![]() ![]() and toured the White House and other historical sites.īecause I write for adults, I’ve researched occupations I’ve given my heroines. I also took the tour of the grounds to learn more about Cherokee culture.įor First Cousins (out later this year from Schoolwide) I went to Washington D.C. ![]() ![]() We have so many that it will take today and tomorrow to share them all, so here goes.įor Nellie the Brave, an historical about the Cherokee Trail of Tears, I went to Tahlequah, OK, to the Cherokee Nation headquarters and saw objects that were brought to OK on one of the wagon trains from the Indian removal. We also asked other published artists and authors to share some of their stories and observations on the subject and have been delighted by the responses. I followed on April 14 and Sandy posted on April 21. During the process of research, what do we sometimes find ourselves doing? Our thanks again to Debbie Dadey for leading us off on April 7. ![]() The topic has focused how writers and illustrators prepare for the work they do. Sandy Asher and I have enjoyed bringing you another episode of WRITERS AT WORK this month. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And this is relevant because, except for two (herĮx-boyfriend who is a drunken, drug using, inept fool and her father who is aĬookie-cutter religious patriarch, neither of whom are that influential in the May as well have twirly moustaches and black hats and spend their weekends (hilariously, this is how she refers to people who follow the big bad Mean GirlĪphrodite but, really, it’s a perfect description of Shaunee, Erin, Stevie RaeĪnd Damien) then her enemies are such over-the-top terrible people that they And I sayĬaricatures for a reason because of her friends are one dimensional sycophants ![]() ![]() That we need to look at the caricatures who are Zoey’s enemies. Then we get to the portrayal of women – and before we do ![]() ![]() She’s married to a handsome young American whose life in the South isn’t nearly as picturesque as he depicted while they were dating. Alice Wright is a newcomer to this landscape-a young Brit. Based on a true story, Moyes weaves a poignant tale about the real women who brought the written word to the downtrodden and forgotten people of rural Kentucky during the Great Depression. These were the memories that beckoned me to the world of Jojo Moyes’s latest, The Giver of Stars.Īt its heart, this novel is about all the many ways books can change lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() As a young immigrant in a new country with four kids in tow, my mom found the beginnings of a new life for us in the dog-eared pages of books, and taught us to find adventure and intrigue, romance and wisdom in stories as well. My mother was the first to introduce me to the wonder and escape to be found in books. ![]() ![]() ![]() She just wants to save enough money to escape Hope City. ![]() She doesn’t even care-much-that her boyfriend, Diego, works as muscle for Cabrera. Now the City produces atomic power for the mainland while local factions agitate for independence and a local mobster, Ignacio Cabrera, runs a brisk black-market trade in illegally imported food.Įliana doesn’t care about politics. At the center is an old amusement park-now home only to the androids once programmed to entertain-but Hope City’s days as a tourist destination are long over. In Argentine Antarctica, Eliana Gomez is the only female PI in Hope City-a domed colony dependent on electricity (and maintenance robots) for heat, light, and survival in the icy deserts of the continent. The Yiddish Policeman’s Union meets The Windup Girl when a female PI goes up against a ruthless gangster-just as both humans and robots agitate for independence in an Argentinian colony in Antarctica. ![]() ![]() Three Hearts and Three Lions focuses on Holger Carlsen, an American-trained Danish engineer (shades of Anderson’s own Scandinavian-American identity here) who becomes involved with the Danish resistance to Hitler during the Second World War and, after being shot, is transported to a parallel universe modelled on early French romances of Faerieland. Instead it’s a novel that doesn’t even run to 200 pages in my edition ( Three Hearts & Three Lions (FANTASY MASTERWORKS) ). Despite its title promoting the ‘rule of three’ not once but twice, this was not a huge three-decker novel on the scale of The Lord of the Rings, nor the first novel in a vast trilogy. That novel was Three Hearts and Three Lions. A year before that, however, Anderson had published another fantasy novel, which drew inspiration from Tolkien’s earlier The Hobbit but which moved fantasy into a new direction. One of these novels, The Broken Sword, was published in 1954, the same year that the first volume of Tolkien’s novel appeared. ![]() Tolkien published his landmark novel The Lord of the Rings, the Danish-American author Poul Anderson wrote two short fantasy novels which would have less of an influence on the course of fantasy fiction, but which now read as considerably more ‘modern’, in many ways, than Tolkien’s three-books-in-one epic. ![]() In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle reviews a formative early work of fantasy fiction ![]() ![]() Chris Christie's endorsement, Romney said the people involved in the White House meetings were "consultants," not "aides." He added that "one person (Obama) should have talked to was me." “And on day one of my administration, I will grant a waiver from Obamacare to all 50 states.”Īsked about about the White House records Tuesday at a press conference announcing New Jersey Gov. Romney has forcefully defended the Massachusetts law he signed, but says he is adamantly against a “one-size-fits-all national health-care system” imposed on all 50 states. “They really wanted to know how we can take that same approach we used in Massachusetts and turn that into a national model.” ![]() “The White House wanted to lean a lot on what we’d done in Massachusetts,” said Jon Gruber, an MIT economist who advised the Romney administration on health care and who attended five meetings at the Obama White House in 2009, including the meeting with the president. ![]() ![]() Few prisoners wore chains in their cells, only those that the king particularly disliked: counts or dukes or the minister of the exchequer when he told the king there wasn't any more money to spend. The large iron ring around my waist had grown loose, but not loose enough to fit over the bones of my hips. I was thinner than I had been when I was first arrested. ![]() I reviewed over and over the plans that had seemed so straightforward before I arrived in jail, and I swore to myself and every god I knew that if I got out alive, I would never never never take any risks that were so abysmally stupid again. ![]() To pass time, I concentrated on pleasant memories, laying them out in order and examining them carefully. In the evening, as the sunlight faded, I reassured myself that I was one day closer to getting out. Every morning the light in the cell changed from the wavering orange of the lamp in the sconce outside my door to the dim but even glow of the sun falling into the prison's central courtyard. ![]() The days were all the same, except that as each one passed, I was dirtier than before. Chapter 1 I didn't know how long I had been in the king's prison. ![]() ![]() ![]() The baby stirred from the comfort of my bed, scrunching up his little face, while I held my breath. I closed my lips with a snap and looked at Adam in the mirror. Our giggles filled the room until a soft whine cut through our mirth. I burst into laughter, and after a second, Mom did too. “How many times should I apologize for being born?” “I used to be a size zero too, little show-off. Size zero.” Olivia picked up my uniform with two fingers and tossed it over her shoulder. I put my hand to my raw, aching throat and smeared it with blood. ![]() Why wouldn’t they stop? Why wouldn’t they. Impossible to understand what was going on. Horrible, piercing shrieks that made it impossible to concentrate. It flowed down the metal-hot and thick and seeking my fingers. Wide, terrified eyes gazed at me in the glint of the steel until they disappeared in the gush of the liquid. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Without fortune or means to pay those debts, Sir Bennet realizes his only option is to make a marriage match with a wealthy noblewoman. Sir Bennet is returning home to protect his family from an imminent attack by neighboring lords who seek repayment of debts. No nobleman would want to marry a woman so flawed … and a possible witch at that. ![]() Lady Sabine is harboring a skin blemish that, if revealed, could cause her to be branded as a witch, put her life in danger, and damage her chances of making a good marriage. If youre looking for a good, clean read that combines the setting and mood of a medieval fairytale with the heat of historical romanceyou found it! A dangerous secret that threatens their love … and their lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Medea then goes on to say that the burden of being a woman is not just difficult but also unequal to that of being a man. ![]() Still in anguish over Jason’s betrayal of her, Medea cries out, “We women are the most beset by trials of any species that has breath and power of thought.” 1 She publicly states to all of the women in the city that the condition of being a woman is difficult and full of struggles. Medea’s monologue to the women of Corinth in the beginning parts of the play is a powerful proclamation of the unjust marginalization of women in society. Careful analysis reveals that Medea is not a stereotypical woman but a woman who understands that there is an imbalance of power between a man and a woman and resists this injustice. However, many parts of the play suggest that Medea is a feminist figure who challenges the gender and social norms of her time, and many aspects of the tragedy revolve around issues of women’s rights and the marginalization of women in society. ![]() Both of the main characters, Medea and Jason, possess qualities that conform to the gender expectations of ancient Greece, and it would be unsurprising if audiences of this play in ancient times viewed the two characters as traditional portrayals of a woman and a man. One of the main themes presented in Medea is the role and condition of women in ancient Greek society. Like many Greek tragedies, Euripides’s Medea explores themes about society and human nature. ![]() |