5/13/2023 0 Comments Junky by William S. BurroughsThroughout the novel, Lee’s dependence on ‘junk’ waxes and wanes: attempts to wean himself off the drug are followed by downward spirals into renewed addiction, leading him to become a dealer himself to make ends meet, which then frequently results in incarceration. It is heavily based on the author’s own experiences as a drug addict, although it was initially published under the pseudonym William Lee – which is also the name of the first-person narrator – to prevent possible repercussions. Junkie is a brutally honest depiction of life as a drug addict in 20th-century America. This clear and detailed 50-page reading guide is structured as follows: The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s plot, characters and main themes, including addiction, crime and sexuality. 9782808012881 50 EBook Plurilingua Publishing This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Junkie by William S.
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5/13/2023 0 Comments The Spare Room by Helen GarnerAs it wears on, the narrative becomes clouded by litanies of worsening symptoms and platitudes about death, and Helen’s bickering about the treatment-while valid-become grating and tiresome. Helen Garners perceptive novel confronts death, dying, and the boundaries of friendship. Garner paints Nicola’s unflinching optimism with a heavy hand, and her grand naïveté is unconvincing, a flaw that’s hard to overlook in a novel about a cancer patient. The central conflict of the story centers around these treatments: Helen fears they may be doing more harm than good, while Nicola has undying faith in the unorthodox practices of the Theodore Institute (these revolve around vitamin C injections), leading Helen to question her ability to care for someone so deep in denial. Helen prepares a room in her Melbourne home for Nicola, an old friend who travels from Sydney to begin a course of alternative treatment for bowel cancer. Skeptical of the medical establishment, and placing all her faith in an alternative health center, Nicola is determined to find her own way to deal with her. ) employs her signature realism in this stunted novel about the infuriating and eye-opening experience of caring for a terminally ill loved one. Helen has little idea what lies aheadand what strength she must musterwhen she offers her spare room to an old friend, Nicola, who has arrived in the city for cancer treatment. The Spare Room is a 2008 novel by Australian writer Helen Garner, set over the course of three weeks while the narrator, Helen, cares for a friend dying of. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Night Road by Kristin HannahIn the blink of an eye, the Farraday family will be torn apart and Lexi will lose everything. One decision will change the course of their lives. On a hot summer’s night her worst fears come true. Nothing feels safe anymore every time her kids leave the house, she worries about them. It has always been easy–until senior year of high school. Jude does everything to keep her kids safe and on track for college. Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable. Lexi, a former foster child with a dark past, quickly becomes Mia’s best friend. When Lexi Baill moves into their small, close knit community, no one is more welcoming than Jude. Goodreads Synopsis: For a mother, life comes down to a series of choices.įor eighteen years, Jude Farraday has put her children’s needs above her own, and it shows–her twins, Mia and Zach, are bright and happy teenagers. All awardees will join the event in person to accept their honors.Ī new addition to the weekend: the Syracuse University Campus Store will host Military/Veteran Award Winner Eileen Collins for a book signing on Friday, Oct. Mel éndez ’89, and Pixar President Jim Morris ’77, G’78. Collins ’78, H’01 diversity and inclusion trailblazer María D. Awardees include former astronaut and retired U.S. at the new Daniel and Gayle D’Aniello Building, home to the National Veterans Resource Center. Don McPherson ’87 will emcee the program, which is set for Friday, Oct. The Syracuse University Alumni Awards are the highlight of Orange Central. 24, will receive the exclusive Orange Central 2021 T-shirt and discounted pricing on the weekend’s signature programs. Thanks to a high level of interest from the University community, the Office of Alumni Engagement has extended the deadline to sign up for Orange Central homecoming and reunion weekend, being held Oct. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Kelly oram cinder y ellaHollywood sensation Brian Oliver has a reputation for being trouble. The only way she can think of to start healing is by reconnecting with the one person left in the world who's ever meant anything to her-her anonymous Internet best friend, Cinder. If Ella wants to escape her father's home, and her awful new stepfamily, she must convince her doctors that she's capable, both physically and emotionally, of living on her own. After a very difficult recovery, she's been uprooted across the country and forced into the custody of a father that abandoned her when she was a young child. It's been almost a year since 18-year-old Ella Rodriguez was in a car accident that left her crippled, scarred, and without a mother. Genres: Romance, Contemporary, Young Adult If you buy the book using that link, I will receive a small commission from the sale. This post contains affiliate links you can use to purchase the book. I could tell it was part of her process for working out what this was all about. She asked to take a picture of the dead bird with my iPhone. If there was a spirit, where exactly was Oma purporting it might be hanging out? She wanted answers, not abstraction. “Like over there?” Maya asked, pointing to the tall grasses just north of where we were huddled around the lifeless bird. “Some people think animals have spirits that can move outside of their bodies,” Oma tried to explain. When her Oma (grandmother) and I stumbled over our words, she wouldn’t move on. She squatted nearby, staring, for minute after minute after minute and demanded to know what happened. My two-year-old daughter Maya found a dead bird on the beach and became completely transfixed by it. You know, the ones we tell that we think somehow kids won’t interrogate even though we have every shred of evidence that they are intuitive sleuths from day frickin’ one. Higginbotham, for example, warns her tiny readers: Thumbing through it, I was once again reminded of how dumb we are at a grief in this country, generally speaking, and how much we have to learn from even the most basic instincts of children. It’s a beautiful assemblage of a book - as if Romare Bearden himself rose from the dead and created a sequel to Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Or so says Anastasia Higginbotham, the author and illustrator of a new book for kids with that title. Winner of the McGinnis-Ritchie award for its first chapter, Emily Fridlund's propulsive and gorgeously written History of Wolves introduces a new writer of enormous range and talent"- … ( more) As she struggles to find a way out of the sequestered world into which she was born, Linda confronts the life-and-death consequences of the things people do-and fail to do-for the people they love. Over the course of a few days, Linda makes a set of choices that reverberate throughout her life. It seems that her life finally has purpose but with this new sense of belonging she is also drawn into secrets she doesn't understand. And then the young Gardner family moves in across the lake and Linda finds herself welcomed into their home as a babysitter for their little boy, Paul. Grierson is charged with possessing child pornography, the implications of his arrest deeply affect Linda as she wrestles with her own fledgling desires and craving to belong. Isolated at home and an outlander at school, Linda is drawn to the enigmatic, attractive Lily and new history teacher Mr. Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last vestige of a lost counter-culture world. What powerful tension and depth this provides!"-Aimee Bender. ""So delicately calibrated and precisely beautiful that one might not immediately sense the sledgehammer of pain building inside this book. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Shark lady jess keatingAfter earning several college degrees and making countless discoveries, Eugenie wrote herself into the history of science, earning the nickname “Shark Lady.” Through her accomplishments, she taught the world that sharks were to be admired rather than feared and that women can do anything they set their minds to.Īn inspiring story by critically acclaimed zoologist Jess Keating about finding the strength to discover truths that others aren’t daring enough to see. But Eugenie quickly discovered that many people believed sharks to be ugly and scary―and they didn’t think women should be scientists.ĭetermined to prove them wrong, Eugenie devoted her life to learning about sharks. Shark Lady by Jess Keating I Read aloud I Biography books for kids Annie's workshop - Books Read Aloud for Kids 19.8K subscribers Subscribe 164K views 2 years ago To buy the book. She couldn’t imagine anything more exciting than studying these graceful creatures. One of the best science picture books for children, Shark Lady is a must for both teachers and parents alike!Įugenie Clark fell in love with sharks from the first moment she saw them at the aquarium. This is the story of a woman who dared to dive, defy, discover, and inspire. Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean’s Most Fearless Scientist 5/12/2023 0 Comments The adventures of the great brainHe tops his own record for double-dealing."- Horn Book on The Great Brain Reforms "That turn-of-the-century con man extraordinaire, The Great Brain, returns. "As entertaining as ever.readers will fall happily under The Great Brain's spell."- School Library Journal on The Great Brain Does it Again As amusing as the exploits of his brainy older brother!"- School Library Journal on Me and My Little Brain is ready to apply all the tricks he has learned. "Amusing and touching, poking gentle fun at human foibles, this lively story of another day should please readers on any age level."- Chicago Tribune on More Adventures of the Great Brain * emerges as possibly the youngest, and certainly one of the most engaging, con men in print!"- School Library Journal on More Adventures of the Great Brain * "A funny, fast-moving, endearing book that will lap up!"-Kirkus Reviews, starred review for The Great Brain You get similar results with positive experiences: everything else being equal, people prefer the thing that ended on a higher note. Logically, the answer should be the first one-it’s identical to the second, except that it has thirty second less pain at the end. Afterward, they’re asked which of the two experiences they would rather repeat. In the other condition, they’re asked to put their hands in painfully cold water for sixty seconds and then to put their hands in slightly less cold, but still painful water for another thirty seconds. In one condition, people are asked to put their hands in painfully cold water for sixty seconds. The gist of the experiment goes something like this. There’s a famous experiment that looks at people’s perceptions of pain. So I thought I’d take the FIXER blog tour as an opportunity to give readers a look into the way my scientist and writer selves work together when I sit down to write a new book. And the answer is that everything I learn about the power of stories from a scientific standpoint changes the way I write. One of the questions I get a lot as a writer who has a double life as a psychology professor studying the science of books, movies, and television shows is whether or not my work looking at the psychology of stories affects the way I write them. She’s stopping by on the blog tour for her new novel, THE FIXER (published from Bloomsbury USA). We are happy to welcome Jennifer Lynn Barnes to TLT today. |