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Ghismonda, disheartened by her father’s stern threats against Guiscardo, held her own life above her father’s head as a threat saying, “I certify thee, that whatsoever thou hast done or shalt do with Guiscardo, a thou do not the like with me, mine own hands shall do it” (P. For example, Ghismonda’s relationship with her father Tancrede in Day IV portrays a bond which the female holds power over the male. In fact, women seem to have an upper hand in many aspects of male-female relationships. Yet, Boccaccio demonstrates that a woman’s lack of social standing does not influence her levels of control in any sort of relationship. In the society that The Decameron takes place in, women have been trapped in a lower social standing than men. Gender disparities are a very significant portion of Boccaccio’s writing, and the different portrayals of men and women are obvious. Especially Guillermo – his inner monologue is so self-aware I frequently forgot he was just a teenager. I’ve read adult romances with less mature characters than Regan and Guillermo. My biggest complaint is that though this book really does a good job of handling issues that teenagers will likely empathize with, the characters read as way older than they are. I think it tackles questions that teenagers care about – like what to do when your parents have a specific vision for you and you aren’t interested in that version of your life at all, or how do you come back from a big mistake? Regan and Guillermo are both dealing with things that all teenagers go through on some level – disappointing your parents or feeling like nobody knows who you are, really. Regardless of my complete ignorance of what to talk about in this review, I really did enjoy The Right Side of Reckless. The Right Side of Reckless is the very first young adult contemporary novel I’ve reviewed, and as I was reading it, it occurred to me I have no idea how to review YA contemporary! I’ve reviewed plenty of YA fantasy before, and there’s a lot to talk about there in terms of world building and such, and I’ve reviewed adult romance novels, but I feel sketchy talking about young adult characters in the same way I would for an adult book. He went to the Abbey, smiled and looked free and unbroken, then he got out immediately. Well, the exact same thing happened with the coronation: after all of that build-up, after all of the broadcasts interrupting the king and queen’s gold coach traveling through London just to show Harry’s arrival, after all of British outlets obsessively detailing where Harry would sit, how he would dress, how his brother would refuse to speak to him, after all of that… Harry just left. Except the British media was stalking their every move, so there were a million articles about how the Sussexes left in a huff because of the sh-tty way the Windsors and the media treated them. They didn’t make a big show of it, they just got the f–k out of Dodge. There were so many recycled storylines between the Jubbly and the Chubbly, and my favorite is still “how dare Prince Harry leave so early when we were being so mean to him!!” Last year, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex quietly left the UK on the last day of the “Jubbly weekend,” during the whole concert mess. It’s a difficult one to love, with shallow characterisations and a plot that’s all surface. The book is a mix of Becky Chambers style small stories and gung-ho space opera. But when the dominoes start to fall and she finds the real threat is greater than she imagined, she must decide whether to play it cool or burn it all down. To free her sister, Eva will risk everything: her crew, her ship, and the life she’s built on the ashes of her past misdeeds. The worse things get, the more she lies, raising suspicions and testing her loyalty to her found family. The ship’s hold is full of psychic cats, an amorous fish-faced emperor wants her dead after she rejects his advances, and her sweet engineer is giving her a pesky case of feelings. When her sister Mari is kidnapped by The Fridge, a shadowy syndicate that holds people hostage in cryostasis, Eva must undergo a series of unpleasant, dangerous missions to pay the ransom.īut Eva may lose her mind before she can raise the money. A hilarious, offbeat debut space opera that skewers everything from pop culture to video games and features an irresistible foul-mouthed captain and her motley crew, strange life forms, exciting twists, and a galaxy full of fun and adventure.Ĭaptain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for even smaller profits. Which will make them neighbors on the site of a Civil War battlefield, theyĪgree that their homes are monuments to that war.ĭuring the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, a mother and son shelter a young Confederate deserter. When a company of black Union soldiers tells Li'l Dan that he is no longer a salve, he follows them, and uses his beloved drum to save them from attack.Īs a black boy and his white friend watch the construction of a house Played marbles using old bullets for shooters. September 1862, Fort Craig, Munfordville, Kentucky. What happened there, Papaw asks them to quit because he knows a better Home if his father goes off to fight in the Civil War.Īfter her father leaves the family farm on Lost Mountain to be General Lee's guide, Addie finds ways to remember him-even when he does not return at the end of the war.Ģ young boys playing on a Civil War battlefield begin to imitate KEY: jP = Picture Books jZ = 1st and 2nd Grade Readers jE = 3rd and 4th Grade Readers J = 5th Grade and UpĪ boy thinks about the possible scenarios that exist for him at But Lennie does possess a simple soul and a heart of gold, which alone makes this tale all the more tragic. He is, for lack of another word, mentally retarded. George is a small framed man, lean and dwarfed in comparison to his companion Lennie, the tall large strong man, but what Lennie has in strength and size he lacks in smarts. The story focuses mainly on George Milton and Lennie Small, but as you read you'll notice that a few supporting characters play a big role in the heartbreak that this novel conveys. Steinbeck's accounting of sheer loneliness and desperation is so brilliantly captured that the reader is brought to tears (for me in a literal sense) to realize that this is all these people had to live for, a pipe dream that refused to die. It took me a measly three hours to read John Steinbeck's classic tragedy `Of Mice and Men', a novel that, while written in 1937, still holds so true today. Tale of depression, loneliness and pure desperation, a tragedy that rings true even today. They’re very separate entities in the comics, and though either would suit a story (and Nemesis system) well, it may be the case that the game studio is taking some liberties and merging the two somehow, or perhaps even making them adversarial. The only part of all this Owl talk that is confusing is how it ties into the League of Assassins. With so many Talons able to roam the open world of Gotham, WB Montreal’s next game could carry the torch which has mostly stayed surprisingly dormant under the Warner Bros. But that Nemesis system never quite took off the way many expected and hoped it would. We’ve since seen Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed employ a similar system and it always seemed like WB’s Mad Max was once intended to have a Nemesis system too and maybe they ran out of time. The nature of the Court of Owls also lends itself to a Nemesis system, like that in the Middle-earth games from WB and Monolith. Joshi and Peter Cannon provide another rare opportunity to look into the mind of a genius. Now, in this second volume of annotated tales, Lovecraft scholars S. Lovecraft is one of America's giants of the horror genre. Did Lovecraft believe in ghosts or paranormal phenomena? In what story does the narrator fear riding the Boston T? A pathfinder in the literary territory of the macabre, H.P. Explore the marvelous complexity of Lovecraft's writing-including his use of literary allusions, biographical details, and obscure references in this rich, in-depth exploration of great horror fiction from the acknowledged master of the weird, including the stories "Herbert West-Reanimator", "Pickman's Model", "The Call of Cthulhu", "The Thing on the Doorstep", "The Horror at Red Hook" and more. |