Jefferson then turned to “what I do not like.” He was troubled by two omissions. He was “captivated” by what the delegates to the Convention called the partly national, partly federal compromise. In this response to Madison, Jefferson first summarized what he liked about the proposed document. He wished, however, that more checks and balances had been included. In his letter, Madison explained that the Constitution was a vital improvement in structure and power over the Articles of Confederation. In October 1787, James Madison sent a copy of the signed Constitution to Thomas Jefferson in Paris, where he was serving as the Ambassador to the Court of Louis XVI.
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Leo is a sweet character who does many wrong things for the right reasons, and these choices are sources of great conflict – and comedy! While her stubbornness at not leaving experimenting with magic left me saying out loud, “Don’t do it!” as if she were a movie character taking a shortcut through the woods at night, the thing is … I totally get her. I totally would’ve bumbled it, too, I bet.Ģ. It was really interesting to read about how Leo discovers her family secret and how she handles (bumbles) it. In A Dash of Trouble, Leo(nora) discovers that she and the other girls in her family are brujas – witches with magical powers that are passed down the matriarchal line. I think that’s what drew me to the Harry Potter series because the pitch involved a boy who learns he’s a wizard. I love origin stories about magical people. Squinks, if you’re looking for a story brimming with magical adventures and misadventures, with a healthy serving of heart and humour, then you must read Anna Meriano’s Love Sugar Magic: A Dash of Trouble.ġ. As a retired Army officer and veteran of two tours in Vietnam and having personally been under enemy fire, I can attest to how well you captured that experience within the events of the story.” - Norman Mays, Major, USA, (ret) This novel takes an important place on the small shelf of African-American Vietnam War novels… the book is well worth reading.” - Vietnam Veterans of America. “…this is an intelligently crafted tale, brimming with both suspense and social commentary.” - Kirkus Reviews Their leader inexplicably disappears, leaving the ill-prepared soldiers to fight the jungle and enemy on their own.Īlthough forced to confront the shock of combat and a deteriorating family life, the reporter pursues the story hoping to uncover the truth about what happened to the soldiers.Ī Long Way Back is a tense journey merging the lives of the soldiers and the reporter as they struggle to overcome their fear, and face the battles they must fight to survive. Led by a battle-fatigued sergeant, they fall under enemy fire. The men, mostly noncombat soldiers, are the remnant of a squad sent on an illegal mission to Cambodia as punishment for their participation in a race riot at Cu Chi base camp. When a reporter for the Washington Post sees a group of wounded, half-starved, black troops disembark from a helicopter in Cu Chi during the height of the Vietnam War, he senses a story, but receives no cooperation from the army or the soldiers. Funding and Grants For Black Women and Families! In this case it explores family, not only the relationship between two sisters but also motherhood and marriage. Like all great crime and thriller books it has a lot going on under the surface. Of course things don’t run quite that smoothly. Mary will pretend to Robin and the inheritance will be hers. She has been living under a false name and so, when Leslie meets a young woman, Mary, who is similar to Robin she hatches a plan. Tracking her sister down to Las Vegas she visits her apartment only to find Robin dead on her bed from a drug overdose. His final bequest is for her to find Robin and only then will they both receive what they are due. When their father dies Leslie is aghast to discover that despite being the one who has cared for him in his final years, she will not acquire her share of his inheritance without Robin. Leslie and Robin are estranged sisters, Leslie has been the good one, the one who worked hard and did everything the right way, whilst Robin is the wild child who ran away as a teen never to be heard of again. The Better Liar by Tanen Jones is a good old escapist thriller with a great hook. I also appreciated that McLain was fair to Ernest Hemingway. Paula McLain paints a sympathetic picture of her protagonist, and from what I’ve read about her elsewhere, justifiably so. It was hard not to like Hadley Richardson. It is usually fascinating and enriching for me to read books written from an intelligent and sensitive woman’s perspective – it is always different from mine, and I appreciate the differences. We get to know and appreciate her by being inside her perspective, and we get to know and appreciate Ernest Hemingway as she perceived him. It is well written and offers a well-articulated interpretation of how Hadley Richardson felt, thought, experienced the world and her relationship with Ernest Hemingway. My Impressions: The Paris Wife is essentially a novelized autobiographical account of Hadley Richardson’s courtship and short marriage to Ernest Hemingway, and concludes at the end of their life together in Paris during the 1920s. A few of us also are reading The Sun Also Rises, the novel Hemingway wrote during his initial Paris period, while married to Hadley Richardson. Why this book: Selected by my literature reading group, along with Moveable Feast, Hemingway’s own version of life during the time described in The Paris Wife. Green’s book is also a good example of why so many adult readers are turning to young-adult literature for the pleasures and consolations they used to get from conventional literary fiction.” - TIME “Green writes books for young adults, but his voice is so compulsively readable that it defies categorization. Green shows us true love…and it is far more romantic than any sunset on the beach.” - NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW “One doesn’t like to throw around phrases like “instant classic” lightly, but I can see The Fault in Our Stars taking its place alongside Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret in the young-adult canon. Reviews ★ “In its every aspect, The Fault in Our Stars is a triumph.” - BOOKLIST, STARRED REVIEW “Luminous.” - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY ★ “A smartly crafted intellectual explosion of a romance.” - KIRKUS, STARRRED REVIEW ★ “A blend of melancholy, sweet, philosophical, and funny. But she soon learns the unthinkable truth: she has been sold into prostitution.Īn old woman named Mumtaz rules the brothel with cruelty and cunning. Glad to be able to help, Lakshmi journeys to India and arrives at "Happiness House" full of hope. He introduces her to a glamorous stranger who tells her she will find her a job as a maid in the city. But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. Though she is desperately poor, her life is full of simple pleasures, like playing hopscotch with her best friend from school and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. The book is divided thematically, with chapters focused on topics such as the power dynamics of sexual relationships, the importance of mirrors and ways of seeing for subjectivity, and the traditional locations for fairy tales (which Carter follows much of the time in her own stories). Themes, motifs and symbols are all frequently and clearly noted, and there is also plenty of analysis of Carter’s language with the occasional nod to the literary terminology that students are asked to learn, such as assonance, sibilance and anaphora. The book appears to be aimed primarily at GCSE and A-level students, for the writing and analysis are both easy to understand and the range of secondary sources relatively narrow. Angela Topping’s Focus on The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, published by Greenwich Exchange (2009), is a short and incisive guidebook for anyone studying Angela Carter’s influential book of short stories for the first time. I am debating whether I am violating some ethical principle. Walking down the hall after the interview, I find myself engaged in this sort of thinking. So we all just went back to work as usual, for Chicago still needs its toilets scrubbed, its tables wiped down. Similarly, the immigration rallies of 20 in Chicago had no impact on the fat cats of LaSalle Street they did not disturb the peaceful Sunday strolls of the residents of the Gold Coast they did not find sympathy among the gentlemen at City Hall. Du Bois observed that the problems of the city's new residents - who had recently come from the South - were of no concern to that industrial city, so long as its grocers and saloon-keepers flourished, its industries steamed and screamed, and its bankers grew rich. Almost a hundred years ago, during the East St. Naturally I wasn’t that interested due to my childhood boredom of the film, but figured now that it’s hitting 4K UHD I might as well revisit the film once more and see how I like it some 30 years later. The film DID get a wide Blu-ray release back in 2015 as a limited edition pressing from the new defunct Twilight Time, and then re-released back in 2019 by Sony among other Twilight Times licenses that reverted back to Sony about the same time. I vaguely remember the film due to my mother dragging me to see it at 11 years of age (yeah, that really went over well with an 11 year old who just wanted to watch the latest Arnie movie), and promptly forgot about it ever since. Based upon Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro’s 1989 novel of the same name about a butler reminiscing over events of the 20th century as told from the point of view of a lay person, rather than the ostentatious view of high class British nobility. Before Downton Abbey becoming a cultural phenomenon we had another major film back about 30 years ago (really? Has it been that long?) that introduced us to the British caste system and the world of high class butlers and housekeepers etc. |