![]() ![]() ![]() Ghost’s narrative style is built on some of the most gorgeously crafted sentences that are so long they could qualify as run-on, if they didn’t use flawless grammar along with all the words. Ghost tells his story with the words and style of someone who is constantly exploring and explaining, who fully and openly shares with the reader his worldview, his beliefs, and-yes-his reasons behind those not-so-smart choices. Why did I like Ghost so much?īecause Reynolds nailed the voice. We look at what the author did to make us feel this way. So, here at MG Lunch Break, when we have a response like that, we step back and look at the why. Despite the fact that some of the choices he makes and the actions he takes are not the smartest or the kindest, I knew Ghost was a kid I wanted to follow through the book. And not only did I love him, I trusted him. Ghost was the reason I kept turning pages. ![]() Or that you could learn to run toward something, instead of away. Ghost is a boy who has always known how to run, but didn’t know that you could actually learn how to do it better and faster. ![]() I fell in love with Castle Cranshaw, or-as he has nicknamed himself-Ghost. Or, more accurately, I didn’t see the morning pass, because I was totally immersed in the book. I started Jason Reynolds’ Ghost on a weekend as I ate breakfast, and then I saw the morning pass as I kept reading and kept reading. Ghost by Jason Reynolds (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, 2016) ![]()
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Will and I have been looking for a solution, one that would separate me from Lily without killing her. Without the good looks of my former self, I don’t know who I am, or if who that is is good enough. What worries me more, though, is sometimes I catch Will looking at me like he thinks I’m Lily.or that he wishes I were. Talk about a fashion crisis on an epic scale. I’ve been trapped in the body of Lily “Ally” Turner for a month now. ![]() The final book in The Ghost and the Goth Trilogy! ![]() ![]() ![]() Lily and Rule team up to try to stop a Lupi serial killer from murdering more innocent people, but neither realized that their partner is their lifemate though both feel the attraction from the start. He is fortunate that the lead police investigator is not only open-minded, but smells a frame. When someone viciously assaults his father, the clan leader, Rule concludes he can no longer let the officials investigate the murders that make him the prime suspect. Evidence points towards the Nokolai werewolf clan's Prince Rule Turner. ![]() She realizes that this is no ordinary killer. San Diego Police Detective Lily Yu sees the mangled corpse of a big victim who seemed to know how to defend himself, but was ripped apart anyway. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Twenty years into the Peloponnesian War, a long and destructive conflict between the city-states of Athens and Sparta, its heroine is sick of domestic affairs falling by the wayside. ![]() Lysistrata is one of the more accessible of Aristophanes’ works for the modern reader. This made their humor cutting-edge in their day, but sometimes difficult to contextualize now. Even when they starred mythological gods and heroes, they were concerned with topics that were relevant to a contemporary audience. Its plays usually took place in the present and lambasted social and political figures and situations. 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As we in the 21st century deal with economic strife, social division, and a lack of purpose in our daily lives, his attested words are a cathartic reminder that we shouldn't take anything too seriously apart from the pressing concerns of our immediate environment. Zhuangzi is a philosopher who is just as relevant to our time as he was over 2,000 years ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() And when a tragedy befalls his family, Kingsley learns the hardest lesson of all: education may be the language of success in Nigeria, but it's money that does the talking. ![]() Now he worries that without a "long-leg" - someone who knows someone who can help him–his degrees will do nothing but adorn the walls of his parents' low-rent house. For much of his young life, Kingsley believed that education was everything, that through wisdom, all things were possible. It does not seem to matter that he loves her deeply he cannot afford her bride price. Dear, sweet Ola, the sugar in Kingsley's tea. 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On the day of their graduation from the Waynesboro Female College in 1868, best friends Anne Alexander and Sarah "Sally" Cochran are invited along with several of the college's female teachers by Mrs. Santmyer focuses not just on the lives of the women in the club, but also their families, friends, politics, and developments in their small town and the larger world. ![]() They marry soon after the opening of the book, and the decades that follow chronicle their marriages and those of their children and grandchildren. Many characters are introduced in the course of the novel, but the primary characters are Anne Gordon and Sally Rausch, who in 1868 are new graduates of the Waynesboro Female College. The novel, which looks at the club as it changes throughout the years, spans decades in the lives of the women involved in the club, between 18. ![]() ".And Ladies of the Club" is a novel, written by Helen Hooven Santmyer, about a group of women in the fictional town of Waynesboro, Ohio who begin a women's literary club, which evolves through the years into a significant community service organization in the town. ![]() |