![]() Readers often see stories featuring Cis-gendered (those born where their bodies match their gender), straight, white males and females. However, there's an issue plaguing YA's publishing - the lack of young adult and teen voices within non-stereotypical stories. But, you know what? I enjoy stories - period - and many of them come from YA. I'm someone's parent and should have left the subgenre behind. I think they would have worked as full-length novels instead. Of course, being a collection of short stories, there were still several stories that felt rushed or not fleshed out all the way. You want a gay cowboy romance? A somber piece following the death of a loved one? An almost-time-traveling story? There's all that and more. I enjoyed that each story had the common thread of exploring the main character's relationship with their race, but the execution was totally different. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book aims to explore, as Ibi Zoboi puts it in her introduction, "What are the cultural threads that connect Black people all over the world to Africa? How have we tried to maintain certain traditions as part of our identity? And as teenagers, do we even care? These are the questions I had in mind when inviting sixteen other Black authors to write about teens examining, rebelling against, embracing, or simply existing within their own idea of Blackness." ![]() I don't usually pick up anthologies, but I'm so happy I did! ![]()
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![]() ![]() Oliver Marks keeps many secrets with sharp edges. Only one person can say which one was true. There are so many versions of the story, so many neat distillations of what had happened. Now, ten years later, detective Colborne feels every choice he’d made, every action he took that fatal night, as a weight he carries with him. ![]() ![]() At some point, our merry band of thespians become less friends and more things for each other to hit. The friendship, once beautiful, begins to hold something worth fearing. But as these things so often go, something dark and sinister soon sews hatred in them, and wedges its way between them. If We Were Villains is the story of a tightly knit group of seven lyric-mad Shakespearean thespians who seem to prefer each other’s company to anyone else’s, thereby offending the rest of the world. If you still want to know more about this book, I assume you're a masochist. You are literally a bound bundle of dead tree. That ending grabbed an invisible dagger and twisted it between my ribs. I tore through it, but I feel like it tore through me. ![]() I hate this book so much I can't bear it. Reader, when you read the synopsis for this book, you will likely hear a voice saying, “Oh, this sounds interesting! Let's do it.” And I’m here to tell you right now-that’s the devil talking.ĭon't let my five-star rating fool you. ![]() ![]() ![]() The group frantically flees from a large herd of undead until they hear a voice calling them to an apartment building. Once in Atlanta, they find the city swarming with walkers. Distraught, the remaining four group members continue on. ![]() A walker comes out of its hiding place and infects Bobby with the undead plague, killing him. The hungry group of survivors is hiding in a large house within the private neighborhood of Wiltshire Estates, planning to move on to Atlanta, where a "safe zone" is supposedly located. The novel follows the story of Philip Blake, his daughter Penny, his older brother Brian, and his friends Bobby and Nick as they struggle to survive in a world ravaged by the zombie apocalypse. Robert Kirkman discussing the general inception of the plot of Rise of the Governor with comparisons to the graphic novels. And so I had a story in mind of how he became that guy and what caused him to be that bad of a person. If Rick had gone down a certain path he could have ended up exactly like that guy. ![]() ![]() I always kind of looked at it like Rick and the Governor were two sides of the same coin. ![]() ![]() 'It seems to me that I know the characters even more intimately than I know the characters in the earlier novels of his Balzac period,' said Louis Auchincloss. But the naïve young woman becomes both their victim and their redeemer in James's meticulously designed drama of treachery and self-betrayal. Set amid the splendor of fashionable London drawing rooms and gilded Venetian palazzos, the story concerns a pair of lovers who conspire to obtain the fortune of a doomed American heiress. Forster admired it, but Louis Auchincloss calls The Wings of the Dove 'perhaps the greatest of Henry James's novels.' Published in 1902, the novel represented something of a comeback for James, whose only 'bestseller,' Daisy Miller, had appeared more than two decades earlier. ![]() Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time ![]() ![]() Her new book is, "Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life." She tweets 7 Sex Education Lessons From Emily Nagoski's 'Come As You Are'ġ. She teaches a course on women's sexuality. This begs the question, how did so many women come to feel that their anatomy, their sex lives and everything in between were abnormal? GuestĮmily Nagoski, director of wellness education at Smith College. The majority of them have the revelation, "I'm normal!" We discuss women and sex with Emily Nagoski, who, when she teaches a course on sexuality at Smith College, asks her students what the most important thing they learned in the class was. ![]() "Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life," by Emily Nagoski of Smith College. ![]() Twitter facebook Email This article is more than 8 years old. ![]() ![]() I learned so much through reading Fern’s story – which she tells with an intelligence and candour that I am slightly in awe of. ![]() I have to confess that my understanding of autism and it’s symptoms, especially in women, was pretty basic but Strong Female Character has totally changed that. She was diagnosed as an adult after years of misdiagnosis and frankly pretty shocking medical care, something that, as a young woman with chronic pain and illnesses, is something I have a huge amount of sympathy for. Strong Female Character is about Fern’s life, but the focus is very much on how being autistic affects every aspect of that life. Strong Female Character is one of the best memoirs I’ve ever read and has shot straight to the top of my favourite books of 2023. My expectations were high as I knew how hilarious Brady is, but I have to say, even my high expectations were thoroughly surpassed. I first came across Fern Brady on the television show, Taskmaster, in which she was of course extremely funny! So, when I saw that she was releasing a memoir I was keen to give it a read. After everyone tells me I don’t look autistic, I try to cure my autism and get addicted to Xanax. I hate everyone at uni and live with a psycho etc.ĩ. More stripping but with more nervous breakdowns.ħ. ![]() ![]() My friendship with an elderly man who runs the corner shop and is definitely not trying to groom me. My terrible Catholic childhood: I hate my parents etc.ģ. I’m diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it.Ģ. ![]() ![]() ![]() I am a product of many who came before me and paved the way so that I can thrive in my craft as a writer (Legacy). Typically, my reflection begins with the question: what does Black History mean to someone like me who was born and raised in Nigeria for the first half of their life and then, for the other half, grew up in the United States? More often than not, the answer to that question is Legacy and Excellence. ![]() But come February, every year, I do my best to dive deeper into what I consider a more meaningful form of reflection: Black History. From YouNeek Studios founder Roye Okupe: "As a creator, I spend a lot of my time reflecting on characters, world-building, plot, business ideas, etc. Dark Horse Comics is proud to partner with YouNeek Studios to share the YouNeek YouNiverse with a global audience. YouNeek Studios: Enter the YouNeek YouNiverse YouNeek Studios, founded by Dwayne McDuffie nominee Roye Okupe, features a YouNiverse of superheroes based on African stories by African creators, influenced by African history, mythology, politics, and more. In honor of Black History Month, we've gathered recommendations of comics and graphic novels that highlight Black voices and creators and themes of representation, empowerment, and education. ![]() ![]() When she is not writing her novels she can often be found doing yoga, crocheting, reading, and chasing her grumpy cat around.Įven though she is best known as Cameron Hart, she sometimes pens paranormal romances with Shaw Hart under the shared pseudonym of Skye Adler. Her works have been spread across several series, contributions to series by other writers, novellas, collections of short stories, an omnibus, and single-standing novels.Ĭameron has now made her name for writing novels full of heat, sassy heroines, steamy chemistry, gorgeous alpha males, and a guaranteed happily ever after. In 2012, she graduated with a creative writing degree from the Iowa Writers Workshop where she learned much of what she knows about the fiction writing industry.Įver since she published her debut, she has become quite the prolific author with more than seven dozen works to her name. Hart has said that it was quite the slog before she became an author as she had to learn everything as an adult. She made her fiction writing debut when she published the single-standing novel “His Sunshine” in 2019. Signed, Sealed, Delivered (By:Khloe Summers)Ĭameron Hart is best known as a bestselling author of contemporary romance novels even though she sometimes writes crime and mafia fiction. More Than Expected (By:Danyelle Scroggins) ![]() ![]() Owned By The Wounded Warrior (By:Imani Jay) Sealed With a Broken Kiss (By:Stella Andrews) ![]() Unwrapping His Package (By:Fiona Davenport)Ĭoming Down His Chimney (With: Shaw Hart)Īll the Scars We Cannot See (By:Sadie King) ![]() ![]() The Nation spoke with Dungy about how unexpected encounters and events fundamentally shaped both the form and content of Soil, as well as how the process of writing the book has changed her perspective on herself as an artist, teacher, community member, and mother.ĬD: I think the simple answer is it’s an artificial divide that there’s wilderness and then there’s something else, a human-built environment. She is currently the poetry editor of Orion, and a university distinguished professor at Colorado State University. Among her many honors are an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, two NAACP Image Award nominations, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in both prose and poetry. Her previous book, Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History (Norton 2017), was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. She draws connections between the process of fostering indigenous flora and fauna, and broader cultural strains around notions of unruliness and acceptability when it comes to race, gender, land and water rights, community, time, labor, and motherhood. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Camille Dungy’s new book, Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden (Simon & Schuster), she chronicles the years she and her family spent transforming their home in Fort Collins, Colo., into “rewilded” prairie. ![]() ![]() ![]() Grasping desperately for any clue to his own past and to the identity of the killer, each new revelation leads Monk step by terrifying step to the answers he seeks but dreads to find. Suggesting that his superior, the wily Runcorn, hopes he will fail, Monk returns to a world where he cannot distinguish friend from foe. It's an assignment to make or break an investigator, for the exalted status of the victim puts any representative of the police in the precarious position of having to pry into a noble family's secrets. Monk is given a particularly sensational case: the brutal murder of Major the Honourable Joscelin Grey, Crimean war hero and a popular man about town, in his rooms in fashionable Mecklenburgh Square. ![]() His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective the mirror reflects a face that women woud like, but he senses he has been more feared than loved. But the accident that felled him on a London street has left him with only half a life, because his memory and his entire past have vanished. He is not going to die, after all, in this Victorian pesthouse called a hospital. ![]() |