So when a surprise letter comes in the mail from Kimi's estranged grandparents, inviting her to Kyoto for spring break, she seizes the opportunity to get away from the disaster of her life.When she arrives in Japan, she's met with a culture both familiar and completely foreign to her. But her mother disapproves, and when they get into an explosive fight, Kimi's entire future seems on the verge of falling apart. I gobbled it up." - Maurene Goo, author of The Way You Make Me Feel Kimi Nakamura loves a good fashion statement.She's obsessed with transforming everyday ephemera into Kimi Originals: bold outfits that make her and her friends feel like the Ultimate versions of themselves. a tender love story wrapped up in food, fashion, and family. "As sweet and satisfying as actual mochi. Perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Kasie West, I Love You So Mochi is a delightfully sweet and irrepressibly funny novel from accomplished author Sarah Kuhn.
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Using oral histories, Sims provides the Christian community with a canon of testimonies that illustrate the scriptural imperative to walk by faith and not by sight. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Revealing the bond between memory and moral formation, Sims discovers the courage and hope inherent in the power of recall. By tending to the words of these witnesses, Lynched exposes not only a culture of fear and violence but the practice of story and memory, as well as the narrative of hope within a renewed possibility for justice. Moreover, Sims unearths the community’s truth that this is sometimes a story of words and at other times a story of silence. Through this understanding, she explores how the narrators reconcile their personal and communal memory of lynching with their lived Christian experience. Lynched preserves memory even while it provides an analysis of the meaning of those memories. Sims examines the relationship between lynching and the interconnected realities of race, gender, class, and other social fragmentations that ultimately shape a person’s―and a community’s―religious self-understanding. Sims gives voice to the memories of African American elders who remember lynching not only as individual acts but as a culture of violence, domination, and fear. By rooting her work in oral histories, Angela D. Lynched chronicles the history and aftermath of lynching in America. What do Frank’s letters imply about the nature of the relationship between her and May? Can we trust Frank’s portrayal of her relationship with May? In what ways is Frank’s perspective on the trial different from May’s? What do the differences in their views tell us about May?ĥ. Does May provide a balanced account of the 1917 trial? What suggests that she does or does not?Ĥ. At the end of the first chapter May explains, “I will tell you my story-all of it-and truthfully, as I’ve never been able to tell anyone before.” Is she unerringly honest in recounting her story? What evidence is there of this one way or the other? What does this say about her stance toward the reader and her account of her story?ģ. Why might the narrator address the reader like this in the opening chapter?Ģ. In the first paragraph May says, “You and I, my new friend, will become well acquainted over the course of this tale.” This suggests something more than the reader simply becoming acquainted with May. Here are some questions that readers might like to ponder.ġ. Contact me via email to make arrangements. (I travel a lot, and who knows when I might be in your neighborhood). I will gladly videoconference with your book club or even meet with your group in person. The Garden Court, Courtesy of Palace Hotel, San Francisco His local topicality, together with his teaching and research in Normandy, won him the title of Parrain Officiel (official sponsor) during the 2014 Normandy Festival, a regional festival celebrated throughout Normandy and beyond. For example, Mourir sur Seine (2008) and Nymphéas Noirs (2011) had only modest initial success, but paperwork editions, serialisations and above all his most popular work Un avion Sans Elle have propelled him into the limelight. He has appeared in the annual top 10 since 2013.īussi was born on 29 April 1965 in Louviers, Eure.īussi usually publishes a book a year, but they can take several years to become popular. Michel Bussi ( French pronunciation: born ( )29 April 1965) is a French author, known for writing thriller novels, and a political analyst and Professor of Geography at the University of Rouen, where he leads a Public Scientific and Technical Research Establishment ( French: Unité mixte de recherche, "UMR") in the French National Centre for Scientific Research ( French: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, "CNRS"), where he is a specialist in electoral geography.Īccording to the Le Figaro/ GfK list of bestsellers, Bussi was the second bestselling French author of 2018, selling 975,800 copies. if I was to ever run a game in the Young Kingdoms again, I'd use the Elric! rules, with heavy borrowings from Elric of Melnibone for the setting, magic and cosmology. But the Elric of Melnibone game and its supplements do the best job of all the D100 versions of capturing that problematic "canon" of the Elric saga I alluded to above.īasically. MRQ2 is not a flavour of D100 I particularly enjoy: for all it fixes the IMO huge flaws of MRQ1, it does so by adding detail and intricacy in areas I no longer find such things satisfying. But, even in its re-packaged form of Stormbringer 5th edition in the early 2000's, it wasn't hugely accurate even to that portion of the saga.leaving aside the philosophical conundrum of "canon" for a series by an author who's fundamental approach is antithetical to the the sort of codification and coherence the notion of "canon" rests on. I am hugely fond of Elric! - it is pretty much my favourite incarnation of BRP, and it is mostly focused on the era of of the Elric saga (original early 1960's novellas up to circa 1980) that I actually enjoy I'm not a fan of the 1990's and more recent additions to the saga. Instead, they are designed to gauge your performance on a specific set of tasks-that is, on the exams themselves. Ted Lasso is no longer trying to feel good.īefore I get into OpenAI’s new robot wonder, a quick personal story.Īs a high-school student studying for my college-entrance exams roughly two decades ago, I absorbed a bit of trivia from my test-prep CD-ROM: Standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT don’t measure how smart you are, or even what you know.But is GPT-4 smart?įirst, here are three new stories from The Atlantic: The new large-language model (LLM) aces select standardized tests, works across languages, and can even detect the contents of images. Yesterday, not four months after unveiling the text-generating AI ChatGPT, OpenAI launched its latest marvel of machine learning: GPT-4. This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Each startling revelation reshapes their understanding of their grandmothers and ultimately inspires the courage to take risks and make changes to own their lives. As she and Grace dig into the past, they unearth their grandmothers’ long-held secret and more. Facing the loss of her legacy and in need of allies and ideas, Cassidy reaches out to Nick, her former love, despite the complicated emotions brought by having him back in her life.Ĭassidy inherits not only the family home but a task, spoken with her grandmother’s final breaths: ask Grace Kim-Eunhee’s granddaughter-to help sort through the contents of the locked hope chest in the attic. Worse, a looming tax debt threatens her inheritance. But after Helen passes, Cassidy learns that her home and garden have fallen into serious disrepair. Nourished by her grandmother’s love and encouragement, Cassidy discovers a passion that she hopes will bloom into a career. As they bond over common losses and a delicate, potentially devastating secret, their friendship spans the remainder of their lives.Īfter losing her mother, Cassidy Quinn spent her childhood summers with her gran, Helen, at her farmhouse. Answering a woman’s desperate call for help, young Navy widow Helen Devries opens her Whidbey Island home as a refuge to Choi Eunhee. “The mystery is full of twists and turns with teenage jolts of humor and angst that will attract reluctant readers, especially fans of Caroline B. YA Sno Camden PL Young Adult:AVAILABLE, PRINTED MTL YA SOL Our year of maybe / Rachel Lynn Solomon. The exposition comes early, but this allows the book to focus on the choice. don’t feel small at all.” - Publishers Weekly IN SHORT: Bubble World has a compelling, fun story that keeps the pages turning. a winning story filled with small, poignant moments that. “Daisy’s engaging voice and dry wit are a real highlight. Why is he so hard to find? What kind of trouble is he in, exactly? And most importantly, who is actually saving who? clues that call into question everything Daisy believes she knows about her friend. As they begin to home in on Henry's exact location, they also start to find some disturbing clues. In Bubble World by Carol Snow, Freesias perfect bubble is about to pop. Daisy suspects Henry's disappearance is connected to their seriously awkward meeting the night before, but then she finds a note from Henry, containing just the words "SAVE ME."ĭeeply worried, Daisy convinces her unemployed brother to take her on a rescue mission into the California mountains. Or, so Daisy thinks, until she wakes up one morning to find that Henry and his family have disappeared without a trace. In this mystery filled young adult novel, Carol Snow, author of Bubble World, showcases her wit and dry humor in The Last Place on Earth, which is as funny as it is fascinating.ĭaisy and Henry are best friends, and they know all each other's secrets. She suffers two robbery attempts in the same night: the first as she is leaving the Gardens and two thugs try to steal her purse and the second in the middle of the night, when someone tries to rob her house. However, it seems someone is trying to hurt more than just her reputation. Shunned by Regency London high society, cut off by her parents who disapproved of her second marriage, harassed by her in-laws, the lonely Lady Rebecca comes to the Maida Gardens “where she could be anonymous and part of society in a way she could control.” Lancaster wastes no time making us doubt Rebecca’s innocence: both of her abusive husbands died as a result of their own excesses and the rumors of her poisoning them were started by her second husband’s relatives, who want control of her young son Tom, along with his inheritance. She, in turn, is watched by Ludovic Dunne, a solicitor who has been hired by the relatives of her dead second husband to investigate her. Masked couples dance on the lantern lit lawn and, alone, on a table with no other chairs, Lady Rebecca Cornish, also known as the Black Widow, watches them. Unmasking Sin, the third book on Mary Lancaster’s “Pleasure Gardens” series, opens, fittingly enough, on the Maida Pleasure Gardens. " stunning new novel-possibly her best since The Handmaid's Tale." - Time Out New York What gives the book a deeper resonance is its humanity." - Newsday Its shrewd pacing neatly balances action and exposition. Oryx and Crake carries itself with a refreshing lightness. Keeps us on the edges of our seats." - The Washington Post "A book too marvelous to miss." - The San Diego Union-Tribune Oryx and Crake in the forefront of visionary fiction." - The Seattle Times summons up echoes of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess and Aldous Huxley. "Her shuddering post-apocalyptic vision of the world. Brilliant, provocative, sumptuous and downright terrifying." - The Baltimore Sun "Atwood has long since established herself as one of the best writers in English today, but Oryx and Crake may well be her best work yet. Atwood does Orwell one better." - The New Yorker |