Ewan is asian and queer, and Oliver is black and straight. Claiborne's protagonists (drumroll please!) aren't white!!! Ewan and Oliver, the protagonists (antagonists?) are also not both straight!! Yay!! Okay, now that I'm done being super excited, here's some more specifics. "Wait, you did what ?" What do I love about this book? Let me tell you. He gestured to a motionless lump on the floor on the other side of the enormous room-lair? Was lair the more appropriate word? Ewan didn't know the best terms to sue when dealing with evil. "Did he-?" "It's okay," Oliver assured him. Don't worry, I didn't ruin anything the previous events happen in the first few pages. However, in this particular case the hero tries to hide and his best friend ends up saving the day. even if the protagonists are less than likeable (at least until closer to the end.) This book is written in the style of fanfiction, following on the ever-popular hero-saves-the-world-at-the-last-minute plot.
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Hecate’s voice dipped low, tinged with seduction. The point of meditation is to gain control-are you not hungry for control, Persephone?” The more often you do it, the more you-and your magic-will benefit.” “Okay, so I have a problem,” Persephone admitted. Not to mention the destruction of her mother’s greenhouse. Then there was Minthe, whose insulting words had resulted in her transformation into a mint plant and Adonis who she’d threatened in the Garden of the Gods by turning his limbs into vines. Flowers sprouted when she was angry, and vines curled around Hades in moments of passion without warning. Persephone knew her emotions were tied to her powers. They weren’t opened by anyone on the inside.” “Do you want to talk about earlier? Those doors came down because of your magic. “How is that a lesson?” Persephone asked. Her body felt rigid, her hands warm and sweaty. Hecate patted the ground beside her, and Persephone sighed, taking a seat. The last thing Persephone wanted to do was be alone with her raging thoughts. A small smile tugged at Hecate’s berry lips. Through the book’s construction and its dozens of literary allusions, Alison brings the reader inside her point-of-view by showing how she often uses literary, mythical, or historical references in order to frame and contextualize her life. Alison’s journey into self-recording begins with a simple, truthful childhood diary that over time transforms into a much less reliable teenage document that hides as much or more than it captures, and continues through the writing of Fun Home. Throughout the graphic memoir, Alison is open and up front about her desires to dress and act like boys, and she also details how the pressure of her non-conformity to social expectations leads her to develop many strange compulsive behaviors as a child, including rituals, superstitions, and a proclivity for autobiography. The author and protagonist of Fun Home, Alison traces her life from childhood into early adulthood, centering her reflections on the circumstances surrounding her father Bruce’s death as well as the progression of her understanding of her own lesbian sexuality and inclination toward masculinity. Living her best life means facing the truth: Georgie hasn't been on a date since, well, ever. Phase four: put herself on the market (and stop crushing on Travis Ford!) Phase three: updates to her exterior (do people still wax?) Phase two: a gut-reno on her wardrobe (fyi, leggings are pants.) Phase one: new framework for her business (a website from this decade, perhaps?) She's determined to fix herself up into a Woman of the World. Georgie loves planning children's birthday parties and making people laugh, just not at her own expense. Georgette Castle's family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked balloons instead of blueprints and they haven't taken her seriously since. The first in a spicy, hilarious HGTV-inspired romantic comedy trilogy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer and Hook, Line, and Sinker! The book is framed in three sections, depending on where you are in the talent growth process: In his book The Little Book of Talent, author Daniel Coyle (who also wrote The Talent Code) shares the best tips for skill mastery from his travels around the world to various “talent hotbeds”, schools and facilities known for producing world-class performers and athletes. Whether learning a new skill or continuing to build additional capabilities into a talent, many of us work to improve abilities at certain times in our lives and careers but need help to figure out how to reach the mastery level. You can knock out some amazing blog posts, or play a decent game of golf, but still don’t consider yourself “talented”. The word talent can be intimidating for some of us. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle, quoted in The Little Book of Talent, page ix |