![]() The show’s EP and star James Roday Rodriguez spoke to HL about the show’s beautiful series finale. Now it's up to Cassidy to figure out what's really going on before the truth behind Melody's disappearance sets the whole town ablaze. ‘A Million Little Things’ bid farewell after 5 wonderful seasons. And then she gets a chilling text from an unknown number: I’m so glad we’re in this together. Cass is the best kind of unreliable narrator, delightfully acerbic and hopelessly sincere even when she isnt telling the truth. From the chilling opening pages to the jaw-dropping final reveal, the pacing is relentless, the twists dizzying. ![]() She even planned the perfect way to do it. 'Little Creeping Things is a stunning debut in every sense of the word. She knows she should go to the cops, but she recently joked about how much she'd like to get rid of Melody. Then Melody goes missing, and Cassidy thinks she may have information about what happened. In Melody's eyes, Cassidy is a murderer and always will be. But her town's bullies, particularly the cruel and beautiful Melody Davenport, have never let her live it down. ![]() She never meant to hurt anyone When she was a child, Cassidy Pratt accidentally started a fire that killed her neighbor. She's pretty sure she didn't mean to do it, and she'd give anything to forget that awful day. From breakout debut author Chelsea Ichaso comes Little Creeping Things, a compulsively readable YA suspense novel with a narrator who cant be trusted, perfect for fans of Natasha Preston. When she was a child, Cassidy Pratt accidentally started a fire that killed her neighbor. Happy book birthday to Little Creeping Things by Chelsea Ichaso! Buy it? Barnes & NobleĪ compulsively readable debut with a narrator who can’t be trusted, perfect for fans of Natasha Preston. ![]()
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![]() She captures teenage antics and banter with astute comedic style, simultaneously skewering bullies, a culture of slut-shaming, and the devastating impact of religious zealotry. Afterward, a potent blend of Christian guilt and internalized homophobia causes Lauren to question the experience.Īuthor Jessica Campbell ( XTC69) uses frankness and dark humor to articulate Lauren's burgeoning crisis of faith and sexuality. That evening, Mariah gives Lauren a makeover and the two melt into each other, in what becomes Lauren’s first queer encounter. ![]() Mariah has dial-up internet, an absentee mom, and a Wiccan altar-the perfect setting for a study session and sleepover to remember. ![]() She’s a devout member of an evangelical church, but when her Bible-thumping parents forbid Lauren to bring evolution textbooks home, she opts to study at her schoolmate Mariah’s house. Lauren is fifteen, soft-spoken, and ashamed of her body. ![]() A queer coming-of-age story, complete with secret cigarettes, gross gym teachers, and a lot of church ![]() ![]() A gap had opened up, a void that begged to be filled. One in which women were not confined to simply following the army, and perhaps helping to tend the wounded at the battle’s end, or nurse the fever cases, but in which there was a well-established tradition of women soldiers or, at least, of women who thought little of being in the centre of the action. Suddenly, as often happens when we research for historical fiction, I found myself in a very different world. So I began to read everything available on Frenchwomen and their relationship to the armies of Napoleon Bonaparte. And I also couldn’t remember reading anything about the French women who might have been present at Waterloo. It occurred to me that we don’t have too many English-language novels that look at the Hundred Days from a French perspective. Writing in an alternat(iv)e history setting.Claudia Dixit’s tourist guide to Roma Nova. ![]() The 500 Word Writing Buddy: 35 Inner Secrets for the New Writer.First glimpse: Carina and Conrad’s Roman Holiday.Independent reviews for Double Identity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A more recent anthology, An Invitation to Poetry, comes with a DVD featuring the FPP video segments, including new videos sponsored by the Poetry Foundation. The anthology, Americans’ Favorite Poems, which includes letters from project participants, is in its 18th printing. The project’s videos, giving voice to the American audience for poetry, demonstrates that, contrary to stereotype, poetry had a vigorous presence in the American cultural landscape. ![]() Throughout his career, Pinsky has been dedicated to identifying and invigorating poetry’s place in the world.Īs Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky founded the Favorite Poem Project, in which thousands of Americans - of varying backgrounds, all ages, and from every state - shared their favorite poems. Robert Pinsky’s first two terms as United States Poet Laureate were marked by such visible dynamism, and such national enthusiasm in response, that the Library of Congress appointed him to an unprecedented third term. ![]() ![]() It is Shakespeares longest play, with 29,551 words. The Folger Edition also combines Q2 and F1, but it indicates those parts that appear in only one of the two early texts: F1-only language is marked off by pointed brackets, and Q2-only language is set off in square brackets. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet (/ h æ m l t /), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 15. Editors often choose to present a text that combines all the text that appears in Q2 and F1. Q2 and F1 differ both from Q1 and from each other: there are passages that appear in one and not the other, F1 is shorter and omits most of 5.5, and there are smaller alterations throughout. Most modern editions of the play are based on the texts of the Second Quarto (Q2), published in 1604, and the First Folio (F1), published in 1623. ![]() Only two copies are known to have survived, now held at the British Library and the Huntington Library. ![]() ![]() The play was first published in a quarto in 1603 (Q1) that differs in significant ways from subsequent editions: it is much shorter, the “To be or not to be” speech is in a different place, and many passages appear to be jumbled. The textual history of Hamlet is complicated. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mario takes one look at Buford's aluminum-draped roast and announces that "only a moron would let his meat rest by wrapping it in foil after cooking it."īuford tells disgusting stories about food preparation that we really didn't want to hear, like what happens when your order is the last one received in the kitchen after a long, hectic night. "What in the world were you thinking?" asks Buford's horrified wife. Fearlessly, he invites Batali to a dinner for a mutual friend. ![]() If there's a more intelligent, entertaining, foulmouthed cooking memoir out there, I'd be pleased to eat it.Ī self-deprecating writer, Buford delivers hilarious accounts of gonzo cooking for his tolerant friends. "I couldn't get the hang of diving into an open flame and grabbing a fish by its head," he laments. That Buford managed to avoid being burned to a crisp and hacking off his fingertips speaks wonders for the recuperative powers of the human body. ![]() ![]() ![]() It does make me wonder what “love” meant in the 16th century. One minute, they’re playing with their cherished eleven sons, and the next minute, they don’t care one whit that their new wife has transmuted them into birds. The boys turned into eleven splendid white swans.ĭads were so fickle in the olden days. She said “boys you are, but birds you’ll be. She told lies about the boys, and blamed them for everything, until soon the king didn’t care for his sons at all. As soon as she could, she sent Lisa to live with a farmer. Their father married a queen who hated children. ![]() His wife is absent presumably because she died from exhaustion after delivering TWELVE CHILDREN, and even though the king “likes” kids, he’s not interested in raising them on his own (that’s the queen’s job), so he decides to find a new wife. We begin in a rather unusual place: a king who likes children! He likes them so much, in fact, that he has twelve of them, eleven boys and one daughter named Lisa. This is what happens to Danish children who don’t do their chores! ![]() ![]() And a randomiser is what every Carson reader needs to be. Red Doc> carries this dedication: "for the randomizer". Throughout, Carson disregards convention in a way that only a demob-happy classicist could. With him on the icy road are Sad – his lover and a war veteran – and Ida, an artist, irresistibly described as looking like "a very tough experimental baby". He abandons his day job as herdsman of muskoxen and sets off on a picaresque journey that takes in a glacier, a psychiatric clinic, a volcano and ice bats "the size of toasters". Her writing is wayward, entertaining and testing. Even non-fans would have to concede that she is an original. ![]() ![]() And she has pulled in an audience who would not ordinarily read poetry. ![]() A Canadian-born classicist (she has taught Greek at Princeton and elsewhere), Carson has a pile-up of awards to her name, from the TS Eliot prize to the MacArthur "genius grant". A nne Carson's Autobiography of Red, published in 1998, caused a sensation, a verse novel that reconstituted mythical Geryon – a red-winged monster – and Heracles and invented a modern narrative for them. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has made numerous television, print, and on-line media appearances and speaking engagements as a keynote and panelist. Thomas Lopez has been a member of MASC for over fifteen years and is a past president of the organization. Attendees will learn of the unique experience of mixed Latinos as well as the similarities they have to the mixed experience. Even the name “mixed Latino” requires an explanation. Mixed Latinos are likely the largest single segment of the mixed community although very little is known about them. The works of the panelists range in diversity from literary and theatrical memoir to historical fiction to poetry. ![]() Writers, poets, visual artists and performers will share how their identities as mixed Latinos influence their work. Panelists: Elizabeth Liang, James Tyner, Jessica Arana, Sandra Ramos O’Briant ![]() ![]() ![]() Jeanne's reliving of intimate, painful details provides what no historical account can - a view of life for 30,000 Asian Americans in a stark, concentration-camp atmosphere on the rim of California's Mojave Desert. To some readers, the book is an introduction to a thorny era in their country's history, a time of deprivation of rights without due process for 120,000 Japanese Americans. Houston, recount the Wakatsuki family's internment at Manzanar War Relocation Center, one of ten concentration camps devised by President Franklin Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 following the Japanese surprise bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. In a straightforward, nonfiction memoir, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and her husband, James D. ![]() |