![]() It is time for some hollyjolly holidays with Narwhal and Jelly!įinally my library had this book! I really like this series and was surprised to find the newest book at one of my libraries. It is perfect for a young child and beginning reader to take turns reading (much like Elephant and Piggie), but my 7-year old, who is a strong reader, still really enjoyed it. We adore this series, and I can’t wait for more of it. ![]() Narwhal is always full of optimism and positivity and Jelly is, well, not, but I love how they are friends and help balance each other out to a half glass of water - not half full or half empty. Jelly is skeptical, but then he receives a mysterious present. ![]() In this book, Jelly is a little grumpy about the cold water of winter, and Narwhal is excited and full of optimism about the Merry Mermicorn, who sometimes brings gifts, and is part mermaid and part unicorn. My daughter saw it on the library pile when I picked it up and was ready to devour it in the car on the way home, but I made her wait for me! We really loved this gentle story and took turns reading for the characters, and we liked the little story that Narwhal makes with Jelly towards the end, it was so silly. I was so excited for this book and we loved it. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() My project became This Can’t Be Happening At Macdonald Hall.” It was more structured than that sounds-we gave him an outline the first week and then a chapter a week. He said we could work on whatever we wanted. He was a good teacher, but he’d never taught English. ![]() They ran out of English teachers, but they had extra coaches, so we got the track coach. “When I was in seventh grade the track coach had to teach English,” said Korman, an engaging speaker with a shaved head. But his inaugural effort, the 144-page boarding school comedy This Can’t Be Happening At Macdonald Hall, was rooted in Korman’s own reality. Korman has written about a wide variety of precocious youths in his career: a 12-year-old who turns out to be the world’s greatest natural hypnotist, a group of teen and tween shipwreck survivors and a whole middle school worth of aspiring athletes, science prodigies and budding business tycoons. Of course the Toronto transplant did have a bit of a head start- he wrote his first book when he was 12 and it was published while he was a freshman in high school. Whatever the actual number of books, it’s a lot, especially when you consider that Korman, who resides in Great Neck with his wife and children, is just 51. Yahoo! Answers sets the number at 83, but its unclear if that includes his newest, Masterminds, a trilogy that launched in February. Sitting in a quiet sushi restaurant he guessed it was around 80. Gordon Korman cannot say exactly how many books he’s written. ![]() ![]() Pit, a new work created by Smith and Or Schraiber for and with the corps of the Paris Opera Ballet, invites us to peer voyeuristically into a brutal world, writhing with feeling, yet devoid of meaning. ![]() Choreography: Bobbi Jene Smith & Or Schreiber Music: Celeste Oram, Jean Sibelius Musical Direction: Joana Carneiro Set Design: Christian Friedländer Costume Design: ALAÏA by Pieter Mulier Lighting Design: John Torres Violin: Petteri Iiovonen Dramaturgy: Johnathan Fredrickson Performers: Clémence Gross, Caroline Osmont, Juliette Hilaire, Laurène Lévy, Marion Gautier de Charnacé, Awa Joannais, Héloïse Jocqueviel, Alexandre Gasse, Jack Gasztowtt, Axel Ibot, Yvon Demol, Mickaël Lafon, Maxime Thomas, Hugo Vigliotti, Takeru Coste, Théo Ghilbert, Julien Guillemard, Loup Marcault-Derouard, Antonin Monié Date: March 28, 2023Īmerican dancer and actress Bobbi Jene Smith says that sometimes we “have to dig into parts of ourselves that aren’t so bright in order to see the light.” And this is true, but sometimes we find ourselves sucked into the muck with no way out. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The planned session therefore asks about the suitability of discourse-related as well as sociology of knowledge-related perspectives for the tasks of a contemporary and future decolonized social research that focuses on knowledge in social relations and the politics of knowledge – in Foucault’s words: the power/knowledge regimes – in the North/South relationship. Taking Hall’s and Smith’s arguments together, discourse research integrating “discourse”, “knowledge” and “power/knowledge” seems to provide research with a concept that allows for such inquiries. She argued that we should focus on questions “about the roles that knowledge, knowledge production, knowledge hierarchies and knowledge institutions play in social transformation” (Smith 2012: XII), and that we should look for methodologies suited to that purpose. ![]() A few years later, in her influential work on “Decolonizing methods”, Linda Tuhiwai Smith pointed out that in the context of a necessary “decolonization of methods”, the question of knowledge becomes of central importance. In the mid-1990s, Stuart Hall proposed to analyze discourses as knowledge processes: “Discourses are ways of referring to or constructing knowledge about a particular topic of practice: a cluster (or formation) of ideas, images and practices, which provide ways of talking about, forms of knowledge and conduct associated with, a particular topic, social activity or institutional site in society” (Hall 1997a: 4). ![]() ![]() Shes quickly taken with Aran, in no small part because of his talent. Arriving in Rexburg is Linda Duff, an outsider from Seattle hoping to plant new roots far from the bitter ones of her childhood. ![]() They have dreams beyond their small town. But Aran and Tamsin are united in rebellion against their father. Gad is the kind of man who soothes the failures of his own life by controlling the lives of others. In the town of Rexburg, Idaho, aspiring artist Aran Rigby, his younger sister, Tamsin, and their two brothers are locked in orbit around their emotionally abusive father. Book Synopsis A powerful novel about the expectations of family-and the risks and liberation of defying them-by the Washington Post bestselling author of One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow. Author of One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow. Now its time for them all to break free of the past, overcome the unforgivable, and find a new way forward - whatever the price. ![]() Linda bes an unwitting catalyst for the upheaval of Gads oppression. Shes quickly taken with Aran, but when they fall in love, Linda is drawn into a family more damaged than the one she left behind. ![]() In the town of Rexburg, Idaho, Aran Rigby and his siblings are locked in orbit around their emotionally abusive father Gad. ![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, given the subject matter this is not, by any stretch, a happy book though the ending carries a message of strength through adversity. The interplay between the world Zoë discovers in the night juxtaposes marvelously against the deep sadness she feels in her ordinary life. Having discovered that Christopher had murdered their mother Simon has hunted his young-looking sibling through the centuries. Born in the seventeenth century, Simon was turned into a vampire by his older brother Christopher – himself trapped forever as a young child, and still carrying a child’s cruel nature. Then she meets a teenage boy, Simon, and an odd bond forms but Simon is no ordinary boy. Her mother is slowly slipping away due to cancer, her father seems distant, wrapped in his own grief, and her best friend, Lorraine, is being forced to move away with her father and step-mother. Zoë is a young teen for whom life has become unbearably hard. What I didn’t expect was a book with deeply drawn characters that proved enthralling and poetically poignant. ![]() I picked this up in a publisher’s clearance store, very cheap, and expected that it would be a swift read – being a slim volume. ![]() |