![]() ![]() Yes Please is filled with love and admiration for people in comedy-including the book’s author. Poehler has a special nickname for Seth Meyers. Possibilities included “Leslie Knaint,” “Leslie Kany,” “Leslie Knbross,” “Leslie Knute,” “Leslie Krap!” and “Leslie Knotonmywatch.” The world would be a different place if Leslie Knope had been named Leslie Krap!Ģ. ![]() ![]() Yes Please contains a brainstorm list offering a number of names Leslie could have had instead, but thankfully did not. Leslie Knope was almost named “Leslie Knotonmywatch.”Īmong other interesting tidbits, Poehler gives us a glimpse into the creation of Leslie Knope, in particular, her name. Here are five things we learned from Yes Please.ġ. In this candid, thoughtful and poignant new memoir, Poehler reveals a lot about herself. ![]() In it she shares stories from her childhood, her time at the Upright Citizens Brigade in Chicago and, of course, her memorable Saturday Night Live career. Comedian, actress and treasured human being Amy Poehler released her first book on Tuesday, a collection of essays titled Yes Please. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Cantú is a professor of English at the University of Texas–San Antonio and the author or coauthor of several books, including the award-winning memoir Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera. She is represented by Nuevo Santander Gallery, and her artwork has been exhibited at the Art Center for the Islands, the International Museum of Art and Science, Northwest Vista College, the Rockport Center for the Arts, and the University of Texas–Pan American. Reefka Schneider is one of the foremost artists of the Rio Grande Valley region in South Texas. He is the recipient of an Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award for Poetry and a Nebraska Arts Council Fellowship. Ammons and the Poetics of Widening Scope, Prairie Air Show, and Unexpected Guests and the editor of Complexities of Motion: New Essays on A. His poetry has been published in national and international journals, including American Life in Poetry, Critical Quarterly, Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, and Tikkun. Schneider is a poet, a writer, and a professor in the department of English at the University of Texas–Pan American. by Alcalá, Kathleen, Arreguín, Alfredo M (ISBN: 9781735478036) from Amazons Book Store. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reprinting Research and Shipping LogisticsĪuthor BiographySteven P.Schools, School Libraries, and School Supply Stores.Independent Booksellers and Regional Wholesalers.IPG Academic and Professional Publishing Vargas and the Dead Naturalist, Spirits of the Ordinary, and The Flower in the Skull. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ok, let’s kick things off by talking about the characters. And we would all like to be invited back next month! ![]() Nevertheless, let’s keep our discussion pleasant and respectful, as if we were all sitting together in someone’s lounge room. Got your book? Fabulous.īefore we start, just a little housekeeping to cover off.įirstly, I should give a big SPOILER ALERT! We are talking about The Storyteller today and it is spoiler central, so if you haven’t finished reading the book and/or don’t want to hear about the plot, I suggest you click on another post and come back a bit later on.Īlso, when we talk about some of the topics and issues raised in this book (religion, The Holocaust, compassion and forgiveness, war and mercy killings/assisted suicide to name a few), it’s inevitable that we will not all necessarily share the same world view or see the people, issues and ideas in this and other books exactly the same way. Please make yourself comfortable – perhaps pour yourself a favourite beverage and help yourself to a little something delicious to nibble on while you’re at it. It’s great to have you and thank you for popping by. Welcome to our very first Style and Shenanigans Book Club discussion! ![]() ![]() ![]() For the Russian elite, however, art was no substitute for an acceptable career like law which Vasya pursued as was expected of him. Fortunately, Vasya’s Auntie recommended his parents put him into art class. They jumped out of the box and made sounds that only he heard, sounds that could be translated onto canvas. She showed Vasya the correct way to mix colors on the paint-box palette. ![]() “Every proper Russian boy should appreciate art,” said Auntie. Young Vasya (or Vasily) led a staid, privileged life in 19th century Moscow, that is until his aunt presented him with “a small wooden paint box.” Ages 4-8) is a wonderfully inspiring historical biographical fiction picture book. The Noisy Paintbox: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky’s Abstract Artby Barb Rosenstock with illustrations by Mary GrandPré (Alfred A. ★Starred Reviews – Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus, School Library Journal ![]() ![]() ![]() Like the tongueless Philomela, who spins the tale of her rape into a tapestry, or Arachne, who portrays the misdeeds of the gods, they have discovered instruments for securing fairness in the storytelling circles where so-called women’s work-spinning, mending, and weaving-is carried out. Deploying the domestic crafts and using words as weapons, they have found ways to survive assaults and rescue others from harm, all while repairing the fraying edges in the fabric of their social worlds. ![]() Maria Tatar, a leading authority on fairy tales and folklore, explores how heroines, rarely wielding a sword and often deprived of a pen, have flown beneath the radar even as they have been bent on redemptive missions. The Heroine with 1,001 Faces dismantles the cult of warrior heroes, revealing a secret history of heroinism at the very heart of our collective cultural imagination. ![]() ![]() ![]() The wish-fulfilling title and sun-washed, catalog-beautiful teens on the cover will be enticing for girls looking for a diversion. ![]() Besides the mostly off-stage issue of a parent’s severe illness there’s not much here to challenge most readers-driving, beer-drinking, divorce, a moment of surprise at the mothers smoking medicinal pot together. In the background the two mothers renew their friendship each year, and Lauren, Belly’s mother, provides support for her friend-if not, unfortunately, for the children-in Susannah’s losing battle with breast cancer. ![]() ![]() Belly’s dawning awareness of her sexuality and that of the boys is a strong theme, as is the sense of summer as a separate and reflective time and place: Readers get glimpses of kisses on the beach, her best friend’s flirtations during one summer’s visit, a first date. Han’s leisurely paced, somewhat somber narrative revisits several beach-house summers in flashback through the eyes of now 15-year-old Isabel, known to all as Belly.īelly measures her growing self by these summers and by her lifelong relationship with the older boys, her brother and her mother’s best friend’s two sons. ![]() ![]()
![]() He wrote more than twenty novels, including The Power and the Glory (widely considered his masterpiece), four travelogues, eight plays, ten screenplays, and more than fifty short stories. In 1947, he left Vivien and their two children, later proclaiming that his books were his true progeny. He also suffered from periodic bouts of depression and engaged in a number of extra-marital affairs. During World War II, he was recruited by his sister, Elisabeth, to join MI6 as a spy, and he spent much of his life traveling the world, using his experiences in foreign countries to inform his fiction. In 1929, Graham published his first novel, The Man Within, and the success of that book allowed him to work as a writer full-time. In 1926, he married Vivien Dayrell Browning, a Catholic, having converted to her faith. ![]() ![]() Upon graduation, he worked as a tutor and journalist for both the Nottingham Journal and The Times. As a boy, he attended a prestigious Berkhamsted boarding school, for which his father served as housemaster, and later went on to study at Oxford. ![]() Henry Graham Greene was born to a wealthy and influential family. ![]() ![]() ![]() “The written equivalent of a Botticelli painting or a Michelangelo sculpture. Deftly interweaving the lives of multiple characters, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure’s.ĭoerr’s gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. In another world in Germany, an orphan named Werner grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. When the Germans occupy Paris in June of 1940, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure’s agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall. When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood-every house, every sewer drain-so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. ![]() Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Constant attacks of robbers and slave traders never seem to stop plaguing Aliya, and killers and spies sent by the narcissistic aristocracy are just waiting for her to show a bit of weakness so that they can strike, even if as she finds an alternative solution to her troubles, developing alliances with the Highlanders and Vikings called the Virmans. Her first goal is taking care of the collapsing estate of Earton and its inhabitants - and learning to navigate a society unused to a woman in charge. Reborn as Countess Lilian Earton, she has to adjust to an unfamiliar world while trying to introduce everyday conveniences from the world she knows. Confused and dismayed, Aliya realizes she was given a second chance in life - so she rolls up her sleeves and gets to work on restoring the castle and her new life.Īliya’s situation is confusing and challenging. Instead of dying, however, she wakes up in a completely different body in the middle of a half-ruined castle during alternate medieval times. ![]() Her life seems perfect…until she finds herself in a fatal car accident. 450+ reviews and an huge fanbase all over the world.Īliya is a medical school graduate gifted with both smarts and an athletic body. A bestseller in the categories of Time Travel Romance, Medieval Romance, Norse & Viking Myth & Legend, and 10 more. ![]() |