![]() ![]() Scout is a tomboy who prefers the company of boys and generally solves her differences with her fists. When Dill, another neighbor's nephew, starts spending summers in Maycomb, the three children begin an obsessive - and sometimes perilous - quest to lure Boo outside. The only neighbor who puzzles them is the mysterious Arthur Radley, nicknamed Boo, who never comes outside. Scout and Jem almost instinctively understand the complexities and machinations of their neighborhood and town. Maycomb is a small, close-knit town, and every family has its social station depending on where they live, who their parents are, and how long their ancestors have lived in Maycomb.Ī widower, Atticus raises his children by himself, with the help of kindly neighbors and a black housekeeper named Calpurnia. Scout Finch lives with her brother Jem and their father Atticus in the fictitious town of Maycomb, Alabama. The story covers a span of three years, during which the main characters undergo significant changes. To Kill a Mockingbird is primarily a novel about growing up under extraordinary circumstances in the 1930s in the Southern United States. Full Glossary for To Kill a Mockingbird.Famous Quotes from To Kill a Mockingbird.Comparing To Kill a Mockingbird to Its Movie Version. ![]() Racial Relations in the Southern United States. ![]()
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![]() Magnus & Alec are living their life with their baby warlock, Max□, and all seems well. ![]() TLBOTW takes place in between City of Heavenly Fire and Lady Midnight and after Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, so of course, one would think to have read those (except maybe not Lady Midnight) before reading this. Haha I don’t think I can go into the rest without spoilers soooooooo…………. It’s really important for Cassie’s future series.Įspecially since The Black Volume of the Dead is said to take place during the The Wicked Powers!!! AHhhh I can’t wait now!!!□ I really thought of The Eldest Curses just being a fun side project Cassie wanted to make featuring our fav warlock ~ Magnus Bane~, but wow…….to anyone who wasn’t planning on reading this series, I urge you to read TEC. All of this is definitely going to be HUGE leading up to The Wicked Powers. ![]() The Eldest Curses is WAY more important than I ever thought it would be. ![]() I can’t.Īll these theories that are popping up in my head now that I’ve read the epilogue……. ![]() The Lost Book of the White by Cassandra Clare & Wesley Chu ![]() ![]() It follows a case where four young Black men were accused of raping a white woman when she and her boyfriend find themselves in a broken down car along the side of the road. ![]() is a nonfiction book that takes place in Florida the 1940s-50s. Drawing on a wealth of never-before-published material, including the FBI's unredacted Groveland case files, as well as the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund files, King shines new light on this remarkable civil rights crusader against a heroic backdrop.-From publisher description. Associates thought it was suicidal for him to wade into the "Florida Terror" at a time when he was irreplaceable to the burgeoning civil rights movement, but the lawyer would not shrink from the fight-not after the Klan had murdered one of Marshall's NAACP associates and Marshall had endured threats that he would be next. So began the chain of events that would bring Thurgood Marshall, the man known as "Mr. ![]() ![]() Then the Ku Klux Klan rolled into town, burning homes and chasing hundreds of blacks into the swamps. When a white seventeen-year-old Groveland girl cried rape, vicious Sheriff McCall was fast on the trail of four young blacks who dared to envision a future for themselves. In 1949, Florida's orange industry was booming with cheap Jim Crow labor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Character development tends to be secondary to the depiction of advanced theories and ideas, such as the true nature of the Great Attractor, naked singularities and the great battle between baryonic and dark matter lifeforms. The central narrative is that of humanity rising and evolving to become the second most powerful race in the universe, next to the god-like Xeelee. These stories begin in the present day and end when the Milky Way galaxy collides with Andromeda five billion years in the future. It encompasses the Xeelee Sequence, which consists of nine novels (including the Destiny's Children trilogy and Vengeance/Redemption duology that is set in alternate timeline), plus three volumes collecting the 52 short pieces (short stories and novellas) in the series, all of which fit into a single timeline stretching from the Big Bang singularity of the past to his Timelike Infinity singularity of the future. His fiction falls into three main categories of original work plus a fourth category, extending other authors' writing each has a different basis, style, and tone.īaxter's " Future History" mode is based on research into hard science. Wells, Baxter has been vice-president of the international H. ![]() He has degrees in mathematics and engineering. ![]() Stephen Baxter (born 13 November 1957) is an English hard science fiction author. Baxter at the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention, 2005. ![]() ![]() Through archival research and interviews with Walker, Oprah Winfrey, and Quincy Jones (among others), Tillet studies Walker’s life and how themes of violence emerged in her earlier work. It has been adapted for an Oscar-nominated film and a hit Broadway musical. The Color Purple received both praise and criticism upon publication, and the conversation it sparked around race and gender still continues today. Prominent academic and activist Salamishah Tillet combines cultural criticism, history, and memoir to explore Walker’s epistolary novel and shows how it has influenced and been informed by the zeitgeist. Published in the Reagan era amid a severe backlash to civil rights, the Jazz Age novel tells the story of racial and gender inequality through the life of a 14-year-old girl from Georgia who is haunted by domestic and sexual violence. ![]() Mixing cultural criticism, literary history, biography, and memoir, an exploration of Alice Walker’s critically acclaimed and controversial novel, The Color PurpleĪlice Walker made history in 1983 when she became the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Color Purple. ![]() ![]() ![]() Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Edinburgh, the son of a prosperous civil engineer. ![]() This edition also includes Stevenson's essay on the composition of Treasure Island. In his introduction John Seelye examines Stevenson's life and influences and the novel's place within adventure fiction. With its swift-moving plot and memorably drawn characters - Blind Pew and Black Dog, the castaway Ben Gunn and the charming but dangerous Long John Silver - Stevenson's tale of pirates, treachery and heroism was an immediate success when it was first published in 1883 and has retained its place as one of the greatest of all adventure stories. ![]() But Jim soon becomes only too aware that he is not the only one who knows of the map's existence, and his bravery and cunning are tested to the full when, with his friends Squire Trelawney and Dr Livesey, he sets sail in the Hispaniola to track down the treasure. When a mysterious sailor dies in sinister circumstances at the Admiral Benbow inn, young Jim Hawkins stumbles across a treasure map among the dead man's possessions. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Its newness seemed to make it glow, as if a magic wand had only just zapped it together from rags. She’d been measured for the gown on her first day, and it must have just arrived from the seamstress. Charlotte didn’t feel much motivation to spruce up, but her ball gown lay neatly on her bed. That made her feel a little bit lonely, but a little bit lonely was nicer than a whole lot numb.Įddie would be back in character and dancing with Miss Gardenside tonight. The ball would be starting soon, and Charlotte could hear musicians tuning and smell pastries baking. Wattlesbrook chased the last of the police away and the guests to their rooms. Eddie didn’t say anything significant to her, such as “I love you,” or “Please stay forever,” or even “I’m going to go brush my teeth-meet me in your room in ten.” He stood near her, his attention on Miss Gardenside.Įvening drew close. Miss Gardenside, Colonel Andrews, and Miss Charming were always hovering nearby. They weren’t alone for the rest of the day. She was feeling at home at last in Austenland, and she meant to enshroud herself with that boldness and take it home with her.Īnd she meant, quite specifically, to damn the torpedoes and fall very much in love with Eddie, even if it was temporary, even if she didn’t quite know what she meant to him. There wasn’t just one kind of woman to be. Jane Austen had created six heroines, each quite different, and that gave Charlotte courage. It was the heroine’s prerogative to give the villain a final kiss, and she had decided to be the heroine after all. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a remarkable turn of events, it has returned as an important theme in contemporary culture in the wake of the emergence in the 1980s of both string theory in physics (with its ten- or eleven-dimensional universes) and computer graphics. Although largely eclipsed by relativity theory beginning in the 1920s, the spatial fourth dimension experienced a resurgence during the later 1950s and 1960s. ![]() ![]() In an extensive new Reintroduction, Henderson surveys the impact of interest in higher dimensions of space in art and culture from the 1950s to 2000. ![]() That iconoclastic idea encouraged radical innovation by a variety of early twentieth-century artists, ranging from French Cubists, Italian Futurists, and Marcel Duchamp, to Max Weber, Kazimir Malevich, and the artists of De Stijl and Surrealism. The possibility of a spatial fourth dimension suggested that our world might be merely a shadow or section of a higher dimensional existence. The long-awaited new edition of a groundbreaking work on the impact of alternative concepts of space on modern art.In this groundbreaking study, first published in 1983 and unavailable for over a decade, Linda Dalrymple Henderson demonstrates that two concepts of space beyond immediate perception-the curved spaces of non-Euclidean geometry and, most important, a higher, fourth dimension of space-were central to the development of modern art. ![]() ![]() ![]() While K acknowledges that it may be unusual for him to tell Sumire’s love story, he doesn’t provide a particularly satisfying answer. That he chooses to tell their story through ‘K’, our male straight narrator, is also somewhat iffy. It often went from being slightly ridiculous to straight-up ludicrous. I cringed many times while reading Sputnik Sweetheart: his portrayal of the romantic/sexual relationship between Sumire and Miu, the two women at the centre of the narrative, was yikes. ![]() The main reason why I do not get on with his work is that, well, his women are on a league of their own when it comes to female characters written by male authors. Over the last couple of months, I have picked up several of his short story collections but never felt compelled to finish them. It would be safe to say that I do have a bit of an uneasy relationship with Murakami’s work. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Mystery & Thriller (2016) the Grand prix des lectrices de Elle in France (2018) and it won two reader voted awards, The Thrillzone Awards best debut thriller in The Netherlands (2018) and The Dead Good Papercut Award for best page turner at the Harrogate Crime Festival (2016). To date, The Girl in the Ice has sold over 2 million copies in the English language and has been sold into translation in 29 countries. ![]() ![]() Within five months it sold one million copies, reaching number one in the Amazon UK, USA, and Australian charts. Robert Bryndza is best known for his page-turning crime and thriller novels, which have sold over five million copies. His crime debut, The Girl in the Ice, was released in February 2016, introducing Detective Chief Inspector Erika Foster. ![]() |