When Maggie Smith, the award-winning author of the viral poem "Good Bones," started writing inspirational daily Twitter posts in the wake of her divorce, they unexpectedly caught fire. The Washington Post's "What to Read in 2020 Based on the Books You Loved in 2019" For fans of Cheryl Strayed and Anne Lamott, a collection of quotes and essays on facing life's challenges with creativity, courage, and resilience. Parade's "25 Self-Help Books To Get Your 2020 Off On The Right Foot" Marie Claire's "2020 Books You Should Pre-Order Now" About the Book "By Pushcart award-winning poet Maggie Smith, a collection of quotes and essays on facing life's challenges with creativity, courage, and resilience"-īook Synopsis NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A meditation on kindness and hope, and how to move forward through grief." -NPR "A shining reminder to learn all we can from this moment, rebuilding ourselves in the darkness so that we may come out wiser, kinder, and stronger on the other side." - The Boston Globe "Powerful essays on loss, endurance, and renewal." - People Cosmopolitan's "Best Nonfiction Books of 2020"
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To learn more about Brian, you can visit his website:. He is also a father of a three year old boy and coincidentally, wrote and illustrated a children’s book entitled “Hooray for Hat!” coming out in Spring 2014. During his 12 years in the motion design industry, his roles have varied from Creative Director, Art Director, Illustrator, and Designer. He wears many hats.Īfter graduating from Art Center College of Design with an illustration degree, he studied graphic design, and co–founded a motion graphics company, National Television. To my pleasure, he agreed.īrian Won is an illustrator, children’s book author, and motion graphics designer. I had to have some time to ask him some questions about his Author-Illlustration career, and so, I asked him to be a guest of our Mini-Interviews. The details, textures and subject matter were fantastic. It was moving, full of emotion, and full of heart. Brian was a Mentee from the 2012 SCBWI Los Angeles Conference. I saw Brian’s work for the first time at Lost Weekend 2012. This week, I have invited an author-illustrator whose work I love. Welcome to our third week of the 2013 November Mini-Interviews. Heart-pounding action and a heroine to root for, plus the one soldier who might be man enough to win her-you won't want to put this one down.” ― Sophie Littlefield, national bestselling author of The Missing Place “Dancing backwards in high heels is nothing next to trying to make it as a female helicopter pilot in a very male world, especially when the stakes are life and death. “An engaging new voice, crackling with authenticity.” ― CJ Lyons, New York Times bestselling author of Farewell to Dreams Sara Denning will charm and impress readers in a debut that is thrilling, romantic, and flat out cinematic.” ― Michelle Gable, internationally bestselling author of A Paris Apartment “Written with grit, moxie, and heart, HOVER dials up a memorable heroine thrown into a unique, exhilarating setting with an equally heart-pounding love interest. Following the In-Conversation, Kier-la will introduce a screening of Andrzej Żuławski’s remarkable study of eldritch hysteria, Possession. To mark the book’s anniversary, the renowned writer, curator and director is joining Matchbox Cine for a UK tour in support of a brand-new, expanded edition. The book has also played no small role in canonising a range of obscure, fringe and forgotten genre titles, many now considered essential. A ground-breaking mix of keen critical analysis and clear-eyed, thoroughly compelling memoir, Janisse’s influential tome inspired a generation of critics, programmers and film-makers. 10 years ago, Kier-La Janisse published House of Psychotic Women, subtitled an ‘autobiographical topography of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films’. Some of the better passages in the book are about Brown’s own experience volunteering on a dig in Skagafjörður. Her interest in Iceland dates back to studying Old Norse literature in college. Indeed, Brown’s background is as a science writer and she is skilled at interviewing scientists. The Far Traveler works best as an intro to the scholars who have tried to reconstruct life in the medieval north through archaeology, genetics, anthropology and literary studies. It puts women’s experiences in the foreground, and it does talk about Guðríður, but it’s not really about her or her voyages. The title and blurb of this book leads you to think it’s about Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir, the wife of Þorfinnur Karlsefni and mother of Snorri Þorfinnsson, the first European child to be born on the North American continent.īut in fact, The Far Traveler is a very general book about literature, ships, North Atlantic settlement, archaeology, and Christianization in the Viking Age. Please let us figure that out for ourselves as we need it. I don't like long introductions where the narrator describes what each area is, who lives there, what they believe, and how everything works. The author gives us the lay of the land, the history, and the terminology from the mouths of the main characters, and that is another thing I greatly appreciate. She felt mature for her age, but that makes sense because of her upbringing. I understood where she was coming from and why she behaved the way she did. Also, I felt that Terelle was likable from the start. I think the world was portrayed very well and was fully developed. It also makes sense that water is in short supply and has to be rationed out. It makes sense that the magic system is based on water. The Last Stormlord takes place in a desert environment where everything is based on water. What is a snuggery and what is a water debt you say? Well a snuggery is the nicest word I've ever seen for a brothel and a water debt is what you have to pay back for a childhood of someone feeding you, clothing you, and giving you water. This one starts out in a snuggery where our main character is working to pay off her water debt. I love it when a book jumps right in with the daily life of a character. First, it grabs your attention from the start. The Last Stormlord excels in some of my favorite areas. What does it take for a book to win 5 stars from me? Quite a bit. However, he is perpetually haunted by the last words of his grandfather, and a feeling that he is merely conforming to a " whitewashed" stereotype of intelligent blacks. The tale begins at a southern college for Negroes, where the protagonist seems to be semi-content. The narrator is an intelligent, young, nameless African-American who seeks acceptance from all corners, but finds only manipulation. It's a haunting portrait of the invisible man inside all of us. The story is about invisibility, a term which can only be fully grasped by reading the book. Certainly Invisible Man is a landmark in black fiction, but the main thrust of the story is search for identity, not just for the black man, but for all humanity. Viewing this novel as simply a story about racism, as many unfortunately do (a result of having been forced to read it in school, perhaps), is far too limiting. Ralph Ellison's 1952 masterpiece is often lauded by critics as one of the greatest American novels of the twenthieth century. "Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?" - Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure And whether you benefit from them or not will depend upon your ability to see the message in your misfortunes.” Whether I wish these things or not, they’re going to happen. I hope you’ll be ignored so you know the importance of listening to others, and I hope you will have just enough pain to learn compassion. It is a way for you to understand the importance of sportsmanship. And when you lose, as you will from time to time, I hope every now and then, your opponent will gloat over your failure. I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either. Sorry to say, but I hope you will be lonely from time to time so that you don’t take friends for granted. I hope that you will suffer betrayal because that will teach you the importance of loyalty. “From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly, so that you will come to know the value of justice. They ask both Olivia and Derek where Mitty might be. By this point, the FBI has become involved. When he is missing, his mother calls the police. As Mitty goes with her, he is hit on the head. After nine days have passed since touching the scabs, a woman from the CDC approaches Mitty on the street. After writing back, it seems there is a good chance he might catch smallpox. Mitty decides to write an email to numerous people and organizations on the internet. His research gets him more and more worried. He was worried he would catch the virus after finding out that it was from a dangerous strain, variola major. For the next week, Mitty can't concentrate on his project, his best friend, Derek, his girlfriend, Olivia, or his classes. In one of the old textbooks he used for his research, he found an envelope labeled "Scabs-VM epidemic, 1902, Boston." Inside were scabs from smallpox, which was all but destroyed during the twentieth century. He started a project on infectious disease for biology class. He lives in an apartment in New York City. Mitty Blake's biggest mistake was actually doing his homework. Facing few obstacles he can’t overcome, the heroic Pino easily outfoxes the Nazis. He leads Jewish refugees across the dangerously snowy alps to the Swiss border, confronts local bandits masquerading as members of the anti-Fascist resistance, watches as people are loaded into boxcars destined for Auschwitz, overhears what could be talk of the German generals’ plot to overthrow Hitler, finds girls and wine for American army officers, and so on. As the months go by, Pino turns up, Zelig-like, to witness every significant element of wartime life. When he returns home on the eve of his 18th birthday, his parents urge him to join the German army to avoid the draft and thus be spared a one-way ticket to the Russian front. In 1943, 17-year-old Pino Lella’s parents send him to the mountains to escape the bombardment of Milan. Based on a true story, Beneath A Scarlet Sky follows the story of Pino Lella, a young Italian soldier. Edgar-finalist Sullivan ( Triple Cross) lays on history with a trowel in this overstuffed tale of derring-do set in Italy during WWII. Signed on the front flyleaf by the author, Mark Sullivan. |