It touched my crabby old heart and left me feeling bright and happy. It took no time at all to read and the story was well worth it. THIS WAS THE CUTEST THING I HAVE EVER READ! Thank you to DC Entertainment for an ARC of this title in exchange for an honest review. This would be the perfect novel to read aloud to a younger child-they'd love the pictures, and wouldn't get bored by too much text! The art was adorable and easy to grasp at a glance, and the story moved along at a fast pace. I found Diana: Princess of the Amazons to be a refreshing and cute middle grade graphic novel. Mona animates to life! All of the sudden, Diana has a friend for all of her adventures.īut, as Diana soon learns, having a friend is harder than it looks. So, upon hearing the origin story from her mother that Diana was formed from clay and a wish, Diana decides to make her own clay "friend." She molds her friend together and wishes for "Mona" to be a real girl. Life isn't exciting when you're the only kid in the world and all of the grown-ups are too busy to play. This cute, middle grade graphic novel focused on Wonder Woman was full of heart.ĭiana is the only child in a community of Amazon warrior women, and she's not exactly having the best time.
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I found myself putting off listening so eventually decided to abandon it. I wasn't sure how much the readers, although good, added to the sense of caricature and heavy handedness and it may be better read in print. The book seemed to be an attempt to fictionalise the colonial experience in New Zealand that was neither an interesting novel nor an absorbing piece of history. It was well written but I found the characters more of a caricature or representing a point of view, intellectual stance or type of experience than real multi-faceted people, I didn't feel involved with any of them and found their accounts laboured, long-winded and tedious. However that might be, I have abandoned this after struggling for more than 8 hours with it. It may be that having read other reviews and the fact that book has won the Whitbread prize raised my expectation too high. 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Kevin Smith has proven to be a very passionate fan of the superhero genre and has never minced words when talking about projects. I liked Alexis, but I didn’t love this story, mostly because it’s not fun reading about her husband constantly calling her “old lady” (she’s in her thirties) and bitching that she took a lower paying job so she could be with the kids more. If it was the work of a transient who was off their meds, then that makes the expensive new home a danger to their family. But what if it’s one of the neighbors? The more Alexis learns about her wealthy neighbors, the more suspicious she becomes. He’s well-liked, but maybe his work for the government is responsible. What’s even more troubling is that shortly after they move in, their neighbor Teddy’s dead body is found-his head was bashed with a rock before being pushed to his death. 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Where a young girl must find her place and her family while trying to survive in a world built for men.Īs the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home seventeen-year-old Fable has ever known. Welcome to a world made dangerous by the sea and by those who wish to profit from it. A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICKįilled with all of the action, emotion, and lyrical writing that brought readers to Sky in the Deep, New York Times bestselling author Adrienne Young returns with Fable, the first book in this new captivating duology. So, when Kate leaves San Diego to attend college in the small town of Grant, Minnesota, the last thing she expects is to fall hard for Keller Banks. She's never bought into it, never believed in it. The one thing that escapes her optimism is love. She's quick witted, endlessly passionate about music, the first to offer a smile, and the kind of loyal that most friends only dream about. She's endured hardship and tragedy, but throughout it all she remains happy and optimistic (there's a reason her best friend Gus calls her Bright Side). Kate Sedgwick's life has been anything but typical. Heart-wrenching." -Colleen Hoover, #1 New York Times bestselling authorįrom international bestselling author KIM HOLDEN comes an inspiring, life-changing story about the power of love in all its forms, having the courage to live life to the fullest, and always looking on the bright side. The book opens with three curious black-and-white images that look like miniature woodcuts: The first features puffy clouds hanging over a field, the second a man and woman thrusting knives at each other, and the third a horse gazing back over its shoulder. Willow Dawson’s secret-ballot illustration from Miriam Toews’s Women Talking, 2018. But the book is less an indignant manifesto about sexual trauma, or a speculative celebration of female empowerment, than it is a confession of violence as something stitched into the fabric of every community, and an exploration of what it means to claim communal thought-even disagreement itself-as an inalienable human right. After years of being told that they were suffering from hysterical delusions, or else being punished by demons for their sins of impurity, the women “came to understand that they were collectively dreaming one dream, and that it wasn’t a dream at all.” Women Talking is based on actual rapes that occurred on a Mennonite settlement in Bolivia between 20. Specifically, they are talking about the men who have repeatedly drugged and raped them in their remote Mennonite colony, knocking them out with an animal tranquilizer in the middle of the night before violating them in their own bedrooms. In Miriam Toews’s new novel, Women Talking, the women are talking about men. What we talk about when we talk about women talking: Gossip. |