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Highly recommended - Hilarious and perfect to read on a cranky day. That makes for a very smile-worthy and perfect wrap-up. There's a hippo-shaped sandbox, monkey bars with a monkey figure hanging at the end, a giraffe slide, an open crocodile-mouth tunnel to climb into. Trust me, it's great, though.Īfter Gramma fixes Maya's hair, they go to the playground, where all the animal references make sense. You can usually peek into Flashlight Press books at their website (link leads to info about Maya was Grumpy), but I don't see a link to an inside view for this one. "Well then," said Gramma, "I guess that meansĪfter Gramma talks about not being able to stick her head in a crocodile, swing with the monkeys or slide down the neck of a giraffe, etc., with Maya grumping the whole time, finally she weasles a smile and a hug out of Maya and fixes her hair. Fortunately, Maya has one of those terrific grandmothers with a crazy sense of humor. And, obviously, she was having every bit as bad a hair day as I was. Was grouch around the house and share her bad mood. Or wear her favorite shorts, or go outside and play. I smiled and even laughed out loud a little because I could so totally relate to little grumpy Maya. Maya was Grumpy by Courtney Pippin-Mathur just happened to arrive after one of those days that I grumped around the house all day and even coffee wasn't doing the trick. How can you comment on somebody’s life? How can you, some stranger, start writing about somebody else’s inner world – their soul? There are paragraphs in Anne’s diary that should have been hers and hers only. I was reading some words that nobody should be reading, nor comment on them. Because wonderful books usually make us, the readers, feel powerful things: hope, joy, sadness, love…įrom the first lines I felt like entering somebody’s intimacy, somebody’s thoughts. Sound a bit crazy? 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Fawn’s resentment of her “lost childhood” fuels a lot of her dissatisfaction with life. Her father was also in retail, running an unsuccessful general store, using his two daughters as his workforce. Her ongoing struggles with the building mirror her struggles with her falling-apart life.įawn had a difficult childhood. The building is on its last legs and she doesn’t have the resources to maintain it. It’s in a rundown old Victorian home and she lives above the store. Fawn is a mid-fifties-aged woman who owns and runs a used book store in Philadelphia. Strong secondary characters, including Ellis’s mother, help add dimension to the story and keep it from ever becoming a cliche.Īlthough the book grapples with love, loss, and sexual identity, Magoon’s book never feels didactic. Her first-person narration as she navigates her pain and her changing feelings drives the novel and allows the reader to get close to the action and the book’s characters. Her narration is authentic and emotionally real. While Magoon tackles tough topics, she doesn’t pander to her readers, making this an enjoyable, emotional read that many readers (especially those of contemporary YA) will gobble up.Ī strong story all around, Magoon excels especially in creating the main character of Ellis. In her relatively short novel, Magoon has crafted a story about a girl learning to see herself and those around her totally clearly for the first time. The deceptively light cover doesn’t hint at the surprising depth of this short, bittersweet coming-of-age story. When Ellis starts to discover comfort in places she didn’t think to look before, she starts to realize that life has to go on–and she has to go with it. Things are more tense between Ellis and her mother than ever, and Ellis’s best friend doesn’t seem to notice that anything is wrong. Her father’s been in a coma for years, and her mom’s talking about finally pulling the plug on the life support. There are only a couple of days left of sophomore year for Ellis, but summer seems to be the last thing on her mind. For instance, Roman Markin, the protagonist of the first story, "The Leopard," is a 1930s Russian government censor who spends his days touching up photos to make Stalin look younger or to remove unwanted figures like Trotsky and other enemies of the state. In art as much as in politics, it can be difficult to distinguish airbrushed history from bitter reality. Ranging from 1937 to 2013, the stories show how fear and propaganda linger in the post-Stalinist era. His second book billed as short stories but as intricately constructed as a novel due to its recurring characters and interlocking storylines returns to Eastern Europe, this time both Russia and Chechnya. By showcasing the survival of the human spirit and the enduring bonds of love, Marra proved that we are so much more than the physical signs of life referenced in the title. This collection of tightly linked short stories, an intimate look at Russia and Chechnya in wartime and afterwards, reveals how politics, family, and art intertwine.Īnthony Marra's debut novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, is an excellent depiction of wartime Chechnya. Readers who enjoyed Sal and Gabi Break the Universe will relish being back in the world of Culeco Academy and the Coral Castle along with such unforgettable characters as American Stepmom, the Gabi-Dads, Principal Torres, and the sassy entropy sweeper. Could it have something to do with the wormhole in the back of his locker? While Sal and Gabi work together to keep both Papi and Rogue Gabi under control, they also have to solve the mystery of Yasmany, who has gone missing from school. All of Papi's efforts are in vain, however, because a Gabi from another universe has gone rogue and is popping up all over the place, seeking revenge for the fact that her world has been destroyed. But Sal's father, a calamity physicist, is trying to shut down all the wormholes Sal creates, because Papi thinks they are eroding the very fabric of our world. Pulling different versions of his mother from other universes is how he copes with missing his own, who died years ago. Sal Vidon doesn't want to live a Mami-free life. Among many other challenges, Sal and Gabi have to try to make everything right with our world when there is a rogue Gabi from another universe running loose. Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents the sequel to the critically acclaimed Sal and Gabi Break the Universe, a brilliant sci-fi romp with Cuban influence. It was shortlisted for Biography of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards, for the Foyles Book of the Year in non-fiction, for the RSL Ondaatje Prize, and for a LAMBDA award, and won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2022. His memoir, All Down Darkness Wide, is published by Jonathan Cape in the UK and Penguin Press in the USA (2022). Synge: Nature, Politics, Modernism was published with Oxford University Press (2021). In 2020, he was chosen by The Sunday Times as one of their "30 under 30" artists in Ireland. Seán Hewitt's debut collection of poetry, Tongues of Fire, won The Laurel Prize in 2021, and was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, and a Dalkey Literary Award. To win this fight, she must seize a legend's power - but claiming the firebird may be her ruin. Now her hopes lie with the magic of a long-vanished ancient creature and the chance that an outlaw prince still survives.As her allies and enemies race toward war, only Alina stands between her country and a rising tide of darkness that could destroy the world. 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