![]() ![]() Our very youngest readers need to be exposed to a full spectrum of stories from different cultures. Read our review Coming to England: An Inspiring True Story Celebrating the Windrush Generation by Floella Benjamin, illustrated by Diane Ewen All power to Floella Benjamin, a national treasure with a story we can all celebrate. Readers will find a friend in these pages, learning much about what it was like to enter a new, often intimidating, world and make a truly astonishing journey. Written and illustrated for young children, this is a beautiful and poignant book detailing the experiences of Floella herself, as she came to Britain from Trinidad in 1948. Read our review Coming to England by Floella Benjamin, illustrated by Michael Frith The learning opportunities are vast and varied, with a depth of information that sheds much-needed light upon marginalised narratives. This children’s version of Olusoga’s Black and British: A Forgotten History, provides an accessible but sophisticated introduction to the rich history of black communities in Britain. Musical Truth author Jeffrey Boakye shares nine essential books for children learning about Black British history.īlack and British: A Short, Essential History by David Olusoga ![]() ![]() Nine essential books on Black British history ![]()
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![]() ![]() And it also made me sympathetic towards the oblivious wife.Īnyways, after first few chapters, one thing was clear that the couple had dual lives. It was odd at that time because the story was just beginning. Then comes home to tell his wife that she isn’t their next victim without any reason. The story begins with the husband cheating on his wife with one of their potential victims. ![]() After checking this one on goodreads, I downloaded and started listening. On reading the synopsis, I was intrigued. This was the first one that came on the list. And I had to again put a filter for thrillers and mysteries. One night after putting my baby to sleep, I opened Overdrive app and put on the filter for available audiobooks. I was parched for a good book and didn’t want to wait for the ones I wanted to listen or read. ![]() Source: goodreads Why did I choose this book?Īll through 2019, I could only listen or read few books. Ours just happens to be getting away with murder. We all have secrets to keeping a marriage alive. We’re your neighbors, the parents of your kid’s friend, the acquaintances you keep meaning to get dinner with. We told each other our biggest dreams, and our darkest secrets. ![]() Smith in this wildly compulsive debut thriller about a couple whose fifteen-year marriage has finally gotten too interesting… My Lovely Wife By Samantha Downing Summaryĭexter meets Mr. ![]() ![]() Part of the reason I didn’t like the first book was that the characters were not three dimensional enough for me. I found character development to be the strongest part of Mafi’s writing in these novels. ![]() I am glad I did this because the books did keep improving and I was hooked by the third book. ![]() However, I had bought all three books as a set and so wanted to persevere so as to feel like I hadn’t wasted my money, like the tight stingy person I am. I really wasn’t sure about the writing style, which was modern, and seemed to ramble slightly. This is a series I was majorly conflicted about when I first started reading it. Just before I start, this series review is only for Book 1, 2 and 3 of the series (i.e Shatter Me, Unravel Me, Ignite Me.) All of the other spinoffs and the new Restore Me might come up in a later review, or I might re-edit this one, but for the moment it’s just going to be the original series. Quick summary: Slow starter, but once I got into it I did enjoy it. Shatter Me (1), Unravel Me (2), and Ignite Me (3) ![]() ![]() ![]() Sandoval mourned his childhood friend on social media last week. His sister, Rabia, told TMZ that he was found collapsed on the floor. The Rafiqs buried Ali Saturday shortly after his body was released to them. She previously said there wouldn’t be an official cause of death “for weeks” pending test results. Rabia revealed that Ali’s death certificate lists “organ failure” as the cause of death, but the family is waiting for toxicology reports to see if there’s more to the story. Ariana Madix’s late friend Ali Rafiq was found dead in his parents’ house Friday. Rabia also told TMZ that her brother had no known illnesses other than asthma, which was never a serious issue for him.Īli’s sister also shared that there were no signs of foul play, and no indicators as to why he collapsed. that day - about three hours after they believe he passed away. It appeared as if Ali had fallen and hit his head on a table, Rabia shared with the outlet. Rafiq’s sister, Rabia Rafiq, told TMZ that her mother found Ali on the floor of her St. Tom Sandoval calls Ariana Madix ‘motherf–ker’ in extended ‘Pump Rules’ reunion sceneĪriana Madix and Tom Sandoval’s late friend Ali Rafiq was found dead at his parents’ house, according to a new report. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We are told in the first sentence that they are ‘young, educated and both virgins’ and she is unwilling to alter this state. Repression, fear and even loathing run through her mind as she braces herself for what is to come after their meal. Florence comes dangerously close to adhering to the stereotypical definition of an English man or woman, that is, frigid and repressed, but McEwan just manages to swerve away from this by giving glimpses of her thoughts and memories. It begins with Florence and Edward dining on the first night of their honeymoon, and this stays as the main focus of the plot. This is a relatively short novel, divided into five chapters, and is a condensed insight into a relationship that is founded on misunderstanding and reticence. Set in 1962, On Chesil Beach evokes a repressive England still trapped in post war gloom and only nods to the beginning of a new, freer decade. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are echoes here of Spike Lee’s fizzy Aristophanes riff “Chi-Raq” in its application of yellowed scholarly texts to a fraught, fragmented urban American landscape - though the allegory here is too unspecific, and the cinematic language too restrained, to punch us between the eyes.Īt the outset, “Ovid and the Art of Love” would appear to be a poetic primer for teens, the kind of film that comes as a godsend to harried literature teachers even if it fancies itself more down with the kids than it really is. The result isn’t dull, but it’s unclear at any point whether “Ovid and the Art of Love” is pitching its subject to high school students, college students or more esoterically inclined enthusiasts. The film positions him as a smooth-talking player who also happens to be dourly serious about his art and its political impact: expanded from an earlier short, von Hoffman’s script dedicates itself to the notion of “practical poetry” by mixing its more solemn academic lines of inquiry with goofier strains of modern whimsy. This is an Ovid, then, who wears Converse chucks and a hoodie over his hessian robes - as one might just about expect from any ancient Roman poet played by springy, likable “High School Musical” alumnus Corbin Bleu. ![]() ![]() ![]() Winters is the author of the “pre-apocalyptic” Last Policeman series as well as an alternate-reality vision of an America in which the Civil War never happened ( Underground Airlines). But this Golden State is no paradise of transparent communication and human connection it is a total surveillance state, a dystopia that relies on capturing each tiny truth of every minute of each day of its citizens' lives, in order to archive and, if necessary, verify the “Objectively So.” The bulk of the story is an intense exploration of the consequences of this social contract based on the total dependence on truth and the categorical rejection of lies. In Winters’s alternative California (which seems to be limited to suburban Los Angeles) in Golden State, truth is valued above all, which would seem to be a “golden state” indeed, in contrast to our current muddle. ![]() Winters’s new novel, Golden State, seems to be a Swiftian, post-Trumpian satire, a portrait of a culture based on a total ban on untruth, suggesting that the novel is a response to the lies that have dominated American politics in the current administration. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2016 Smartphone Media Production showed its readers how to plan, capture, edit and distribute content (branded photography, audio, video and live streams) with only their phones. Robb has over sixteen years of experience in the field as well as an award-winning degree in Broadcast Production. It is written by award-winning filmmaker, professional digital marketer and content creator Robb Wallace. Smartphone Smart Marketing is the follow-up book to the successful title Smartphone Media Production. You have the technology and this book will give you the knowledge and practical skills to use it. If you have a smartphone, then you are ready to create and build an audience for your brand or business. It is time to become the content creator and marketeer you always dreamed of being? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While political events drive the story, Dickens takes a decidedly antipolitical tone, lambasting both aristocratic tyranny and revolutionary excess-the latter memorably caricatured in Madame Defarge, who knits beside the guillotine. The scenes of large-scale mob violence are especially vivid, if superficial in historical understanding.The complex plot involves Sydney Carton's sacrifice of his own life on behalf of his friends Charles Darnay and Lucie Manette. Although Dickens borrowed from Thomas Carlyle's history, The French Revolution, for his sprawling tale of London and revolutionary Paris, the novel offers more drama than accuracy. The story is set in the late 18th century against the background of the French Revolution. ![]() Book excerpt: A Tale of Two Cities, novel by Charles Dickens, published both serially and in book form in 1859. This book was released on with total page 408 pages. Book Synopsis A Tale of Two Cities "Annotated" by : Charles Dickensĭownload or read book A Tale of Two Cities "Annotated" written by Charles Dickens and published by. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At a nightclub, she chances to meet Dexter Styles again, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life, the reasons he might have vanished. She is the sole provider for her mother, a farm girl who had a brief and glamorous career with the Ziegfeld Follies, and her lovely, severely disabled sister. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war.Īnna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. ![]() The long-awaited, daring, and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad. ![]() |