![]() ![]() ![]() Here’s the shocker: Mann thinks photographs have the power to distort, or worse, supplant a person’s memory. This cover image of Mann brings to mind her gorgeous yet controversial black and white photographs of her children in Immediate Family-naked water sprites from a lost, ahistorical Eden. She seems suspended outside of time, as if she could be from any decade: her hair, white T-shirt, and preppy plaid shorts belong as much to the first decade of the 21st century as to the middle of the last century. The cover photograph of Sally Mann’s memoir, Hold Still, shows the author as a prepubescent tomboy, airborne against a gray expanse of sky. This review is by contributor Thuy Dinh, editor of Da Mau Magazine. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On These PagesĪ Banned book has been removed from a library, classroom, etc.Ī Challenged book has been requested to be removed from a library, classroom, etc. This is just a common sense request.” She was invited to attend a library board meeting. ![]() A story of accepting people for who they are. The patron stated, “There needs to be some kind of censorship on the books available to children. This is a wonderful story of two siblings. Stella has her Papa and Daddy who take care of her, and a whole gaggle of other loved ones who make her feel special and supported every day. Austrian, It’s Okay to Be Different by Todd Parr, and Families by Shelly Rotner and Shelia M. 2020Ī patron wrote to the newspaper stating that unlabeled LGBTQ books could be found in the children’s area of the Independence (KS) Public Library and they should be labeled and removed from that section, including And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson, Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman, Gay and Lesbian History for Kids by Jerome Pohlen, My Princess Boy by Cheryl Kilodavis, George by Alex Gino, Stella Brings the Family by Miriam Schiffer, Worm Loves Worm by J. Stella Brings the Family Read Aloud Storytime for Kids D Orb Seeker 526 subscribers Subscribe 5 Share 296 views 1 year ago ForKids ReadAloud StoryTime Stella Brings the Family is a. Marshall University does not ban books! The information is provided to let people know what has been banned/challenged elsewhere. ![]() ![]() ![]() So far.Ī word about the "reviews" I post here: Please think of them as recommendations rather than reviews. I specialize in hard-headed heroines and good-hearted heroes. Mostly because I'm slow about writing reviews, and there were a lot of books I wanted to go on record as having enjoyed! I write Regency-set historical romance with a high angst-to-plot ratio. I've gone back and forth about whether to use stars (it feels like a sledgehammer approach to something pretty intricate), and at the moment I'm back to using them. ![]() If I like a book, I'll list it here and scrawl a few sentences about why I liked it. ![]() A word about the "reviews" I post here: Please think of them as recommendations rather than reviews. I write Regency-set historical romance with a high angst-to-plot ratio. ![]() ![]() ![]() I know life will get sunnier soon, it always does. But if it were otherwise, perhaps, as Rilke wrote, I would never have been able to find these words and poems to share. As much as I ache for the gentle light, sometimes the darkness is just too deep. I’m not a big fan of March and April, as they mark too many personal anniversaries of loss. ![]() If it were otherwise, he would never have been able to find those words.Īs lovely as it is, Spring is a difficult time of year for me. His life has much trouble and sadness, and remains far behind yours. ![]() You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall.Īnd if there is one more thing that I must say to you, it is this: Don’t think that the person who is trying to comfort you now lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes give you pleasure. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen if an anxiety, like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and over everything you do. Most comforting to be read as a whole versus any snippets I may extract for you, though if forced, the following stand-out to me: “I want to talk to you again for a little while…” A bit of a longer read for you, dear friend and reader, from Rilke. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There is just enough of a gross factor that the target audience of 9 to 12-year-olds will find the book as entertaining as it is enlightening. Starting with a number of myths about cleanliness, the author quickly establishes how our ideas have changed drastically over time, and how the definition of cleanliness in one part of the world may differ radically from another. ![]() All the Dirt on Getting Clean is a lively, informative exploration of the evolution of keeping clean. But accounts of people bathing go back to the Bronze Age in the Indus Valley. At least that was the point of view espoused by John Wesley in 18th century England. About the Book Starting with a number of myths about cleanliness, the author establishes how our ideas have changed drastically over time, and how the definition of cleanliness in one part of the world may differ radically from another.īook Synopsis Cleanliness is next to godliness. ![]() |