Republic of America.Įden Bataar Wing has been living in his brother's shadow for years. It switches between Eden Bataar Wing and Daniel "Day" Altan Wing's point of view. Rebel is the fourth book in the Legend series, following Legend, Prodigy, and Champion. ![]() This article contains plot details about upcoming events. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ahmad had crossed that out and written in capital letters that his wife had the right to cut and cook whatever she pleased. Perveen had composed an agreement based on her past contracts for the landlord’s properties.īut suddenly, her client wanted an amendment prohibiting the butchering of meat. ![]() Ahmad, an administrator at a shipping firm, was a well-qualified renter. Shah, sought an occupant for a bungalow on Cumballa Hill. The truth was, the landlord and renter needed each other. The Bombay Prince By: Sujata Massey Narrated by: Sneha Mathan Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins 4.6 (299 ratings) Try for 0.00 Prime member exclusive: pick 2 free titles with trial. Term sheets had passed back and forth between two men who seemed convinced that without yet another restriction, their respective honors would be stolen. It felt ridiculous to praise herself, but this rental contract had taken four months. The final touch was pressing down the brass stamp engraved mistry law. The Bombay Prince by Sujata Massey 2022 / Read by Sneha Methan 12h 37m Rating: B / historical mystery This novel opens with Freny Cuttingmaster, a young woman from a local college, coming to visit Perveen about college rules and legal consequences if she is involved in protests during the Prince’s upcoming visit. Lighting a candle against a wax stick, she allowed a scarlet drop to fall on the back of each envelope. ![]() “Well done.” Perveen Mistry spoke aloud as she slid the signed contracts into envelopes. ![]() |