![]() I was also very curious to see how a female protagonist would behave in the hyper-masculine setting of a pirate ship. ![]() The fact that it was a pirate-themed book made it even more appealing since I recently watched Pirates of the Caribbean and it’s put me in the mood to indulge in similar swashbuckling adventure stories. I was looking for something fun and fast to read and a young adult novel seemed to fit the bill. Of course, like many of my reads this year, I came across this book as a free offering as part of the Kindle Unlimited subscription service. I had great fun reading this novel so I’m excited to share it with you today! It is the first installment in a two-part duology. ![]() Ahoy, mateys! Today I’ll be reviewing a young adult pirate adventure novel, Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller. ![]()
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![]() The copyright term at the time was 28 years with the option for a 14-year renewal for surviving heirs. She registered the copyright for the Little Women stories after they were published. Alcott later spoke of the real-life version of this interaction, noting, “ ” The publisher made her an outright offer at the same time she was negotiating the publishing deal, and she turned it down. ![]() In the movie, Jo March finishes her book and visits the publisher to sell it – this is one of the many points where Little Women mirrors Alcott’s own life. If you didn’t know, Louisa May Alcott’s home can be visited in Massachusetts, where it’s easy to see the inspiration for the story! And like many other great authors, she pushed on anyway, proving him wrong: she produced over 300 literary works in her lifetime. Field, for example, told her to stick to teaching and not to pursue writing full time. ![]() Like most authors, she’d taken some hits from the publishing world: Publisher James T. Despite women’s limited rights at the time she lived, her family desperately needed the money from her writing for their support. ![]() Louisa May Alcott is an interesting personality to begin with. Have you seen the new adaptation of Little Women? There’s a charming moment towards the end that caught my attention – and I hope it catches yours, too, author. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of those books that starts out great and then totally falls apart. In 1998 I married my best friend, the researcher and rare-book expert Lisa Gold. My sixth novel, Lovecraft Country, has been produced as an HBO series by Misha Green, Jordan Peele, and J.J. My fourth novel, Bad Monkeys, also won multiple awards and is being developed as a film, with Margot Robbie attached to star. Award, a Washington State Book Award, and a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, and helped me secure a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. My third novel, Set This House in Order, marked a critical turning point in my career after it won the James Tiptree, Jr. Through a combination of timely foreign rights sales, the generous support of family and friends, occasional grant money, and a slowly accumulating back list, I’ve managed to make novel-writing my primary occupation ever since. My professor Alison Lurie helped me find an agent, and within six months of my college graduation Fool on the Hill had been sold to Atlantic Monthly Press. At Cornell University I wrote what would become my first published novel, Fool on the Hill, as my senior thesis in Honors English. I decided I wanted to be a fiction writer when I was five years old and spent my childhood and adolescence learning how to tell stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a worthwhile read for anyone passionate about the subject matter and willing to wade through a fair amount of jargon.īostrom demonstrates an impressive grasp of AI theory, and a reader like me has neither the professional standing nor the basic knowledge to challenge his technical schemas or predictions, which by and large seem prudent and well-reasoned. Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies is a short, dense introduction to our most cutting-edge theories about how far off superintelligence might be, what it might look like if it arrives, and what the consequences might be for humanity. The idea of artificial superintelligence (ASI) has long tantalized and taunted the human imagination, but only in recent years have we begun to analyze in depth the technical, strategic, and ethical problems of creating as well as managing advanced AI. ![]() ![]() ![]() As Stella's community-her world-is upended, she decides to fight fire with fire. But one late night, later than she should ever be up, much less wandering around outside, Stella and her little brother see something they're never supposed to see, something that is the first flicker of change to come, unwelcome change by any stretch of the imagination. To Stella, it sort of evens out, and heck, the Klan hasn't bothered them for years. Stella lives in the segregated South-in Bumblebee, North Carolina, to be exact about it. ![]() When the Ku Klux Klan's unwelcome reappearance rattles Stella's segregated southern town, bravery battles prejudice in this New York Times bestselling Depression-era "novel that soars" ( The New York Times Book Review ) that School Library Journal called "storytelling at its finest" in a starred review. ![]() ![]() ![]() As her relationships deepen, she realizes how people can be much more complex and surprising than they first seem. McLean finally comes to terms with her identity. The capable protagonist Mclean has problems but she realizes that connecting with other people - family and friends - makes her feel at home in the world. McLean also visits her mother and finds out that her mother has been keeping a secret from her all these years. One boy is under close supervision by his parents after getting arrested for drinking at a party, and his friends contend his parents’ response is draconian. If you liked What Happened to Goodbye, what should you read next What Happened to Goodbye Saint Anything This Adventure Ends Puddin Dumplin (Book 2). The teens have a very casual attitude toward drinking alcohol. The heroine’s parents divorced after her mother began an affair with a well-known basketball coach, resulting in a very public scandal. Parents need to know that this story is about a family torn apart by an affair. ![]() Sarah Dessen Coming of Age 2011 Save Rate book Parents say age 13+ Based on 1 review Kids say age 12+ Based on 13 reviews Read or buy Common Sense is a nonprofit organization. One boy, arrested when caught drinking beer, is pitied by his friends for his parents’ strict response.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. What Happened to Goodbye Book review by Darienne Stewart, Common Sense Media Common Sense says age 12+ Thoughtful look at teen finding self after parents' divorce. ![]() ![]() ![]() Actually, overall this year has been me taking agency in my own personal growth. And for me, taking agency has meant not letting someone else’s bad mood become mine, not playing the victim to avoid accountability, and not being a doormat or a martyr for the sake of politeness, peer pressure, or some societal construct. But, this year brought me so much personal growth, the biggest of which is realizing I have agency over everything in my life, which, no duh, but *knowing* that is different from *living* that. □□♀️ It happens, and I’m a people pleasure, so it’s a hard habit to break. ![]() I think this year I was overstimulated, overdrawn, and a little too emotionally vulnerable to the opinions of strangers. 2022 taught me that sometimes you have to make your circle small when it comes to what you can accomplish. The older I get, and the longer I’m in this career, the more I realize I need times like these to turn off my writer brain and just exist in the moment for a bit.Īnd now for that grand old wrap up. In case it isn’t obvious, I’ve been out of the office for the holidays, so if I’m quiet on here, this is why. They’ve been holding out on me with these vacation properties. Apparently they each have one on this side of the bridge. Swipe for evidence of them fleeing-slash-leading me to their respective castles. This is a picture of my kids running away from me after I tried to get them to smile for a picture. ![]() ![]() Halina Newberry Grant, slipping a tight-bodiced black and purple dress over a hoop skirt and mesh petticoat before Monday’s rehearsal, summed up her multiple roles in the 11-actor play: “a milliner of questionable morals, a carny outsider, a psychic schoolteacher, an abused and murdered wife and a disfigured poetess.” It’s not the kind of thing you’re likely to find inscribed on the headstones of any of Green-Wood’s 560,000 permanent residents.įor the audience in the 150-odd seats set up under a natural proscenium of trees, the chance to soak up the spooky nocturnal atmosphere may be as much a draw as Masters’s bitterly ironic monologues, reshuffled and interwoven with period songs. Andolora’s production - reads like a mix of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” and Edward Gorey’s “Gashlycrumb Tinies,” with an extra bucket of bitters poured over the top. The opening poem, “The Hill” - a catalog of miserable life and often sudden death recited by the full cast in Mr. A cycle of 246 free-verse poems, “Spoon River Anthology” recounts the secret lives of the dead citizens of a fictional Illinois town, who speak from beyond the grave to confess their quiet desperation and secret defiance. ![]() It’s hard to think of a classic work of American literature less in need of a morbid makeover. ![]() ![]() ![]() Beginning with An Expert in Murder (Faber), which was dramatised for BBC Radio 4, the books paint an atmospheric picture of England between the wars and have been described as 'historical crime fiction at its very best' (Sunday Times). ![]() ![]() Our special guest for the evening will be Nicola Upson author of a series of detective novels which feature the brilliant Golden Age writer Josephine Tey as their lead character. ![]() From the title story about a strained country house Christmas party, to another about an illicit affair that ends in murder, and two cases for her poet-detective Adam Dalgliesh - currently returning to our television screens in brand new adaptations of James’s novels - each tale revels in the lure of a mystery to be solved. While she delights in the secrets that lurk beneath the surface at family gatherings, her Christmas stories also provide tantalising puzzles to keep the reader guessing. James’s elegant prose illuminates each tale, making them ideal reading for the darkest days of the year. James was frequently commissioned to write a special short story for Christmas, and The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories draws together four of her finest. Join us this December as we get together to discuss a festive treat! As the acknowledged Queen of Crime, P.D. Everyone is invited to join us and our special guests to discuss a really popular book, one that we all know and perhaps or perhaps not love. The Really Popular Book Club is the reading group hosted by Cambridge University Libraries. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But he can’t do without the help of a classic Star Wars trope: an astromech plugged into a mainframe. He escapes capture and is rescued by IG-12/Grogu, and they decide to make their final stand against Moff Gideon. This finale isn’t unlike the last episode of The Last of Us, which also features Pedro Pascal dead-set on righting some wrongs with muscle and huff. Lest you may have forgotten, Din Djarin is an incredible fighter, and his skills are on full display this episode. He flies through the atmosphere to the capital ships and gets it evacuated, but I’m not gonna lie - the entire time, I was just waiting him for to contact the Imperials. We start right where the last episode leaves off, as Axe heads off to get reinforcements to help Bo-Katan fight their way out of the base. ![]() Is the Armorer a spy? What about Axe Woves? Will Din die? Will his memory be erased by the mindflayer?!? The past week has been a wild ride for Mandalorian fans as conspiracy theories abounded. ![]() |