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Ranking all 13 'I Am Canada' Books
Overall thoughts Let me get something out of the way: I didn’t want to read these books. Maybe that’s too strong of a statement. I’m something of a purveyor of children’s historical fiction. Previously, I fulfilled an insatiable decade-old desire lodged in the back of my brain to read and rank all 33 Dear Canada books, and determined that some of them are fantastic. Then, I set my sights a little further south and read and ranked all 43 Dear America books with slightly less exciting results. Then, I was supposed to read and rank The Royal Diaries—which is Dear Canada/America for kids who haven't developed class consciousness yet or, are really into Elizabeth Tudor/Cleopatra/Anastasia Romanova—and then I didn’t. It wasn’t for lack of resources, all of the books were at my local library. Instead, I fell into a reading slump last summer that I’m still crawling my way out of. My chance to include a Royal Diaries installment of this series vanished right before my eyes.
By kit vaillancourt6 years ago in Geeks
Novels to Discover: "Ready Player One"
Hello and welcome to Novels to Discover! Last week featured Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”, an exploration into the novel which you can read here. This week though, we’re turning to Ernest Cline’s 2011 dystopian novel “Ready Player One”. This adventure novel shows what a futuristic world could be like, with a heavy nostalgia and retro aesthetics weaved throughout.
By Leigh Hooper6 years ago in Geeks
My Top 10 Most Dramatic Novels of All Time
Dramatic novels are always the best, I think. I love the mix of emotion alongside these wrenching stories of survival, love and death. It's a brilliantly gushing way to use your reading time. There are many, many dramatic books out there, but I really wanted to go through my top ten most amazing of all of them...
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
20 Books of 2020 (Pt.13)
I think I've identified the kind of literature I'm reading more and that's Golden Age British Crime Fiction. However, I'm still concentrating on keeping myself attached to reality by reading nonfiction. Unfortunately enough, I haven't really had the taste for fantasy or YA recently as I normally would - which is bothering me. I don't want to think I have grown out of it because they are some of my favourites. However, I won't read something I'm not in the mood to read. I only ever read this much for entertainment.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
Books for When Anxiety Makes It Hard to Concentrate
Books can make for a wonderful escape in anxious times — but sometimes, in those times, it’s hard to concentrate for long, especially when we first pick up a book. That’s when a particular type of read can come in really handy: the book that comes in short chunks. Maybe it’s in the form of a diary, or letters, or maybe the chapters are really short. We can pick it up, even if we don’t feel like it, and force ourselves to read a page or two. And then, out of nowhere the magic happens: a really good book will lure us in with short chapters but then keep our attention and draw us in so that we keep turning pages and forget to check our phones.
By Claire Amy Handscombe6 years ago in Geeks
Le rose di Atacama - BEAUTIFUL FROM THE NORMAL THINGS
The life of a guy who used to be an electrician apprentice fell into the abyss of silence due to the torture from dictators who deprived him of the ability to speak up and deprived of his identity. his real because he could not say his real name, in his voice to the old teammates who only know his operating aliases. Time seems to have died on the bodies of two women, a brunette and a blonde, at night they were dragged out of the house, after the first shivers, and deep in their bodies. blood sheaths, "rock punches", "boot marks" and even "electrical picana marks" an unyielding unwavering will that implicitly won the victory: "They didn't subdue you.". There are many more people in this book that have buried their own wars, in small or vast lands, at completely different times. They have voiced their love for peace and justice in their own lives, the price to pay is sometimes death, and scarier than death is nameless and forgotten. People only remember the names of the countless battles that took place while the names of those who have been trampled by evil gradually fade away as if they never existed in the world. Is our memory complicity with a crime? Joseph Goebbels - one of those who advocated the extermination of Jews during World War II (is it a crime to remember the names of those who oppose humanity instead of the names of the victims?) - asserts: A death is a scandal, thousands of deaths are a statistic.
By Thao Thao Tran6 years ago in Geeks
I used to be self-deprecating with my reading habits
What are your feelings when reading the Alchemist? When I hadn't read this book, I asked my friend to let me review. She simply said that a young person struggles a lot to achieve his dream, but there are no other special feelings. And the quote is so popular from the story we meet forever, so much so that I thought it would be a "logo" for the book, is "when you yearn for something, the whole universe will join forces to help you." get there ”. I am not impressed with this review and the quote is repeated many times. It wasn't until last year that I read this book, because it's thin and because I'm stressed by work, I just want to read something fast. I've read it startled because this volume is "too" and "heavy". I cried numb for it.
By Thao Thao Tran6 years ago in Geeks
