Author ellen hopkins5/27/2023 ![]() Why the shift to YA? And why this subject matter? A few years ago a kid with whom I have a very close relationship came out to me as transgender. When we met, you were writing zany middle grade. *Blushes* - although quirky fashion sense COULD mean anything. That would be you, in case you don't know. Some I've grown very close to, including this one stunning blond woman with a quirky fashion sense. I've made many friends at that conference. That was the annual SCBWI conference in Los Angeles, one of the best literary parties of every year. I do have a reputation for gathering in strays, including lost-looking writers at conferences. ![]() Or like the Mother Theresa of the great unwashed literati. Hopkins, bestselling author, you'd be Ellen F. I like to imagine that if you hadn't become Ellen F. You are so kind to new writers and so good at getting them to focus on craft. You were being mobbed by people and I thought you'd be hard to talk to but you weren't. I had just picked up Impulse and was really into it. EH: Do you remember our first meeting? KEC: I do indeed! It was at a conference. ![]() Kristin Elizabeth Clark recently sat down with her mentor, Ellen Hopkins, to talk about writing, her transition from middle grade to young adult lit, and just how her book Freakboy was born. ![]()
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If i stay forman5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() She realized that there were people who still loved her and wanted her to stay. Mia soon realized that though her life was never going to remain the same after her family’s demise there were still people who loved her. Though pain is the main element in ‘If I Stay,’ love is also an even greater entity throughout the story. ![]() Though she felt out of place, the more Mia thought about her past, the more she discovered that her life had history. Throughout the novel, Mia thought about her past and how her relationships with everyone around her transcended. ![]() Something that intrigued me from ‘If I Stay’ was the extent of how detailed Mia’s history was. The pain Mia felt was more for herself as she felt betrayed by the world. Mia felt pain because her world tumbled with the demise of her parents and brother. One thing I found to be intriguing from ‘If I Stay’ is that everyone’s pain seemed more personal than expected. What happens when there are only two sides of a coin and not choosing a side automatically makes your choice the tail choice? This question is what forms the antagonism of the storyline of ‘If I Stay.’ In the book, Mia had to make just one choice, and she had to choose only one option, to stay or leave. ‘ If I Stay‘ tells the story of someone whose privilege of choice is taken away from her. ![]() Blood sweat and pixels5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Jason Schreier takes readers on a fascinating odyssey behind the scenes of video game development, where the creator may be a team of 600 overworked underdogs or a solitary geek genius. NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The stories in this book make for a fascinating and remarkably complete pantheon of just about every common despair and every joy related to game development.” - Rami Ismail, cofounder of Vlambeer and developer of Nuclear Throne Developing video games-hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze or a bottomless abyss. ![]() Ray dalio principles summary5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Dalio credits Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke with making good decisions to stop the worst of the crisis’s effects. ![]() According to Dalio, Bridgewater made money in 2008 despite the crisis, and policymakers began to seek his advice. One of my favourite principles is 62: ‘If you think something that most people regard as true or right, then you will probably think along similar lines. Ray Dalio believes that thinking independently is the best way to success (or in life ). Dalio had predicted the debt crisis, and he describes discussing the problem with White House staff and Tim Geithner, the president of the New York Federal Reserve. Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refined and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and businessand which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals. Think independently, don’t follow the crowd. He attributes his increased understanding of individual differences to the knowledge he gained from dealing with his son Paul’s bipolar disorder.ĭespite Bridgewater’s growth, Dalio began making plans to step back from his role in 2008, just as a major financial crisis was emerging. Dalio notes that during this period he also increased his focus on management, including developing a list of his principles and distributing it to managers, insisting on policies like “Radical Transparency,” relying on psychometric testing like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and creating “baseball cards” with “stats” for employees. ![]() Claire son lois lowry5/26/2023 ![]() And you totally can, because while the rest of the books sometimes involve characters from the first book, none of them really build on themes from the first book – and it’s the themes that make The Giver so fantastic. I guess a 3/5 overall, but I strongly recommend reading The Giver even if you decide to give the other books a miss. I’m not even sure that I can give this series a rating as a whole because of the wildly differing ratings between books. However, while I found The Giver as brilliant as ever, I felt that the other books really dropped off, especially Messenger, and, to some extent, Son. So I was pretty excited to dive into this quartet. It had been many years since I originally read The Giver (and was mind-blown by it), and until recently I didn’t even realize that there were other books that followed it. Gathering Blue – 3.5/5 (published 2000).The Aroma of Books //Rants//Raves//Reviews// Pargeter, Edith (also writing as Ellis Peters).Mertz, Barbara (also writing as Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels). ![]() ![]() Christie, Agatha (also writing as Mary Westmacott).Children’s History: Landmark, Signature Biographies, and We Were There. ![]() The love hypothesis barnes and noble5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() She was like, "I saw that you wrote something about maybe pulling some of your fics and reworking them. And while I was in that kind of mood, my agent started reading my fan fiction on Archive of Our Own and then she reached out with a DM. And then what happened is that I started slowly thinking about trying to write something original, just to challenge myself and to do something different. I made a lot of friends and I was just having a lot of fun. It was just, it was this amazing community. "I was really, really into writing fan fiction, first for the Star Trek fandom and then for the Star Wars fandom. She explained how it was allowing writers to find their voice and express their feelings on mediums where they would find it harder to do in traditional publishing houses. In a 2021 interview with Collider's Carly Lane, the day after news broke that The Love Hypothesis officially became a New York Times bestseller, Hazelwood spoke at length about the freedom fan fiction offered. ![]() Doctor sleep and the shining5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes “Doctor Sleep.” ![]() Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant “shining” power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the “steam” that children with the “shining” produce when they are slowly tortured to death. They look harmless-mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. ![]() On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. ![]() Come as you are workbook5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() All it takes is an understanding of sexuality and the myths that make your sex life more difficult. You can discover what it takes to give and receive immense pleasure between the sheets. There’s no need to despair though because your sex life might not be at its best yet, but you can get there. But what does it take? You have a hard time talking about these things, let alone even thinking about them! The truth is, deep down, you know that your experience in the bedroom could be much better. Would you take the genie up on the offer right away? No? What’s wrong, don’t you like your sex life?! ![]() You can have infinite money but doing so would mean your sex life would never improve beyond where its at right now. A genie comes out and offers, not three wishes, but a proposition. ![]() You look down to discover a lamp and, although skeptical, you rub it. Picture yourself walking through a desert, when all of a sudden, your foot bumps into something hard in the sand. Listen to the audio of this summary with a free reading.fm account*: ![]() ![]() ![]() (Harris’s is very direct and is a master of crafting both vivid, lifelike characters and heart-stopping suspense King, meanwhile, is quite wordy, but nevertheless highly readable and entertaining…and often terrifying.) Another reviewer called Koontz the knockoff to King’s Gucci handbag. While I love both writers dearly, that is not a compliment. Rather, Koontz’s novel reminded me of a Thomas Harris wannabe trying to write more like Stephen King. The back cover also declares it to be “ Silence of the Lambs meets Marley & Me.”Īs someone who counts Silence as one of their all-time favorites (in terms of both story and characters), let me tell you: this was nothing like it, except that dogs featured in both. Also, crazy people–though Koontz’s variety were pretty sub-par. This book came with the recommendation of a dear friend I wish I had liked it better. ![]() ![]() ![]() Farmer designed a study to find out whether there was a correlation between his Haitian patients belief in in sorcery as the cause of TB and their recovery from that disease through medical treatment.What is your opinion of the distribution of these forms of wealth? What would you change, if you could? Kidder points out that Farmer is dissatisfied with the current distribution of money and medicine in the world.Do you agree with the way that Farmer makes personal sacrifices? For what kinds of things do you make sacrifices, and when do you expect others to make them? ![]() Paul Farmer believes that if youre making sacrifices youre trying to lessen some psychic discomfort (24).How does he do this? Are his methods something to which we can all aspire? Paul Farmer finds ways of connecting with people whose backgrounds are vastly different from his own. ![]() AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
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