![]() ![]() ![]() Did you need to do research to create these authentic voices?Ībsolutely. His friend Paul is from Ukraine and English is not his first language. He uses a lot of fun phrases that reflect the period and setting. James, your main character, has a very distinctive voice. And setting it in Odessa allowed me to incorporate the immigrant story of Paul’s family, having come from a place of the same name and with a similar topography. I specifically set my story in Odessa, Texas as a tribute to my ancestors who hailed from Odessa, Ukraine. Once I knew that I wanted to follow the path of converso Jews who had left Spain and ultimately made their way to the U.S., I decided to choose Texas because most of them settled in the Southwest in this country. What inspired you to write a Jewish historical story based in Texas? The setting of your story is Odessa, Texas. James befriends a Jewish boy named Paul, and the relationship helps him uncover a family secret. The story tackles some serious topics but is infused with a bit of humor and a lot of heart. Welcome, Betsy! In 1928, 11-year-old James is trying to sort out his family’s bad luck while he grieves the loss of his beloved grandmother. WHEN LIGHTNIN’ STRUCK is a terrific historical novel about two unlikely friends in Odessa, Texas. I have known Betsy for many years, and it’s always a special treat to celebrate a friend’s new book. Rosenthal about her middle-grade novel WHEN LIGHTNIN’ STRUCK ( Kar-Ben, 2022). ![]() I’m excited to share my interview with Betsy R. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() “I’ve found moments where things come from behind and around you,” she says. “You always want to keep mining a piece and discovering new things about it.” When the show was at the Dorfman, the National Theatre’s smallest space, the audience were immersed on three sides in the West End, Rudd is determined to keep the sense of intimacy. “As a director, you’re never like: ‘That’s it,’” says the show’s director Katy Rudd. With a new cast and different staging this time round, can they re-bottle the lighting? ![]() Now the team are preparing to install the vastnessof an ocean in the Duke of York’s Theatre. The sellout production was supposed to transfer last year, but the pandemic got in the way. “I knew it was going to be good, but I didn’t know it was going to be magic,” Gaiman laughs, recalling the original staging of his monster-riddled, grief-stricken story at the Dorfman theatre. ![]() ![]() And really, was that date even a date in the first place?With sections like Real Interviews With Men About Whether Or Not It Was A Date Good Flirts That Work Bad Flirts That Do Not Work and Definitive Proof That Tom Hanks Is The Villain Of You’ve Got Mail, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a one stop shop for dating advice when you love men but don't like them. She collects her crushes like ill cared-for pets, skewers her own suspect decisions, and assures readers that any date you can mess up, she can top tenfold. From New Yorker and Onion writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a comedy philosophy book aimed at interrogating what it means to date men within the trappings of modern society. ![]() ![]() Blythe Roberson’s sharp observational humor is met by her open-hearted willingness to revel in the ugliest warts and shimmering highs of choosing to live our lives amongst other humans. From New Yorker and Onion writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a comedy philosophy book aimed at interrogating what it means to date men within the trappings of modern society. ![]() ![]() Camp Ghoul Mountain Part VI: The Official Novelization is a love letter to the horror movie boom of the 1980s and conspiracy theories of the 1990s-and, perhaps, a dire warning of the dark future to come. ![]() This book contains a complete, authorized adaptation of the infamous cult slasher movie as well as the secret history of the behind-the-scenes drama and high-strange events that inspired the filmmakers, complete with footnotes and autobiographical anecdotes. Known for its over-the-top gore effects, bizarre and psychedelic campground killer plot-and its legacy as a lightning rod for conspiracy theories concerning everything from UFOs and alien abductions to 9/11 and a secret cabal at the heart of world power. ![]() Camp Ghoul Mountain Part VI is one of the most infamous slasher-movie sequels of the 1980s. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In other firsts, Fun Home later became the first to win a Tony Award for Best Original Score by an all-female writing team. ![]() Although earlier musicals, such as Falsettos, RENT, and The Color Purple, feature lesbian protagonists, Fun Home was groundbreaking for its frank explorations of the life of a gay woman. Some sources claim Fun Home was the first mainstream musical to have a lesbian as a main character. Alison Bechdel has been quoted as stating that Tesori and Kron “understood the emotional backbone of the story better than I did.” The graphic novel/memoir was adapted into a musical by composer Jeanine Tesori and writer Lisa Kron over a 5 year period. New York Times reviewer Sean Wilsey described it as “the most ingeniously compact, hyper-verbose example of autobiography to have been produced,” and “A comic book for lovers of words.” Wilsey also noted that the novel succeeded in pushing the boundaries of two genres, comics and memoirs. Based on Alison Bechdel’s best-selling graphic novel of the same name, Fun Home is an intimate musical in which we are introduced to Alison at three different ages as her adult self sets out to unravel the many mysteries of her childhood.īechdel’s graphic novel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, was published in 2006. ![]() ![]() It isn't easy to have a hope and a dream, and to try to realize how to bring dreams to fruition. Throughout the story we see relationships fostered, problem solving handled, crisis averted, and other wonderful situations of life all while hoping to bring the storks back to Shora. ![]() Inevitably, they end up uniting their small community, and creating wonderful relationships with the elders of the village, as well as a disabled recluse. As events unfolded, I became completely enraptured with this story. The school children (all six of them) are all focused and determined to bring storks back to their village of Shora. I thought that since now we know why they don't come, why could we possibly have 280 more pages to go? I was worried this book might be a yawn.Īs it turns out, the stork and nests are only the framework for the real meat of the story. I began to read it and immediately they ascertained that to lure the storks they needed trees and wheels on the roofs of their buildings, neither of which they had. I thought this sounded sweet and delightful, yet only now got around to reading it. The blurb was that it was about school children in The Netherlands who wondered why storks no longer returned to their town, and how they set out to resolve this. ![]() I've been slowly trying to read through the list of all the Newbery Award books. ![]() Let me start by saying that I just read this book. ![]() ![]() Hundreds of millions of copies have found their way into homes and hearts around the world. LeSieg and Rosetta Stone) have been translated into thirty languages. Seuss (and others that he wrote but did not illustrate, including some under the pseudonyms Theo. The forty-four books he wrote and illustrated under the name Dr. Seuss-is, quite simply, one of the most beloved children’s book authors of all time. The two signed a contract that day, Seuss later proclaiming “If I had been going down the other side of Madison Avenue, I’d be in the dry-cleaning business today.” After being rejected by 27 publishers Seuss decided to burn his manuscript in the incinerator of his apartment building, but as he walked home he ran into an old friend from Dartmouth, Mike McClintock, who had just started a job as an editor in the children’s section of Vanguard Press. ![]() However, when he arrives home he decides instead to tell his father what he actually saw-a simple horse and wagon.Īnd to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street, Seuss’ first published children’s book, and his career as a children's although, almost didn’t happen. The story follows a boy named Marco, who describes a parade of imaginary people and vehicles traveling along a road, Mulberry Street, in an elaborate fantasy story he dreams up to tell his father at the end of his walk. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Will first crushes, new family dynamics, and questions of identity prove that Audrey and Clare have grown too different to understand each other - or that they've needed each other all along? AGES: 12 plus AUTHOR: Alexandra Latos lives in Alberta, Canada with her husband and children. Clare is grappling with her gender fluidity and is wondering what emerging feelings for a nonbinary classmate might mean. Audrey, tired of being seen as different from her neurotypical peers, is determined to return to public school. Ever since their brother Adam's death, all they've shared is confusion over who they are and what comes next. Audrey and Clare may be twins, but they don't share a school, a room, a star sign, or even a birthday. This heartfelt novel for fans of Jandy Nelson and Adam Silvera follows twins Audrey and Clare as they grapple with their brother's death and their changing relationships - with each other and themselves. ![]() ![]() ![]() The plot was forced, and the character interactions were typical and the world map was the most BORING and LAZY I’d ever come across. I’ve read this book TWICE (not in a row, mind you), and the first time it left with me feeling like I’d just wasted my money. Yelena, the protagonist, in her role as a poison taster for the Military’s Commander, comes across such magicians and realises that she has magic powers, which must be kept hidden from both the Commander and her assassin-ninja-boss Valek. That all sounds fine, but the magicians in the south of the world, are plotting something… ![]() Everyone wears uniforms, and everyone has a job that is suited for their abilities. Set a world where the older kingdom has been taken over by the military for 15 year, the new regime requires everyone to live under various military-controlled districts, most boringly named MD-1, MD-2, MD-3, etc. This is an easy-reading Young-Adult book with the premise that a young girl, who killed her former guardian’s son, spent a year in prison and now has the choice of facing a death-by-hanging or by becoming the new Poison taster. I guess it would make sense for that to be the reason I picked up Poison Study, but no… I picked it up because I kept spotting the cover in my local Waterstones and it looked really, really interesting. Maria V Snyder is apparently an author of some renown. Released: 21st September 2007 (UK Version) “Unfortunately, poison not included with book” ![]() ![]() ![]() Elin Vale has her own deep-rooted scars, and her attraction to the exquisite warrior who freed her challenges her every boundary. Burning Dawn Showalter Gena Simon & Schuster 9780373778447 : : New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter returns with a. Read Online Burning Dawn (Angels of the Dark, 3) EPUB by Gena Showalter is a great book to read and thats why I recommend reading or downloading ebook. ![]() And as he unleashes his fury on his most recent captor, he learns no battle could have prepared him for the slave he rescues from his enemy's clutches-a beauty who stokes the fires of his darkest desires. A tormented past has left Thane with an insatiable need for violence, making him the most dangerous assassin in the skies. New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter returns with a sizzling Angels of the Dark tale about a winged warrior renowned for his ruthlessness, and the woman who becomes his obsession. A tormented past has left Thane with an insatiable need for violence, making him the most dangerous assassin in the skies. ![]() |