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![]() ![]() This is the story of Revant, a young man from Hyderabad who enters a college in Mumbai to study for his Masters in Business Administration (MBA). ![]() The rather curious title of this novel, the core message really, simply means that an MBA degree is not just about getting glory, a huge pay packet and dressing up in a business suit. ![]() I used to go around trying to correct the English of the people in my Indian environment, but when I came to understand that in fact 'Indian English' is a language all by itself, I gave up that annoying habit. Indians have truly made the language their own and have come up with a version of English which you'll never hear the Queen speak - but I love it all the same. This is my latest Indian read, written in the endearing style of Indian English. I enjoy reading Indian authors and try to promote them whenever I can. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are reasons why he is the way he is and his reactions are authentic, he is strong, self-deprecating and still capable of being funny. Jeremy is an incredibly interesting character, he doesn't spend a whole lot of time dwelling in complete self-pity, rather focusing on the mystery of Susannah, and trying to untangle the many lies. Jeremy reveals secrets throughout the story and deals with a lot of devastation, all the while trying to figure out exactly what happened to Susannah.īreaking Glass is misleading in the best possible way, keeping you guessing as to what is going on and throwing you for a loop every time you think you may finally have guessed what will follow. The novel then goes on flipping between the present and Jeremy's memories. ![]() ![]() Breaking Glass begin with the main character, Jeremy Glass, stuck in an awkward situation that will lead up to his accident. ![]() ![]() ![]() Both Homegoing: A Novel by Yaa Gyasi and The Underground Railroad: A Novel by Colson Whitehead similarly bring us face to face with our history, however we define that-ethnic, national, or global. After I saw the film 12 Years a Slave, I sat and sobbed in my car, so grateful for my life and committed to living in a way that truly honors the dreams of those who paved the way. As a black woman, I have appreciated the many stories in recent years that have given us a window into the lives that my enslaved ancestors endured. In recent years, however, I have come to appreciate how fiction can help us gain a new perspective and spark our imagination as we work to shape this real world. Buy from QuakerBooksĪs a history teacher, I find the real world the greatest story of all. ![]() Buy from QuakerBooks The Underground Railroad: A Novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite Devorah’s religious community’s strict rules on never being alone with someone of the opposite sex, Jaxon immediately puts her at ease, and after they’re freed, she can’t stop thinking about him, and he can’t stop thinking about her. When she goes to look for her brother-in-law but instead gets trapped in the powerless elevator, she meets Jaxon. Her parents are upstate and unable to be there her sister’s husband is unable to be with her due to religious rules, so Devorah’s the support person. Jaxon is a Black teen who lives just down the block, but their paths have never crossed- not until today, when Devorah’s sister is giving birth (prematurely!) in the hospital in the middle of a Category 3 hurricane. ![]() It’s always such a joy discovering a book that’s right up your literary alley!ĭevorah is a Hasidic Jewish teen from the Chabad-Lubavitch sect. ![]() Seriously, book lists: I love them so much, and they’re so hard on my TBR! But as I read the synopsis, I knew I had to read this one. A book list alerted me to the existence of Like No Other by Una LaMarche (Razorbill, 2014). ![]() ![]() Tessa finds herself torn - does she love the dark and brooding Shadowhunter who saved her from the Sisters? Or does she truly hate him? ![]() The Shadowhunters agree to help her find him, if she will use her shapeshifting powers to help them infiltrate a vampire clan. Tessa yearns to find her brother and fears for his life. The Dark Sisters tell Tessa that they are to deliver her to this evil man, but Tessa is grabbed and spirited away by two young men who tell her they are Shadowhunters, trained warriors with special gifts who fight Downworlders like vampires and warlocks to save humans. This quality, or gift, makes her highly valuable to the mysterious and terrible Magister. Unbeknownst to Tessa, she was born with powers to become anyone or anything. ![]() They teach her to use her unknown powers to shape shift. Only when they show her a letter handwritten by her brother does she agree to accompany them to their lair. ![]() When sixteen-year old Tessa Gray arrives by steamship in London to meet her brother, she is met instead by two creepy women from a dark, gloomy mansion. ![]() Set in Victorian England and beautifully imagined, Clockwork Angel is a richly constructed fantasy novel that stands among the best fantasy of our time. Cassandra Clare just keeps getting it right! Fresh off great success with her best-selling series The Mortal Instruments ( City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass), Clare begins the back story with the prequel: Clockwork Angel. ![]() ![]() ![]() The reason I bring up the V/Butch thing is because, Vishous and Jane (The Ghost) take up a large part of this book. ![]() I am also one of the readers who was shipping Vishous and Butch. See, I know the fans of this series are hardcore. ![]() I guess, I’m the hopeless romantic waiting for those once fuzzy feelings from the earlier books (I am totally delusional). I have been hanging with the BDB so long I just can’t quit. Meaning, who is going to die next? Which for me is weird considering this is a romance series. Now I read each release with my eyes wide open. ![]() Isn’t that the way with long series? But The Shadows really broke me, and I don’t mean in a happy, tingly end-of-book way. I think on every review I do of this series I put up my love/hate disclaimer. If you’ve been a reader of this series and you don’t mind spoilers? Grab a cup/glass of whatever makes you happy and get comfortable. If you haven’t read these books yet and you hate being spoiled, now’s a good time to back away slowly. I mean, I can’t discuss this book without going to the beginning of this series. I am going to tell all you duckies over here at The Pond that there will be spoilers. Paranormal Romance published by Ballantine Books 10 APR 18 Sammy’s review of The Thief (Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 16)by J.R. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ©1999 Laurie Halse Anderson (P)2000 Random House, Inc. 'SPEAK' was a 1999 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature. In this powerful audiobook, an utterly believable, bitterly ironic heroine speaks for many a disenfranchised teenager while learning that, although it's hard to speak up for yourself, keeping your mouth shut is worse. Once that happens, she can't be silent - she must speak the truth. Try as she might to avoid it, it won't go away, until there is a painful confrontation. She retreats into her head, where the lines and hypocrisies of high school stand in stark relief to her own silence, making her all the more mute.īut it's not so uncomfortable in her head, either - there's something banging around in there that she doesn't want to think about. She busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops - a major infraction in high school society - so her old friends won't talk to her, and people she doesn't know glare at her. From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows she's an outcast. ![]() ![]() ![]() All the while, it maintains the flavor of a simple line-drawn story. ![]() Kids can fill the moonlit sky with stars and zoom in on hatchling birds in the mountains they can cause a swirling wind to fill the sails of Harold's boat and help him sample all nine flavors of pie. Along the way, the many hidden interactions allow readers to animate the scenes, shaking apples from the tree and making the guard dragon catch them in his mouth. Harold takes a walk in the moonlight down the path of imagination and although this time the bunnies hop and the winds blow, nothing of the dreamy simplicity of the journey is lost.Įlegantly adapted by Trilogy Studios to the iPad and featuring the same minimalist lines of Johnson's 1955 original, this app allows children to join in as Harold wields his purple crayon to create his gently perilous adventure. ![]() ![]() The authors define safetyism as a culture or belief system in which safety (which includes "emotional safety") has become a sacred value, which means that people become unwilling to make trade-offs demanded by other practical and moral concerns. The book goes on to discuss microaggressions, identity politics, "safetyism", call-out culture, and intersectionality. The authors state that these three "great untruths" contradict modern psychology and ancient wisdom from many cultures. ![]() Lukianoff and Haidt argue that many problems on campus have their origins in three "great untruths" that have become prominent in education: "What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker" "always trust your feelings" and "life is a battle between good people and evil people". Lukianoff and Haidt argue that overprotection is having a negative effect on university students and that the use of trigger warnings and safe spaces does more harm than good. ![]() It is an expansion of a popular essay the two wrote for The Atlantic in 2015. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure is a 2018 book by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. ![]() |