![]() ![]() "The book deals head on with issues of mental health, body shaming, sexuality, and internet celebrity, handling them with a delicate and skillful touch." -Teen Vogue on Queens of Geek ![]() Jen Wilde's newest novel is both a fun, diverse love story and a very relevant, modern take on the portrayal of LGBT characters in media. instead of sitting in a crowded writer's room volleying ideas back and forth, Production Interns are stuck picking up the coffee.ĭetermined to prove her worth as a writer, Bex drafts her own script and shares it with the head writer-who promptly reworks it and passes it off as his own! Bex is understandably furious, yet.maybe this is just how the industry works? But when they rewrite her proudly lesbian character as straight, that's the last straw! It's time for Bex and her crush to fight back. Unfortunately, the internship isn't quite what she expected. ![]() Seventeen-year-old Bex is thrilled when she gets an internship on her favorite tv show, Silver Falls. “A TV writer's room intern must join forces with her crush to keep her boss from ruining a lesbian character in this diverse contemporary YA romance from the author of Queens of Geek. ![]()
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![]() The novel "Confess" introduces us to Auburn Reed, a young woman who has recently moved to Dallas, Texas, to start over after a traumatic event in her past. The novel has received critical acclaim and has become a bestseller, cementing Colleen Hoover's place as one of the most important writers of contemporary fiction. It explores complex topics such as love, loss, and redemption in a way that is relatable and engaging to readers. ![]() "Confess" is a significant work in contemporary literature because of its unique storytelling and themes. Auburn and Owen quickly develop a connection and start a complicated relationship as they deal with their own personal struggles. She meets an artist named Owen Gentry, who has a unique way of creating art that involves taking anonymous confessions from people and turning them into paintings. ![]() The story is about Auburn Reed, a young woman who moves to Dallas to start over after a tragic event in her past. "Confess" is a novel by Colleen Hoover, published in 2015. ![]() Confess by Colleen Hoover: A 1 Story of Love, Loss, and Redemption ![]() ![]() ![]() It brings back memories of rolling all over those soft sheets in that hotel room. “How old do you think I am?” he says mock flirtatiously, leaning in close enough that I catch his scent of sandalwood. This is the third book in the Close Proximity series, but it can be read as a standalone. The only problem is that Felix is equally determined that he doesn’t.įrom bestselling author, Lily Morton comes a story of missed opportunities, second chances, and two very stubborn men. When an accident lands him in Felix’s less than tender care, Max is determined to grab this opportunity. He’s spent their time apart regretting his actions and hoping for a second chance. ![]() Which, of course, is when Max has to come bursting back into his life.įelix Jackson will always be the one who got away to Max. His job is going well, he has good friends, and he doesn’t lack for male company. However, two and a half years later, he’s over all of that. It was just his luck that he then had to develop a terrible case of feelings and got his heart broken. When Felix met handsome journalist Max Travers, it was lust at first sight. Sometimes the best love stories come in two parts. ![]() Narrated by Joel Leslie Close Proximity, Book 3 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That is why the critical edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1997) presents all four texts of the collected quatrains published during FitzGerald's lifetime. FitzGerald did not render into English verse, once and forever, the quatrains (rubā'iyāt) he selected, but did so at least four times, for he first published one, then two, then three and finally four versions of a similar (though not identical) collection of Khayyam's poetry. FitzGerald's name appeared in the new, expanded and revised editions of 1868, 1872, and 1879, which did not cancel or supersede the previous ones: the fourth and final edition of 1879 was, in fact, an unabridged reprint of the four 1859–79 editions. The first edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) was a twenty-four-page booklet published by an antiquarian bookseller without the name of the translator. Omar Khayyam, the great Persian rationalist philosopher, astronomer and mathematician, was first introduced as a poet to the West by the Victorian writer Edward FitzGerald. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Set in Sudan, the unnamed narrator returns home following years studying in England. Considering that every Christmas we still listen to Band Aid’s ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’, a song that paints a picture of an Africa “Where nothing ever grows”, his comments from the 2006 essay remain relevant.Īlthough Binyavanga Wainaina’s essay is clearly a send-up of a certain kind of literature, many of the tropes that he focuses on can be found in the seminal novel Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, published in 1966. ![]() Running through a list that ends with “Because you care”, he systematically tears down the images and literary devices used to write about Africa. In his essay ‘How to Write about Africa’, Kenneth Binyavanga Wainaina plays on stereotypes about the continent with humour and jarring satire. It is hot and dusty with rolling grasslands and huge herds of animals and tall, thin people who are starving. In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country. This is an anonymous student-written post. ![]() ![]() ![]() centering: parents' interest in the child in that momentĥ. concern for self disappears (paradoxically awareness of self is heightened immediately after flow)ĥ elements of happy teenagers' growing up:Ģ. ![]() deep, effortless involvement (lack of awareness of worries and frustrations)ħ. confront challenging but completable tasksĥ. My notes, including liberal use of direct quotes:ġ. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason." His works are influential and are widely cited. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Martin Seligman, former president of the American Psychological Association, described Csikszentmihalyi as the world's leading researcher on positive psychology.Ĭsikszentmihalyi once said "Repression is not the way to virtue. He is the author of many books and over 120 articles or book chapters. He is noted for both his work in the study of happiness and creativity and also for his notoriously difficult name, in terms of pronunciation for non-native speakers of the Hungarian language, but is best known as the architect of the notion of flow and for his years of research and writing on the topic. Now at Claremont Graduate University, he is the former head of the department of psychology at the University of Chicago and of the department of sociology and anthropology at Lake Forest College. A Hungarian psychology professor, who emigrated to the United States at the age of 22. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet her scholarship and dreams of university are snatched away when her father is sent to prison, and fourteen-year-old Opal must start work at the Fairy Glen sweet factory to support her family. Opal Plumstead might be plain, but she has always been fiercely intelligent. ![]() Synopsis: The brilliant new story from one of the nation's best-loved authors, starring her most outspoken, fiery and unforgettable heroine yet: Opal Plumstead, schoolgirl, sweet factory worker and Suffragette. Seller Inventory # FOY9780552574013 About this title: But the First World War is about to begin, and will change Opal's life for ever.A brilliantly gripping wartime story from the bestselling, award-winning Jacqueline Wilson. And when Opal meets Morgan, Mrs Roberts' handsome son, and heir to Fairy Glen- she believes she's found her soulmate. ![]() The best thing about Mrs Roberts?She's a suffragette! Opal's world is opened to Mrs Pankhurst, and the fight to give women the right to vote. But Opal idolises Mrs Roberts, the factory's beautiful, dignified owner. Opal Plumstead might be plain, but she has always been fiercely intelligent.Yet her scholarship and dreams of university are snatched away when her father is sent to prison, and fourteen-year-old Opal must start work at the Fairy Glen sweet factory to support her family.She struggles to get along with her other workers, who think she's snobby and stuck up. From the beloved children's author of Hetty Feather, Tracy Beaker and Rose Rivers. ![]() ![]() ![]() "I've always been interested in character. ![]() ![]() McEwan spoke to Eleanor Wachtel onstage in September 2022 before a live audience at the Toronto International Festival of Authors. McEwan is one of Britain's foremost novelists, known for provocative, inventive fiction that engages with current realities and issues. His 17 novels include the Booker Prize winner Amsterdam and the hugely popular Atonement, which became an award-winning film starring Keira Knightly. Many of his other titles have also been adapted for the screen, including The Cement Garden, The Comfort of Strangers, The Innocent, Enduring Love, On Chesil Beach and The Children Act. That is, until a transformative event leads the teenage Roland down a very different path from McEwan himself. From a desert army camp in Libya, to post-war Britain, to the fall of the Berlin Wall and pandemic Brexit – McEwan follows his fictional alter-ego through a lifetime marked by historical upheavals. ![]() In his latest novel, Lessons, Ian McEwan shares his own intimate background with his central character, Roland Baines. In 2022, Ian McEwan spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about his latest novel Lessons. ![]() ![]() ![]() Channelling the spirit of Woolf’s modernist tales, he crafts an expansive yet intimate narrative of the twentieth century and its tragedies. ![]() Cunningham’s novel - which was adapted into an award-winning film by Stephen Daldry starring Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, and Julianne Moore - relates the lives of these three women in subtle, asymmetric ways. In New York in 1999, Clarissa Vaughan is throwing a party for her sometime-lover who is dying of AIDS. In Los Angeles in 1949, Laura Brown struggles with motherhood and the role of the suburban housewife. In London in 1923, the writer Virginia Woolf is making a start on the novel that will become her acclaimed Mrs Dalloway. This February, we will be discussing Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Hours. ![]() Everyone is invited to join us and our special guests to discuss a really popular book, one that we all know and perhaps or perhaps not love. The Really Popular Book Club is the reading group hosted by Cambridge University Libraries. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We meet Bennie Salazar at the melancholy nadir of his adult life - divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son, listening to a washed-up band in the basement of a suburban house - and then revisit him in 1979, at the height of his youth, shy and tender, revelling in San Francisco's punk scene as he discovers his ardour for rock and roll and his gift for spotting talent. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend. We first meet Sasha in her mid-30s, on her therapist's couch in New York City, confronting her long-standing compulsion to steal. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the listener does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples and Africa. ![]() ![]() Jennifer Egan's spellbinding audiobook circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an ageing former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. ![]() |