Please share what you’ve been learning in the comments below, it would be great to learn from each other □ Click Here to Watch the Video Interview Also, I’ve been learning how to really show up and be more present and engaging everyday, thanks in part to reading Brendon Burchard’s book, The Motivation Manifesto. I also talk about great books and resources that I’ve found helpful in the past couple of weeks, like Janice Hardy’s book Show Don’t Tell(And Really Getting It). He offered to help me with my story deep and his insightful questions were super helpful. In the intro, I mention the breakthrough I had in my own writing, after an interview I had with Scott King. In this interview, award winning Fantasy author Janice Hardy, shares her tips. One of the ways to do that is to learn to understand Show, Don’t Tell. To write unputdownable fiction, it’s important to understand how to craft your stories in a way that grabs readers attention. Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS | More
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There she stumbles on the deaths of a group of refugees that rouse her suspicions. In This Grave Hour finds Maisie back in an England that has just declared war on Germany. Maisie herself had tread onto enemy soil, going behind the German front lines on a dangerous mission and encountering an old enemy and the Führer himself along the way. When readers last saw Maisie Dobbs, it was 1938 and the world was on the brink of war. In the thirteenth installment, Maisie returns with more mystery, adventure, and psychological insight from "one of the great fictional heroines, equal parts haunted and haunting." (Parade). Critics have long sung the praises of Jacqueline Winspear and her bestselling Maisie Dobbs series. In the latest chapter of Jacqueline Winspear´s enormously popular New York Times bestselling series, as Britain declares war on Germany, the indomitable Maisie Dobbs stumbles on the deaths of refugees who may have been more than ordinary people seeking sanctuary on English soil. Reviews exploring the relationships between food insecurity and mental health have been conducted. 10 Dush 11 indicated that despite the evidence of the effect of food insecurity on adolescents (not forgetting mental health), they are less present in research, compared with adults, on food insecurity. 5–8 Studies have been identified revealing an inverse relationship between diet quality and common mental disorders such as anxiety and depression in adults 9 and certain types of diets (e.g., Western diets) associated with increased anxiety in men and women. 5 6 In addition, higher risks of poor mental health due to increased states of food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic are reported. Fairly recent studies on the adult population, exploring the role of food insecurity on health and mental health states in particular, have shown that food insecurity can be associated with lower self-reports of physical and mental health. 1 2 News reports 3 4 point to the impact of the pandemic on mental health and/or food security. Globally, many food-related and health-related agencies highlighted the impact of COVID-19 on increasing hunger rates. 1940), who created designs for book jackets and covers for many works of fantasy, fairy tales, and classic mythology. The dust jacket art is by illustrator and fantasy artist Kinuko Craft (b. This volume is the first edition of Paterson's book, which won the Newbery Medal in 1981, the year after it was published. 1932) creates a moving story of community and conflict Paterson has written numerous children's books, most notably "Bridge to Terabithia", and has won many awards for her writing, including the Hans Christian Anderson Award, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, the Newbery Award (twice), and the National Book Award (twice). Item #CNFBV08 Taking its title from the Bible, "Jacob Have I Loved" is the story of twin sisters and their tumultuous relationship as the elder twin, Sara Louise, struggles for recognition in her family it is a coming-of-age novel set in a small fishing town in the Chesapeake Bay. First printing, no Newbery Medal on the dust jacket, octavo size, 224 pp. Paterson, Katherine Craft, Kinuko (Dust Jacket Art) Jacob Have I Loved The ambiguity of this theory means that it can be perceived as unorganized and lacking a clear set of defining goals. Intersectionality has been critiqued as inherently ambiguous based on its utilization of postmodernist theories of power and the view that the subjective experience of the person who feels oppressed authenticates the oppression. Those individuals who are members of more than one of these groups face unique combinations of oppression. It is based on the view that race, gender and class are the major determinants of identity, and that minorities from each of these categories are oppressed. Since that time it has had an impact on both feminism and the social sciences in general. The term was coined by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw in a 1989 essay. For example, a black woman might face discrimination from a business that is not distinctly due to her race (because the business does not discriminate against black men) nor distinctly due to her gender (because the business does not discriminate against white women), but due to a combination of the two factors. It identifies advantages and disadvantages that are felt by people due to a combination of factors. Intersectionality is a theoretical framework for understanding discrimination from multiple sources. An intersectional analysis considers all the factors that apply to an individual in combination, rather than considering each factor in isolation. Resources like podcasts, literature, documentaries and movies all exist and are accessible for all Australians to take the time to ensure we build on our knowledge of the Indigenous culture and history of this land.Īnd there’s no better place to begin than with the incredible stories published by Magabala Books. Never before has it been clearer that, intentional or not, perhaps any given white person has subconsciously said something or actioned something in a way skewed towards systematic racism. The time has come for everyone to acknowledge that and commit to change. It seems like, finally people are listening. Marches across the nation have seen Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people sharing their experiences with racism from micro-aggressions to blatant mistreatment, and the stories of The Stolen Generation and the generational trauma that followed are no longer being swept under the rug. Since 1991, 432 Indigenous Australians have died in custody. The #BlackLivesMatter movement, globally has highlighted that in 2023 racism is alive and well. If the idea of an All-American millennial boy from the South, first a quarterback, then a member of Congress aligned with former President Trump until he believes Trump didn’t go far enough appeals, readers will relate to him. Is it too late to save the once-mighty nation?”Īt the beginning of the novel readers meet Thomas Baker. However, a new leader emerges – a patriot who’s ready to die fighting for freedom. “My latest novel, Shout the Battle Cry of Freedom, takes readers on an inside tour of America’s decline – COVID insanity, violent crime, open borders, descending Dystopia. The Canadian author shares this description about this fiction built on the news on his website. An alternate future to spur discussion and debate.” You might call this novel a cautionary tale. I never set out to write a book about insurrection, I simply went where the characters took me. “When you write reality-based fiction you’re taking a gamble – cause reality takes discontinuous jumps.” In the note to the reader at the end the author writes: The concern is that some readers may misconstrue the message of this work of fiction as a depiction of the majority of Americans and as a call to violence before getting to the end, if at all, to read the note. This reviewer feels it important to first share the author’s statements at the end about this book before the review itself. but as the battle over the race’s throne intensifies, and new players on the scene in Caldwell create mortal danger for the Brotherhood, Qhuinn finally learns the true definition of courage, and two hearts who are meant to be together. Fate seems to have taken these vampire soldiers in different directions. It’s hard to see the new couple together, but building your life around a pipe dream is just a heartbreak waiting to happen. And it’s about time: The male has found his perfect match in a Chosen female, and they are going to have a young-just as Qhuinn has always wanted for himself. Blay, after years of unrequited love, has moved on from his feelings for Qhuinn. Even as the prospect of having a family of his own seems to be within reach, he is empty on the inside, his heart given to another. Disavowed from his bloodline, shunned by the aristocracy, he has finally found an identity as one of the most brutal fighters in the war against the Lessening Society. Qhuinn, son of no one, is used to being on his own. The fact that the books cover roughly the same period is important, enabling some measure of cross-genre comparison with reference to external events. Despite the apparent gulf between these two texts in terms of subject matter and approach, an analysis of the authors' arguments suggests certain strong relations between gender issues in mainstream and "slasher" or "stalker" movies. Jeffords' book relates the dominant themes during Ronald Reagan's presidency to dominant themes in contemporary Hollywood action films, focusing particularly on the images of masculinity to be found in such films. The former aims to analyze the meanings generated around gender in horror films of the late 1970s and 1980s, and audience reactions to these messages. Clover and Hard Bodies: Hollywood Masculinity in the Reagan Era by Susan Jeffords. In this review I intend to assess and compare two recent books on socio-cultural issues in film: Men, Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film by Carol J. New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994. Hard Bodies: Hollywood Masculinity in the Reagan Era. Men, Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. Hard men, soft men: cinematic manliness by Marian Jebb JUMP CUTĬopyright Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 1996, 2006Ĭlover, Carol J. The text addresses readers directly, while seamlessly weaving facts into the story: "For thirty years you might not find her./ Then one summer night she arrives,/ on the beach where she was born." Additional details deliberately placed outside the story in a smaller font and wavy typeset may confuse youngsters at first, but overall, the informative text flows with poetic grace: "Just beneath the surface/ is a tangle of weed and driftwood/ where tiny creatures cling./ This is the nursery of a sea turtle." Aspiring scientists may also wonder how the newborn turtles find their way from the shore to these "nurseries," but the author gives them much to mull over. Loggerhead swims alone in the vastness of the water, munches on crabs, floats over coral reefs and crawls with slow, heavy steps across the beach to lay her eggs. Davies's ( Bat Loves the Night) dramatic rendering of the life cycle of the Loggerhead turtle draws readers into the mysteries of this reclusive deep-sea creature, while Chapman's ( The Emperor's Egg) aqua-tinted full-spread illustrations bring the ocean world to life in all its majestic beauty. |