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Sold. Patricia McCormick

I am almost 30. I am not happily aging. I went on Instagram and saw the profile of Stephen Lang. He was interviewed by Men's Health Magazine. Stephen explained how he changed physically of his workouts due to age. I cannot believe I was in Ninth Grade when Avatar came out. I feel insecure. I spend my childhood doing chores and work due to the Afghan culture. I am so mad at my parents for their backwards way of thinking and raising me.

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Patricia McCormick Diving in Olympics, Helsinki, Finland, 1952

Photo: Otto Bettmann

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[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

Shoutout to anyone that liked these books as a kid. I hope we’re all healing okay.

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[ireadyabooks]

Books That Make You Feel Less Alone 💚

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month in May, all of us at I read YA have rounded up some of our favorite books that make us feel less alone. Below, you’ll find some moving and important reads that speak honestly and powerfully about mental health. Share with us some books that make you feel less alone!

I Am Not Alone by Francisco X. Stork

Award-winning author Francisco X. Stork revisits some of the themes and ideas that made Marcelo in the Real World such an unforgettable novel.

Alberto's life isn't easy: He's an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who lives with his sister's abusive boyfriend—but he'd always accepted his place in the world. Until he starts hearing the voice of a man called Captain America, a voice that wants him to achieve more, no matter the cost.

Grace has it all: She has a supportive boyfriend, she's on track to be valedictorian, and she's sure to go to the college of her dreams. Still, nothing feels right to her any more after the divorce of her parents, and feels she needs something more.

When Alberto and Grace meet, they have an immediate and electric connection. But when Alberto is present at the scene of a terrible crime, he becomes a suspect. And with his developing schizophrenia, he's not even sure he believes in his own innocence.

Can Grace find a way to prove Alberto's innocence to himself and the world?

This is a page-turning thriller and a sensitive story about mental health, love, and community that will appeal to anyone who has struggled with their place in the world, from award-winning author Francisco X. Stork.

Start reading I Am Not Alone now!

I Was Born for This by Alice Oseman

From the bestselling creator of Heartstopper and Loveless, a deeply funny and deeply moving exploration of identity, friendship, and fame.

For Angel Rahimi life is about one thing: The Ark -- a boy band that's taking the world by storm. Being part of The Ark's fandom has given her everything she loves -- her friend Juliet, her dreams, her place in the world. Her Muslim family doesn't understand the band's allure -- but Angel feels there are things about her they'll never understand.

Jimmy Kaga-Ricci owes everything to The Ark. He's their frontman -- and playing in a band with his mates is all he ever dreamed of doing, even if it only amplifies his anxiety. The fans are very accepting that he's trans -- but they also keep shipping him with his longtime friend and bandmate, Rowan. But Jimmy and Rowan are just friends -- and Rowan has a secret girlfriend the fans can never know about. Dreams don't always turn out the way you think and when Jimmy and Angel are unexpectedly thrust together, they find out how strange and surprising facing up to reality can be.

A funny, wise, and heartbreakingly true coming of age novel. I Was Born for This is a stunning reflection of modern teenage life, and the power of believing in something -- especially yourself.

Start reading I Was Born of This now! 

Solitaire by Alice Oseman

The amazing novel that introduced Nick and Charlie from Heartstopper -- and the unforgettable Tori Spring.

Tori Spring isn't sure how to be happy again. Then she meets Michael Holden, and they try to unmask the mysterious Solitaire (and survive high school) in Alice Oseman's stunning, unflinching honest debut novel, which first introduced her fan-favorite Heartstopper characters Nick and Charlie.

Start reading Solitaire now!

This Winter by Alice Oseman

A very special Heartstopper story set over a challenging holiday season . . .

Reuniting Tori Spring, her little brother Charlie, and Charlie's boyfriend Nick, this novella sees the Spring siblings brave a particularly difficult festive season.

Start reading This Winter now!

Rainbow! Volume 1 by Gloom & Sunny

From Tapas Media, the same webtoon platform that brought you Magical Boy, comes Rainbow!, a new LGBTQ+ YA graphic novel series!

Teenager Boo Meadows has pink hair and a very vivid imagination -- she has trouble separating from the real world. In her daydreams, she dances beautifully at balls or fights monsters as a magical girl. In reality, she has a complicated home life, work stress, school stress, and a wicked crush on the girl of her dreams. When a new student, Mimi, arrives at school, Boo starts exploring a side of herself that she never considered before. As she grows closer with Mimi, it may finally be time for Boo to face reality . . . Who is the real Mimi? The one in her dreams? Or the one in real life?

Rainbow! is perfect for fans of Heartstopper and Magical Boy, full of heart, adorable illustrations, and a storyline that any teenager can relate to!

Start reading Rainbow! Volume 1 now!

Cut by Patricia McCormick

An astonishing novel about pain, release, and recovery from two-time National Book Award finalist, Patricia McCormick.

A tingle arced across my scalp. The floor tipped up at me and my body spiraled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what would happen next.

Callie cuts herself. Never too deep, never enough to die. But enough to feel the pain. Enough to feel the scream inside.

Now she's at Sea Pines, a "residential treatment facility" filled with girls struggling with problems of their own. Callie doesn't want to have anything to do with them. She doesn't want to have anything to do with anyone. She won't even speak.

But Callie can only stay silent for so long . . .

Start reading Cut now!

#ireadya #ya books #I Am Not Alone #Francisco X Stork #Cut #Patricia McCormick #I Was Born for This #Solitaire #This Winter #Alice Oseman #Rainbow! Volume 1 #Gloom & Sunny #Books That Make You Feel Less Alone #mental health #mental health awareness

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SOLD

[Book cover art for Sold]. (n.d.). Retrieved February 22, 2023, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sold_(McCormick_novel)

Sold by Patricia McCormick follows the story of a thirteen-year-old Nepalese girl named Lakshmi as she is sold into sexual slavery in India. Lakshmi, the narrator and main character, tells her daunting tale through a series of short chapters that are filled with fear, horror, contempt, and sometimes even contentment.

McCormick’s writing style conveys an intense story of an unknown world that many women and young girls have been forced to endure. While many may argue that the content of this novel is too graphic for teens and younger groups, it is a harsh reality that many within that age group are currently suffering through. Raising awareness of this horrific issue through novels and similar content is a great way to raise awareness, and McCormick did a magnificent job of this. Traveling to Nepal and India to meet with girls and women rescued from this lifestyle adds a fantastic touch to this novel and brings out the tragedies that happen in the world. Girls and women are forced into a sickening lifestyle and forge relationships with each other out of the worst possible circumstances, as frequently seen in this novel. Reading this novel, I felt it almost impossible to put down but also almost impossible to continue. The educational value of this novel is 10 out of 10, and it is essential to continue to raise awareness of this issue among individuals of all ages. This novel gets 5 stars, in my opinion, and will be one that I will definitely recommend to others!

AWARDS:

National Book Award Finalist

Publishers Weekly, Best 100 Books of 2006

National Public Radio’s Best Books of the Year 2006

American Library Association, Top Ten List, Best Books of the Year, 2006

Gustav-Heinemann Peace Prize, 2009

Booklist 2006 Editor’s Choice Award

New York Public Library Best Books for the Teenage

Children’s Literature Council’s Choice 

Book Sense Pick

Watch Patricia McCormick on Good Morning America discuss her time in India and Nepal investigating trafficking of young women

#sold #feminism #social issues #womens rights #womensupportingwomen #womensupportingeachother #safe space #patricia mccormick #book recommendations #Youtube

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Sold //Patricia McCormick

#sold #Patricia McCormick #books #ya #ya lit #reading #my edit #my edits #stainthiskingdomred

[officialbillhader]

This book just decided to tear out my heart

#awesomepie3221 #had to stop myself from sobbing #ive read sold by patricia mccormick and a child called 'it' by dave pelzer but i feel like this pne is somehow hitting me harder #even tho both of those were hard to read #ive read the glass castle too but that one feels so different. this book feels so different from the rest of them #or maybe its bc i read those 3 in high school and dont remember how they affected me #and i may have been a little desensitized to a child called it and sold then bc it was probably around the same time i read that article #all abt this same thing #literally a 100k word article. and since it was on my phone it took me weeks to read #probably months

[fangirlexpress]

December 2022 Book Review (Part 1)

Believe it or not, I do have interests outside of the One Chicago & Grey's Anatomy fandoms lol One of my favorite pastimes is reading. I usually have an old-fashioned "tree" book in hand. I adore the written word. Fiction is my jam. Escaping into a fantasy world where anything is possible feels amazing!

I thought every once in a while, I'd share my thoughts about the books I'm reading. Please feel free to chime in with your opinions as well. I'd love to hear about your own favorite books. Oh, and send me some recs if you can!

I have read 16 total novels in the month of December. I am pretty sure I won't finish any more before the year is up but here is the first of two lists with a few thoughts on each book. Thanks for checking out this post & come back soon please for Part 2.

Dread on Arrival

I've read 2 or 3 other books in this series, and not one of them has impressed me. Like, at all. But this one was by far the worst of the bunch. The plot was terrible. There were about 200 hundred characters to try to remember, and if it was supposed to be a murder mystery, where was the damned murder, huh? It didn't happen until almost 70% through the book and the denouement was shoddily wrapped up. The best part about this book? Finishing it! I will not be reading anymore Claudia Bishop books from here on out.

Mary Anne's Bad-Luck Mystery

So, I have a little confession to make. I am an incurable "Baby-sitters Club" addict. There is no fix for me. I am hopeless as I am way past my tween years but still reading these books with no end in sight. My dream is to be Ann M. Martin and invent a series with characters as iconic and amazing as Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia, and the rest of the gang. I mean, if only...

But I digress. We're here to talk about Mary Anne and her Bad Luck. This was actually one of the rare books I'd never read before and while I enjoyed it for the most part, I thought it paled in comparison to the epic spookiness of The Ghost at Dawn's House (book # 9). That book had meat and depth & moved important story forward. This was pretty silly, and kind of felt like a whole lot of something about nothing. But hey, not every book needs to be deep and heavy like War and Peace, right?

Author Day

Speaking of Ann M. Martin, it was only about a year ago that I learned she wrote a spin-off series to the "Baby-sitters Club Little Sister" series called “The Kids in Ms. Colman's Class”. (Color me shocked that I did not know everything about my bookish idol lol) This was a very short-lived series. I think it has maybe 12 or 13 books and it follows (as the series title suggests) the kids in Ms. Colman’s class. They are the fellow classmates of the precocious Karen Brewer who is Kristy Thomas’s stepsister (Kristy is, as most people know, the founder & president of the BSC).

The series is very pedestrian, very dry, and pretty darn generic. I honestly wonder if Ann even really wrote it herself, or if one of her ghostwriters did. It’s full of lazy storytelling. The plot of this one is so thin, it’s almost invisible. I honestly only gave it 3 stars out of loyalty to the BSC franchise. I know. Bad me, bad me. I can see why the series did not take off. Ann (or her ghostwriter, or whomever) did not even try to give these kids unique personalities. It’s a shame too because it could have been a cool concept for the pre-tween crowd of the 90's.

The Mystery at Lilac Inn

Ahh my Nancy Drew. Now there’s another series I really like & grew up with. Nancy is such a cool character, always so quick on her feet and ready to tackle any mystery that comes her way. I also like that she’s truly sympathetic to the hardships that befall the misfortunate in these books & always willing to make things right for the people the best way she knows how. If Ann M. Martin is my real-life bookish idol, then Ms. Drew is my fictional one. Oh, to be like that fearless titan blonde snoop!

This book in particular was pretty exciting to read. Our pal Nancy got into some big trouble. There were some vicious baddies, including a Nancy doppelganger! There was danger galore. Sweet Helen Corning (my favorite of Nancy’s sidekicks) was around. I was a pretty happy camper. A solid read for sure.

The Family Remains This is the follow-up to the hit bestseller The Family Upstairs. I was hypnotized by that book. It had me on the edge of my seat, furiously turning pages, excited to see what would come next. This book? Not so much. It wasn't bad. Not at all. But I felt Jewell tried too hard to 1) preach to her readers & 2) wrap things up in a neat little bow, thus forsaking a lot of excitement and drama in the process. Truthfully, I read psychological thrillers for well, the thrill, and for the insanity of it all, and there wasn't a ton of either here. It was kind of a letdown and I'm wondering if Jewell should have left well enough alone with just the one book. Not every loose end needs to be tied up. In real life, things stay tangled sometimes.

Stacey’s Mistake Another day, another BSC read, but honestly, I didn’t enjoy this one very much, to be honest. I am not a big fan of the books where the girls have their feet on each other’s necks, and that was certainly the case here pretty much from beginning to nearly the end. Obviously, teen girls are gunna teen girl, & fight. That’s a given, but they get so mean about it, you gotta wonder why they even hang out sometimes. Plus, I found some of the characterizations off. Confidant, self-assured Cali girl Dawn suddenly was scared of her own shadow? Did not compute. It was just a weird book all around. Again, I rated it a 3 simply out of loyalty to the BSC franchise, but it’s far from my fave book in the series.

Spirit of the Season

I read a review from someone that said this was the “worst book ever written”. While I can’t totally agree (that dubious “honor” actually belongs to the 50 Shades books *sorry Christian Grey fans!*), it is pretty bad. What do you call a Christmas tale without charm, warmth, whimsy, humor, or joy? Crap. Spirit of the Season was utter crap! Sticky crap oozing on the sidewalk. I think I’ve read Michaels before. She was never Shakespeare, but she wasn’t bad… Was she?

The main character in this was so selfish and rude. The way she kept verbally attacking the help at her late grandmother’s bed and breakfast was awful. And they’d forgive her simply because of her stress and “low blood sugar”. Like, no, no. Girl’s a beeyotch, that doesn’t fly with me. There was zero romantic chemistry between her and her new beau. Their insta-love was pathetic. I enjoy a good romance like nobody’s business, but this wasn't it. So, if you’re looking for a holiday read next year, do yourself a favor and don't pick up this one!

Cut

How do you rate a book like Cut? It’s such an important topic. I read the writer spent something like 3 years researching the topic before she wrote it. That's a serious commitment. This was short, almost too short, but still powerful with a fairly hopeful ending. Maybe too hopeful. Do things ever wrap up that easily in real life? Still, the prose was sparse and strong. While it was not quite on the level of a book like Speak (though that also has a too-convenient ending), it was still very readable and relatable. I would recommend it to all teens.

And that's it for now, folks. I will have the second & final part of my December book reviews up in a few days. Thanks for checking this out!

#book review #book reviews #baby sitters club #chatter #ann m. martin #novels #fiction #cut patricia mccormick #fern michaels #lisa jewell #cozy mystery #mysteries #suspense #thriller #kristy thomas #mary anne spier #stacey mcgill #dawn schafer #bookaholic #kids books

[renthony]

From the article:

Should we worry, as massive book-banning efforts imply, that young people will be harmed by certain kinds of books? For over a decade and through hundreds of interviews, my colleague, literacy professor Peter Johnston, and I have studied how adolescents experience reading when they have unfettered access to young adult literature. Our findings suggest that many are helped rather than harmed by such reading. For one study, we spent a year in a public middle school in a small, mid-Atlantic town, observing and talking to eighth grade students whose teachers, rather than assigning the “classics” or traditional academic texts, let students choose what to read and gave them time to read daily in class. To support student engagement, they made available hundreds of contemporary books that are relevant to the students’ lives. The books included many of the titles currently being challenged, according to PEN America, which is a nonprofit that advocates against censorship, among other things. The titles include Ellen Hopkins’ “Identical,” Jay Asher’s “Thirteen Reasons Why,” Patricia McCormick’s “Sold,” and others that were banned because of themes of sex and violence. We were interested in what the students perceived to be the consequences of reading young adult literature. They tended to read books they described as “disturbing.” At the end of the school year, we interviewed 71 of the students about changes in their reading and relationships with peers and family. We also asked open-ended questions about how, if at all, they had changed as people since the beginning of the year. Beyond reading substantially more than they had previously, they reported positive changes in their social, emotional and intellectual lives that they attributed to reading, the kinds of books they read and the conversations those books provoked. Here are six ways students told us they had been changed by reading and talking about edgy young adult books.

#news #censorship #literacy #media literacy

[northern-passage]

this past week (october 1-7) was banned books week. last year, censors targeted a record 2,571 unique titles, a 38% increase from the 1,858 unique titles targeted for censorship in 2021. the majority of these titles were written by or about members of the LGBT community, Black people, Indigenous people, and other people of color.

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recently, back in July, we saw Mississippi ban Hoopla & Overdrive for people under the age of 18, restricting young people's right to read and their access to library resources. this is likely going to continue as more parents lobby for "parent's rights" (aka the right to treat their children as property) and pressure school boards to remove certain books from the education system.

but there are people that are pushing back against these restrictions: Leah Johnson, author of You Should See Me in a Crown, has spoken out vocally against book banning as well as her experiences as a Black queer woman. she's also opened her own bookstore, Loudmouth Books in Indianapolis, which will be a haven and spotlight for marginalized voices and controversial literature.

George Johnson, author of All Boys Aren't Blue, has joined the PEN America vs. Escambia County School District to challenge the removal and restrictions of books from school libraries within Escambia County, Florida.

There are also multiple library systems across the country that have joined the Books Unbanned program, which offers free digital library cards to anyone age 13-21.

Brooklyn Public Library: ages 13-21, anywhere in the U.S.

Seattle Public Library: ages 13-26, anywhere in the U.S.

Los Angeles County Public Library: ages 13-18, California only

Boston Public Library: ages 13-26, anywhere in the U.S.

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a lot of these book bans claim to be for the "safety" of children, but that is simply not true. these book bans target LGBT literature and Black literature indiscriminately. this does not protect children, it endangers the most vulnerable of them.

Gender Queer, by Maia Kobabe, was the top banned book in 2022. You can find the author here, where e reflects extensively about the current book bannings & advocates for children's right to read as well as the rights of other banned book authors.

Some of the other most banned books of this past year also include (in no particular order):

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Sold by Patricia McCormick

Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman

Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison

Melissa by Alex Gino

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Push by Sapphire

at the end of this banned books week, we should continue the conversation and support for marginalized authors and diverse literature, especially for children, in schools & libraries. get involved at your own local library, talk to your children or your siblings or your nieces and nephews, attend their school board meetings, and contact your representatives and speak out against book censorship.

#resources #banned books week #personal

[marebear-and-her-digidiary]

Welcome to my blog!

My name is Mary-Margaret! I am a 24 year old Canadian wife and homemaker. I use my blog as my digital diary and scrapbook. I’m married to my husband, Christian. We have a dog named Twitch, he is a chihuahua mix, and a male bearded dragon.

Favourite hobbies and things:

Hobbies: sewing, needlework, reading, retro + modern gaming, nostalgic media, collecting houseplants, antiquing, stargazing, fashion, cosplay, arts and crafts, photography

Colours: warm tones, gem tones, earth tones, muted colours, gold, creams

Seasons: Autumn, Winter

Animals: dogs, birds, squirrels, deer, bears, foxes, wolves, reptiles

Foods: shepherd's pie, taco bowls, pizza, black bean burgers

Favourite Media:

Genres: horror, comedy, romance, psychological thriller, fantasy

TV Series: Bones, Roseanne, Mary Tyler Moore, Rhoda, All in the Family, I love Lucy, The Waltons, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, Criminal Minds, early to mid 00s Disney Channel/Nickelodeon/Teletoon/4Kids sitcoms and cartoons, Betty Boop, Looney Tunes, Garfield, Alvin and the Chipmunks, The Smurfs, The Woody Woodpecker Show, The Jetsons

Anime: Princess Jellyfish, Toradora!, The Disappearance of Yuki Nagato, Lucky Star, Future Diary

Movies: Rose Red, Halloween series, Ring series, Darkness Falls, Spiderwick Chronicles, Halloweentown series, Tim Burton films, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Resident Evil (2002)

Video Games: Atelier series, Persona series, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Star Ocean series, Resident Evil 1-3, Dead Space series, Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, Amazing Island, Tony Hawk: American Wasteland, Mario Party 4, Harvest Moon, Story of Seasons, Animal Crossing series, Wii Sports, Digimon series, Pokemon series, FFXIV

Books: A Corner of The Universe by Ann M Martin, to drink coffee with a ghost by Amanda Lovelace, Lush by Natasha Friend, cut by Patricia McCormick

Musical Artists: Black Veil Brides, Asking Alexandria, Andy Black, Bring Me the Horizon, Demi Lovato, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus, Paramore, Fall Out Boy, Evanescence, P!nk, Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Avril Lavigne, Elvis Presley, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Crystal Gayle, Eminem, Doja Cat, Trixie Mattel

#about mary #about me #about marebear

[dear-indies]

hi!! i need some fc help. i’m looking for a woman with a sophie thatcher vibe, but a little older (like mid to late twenties). kind of that grungy/alternative vibe. thank you!!

Jurnee Smollett (1986) Ashkenazi Jewish / African-American, possibly other - Birds of Prey, Spiderhead, The Twilight Zone.

Úrsula Corberó (1989)

Sarah Kameela Impey (1991) Indo-Guyanese / British - We Are Lady Parts.

Sky Ferreira (1992) Ojibwe, Cree, Chippewa Cree, Cheyenne, Brazilian of Portuguese and Possibly Other descent, Galician Jewish, Bukovina Jewish, Irish, Scottish, English, and French - has Chronic Lyme Disease.

Jessica Henwick (1992) Chinese Singaporean / English - The Matrix Resurrections. 

Kiana Madeira (1992) Irish, Unspecified First Nations, Black Canadian / Portuguese - Fear Street.

Jacqueline Toboni (1992) - is queer.

Jesse James Keitel (1993) - is trans - Queer as Folk.

Mia Goth (1993) Brazilian [Portuguese, including Azorean, small amount of African, possibly other], Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Irish, Scottish, French-Canadian - Infinity Pool.

Linnea Berthelsen (1993) Indian - Stranger Things.

Taylor Momsen (1993)

Taylor Russell (1994) Black Canadian / European - Bones and All.

Lily Sullivan (1994) - Evil Dead Rise.

Patricia Allison (1994) Kenyan and British - Extraordinary.

Moonbear (1994) African-American - is queer - Betty.

Jasmin Savoy Brown (1994) African-American / English, German, Norwegian, some Scots-Irish/Northern Irish - is queer.

Adeline Rudolph (1995) Korean / German - Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Resident Evil.

Sasha Calle (1995) Colombian.

Sasha Lane (1995) African-American, Māori, English, Scottish, Sorbian, French, Cornish, distant German, Italian, Belgian Flemish, Russian, and Northern Irish - is gay and has schizoaffective disorder.

Sophia Taylor Ali (1995) Pakistani / Sicilian Italian, Danish, Norwegian, German - Uncharted.

Emma Mackey (1996) - Sex Education. 

Florence Pugh (1996)

Tati Gabrielle (1996) Korean / African-American - Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Uncharted.

Maisie Williams (1997)

Sierra McCormick (1997)

Here you go!

#fc help #rph #rpc

[ireadyabooks]

Cut: Read an Excerpt

An astonishing novel about pain, release, and recovery from two-time National Book Award finalist, Patricia McCormick.

A tingle arced across my scalp. The floor tipped up at me and my body spiraled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what would happen next.

Callie cuts herself. Never too deep, never enough to die. But enough to feel the pain. Enough to feel the scream inside.

Now she's at Sea Pines, a "residential treatment facility" filled with girls struggling with problems of their own. Callie doesn't want to have anything to do with them. She doesn't want to have anything to do with anyone. She won't even speak.

But Callie can only stay silent for so long . . . 

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Reflections on a Year of Reading Nepali Literature

Titles Read: 

Peak by Roland Smith

Sold by Patricia Mccormick

The royal ghosts by Samrat Upadhyay

Himalaya: A Human History by Ed Douglas

My choice for my country was pretty much based on one of my friends at the beginning of the year. He was from Nepal and since I wanted to choose a country that was outlandish, I thought that it was a great choice and I was correct. I didn’t know much about my country beforehand and through reading my books, I was able to develop some sort of idea of what life could be like for a Nepali resident. While most of what I read was all showing negative things about Nepal and not focusing on any good aspects of Nepali culture, I still think that it is a beautiful country and has a rich culture. These books were able to show someone that Nepal has had an issue with main things like government corruption, exploitation of people, and gangs terrorizing the area. Knowing that things like that happen all the time still is heartbreaking to hear but necessarily to have the knowledge. Making sure that it is being exposed is great and that life in Nepal isn’t so perfect. This might not be what people want to read about but it is interesting to read and has a lot of emotion put into the texts. Was choosing Nepal a good country to read about? Yes. These 20 weeks of reading was able to expand my knowledge by so much and has motivated me to try and continue to read more about Nepal.

In Peak by Roland Smith, it teaches you about how your actions should be based on your personal emotions versus what others say about you and that you should put others before yourself. When reading the book, our main protagonist is attempting to climb Mount Everest based on his father and his plan for him to be the youngest climber. While Peak is on board at first, he learns more that his father doesn’t really care about him and more about the glory and business that it will bring his company. 

In Sold by Patricia Mccormick, there is a raw truth that is revealed about what is able to happen to young females. Having books like these is able to expose these truths so that even more people can try to help for a change to happen. One other thing I learned is to never lose hope and to be determined. We can see that our main protagonist at first didn’t know what to do but then was able to gain hope to escape and do whatever it takes. Even in a horrific situation like the one she was in, there is still a lesson to be learned.

In The royal ghosts by Samrat Upadhyay, there were many different lessons and messages that were given to the reader as there were a lot of different mini stories but I will choose one of my favorites. The one thing about life that I learned is to not overlook the people in your life. Some people are always chasing things that aren’t really possible and never choose to acknowledge what they have around them. This was beautiful to read and was a lesson that everyone in the world should think about since it can change a lot of mindsets.

In Himalaya: A Human History by Ed Douglas, I didn’t read too much of the book so I can’t really show that I learned anything about life but there was something about life. The lesson was to admire nature and really take time to appreciate life. In the beginning pages, we see that the author is describing his experiences with the mountain range and on how much he admires it. He rambles on about the where they are located, how they compare to other mountain ranges and on the diversity seen on the mountain.

I learned a fair bit about myself from these past few weeks of reading. I had never thought that I was going to be able to read 3 entire books in the span of 20 weeks. This was honestly surprising to me and really showed me how interested I was in my books. While I didn’t really learn anything too deep about Nepal’s culture, reading these books was able to show me how emotional I really am and was able to expose me to the horrors of a side of the world which I didn’t know much about. If I didn’t read these books, I don’t think that I would have ever learned about what is happening in that section of the world and I would have stayed blind to it.

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KIDZ!

The Young People of the Lucyverse ~ Part 3

W.C. Fields famously warned performers never to work with children or animals. Luckily for us, Lucille Ball consistently disregarded his advice. Here’s a look at some of the young performers and characters of the Lucyverse.

“Lucy and the Drive-In Movie” (1969) ~ Jackie Berry is a married friend of Kim’s who has a newborn named Wendy. Her husband is said to be in the service. Jackie Berry uses her married name for the character. She ws the real-life wife of Ken Berry from 1960 to 1972, an actor championed by Lucille Ball. 

“Lucy and Jack Benny’s Biography” (1970) ~ Lucy plays Jack’s mother and  Michael Barbera plays Benny as a boy. Barbera was a child actor who was 12 years old at the time of filming. He accrued 18 screen credits before leaving the industry.

“Lucy Cuts Vincent’s Price” (1970) ~ Lucy says she previously talked on the phone to Mrs. Vincent Price when arranging entertainment for a big party the Price’s threw. In 1970, Vincent Price was married to costume designer Mary Grant (inset photo), although her name is never mentioned here. Making small talk on the telephone, Lucy asks about Little Vicki. This is a reference to the Price’s 8 year-old daughter, Victoria. Although Lucy visits their home, both characters remain off-screen.

“Lucy the Laundress” (1970) ~ Lucy smashes into a laundry truck. In order to pay for the repairs, she has to go to work at the laundry and encounters the owner’s two daughters Sue Chin Wong (left) and Linda Change Wong (right). Linda is played by Rosalind Chao who makes her screen debut with this episode. She created the role of Soon-Ye Klinger on “M*A*S*H” and “After M*A*S*H” but is perhaps best known for playing Keiko O'Brien on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and “Deep Space Nine.” During that series she also filmed The Joy Luck Club. More recent credits include “Blackish,” “This is Us,” and “The Catch.”  Heather Lee (Sue Chin Wong) makes her screen appearance in this episode. When Lucy meets the sisters, she greets them in an exaggerated and condescending Chinese accent. The girls look horrified and answer back in voices totally devoid of any Asian influence. To further the humor of Lucy’s backward thinking, the girls are eating hamburgers with ketchup, a typical American-style meal.

“Lucy and Ma Parker” (1970) ~ A criminal mastermind (Carole Cook) enlists two little people (Jerry Marin and Billy Curtis) to play her ‘children’. Milton (Marin) is dressed as ‘Little Mildred’ in the style of child star Shirley Temple. Curtis plays Herman Golab, who is dressed as Buster Brown.  

“Lucy and the Italian Bombshell” (1971) ~ Harry’s former flame Donna Colucci (Kaye Ballard) is married and has a large brood of children: Ricardo, Anna Maria, Louisa, Luigi, Vincenzo, Dino, Lucrezia, Alfredo Jr., Margarito, Bruno, Rosa, and Frederico - all of whom appear uncredited.

“Lucy and Donny Osmond” (1972) ~ Lucy takes her pre-teen niece Patricia (Eve Plumb) to see her favorite singer, Donny Osmond. Plumb is probably best known as the middle daughter, Jan, on TV’s “The Brady Bunch” (1969-74). She filmed this episode simultaneously with “The Brady Bunch” which aired Friday nights on ABC. This is her only time acting with Lucille Ball.  Coincidentally, Desi Arnaz Jr. made a guest-appearance on “The Brady Bunch” in 1970 where he was the ‘dream date’ of Jan’s sister Marcia (Maureen McCormick). 

“Lucy and Her Prince Charming” (1972) ~ Harry hastily arranges a home wedding ceremony for Lucy and a Prince (Ricardo Montalban) - including a flower girl and a ring bearer - played by two uncredited young actors. 

Mame (1974) ~ Lucille Ball plays Auntie Mame to orphaned Patrick Dennis, played by Bruce Dern as a child. 

“Life With Lucy” (1986) ~ Lucy Barker and Curtis McGibbon (Gale Gordon) are grandparents to Becky and Kevin McGibbon. Becky is played by Jenny Lewis. Ten year-old Lewis appeared in all 13 episodes, only 8 of which were aired.

“Yes, Lucy was a bit rough around the edges, and yes, she constantly smoked cigarettes on the set. She would pull her face back with tape, sort of like a cheap face-lift.“ ~ JENNY LEWIS

Philip Amelio (Kevin McGibbon) made his screen debut on “Life With Lucy” at the age of 10. He played Stephen Baldwin’s younger self in the film Born on the Fourth of July (1989). He gave up acting by his early teensPhilip died in  2005 at the age of 27 due to a mis-diagnosed bacterial infection. 

Kelli Martin (right) played Becky’s friend Patty in two episodes of the series. Born in 1975, she made her acting debut at age 7 and went on to be seen as an Emmy-nominated regular on “Life Goes On” (1989-93) and “Christy” (1994-95) in which she played the title character. 

BONUS KIDZ! 

“Lucy the Diamond Cutter” (1970) ~ German diamond cutter Gustav (Wally Cox) calls Kim and Craig “the Katzenjammer Kids.” The Katzenjammer Kids was a comic strip created by German immigrant Rudolph Dirks which appeared from 1897 to 2006. The strip featured twins Hans and Fritz, who rebelled against authority. 

“Lucy and the Generation Gap” (1969) ~ In the final sequence of the musical episode set in outer space, the Carters sing “Kids” a song written by Lee Adams and Charles Strouse for the 1960 Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie. The musical was filmed in 1963. This song is originally about the generation gap, so it requires the least lyrical changes. It was sung on stage and screen by Paul Lynde, playing the father of free-thinking kids obsessed with an Elvis-like rock and roll singer.  

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@vanlegion hehehe my excuse has been given!

Thomas and Laura are quite the interesting duo in the detective au. While both are private investigators, they work together all the time no matter if the case calls for one or two detectives. It’s actually extremely rare to see the two separate on a case.

They met during the decade annual Writers Convention, a meeting held every ten years where all the Writers of the world come together and share each other’s writing progress or new books that they’ve written to add to the Scared Library. Thomas hails from Wilhelm Grimm’s lineage while Laura is from Hans Christian Andersen’s lineage. Upon meeting each other, it’s like the stars aligned. The second Thomas asked Laura for a dance, they two knew they were meant for each other.

A Writer marrying another Writer is extremely rare due to monsters being able to sense Writers from a distance. Two Writers together often meant that they were going to execute multiple monsters, as such the monsters went after the Writers to kill them. Both Thomas and Laura lucked out when the peace treaty was signed in 1980 to have the Writers change from mercenaries to peacekeepers and detectives (also to ensure that regular humans are not to know about the monsters that walk among them).

The duo decided to move to Colorado, a very quiet place with a very low crime rate from monsters. There they had both Craig Quinlan Tucker and Patricia “Tricia” Ruby Tucker. Thomas was shocked that his brother, Skeeter, decided to move to Colorado with his newborn, Rebecca (Red) and his (now ex) wife Scarlet as now there were six Writers in Colorado, the most in any state in the U.S.

Thomas’ weapons of choice are stun guns and a katana that was gifted to him by a Chinese Wingless Dragon upon saving it from being attacked by Goblins. The katana (know formally as the Dragon’s Wish Katana) has an ability where when it strikes it’s target, instead of slicing through it, it wraps around the target (akin to how the Wingless Dragon wraps around mountains to create rain).

Laura, while mostly the keeper of the books for the Tucker family, also has a few weapons she uses. Her main two are the Shrink Box (used for capturing monsters) and a morning star (which while the other Writers scoffed at it since it’s a very old styled weapon, Laura proved to them all that she is a master at the weapon upon saving a group of Writers from a pack of rebelling werecats single handedly with it). Laura’s morning star was passed from generation to generation in her family (she’s still deciding who to give it to, Craig or Tricia, but both seemingly refused to accept it for the time being).

Both Thomas and Laura are very protective of each other and their kids, especially when monster criminal cases started to rise every year. Both were a bit tense with Tweek when he and Craig dated after the events of TxC, since Tweek is an imp, the parents thought it was an elaborate prank, but seventeen years later were rather happy to find out that the two bold genuine love for each other (what they aren’t too pleased about is A. Having Tweek’s parents as in-laws and B. Eventually having Kenny McCormick as a son in-law when Tricia marries Karen as Kenny is a hilariously loose cannon of a zombie mortician).

Thomas and Laura, when not working insanely long hours on cases, tend to just cuddle up and watch cheesy movies, quietly enjoying each other’s presence and love.

#d chats #south park #detective craig and the fairytale unit #laura tucker #thomas tucker #sp laura #sp thomas #god I love them so much #I guess I could mention that Thomas never ever talks to Laura about his ancestor Jack Tucker #but this ain’t about Jack lmaoooo