![]() I thought it really well written with some fantastic characters. Oh and a pig who fancied himself as batman. It could have been a hard read given the subject matter but Harrell approached it with humour, compassion and friendship. But with his recent diagnosis of a rare eye cancer, blending in is off the table.īased on Rob Harrell’s real life experience, and packed with comic panels and spot art, this incredibly personal and poignant novel is an unforgettable, heartbreaking, hilarious, and uplifting story of survival and finding the music, magic, and laughter in life’s weirdness. He doesn’t want to lose his hair, or wear a weird hat, or deal with the disappearing friends who don’t know what to say to the cancer kid. ![]() Ross Maloy just wants to be a normal seventh grader. Can you wink? What about with the other eye? Now with both? Wink – the blurb ![]()
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George Takei’s best-selling graphic-genre novel, “They Called Us Enemy,” tells the vivid personal story of his family being pulled from their Los Angeles home and sent on trains to one of many Japanese American internment camps in Arkansas during World War II. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() All by pretending to be in a relationship.What he doesn’t realize is that this bookworm is a virgin, and far from versed in seducing a musician. ![]() And he cooks up this absurd plan.He helps me get noticed. But when he witnesses how I fall to pieces in front of my guitar-toting crush, his wheels start turning. 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The first person she gives a lap dance turns to be a Russian man named Lenin. She is scared, but this young lady sees no way out. On her eighteenth birthday, Margaret’s father declares that it is time for her to start earning, which means working at his strip club. It has been six months since Margaret’s mum left, and her father’s abuse has just escalated. The Hitman’s Angel introduces Margaret a young woman left under the care of her abusive father. The heroes are often macho men who like being in charge of women who know what they want and are not afraid to say it. Most of Kane’s stories are 50-100 pages long, making them ideal for single sitting reading. 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In this book, Isabella (whose last name - Tree - is perfect for a book on nature) guides us through the result of a massive rewilding project in West Sussex known as the Knepp ("Nep") experiment because it took place on the Knepp Estate. ![]() This book came out in 2019, and the subtitle is The Return of Nature to a British Farm. ![]() ![]() ![]() Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. ![]() The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with-and perished from-for more than five thousand years. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. Now includes an excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee ’ s new book Song of the Cell! Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” ( The New Yorker)-a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer-from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. ![]() ![]() Not only did it have a captivating story to tell, it also had a great deal of meaning hidden within its text, giving me plenty of reasons to come back to this book long after finishing it. Things Fall Apart is the kind of book that makes reading so enjoyable. ![]() Book Review: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe This arresting parable of a proud but powerless man witnessing the ruin of his people begins Achebe’s landmark trilogy of works chronicling the fate of one African community, continued in Arrow of God and No Longer at Ease. With his world thrown radically off-balance he can only hurtle towards tragedy.įirst published in 1958, Chinua Achebe’s stark, coolly ironic novel reshaped both African and world literature, and has sold over ten million copies in forty-five languages. Then Okonkwo returns from exile to find missionaries and colonial governors have arrived in the village. But when he accidentally kills a clansman, things begin to fall apart. Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire in the harmattan. ![]() Book Summary: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe ![]() ![]() ![]() Others who have helped to pave the road you hope to tread. Thompson, will appeal to anyone who harbors romantic. ![]() ![]() Read this because you want to feel a little lonely, but also to know that there are others out there. 27, 2011 The Rum Diary, directed by Bruce Robinson ( Withnail and I) and based on an early novel of the same title by Hunter S. Read this because you want to laugh and wish for a better time in your youth, filled with strong drink, and pretty girls and pissing off your boss. Read it because you want to see where an American icon took some of his first noble strides toward literary Rockstardom. And that clear, bright, shining kind of rage that crackles around you like an invisible mantle of armor.Īll these things are here, delivered in a familiar tone used for chatting with the locals at your favorite watering hole. A sadness that catches in the back of your throat, the kind that only happens when you find out you might not change the world in the way you originally thought. A kind of bewilderment that only exists in young men who know what they want but are not quite sure how to get it. No less irreverent, his tale of rum fueled hijinks in Puerto Rico and beyond set in the late 50’s is filled with the early signs and signifiers of his madcap persona to be, the first steps on a long and weird and winding road.īut that is not enough. The lost and found again novel by the 20th Century's own Witch Doctor of Journalism, Hunter S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kinzer’s book is widely regarded as one of the best histories of Nicaragua generally and of the Sandinista-Contra civil war specifically. Kinzer lived in Nicaragua during its tumultuous and horrific civil war, book ended with the Sandinistas ousting the brutal Somoza dictators in 1979 and the peace treaty brokered by Costa Rica in 1987. Blood of Brothers is history filtered through memoir, narrated by being Stephen Kinzer, formerly an NYT bureau chief stationed in Nicaragua. ![]() ![]() Although Nicaragua is important to me for family reasons (my brother has lived there for the last 5 years), the more I learn about its history the more I think everyone- particularly Americans- would find it fascinating and should be learning about it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bright, encourages Caleb to explore this connection by befriending Adam. Adam's feelings are big and all-consuming, but they fit together with Caleb's feelings in a way that he can't quite understand.Ĭaleb's therapist, Dr. Being an empath in high school would be hard enough, but Caleb's life becomes even more complicated when he keeps getting pulled into the emotional orbit of one of his classmates, Adam. Which sounds pretty cool except Caleb's ability is extreme empathy-he feels the emotions of everyone around him. But when Caleb starts experiencing mood swings that are out of the ordinary for even a teenager, his life moves beyond “typical.”Ĭaleb is an Atypical, an individual with enhanced abilities. Other than that his life is pretty normal. ![]() Lauren Shippen's The Infinite Noise is a stunning, original debut novel based on her wildly popular and award-winning podcast The Bright Sessions.Ĭaleb Michaels is a sixteen-year-old champion running back. ![]() |