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![]() It's hard not to like the animals and really want them to make it to the promised land. Jenner Not quite a sewergator book, but worth including for its portrayal of the Holy White Crocodiles, a thoroughly unpleasant race living in tunnels beneath the city of New York. ![]() I still give it 4/5 stars, because the story is a good one. Of course, I was much younger then and the scientific inaccuracies didn't bother me as much. I absolutely adored this book the first time I read it. They wend their way across the country from Brooklyn to California overcoming obstacles and roadblocks. Her traveling companions consist of a half-grown coati, a deformed langur, a plucked Scarlet Macaw and a cascabel (South American rattlesnake). A mythical sanctuary where all animals are free. Sherahi masterminds an escape, and travels across the country seeking nirvana at the Sandeagozu. Sherahi is no ordinary python, not only is she the largest python on earth, she possesses human intelligence plus extra serpentine powers. ![]() Originally owned by a show-girl who dances with snakes, Sherahi eventually outgrows her part in the act forcing her sale to a pet shop specializing in exotic animals. ![]() It's the 1930's when a large python is captured and sold into the pet trade. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH meet Homeward Bound. ![]() ![]() Author Tameka Fryer Brown’s cumulative rhyme is impossible to resist, and the humorous details in Ebony Glenn’s cut-paper collage will welcome readers to this party again and again. A cumulative all-holiday carol packed to the brim with family, food, love, and Black joy, especially perfect for Thanksgiving, Christmas, graduations, and all family celebrations.Every holiday, aunties, uncles, cousins, grandparents, and neighbors come over to eat, sing, and. ![]() Listen online or offline with Android, iOS, web, Chromecast, and Google Assistant. Get instant access to all your favorite books. Written to the tune of “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” Twelve Dinging Doorbells is exuberant. Twelve Dinging Doorbells audiobook written by Tameka Fryer Brown. Just when all seems lost and there’s no more pie, Granny pulls out a sweet surprise. As tables fill with baked macaroni and cheese, chitlins, and other sides a-steaming, she and Granny move the pie to keep it intact. The task becomes tricker as the room grows with dancing and card games and pie cravings. But all our main character can think about is the sweet potato pie Granny makes just for her. ![]() As the doorbell rings, relatives arrive filling the house with foods such as chitlins and baked macaroni and cheese. In this version, a little girl gathers with family for the holiday. A cumulative all-holiday carol packed to the brim with family, food, love, and Black joy, especially perfect for Thanksgiving, Christmas, graduations, and all family celebrations.Įvery holiday, aunties, uncles, cousins, grandparents, and neighbors come over to eat, sing, and celebrate life. Twelve Dinging Doorbells by Tameka Fryer Brown, illustrated by Ebony Glenn, is set to the tune of the familiar Twelve Days of Christmas. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The conversations in the book were first published in Freedom, the newspaper edited by Paul Robeson, and later in the Baltimore Afro-American. A domestic who refuses to exchange dignity for pay, Mildred is an inspiring conversationalist, a dragon slayer in a segregated world. As Mildred declares to a patronizing employer that she is not just like one of the family, or explains to Marge how a tricky employer has created a system of “half days off” to cheat her help, we gain a glimpse not only of one woman’s day-to-day struggle, but of her previous ache of racial oppression. Rippling with satire and humor, Mildred’s outspoken accounts capture vividly her white employers’ complacency and condescension-and startled reactions to a maid who speaks her mind. They create a vibrant picture of the life of a black working woman in New York in the 1950s. ![]() Like One of the Family, which provides historical context for Kathryn Stockett's novel, The Help, is comprised of a series of conversations between Mildred, a black domestic, and her friend Marge. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Oh, I can hardly hear ya!” Seeger says, comic despair in his voice. The listeners take a tentative stab at a hallelujah. Now clear out your throats and try singin’ that.” “All you do is come in on the Halle luuujah. “But I’m gonna ask you to help us sing this one.” A thrum of his five-string banjo and the metronome of his tapping foot cue Seeger’s cheerleader tenor: “Michael, row the boat ashore…” The other Weavers - soprano Ronnie Gilbert, second tenor Fred Hellerman and bass Lee Hays - complete the chorus of hallelujahs. Follow may have thought you were comin’ here tonight to sit back and take things easy while we did all the work,” Pete Seeger told the audience at the legendary 1955 Weavers concert at Carnegie Hall. ![]() ![]() ![]() Elanna had understandable doubts throughout, but she was never overly wishy-washy. I thought it was a well-written debut fantasy, with an interesting world/mythology. Because my library has the 2nd book, I am going to give the author the benefit of the doubt and hope book 2 does not disappoint. ![]() How Bates expanded and grew her characters and the world, well it just could have been better. This was Bates debut novel-the premise of the story was wonderful. As the years past Elanna begins to experience episodes, which can only be attributed to magic and she cannot understand how she could come to have this power. Although her parents try to guard and protect her from afar, Elanna becomes a victim of Stockholm Syndrome and loses her true identity. ![]() When Elanna's father is uncovered as a a rebel the King takes Elanna hostage and raises her in his court. The kingdom is divided between those who hold the magic of the earth, and those who hunt the witches. I so wanted this to be at least a 4 star read-but *heavy sigh* it falls a little short.Īt five years old Lady Elanna is caught up in the political turmoil between her father and his enemy the King of Eren. ![]() ![]() I just couldn’t stop reading it though, it was like I was watching a car accident in slow motion I couldn’t stop it but I continue to watch. This book was a complete mind fuck, roller coaster of a ride. ![]() STATUS: Married to my high school sweetheart (which he hates me calling him). ![]() My mind never stops running, can't turn the ADHD off. Not all peaches are equal )īAD HABITS: I'm a major procrastinator, I stay up way too late writing, and I get distracted far too easily unless it's doing something I love. I love Japanese and Croatian cuisine, as well a golden queen peaches. I eventually lost all of my senses and gave it up to be a writer :)įAVOURITE FOODS: I'm vegan, just not the type to tell you what to eat. ![]() I worked in the Art History field, then became a full-time artist, doing commissions. Though, I have been slack of late, so I'm dedicating 2018 to getting back into shape!ĬAREER PATH: I started off as a Graphic Designer, then went to Auckland University, where I got a BA degree in Art History and Italian Studies and a post-graduate Honours degree in Art History. I also did unarmed combat and played in a touch rugby team (my gym teacher made me do the last one!) As an adult, I've couched soccer and have completed two marathons, numerous half-marathons and one 30K run. ![]() SPORTS: As a teenager my favourite sports were karate, badmington, and running. NATIONALITY: I am a New Zealander with Croatian heritage. ![]() ![]() “Me (Moth)” focuses on grief because Amber was dealing with her own grief as she wrote it. ![]() She feels that just wouldn’t have worked as well as it does had she wrote it in prose. ![]() The lyricism and complexity of each of these books were highly impactful on her, and “Me (Moth)” seemed to be the perfect story to tell in verse. Amber also feels at home when she is writing in verse.īut she never thought to write in verse for young adults until she read other novels in verse like “A Long Way Down”, “Brown Girl Dreaming”, and “The Poet X”. ![]() She is mesmerized by the timelessness that poetry has. This was the format that made sense to her, as she likes the immediacy and brevity of poetry. Poetry is her first love, and she began writing poetry when she was in the sixth grade. ![]() Her work has been published in Provincetown Arts, Ploughshares, and Decomp, as well as other places. Amber McBride got her BA in English from James Madison University in the year 2010 and got her MFA in Poetry from Emerson College in the year 2012.Īmber has taught English Literature, English Composition, and Introduction to Poetry at Strayer University, James Madison University, and Northern Virginia Community College. ![]() ![]() ![]() I found it an ‘easy’ read in that it engaged me right from the start with characters that are believable and a compelling storyline, complete with a mystery that must be solved by them. ![]() This new release novel is also about codebreaking women – this time at Bletchley Park, the better known facility in England that did so much to turn the war in the Allies’ favour. The next book I picked up was The Rose Code by Kate Quinn, a British historical fiction best-selling author. I had just finished reading The Codebreakers by Alli Sinclair, which tells the story of the women who worked in an Australian signals intelligence unit in WWII. You know that thing where you buy, say, a red Mazda and suddenly, it seems that every second car on the road is a red Mazda? For me, the same phenomena sometimes happens with books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Words can bring forth feelings of outraged anger. A well-woven sentence speaks to the heart, it sings to the spirit. There is a difference between slapping words together in order to create a coherent sentence versus weaving words together in a composition of unparalleled artistry. ![]() Is there anything one can say that doesn't come off sounding trite? "I admire everything you've done." Really? Is there anything one can say that doesn't sound like a vast understatement, that doesn't make a person wince as they hear the clash of such stupid little words in the presence of such greatness? It is cruel how words often fail us at the most crucial moments. It's like thanking the one of the great living people on earth, someone one truly admires, like the Dalai Lama. Because my simple, stupid words are meaningless when it comes to describing the pure, untarnished brilliance of this book. In this case, in the case of my very favorite books, the right words just escape me because there's just nothing I can say. Oftentimes, it's because a book is so bad that I don't even know where to begin listing all the problems. Sometimes, words fail me when I need them most. ![]() |