![]() Junior and teenage novels including The Changeover (1984), The Catalogue of the Universe (1985), Aliens in the Family (1986), The Tricksters (1986), Memory (1987), and Underrunners (1992) use New Zealand city, bush, or beach settings. It is widely acknowledged, however, that her work became increasingly “New Zealand” in the 1980s when she started producing young adult fiction. I feel they’re just as ‘New Zealand’ as anything else” (qtd. ![]() The New Zealandness of her work was an issue to which Mahy gave much thought, and she responded to suggestions that she was not writing of her own country by stating: “I’d like to speak up perhaps for some of the things I’m doing when I write. “New Zealand’s most famous writer is also a writer whose work is in so many respects ardently un-New Zealand-or at least ardently not the New Zealand we have, over time, assumed is the proper subject and setting for our fiction,” writes New Zealand author Kate De Goldi of Margaret Mahy (272). ![]()
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Eugene Onegin, a "novel in verse," as announced by its subtitle, and Russia's best-loved classic, was written by Alexander Pushkin, that country's unsurpassed literary idol. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Four more short story collections were published up to 1995, when her first and acclaimed novel Dağın Öteki Yüzü (The Other Side of the Mountain)-outwardly a family history-in which she discusses the endeavour and the attainments of the Republican revolution, as well as its shortcomings from the standpoints of women, appeared. Her first short story collection Kadınlar da Vardır (Women also Exist) appeared in 1983 after receiving the "Akademi Kitabevi" award. ![]() Literary careerĮrendiz Atasü started writing in 1972 in London, but was in no hurry of publishing. She later declared that during that year she thought a lot about the complexities of the positions of women in Western and Middle Eastern societies respectively. The year she spent at London University in the early 1970s as a British Council scholar was crucial in the process of her transformation into a literary figure. Since then she has been a freelance writer. Born in Ankara in 1947, as the only child of mathematician Faik Sayron and English literature instructor Hadiye Sayron, she was educated in Ankara College and the Faculty of Pharmacy, Ankara University, where she continued as a doctorate student (ph.D in 1974) and subsequently became a professor of pharmacognosy (1988), and taught until her early retirement in 1997. ![]() ![]() ![]() And where there is delight to be found, Qian relishes it: her first bite of gloriously greasy pizza, weekly “shopping days,” when Qian finds small treasures in the trash lining Brooklyn’s streets, and a magical Christmas visit to Rockefeller Center-confirmation that the New York City she saw in movies does exist after all.īut then Qian’s headstrong Ma Ma collapses, revealing an illness that she has kept secret for months for fear of the cost and scrutiny of a doctor’s visit. ![]() Shunned by her classmates and teachers for her limited English, Qian takes refuge in the library and masters the language through books, coming to think of The Berenstain Bears as her first American friends. Instead of laughing at her jokes, they fight constantly, taking out the stress of their new life on one another. In Chinatown, Qian’s parents labor in sweatshops. ![]() In China, Qian’s parents were professors in America, her family is “illegal” and it will require all the determination and small joys they can muster to survive. In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 full of curiosity, she is overwhelmed by crushing fear and scarcity. An incandescent memoir from an astonishing new talent, Beautiful Country puts readers in the shoes of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel begins when sixth-grade Truly is trying to negotiate the complex emotional relationships that blossomed at the onset of middle school and puberty. ![]() Rotating through multiple characters’ perspectives, the book is also a character study on how individuals in emotionally fraught periods of life try to rationalize their somewhat directionless identities. Following a middle school-age protagonist named Truly and her classmates Clay, Hazel, Brooke, Natasha, and Jack, who deal with and actively enrich middle school chaos, it addresses the problem of bullying in young adult life. It concerns the problems that emerge out of the combination of social media and digital communication within formal educational environments. ![]() Unfriended is a 2014 middle grade fiction novel by Rachel Vail. ![]() ![]() ![]() She proved unfaithful, and the marriage ended in divorce in 1930. ![]() After inglorious stints as a school teacher (he was dismissed for trying to seduce a school matron and/or inebriation), an apprentice cabinet maker and journalist, he wrote and had published his first novel, “Decline and Fall” in 1928. ![]() In 1924 Waugh left Oxford without taking his degree. When asked if he took up any sports there he quipped, “I drank for Hertford.” He said of his time there, “…the whole of English education when I was brought up was to produce prose writers it was all we were taught, really.” He went on to Hertford College, Oxford, where he read History. In fact, his book “The Loom of Youth” (1917) a novel about his old boarding school Sherborne caused Evelyn to be expelled from there and placed at Lancing College. His only sibling Alec also became a writer of note. Evelyn Waugh's father Arthur was a noted editor and publisher. ![]() ![]() ![]() Growing up and as a teen, I struggled to connect and understand how my friends talked and felt about romance and attraction. When I was younger and learning about what it meant to be queer, one of my earliest labels – and the only label I feel any real connection to – was ‘demisexual’. Find the introduction post for Pride Month at The Quiet Pond here. Pride Monthis a month-long event at The Quiet Pond, where during the month of June, queer authors and bookish content creators are invited to celebrate being queer, queer books, and their experiences of being a queer reader. ![]() ![]() Our Friend is Here! is a guest feature at The Quiet Pond, where authors, creatives, and fellow readers, are invited to ‘visit’ the Pond! In Our Friend is Here! guest posts, our visitors (as their very own unique character!) have a friendly conversation about anything related to books or being a reader - and become friends with Xiaolong and friends. ![]() ![]() ![]() I recommend it to fans of Thor as portrayed in the marvel cinematic universe. And watching Odd resolve the problems of the Gods is amusing. Some of it may sound unimportant (the fact that Thor is supposed to have a big red beard for example) though things like this are quite important when dealing with Gods. The marvel cinematic universe and the comic book writers do a good job with their personalities, though their actual physical attributes are completely wrong. ![]() Gaiman has captured the essence of Odin, Thor and Loki terrifically. ![]() The three Gods have been banished from Asgard and their kingdom is now in the hands of the Frost Giants. Odd walks in unawares and offers his help. Loki (who has been transformed into a fox) skulks in the corner bemused. Odin (who has been transformed into an eagle) flies overhead watching the scene. Imagine this: Thor (who has been transformed into a bear) has his paw stuck in a tree after trying to reach a bee’s nest. ![]() Positivity can go a long way and it certainly helps when you stumble across the Gods. He refuses to stop smiling and it is because of this that he succeeds. He is physically disabled and shunned by his step-father who pushes him out of his family home, though he refuses to give up. This is a children’s tale, though as with all good children’s books it’s perfect for adults too. If you enjoyed Norse Mythology then you will likely adore this. ![]() ![]() Fafhrd and Mouse are not innocents their world is no land of honor and righteousness. Lankhmar is Leiber’s fully realized vivid incarnation of urban decay and civilization’s corroding effect on the human psyche. They wondered and wandered to the edges of the Outer Sea, across the Land of Nehwon and throughout every nook and cranny of gothic Lankhmar, Nehwon’s grandest and most mystically corrupt city. 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