![]() ![]() I thought this was great advice, and I have both kept it in mind for myself and passed it along to my students ever since.Ĭ.M. MAYO: As you were writing, did you have in mind an ideal reader?ĬHRISTINA THOMPSON: A very clever agent once told me to write for the smartest person I know who knew nothing about my subject. Sea People is an attempt to work out the implications of that understanding.Ĭ.M. But the breathtaking reality of what that actually entailed came home to me in a new way when I looked out at the Pacific from Honolulu and thought about how far away New Zealand was. ![]() My husband is Maori and, of course, I knew the big story about Polynesia-how the Islanders in Hawai‘i and Easter Island and New Zealand and everywhere in between were all part of one big family. MAYO: In brief, what inspired you to write Sea People?ĬHRISTINA THOMPSON: There’s a chapter in my previous book in which I describe the experience of staying behind in Honolulu while my husband traveled with our young son to NZ for his father’s funeral. Christina Thompson, author of Sea PeoplesĬ.M. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But it’s also a topic that needs to be handled with nuance and discretion – too often, novels on suicide tend to be clumsy or heavy handed. ![]() I think it’s incredibly important that YA authors are dealing with the rather taboo issue of suicide, especially as it’s something that needs to be talked about, especially among the younger generation. There seems to be a rash of young adult books dealing with the issue of suicide lately – offhand, I can think of Gayle Forman’s I Was Here, Jennifer Niven’s All The Bright Places, Jasmine Warga’s My Heart and Other Black Holes, and, of course, Cynthia Hand’s The Last Time We Say Goodbye. ![]() But Lex is about to discover that a ghost doesn’t have to be real to keep you from moving on.įrom New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye is a gorgeous and heart-wrenching story of love, loss, and letting go. But there’s a secret she hasn’t told anyone-a text Tyler sent, that could have changed everything. And it feels like that’s all she’ll ever be.Īs Lex starts to put her life back together, she tries to block out what happened the night Tyler died. ![]() Now she’s just the girl whose brother killed himself. Friends who didn’t look at her like she might break down at any moment. The last time Lex was happy, it was before. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cyberspace will no longer be a world of relative freedom instead it will be a world of perfect control where our identities, actions, and desires are monitored, tracked, and analyzed for the latest market research report. ![]() Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig warns that, if we're not careful we'll wake up one day to discover that the character of cyberspace has changed from under us. ![]() Should cyberspace be regulated? How can it be done? It's a cherished belief of techies and net denizens everywhere that cyberspace is fundamentally impossible to regulate. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor-engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.Ĭora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey, as Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre–Civil War era. With Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, close on their heels, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, seeking true freedom. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. ![]() Things do not go as planned, and Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. ![]() Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood, where even greater pain awaits. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Cloud Roads has wildly original worldbuilding, diverse and engaging characters, and a thrilling adventure plot. Beset by doubts, Moon must travel in the company of strangers to a distant realm where he will finally face the forgotten secrets of his past, even as an old enemy returns with a vengeance. The Siren Depths - Now a rival court has laid claim to Moon, and Jade may or may not be willing to fight for him. Together, they travel with their people on a pair of flying ships in hopes of finding a new home for their colony. The Serpent Sea - Moon, once a solitary wanderer, has become consort to Jade, sister queen of the Indigo Cloud court. ![]() Just as Moon is once again discovered and cast out by his adopted tribe, he discovers a shape-shifter like himself. An orphan with only vague memories of his own kind, Moon tries to fit in among the tribes of his river valley, with mixed success. The Cloud Roads ** - Moon has spent his life hiding what he is-a shape-shifter able to transform himself into a winged >creature of flight. Containing The Cloud Roads (2011), The Serpent Sea (2012), The Siren Depths (2012). The complete Books of the Raksura trilogy, by Martha Wells. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eliot said the natural language of drama is poetry, I say the natural language of all manner of sentience is music, or anything that evokes it thereby reversing the normal psycho-epistemological process and reaching that raw core in us directly and irrevocably. Its been a long time since I read her last.yesterday my little sister asked me what "ineffable" means, and as I was explaining its meaning to her somewhere inside someplace a tiny voice kept insisting,just say "its rather like a Mary Oliver poem".I do not feel like addressing her with a commonplace Miss Oliver.not when I know her like that and she me.Mary strips me of all my desperate strength, all the futile hard earned evolution and adornments I managed to soil myself with on the way, and as I now sit back, softly murmuring the wise words of her love letters to life, I feel that natural nakedness again, all the excruciating otherness washed and anointed with tender images of the ridiculously simple,my hands are trembling as I type this,I cannot even begin to explain the kind of ancient guttural reflexes she elicits from me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I then make a sustained argument from the Linux experience for the proposition that “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”, suggest productive analogies with other self-correcting systems of selfish agents, and conclude with some exploration of the implications of this insight for the future of software. ![]() I show that these models derive from opposing assumptions about the nature of the sofware-debugging task. I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally diferent development styles, the “cathedral” model of most of the commercial world versus the “bazaar” model of the Linux world. I anatomize a successful open-source project, fetchmail, that was run as a deliberate test of some surprising theories about sofware engineering suggested by the history of Linux. Eric Steven Raymond cf text and copyright at: This book is in public domain and his author is Eric Steven Raymond, this repository hosts the original version of the book, written in Markdown and hosted with ❤️ at GitHubĬontribute with the project by translating and improving the formating by opening a Pull Request. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sunburn (2018), her second consecutive novel to win the eDunnit Award at Crimefest, was. And, as much as this is an atmospheric suspense story based on two true-crime cases, it's also a compelling female adventure tale of Maddie, at mid-life, coming into her own amidst a rich historical depiction of 1960s Baltimore. Set in Baltimore, Lippman’s home stomping grounds, Lady in the Lake covers just over a year, from October 1965 to November 1966. Laura Lippmans novels have won many crime fiction prizes, including the Edgar, Anthony and Agatha Awards. Chandler's The Lady in the Lake was a middlin' novel but Lippman's is a stunner, one that not only gives voice to that murdered 'lady in the lake,' but to a diverse crowd of Baltimoreans: Narrators include a jewelry store clerk, a beat cop and a player for the Baltimore Orioles. ![]() ![]() Cleo is the still center around which her living counterpart, a white Jewish woman named Maddie Schwartz, frantically orbits. For me as a reader, what's incontestable is the power that Lippman bestows on Cleo's post-mortem voice and presence. Lippman has already weighed in in interviews and articles about her controversial decision as a white writer to adopt the voice of a black woman as one of her main characters. And that's not Lippman's only act of appropriation. Laura Lippman's new suspense novel is called Lady in the Lake, a pretty straightforward purloining of the title of Raymond Chandler's fourth Philip Marlowe novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() We all noticed how sketchy Ishiguro is with details-such as the “lifted” technology and other AF and Portrait details-which leaves a lot of latitude for my rather outlandish theory that Josie was replaced. The Sun couldn’t revive a human being … but was it really Josie the Sun revived? I started thinking that a clue might be found in the book’s title-“Klara and the Sun,” emphasis on the Sun, which seems to energize the AFs. ![]() (view spoiler) [This answer contains spoilers and is LONG!Īs I read the ending, Rick's words echoed in my mind: "I keep wondering if there was more to it.” Knowing Ishiguro’s previous novels, I thought there must be some existential twist I'd missed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Glaude Jr., when white Americans met the civil rights movement’s call for truth and justice with blind rage and the murders of movement leaders, so in our moment were the Obama presidency and the birth of Black Lives Matter answered with the ascendance of Trump and the violent resurgence of white nationalism. Just as in Baldwin’s “after times,” argues Eddie S. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.”-James Baldwinīegin Again is one of the great books on James Baldwin and a powerful reckoning with America’s ongoing failure to confront the lies it tells itself about race. ![]() Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice.One of Esquire’s Best Biographies of All Time.One of the Best Books of the Year: Time, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune What can we learn from his struggle in our own moment? James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. “A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same.”- Time. ![]() |