http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4_R1me06DY Setting: a bustling city pavilion, mid day. A twentysomething white man wearing business casual attire complete with laptop bag walks down the street. A white woman pushing a stroller/pram sees him and says hello, giving him a long once-over, implying interest. The man looks puzzled and continues on a few steps. Three women, one black, two white sit on a concrete bench, all dressed [...]
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Milagros: Girl from Away reminds you from the get go that, even in their own stories, Latinos are from “away.” Heh. Anyways, Milagros is from Las Brises, a super-small and super-secret island in the Caribbean, where it’s so peaceful and awesome that Spanish colonizers just rolled up on it and did their thing without pesky slaves or natives yucking up their creamy complexion. The people of [...]
Dude, Ryan took *everything awesome* about The Forest of Hands and Teeth and just fucked that shit up. I think you can kinda tell looking at the covers how different these two books are, too. One’s a dead looking chick floating in some waves wearing a cami. The other’s a woman looking a bit ahead, as if to say, “Yeah, bitches, I’m on a journey [...]
I’m going to have to do my critique of Lucy Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables from memory, as I can’t find my own copy (I suspect my mum threw it out after I read it to pieces) and there’s a wait list on it at my libraries (take that, Ms. Meyer – I can’t see the Twlight saga being that popular a hundred years after [...]
The Heretic Queen: A Novel is the sequel to Moran’s Nefertiti, which I reviewed earlier this week. In it, Moran picks up on the life of Mutny’s child, Nefertari, who’s trying to make a place in a court seeking to oust any reminders of the old regime. Nefertiti’s legacy has been pretty much destroyed, and nobody dares to speak Ahkenaten’s name. Nefertari is only tolerated [...]
This compelling young adult novel focuses on Nefertiti and her sister Mutny. Nefertiti is destined to become the Chief Wife of Pharaoh — her family is centered around her and her campaign for power, since she’s at once a pawn (her role as Pharaoh’s wife helps establish her father politically) and a major player (her machinations at court can make or break her family’s fortunes). [...]
Kelly Parra’s Invisible Touch is a reflection on grief for the MTV generation.* Kara Martinez’ lost her father in a boating accident. She also died — literally and metaphorically. When the doctors brought her back, she could see things others couldn’t. Visions of the future splayed out on people’s chests. Generally, these visions involved THEIR death, deaths she could actually prevent. At the same time, [...]
