5/13/2023 0 Comments Up from slaveryYoung Washington’s newly gained literacy inspired in him a thirst for education, a thirst that would drive him away from the salt mines and toward the Hampton Institute, a recently established school for black Americans. After long days of toil, often starting as early as 4 am, Washington would come home and teach himself how to read using an old copy of a Webster’s “blueback” reader that his mother had given him. Faced with no money, no resources, and no education, Washington was forced to work in the salt-mines at the age of 10. However, the difficulty of Washington’s early life did not end with his Emancipation. This forced labor came to an end upon Emancipation in 1865, and his mother moved the family to meet her husband ( Washington’s stepfather), an escaped slave, in West Virginia. On the plantation, Washington was subjected to hard labor every day as a young child and performed tasks like cleaning the yard, bringing water to the slaves in the field, and delivering corn to be milled. Washington begins his autobiography by describing the squalor of his childhood as a slave in Franklin County, VA. Washington, one of America’s most famous conservative educational philosophers, recounts his rise from slavery to establish the Tuskegee Institute, a vocational school for black Americans.
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Too consumed skyla madiOlivia has never met anyone as confusing as Seth and his hot and cold attitude constantly sends her reeling. He's the kind of guy moms' warn their daughters about - the kind that leaves a trail of shattered hearts behind him and he has Olivia in his sights. He's only been in town a short while and his name is already on everyone's lips. He's infuriating, nauseatingly addictive and she just can't seem to shake him. Olivia James has never been one to walk on the wild side, at least not until she meets Seth Marc - a cocky, sexy fighter at her father's gym. **Mature Content Warning** Recommended for ages 17+ due to language and sexual content. Meddy realizes that is where their similarities end, however, when she overhears Staphanie talking about taking out a target. Meddy is hesitant at first, but she hits it off right away with the wedding photographer, Staphanie, who reminds Meddy of herself, down to the unfortunately misspelled name. As a compromise, they find the perfect wedding vendors: a Chinese-Indonesian family-run company just like theirs. Instead of having Ma and the aunts cater to her wedding, Meddy wants them to enjoy the day as guests. Now the day has arrived, and she can't wait to marry her college sweetheart, Nathan. Meddy Chan has been to countless weddings, but she never imagined how her own would turn out. The aunties are back, fiercer than ever and ready to handle any catastrophe-even the mafia-in this delightful and hilarious sequel by Jesse Q. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Spiderwork by L.K. RigelI have just received an email from LK RIGEL asking If I had sold my artwork "City of Angels". However it looks like they got angry with me and decided to copy my artwork. I remember I had refused it because this artwork had been already sold to another book and also because of my personal opinion about the theme. They wanted something similar with "City of Angels". The story starts with Harper Collins (Illingworth, Sasha) inviting me to create a cover to Bewitching. Nathalia, the artist, writes in her blog (Wed, Aug 17th): Suellen in May of 2011 and attempted to buy City of Angels from her for use on Alex Flinn's upcoming book, Bewitching. These covers look similar, don't they? LK Rigel purchased the artwork, named "City of Angels," used as the basis for her cover of Spiderwork from artist, Nathalia Suellen in 2009. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Cleanness garth greenwellsought him out and the privacy he drew about them. had caught my attention, at first simply because he was beautiful, and then for the special quality of friendship I thought I saw between him and another boy in my class, the intensity with which G. It was December now, though winter hadn’t yet really taken hold the sun was out and the weather was mild, it wasn’t unpleasant to stand for a bit and browse the books on display. Really it wasn’t a fountain anymore, it had been shuttered for years, since faulty wiring stopped a man’s heart one summer as he dipped his fingers into the cool water there. was late, and as I waited for him I browsed the book stalls the square is famous for, their wares piled high under awnings in front of the city library. We had agreed to meet at the fountain in front of the McDonald’s in Slaveykov Square. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Watchmen by alan mooreThe character appears throughout the story in flashbacks and aspects of his personality are revealed by other characters. He therefore chooses to become a mockery of society, fighting and killing without reservation.īlake's murder, which takes place shortly before the story begins in 1985, sets the plot of Watchmen in motion. He believes that humans are savage in nature, and that civilization can never be more than an idea. His costume itself was noted by Gibbons as being particularly problematic he was initially designed with a more militaristic costume which was later dropped for a black leather outfit with a "rapist mask". Gibbons went with a Groucho Marx-style appearance (mustache and cigar) for the Comedian in his design, deciding that the "clown" look had already been appropriated by the DC Comics supervillain the Joker. Moore and Gibbons saw the Comedian as "a kind of Gordon Liddy character, only a much bigger, tougher guy". The Comedian was initially based on the Shield and then on the Charlton Comics character Peacemaker, with elements of the Marvel Comics spy character Nick Fury added. “ In the end, we are collected works.” ― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. comes across one of the books that Amelia left for him, and thus begins a course of events that will change his life forever. Shortly after welcoming Maya into his home for good, A.J. considers giving her up, but there is something about Maya that warms his cold heart. A two-year-old girl, Maya is left in the bookstore with a note that the mother wishes her child to grow up surrounded by books. Then something happens that changes his life forever. sends her away with no real intentions of ever buying any of the titles from Knightley. she leaves behind a few of her favorite titles, about a man who found love for the first time very late in life. When Amelia, a young rep from Knightley Publishing shows up for her first meeting with A.J. Overcome with grief, he’s begun to hate his job, and then when he thinks matters can’t get any worse, his prized rare book by Edgar Allen Poe is stolen. The charming bookstore, Island Books located on Alice Island is owned and operated by widower, A.J. Fikry, is one of the books that come to life the moment you read the first page. “ There’s something kind of heroic about being a bookseller.” ― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Half magic by edward eagerThey reject this and nickname him "Hugh." Smith invites the children to call him by his first name of Hugo. Their wishes leave them stranded in the middle of the desert, wrecking chaos on King Arthur's court, and causing a mass panic when one of the children accidentally becomes half-invisible.īut sometimes the charm seems to have a mind of its own.almost as if it's deliberately leading the children, wish by misguided wish, toward their own happy ending. It's a simple matter of mathematics to get exactly what you want, so long as you don't do anything rash-which of course, they do. The "nickel" seems to jump between the children, all of whom quickly find themselves caught in inexplicable jams until they finally realize that the nickel is actually a magical charm that grants wishes by halves. All that changes when Jane calls dibs on a nickel lying on the sidewalk, triggering a strange series of coincidences. Ever since their father died, their mother spends most of her time working to support the family, leaving the children with not a lot of money or opportunity for summer adventures. Siblings Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha are faced with a long, boring summer with nothing to look forward to but library books. Half Magic is a children's fantasy novel by Edward Eager, first published in 1954. Be Careful What You Wish For you just might get.half of it. New Orleans is the birthplace of jazz, the incubator of the blues, the nurturer of gospel music, the crucible of a dynamic brand of English, and a treasure chest of gastronomical delights.īut those cultural miracles were breech-birthed by slavery, genocide, war, Jim Crow segregation, urban neglect, and crimeright on up to the national shame, horror and governmental treason that was Katrina. For centuries Africans, West Indians, Cubans, Haitians, Creoles, native tribes and European-Americansand othershave forged a unique and enduring cultural gumbo there. It is an African-American Atlantis, New Orleans: a crescent-shaped city six-feet under water at the mouth of the mighty Mississippi river. Gumbo Nation: The World That Made New Orleans - From Spanish Silver To Congo Square 5/11/2023 0 Comments Purity jonathan franzen reviewOn his first foray into West Berlin, Wolfe meets a young American journalist, Tom Aberant, who becomes another constant throughout the book. His backstory as a young man in East Germany as the Wall crumbles is historically interesting but I found his character unpleasant. Unlike his previous two novels, which focussed on an extended family, the central narrative of Purity is a young woman’s search for her father, a search which brings her into contact with some seriously dodgy people.Ī large chunk of the novel is about Andreas Wolfe whose Sunlight Project brings light to the world by leaking secrets. The root of this disaffection is partly my expectations, having loved The Corrections and Freedom, and partly the subject matter. I admit to feeling disappointed by Purity by Jonathan Franzen. |