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![]() It won the 1990 Booker prize, and in 2005, it was featured on Time's list of 100 Best Novels from 1923 to 2005. Possession received very positive reviews in publications such as The New York Times and The Guardian and quickly became a bestseller. Byatt has stated that her inspiration for this type of historical fiction includes texts like John Fowle's 1969 novel The French Lieutenant's Woman. ![]() It also broadens ideas of how historical fiction can function by combining episodes from the past with episodes from the present day, and featuring characters who themselves are trying to explore and understand the past. ![]() The novel is inspired by Byatt's interest in Victorian literature, and her own work as an academic researcher and lecturer. ![]() Possession was published in 1990 it is Byatt's fifth novel, and widely considered to be her most successful. ![]() ![]() ![]() “If someone asks where we’re from-we can say anything,” Lucy tells Sam as they set their sights on a distant town, evoking that old American dream of a clean-wiped slate. ![]() As these children of Chinese immigrants move across California they’re constantly reminded of the vulnerability of the female body in a land dominated by men, and of the racist structures inherent to the creation of this country: when Lucy witnesses the celebration following the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, “a picture is drawn for the history books, a picture that shows none of the people who look like her, who built it.” But they’re also witness to their own resourcefulness, and the power of their own will. A pair of young siblings, contemplative Lucy and headstrong Sam, traverse the west in the last days of the Gold Rush they’re attempting to properly bury their father’s body, their mother already gone. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Please don't take The Go-Go Years too much for granted: as effortlessly as it seems to fly, it is nonetheless an unusually complex and thoughtful work of social history." "Those for whom the stock market is mostly a spectator sport will relish the book's verve, color, and memorable one-liners." ![]() Ross Perot who lost $450 million in one day, Saul Steinberg's attempt to take over Chemical Bank, and the fall of America's "Last Gatsby," Eddie Gilbert. Included are the stories of such high-profile personalities as H. It was a time when greed drove the market and fast money was being made and lost as the "go-go" stocks surged and plunged. The Go-Go Years is the harrowing and humorous story of the growth stocks of the 1960s and how their meteoric rise caused a multitude of small investors to thrive until the devastating market crashes in the 1970s. You read it because it is a wonderful description of the way things were in a different time and place." You do not read this book to see our present situation reenacted in the past, with only the names changed. ![]() "The Go-Go Years is not to be read in the usual manner of Wall Street classics. ![]() ![]() ![]() Most people in the city of Quetzlan had a bird, but they were more than just pets, they were companions. Unfortunately, the poster was at least as tall as Teo-who was a proud five foot ten, thank you very much-and well out of his reach. He figured since he was forced to see it every day, the least he could do was add his own artistic flair. Flanking Brilla were other past Sunbearers, recognizable by the golden sunburst crowns they wore on their heads. Teo recognized the woman standing in the center as Brilla, who had been crowned as Sunbearer in the last trials. Tall figures stood in an arrow formation on the black background of the poster, power posing and smiling for the camera. In large gold letters, it read:Ĭome See the Academy’s Best Compete inTHE SUNBEARER TRIALS The Academy advertisement was unavoidable, plastered on a brick wall of the school. ![]() ![]() ![]() Finally released from his usual stint in detention, Teo was eager to put the plan he’d spent the last two days concocting into action.īracing himself, he jogged across the street to where the target of today’s prank loomed. “Careful! We don’t want to fuck up and get caught again,” Teo whispered as muffled voices bickered inside his backpack. ![]() ![]() ![]() He did considerable pulp magazine work throughout the 1940s, and was active as a book illustrator and painter in the late 1940s and early 1950s, contributing to such publishers as Arkham House, Shasta, Fantasy Press, and Gnome Press. He made his professional debut in the pages of Weird Tales in late 1939, but he began dabbling in fantasy and science fiction art as early as 1930. Campbell is best known for his short story Who Goes There which was adapted. Hannes Bok (1914-1964) is one of a handful of fantasy illustrators from the pulp magazine era, along with Virgil Finlay and Edd Cartier, whose work is just as popular today as it was in the 1940s. was an American science fiction writer and editor. Paranoia ensues as a band of frightened men work to discern friend from foe and destroy the menace. The creature revives with terrifying results, shape-shifting to assume the exact form of animal and man alike. ![]() Campbell Jr. The story is about an Antarctic research camp that discovers and thaws the ancient, frozen body of a crash-landed alien. STARSTREAM 1 - Adventures in Science Fiction (Whitman Pub, Original USA Color comic) CONTENTS - (1) Dominus', (2) The Last Guinea Pig, (3) Who Goes There (basis for the THING), (4) Rabbits to the Moon, (5) The Music of Minox, (6) Shaka. Campbell’s classic “Who Goes There?” was the basis of two popular movies – Howard Hawks’ “The Thing From Another World” in 1951 and John Carpenter’s “The Thing” in 1982. ![]() ![]() The squares and the resulting shapes have the same collage-y look as some of Eric Carle’s books, but these are a little crisper and less free-form than Carle’s are. On Sunday, the square is just a square again, but now he’s unwilling to stay just the same old thing and he takes it upon himself to re-imagine himself once again. And each day the square rearranges itself into a new object, each one clever and fun to look at. Not to be deterred, the square rearranges itself into a fountain (the holes look like bubbling water – it is really cool).Įach successive day, the square is a different color and is un-squared another way (smashed, torn, crumpled, etc). ![]() But then, on Monday, it is cut up and holes are poked into it. The Perfect Square starts out with a square, perfect with four equal sides and four perfect corners. I am always on the lookout for books that bridge the gap between board books and full-on, lengthy-text picture books (Ella isn’t really ready to sit through many readings of, say, One Morning in Maine). Perfect Square is such a clever, simple book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lily is the oldest child of a Chinese-American family living in San Francisco’s Chinatown, and her world revolves around the neighborhood and its community. ![]() She’s fascinated by the idea of rockets and space, and dreams of one day working alongside her aunt at the Jet Propulsion Lab. Lily Hu is a high school senior who loves math, science, and reading Arthur C. ![]() Last Night at the Telegraph Club is a beautiful, sensitively told story of a young woman in 1950s San Francisco, discovering her sexuality, finding first love, and navigating her place in the world of Chinatown and beyond. With deportation looming over her father-despite his hard-won citizenship-Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club.Īmerica in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. It was about two women, and they fell in love with each other.” And then Lily asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its leaves and demanding to be shown the sun: “Have you ever heard of such a thing?” A story of love and duty set in San Francisco’s Chinatown during the Red Scare. ![]() ![]() All of which we learned about in the first book. The continuing fight between Adrian and the Russians. The story leading up to chapter 20 was nothing but repetition. At that point the story began where I was hoping it would have started in the first chapter, picking up where the story left off in VOD. I didn't find myself invested until I hit chapter 20. With the exception of a couple of chapters on the back story of Lia, I had absolutely no interest whatsoever and kept waiting for something to happen. I so LOVED the first book, Vow of Deception, and couldn't fathom the follow-up being anything less than stellar.īut.I'm sitting here writing my review and I feel pretty crappy about the book as a whole. ![]() ![]() I was so excited to get into this book this morning, I sat down and powered through in one sitting. ![]() ** Mostly lacking an engaging follow up to Vow of Deception. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She recalls finding among her grandfather's things a poster he had been given to tack over his boarding school bed. Mary looks back at the history of Indian boarding schools and names them as the "white Indian-lovers' " solution to the "Indian problem." In order to prevent the outright extermination of the Indians, these people established schools where Indian children were to become "useful farmhands, laborers and chambermaids who will break their backs for you at low wages." ![]() (who) like all Sioux, were a horse people, fierce riders and raiders, great warriors." But the Sioux were all driven into reservations between 18, and their children, like Mary and her sister Barbara, were forceably sent to boarding schools. "I belong to the "Burned Thigh,' the Brule Tribe. Born into harsh poverty on the Rosebud reservation in South Dakota, Mary experienced the bitter lot of a formerly proud people. Her simple sentence, "That is not easy," echoes through the narrative as stark understatement. I am a woman of the Red Nation, a Sioux woman. "I am Mary Brave Bird," she writes "After I had my baby during the siege of Wounded Knee they gave me a special name _ Ohitika Win, Brave Woman, and fastened an eagle plume in my hair, singing brave-heart songs for me. The narrator establishes herself as one of the women determined to keep her nation alive. ![]() |