In these pages are dozens of extraordinary lives and personalities, rescued from the archives and restored to their rightful place in America’s narrative, as well as the ghosts of millions more.į our Hundred Souls is an essential work of story-telling and reclamation that redefines America and changes our notion of how history is written. In eighty chronological chapters, the book charts the tragic and triumphant four-hundred-year history of Black American experience in a choral work of exceptional power and beauty.Ĭontributors include some of the best-known scholars, writers, historians, journalists, lawyers, poets and activists of contemporary America who together bring to vivid life countless new facets to the drama of slavery and resistance, segregation and survival, migration and self-discovery, cultural oppression and world-changing artistic, literary and musical creativity. Blain, Four Hundred Souls begins with the arrival of twenty enslaved Ndongo people on the shores of the British colony in mainland America in 1619, the year before the arrival of the Mayflower. Kendi, author of the number one bestseller How To Be an Antiracist, and fellow historian Keisha N. I listened to this via audio, which I would whole heartedly recommend! Keep reading this book review to see all my rambling praise. Four Hundred Souls is an epic undertaking which explodes in fabulous colors. Having adored Stamped, I knew I had to make sure to add all Kendi’s future projects to my TBR.
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When Darcy and Luke fall into bed after too many eggnogs, Darcy thinks it's just another one night stand. He comes from a family of five brothers, each one less ambitious than the other. He's a carpenter and makes beautiful furniture, and is content with his simple life. Luke is 32-years-old and has never left home. Her parents throw their annual Christmas bash, where she meets one Luke Bennet, the smart, sardonic slacker son of their neighbor. But when her mother falls ill, she comes home to Pemberley, Ohio, to spend the season with her family. Darcy's never fallen in love, never has time for anyone else's drama, and never goes home for Christmas if she can help it. She dates hedge funders and basketball stars and is never without her three cellphones-one for work, one for play, and one to throw at her assistant (just kidding). Bestselling author, Melissa de la Cruz, is a sweet, sexy and hilarious gender-swapping, genre-satisfying re-telling, set in contemporary America and featuring one snooty Miss Darcy.ĭarcy Fitzwilliam is 29, beautiful, successful, and brilliant. Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe is a sweet, sexy and hilarious gender-swapping, genre-satisfying re-telling, set in contemporary America and featuring one snooty Miss Darcy. Stockett has constructed her characters and their alternating viewpoints with exceptional skill and successfully avoids being too sentimental and mawkish over the still-sensitive issue of racism in the Southern states. Moreover, watching the film beforehand and knowing how the story ends did not hinder my enjoyment of this excellent book.Īfter tackling ‘Wolf Hall’ last week, ‘The Help’ felt like a breeze to read. Unsurprisingly, the film version is more saccharine than the book but the adaptation was still well done and the plot wasn’t altered too much. I saw the film quite recently and enjoyed it but my mum said she thought the original book was better and lent it to me this week. Set in the early 1960s during the Civil Rights movement, the maids are expected to look after the children, cook and clean yet they are persecuted because they are ‘colored’. ‘The Help’ by Kathryn Stockett tells the story of Skeeter Phelan, a young white woman from Jackson, Mississippi who decides to write a book documenting the experiences of Aibileen, Minny and other black maids who work for white families. We follow Marcus through his discovering and dealing with the shadowy leader, always living by his wits and trying to maintain his cover.From the first chapter-a botched assassination of the commander, I was caught up in the excitement of whirlwind of action. With that inducement, Marcus enters into situations fraught with danger among a band of these schismatics. If Marcus succeeds, he will be manumitted. Leo, his master's friend from boyhood, has seen something unique in the young man, so convinces his master, the army commander Gregorius, to send him to penetrate this group and to discover the mastermind with an eye to destroying him, if not the whole movement. He is a voluntarius and bodyguard and is sent to infiltrate Circumcellions-an extremist Christian heretical sect among the Berbers, similar to Donatists. I liked this for its unusual setting-post-Constantinian Roman Empire in North Africa in ca. Spoiler “ “the common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends,” ser jorah told her. i feel so sad for the women in westeros / the “a song of ice and fire” universe, though- they deserve so much better, especially sansa. my favourite chapters were definitely ned and daenerys- they were the most interesting in my opinion. definitely check the trigger warnings for this if you have no idea what the books or show is about, of course, but i’d recommend this to literally anyone. i loved the tv show a lot so i wanted to read the books, too, and they are so much better and more poignant and intriguing. it was an incredible fantasy story and really fleshed out and i’m so excited to read the rest of the series (hopefully george will finish it by the time i’m closer to the end, lol). Honestly, to rate this book anything other than five stars would be an absolute lie. These mothers instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in stroling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants who, as they grow up, either turn thieves for want of work, or leave their dear native country, to fight for the Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbadoes. It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms. For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland,įrom being a burden on their parents or country,Īnd for making them beneficial to the publick. A link on the credits page leads to downloadable coloring sheets on the producer’s website.Ī trite, knock-off sequel to Jumanji (1981). Text is available in English or Italian with a clear, understated optional audio narration backed by unobtrusive music. Though transitions are almost nonexistent in the episodic plot, the text is both substantial enough to have a definite presence and artfully placed in and around Conversi’s brightly colored settings and toylike figures. Even the thumbnail page images of the index (which opens any time with a shake of the tablet) tumble about, somehow without falling out of order. These culminate in a final change into a flesh-and-blood boy with help from a fingertip “paintbrush.” Quick and responsive touch- or tilt-activated features range from controllable marionettes, Pinocchio’s tattletale nose and Fire-Eater’s explosive sneeze to a movable candle that illuminates both Geppetto in the fish’s dark belly and the accompanying block of text. Multiple taps transform a giggling block of wood in Geppetto’s workshop into a skinny, loose jointed puppet that suddenly delivers a Bronx cheer and then whirls away on a long series of misadventures. Unusually brisk special effects animate this relatively less satiric but equally amusing adaptation of the classic tale. Digital Minimalism, a Level 7 Reader, is B2 in the CEFR framework. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary. Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning ( CEFR ). Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online. Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. 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