![]() Galeano tells us that it is where memory continues to reside. Interestingly enough, the romantic Romans believed that memory comes from the heart. On the other hand, the English ‘to remember’ derives from the Latin ‘rememorari’, meaning ‘ call to mind‘. If we analyze the roots of recordare in Latin, we can see that it contains the word ‘cor’ which means ‘heart’. From Vulgar Latin recordāre, from Latin recordārī, present active infinitive of recordor. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. Galeano reminds us of the etymology of the verb ‘remembering’ ( recordar in Spanish). Everything: the soil, its fruits, and its mineral-rich depths, the people and their capacity to work and to consume, natural resources and human resources.” Why is remembering so important? Everything from the discovery until our times has always been transmuted into European–or later–United States– capital, and as such has accumulated on distant centers of power. “Latin America is the region of open veins. The land of the “open veins”, as Galeano puts it, can only be saved through memory. A continent that radiates warmth could turn into anything but oblivion. Galeano had for mission to save his cherished continent from the unmerciful claws of oblivion. ![]() “I’m a writer,” he said, “obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia.” ![]()
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![]() ![]() And though Plath never really described many characters as to their personality, I began to feel I knew them all intimately. The writing that I was a little sketchy about at first helped me visualize the setting and get to know the characters. But that only remained within the first two pages, because after that I became absorbed. I went into the novel knowing that Plath was a poet and felt that at first the book was just another form of her poetry and her showing off her writing abilities. Her descriptions were crisp and precise, often using words that one rarely hears spoken or even read. When I first started reading the book I was a little put off, feeling it was an extremely pretensious novel. I assure you, The Bell Jar is a book all on it's own and should not be compared to any other book. I liked Catcher but I know there are many people who didn't and upon hearing that may be similar to Catcher not have the desire to read it. ![]() ![]() I was a little caught of guard when I read a few reviews of The Bell Jar comparing it to The Catcher in the Rye stating how it's the female version of it. I am gladly considering myself one of them. There are many who have read The Bell Jar and absolutely loved it. ![]() ![]() ![]() People break our hearts, but they create more room in them first, and that room makes it possible for us to become more ourselves. ![]() The key is to not be afraid of the breaking. You will move through life and fall in love with many different people, and at some point, you will get your heart broken. It is the lesbian high school rom-com we were all waiting for. I adored this novel and its themes, and I highly recommend it. She Drives Me Crazy is a novel about growth-growing away from toxic relationships, growing past grief, growing into someone new, growing with your family and friends. If I could use one word to describe this book, it would be growth. She works hard to prove that cheerleading is a competitive sport that people should take just as seriously as any other sport. I like how this book also destroys stereotypical tropes-Irene, the most popular girl at school, comes out as a lesbian. The main character, Scottie, has such an incredible development arc. I loved this book so much, especially how it was more than just a romance. Fake dating, angst, and grand love gestures certainly helped, though. She Drives Me Crazy is among several novels I recently read where I realized maybe I enjoy this trope from time to time. ![]() Thoughts: Honestly, before April, I had no idea I was such a simp for enemies to lovers, and yet, here we are. ![]() ![]() ![]() Giving an extensive look at who this character was, what she is, where she came from, and why she is in Night Vale ran the risk of making her too familiar and no longer creepy. We never knew how or why she was living in everybody’s homes, and we didn’t need to know. Part of what makes the Faceless Old Woman so interesting and creepy as a character in the series, when used sparingly, is her mystique. I look forward to all Welcome to Night Vale novels, but despite how much I like this character and love how she is performed by Mara Wilson, the premise of this novel inspired a lot of misgivings. ![]() Narrated by the Faceless Old Woman herself, this novel tells her entire life story, from her birth in the Mediterranean in the early 19 th century all the way to how she first came to Night Vale, intercut throughout with her meddling in the life of Craig, a young man living in Night Vale in the 2010s. Often menacing, yet sometimes obtusely helpful, who she might have been and where she came from had always been an unknown. The Faceless Old Woman is a mysterious, spectral figure who has haunted the homes of Night Vale in the series for years now. The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor is the third standalone novel set in the world of the Welcome to Night Vale podcast series created and written by the authors. ![]() ![]() What did it mean, don’t come home? I looked back at my calls and texts from the day. I sat around for five minutes, fingers nervously picking at the rubber iPhone cover. ![]() But if my sister was telling me not to come home, I wasn’t in a huge rush. coffee break meant I took my latte back to my motorbike, Put–Put, which was parked a few blocks away, and finished it on the walk there. –What do you mean?– I sent it and decided to plunk myself at a table that was miraculously empty at this caffeine rush hour. ![]() I put the coffee back down on the condiments counter and texted her back. I was simultaneously disturbed and puzzled. Before I got a chance to get excited, I noticed it was from Ada, not Dex. I brought out my phone but noticed I already had a text message. ![]() I wanted to text Dex and tell him what happened. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her family moved many times during her childhood because her father was a traveling salesman consequently, Naylor doesn't consider any single place "home." She spent summer vacations with her grandparents. ![]() Naylor was born on January 4, 1933, in Anderson, Indiana, to Eugene S. Naylor hopes that by writing about sensitive topics and exposing her readers to characters and ideas that are different, she can encourage them to become more open minded. She also writes humorous mysteries (the Bessledorf series) and books about the supernatural (the York trilogy and the Witch trilogy). She writes about serious issues such as mental illness in The Keeper, crib death in A Story of Chances, and difficult moral questions in Shiloh. Naylor's books portray her understanding of the trials and tribulations of childhood and adolescence. Her protagonists, or main characters, are strong, honest, determined characters that mature as a result of having prevailed despite adversity. She has been described as prolific (she has written over one hundred books, most of which are for children and young adults) and versatile (she writes picture books, fiction, nonfiction, and instruction books). Phyllis Reynolds Naylor is an American author and journalist. ![]() Study Help for All 1990s Newbery Medal Winners.Introduction to the 1990s Newbery Medal Winners. ![]() ![]() What I loved was the descriptions of life in a small Colorado town the landscape the story of the tramp the description of remains of the caves of the Pueblo indians. The narration was ok, but I found the voice a little harsh. There is also a lot about what I'd call "the struggle of the artist, and for integrity" and while I do not dispute that every artist of any sort endures this type of agony, it doesn't make great listening if you've been there before. ![]() Not being an opera fan and not having a word of German, I found the theme less than riveting. The main character here is Thea, a girl from Colorado who eventually succeeds against the odds in becoming an opera singer. I loved My Antonia, and liked O Pioneers! by the same author, but this tale was less engrossing. The Song of the Lark is one of several works in which Cather displayed her lyrical powers and in which she. Even though she eventually marries a man who loves her, it is her career that brings her complete fulfillment. The heroine, Thea Kronborg, overcomes many hardships to become a leading Wagnerian soprano at the Metropolitan Opera. ![]() Unlike Thea Kronberg, the heroine, a passionate and talented young girl, this semi-autobiographical novel burns slowly, and the 15 hours have taken me months to listen to, the story being not as gripping as my usual fare. Song of the Lark, novel by Willa Cather, published in 1915. ![]() ![]() The result – Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen – is a bit heavy on history, a bit light on the juicy melodrama, with some very old-fashioned storytelling tropes – in short, a solid novel although not a perfect one. ![]() Was she pushed by her ambitious family? Was she truly the docile angel she was later enshrined as? Alison Weir – well known writer of biographical fiction and straight historical biography, and who in fact has written multiple historical biographies about Jane – tries to answer these questions through the medium of fiction, writing about the young queen’s life from the day she leaves an attempt at an ecclesiastical life to the day she dies in her royal bed. The story of Jane Seymour’s rise to the throne (and her subsequent death after bringing forth Henry VIII’s only male heir) has been well chronicled by many. ![]() ![]() ![]() What Rachel finds hidden deep within the Company will change everything and everyone. If Wick is hiding secrets, so is Rachel - and Borne most of all. But he reminds Rachel of her homeland, an island nation long lost to rising seas, and she prevents her lover, Wick, from rendering down Borne as raw genetic material for the special kind of drugs he sells.īut nothing is quite the way it seems: not the past, not the present, not the future. She names it Borne.Īt first Borne looks like nothing at all - a green lump that might be a discard from the Company. A scavenger, Rachel, finds a creature entangled in his fur. 'But like a person, you can be a weapon, too.'Ī ruined city of the future lives in fear of a despotic, gigantic flying bear, driven mad by the tortures inflicted on him by the Company, a mysterious biotech firm. ![]() 'Yes, you are a person,' Rachel tells him. ![]() 'Am I a person?' Borne asks Rachel, in extremis. A novel that is simultaneously harrowing, dark, dangerous, funny and uplifting from the author of the Southern Reach trilogy. ![]() ![]() The story is a nifty murder mystery set in a distant future Earth in which humanity now lives in enclosed city-sized buildings known as, of course, Cities. But most of those scenes really don't damage the end result in any significant way. Truth to tell, there are sequences where the book shows its age a bit. That may be arguable, but The Caves of Steel, after over half a century, remains a tremendously satisfying reading experience. One of the most famous and popular of SF's enduring classics, The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov's 11th novel, is a prime example of virtually flawless storytelling and is even held by some to be the best novel Asimov ever wrote. ![]() ![]() Book cover art by Stephen Youll (1st) Michael Whelan (2nd) John Berkey (3rd). ![]() |