![]() The public served by the libraries was suffering, too. Libraries were no exception, with budgets slashed and former workers now facing unemployment. “The Great Depression of the 1930s left millions of Americans and industries struggling. ![]() In The Giver of Stars, Moyes introduces us to the Pack Horse Library Project, one of FDR’s programs to provide employment and social benefits during the Great Depression.Īs the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), in an excellent online exhibit about the program, explains: ![]() Like her book, The Ship of Brides, this one tells a story that offers a glimpse into history about which many people were unaware. I always enjoy reading novels by Jojo Moyes. ![]()
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![]() ![]() They are like night and day, and in a good way. He’s good people, and one of Harry’s closest friends. ![]() He’s not only personable, but he’s so kind and wise and levelheaded that you almost wonder how he can balance slaying monsters and being a father and husband so well. They are stone cold badasses, and Michael is no exception, but the great thing about him is that he’s not what you’d expect from a warrior of God. ![]() The Knights are warriors entrusted with swords that draw their power from the nails of the Cross Jesus Christ was crucified on. As always, major spoilers for The Dresden Files’ Book Three, Grave Peril.įirst, a warning: I consider Grave Peril’s alternate title to be “The Novel in which I Want to Punch Susan Rodriguez in the Throat.” Just a heads up.īut the good news is that Book Three opens with one of the better supporting characters in the series: Michael Carpenter, a Knight of the Cross. Welcome back to the Dresden Files read and review! Yes, this one is a bit late, but once you see my review, you’ll know why. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1945, he proposed a satellite communication system using geostationary orbits. ![]() In 1934, while still a teenager, he joined the British Interplanetary Society. For many years Clarke, Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov were known as the "Big Three" of science fiction.Ĭlarke was a lifelong proponent of space travel. His other science fiction writings earned him a number of Hugo and Nebula awards, which along with a large readership made him one of the towering figures of science fiction. These along with his science fiction writings eventually earned him the moniker "Prophet of the Space Age". In 1961 he was awarded the Kalinga Prize, an award which is given by UNESCO for popularising science. On these subjects he wrote over a dozen books and many essays, which appeared in various popular magazines. ![]() ![]() Clarke was a science writer, who was both an avid populariser of space travel and a futurist of uncanny ability. He is famous for being co-writer of the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely considered to be one of the most influential films of all time. Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many skits will be shown about popular TV shows, including EastEnders, The Apprentice and Waterloo Road. ![]() This year's event will be presented by none other than AJ Odudu, Joel Dommet, Zoe Ball, Paddy McGuinness and David Tennant. The first telethon Red Nose Day was held 35 years ago and had Sir Lenny, Dawn and many others on screen. Red Nose Day is the yearly appeal day for Comic Relief - which is a charity founded by Lenny and screenwriter Richard Curtis in 1985. The much-loved pair are always good for a laugh and are considered to be two of Britain's funniest comedians. ![]() Comedy duo Lenny Henry and Dawn French will be returning to our screens tonight as they join forces for Comic Relief and fans couldn't be happier. ![]() ![]() But no matter how you turn it, The Vixen offers an illuminating reflection on the slippery nature of truth in America, then and now."- Washington PostĬritically acclaimed, bestselling author Francine Prose returns with a dazzling new novel set in the glamorous world of 1950s New York publishing, the story of a young man tasked with editing a steamy bodice-ripper based on the recent trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg-an assignment that will reveal the true cost of entering that seductive, dangerous new world. ![]() "Depending on the light, it’s either a very funny serious story or a very serious funny story. ![]() The gift of her work to a reader is to create for us what she creates for her protagonist: the subtle unfolding, the moment-by-moment process of discovery as we read and change, from not knowing and even not wanting to know or care, to seeing what we had not seen and finding our way to the light of the ending.”-Amy Bloom, New York Times Book Review “No one states problems more correctly, more astutely, more amusingly and more uncomfortably than Francine Prose. ![]() ![]() Named one of the best books of 2021 by NPR, The Washington Post, and Financial Times ![]() ![]() is an eyes–open, humorously no–nonsense survey of complicated Americans." - The New York Times Book Reviewįor all who remain intrigued by the legacy of the Civil War-reenactors, battlefield visitors, Confederate descendants and other Southerners, history fans, students of current racial conflicts, and more-this ten-state adventure is part travelogue, part social commentary and always good-humored. This splendid commemoration of the war and its legacy. ![]() "The freshest book about divisiveness in America that I have read in some time. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Griffin, a lantern-jawed and chestnut-haired white man, deliberately darkened his skin and spent six weeks travelling through the harshly segregated southern states of America, revisiting cities he knew intimately, in the guise of a black man. Black Like Me, the book in question, had been published three years earlier in November 1961 and it had led to its author being both venerated and vilified. The attack was not random the beating represented a particularly brutal form of literary criticism: Griffin was being punished for having written a book. It took Griffin five months to recover from the assault. Griffin assumed the men were heading over to assist him but instead they dragged him away from his car and proceeded to beat him violently with chains before leaving him for dead. ![]() O ne day in 1964 John Howard Griffin, a 44-year-old Texan journalist and novelist, was standing by the side of the road in Mississippi with a flat tyre. ![]() ![]() Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch hunts. minority of Berkeley's 25,000 students had already become engaged in political activity through the civil rights movement, and also in organizing opposition to Sen. Thus, as veteran socialist and Free Speech Movement participant Joel Geier explained in an interview for : In July 1964, students also protested the Republican National Convention on the outskirts of San Francisco. ![]() Between late 1963 and early 1964, dozens of students were among the hundreds arrested in protests against racist discrimination at businesses in the Bay Area. Students at the UC campus were involved in civil rights organizing and community struggles, such as against discriminatory hiring practices. It was a campaign led by radicals and revolutionaries who were determined to defeat segregation on the way to a more just and equal society.ĭespite its liberal image, Berkeley in the 1960s was characterized by Jim Crow racism. ![]() NOW OFFICIALLY celebrated by the institution it fought against, the Free Speech Movement that shook the University of California (UC) Berkeley in 1964 wasn't about an abstract principle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We never discover how or why this happened people are more interested in surviving and resettling. A nameless plague has swept through the United States, turning humans unlucky enough to get bitten into “skels,” so named for their increasingly skeletal appearances. Zone One is, on a macro level, a story about the end of the world. Either my expectations are too high, or literary fiction stylings of sci-fi and horror tropes are just not for me (which, how can that be possible?!). Then, I actually read the thing and inevitably find myself disappointed. Then, I get even more excited once critics and readers flood magazines and blogs with positive reviews. First, I get excited at the prospect of literary fiction taking on genre fiction subjects (zombies and vampires, respectively). My experience with Colson Whitehead’s Zone One mirrors my that of a similar novel, Justin Cronin’s The Passage. ![]() ![]() “With a keen eye for details, Alyssa Cole deftly unspools a rich narrative with compelling characters who live and breathe against a vibrant backdrop. Beneath a seemingly ordinary setting, Cole weaves layers of dread, all building toward a shocking and satisfying conclusion." (Kelley Armstrong, #1 New York Times bestselling author of City of the Lost ) ![]() This is a terrific read." (Alafair Burke, New York Times bestselling author) Then bam! I was knocked over by the momentum of an intense psychological thriller that doesn’t let go until the final page. ![]() "From the first page of WHEN NO ONE IS WATCHING, I felt like I was right there in the gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood, filled with sharply etched characters and dialogue that zings. ![]() |