![]() ![]() ![]() She describes the elaborate rituals around food that came to dominate hours of every day and explores the pivotal moments of her childhood that set her on the road to illness. All the while terrified that the truth of her sexuality would be exposed in the tabloids, Portia alternately starved herself and binged, putting her life in danger and concealing from herself and everyone around her the seriousness of her illness. ![]() In this groundbreaking memoir, Portia de Rossi reveals the pain and illness that haunted her for decades, from the time she was a twelve-year-old girl working as a model in Australia, through her early rise to fame as a cast member of the hit television show Ally McBeal. In this searing, unflinchingly honest memoir, actress Portia de Rossi shares the truth of her long battle to overcome anorexia and bulimia while living in the public eye, and details the new happiness and health she has found in recent years-including her coming out and her marriage to Ellen DeGeneres. “An unusually fresh and engrossing memoir of both Hollywood and modern womanhood.” - Los Angeles Times ![]()
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![]() ![]() There are stories by authors already well known to me, such as Hugh Howey’s A Father’s Fist and John L. When I reached the end of the book, I wanted more. Not every little tale rocked my world, but many grabbed me by the heart and twisted, or tickled my funny bone, or made me really think. I ended up reading into the early hours of the morning. Each time I finished one, I told myself I’d squeeze in just one more, or two, or three, before I headed for bed. No story is over 1,00 words so a very quick read, tiny samples of one-hundred-and-one authors’ unique styles of story telling. A book I won’t mind picking up, putting down, because I can get to the end of a story in seconds.īut I had a hard time putting it down. The description says, ” You should be able to read each story in under five minutes - on your desktop computer, laptop, or tablet at home or in the office, but also on your smartphone, on the go, while you are commuting or waiting at a coffee shop for your significant other to arrive.” Great, I thought. So, today I’m pointing you at a particular book because I really enjoyed it: Stories on the Go, 101 Very Short Stories by 101 Authors. When you find and like something new, you want to share your discovery with your friends. ![]() ![]() ![]() The assertion and casting came under fire from several notable quarters, including those in the actual modern Egypt. Haley of Hamilton College, who said her grandmother once told her, “I don’t care what they tell you in school, Cleopatra was Black.” The trailer even rather proactively includes a line from one of its interviewees, Professor Shelley P. ![]() ![]() Yet the veracity of the documentary aspect of the film is being aggressively challenged after Netflix’s Cleopatra cast Black British actress Adele James as Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last pharaoh of Egypt and the end of the Ptolemaic dynasty. The documentary is the second of three from the streaming service and executive producer Jada Pinkett Smith, both of whom have committed to spotlighting women rulers in African history by way of historical reenactments (or “docudrama”) which is then juxtaposed against interviews with talking heads and experts. Yet it’s being put to the test this week via the release of Netflix’s African Queens: Cleopatra. 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Secrets come out and Heaven and Dylan's love is tested.I was literally on the edge of my seat as the story went on. What the Heart Needs answers many questions left from the previous book, but those answered only bring out more questions. My heart needed you from the moment we were born."As their love grows so does the momentum of those of those that want to break their bond. ![]() My heart wanted you from the first time I saw you. "The more we give in to what the heart wants, the more we get what the heart needs. It's been a couple of months since Heaven and Dylan officially met and they are spending every chance they get with each other to learn more about the bond they share. ![]() Review 1: What the Heart Needs picks up immediately where the first book ends. ![]() ![]() If you feel that this book is "inappropriate" I strongly suggest you visit any real life middle school and you'll find that this book is much easier to digest than the real situations many of your children's peers are likely facing. Inspiring, thought provoking, hopeful, and heart breaking all at once. ![]() It teaches all readers to dream big, reach their full potential, and learn from bad situations around them, as well as how what we are surrounded with impacts who we are. It teaches girls from communities to stand up for themselves and question the ways society hurts them. For public school classrooms with diverse make ups, this is a great book to read. ![]() Yes, the book contains a very vague scene of sexual assault that will likely only be understood by more mature readers. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros has been recognized by critics, professors, and readers alike as one of most important contributions to modern literature. It seems likely that the reviews written here vilifying the book were done by those that care little about Literature, exposure to different cultures, or stories that resonate with adolescents. The House on Mango Street is an incredible book for a plethora of reasons. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Keefe's story "A Loaded Gun", published in The New Yorker in 2013, received the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing. Topics include a conflict over ownership of iron reserves in Guinea, policy complications faced by states legalizing recreational marijuana, and the capture of Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera. Keefe has written investigative reports on a broad array of topics and issues. He was a policy adviser in the Office of the Secretary of Defense between 20. He has since received many fellowships, including those from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. ![]() ![]() After his Marshall Scholarship, Keefe returned to the U.S. in international relations from Cambridge University and an M.Sc. He won a Marshall Scholarship in 1999, through which he received an M.Phil. Keefe grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts, attended Milton Academy, and received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1999. He is the author of five books- Chatter, The Snakehead, Say Nothing, Empire of Pain, and Rogues-and has written extensively for many publications, including The New Yorker, Slate, and The New York Times Magazine. Patrick Radden Keefe (born 1976) is an American writer and investigative journalist. ![]() ![]() ![]() She then became a junior high-school English teacher but in 1971 realized that she wanted to be an author. After traveling to Missouri, Patricia attended Webster University and graduated with an M.A. While attending Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State University, now known as the Tennessee State University, Patricia met up with a childhood friend, Fredrick McKissack, who would later become her husband. Patricia and her siblings grew up in the south and they all remember the poetry her mother told by Paul Laurence Dunbar. ![]() The characters in these stories were always smart and brave, characteristics present in Patricia’s later works. ![]() Her father’s stories usually included the names of her and siblings Nolan and Sarah. She was inspired to be a writer by her mother who always read her poetry and also by her grandparents who told her many stories. Patricia L’Ann Carwell was born to civil servant parents Robert and Erma Carwell in Smyrna, Tennessee. Patricia L’Ann Carwell McKissack (Aug– April 7, 2017) was a children’s author who chronicled African American history and Southern folklore in more than 100 early reader and picture books. Mckissack is a 4-Time Bestselling Author ![]() ![]() ![]() The resulting book, The Poems of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, published in 1846 at the sisters’ own expense, sold exactly two copies. … The book was printed: it is scarcely known, was published and advertised at the sisters’ own expense and sold two copies) and all of it that merits to be known are the poems of Ellis Bell.” ![]() We agreed to arrange a small section of our poems, and, if possible, get them printed. This dream, never relinquished even when distance divided and absorbing tasks occupied us, now suddenly acquired strength and consistency: it took the character of a resolve. “We had very early cherished the dream of one day becoming authors. The sisters took masculine, or at least indeterminate, noms de plume. ![]() Before attempting to publish novels, Charlotte undertook the task of finding a home for a collaborative book of poems, thinking it would be a good stepping stone (it wasn’t, as it turned out). Though Emily’s has come to be known as the best among their poetic works, poems by Charlotte Brontëare more than meriting of a consideration.Ĭharlotte is best known for Jane Eyre (1847) and also wrote Shirley (1849) and Villette(1853). The Brontë sisters - Charlotte, Emily, and Anne - literary geniuses all, are best known for their classic novels, but each was a poet in her own right. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was surprised when some of the smaller talking beasts bought him some food and drink, though they dared not untie him, for they feared the wrath of Aslan. After seeing the animals all looking all sad and depressed, Tirian tried speaking out against the Ape in the clearing, but was taken away to be dealt with later.Īfter spending the day tied to a tree unable to move, Tirian was hungry and thirsty. After these visits, Tirian and Jewel went forth to Lantern Wastes, and discovered the most awful of things happening.įeeling guilty for what they had done, Tirian and Jewel turned themselves over to the Calormenes. First was the Centaur Roonwit, followed by a Dryad. Tirian, the last King of Narnia, and his best friend, the Unicorn named Jewel, were spending the day relaxing when they had two visitors. It was then, that Shift came up with the idea of what to do with the Lion skin. It was during on of their days together by Caldron Pool that they found a Lion skin. In the last days on Narnia, in the Lantern Wastes, there lived a Donkey named Puzzle and an Ape called Shift. This isn’t meant to be an exhaustive summary of the book. ![]() Here we’ve summarized The Last Battle chapter by chapter. ![]() |