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6/30/2023 0 Comments The silent patient book![]() ![]() Perhaps what appealed to me the most in this novel was its premise: a murder by a mentally ill artist that never spoke after the crime. In this article, I’m going to break down the characters and plot, and explore the ending and an alternate meaning of the Silent Patient. ![]() Who doesn’t love thrillers mixed with a bit of Psychology (foreshadowing)? So, after a few hours of searching, I found it in the library catalog: The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides. I chose psychological thriller to read first for the sole reason that it sounded– for lack of a better word– cool. There are two genres of the kind: psychological thriller and contemporary. For my goal, I decided to read books that are in genres that I never read before. ![]() Honestly, I took the assignment to be more of an ultimatum than a goal. The first Homework assignment that she gave us as a class was to write a goal that we had in ELA. What originally compelled me to start reading “The Silent Patient” was my ELA teacher, Ms. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments The mammoth hunters series![]() ![]() ![]() In The Mammoth Hunters, Ayla, Jondalar, and Ayla's horse and it's foal, start the trek back to Jondalar's tribe. ![]() Ayla saves Jondalar and nurses him back to health, and for the first time is introduced to Cro-Magnon society. Ayla's cave lion, when grown, leaves her and later ends up attacking Jondalar and his brother, injuring the former and killing the latter. Meanwhile, an eighteen year-old cro-magnon man, Jondalar, and his brother set out from their camp for a years-long journey. In the second novel, Ayla sets up home in a cave, where she befriends and trains a cave lion cub and a horse. Ayla is trained as a medicine woman but, due to the actions of a Neanderthal man who hates her, is exiled from the tribe. The Neanderthals cannot communicate vocally and have access to racial memory, that is to say, the collective memory of the Neanderthal peoples. Ayla deals with fundamental differences between herself and the Neanderthals. In the first book, Ayla, a young cro-magnon child, is orphaned and later adopted by a tribe of Neanderthals who refer to themselves as the clan. The story takes place in prehistoric Europe, during the last ice age. The Mammoth Hunters is the third novel in the Earth's Children series, so you're dutifully warned of spoilers for the first two books. Subject/Genre: Prehistoric Society/Historical Fiction ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Dog loves books by louise yates![]() ![]() I love that the book starts with teaching that it is good to help others and throughout the story Dog encourages the imp to keep trying when he faces obstacles. ![]() My daughter loved pointing at the characters, telling me who was who, and making up little stories about what those characters were doing. They enter an enchanted forest and along the way they encounter numerous fairy tale characters and the story is accompanied with charming illustrations of those characters (and more). Dog helps the imp out of the jar and takes him on an adventure to try to find the witch that can take the curse from him. Upon opening the book he encounters an unfortunate imp who has been stuck in a jar due to a ‘bad luck’ curse. It is a tale about a dog who loves stories and comes across a book of Fairy Tales. Dog Loves Fairy Tales is a book by Louise Yates and winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Black feminist thought patricia![]() Thus, universal themes included in the Black women's standpoint may be experienced and expressed differently by distinct groups of Afro-American women. ![]() Third, while living life as Black women may produce certain commonalities of outlook, the diversity of class, region, age, and sexual orientation shaping individual Black women's lives has resulted in different expressions of these common themes. Second, the definition assumes that Black women possess a unique standpoint on, or perspective of, their experiences and that there will be certain commonalities of perception shared by Black women as a group. ![]() Proposition is that other groups in the field act as merely transcribers, whereas Black women are the actual authors. First, Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann in The Social Construction of Reality(1966) and Karl Manheim in Ideology and Utopia (1936) similarly argue that the definition implies that the overall content of the thought and the historical and factual circumstances of Black women are inseparable. There are several arguments in support of this definition. ![]() Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment is a 1990 book by Patricia Hill Collins.īlack feminist thought is a field of knowledge that is focused on the perspectives and experiences of Black women. ![]() |