The Just City by Jo Walton7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() And although the children are well-treated and educated, they're not allowed to leave and must follow strict rules whose provenance they can’t entirely understand, since they’re not even allowed to read The Republic. The adults, known as “masters,” are generally happy to build the Just City, but not all the children are, especially since it’s strongly implied that the masters encouraged the growth of slavery in various eras by purchasing so many children. What happens when the goddess Athene tries to establish Plato's Republic on Atlantis, populated with a few hundred philosophers plucked from 2,500 years of history, more than 10,000 manumitted slave children and a handful of robot workers?įor some reason, Plato is not invited, but Socrates is welcome, as are a number of Plato's translators and devotees, including Plotinus and Cicero. ![]()
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Secret by Aubrey Irons7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Nominated for 6 Oscars, including “Best Picture,” “Best Original Screenplay,” “Best Actor,” and “Best Supporting Actor,” Sound of Metal ultimately won the awards for “Best Sound,” and “Best Film Editing.” This movie is highly recommended for fans of the film Whiplash or for anybody who has been directly or indirectly impacted by an injury or disability that took away the one thing they love most.ĭirector: Mick Jackson | Runtime: 110 minutesĬast: Rachel Weisz, Timothy Spall, Tom Wilkinson, Andrew Scott, and Mark Gatissĭenial is a biographical drama, based on the book History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier, by Deborah Lipstadt. This Academy Award-winning film is a must-see for musicians, especially percussionists. His behavior begins to worry Lou because she knows he has a history of drug addiction and his reaction to becoming deaf drives a wedge between the two. ![]() ![]() He struggles with the diagnosis and continues to perform, against his doctor’s recommendations. The two of them live in an RV, traveling the country to perform until Ruben begins to lose his ability to hear. This Amazon Original film focuses on metal drummer Ruben ( Riz Ahmed) and his musical career with his singer-girlfriend Lou ( Olivia Cooke). Director: Darius Marder | Runtime: 120 minutesĬast: Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke, Paul Raci, Lauren Ridloff, and Mathieu Amalric ![]() Love light farms book7/6/2023 ![]() This sweet and steamy romance is a holiday happily ever after and the first book in a series of interconnected standalones following the three Lovelight owners. Lovelight Farms is a romantic comedy featuring a handsome freckled data analyst, a messy, optimistic Christmas-tree-farm owner, and a small town with the best hazelnut lattes on the east coast. He just came home for some hot chocolate, and somehow got a farm and a serious girlfriend in the process. Genre: RomanceActual Rating: 4.5 starsSpicy Meter: 3 fire emojisContent Warnings: Discusses parental death, grief, cancer, and cheating. To make the farm seem like a romantic destination for the holidays, she lied on the application and said she owns Lovelight Farms with her boyfriend. With the added publicity and the $100,000 cash prize, she might just be able to save the farm from its financial woes. In an effort to save the Christmas tree farm she’s loved since she was a kid, she enters a contest with instafamous influencer Evelyn St. "A pasture of dead trees, a hostile takeover of the Santa barn by a family of raccoons, and shipments that have mysteriously gone missing-Lovelight Farms is not the magical winter wonderland of Stella Bloom’s dreams. ![]() Blanche on the lam7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Blanche reluctantly connects with Mumsfield, as his mental disorder makes him as invisible in this space as Blanche. Cousin Mumsfield is set to inherit Aunt Emmeline’s estate, and Grace and Everett treat the legitimate heir as more hired help. Her employers, Grace and Everett, live with and off Grace’s wealthy Aunt Emmeline, a recluse with an affinity for gin and a short temper. She refuses to connect personally with people whose circumstances prevent them from ever truly seeing her beyond her functionality for the household. ![]() Blanche’s responsibilities include caring for the house and preparing meals for the family, but she senses an uneasiness in this extravagantly wealthy environment and discomfort around her white employers. ![]() When she finds herself at the mercy of the city judge due to a bounced check, Blanche chooses to ignore the demands of an unjust justice system and flee to the safety of her new employers, accompanying the family to the country house. “This is how we’ve survived in this country all this time, by knowing when to act like we believe what we’ve been told and when to act like we know what we know.īlanche White is a black domestic worker with a sharp tongue, keen intuition, and an inability to stay in one place. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Racism was not limited to slaveholders it was and is a pervasive part of society. What I mean by the first reason is that people do not often want to depict the pervasiveness and overwhelming nuanced magnitude of racism. The experience of Black women who, when they are present in such narratives, are often reduced to silent victims of assault (as in the recent film Birth of a Nation).Īll three of these influence each other and are therefore hard to untangle, but I’ll try to take each point as it relates to Underground Airlines and The Underground Railroad specifically.The exploitation of the pain of the slave’s experience including sexualized violence by using it to titillate the audience.The attempt to center whiteness in the narrative and demonize fellow slaves and Black people.There are three main reasons I feel this way: Personally, I would rather read a nonfiction collection of slave narratives and first-person accounts than someone’s fictionalized and often sanitized story. Winters by revealing that I don’t generally read or watch fictional slave narratives. I’ll start this dual review of The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead and Underground Airlines by Ben H. ![]() ![]() Given the choice? I’ll travel by rail, never by air. ![]() You're Invited by Jen Malone7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() In fact our meet-cute was SO cute we had a whole story written about it in Ladies Home Journal. I met my husband on the highway, literally. I once spent a year traveling the world solo from Nepal to Romania to Fiji, where I learned 99.9% of humanity is pretty freaking awesome yet somehow doesn't share my love of ice cubes in a drink. And Sadie’s already-strained relationship with her mom has not been helped one tiny bit by RSVP’s raiding of Mom’s VIP bride.īut none of that has anything on the hurricane that’s threatening both Sandpiper Beach and the first-ever RSVP wedding. That’s because she’s just learned she needs braces and she is not a happy camper. Vi’s dad has started his new job as janitor at her middle school and really, could anything be more mortifying? According to Becca-yes. ![]() ![]() Lauren is having an especially hard time with the balancing act, and when her grades suffer as a result, she’s seeing red. But with school starting back up and tugging at their time and attention, that's not so easy! Only problem? The Bridezilla’s demands are increasingly loony, and Sadie, Lauren, Becca, and Vi need to figure out how to handle her without going nuts themselves. The four besties behind RSVP threw some of the best parties in town over the summer, and now they’re entrusted with a big-time wedding. ![]() ![]() Sadly, East River is not what they expected, and now Ruby has to make a hard decision on her fight for freedom. ![]() Once she realizes what is going on in that camp, at the age of 16, Ruby runs away and joins a group of kids who also escaped their camp, and now they’re all heading toward East River, which is said to be a free area for all kids to be in. She is sent to Thurmond, a government organization called a rehabilitation camp. Something change so bad that her parents are now afraid of her and have called the cops to take her away. In the first book, we meet Ruby, a 10-year old girl who wakes up on her birthday and realizes that her life has irrevocably changed. Star Wars: A New Hope The Princess, the Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy, 2015.The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding, 2017.The Darkest Legacy (Darkest Minds #4), 2018.In The Afterlight (Darkest Minds #3), 2014.Liam’s Story (Darkest Minds #1.6), 2016.The Darkest Minds (Darkest Minds #1), 2012. ![]() The Last Life of Prince Alastor (The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding #2), 2019 ![]() Dragon slippers book7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Don't miss these other stories from New York Times bestselling author Jessica Day George: Dragon Slippers series Dragon Slippers Dragon Flight Dragon Spear The Rose Legacy series The Rose Legacy Tuesdays at the Castle series Tuesdays at the Castle Wednesdays in the Tower Thursdays with the Crown Fridays with the Wizards Saturdays at Sea The Twelve Dancing Princesses series Princess of the Midnight Ball Princess of Glass Princess of the Silver Woods Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow Silver in the Bloodįrom Kirkus ReviewsClever, well-plotted and good fun. But Creel learns that these shoes could be used to save her kingdom from the brink of war-or destroy it. But when the beast actually appears, Creel not only bargains with him for her life, she also ends up with a rare bit of treasure from his hoard: a pair of simple blue slippers, or so she thinks. ![]() ![]() After all, nobody has seen a dragon in centuries. It's a ploy to lure a heroic knight so that he will fight the dragon, marry Creel out of chivalrous obligation, and lift the entire family out of poverty. Creel can't believe her aunt wants to sacrifice her to the local dragon. This enchanting tale of dragons, betrayals, and the power of friendship is the first in a charming and thrilling series by New York Times bestselling author Jessica Day George. ![]() The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel, with its distinctive feminist tang, starts with the sentence: “When I was born, the name for what I was did not exist.” Readers will relish following the puzzle of this unpromising daughter of the sun god Helios and his wife, Perse, who had negligible use for their child. This time, she dips into The Odyssey for the legend of Circe, a nymph who turns Odysseus’ crew of men into pigs. The writer returns to Homer, the wellspring that led her to an Orange Prize for The Song of Achilles (2012). Imagine all the prayers.” So says Circe, a sly, petulant, and finally commanding voice that narrates the entirety of Miller’s dazzling second novel. 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