![]() ![]() ![]() Still, Jake is determined to host pride so he can feel as welcome in his own small town as he does in his beloved Songbird Hollow video game. Together with his friends and family, Jake starts making plans to host Barton Springs Pride, but with election season fast approaching, the mayor is more concerned about gathering support from potential voters than with supporting Jake’s idea, and soon the town is torn on the issue. Why couldn’t his small town host a pride parade? However, Jake doesn’t think that’s such a ridiculous idea at all. It seems that some residents are afraid that the flag could be the first step on a slippery slope toward something even more unseemly-a pride parade. ![]() However, when his dad hangs a comically enormous pride flag in their front yard, people in the town start making complaints to the mayor-who happens to live across the street. In Small Town Pride, middle-grade student Jake is the first openly gay kid in his small town of Barton Springs, Ohio, and just starting to get used to the looks he gets from others. ![]() Trigger Warnings: homophobia, forced outing. Please note: This post contains affiliate links. Today’s book review is Small Town Pride by Phil Stamper. Follow the Pride Month tag to find all the content in one space (including LGBTQ content from previous years) and keep checking back for more throughout the month. Throughout June, GeekMom celebrates Pride Month with lots of LGBTQ content. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Oh, and maybe Hud-because it is long past time for him to confess something to the brother from whom he’s been inseparable since birth. The only person not looking forward to the party of the year is Nina herself, who never wanted to be the center of attention, and who has also just been very publicly abandoned by her pro tennis player husband. Together the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over-especially as the offspring of the legendary singer Mick Riva. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer and their adored baby sister, Kit. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. But over the course of twenty-four hours, the family drama that ensues will change their lives forever. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Time, Marie Claire, PopSugar, Parade, Teen Vogue, Self, She Readsįour famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. High drama at the beach, starring four sexy, surfing siblings and their deadbeat, famous-crooner dad.”- People From the author of Carrie Soto Is Back, Daisy Jones & The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. ![]() ![]() Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel has continued to captivate readers of all ages, and has secured Orwell’s position as one of the greatest writers of all-time. For as the pigs vie for power, they begin to bear an uncanny resemblance to the tyrants they have overthrown.Ī seminal anti-totalitarianism satire once considered so controversial it was rejected by several publishers, Animal Farm became an instant success upon its first publication in 1945, following the Second World War. The barnyard animals revolt against their vicious human master only to submit to a tyranny created by their own kind. ![]() When the boar, Old Major, shares his revolutionary plans, the animals are convinced they can thrive on their own once the despot Jones is overthrown. ![]() He’s drunk, reckless and cares little for their welfare. The animals at Manor Farm have had enough of Farmer Jones. One of Time magazine’s 100 best English-language novels and the most famous of all twentieth-century political allegories, Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell is a wise, compassionate and illuminating fable that remains the ultimate satire on the dark side of modern history. ![]() ![]() ![]() They gave her the courage to put the stories in her head on paper. And as far as she was concerned, ordinary people did not write fiction.Įverything changed when she discovered Star Trek fanzines. ![]() From her point of view, she was far too ordinary. In the beginning, she couldn’t imagine writing fiction on a professional level. Lorna Barrett did not set out to become a published author. The issue doesn’t necessarily keep Barrett up at night, though she will be the first to tell you that she is more of a ‘Glass Half Empty’ person. She doesn’t have a job unless her audience buys her novels. Her future is in the hands of her readers. That being said, she cannot ignore the fact that she doesn’t have any job security. She can work on her own schedule and she doesn’t have to worry about commuting. As a full-time writer, the author loves the fact that she doesn’t have a day job. This issue tends to enhance Barrett’s concerns about the future of her career. ![]() But on occasion, she worries that the success enjoyed by one pen name won’t translate into additional success for the other pen names because some of her readers do not realize that Lorna, Lorraine, and L.L. Bartlett writes the Jeff Resnick Mysteries.īarrett juggles all her pen names with relative ease. While Lorna Barrett is primarily known for the Booktown mysteries, Lorraine Bartlett is typically associated with the Victoria Square Mysteries. ![]() ![]() The prehistoric world was no place for loners: people who refused (for whatever reason) to become dependent on other people were far more likely to end up being prey. To begin with, ask yourself the following question: “If my first neighbors were lions and tigers, would I choose to rely on myself for protection or form a close bond with someone else?” This might seem a bit conservative in our age of radical individualism, but it makes a lot of evolutionary sense. ![]() ![]() Get ready to discover yourself! The evolutionary basis of attachment theoryįirst proposed by British psychologist John Bowlby in the 1970s, attachment theory is a psychological and evolutionary model of human behavior based on the idea that the need to be in a close relationship is engraved in our genes. In “Attached,” psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levine and organizational psychologist Rachel Heller explain why. Forget about what fairytales and Hollywood tell you – no matter how much love two people feel for each other, it may sometimes be impossible for them to find a way to be together and work out their differences. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We stepped on each other’s toes more than once, and after he accidentally knocked his head into my shoulder, he threw his hands up. People walked by, pointing and laughing, but it was one of those moments when I knew we weren’t being mocked we were being envied. After a minute, he got brave and swung me around, lining me up for those peppy kicks I loved so much. In unison, we rock stepped and triple stepped, falling into the rhythm in our head. I took it and positioned myself in front of him as he shook his head, grinning. I pursed my lips and dusted off my shoulder, a thing I’d seen Elizabeth do when she was bragging.Īs if he was accepting a challenge, he shrugged off his backpack and stood, holding out a hand for me. “I swear, if you tell me you can jitterbug, I’m going to. I sat bolt upright, and Akinli rolled his eyes. “And, thanks to my mom being a competitive dancer as a teen, I know how to do the Lindy hop and the jitterbug.” ![]() Oh, yeah, it’s a skill.” He smiled, proud of his accomplishments. ![]() ![]() ![]() Promotional posts, comments & flairs, media-only posts, personalized recommendation requests incl. Please use a civil tone and assume good faith when entering a conversation. All posts must be directly book related, informative, and discussion focused. 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![]() ![]() He gave us a fantastic blinding light show of celestial symmetry complete with song and dance by angels and souls that made it to paradise. But certainly Dante gave us much more than the Bible can tell us about heaven. The poet tells in the first person his travel through the three realms of the dead, lasting during the Easter Triduum in the spring of 1300. Paradiso is Dantes crown jewel in the three part Divine Comedy. ![]() The very first canto serves as an introduction to the poem and is generally not considered to be part of the first cantica, bringing the total number of cantos to 100. ![]() The Divine Comedy is composed of three canticas (or “cantiche”) - Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise) - composed each of 33 cantos (or “canti”). Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. A culmination of the medieval world-view of the afterlife, it establishes the Tuscan dialect in which it is written as the Italian standard, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the. The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened “Divina” by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature, the last great work of literature of the Middle Ages and the first great work of the Renaissance. D ante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy is an epic poem divided into three parts, which describe Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, respectively. The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. ![]() ![]() Her father was a trade union leader and her mother a social worker. Salley Vickers was born in Liverpool, the home of her mother and grew up as the child of parents in the British Communist Party. ![]() As with her other highly popular novels this is a many-layered and subtly audacious story, which traces the boundaries of life and death and the difficult possibilities of repentance. ![]() Set partly in Rome, ‘The Other Side of You’ explores the theme of redemption through love and art, which has become a hallmark of Salley Vickers’s acclaimed work. As her story unfolds David finds his own life being touched by her account and a haunting sense that the ‘other side’ of his elusive patient has a strange resonance for him, too. We learn of Elizabeth Cruikshank’s dereliction of trust, and the man she has lost, through David’s narration. She is unusually reticent and it is not until he recalls a painting by Caravaggio that she finally yields up her story. One day a failed suicide, Elizabeth Cruikshank, is admitted to his hospital. ![]() As a young child he witnessed the death of his six-year-old brother and it is this traumatic event which has shaped his own personality and choice of profession. Thus speaks Dr David McBride, a psychiatrist for whom death exerts an unusual draw. ![]() ![]() England Rugby World Cup Winner Steve Thompson, Beth Mead and Gary Neville all take home gongs at The 21st Sports Book Awards.Jhalak Prizes 2023 Winners Announced celebrating British or British-resident writers of colour.60 spectacular LGBTQIA+ books to read this Pride Month and every month.25 Recommended Reads about Race, Racism, and Demarginalizing History - Necessary Non-fiction You Should Read for Life-changing Insights and Impact.80+ Must-read Novels by Black Writers - Black Lit Matters.Guest Editor, Summer 2023 - Vaseem Khan.June 2023 Book Club Recommendation: When Things Are Alive They Hum by Hannah Bent.13 Books to Support and Celebrate Caregivers for National Carers Week. ![]() The Joffe Books Prize Is Open Once Again and on the Look out for New Talent.60 + Novels Highlighting Empathy and Compassion - for National Empathy Day 8 June. ![]() |