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Trying to find your place in the world is hard. Add hormones, first loves, and family drama into the mix, and growing up can feel like an impossible task — it’s no wonder so many of us try to put it off! But like it or not, we all have to grow up at some point, and as the best coming-of-age books prove — despite the challenges of this transitional period — we all emerge in one piece. The thing with the novel that I found surprising was how complex it became when it was done. I set out to do just two or three things with the book, but it became very multi-layered. On the primary level, it’s a family drama. I wanted to write about what it means to grow up, to have to rely on your older brothers for wisdom and outlook on life. But then, once I began, I discovered that I was passionate about other things. Steffi has been a selective mute for most of her life—she’s been silent for so long that she feels completely invisible. But Rhys, the new boy at school, sees her. He’s deaf, and her knowledge of basic sign language means that she’s assigned to look after him. To Rhys, it doesn’t matter that Steffi doesn’t talk, and as they find ways to communicate, Steffi finds that she does have a voice, and that she’s falling in love with the one person who makes her feel brave enough to use it. ” TheirEyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg at the turn of the century.” A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman—and one day, under sudden and enigmatic circumstances, he finds himself in possession of ‘great expectations.'” A separate Peace by John Knowles John Updike. Again when I was 18, I read it without realising it was part of a sequence of books, Rabbit Is Rich. It converted me to the idea that, as Updike puts it, the job of art is to give the mundane its beautiful due – that if you are a good enough writer, your prose can make everything, even the most microscopic and ordinary things in life, rich and strange.
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I saw Nigeria as a collection of distinct tribes, who were living on their own. They had their own ways of doing things. The Igbo people, my tribe, for example, are about 40 million people—they are a nation in themselves—that’s like the size of all the Scandinavian nations put together, but it’s just a region in Nigeria. These guys had their own system of government, they had their own religion. It was different from the West, but they were doing well. Then the British came in and said, “You cannot be like this, this is the way to live, this is how your system of living is barbaric, this is how it should be.” It’s just like in my book, where a madman comes from the outside and dictates another way of living and brotherly love becomes antagonism and hate. That’s where I wanted to draw the parallel with what happened to Nigeria. There’s a fair bit of self-reflection in Book Two. Glasser was clearly an introspective person by nature. This tendency becomes more marked in Book Three, in which he chronicles his working life in post-war London. On the whole I found this the least successful of the 3 books, though it has its moments. Your novel is ostensibly about sibling rivalry and family tensions. To what extent would you say it’s also about Nigeria? Baker’s wit as a humorist has been compared with that of Mark Twain. “ The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer,” wrote Baker, “ and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn’t require any.” In 1979, Baker received his first Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary in his “ Observer” column for the New York Times (1962 to 1998). His 1983 autobiography, Growing Up earned him a second Pulitzer. In 1993, Baker began hosting the PBS television series Masterpiece Theatre. Hannah, a young girl living a mundane existence in California, who discovers that her grandfather has been friends with the Devil for the past 150 years…and now, they need her help.” The Chaos by Nalo Hopkinson
With the exception of a few mild characters he met along the way, his formative years were not remarkable. After reading Growing Up, I can see why. Baker took no interest in the world around him. He had no ambition. He didn't think Europe entering into war was big news. He is almost proud of his complete ignorance of Leon Trotsky, a man who shaped the time he was living in. He had no interest and no plans for the future. It’s as though he’s discovered his voice. I think Ben, the narrator in your book, has a similar journey: maybe it’s by putting his own frame of reference on the story—by using his own animal metaphors at the start of each chapter—that Ben also discovers himself. Why did you give Ben these metaphors, and why did you use them so emphatically?
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Accuracy: This is a nonfiction memoir that is as much a narrative as it is a historical slice of American life. The author is a well-known journalist, and he describes his plights while growing up with sincere details, not for sympathy but for posterity. It not only somehow idealizes a turbulent time period, but it also seeks to educate future generations. The book is also intensely melancholy, in a way that I think might have put me off at other moments in my own journey but thankfully didn't as I read. I also wanted to work on how I think children sometimes see the world—at least how I did when I was growing up—by associations. So Benjamin would see a bully at school as a lion. When I was a child, I’d tell my Mum, “This guy who beat me up was as ferocious as a tiger.” Or you see some teacher and you think, “This guy is a Super Man, this guy is a Robocop, or Batman.” That’s where the metaphors come from. I wanted Ben to be able to understand the world and rationalise things through the bodies of these creatures he’s fascinated about. Increasingly we believe the world needs more meaningful, real-life connections between curious travellers keen to explore the world in a more responsible way. That is why we have intensively curated a collection of premium small-group trips as an invitation to meet and connect with new, like-minded people for once-in-a-lifetime experiences in three categories: Culture Trips, Rail Trips and Private Trips. Our Trips are suitable for both solo travelers, couples and friends who want to explore the world together. The youngest, half-goblin son of the Emperor has lived his entire life in exile, distant from the Imperial Court and the deadly intrigue that suffuses it. But when his father and three sons in line for the throne are killed in an ‘accident,’ he has no choice but to take his place as the only surviving rightful heir.” The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
In All Souls,MacDonald takes us deep into the secret heart of Southie. With radiant insight, he opens up a contradictory world, where residents are besieged by gangs and crime but refuse to admit any problems, remaining fiercely loyal to their community. MacDonald also introduces us to the unforgettable people who inhabit this proud neighborhood.” Heart Berries: A Memoir byTerese Marie Mailhot Because the book is autobiographical, it would also be of interest to students who like to journal or keep a diary. His writing is entertaining and reveling, so young writers or aspiring journalists might be able to take away something as well. Value to Collection: Not only could it serve the needs of helping students make connection between prose and history, but it could also be a supplemental read for staff members. The reading level could appeal to reluctant or challenged readers. Baker grew up in very meager surroundings, so this could appeal to disadvantaged students. Baker could be seen as a positive role model for how far hard work can get someone in life. Russel’s life is not always filled with blissful memories. He remembers when he ended up bursting in tears after hearing about his father’s death. There was also a time when Russel was struggling and was deeply depressed; not able to withstand the fact that his mother was going to get married with another man due to his unworldliness. There were times when he felt sympathy towards his mother, who sacrificed her allowances to buy Russel a beautifully striped green suit. Boys always have an interest in the sense of masculinity which is tied to force, to violence, to domination.”
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The first part of this trilogy, “Growing up in the Gorbals” is set in the 1920s and 30s and is an extraordinary piece. The author’s personal recollections and his gift for storytelling paint a vivid picture of time and place. The chapter entitled “Priestess of the Night”, manages to be both touching and horrifying at the same time. The opening chapter, and a later one entitled “The Frighteners”, left me with mixed feelings of sadness and anger. The reader is left in no doubt that the old Gorbals more than deserved its reputation for poverty and violence. Episodes I read with particular relish included the author's flight-training during WWII and the story of his relationship with the "dangerous and unsuitable" Mimi. ENGL 1.4 The student will read, comprehend, and analyze relationships among American literature, history, and culture.
Told in the captivating voice of a woman who refuses to live in sorrow, bitterness, fear, or foolish romantic dreams, it is the story of fair-skinned, fiercely independent Janie Crawford, and her evolving selfhood through three marriages and a life marked by poverty, trials, and purpose.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon They say that there’s this tendency for writers to write what they know the first time they’re setting out on this long journey. I grew up in a very large and crowded family with eleven siblings, and I knew I wanted to write about it. A young girl in Harlem discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her mother’s religion and her own relationship to the world. Debut novel of renowned slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo.” What I Leave Behind by Alison McGhee Since you are here, we would like to share our vision for the future of travel - and the direction Culture Trip is moving in. He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem—ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a ten-year-old son, who is hired to care for him. And every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them.” Lottery by Patricia Wood
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Some books are popular titles you may recognize from your own childhood, while many will be titles you have yet to discover. We're confident these will soon become cherished favorites. Do you think the coming-of-age moments are different today than they were fifty years ago, or even during Oliver Twist’s time? What can we do to help boys through this process of growing up, today? I believe that for a work of fiction to really succeed, it has to be based on a philosophy, or a couple of them. There has to be something about the deeper, subterranean knowledge of human life that the novel will explore. So what I wanted to do with The Fishermen was explore the idea that we can understand human beings through other creatures. I can tell you a story of a family, through the prism of how animals relate to each other, or from the bodies of other creatures. William Golding imbues some of these children with wisdom that would read, in the hands of a lesser author, as implausibly knowing. In the context, in the way that the novel strips these boys of known civilisation to create their own, which is a facsimile of what they are used to, it is believable. That kind of thing that Simon says, for example, about the beast being in all of them, I think can be tied to what I am trying to say. High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness. Angry and alone, he takes refuge in his imagination and soon finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a world that is a strange reflection of his own—populated by heroes and monsters and ruled by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious book, The Book of Lost Things.” The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
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