![]() ![]() ![]() So feel free to read along with us or use our book selections and questions in your own book club!īook: “Challenger Deep” by Neal Shusterman ![]() We’ll also post the next book coming up in book club. Our current theme is “B-Sides,” where we pick different books from previous authors that we read in the club.įor this blog, we will post a joint review of each book we read for book club. Each “season” (we’re nerds) we pick a theme and each of us chooses a book within that theme for us all to read. We are part of a group of librarian friends who have had an ongoing bookclub running for the last several years. ![]()
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![]() Since the mid-1990s, she has concentrated her efforts on art for fantasy book jackets. Her work is done with a combination of artist oils and watercolor on clayboard gesso panels.Ĭraft has illustrated eight picture books (fairy tale and classic mythology) designed for children and young readers. She is most inspired by the works of Leonardo da Vinci, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Symbolist painters. She has a passionate love of European fine art and draws on a deep knowledge of European art history in creating her work. A majority of her earlier work was for the editorial and advertising market.Ĭraft illustrated the cover art of the older editions of Shakespeare's work for the Folger Library. After graduating, she came to the United States in 1964 to study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she continued her studies in design and illustration. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1964 from the Kanazawa College of Art. ![]() Kinuko Yamabe Craft was born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan on January 3, 1940. Moon goddess pencil drawing by the artist ![]() ![]() ![]() The store relies heavily on tourist traffic, and Sparks said it was "wonderful" to see how widely the bookstore's community extends. While foot traffic was down in December (and the majority of 2020, for that matter), this was offset by large-ticket sales and by orders from across California and the country. Daily sales throughout December were more uniform than in years past, and sales didn't spike right before Christmas Eve. Online sales peaked around December 15, but the single highest grossing day of the season was the Friday before Christmas. Sales during that period were down in 2020, Sparks noted, but the first half of the month was so robust that December still set records. ![]() Normally the shop sees strong sales between Christmas and New Years Day, when a lot of tourists come to visit. Surprisingly, the bookstore was up 12%-15% over December 2019, which had previously been the store's best month ever. Stephen Sparks, co-owner of Point Reyes Books in Point Reyes Station, Calif., reported that the store closed out 2020 with its strongest December ever. ![]() ![]() It does not follow a traditional documentary format, using evocative imagery instead of talking heads King is never seen to speak, appearing on screen independent to his narration. Inconvenient Indian blends scenes in which author and indigenous rights activist Thomas King, filmed in a taxi cab being driven by actress Gail Maurice in character as an indigenous trickster, narrates portions of his own book with video clips of historical representation of indigenous peoples as well as segments profiling modern figures, such as Kent Monkman, Christi Belcourt, A Tribe Called Red, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril and Nyla Innuksuk, who are reshaping the narrative with their contemporary work in art, music, literature and film. ![]() ![]() Author and activist Thomas King appears as himself in the film. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though I never got to use it, because no one called me a bitch. That was the response you gave to “bitch” in my middle school. ![]() Spanning the street, the bedroom, the voting booth, and the workplace, these simple words have huge stories behind them - stories it’s time to examine, re-imagine, and change. And in Pretty Bitches, Skurnick has rounded up a group of powerhouse women writers to take on the hidden meanings of these words, and how they can limit our worlds - or liberate them.įrom Laura Lipmann and Meg Wolizer to Jennifer Weiner and Rebecca Traister, each writer uses her word as a vehicle for memoir, cultural commentary, critique, or all three. No one knows this better than Lizzie Skurnick, writer of the New York Times’ column “That Should be A Word” and a veritable queen of cultural coinage. ![]() “Effortless,” “Sassy,” “Ambitious,” “Aggressive”: What subtle digs and sneaky implications are conveyed when women are described with words like these? Words are made into weapons, warnings, praise, and blame, bearing an outsized influence on women’s lives - to say nothing of our moods. 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At first it seems as though it is all going to be great fun but the fun before long becomes furious and life on the island turns into a nightmare of panic and death. William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary small boys marooned on a coral island has become a modern classic. ![]() Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye in its influence on modern thought and literature. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who compared it to J.D. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. ![]() Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. ![]() ![]() ![]() complex, and about the notion of progress. Still, various points here may spark discussions of simple vs. ![]() The people ultimately break free when the wind whispers through a crack in the wall and life becomes ``simple once more.'' Shachat's ( Mommy Doesn't Know My Name ) chunky, truncated figures and spare, stylized backgrounds are perfectly matched with Arnold's ( The Signmaker's Assistant No Jumping on the Bed ) thought-provoking story-though the author's bleak view of humanity seems overly advanced for the intended audience. Panic ensues as the simple folk are overcome with a fire's fumes and a longing for their sweet green earth. Stop That Pickle By Peter Armour On Sale: 7.99 Now: 6.39 Spend 49 on print products and get FREE shipping at HC.com Format: Paperback Qty: ADD TO CART about Product Details reviews When Mrs. Soon the whole community is involved-the square becomes a window, a stone wall and a roof are added, and the window is inadvertently covered over. When playful Node builds a square wooden structure, Bog helps him prop it up on the ground. Balmy winds and lush vegetation allow the inhabitants to live in joy and leisure, singing songs and eating fruit. ![]() ![]() This fable with classic overtones employs sensory imagery and spatial concepts to transport the reader to the land and culture of the simple people. ![]() ![]() ![]() Both scenes make sense in the context of the book's Science Fictional setting, and both are highly scary if applied to real American life." ![]() George Stubbins noted "Two particularly disturbing scenes in The Puppet Masters-the one in which members of the President's privately created Security Service hold at gunpoint the entire membership of both Houses of Congress and proceed to search out the traitors among therm, and that in which armed vigilantes roam the streets in search of traitors and shoot to death with impunity anyone they suspect of being such. ![]() The novel evokes a sense of paranoia and Heinlein repeatedly makes explicit the analogy between the mind-controlling parasites and the Communist Russians, echoing the prevailing Second Red Scare in the United States. It was originally serialized in Galaxy Science Fiction (September, October, and November 1951). Heinlein, in which American secret agents battle parasitic invaders from outer space. The Puppet Masters is a 1951 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s wet it’s biggish when you consider the whole thing all the way back plus, it has that pebbly texture you’d find hideous to encounter in some undersea creature. It can be unsettling to be told to think about the fact that you have a tongue in your mouth.
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