5/20/2023 0 Comments My Footprints by Bao Phi![]() I wonder why Thuy felt better at the end of the book?Īctivity: Make pictures using ink pads and fingerprints. MyFootprints. ![]() ![]() What special things did Thuy make in the snow? My Footprintsby Bao PhiIllustrated by Basia Trandue 9-1-2019Capstone 5.0/5.0netgalley. What were some of the animals Thuy saw or imagined I wonder what the kids at the beginning of the book were doing that made (Twee) Thuy upset Main Focus: God created us each uniquely special, and when we create together we become special together. Together, the three of them imagine beautiful and powerful creatures who always have courage-just like Thuy. What if she could fly away like a bird? What if she could sprint like a deer, or roar like a bear? Mimicking the footprints of each creature in the snow, she makes her way home to the arms of her moms. ![]() Then a bird catches her attention and sets Thuy on an imaginary exploration. My Footprints by Bao Phi illustrated by Basia Tran Ref: 16069 In this affirming story, Thuy finds the might she needs to rise above her peers prejudices by stomping out a snowy path, her two Mums foot-printing close beside her. Thuy walks home one winter afternoon, angry and lonely after a bully’s taunts. Every child feels different in some way, but Thuy (Twee) feels “double different.” She is Vietnamese American and she has two moms. ![]()
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5/20/2023 0 Comments Reservation blues![]() ![]() Rather than exploring the exciting opportunities that cross-cultural exchanges can create for individuals and communities, the novel resorts to a puzzling sense of despair and settles for survival rather than imagining success for its protagonists. ![]() ![]() However, despite the hopeful beginnings of Thomas's efforts to "save his little country" (16), the novel cuts short the possibilities of this "new road" and the music is silenced. Early in the novel, its protagonist, Thomas Builds-the-Fire, says that blues music, combined with reservation stories, could offer his troubled community a "new road," a new way of seeing old problems and defeating them. Concurrently, he signals the possibility of a cross-cultural exchange between these two groups of Americans that offers hope for emotional and material improvements in their lives. With the title of his first novel, Reservation Blues, and the presence of Delta blues legend Robert Johnson on the first page, Sherman Alexie quickly and clearly acknowledges similarities between the social and economic conditions of African Americans and American Indians. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These comics spanned galaxies, from the streets of Metropolis to the far-flung worlds of New Genesis and Apokolips, as cosmic-powered heroes and villains struggled for supremacy. Now, for the first time, DC collects Kirby’s four series - THE NEW GODS, THE FOREVER PEOPLE, MISTER MIRACLE and SUPERMAN’S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN - in chronological order as they originally appeared. Here’s the publisher’s blurb:Īfter co-creating a number of legendary comic book heroes - including The Fantastic Four and The Hulk - legendary writer/artist Jack Kirby came to DC Comics in 1970 to create his magnum opus: four interlocked adventure series that were known collectively as “The Fourth World.” It’s hard to describe but it seems people love it or hate it. The paper used is a type of pulp that has a mat finish: the colours are warm and the reproduction quality is excellent but it also carries a bit of the feel of the original issues. The first thing that hits you is how light the book is: at 396 pages you expect a lot of weight but it isn’t there. I picked up Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus Volume One and have since gone back and negotiated for the entire run. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Spare parts by paul craddock![]() ![]() Then there were the many decades of teeth transplants! Craddock takes the story up to the present, with a sneak peak at what the future may hold. Those with imagination began to experiment in strange ways with animals. There was a segment of society that could not easily appear in public because of their disfiguring injuries though they were still healthy.īut at the time the notions of what could be done to or for the human body were still caught up up in bloodletting. ![]() Among the facts that struck me: among the major needs of some men of the 17th century were replacements or substitutes for noses and ears lost in duels. Surprisingly, to me, “medical” thinkers have been musing on this for millennia, since the days of the Greeks.Ĭraddock is a skilled writer, combining medical history, history, knowledge of medicine, and some good awareness of psychology along with a sharp wit in telling the tale, covering especially the past five centuries of transplant “thoughts” among the medical folk or those who were the nearest at the time, i.e. ![]() Spare Parts is an entertaining and highly informative overview of the history of man’s search for the ability to fix human bodies through transplanting healthy or man made parts for ones either lost or damaged. ![]() ![]() ![]() The voice had crept into her dreams again: the voice of Kullervo, the shape-shifter, her enemy-and her companion creature. She threw them off and sat up to gulp some water from the glass on her bedside table, her handshaking slightly. ![]() When she woke, she found the bedclothes twisted around her. Connie surfaced from sleep, struggling like a swimmer caught in weeds, thrashing to reach air. Connie must stop him, but how? There are no simple answers in the exciting conclusion to this award-winning eco-fantasy series by a Nestlé Prize-winning author. But the shape-shifter Kullervo wants to use her power to wipe out humanity. She’s the most important member of the secret society sworn to protect the bonds between humans and creatures. Connie Lionheart is the only Universal Companion, able to communicate with all of the mythical creatures hidden in our world. ![]() ![]() Infuriated Kat decides to live it up after her years of patiently waiting by attending a famed masquerade ball were finding lovers ends up often being the ultimate caveat. ![]() Kat on the other hand was more than ready to have said marriage get under way and upon informing Preston of this pretty much gets a reality check slapped in her face that this was a marriage that was and will never be happening. If anything, he’d have happily remained with his mistress if she hadn’t decided to demand more of him. Preston has a standing betrothal with Katherine Delafield arranged by their fathers that he has no intention of fulfilling. We first meet Preston Clarke and his charming suaveness in book 2 of the series and watching him find his lady is just as entertaining a story. ![]() The Bride Goes Rogue is book 3 of the Fifth Avenue Rebels by Joanna Shupe and my fave thus far. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Heartsick book![]() The next victim Archie is close too and he has to be fast before she ends up dead. There are lots of missing girls and Archie is trying to find the killer that Gretchen is using to torture more victims that she wants killed. Archie thinks Gretchen is beautiful and can not get his mind off of her. He ends up going on many trips to prison to talk to Gretchen to find out about where the bodies are located. ![]() He is now a cop and is in a search for the dead bodies that Gretchen has killed. Gretchen then ends up in prison.Īrchie is changed into a different person and is hooked on Vicodens. She let's Archie go and turns herself in. She tortures him for ten days, cutting his skin, then seduces him. She also has victims killing others, she had several of them.Īrchie Sheridan becomes one of her victims. She tortures her victims then kills them. This surely isn't for the faint of heart. I was not expecting the outcome of what the book was about. This book is definately different than other mysteries. I have to say I found a new author, Chelsea Cain. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Freedom daniel suarez![]() The projects include a wide array of innovative research initiatives, such as developing a singing intervention for Greek mothers with postpartum depression, harnessing wasps as pest controllers for Cameroonian farmers, and torture prevention in Chile. ![]() A former systems consultant to Fortune 1000 companies, his high-tech and sci-fi thrillers focus on the impact of technology-driven change. This year's GEF projects will see UCL academics collaborating with partners in countries including Taiwan, Poland, the Marshall Islands, Palestine, Samoa and Cuba. Daniel Suarez is the author of the New York Times bestseller Daemon, Freedom (TM), Kill Decision, and Influx. ![]() In the eighth round of the UCL Global Engagement Funds (GEF), more than 70 academics were awarded funding to support their collaborations with colleagues around the world.Ī total of 72 academics, across all 11 UCL faculties, were awarded up to £5,000 per project to further their interntaional collaborations in the latest round of the Global Engagement Funds (GEF). Freedom is the greatest ever liberal utopian fantasy featuring autonomous killer motorcycles.Daniel Suarez’s sequel to his popular Daemon, the story of a deeply buried computer program that. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Wonder woman 2016 1 greg rucka![]() ![]() This comic needed to jump a lot of hurdles. I loved Eyes of the Gorgon and Land of the Dead, but it was the graphic novel Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia that made me love the character as much as I did when she appeared in the Justice League animated series. I read parts of Rucka’s previous run when I tried to get into superhero comics from the trades I accessed through the library. After ditching Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang’s run two years in and passing on Meredith and David Finch’s take, it’s been a while since I’ve read a Wonder Woman ongoing that I enjoyed ( the digital firsts don’t count, but they are great). I was excited when it was announced that Greg Rucka would return to Wonder Woman for DC’s Rebirth line. June 8th, 2016 Disclaimer: This review is based on an advanced copy from the publisher and may contain spoilers. Wonder Woman: Rebirth #1 Greg Rucka (Writer), Matthew Clark/Liam Sharp (Penciler), Sean Parsons (Inker), Jeremy Colwell/Laura Martin (Colourists), Jodi Wynne (Letterer) and Liam Sharp/Laura Martin (Cover) ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments The vanished birds review![]() ![]() “This is the most impressive debut of 2020.” -Locus A new beginning.īut the past hungers for them, and when it catches up, it threatens to tear this makeshift family apart. In this captivating debut of connection across space and time, these outsiders will find in each other the things they lack: a place of love and belonging. A millennia-old woman, haunted by lifetimes of mistakes. A mute child, burdened with unimaginable power. I did not expect a family.Ī ship captain, unfettered from time. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TORDOTCOM AND KIRKUS REVIEWSĪ mysterious child lands in the care of a solitary woman, changing both of their lives forever.A “highly imaginative and utterly exhilarating” ( Thrillist) debut that is “the best of what science fiction can be: a thought-provoking, heartrending story about the choices that define our lives” ( Kirkus Reviews, Best Debut Fiction and Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year). ![]() |