The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 Review

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 ReviewThe Watsons Go to Birmingham -1963 By:Christopher PaulCurtis
If you're looking for a great book that you never want toput down, The Watsons Go to Birmingham is perfect. It is written by Christopher Paul Curtis. It's full of adventure, comedy, and tragedy. This book is based on the life of a black family in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement. The book is narrated by one of the young family members, Kenny.
The family goes through many problems with Kenny's big brother Byron. Byron thinks he's so cool and thinks he can do whatever he wants including dying his hair, play with matches, and he does other stuff like kissing himself in the mirror. Kenny also has a mom who is very strict and a dad who is always positive. One more family member is Joetta. She is Kenny's younger sister and is very caring.One of the things we really enjoyed about this book was, that the author really expresses the character's characteristics.
The theme of this story is based on the Civil Rights Movement and family. The book goes through problems in both of these categories. Such as, bombings during the Civil Rights Movement, problems with Byron and Kenny, and so many more usual, and some unusual, problems. Many of the Watson family members change during the story. An example of this is, Byron changed from a disobedient child, to a mature, young man full of respect. The theme of this book really expresses the authors feelings on family and the Civil Rights Movement. Christopher Paul Curtis is a great author and uses many different "secrets" to make his writing as good as it is. First of all, he tells things like they are. There isn't any fantasy in this book and you can relate to the story. The Watsons are just like any family. They go through difficult times and good times. Curtis also does a good job of describing the things that are happening. For example, he told in detail what happened after the church was bombed and what Kenny saw while he was in the church. Curtis has humor in his book too. This makes a big difference, because it makes the book more interesting by making you laugh. Sometimes he uses humor to describe. Like when Byron got his lips stuck to the rearview mirror and Kenny said, "...Byron's lips stretched a mile before they finally let go of that mirror." One thing that we didn't care for about the book was that he didn't use any cliffhangers. We think that that is wanted in a good book, but otherwise it's a great book. We think Christopher Paul Curtis's life really relates to the book. Christopher Paul Curtis was born in the same place that the book took place, Flint, Michigan. He began working on the book The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 when he was in high school. He attended the University of Michigan, where he won the Avery Hopwood Prize for major essays and the Jules Hopwood Prize for an early draft of The Watsons Go to Birmingham. Curtis has won a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Honor for this book and it was named a Best Book of 1995. Christopher Paul Curtis currently lives in Windsor, Ontario, Canada with his wife Kaysandra, and children Steven Darrel, 18 and Cydney McKenzie, who's four. Can't you see how Christopher Paul Curtis's life really reflects on this book?

The Watsons Go to Birmingham is a great book that is worth the reading. We would rate this book an eight on a scale of one to ten with ten being the highest. We would rate it this because, the author has well-developed characters, great describing and really expresses his feelings about family and the Civil Rights Movement You learn many things from this book about appreciating your family and will learn that you never know what you've got until it's gone.The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 Overview

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Bitter in the Mouth: A Novel Review

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Bitter in the Mouth: A Novel ReviewThere is a moment in "Bitter in the Mouth" when the main character likens the facts of her life to cards. She could spread them out on a table in orderly fashion: "My name is Linda Hammerick. I grew up in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. My parents were Thomas and DeAnn. My best friend was named Kelly." Or the same cards could get thrown down and land on each other creating "distorting overlaps (...): I grew up in (Thomas and Kelly). My parents were (valedictorian and baton twirler). My best friend was named (Harper)."
Author Monique Truong structures the story in such a way that it evokes the sense of misplacement and misconstruction that pervades Linda's view of her life as distorting overlaps. Truong divides her novel in two parts. In the first part, Linda covers mostly her childhood--her relationships with her parents, her great-uncle Harper and with Kelly, her best friend. She also describes her first crush, her loss of innocence and the disappointment every child comes to feel when she discovers that the adults in her life are full of flaws and warts. To the reader, Linda Hamerick is an all American girl. Nothing in the minutiae of Linda's narrative foreshadows the surprise Truong drops on the readers at the closing of the first part of her novel. It is then that readers must dismiss any assumptions they might have made about the main character and read on the second part of the book through a different lens.
I enjoy reading both commercial and literary works. "Bitter in the Mouth" is definitely a literary effort. Truong experiments with structure and voice. Linda's revelations of her life and family are made in bits and pieces and in a nonlinear manner. As I encountered them, I felt like I was shuffling pieces of a puzzle. Linda's special condition and her thoughts on childhood legends, however, were more of a distraction to me than contributions to her story. The more I read about them, the more I felt like I wanted to strip the storyline to its bare bones: This book is about (1) Linda's relationship (or lack of it) with her mother, (2) Harper's secret life, (3) Linda's friendship with Kelly and (4) DeAnn and Thomas's marriage
In the end, it was hard to care for Linda. I found her voice too detached. By the time the resolution of the story approaches, her narration becomes clinical and monotonous. There are some gems in "Bitter in the Mouth," however--such as the morning of Thomas's funeral when DeAnn walks into the room with her dress unzipped--, where Truong proves she has an eye for capturing beauty and meaning in what could have been banal details. Reading "Bitter in the Mouth" requires patience and a bit of an open mind toward Truong's choices in story structure and narrative style. Those who like literary experimentation will appreciate this novel.
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LOVE IN A BLUE TIME: SHORT STORIES Review

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LOVE IN A BLUE TIME: SHORT STORIES ReviewThis is a small book of short stories, but for some reason it took me awhile to finish it. It was my third foray into Kureishi territory (The Black Album and the Buddha of Suburbia were first) and I have to say now, somewhat regrettably, that I'm hooked. I didn't, and don't, always enjoy reading his subject matter, but as an aspiring writer myself, his work continues to impress me. He is a talented literary artist, which is something that most average writers aspire to be. In this book, he writes in an economic style, and gives life to his stories with well told action, realistic dialogue, interesting conflicts and memorable characters. But the true strength of this book is in the passages, and in how emotion is communicated in an evocative, and often poetic way. His work often has a distinct dramatic and theatrical element, which could explain the multiple successes of his books' translations into plays and films. He rarely shies away from tough topics, and he indeed does have a special talent in exploring and explaining the depths of the human soul. He is able to tap into the minds and viewpoints of his many characters, and change the perspective of the story, which again is something that only the talented writer can manage successfully. I really like that his characters are always true to their character, and they never say or do anything that seems contradictory. In this book, I most enjoyed the stories "We're Not Jews", "D'Accord, Baby", and "The Flies". The latter is a morose and highly repulsive tale, but artfully done and very memorable nonetheless. I kind of look at these stories as "mood pieces", and I wouldn't recommend them to anyone looking for something light and cheery. But if you're in the market to explore some serious literary work, pick it up and maybe, like me, you'll be impressed.LOVE IN A BLUE TIME: SHORT STORIES Overview

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The World According to Garp (Modern Library) Review

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The World According to Garp (Modern Library) ReviewI first read THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP in 1982, the year the movie adaptation came out. I was a great fan of Robin Williams (MORK & MINDY still being on television at the time), and because I was far too young to view the film, I decided to read its source novel. Actually, I did an oral report on it, much to the chagrin of my 6th grade teacher. It's hard to do an oral report when the rest of the class is awestruck at the use of the word 'bastard'. I did very well, but the teacher did recommend that I stick to less challenging works, considering my age. Thankfully, I did not listen.
In the many times I have reread GARP since, I have never failed to be struck dumb by the sheer elegance and beauty, not to mention brutality, of John Irving's novel. While Irving's writing have too often been described as 'Dickensian', it is truly an accurate summation. Irving presents a family saga rife with bizarre yet realistic characters, all swirling around what very well may the finest character put to paper in the 20th century, T.S. Garp.
Garp is the bastard son (there's that word again) of Jenny Fields, a sometimes nurse and headmistress, who doesn't believe in anyone but herself, and her son. As Garp matures, finding success as an author, Jenny inadvertently eclipses his fame with her own autobiography, which catapults her to the forefront of the feminist movement.
I won't say more about the plot, because nothing else would suffice. To try and describe it any further might inadvertently gloss over the innumerable circumstances that make up Garp's life. Already, many single scenes come flooding back to memory: Garp, as a child, stranded precariously on the roof of a dormitory, trying to find a pigeon; Garp as a teen, experiencing his first sexual encounter, as well as a more fierce encounter with a large black dog named Bonkers; Garp (in arguably the most haunting moment) turning off his car's engine and quietly gliding up his driveway in the dark, as his son whispers, "It's like a dream!"
Irving's other characters run the gamut, from odorific professors to brain-dead war heroes. There's Roberta Muldoon, a former linebacker-turned-transexual; Ellen James, the tragic and unwanting figurehead of a truly weird cult; and Poo, the sister of one of Garp's first girlfriends. Irving weaves his characters and situations together in a breathtaking dance. And despite the dance's immense complexity, he never once loses his step.
Irving has also become famous (justifiably so) for a story Garp pens within the novel, THE PENSION GRILLPARZER. While this story is terrific, it has overshadowed the rest of Garp's work found within the pages of the novel. Irving performs a neat trick, in that Garp's style of writing, while similar to Irving's, is not exactly the same. Irving writes from Garp's viewpoint, ensuring that Garp has a voice of his own. While GRILLPARZER is famous, an excerpt from one of Garp's later novels is equally memorable. In the story, a young housewife is raped, while a police officer tracks the rapist down. While it feels like an Irving novel, it also doesn't; it is far nastier and more grotesque than anything else Irving has written. It is not Irving's story, it is Garp's, providing a telling glimpse into Garp's anguished soul.
GARP is a tragedy, with funny parts. It is a comedy, with heart-wrenching moments. It is riotously funny, and crushingly moving. It is a story of writers, and insanity, and adultry, and terminal cases. Like the best novels, it displays the entire life of an individual the reader would not otherwise get to know. It presents you with places you want to see, and people you wouldn't mind sharing a beer with. It is Irving's best work, and a landmark in American literature.The World According to Garp (Modern Library) Overview

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The Braided Tongue Review

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The Braided Tongue ReviewI didn't know that camels menstruate...and the Virgen La Soledad in Oaxaca was missing her legs...
I couldn't put this book down. The story of Katy Cooper's search for her real parents takes her from California to India to Oaxaca,Mexico and in the meantime her journey takes twists and turns that focus on the stories of the other women who accompany her search. The storytelling is seamless even as the author weaves three and four different stories in one telling. I like the voices,laughter, sadness, secrets, childhood memories, and the ghosts. The stories are historical:lives torn apart by the partition of India and Pakistan, the colonization of India, the migration from Mexico to El Norte, the diaspora of peoples as told in the fate of a family sari. But in this novel, the author conveys that history need not be overdeterministic and the gift of storytelling can create new worlds, heal old wounds, and foster hope.The Braided Tongue OverviewFiction. Asian American Studies. "A high-speed novel as brilliantly colored as a Mexican tapestry"--Meena Alexander. Plagued by vague but painful memories of her renegade father and her childhood in Mexico, the novel's main characer--Katy Cooper--is a painter of Parsi Zoroastrian ancestry living in Half Moon Bay, California, when her strange adventure of self-discovery begins. At the center of her mystery is an elderly ghost with a scar on her neck, and a black butterfly who has followed Katy all her life. Editor of the anthology Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the Americas (1999), Roshni Rustomji was born in Mumbai, India and has lived, studied and worked in India, Pakistan, Lebanon, the United States and Mexico.

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Light Your Church on Fire Without Burning it Down: Church in the 21st Century Review

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Light Your Church on Fire Without Burning it Down: Church in the 21st Century ReviewIn "Light Youth Church Without Burning It Down," author and Pastor David Housholder takes a swing a bridging the seemingly large gap between Pentecostals and mainline Protestants. Hous, however, with a background in both Pentecostal and Lutheran traditions, makes it clear that there isn't as big of a gap as once thought.
Hous provides clarity on the following subjects: Speaking in tongues, healing, receiving the Spirit, charismatic worship, and deliverance, to name a few. Traditionally, mainline Protestants would be fearful of many of these topics and afraid to engage any of them. But Hous makes it very clear that this is not to be the case.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a brief and practical guide to the Pentecostal/Charismatic movement that is sweeping the globe (Africa, Latin America, and China). Don't be afraid to be filled with the Spirit! Pick this book up and you won't be disappointed!Light Your Church on Fire Without Burning it Down: Church in the 21st Century OverviewKen Blanchard, the "One Minute Manager," says: " I have personally sat under David Housholder's teaching on this topic, and I invite you to read this book and open yourself up to the potent, awareness-changing presence of the Holy Spirit in your life."This is the definitive "beginner's guide" to the biggest and most dynamic social-spiritual movement in human history: Pentecostalism.In easy-to-understand lay language, Housholder brings you on a moving and personal "inside tour" through the heart of Pentecostal spirituality, practice, and temperament.Far from a mere arms-length survey, you will touch, taste, and smell the movement from within during this rollicking, fast, breathtaking read. This book will change your views on Pentecostal Christians and may well re-wire your spirituality as well.This potent book is ideal as a text for seminary survey classes, small group studies, leadership retreats, or just personal journey reflection.Available on Kindle, you can read it on the plane...Ralph Moore says:"This is a blast--fun to read, intellectually satisfying and leading straight to experiential faith. A must read for anyone wanting to go deeper with God."Richard Bliese, president of Luther Seminary in Minnesota, says:"If you don't completely understand the Pentecostal religious experience, and if you don't know the exact vocabulary surrounding the Spirit-filled life, this book is for you."Tood Hunter, veteran Vineyard Church leader, Alpha director, and church planter, says:"You'll find a way to all the right stuff while navigating around the rough waters of the weirdness you may fear."The author, David Housholder, hosts a popular worldwide iTunes podcast at his church (www.RobinwoodChurch.com) in Huntington Beach, California. He is also a surf instructor, sponsored snowboarder, wildcat oil investor in Texas, and author of published Bible study resources (see http://tinyurl.com/pv3jf6 for his recent Galatians study which Augsburg Fortress has just put out). He is well-known on Twitter (@ RobinwoodChurch), Facebook, and LinkedIn. Raised and ordained in the Lutheran Church, he understands both conventional and Pentecostal Christianity firsthand.David was a Fulbright Scholar in Philosophy, New Testament, and Moral Theology at the University of Bonn, Germany in 1988-1989. He is also the consulting pastor of Hosanna! Lutheran Church in Lakeville, Minnesota. He has taught New Testament Greek at the graduate level and was a contributor to Danker's latest revision of Bauer's Lexicon.David lives with his wife of three decades and has a young adult son. His brothers are also major leaders in the Lutheran Church. His brother Mike, the perfect one, is the pastor of the largest Lutheran Church in North America (www.HopeWDM.org). His other brother, Tim, was the favorite. Search "Housholder." any Sunday you are in Southern California and meet the author in person.This is the first of many books in the "Church in the 21st Century" series.

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A Thanksgiving Tale Review

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A Thanksgiving Tale ReviewI picked up this story for my kids, but was glad I read it first. It does have dark humor, but is best left for adults.A Thanksgiving Tale OverviewAs Muriel Barber prepares her holiday feast, something sinister grows in the hot stove before her. Enjoy a black comedy about turkey with an edge.

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Flames of a Wagging Tongue Review

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Flames of a Wagging Tongue ReviewMegan day has done it again! Proving herself as an intricate suspence writer, yet instinct, facts and Carmen, the young inspector can only fast forward or loose the culprit keeping one step ahead on e-mailFlames of a Wagging Tongue OverviewAs bodies begin piling up in a small town, Sadie finds herself on the run. Rumors are flying and innocent people are being murdered. Not only are the police after her as the prime suspect, but the monster responsible taunts her with graphic images of the dead. Her e-mail becomes his source of communication where he shows her what he has done and what he plans to do next, if only she can unravel his hints in time. Carmen, a young inspector, heads up the investigation. Though everyone on the force is convinced Sadie is the culprit, she isn't so sure. Her instincts tell her different as she scrambles to stay one step ahead of the madness. As the body count approaches five, the investigation takes a sudden turn for the worse. Carmen's husband, Marty, gets tangled up with Jess, Sadie's dearest friend. In a matter of hours, both men are trapped in the lair of the demon in an attempt to rescue Sadie. With the clock ticking, Carmen has to try and corner the real killer before it's too late.

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How the Gods Wove in Kyrannon: Being a Translation of Narratives Written in the High Tongue of Kyrannon Review

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How the Gods Wove in Kyrannon: Being a Translation of Narratives Written in the High Tongue of Kyrannon ReviewI first read this from the library many years ago, and loved it and bought it in paperback. I have re-read it many times, and I am happy to see it reissued for my copy is falling apart. The world of Kyrannon is realistic and well imagined and described, and the characters varied and interesting. The theme is an old one but always important--how power corrupts, and how unjust power must be resisted. The book is honest about the cost of resistance, but leaves one feeling uplisted. It is a life-affirming read.
This is a moving and delightful fantasy. I also recommend "The Seekers of Shar-nun" which is set in a different part of the same world. I recommend all of her books, in fact.How the Gods Wove in Kyrannon: Being a Translation of Narratives Written in the High Tongue of Kyrannon OverviewWhen the Tyrant seizes power in the city of Lirith, capital of Kyrannon, his ambition for conquest and his need for the great horses of Fallowden create a vortex of conflict and powers. Into this the Raithes of Fallowden -- Tisha the Wise and her daughter Cara, Lengalyon the hermit of the heights, and even the infant Ashraf, son of Shanah ni Raithe do Raithe -- are drawn. Five Raithes survive the battle with the Tyrant's troopers. Each flees in a different direction and performs a different vital task. These combine to weave a complex pattern aimed at bringing down the Tyrant and freeing the people of Kyrannon. In the end, even Those Who Wait, the spirits of the Raithes who have died in defending their home, play their part in this intricate web."Mayhar's first published book shows all the hallmarks of her later work: believable characters, the grand themes of life and death, and the backdrop of a strange new world that actually seems to live and breathe before our eyes. A great read!" -- Robert Reginald.Watch for the other books in this series: Lords of the Triple Moons, The Seekers of Shar-Nuhn, and Warlock's Gift.--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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The First Girls of Baxter Academy Review

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The First Girls of Baxter Academy ReviewI could not stop reading this book. Meet Prep, Facts of Life, Admission, Mona Lisa Smile. the prose flows to the point that I thought I was on this campus. I look forward to more from this author. Just wonderful!The First Girls of Baxter Academy OverviewThe year is 1971, and Baxter Academy is perfect just as it is: it's got the history, the prestige, and the beautiful New England campus. It's just missing one thing-female students! But Becky (the women's libber), Maggie (the hippie chick), Sheila (the day student), and Louise (the senator's daughter) are about to give the academy exactly what it has always needed.The girls thought the biggest challenge would be getting into the school-little did they realize they would have to fight so hard to stay. Luckily, they have each other to see them through the most amazing and adventurous year of their lives when they become the very first girls of Baxter Academy.

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To Speak in Lifeless Tongues (Vampire The Dark Ages) (The Grails Covenant , Vol 2) Review

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To Speak in Lifeless Tongues (Vampire The Dark Ages) (The Grails Covenant , Vol 2) ReviewIf you've read the first book in The Grails Covenant, then you'll notice unsettling similarities. Other than that,the story was still pretty good, but you never get the feeling that Montrovant, the vampiric protagonist, is getting any closer to his goal, which is obtaining the Holy Grail for his clan(Lasombra). It all boils down to Montrovant getting manipulated and deceived by the ancient and insane Kli Kodesh. At the rate that this series is going, Montrovant will never get the Grail.To Speak in Lifeless Tongues (Vampire The Dark Ages) (The Grails Covenant , Vol 2) OverviewIn the second volume of The Grails Covenant trilogy, the vampire Montrovant, bent on obtaining the Holy Grail, receives word that the Knights Templar are about to fall. He sets off after King Phillip's army, despite the threat of treachery, to claim the Grail and deliver it to his sire. But time and the mysterious guardian of lost treasures pit themselves against Montrovant as he risks all for honor, power, and pride .

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Mercury Under My Tongue: A Novel Review

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Mercury Under My Tongue: A Novel ReviewMERCURY UNDER MY TONGUE is not a book for the weak of heart. It is a powerful story told through they eyes of a seventeen-year-old boy dying of bone cancer. Frederick Langlois is in a Canadian hospital. He knows he is dying and is doing what he can to survive.
Frederick's family comes to visit, but he has little to say. Instead, he has thoughts inside his head of what he would prefer to say to them. He has gone so far as to write letters to each member of his family. His plan is to have one of the survivors on his floor mail them off on the one-year anniversary of his death.
His only solace is the poetry that he writes, but shares with no one except a fifteen-year-old leukemia patient, Marilou. The poetry shows another glimpse into Frederick's thoughts as he faces his final days.
Mr. Trudel writes a sad, moving story of a boy wanting more out of life than the hand he was dealt. Frederick shows anger, regret, love, joy, and, against his better judgment, acceptance, as his time draws nearer to the end. He rarely shares his pain of cancer with the reader, but there are snippets of the discomfort that he struggles with on a daily basis.
The story is translated from its original French but still flows beautifully and eloquently. If nothing else, Mr. Trudel's work will make you glad you are alive, and want to live the most in each day.
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Storytime Stretchers: Tongue Twisters, Choruses, Games, and Charades Review

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Storytime Stretchers: Tongue Twisters, Choruses, Games, and Charades ReviewStorytime Stretchers: Tongue Twisters, Choruses, Games, and Charades is a resource packed cover to cover with "two-minute miracles" ideal for working with children from preschool to high school age. Collected from author Naomi Baltuck's own childhood, as well as from other storytellers, and children themselves, these delightful rhymes, tunes, call-and-response chants, and simple games are highly recommended for use anywhere children gather, from family occasions to Scout meetings to keeping young minds awake and alert at school. "Tree Toad Trials": A tree toad loved a she-toad / that lived up in a tree. / She was a three-toed tree toad, / but a two-toed toad was he. / The two-toed toad tried to win / the she-toad's friendly nod, / for the two-toed toad loved the ground / on which the three-toed toad trod. / But no matter how the two-toed toad tried, / he could not please her whim. / In her tree-toad bower, / with her three-toed power, / the she-toad vetoed him.Storytime Stretchers: Tongue Twisters, Choruses, Games, and Charades OverviewThis resource book is full of activities that can be used during school, church, or youth programming to transform listeners into participants. Includes more than forty selections, including action songs, chants, tongue twisters, musical games, and audience participation tales.

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Tongue in Cheek Review

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Tongue in Cheek ReviewFiona Walker has always been a wonderful, funny read, with sympathetic and believable characters. This book is an unfortunate exception--with an overly convoluted and contrived plot involving a murder that may or may not have happened, a bunch of ghosts that may or may not exist, arson (or is it) culminating in what seems to be a completely pointless death-defying midnight point to point race. Her characters have always seemed clueless in their relationships, but in this one they seem almost bizarrely so--affairs flare up, everyone declares undying love, and then it's over in six pages. Long-lost lovers reunite and squabble, reunite and squabble, over and over again until I really couldn't have cared less how it all turned out.
Fiona has always been on my list of indulgent pleasures, but this one is not in her usual league.Tongue in Cheek OverviewFrom the very first day that they move to the Oddlode Valley, it's inevitable that young teacher Mo Stillitoe, recently separated socialite Diana Lampeter, and cool, retired dressage diva Anke Brakespear will find their lives entangled. Despite their differing generations and backgrounds, the women are on a relocation collision course. As inept removal men deliver furniture and even horses to the wrong houses, other moves are being made. Mo's bad boy lover takes Diana's eye, Anke's flirtatious husband immediately suggests Mo hop into bed with him, and Diana's local heartthrob brother comes joyfully face to face with the Danish ice-maiden he posted on his wall as a teenager. As a long, hot Indian summer burns its embers into winter, the newcomers settle into their beautiful frost-hugged surroundings, generating enough heat to melt every heart in Oddlode. New passions ignite and old flames are fanned amid the honeyed villages, enchanted gardens, haunted parkland, and raucous country social life. The heat is on, and sparks fly but is this just a flash in the pan or is somebody fuelling the fire.

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The Lying Tongue ReviewI only read about this novel last Friday. The cover photograph caught my eye. Then I read what the book was about and that the author is the acclaimed biographer of Patricia Highsmith - a favorite. I knew I had to read it. I rushed out and found a copy and devoured it over the weekend.
Recently graduated from University, would be novelist Adam Woods can't believe his good fortune in landing a position as personal assistant to the reclusive writer Gordon Crace. Crace is an enigmatic figure. Forty years ago he published a phenomenally popular novel of murder at a boys school called "The Debating Society" before retreating into seclusion. An intensely private man, Crace wants nothing more than to be left alone with only the skeletons in his closet for company. However, one rarely gets what one wants - or deserves. Sensing an opportunity to exploit Crace and the mystery of his self-imposed isolation, Woods sets out to discover all he can about the man's past. As you can well imagine, what he finds isn't pretty.
Andrew Wilson has done Ms. Highsmith proud. His is truly a novel of suspence, equal parts "The Aspern Papers" and "The Talented Mr. Ripley." I could only put it down reluctantly. Rarely have I found a work of fiction as compelling. His writing is graceful and fluid. There isn't a word or phrase out of place. Each idea, character and situation is presented clearly and succinctly. My only regret is that I read it too fast.
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Blood on the Tongue: A Crime Novel Review

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Blood on the Tongue: A Crime Novel ReviewThe surprising thing about this author is that he isn't recognized more widely.
His writing is absolutely first-class, and his use of the
English language surpasses almost any other writing most us
encounter. In this narrow field of the "psychological thriller," his command of the language, and his fresh use of
the metaphor and simile, is unparalleled.
A serious reader will have to re-read some of his passages just
for the pleasure of how the mental picture developes as the
words are flowing.
In this outing, his "heros," Ben and Diane, remain at personal
odds, and they have a difficult time working together on their
rural Derbyshire Constabulary, but a series of crimes brings
them together again to work their particular magic on violent
felons.
A couple of dead bodies are found, apparently unrelated, but
investigation leads back to a WWII crash of a British bomber
in the rural mountains, and an amazing series of crimes begins
to unfold as evidence points to an ever-widening story of crime,
deception at multiple levels, and family relationships. The
details presented and analyzed will hold the reader's attention
throughout the book.
This author also has an unusual insight into how crime victims
react to the assaults on them, and some readers will almost
shrink from absorbing the details of that process.
This story is one that should not be missed by anyone reading
in the "crime" or "thriller" field, and we also learn a lot
about life in the rural England of today.
Rush to grab this one.Blood on the Tongue: A Crime Novel Overview

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Native Tongue Review

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Native Tongue ReviewI first read this book over 10 years ago. Even then I thought it was a little dated -- the author was clearly reacting against the Reagan era and extrapolating a hypothetical future where women have become chattel (albeit somewhat pampered chattel).
This is an "idea" book, and the ideas are fascinating. Laadan, the "women's tongue," (Elgin has actually created and published Laadan books), the power of communication, very alien aliens.. these are all interesting. If you are a linguist, a feminist, or someone who just likes far-out social speculation, this book will be interesting to you. It does have a certain hold on the imagination, such that I still remember it and think about it years later.
But as fiction, much less as science fiction, it leaves something to be desired. The entire premise, that the U.S. will become a sort of genteel Protestant patriarchal dictatorship, falls flat. (Some people may argue we are already heading in that direction, but I really can't see the repeal of the 19th Amendment and every man in the country becoming convinced that women have no more intellectual abilities than children.) Technology and space exploration is poorly explained, all the "sci-fi" bits are handwaved and thus there are some notable gaps in my suspension of disbelief. The aliens and the interstellar society exist as a backdrop for Elgin to explore her social views, which is fine if you are reading the book for social/feminist-linguistic theory, but will disappoint if you are reading the book for science fiction.
Most annoyingly, every single male character is one-dimensional. All the men are at best condescending egotists, at worst thugs. One is left with the impression that almost spontaneously, American society was taken over by a Protestant Taliban, and not one man ever questions the new social order. Aren't there ANY men who are not chauvinistic troglodytes, with egos so fragile that their world would fall apart if a woman ever demonstrated independence and competence in his presence? Not in this book, and not in many of Elgin's other books either.
I also agree with another reviewer; the first book in the Native Tongue trilogy is worth reading. The second book was mediocre and unfocused and didn't seem to come to any resolution. The third book, rather than picking up where the second book left off, did not tie up any of the loose ends from the first two books, and instead seems to be little more than a poorly edited collection of short stories that happen to be set in more or less the same universe.Native Tongue OverviewCalled "fascinating" by the New York Times upon its first publication in 1984, Native Tongue won wide critical praise and cult status, and has often been compared to the futurist fiction of Margaret Atwood. Set in the twenty-second century, the novel tells of a world where women are once again property, denied civil rights and banned from public life. Earth's wealth depends on interplanetary commerce with alien races, and linguists -—a small, clannish group of families -—have become the ruling elite by controlling all interplanetary communication. Their women are used to breed perfect translators for all the galaxies' languages.Nazareth Chornyak, the most talented linguist of the family, is exhausted by her constant work translating for trade organizations, supervising the children's language education, running the compound, and caring for the elderly men. She longs to retire to the Barren House, where women past childbearing age knit, chat, and wait to die. What Nazareth comes to discover is that a slow revolution is going on in the Barren Houses: there, word by word, women are creating a language of their own to free them from men's control."Native Tongue brings to life not only the possibility of a women's language, but a rationale for one,"—Village Voice"Elgin takes up more than linguistics, of course—everything from religion to sex…the story is absolutely compelling."—Women's Review of BooksSuzette Haden Elgin is author of twelve science fiction novels and is widely know for her best-selling series The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense and for The Grandmother Principles. She is director of the Ozark Center for Language Studies and is professor emerita of linguistics at San Diego State University.Susan Squier is Julia Brill professor of English and Women's Studies at Pennsylvania State University.

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