It’s about dealing with parents and mental illness. It’s about bullying and relationships and about dealing with teenage drama in high school. It’s an intriguing mystery, which kept me turning the pages. Although this book is categorized as a romance, it is so much more than that. At first I was turned off by the title and the main character’s name, but there is actually a touching story behind the name, Polarity. This novel deals with the all-too-real issues faced by the modern teenager living in a high tech age while navigating the age old problems of friends, parents, school, and popularity. When a nude photo of her suddenly begins to circulate among the students at her high school and on the internet, she has no idea where it came from or what to do about it. Switching schools, dealing with her mother’s Borderline Personality Disorder, and struggling to fit in are hard enough, but Polarity is shocked to discover that her latest problem has nothing to do with anything she or her family has done. Polarity Weeks was already having a rough time of it.
0 Comments
Even worse, a local psychic, the last in a long lineage of sages, understands the evil that's possessed the place. But the spirits inside Shively House won't let them rest. All Paul, Dani, Steve, and Sasha want to do is hang out, party, and play ghost hunter. Seems that every family that's lived there, or come into contact with the place, has died a miserable, mysterious death. Thus, the aforementioned question - is it better to be awful while polished and professional, or interesting within a thoroughly incomprehensible motion picture mess? Decisions, decisions.Ī group of young people decide to head over to the famous Shively House to see what all the supernatural hubbub is about. Indeed, Hell House is so problematic and piecemeal that it's almost impossible to understand what's going on - and when, toward the end, the movie tries to make sense of itself, it turns from lamentable to laughable. But that doesn't make up for a complete lack of filmmaking competence. They've got their spook show requirements and references down pat, and when they borrow, they tend to borrow from the best. Morris to screenwriters William Martin and Jennifer Brugman know their horror. It's clear that everyone involved - from director Jason D. Put another way, does imagination trump terrible acting, amateurish direction, bad production design, and an overall feeling of talent-free time wasting? That's the big problem with Hell House: The Book of Samiel. Here's a tough critical quandary - what's worse? Bad ideas expertly executed, or ambitious concepts crafted into crap. The framework is forged out of current research in mathematics combined with John Hattie’s synthesis of more than 15 years of education research involving 300 million students.Ĭhapter by chapter, and equipped with video clips, planning tools, rubrics, and templates, you get the inside track on which instructional strategies to use at each phase of the learning cycle: This results in “visible” learning because theĮffect is tangible. That’s a high bar, but with the amazing K-12 framework here, you choose the right approach at the right time, depending upon where learners are within three phases of learning: surface, deep, and transfer. Rich tasks, collaborative work, number talks, problem-based learning, direct instruction…with so many possible approaches, how do we know which ones work the best? In Visible Learning for Mathematics, six acclaimed educators assert it’s not about which one-it’s about when-and show you how to design high-impact instruction so all students demonstrate more than a year’s worth of mathematics learning for a year spent in school. Selected as the Michigan Council of Teachers of Mathematics winter book club book! In this book the authors confidently lead us through these technological, ethical, and spiritual changes.įletcher and Rawlins s thorough appraisal and recommendation of equipment begins with a Ground Plan, a discussion of general hiking preparedness. Not only has backpacking become more popular, but a whole ethic of responsible outdoorsmanship has emerged. During these two decades we have also seen a deepening of environmental consciousness. The equipment recommendations are therefore not merely revised and tweaked, but completely revamped. The eighteen years since the publication of The Complete Walker III have seen revolutionary changes in hiking and camping equipment: developments in waterproofing technology, smaller and more durable stoves, lighter boots, more manageable tents, and a wider array of food options. Together, they have made this fourth edition of The Complete Walker the most informative, entertaining, and thorough version yet. For this version, the celebrated writer and hiker Colin Fletcher has taken on a coauthor, Chip Rawlins, himself an avid outdoorsman and a poet from Wyoming. 217 illustrations.įor the first time since 1984, we have a new edition of the classic book that Field & Stream called the Hiker s Bible. Now he returns with a new edition of his classic book, co-written with Rawlins, an accomplished outdoorsman. In the 34 years since Colin Fletcher published the first "Complete Walker, " the three editions of this backpacker's bible have sold more than 400,000 copies. They’re also a lot darker and more horror-oriented. Rather, they simmer with as much mystery, and beg more questions. And while expanding on the lore of Caligatha, these stories aren’t designed to explain anything. My goal was to create a series of short stories that took place in that universe but didn’t require reading the novel. After publishing my first novel, Caligatha, readers told me that they wanted to spend more time in that universe, that there seemed to be so many more stories waiting to be told. What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?ĭead Heart, Living Vein is a collection of dark science fiction stories. My influences include literary giants like Kurt Vonnegut, Margaret Atwood, and Kazuo Ishiguro, genre-specific authors like William Gibson, as well as manga author Junji Ito and game designer Yoko Taro. My writing, informed by an interest in a variety of emerging technologies and mediums, often pushes the boundaries of traditional written narratives while remaining cohesive and accessible. Prior to publishing my first novel, I fronted numerous bands and held a career in visual art. My stories have been featured in numerous books, magazines, and podcasts. As of 2021, I’ve published one novel and one short story collection. I’m a Tucson, Arizona-based author of science fiction and horror. Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written. Moving from the cultural to the intimate, hooks notes the ties between love and loss and challenges the prevailing notion that romantic love is the most important love of all. She offers a rethinking of self-love (without narcissism) that will bring peace and compassion to our personal and professional lives, and asserts the place of love to end struggles between individuals, in communities, and among societies. In eleven concise chapters, hooks explains how our everyday notions of what it means to give and receive love often fail us, and how these ideals are established in early childhood. All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives. He sat in one of the two empty chairs at the table with us and leaned forward and rested his elbows on the table. Leonie mentions, “Last night, he smiled at me, this Given-not-Given, this Given that’s been dead fifteen years now, this Given that came to me every time I snorted a line, every time I popped a pill. Supernaturals serve as a connection between life and death in many ways. Dead people return, and specific people can see them in real life and even communicate with them, such as Richie and Jojo or Given and Leonie. Usually, people tend to believe that death is the end of one’s life, but in Sing, Unburied, Sing, death serves as a new beginning and a form of release. Because Jasmyn Ward challenges the traditional understanding of life and death by blurring the lines between the two concepts, she emphasizes the relevance of the living and the dead, using symbolic elements such as water flow and supernaturals. Southern Gothics usually include storytelling of eccentric characters who become flawed and irrational and emphasize the idea of death and decay. Jasmyn Ward, the author of the Southern Gothic novel Sing, Unburied, Sing uses water as a symbol for the cycle of life and death because death does not terminate life. Water usually represents life and vitality, as it functions as an indispensable source for the survival of human civilization. Green’s involvement in a campus protest against unfair dismissals of gay colleagues throws her into deeper shambles. Having centered her life on her husband and child, her daughter’s definition of family is not one she can accept. Ideally, a steady income and, most importantly, a good husband with whom to start a family.īut when Green turns up with her long-term girlfriend in tow, her mother is enraged and unwilling to welcome their relationship into her home. When a widowed, aging mother allows Green, her thirty-something daughter, to move into her apartment, all she wants for her is a stable and quiet existence like her own. Prize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-Jin’s debut confronts familial love, duty, mortality, and generational schism through the incendiary gaze of a tradition-bound mother faced with her daughter’s queer relationship. Their home is burned to the ground by white extremists and when Malcolm turn six, his father is killed. The family then moves to Lansing in 1929 but they don’t escape the problems being black brings. His mother meanwhile stayed and home and cooked and cleaned for the family because she was unable to find work despite being very light skinned. Malcolm was the lightest skinned child in the family and his father began to take him with him to the UNIA meetings. Then, his mother was attacked by white supremacists because Malcolm’s father, Earl Little, was involved in a movement that supported the return to Arica of those who wanted it. The first chapter presents events happening before Malcolm’s birth, during the time his mother was pregnant with him. ? SUPPORT BESTBOOKBITS BY CLICKING THE LINKS BELOW ? MY FREE BOOK TO LIVING YOUR DREAM LIFE” She becomes the heroine who unites her family. The shocking story at the centre of Magona’s latest novel is as heartbreaking as it is cruel – and yet the character of Busi’s daughter Mandlakazi (or Mandla) completely overturns the notion that her birth is a tragedy. It reveals the devastating motivation behind Busi’s teenage pregnancy orchestrated to produce a financial reward in the form of a child support grant from the state. It initially focuses on Busi, a promising young student who benefits from an education at a good school due to the hard work and friendship of her grandmother with her former white employer. When the Village Sleeps spans three generations of women in one family and the central role of ancestral belief and ancient custom – or a lack of it – in their lives. While involved in community engagement for Rhodes University I heard stories of young people who would deliberately contract HIV in order to receive government disability grants. Reading South African author Sindiwe Magona’s latest novel When the Village Sleeps reminded me of my time researching and teaching in the country’s Eastern Cape province a decade ago. |