![]() ![]() ![]() Told through Nisha's letters to her mother, The Night Diary is a heartfelt story of one girl's search for home, for her own identity.and for a hopeful future. But even if her country has been ripped apart, Nisha still believes in the possibility of putting herself back together. The journey is long, difficult, and dangerous, and after losing her mother as a baby, Nisha can't imagine losing her homeland, too. When Papa decides it's too dangerous to stay in what is now Pakistan, Nisha and her family become refugees and embark first by train but later on foot to reach her new home. It's the story of a Hindu family whose home, once in India, becomes part of Muslim Pakistan when British colonial rule ends and religious violence erupts between once-peaceful neighbors. ![]() Half-Muslim, half-Hindu twelve-year-old Nisha doesn't know where she belongs, or what her country is anymore. Parents need to know that Veera Hiranandani's The Night Diary was named a 2019 Newbery Honor Book. The divide has created much tension between Hindus and Muslims, and hundreds of thousands are killed crossing borders. It's 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and India. In the vein of Inside Out and Back Again and The War That Saved My Life comes a poignant, personal, and hopeful tale of India's partition, and of one girl's journey to find a new home in a divided country ![]()
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![]() Marcus Tanner reviewed the book in The Independent: The Soul of the World was first published by Princeton University Press in 1994. Scruton discusses the meaning of the sacred, evaluating and criticizing theories such as those of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, as put forward in works such as Totem and Taboo (1913), and the anthropologist René Girard, as put forward in works such as Violence and the Sacred (1972). Scruton supports the concept of "cognitive dualism", which means that a human can be explained both as a physical organism, and as a subjective person who relates to the world through concepts which do not belong in physical sciences, and without which it would not be possible to understand human life. ![]() ![]() The author argues for the reality of a transcendent dimension, and maintains that the experience of the sacred plays a decisive role even in a secular society. ![]() ![]() For one, both men served in the military – de Saint-Exupéry in the French Air Force, Dallaire in the Canadian Army and, later, as force commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR). ![]() ![]() The parallels between the authors do not end with their books. Dallaire’s muse makes a patent impression on They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children : 2 war is an adult matter, and child soldiers who find themselves fighting in one are (in Dallaire’s largely autobiographical and partly fictional account) as bewildered as the Little Prince when confronted with the unintelligible preoccupations of grown-ups. Introduction As inspiration for his manifesto on “the global quest to eradicate the use of child soldiers,” Roméo Dallaire draws from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince 1 – the classic, illustrated novella apparently written for children yet treasured by adults. Oxford University Press, New York, NY 2012, 239 pp. Drumbl, Reimagining Child Soldiers in International Law and Policy. Roméo Dallaire, They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children. ![]() Drumbl Book review: They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children, written by Roméo Dallaire Book. Book review: They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children, written by Roméo Dallaire Book review: Reimagining Child Soldiers in International Law and Policy, written by Mark A. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And while I won’t go on a rant about how much Bill Maher needs to just go sit down somewhere and not worry about his lawn being tread on by us geeks, I would like to give him, and many other doubters, a copy of Grant Morrison’s Supergods. And while most people at least accept the existence of a multi-media world of capes and quips, some people don’t like it, screaming at the sky that comics and superheroes are the end of culture. Will: You, me, myself, I, and all of our parents know we live in a superhero world now. This week’s entries come from: Will Johnson, Ali Sciarabba, John Bernardy, Bryan O’Donnell, and Caemeron Crain. ![]() They won’t always be new to the world, but they’ll be new to us, or we hope new to you. Each week a rotating cast of writers will offer their recommendations based on things they have discovered. But have no fear! We’re here to help you do that thing I just described with three different metaphors. ![]() In our internet age, there is so much out there to think about watching, reading, listening to, etc., that it can be hard to separate the wheat from the chaff, filter out the noise, or find those diamonds in the rough. Welcome to What’s the Buzz, 25YL’s feature where members of our staff provide you with recommendations on a weekly basis. ![]() ![]() ![]() I enjoyed this book so much! I went into it not quite sure how I was going to feel about it considering that Hank had never written a book, so I couldn’t really go in with any expectations. “Even on this most terrible of days, even when the worst of us are all we can think of, I am proud to be a human.” – p275 Now April has to deal with the pressure on her relationships, her identity, and her safety that this new position brings, all while being on the front lines of the quest to find out not just what the Carls are, but what they want from us News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around the world–everywhere from Beijing to Buenos Aires–and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the center of an intense international media spotlight. The next day April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship–like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor–April and her friend Andy make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. Coming home from work at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. ![]() Synopsis (From Goodreads): The Carls just appeared. Series(?): The first (I think it will be a duology) “You can only do so much pretending before you become the thing you’re pretending to be.” – p71 ![]() ![]() ![]() The print version of a knee-slapping cumulative ditty. The piece has something of a split personality, and the Winnie-the-Pooh angle comes so late it seems almost an afterthought.īeautiful but bifurcated, with the two stories in one making it a challenge to determine the audience. A photo album includes snapshots of Winnie with her soldiers and with Christopher Robin. Mattick’s prose has a storyteller’s rhythm and features the occasional flourish (repeating “his heart made up his mind”) Blackall’s watercolor-and-ink illustrations have a peaceful stillness that’s welcome in a book that, though not about combat, concerns the trappings of war. Milne, of course-takes the name and runs with it. ![]() Christopher Robin names his stuffed bear Winnie-the-Pooh after her, and his father-A.A. “That’s the end of Harry and Winnie’s story,” but another section begins, about a boy named Christopher Robin Milne who plays with Winnie at the London Zoo. ![]() Mom tells little Cole about Harry, a veterinarian in Winnipeg “about a hundred years before you were born.” En route to his World War I muster, Harry buys a bear cub from a trapper and names her Winnipeg “so we’ll never be far from home.” Winnie travels overseas with the Canadian soldiers to training in England, but when they ship out to France for actual combat, Harry leaves her at the London Zoo. A mother tells a true bedtime story about the bear that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh’s name. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, someone has stolen a powerful magical talisman from the Fairy Queen, and she blames England magicians in general and Prunella in particular, threatening to put them all to death if the item is not returned. ![]() Muna takes refuge with Prunella Wythe, Britain’s controversial Sorceress Royal, who has opened up an Academy to teach young women to become magiciennes. The powerful witch Mak Genggang grants the two young women her protection, but their effort to determine who cursed them takes them to England-or at least, it takes Muna Sakti is lost during the perilous journey through Fairy. Cho returns to the magical alternate Regency England of Sorcerer to the Crown (2015).Ī storm at sea leaves sisters Sakti and Muna washed up on the beach at Janda Baik without their memories and suffering from a curse. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mathieu deftly paints a very sensitive - and very realistic - portrait of a young girl whose education has effectively ended but who has so much more that she wants to learn. ![]() She reads the blog of Lauren, an older girl who left their community, and Rachel begins to question whether she really wants the path that’s set out for her: marriage, childbirth, and an end to her education. As Rachel’s mother struggles through depression, Rachel cares for and teaches her younger siblings, escapes into forbidden books, and begins to wonder about the world outside. In her novel, Devoted, Jennifer Mathieu enters the world of Rachel, a dutiful homeschooled daughter and sister to five younger siblings. ![]() ![]() ![]() The academic in me needs to note here that the edition of the novel I’m using is the one that appears The Complete Battles of Hastings, Vol. The blurb also asserted that, not only had she won the bet, she had also introduced ‘a new type of detective’ in the form of Hercule Poirot. Agatha Christie had wagered that she could write a detective novel in which the reader would be unable to spot the murderer, despite being given exactly the same clues as the detective. ![]() According to the dust jacket of the first edition, the book was the result of a bet. The novel was published in the US in October 1920, and then by Bodley Head in the UK in early 1921. The final instalment of the story included an advert for a full edition, to be published by John Lane in the US. ![]() ![]() It was first published as an eighteen-part serial in The Weekly Times (the colonial edition of The Times) between February and June 1920. The Mysterious Affair at Styles was Agatha Christie’s first novel. ![]() ![]() (Ross wasn’t so good at singing and dancing, as it would turn out, though the stage and screen renditions of Ms. Ross would be the inspiration for the character Sally Bowles, most famously brought to life by Liza Minnelli in Cabaret, the film inspired by Isherwood’s novel Goodbye to Berlin. It was in that apartment that Isherwood met Jean Ross, the successful journalist and activist who wished instead for a life as a cabaret artist. ![]() So he boarded the day-long train from London to Berlin, sojourning for just a few weeks at first but eventually spending nearly two and a half years in the Schöneberg flat he shared with a dozen other lost souls. Before he became one of Berlin’s defining literary voices, Isherwood defied his mother’s wishes by moving to the German capital in the first place-a choice he made because, as he writes in his autobiography, Christopher and His Kind, “Berlin meant boys.” Tsk tsk. ![]() The English writer Christopher Isherwood never did as he was told. ![]() |