![]() It helps us see the growth of their friendship (and other feelings), as well as understand their motivations for not pursuing anything previously.įinally, there is a larger commentary outside of the romance about finding happiness and fulfillment in life. Some readers don’t like alternating story lines, but it works really well here. Despite being over 300 pages I zipped through it in a day. The overarching question is if love can overcome incompatible dreams.Īnother result of the structure is the book is a FAST read. Meanwhile, we see their present day vacation encounter mishap after mishap while wondering what caused their two years of silence. Alternating between present and past, Henry provides a full chronological history of Alex and Poppy’s friendship starting at their first meeting in college through their decade of summer vacations together. This mystery becomes a driving force of the narrative. ![]() At the start of the novel, we know something happened two years ago to end Poppy and Alex’s friendship. ![]() People We Meet On Vacation shines thanks to a combination of Henry’s writing style and the overall construction of the story. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Lauren Groff (“ Matrix,” Riverhead Books/Penguin Random House) is the author of six books of fiction. Attendees are invited to enjoy their beverage of choice while hearing authors discuss their writing lives and forthcoming books. 2022-23 ALA President Lessa Pelayo-Lozada will moderate. This event will be presented live during the conference. CT Thursday, June 24 at the 2021 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibitions (Virtual). ![]() ALA Upcoming Annual Conferences & LibLearnXĮXTON, Pennsylvania - Lauren Groff, Jeffrey Archer, Josh Ritter, Courttia Newland, and Ryka Aoki will be the featured authors at the United for Libraries Gala Author Tea, sponsored by Data Axle Reference Solutions, at 12:15 p.m.Related Groups, Organizations, Affiliates & Chapters. ![]() Dealing with censorship challenges at your library or need to get prepared for them? Visit our Fight Censorship page for easy-to-access resources. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I agree: His eleven words are better and sound-bitten (a version of hard-bitten). He adds that it ought to be possible to summarize Stalker in just a few sentences, so here goes: In the course of spinning out over 200 pages of book on the film, Dyer admits that he hates people who insist on describing a movie in exhaustive detail. Zona has a subtitle, “A book about a film about a journey to a room,” and that’s a good start-indeed, it’s snappier and more seductive than the start of the actual movie, and you can argue that that start goes on for about 140 minutes, to be followed by the ending. ![]() An invigorating mixture of responses, but this is a Geoff Dyer book. And, to be honest, you can read this book in 162 minutes and come away refreshed, enlivened, infuriated, amused, thoughtful, and mystified. Reading the book a few times convinces me that I was not made to see this film too often (I identified with the dog). Once upon a time, in advance of publication, it seemed essential that the book come packaged with a DVD of the movie, granted that 162 minutes in glorious 35mm would be cumbersome-and who has a 35mm projector or anyone who can work it? But surely the DVD was a natural? Now, I’m not so sure. THE RICH, PROBLEMATIC delight with Geoff Dyer’s new book, Zona is that it’s so much more fun than the film it addresses, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1979). ![]() ![]() “If I could capture the history and give people a sense of humanity and dignity, then maybe it’s not bad that I’m not from there,” she said. She recalled the story being very emotional for her to write, and she stressed the importance of “putting Helena on the map.” You don’t want to portray the community wrongly or tell other people’s stories.”ĭespite these reservations, Kuo said she found it within herself to tell a story she felt was worthy of sharing. ![]() In regards to writing the novel, Kuo said, “I think I felt really scared about writing about a community that I’m not from. ![]() “The heart of the book is really about coming back to the Delta,” she said. Kuo said the book is “about a lot of issues that are really timely today, race and literacy.” The Arkansas Delta is a focal point in the novel not only for its role as the setting but also because of its rich history surrounding race and literacy and what that means in America today. Ultimately, she left, only to later return to Arkansas after hearing the news that her beloved student Patrick had been arrested and imprisoned for murder. ![]() When making this decision, Kuo found herself wondering what would happen to kids like Patrick, who had limited opportunities and were desperately “craving knowledge.” Not soon after bonding with Patrick, outside pressures and expectations emerged. Kuo found herself faced with the decision of whether to leave the Arkansas Delta for the life of structure and financial security that was expected of her. ![]() ![]() Nurse Power is given to opportunity to act as the ward sister as her senior Nurse Finnigan was busy upstairs with other deliveries for the day. The protagonist of the story is Nurse Julia Power along with Bridie Sweeney as the complementary character. The story is set in 1918, Dublin at the time of the Influenza pandemic. It covers about three long, hectic days in the life of Nurse Power with all the haphazard in the hospital and her life. In The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue tells an unforgettable and deeply moving story of love and loss.” The Pull of the Starsīy Emma Donoghue Book: The Pull of the StarsĮmma Donoghue’s The Pull of the Stars takes us back to a Maternity/Fever ward in 1918 with Nurse Julia Power and her stimulating story. ![]() With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. ![]() They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over the course of three days, these women change each other’s lives in unexpected ways. Into Julia’s regimented world step two outsiders: Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. ![]() In a country doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with an unfamiliar flu are quarantined together. ![]() ![]() ![]() The damaged horse is then sold to various masters at whose hands he experiences cruelty and neglect. The gentle thoroughbred, Black Beauty, is raised with care and is treated well until a vicious groom injures him. In taking this anthropomorphic approach, the author Anna Sewell broke new literary ground and her effective storytelling ability makes it very easy for the reader to accept the premise that a horse is recounting the exploits in the narrative. It is a moralistic tale of the life of the horse related in the form of an autobiography, describing the world through the eyes of the creature. Black Beauty is a perennial children's favourite, one which has never been out of print since its publication in 1877. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Aes Sedai of Salidar decide they’re going to appoint their own Amyrlin Seat to oppose Elaida. ![]() They teach the other Aes Sedai how to enter Tel’aran’rhiod to spy on the White Tower. In Salidar, Nynaeve and Elayne are making discoveries using Moghedien’s knowledge. Semirhage tortures an Aes Sedai to let Aran’gar infiltrate the Aes Sedai of Salidar. (His school is even called the Black Tower.) Rand plans to oppose Sammael and gets armies to march there. Rand gets Taim to find other men who can Channel and train them into Asha’man, rivals to the White Tower. Rand realises that his mother was Andor’s Daughter-Heir Tigraine who fled to the Aiel Waste after Gitara Sedai gave a Foretelling. The Aes Sedai from the White Tower and Salidar both want him reined. Aes Sedai embassies from the White Tower and Salidar try to curry his favour along with the other nobles.ĭemandred goes to Shayol Ghul and receives orders from the Dark One. ![]() ![]() A heartbreaking, haunting, and necessary story that offers hope while laying bare the bleakness of the world.”- Kirkus Reviews, starred review ★ “From award-winning journalist Abawi comes an unforgettable novel that brings readers face to face with the global refugee crisis . . . Abawi gives even more humanity, depth, and understanding to the headlines.”- Bustle ![]() “ heartbreaking and to-the-minute timely story of the Syrian refugee crisis. When you are a refugee, success is outliving your loss.Īn award-winning author and journalist-and a refugee herself-Atia Abawi captures the hope that spurs people forward against all odds and the love that makes that hope grow.įeatured as a most-anticipated book of 2018 on The Huffington Post! While this is one family's story, it is also the timeless tale of the heartbreaking consequences of all wars, all tragedy, narrated by Destiny itself. As they travel as refugees from Syria to Turkey to Greece, facing danger at every turn, Tareq must find the resilience and courage to complete his harrowing journey. ![]() ![]() Tareq's family knows that to continue to stay alive, they must leave. And those who have survived are left to figure out their uncertain future. In a country ripped apart by war, Tareq lives with his big and loving family. A powerful novel of refugees escaping from war-torn Syria, masterfully told by a journalist who witnessed the crisis firsthand. ![]() ![]() Chained by the commanding self – a mixture of laziness, greed, fear and prejudice – they are driven on, harnessed and shackled by their own lower nature. Shah argued that human beings, while capable of the most sublime capacities, choose to live on a plane far below their potential. Most approaches to spirituality are actually disguised consumerism, he insisted, and the would-be seekers must face up to the sobering prospect of tackling their own assumptions and having to first learn how to learn. ![]() Emphasising that Sufism is not static but always adapts to the current time, place and people, he often framed his teaching in Western psychological terms. In his writings, Shah presented Sufism as a universal form of wisdom that predates Islam. ![]() ![]() ‘Critically, and almost alone, he said that it was possible to divorce the essence of Sufi philosophy from what he insisted were secondary accretions of culture and religion.’ ‘Idries Shah did some revolutionary things,’ writes his daughter Saira Shah, in the introduction to The Idries Shah Anthology (published exclusively by The Idries Shah Foundation). ![]() ![]() ![]() Title PageAbout Arthur MachenForeword: Rending the VeilTHE GREAT GOD PANI. He immediately became one of the most talked-about writers of the last years of the nineteenth century, while the publication marked the start of his ongoing influence on modern fantasy and horror.Machen's dark imaginings of the reality behind ancient beliefs feature again in the acclaimed, mesmerising short story 'The White People' and the curious tale 'The Shining Pyramid', also in this volume. He had translated Casanova's memoirs and was living on a small inheritance. Its author, Arthur Machen, was a struggling unknown writer living in London. Many men are infatuated with her beauty, but great beauty has a price, sometimes you have to pay with the only thing you have left.The Great God Pan was a sensation when first published in 1894. ![]() She has seen the great god Pan and will die giving birth to a daughter.Twenty years later feted society hostess Helen Vaughan becomes the source of much fevered speculation. An experiment into the sources of the human brain through the mind of a young woman has gone horribly wrong. ![]() |