![]() ![]() Right place, right time-it was easy to be friends, and so we were. I hung out with cool people, sure, but looking back, I think maybe we were friends only because we were in the same classes and our parents all got divorced around the same time. ![]() ![]() Trust me, it’s an even bigger lifestyle demotion than it sounds like. In the last six months, I went from living in an almost-good part of Brooklyn to my parents divorcing and Mom and me moving to River Heights, a small city in the armpit of upstate New York. Not that I need him to tell me about the truth. Like Digby himself said: The truth is almost always disappointing. Now, if you’re a normal sixteen-year-old like I am, and you spend half your time obsessing about the future and what you’re supposed to be and spend the other half reading about makeup, diets, and all the ways to change who you already are, then the stuff he hits you with is hard to take. He’s rude, he doesn’t ever take no for an answer, and he treats you like a book he’s already read and knows the ending to even if you yourself didn’t yet. Of course I didn’t like Digby when I first met him. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Banished Immortal is an extraordinary portrait of a poet who both transcended his time and was shaped by it, and whose ability to live, love, and mourn without reservation produced some of the most enduring verses in the world. In his later years, he becomes swept up in a military rebellion that alters the course of China, and his death is surrounded by speculation and legend that continues to be spun to this day. Jin follows Li Bai from his birth on China's western frontier through his travels as a young man seeking a place among the empire's civil servants, his wanderings allowing him to hone his poetic craft, share his verses, and win him friends and admirers along the way. Over the next twenty years, Li Po visited many cities and was. ![]() After growing up in the Sichuan province, Li Po left home to sail the Yangzi River, beginning the journeys documented in his poetry. With the instincts of a master novelist, Ha Jin draws on a wide range of historical and literary sources to weave the life story of Li Bai (701-762), whose poems-shaped by Daoist thought and characterized by their passion, romance, and lust for life-rang throughout the Tang Dynasty and continue to be celebrated today. Li Po (), also Romanized as Li Bai, Li Bo, and Li Pai, was a Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty likely born in 701. From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting- a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the 8th century poet, Li Bai-also known as Li Po-one of the most beloved poets ever to emerge from China. ![]() ![]() ![]() She served as Official Poet for the City of Sunrise, Florida’s Little Free Libraries Initiative from 2013 to 2015, and her work was recognized in the 2014 Poets and Writers Maureen Egen Writer’s Exchange Contest and the 2015 Academy of American Poets Contest at Florida International University. ![]() Jones earned an MFA in poetry from Florida International University, where she was a John S. Jones is the author of three poetry collections: REPARATIONS NOW! (Hub City Press, forthcoming 2021) dark // thing (Pleiades Press, 2019), winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry and Magic City Gospel (Hub City Press, 2017), winner of the silver medal in poetry in the Independent Publishers Book Awards. Her poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in many journals and anthologies, including CNN, the Academy of American Poets, Poetry magazine, Tupelo Quarterly, Prelude, Steel Toe Review, Fjords Review, Quiet Lunch, Poets Respond to Race Anthology, Night Owl, T he Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy, pluck!, Valley Voices: New York School Edition, Fjords Review: Black American Edition, PMSPoemMemoirStory, Kinfolks Quarterly, Tough Times in America Anthology, and Lucid Moose Press’ Like a Girl: Perspectives on Femininity Anthology. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the present, Ruthie's mom has gone missing. She would do anything to bring her daughter back. Unsurprisingly, Sara was racked by grief and unable to move forward. ![]() In 1908, Sara Harrison Shea lost her daughter under tragic circumstances. I have a feeling it's going to be a full 5-star experience this time around. I have recommended it to countless people since I originally read it in 2019. I am so excited to be revisiting this one. I recommended this book to her, so feel it's only fair that I read it along with her. Rereading with, you guessed it, my fabulous niece, Alyssa. I'm super stoked for their 2022-release, The Children on the Hill, said to be inspired by Frankenstein!!! The way she is able to blend historical perspectives with the present chef's kiss. Also, I love how McMahon formats her stories. I do still think the atmosphere in this is top-notch. After my reread of The Winter People, I have decided to stick with my original rating of 4.5-stars, rounded down.Īlthough I LOVE the majority of this story, there's something about the final few chapters that gets a bit convoluted for me. ![]() ![]() ![]() The author, who famously enjoyed the ’whooshing sound’ made by deadlines as they flew by, had to be locked in his hotel room until the book was finished – passing each page to his editor as it was written. It was also a book produced against the odds. Arthur, returning home from his wild adventures with Zaphod Beeblebrox and Ford Prefect, has picked up a lot of Adams’s world-weariness. Adams had recently returned to England from California, following an unsuccessful attempt to get his first novel made into a film. ![]() ![]() Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.Īn oddity in a series known for its oddness, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish owes much of its surreal atmosphere to the circumstances in which it was written. ![]() |