![]() ![]() If you read and review books in children’s literature – picture books, chapter books, middle grade novels, young adult novels, anything in the world of kidlit – join us! We love this meme and think you will, too. Kellee Moye, of Unleashing Readers, and Kathryn decided to give “It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?” a kidlit focus. It’s also a great chance to see what others are reading right now…you just might discover your next “must-read” book! It is a great way to recap what you read and/or reviewed the previous week and to plan out your reading and reviews for the upcoming week. It’s Monday! What are you Reading? is a meme hosted by Kathryn at Book Date. I love how the students work together this year! We meet on Tuesdays to read and discuss the 20 books on our school corporation’s “Battle” list. My “Battle of the Books” students and I are reading Code Talker by Jospeh Bruchac this week. I didn’t sit down to savor the book as I planned last week. I still need to read The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. I’m still listening to Thirteen Doorways: Wolves Behind Them All, by Laura Ruby. ![]()
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My introduction of Hanif Abdurraqib would be remiss without a warning: There are no casual Hanif Abdurraqib fans. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wright’s widow typed up the manuscript and circulated it to publishers. I was fascinated by a chapter in Maphead in which Jennings recounts the tale of Austin Tappan Wright, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania who died in 1931, leaving behind 2,300 handwritten pages describing, and mapping, a country called Islandia that existed only in his imagination. Video games frequently feature maps of their virtual realms, and some gamers will even pay extra for bonus map modules that lend them an edge over less map-savvy rivals. Elaborate, fictional maps accompany fantasy epics like The Lord of the Rings and A Song of Ice and Fire, becoming integral parts of the experience for fans who long to explore the mountains and valleys of an alternate reality. One response to the end of maps is to begin charting worlds that don’t exist. ![]() ![]() ![]() John Constantine is a very different “superhero” that was revolutionary at the time. The book was originally an early collection without numbering, but now the series is being collected in a more traditional way and newer versions also include Swamp Thing (2) #76-77 (September 1988-October 1988) which continues the story. Written by Jamie Delano and illustrated by John Ridgway and Alfredo Alcala, John Constantine, Hellblazer Volume 1: Original Sins collects the first series of stories in the long running DC series. Be it African spirits, yuppie demons, or the ghosts of Constantine’s past, John Constantine will fight evil and enjoy a nice smoke. ![]() ![]() As he explores the dark side of the world, Constantine finds himself facing demons of all kind that have invaded Earth. John Constantine is a bit of a rogue with a affinity toward the occult. Reprints Hellblazer #1-9 (January 1988-September 1988). ![]() ![]() “It can get us in rut.”Īnd that’s not where Williamson wants her characters to be. ![]() “Being legalistic can become a habit,” Williamson said from her home in eastern Oregon. It features characters who are working to find their purpose in life and struggling to live a life of faith that’s really examined, that’s more than black and white. As the adventure unfolds, she delves into questions about the value of life and about forgiveness, even of ruthless captors.Įven though the idea for the book came from Western New York, it is set in Alaska where Williamson grew up. She answers that question in her teen book “Replication” ($15.99, Zondervan), where she takes her readers inside a hidden human cloning facility. ![]() ![]() During one of those fall visits they went to pick apples and as Williamson looked out the window at the passing orchards she wondered what it would be like if there was a farm that grew people, a farm that created clones. Jill Williamson, author of “Replication ,” used to visit the area when her sister lived here. ![]() ![]() ![]() So far it is only one of the two known first-hand accounts of Indians soldiers who fought in World War I. Originally in Gujarati, Karkaria’s account of the Great War was titled Rangbhoomi par Rakhad and has only recently been translated into English by Murali Ranganathan as The First World War Adventures of Nariman Karkaria. ![]() They fought in France and Belgium, Egypt and East Asia, Gallipoli, Palestine and Mesopotamia.” Nariman Karkaria, a Parsi from Navsari in Gujarat, was one of the few soldiers who not only saw action on three different fronts, lived to tell the tale, but also left a first-hand account of the War. ![]() Jarboe in the introduction to his book Indian Soldiers in World War I: Race and Representation in an Imperial War writes, “More than one million Indian soldiers were deployed overseas to fight on behalf of the British Empire in the Indian Army during World War I. The India Gate, located in the epicentre of the new capital built by the British, stands to commemorate those Indian soldiers who lost their lives in this war. ![]() In spite of that several Indians fought on various fronts of the war owing to the fact that India was a British colony then. The Great War, as the First World War came to be known, is widely considered to be a European conflict. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Brighton, Lord Carlston, the most powerful of the Reclaimers, visits frequently to give Helen training, which includes teaching her to pass as a man, one “Charles Amberley, young buck about town.” Helen’s maid, Darby, is also in training with Carlston’s Terrene, learning to be a Terrene herself.Ī “Terrene” is a sort of dedicated helper. Helen herself is a “Reclaimer,” one of a small group having special supernatural powers to fight these “Deceivers” as the evil spirits are called. This is a secret group that fights demons disguised in human form who prey on human energy. She is staying with Lady Margaret Ridgewell and her brother Michael Hammond, who are “helpers” in the Dark Days Club. It is the summer of 1812, and Lady Helen Wrexhall is in Brighton, England for the season, having been evicted from her home with her aunt and uncle after a scandalous episode the night of her “coming out” ball. This is the second book in the Dark Days Club series, and picks up soon after the end of the first book. ![]() ![]() Note: Spoilers for Book One in this Series. ![]() ![]() It starts with a trilogy, that ends with the 2006 novel A Meeting at Corvallis, and then a second series that is set 22 years later begins with The Sunrise Lands. The novel Dies the Fire, published in 2004, begins the Emberverse series. Other works of Stirling’s that are apart of this series include the short story Riding Shotgun to Armageddon (available in the collection >) and the novelette Blood Wolf. The series concluded in 2000 with the novel On the Oceans of Eternity. This novel launched the Nantucket trilogy series. The Change began in 1998 with the novel Island in the Sea of Time by S.M. The Emberverse series is a look at the result of the planet the island left behind. In the Nantucket trilogy, an island is sent back in time to the Bronze Age and looks how some are looking to benefit from “The Event,” others want to make it better and the rest just want to survive. The series is made up of the Nantucket trilogy series and the Emberverse. ![]() ![]() The Change is a series of alternate history novels by Canadian-American novelist S.M. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Round the fire, / songs of joy.” Bangalore-based Sreenivasan’s extensive research is evident in her saturated, detailed illustrations of families, plants, animals, and nomadic and village life. 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