![]() ![]() With an array of distinctly fascinating characters parading in and out of the book, I truly hated to turn the last page. This is one smart, resourceful 12-year-old.Īlternating chapters are told in the voices of her school counselor and an older girl whose Vietnamese mom runs a nail salon. Give credit to her adoptive parents, who ‘Really Truly L-O-V-E’ Willow. Instead, she teaches herself Vietnamese, researches rare diseases, and tends her garden. Ever,’ Willow seems untroubled by being outside the mainstream. Acknowledging both her strangeness and that, despite being a thinker, she’s ‘never the teacher’s pet. ![]() Willow Chance – a perfect name for the highly-gifted narrator – begins chapter two of Counting by 7s by going back to the beginning, in a new school where she knows no one. If the story’s skillfully written and the characters cleverly conceived, it’s hard to stop. “If you know by the end of chapter one that the narrator’s parents have been killed, do you keep on reading? ![]()
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![]() While Katy particularly, deals with the aftermath, it was emotional and I found myself sympathising so acutely with her that I found myself weeping on occasion. ![]() ![]() And when it drops - even though you know it’s coming - it still packs an emotional punch. It’s fantastically well written as while we revel in the joy of how happy our couple are, you know something big is coming and that gives you that tension of just waiting. For the first while in this story, all is right in Richard and Katy’s lives. You’ll also be missing out on a fantastic story. You have to have read The Contract before this one or you will have no background on Richard and Katy, or what they went through to find each other. As you can tell, this book is not a standalone. In my head, Richard, Katy and their family are happy - did I really want to read about a problem in their marriage that could destroy them? I mean, I knew it would be alright in the end but did I want that trauma in my life? I decided to suck it up and just go for it. Having enjoyed and adored both The Contract and then The Baby Clause, I knew that I had to read the next in Richard and Katy’s story, The Amendment. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While the contributions are diverse, a unifying theme animates them. To answer many of the concerns raised in the volume in light of the most recent developments, we have brought together leading thinkers who have explored the interplay of politics, economics, and culture in domains ordered algorithmically by managers, bureaucrats, and technology workers. Much has happened since 2015 that vindicates and challenges the book’s main themes. Closely guarded by private companies and inaccessible to most researchers or the broader public, too much algorithmic decision-making remains a black box to this day. While many corporations have a direct window into our lives through constant, ubiquitous data collection, our knowledge of their inner workings is often partial and incomplete. See more The Black Box Society was one of first scholarly accounts to propose a social theory of the use of data in constructing personal reputations, new media audiences, and financial power, by illuminating recurrent patterns of power and exploitation in the digital economy. The Black Box Society was one of first scholarly accounts to propose a social theory of the use of data in constructing personal reputations, new media audiences, and financial power, by illuminating recurrent patterns of power and exploitation in the digital economy. ![]() ![]() was one of the more interesting of the young writers who came into HP Lovecraft's orbit, and some of his best early short fiction is horror rather than sf or fantasy. Leiber's science fiction includes the planet-smashing The Wanderer in which a large cast mostly survive flood, fire, and the sexual attentions of feline aliens, and the satirical A S Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. He found his mature voice early in the first of the sword-and-sorcery adventures featuring the large sensitive barbarian Fafhrd and the small street-smart-ish Gray Mouser he returned to this series at various points in his career, using it sometimes for farce and sometimes for gloomy mood pieces-The Swords of Lankhmar is perhaps the best single volume of their adventures. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So what happened next to Persephone in the myth? Hermes, guide of souls to the underworld, was sent to fetch Persephone. Madeline added that she likes the portrait of Demeter as vengeful mother, so perhaps we can expect this in her retelling of Persephone. ![]() In some versions of the story, she even purposefully destroyed the earth and held the world hostage until Zeus ordered her daughter returned. ![]() When Persephone’s mother, Demeter, discovered what had happened to her daughter, her grief was so great it blighted the soil, causing the first winter. In fact, some might argue he was less so.” Madeline adds: “in snatching Persephone Hades was no more villainous than any of those other ancient abductors (Zeus, Poseidon, Apollo, etc). In modern retellings of Greek myths, Hades has commonly been portrayed as evil or demonic, but as Madeline notes, this is absolutely not present in the ancient myths. One day while she was picking flowers with her companions, Hades burst from the earth in a golden chariot, seized the girl, and carried her off to his palace in the Underworld. Even though we don’t know what the timeline for Madeline Miller’s next book looks like, what might Persephone be about? Madeline Miller’s take on the Persephone mythįortunately for fans eager to speculate what her next book might be about, Madeline Miller shared some of her thoughts on the myth of Persephone on her website all the way back in 2011.Īs Madeline explained, Persephone was the beautiful daughter of Zeus and the goddess of grain, Demeter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While she settles in with her children and is just about to purchase their first-ever house, her brother takes off to find the boy from their shared past whose memory haunts their present.Īs they all race to discover answers to these convoluted mysteries, they will come to find that they’re connected in ways they could have never imagined. All signs point to an intruder, and the French police need her to come urgently to answer questions about Michael and his past that she very much doesn’t want to answer.Īfter fleeing London thirty years ago in the wake of a horrific tragedy, Lucy Lamb is finally coming home. Since then she has written another twenty. Rachel Rimmer has also received a shock-news that her husband, Michael, has been found dead in the cellar of his house in France. Her first novel, Ralphs Party, was the best- selling debut novel of 1999. ![]() When Owusu sends the evidence for examination, he learns the bones are connected to a cold case that left three people dead on the kitchen floor in a Chelsea mansion thirty years ago. Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery. ![]() ![]() ![]() "The canine cartoons make an elementary text funny and coherent and still one of the best around."- School Library Journal. ![]() Smaller than the classic large format Seuss picture books like The Lorax and Oh, The Places You'll Go!, these portable packages are perfect for practicing readers ages 3-7, and lucky parents too! These unjacketed hardcover early readers encourage children to read all on their own, using simple words and illustrations. Seuss himself, Beginner Books are fun, funny, and easy to read. Seuss-features all kinds of wonderful dogs riding bicycles, scooters, skiis, roller skates, and driving all sorts of vehicles on their way to a party held on top of a tree! This is a perfect gift for P.D. 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He worked at the local brewery, married Maureen (Penelope Wilton) and they had a son, David (Earl Cave). ![]() Read our full review.īy his own admission, Harold Fry (Jim Broadbent) has led an unremarkable life. The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry is a meandering personal odyssey, according to Freda Cooper. ![]() ![]() ![]() Putting her own trials into a broader historical, sociocultural, and political context, Norman shows that women’s bodies have long been the battleground of a never-ending war for power, control, medical knowledge, and truth. Norman ultimately dropped out of college and embarked on what would become a years-long journey to discover what was wrong with her, and it wasn’t until she took matters into her own hands that she found an accurate diagnosis of endometriosis. Summary: In the fall of 2010, Abby Norman was repeatedly hospitalized in excruciating pain, but doctors insisted it was a urinary tract infection and sent her home with antibiotics. 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