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Must Reads 29th March 2019

Sun is shining in the window, birds are singing and have just heard some Geese flying over - what a beautiful morning! Here are my pick of books added to my To Be Read List today... New Boy at the Academy by Sam Hawk Tales from the Academy Book 1 (Teen / YA) Timmy had no clue that the first day of 10th grade at the Academy would rock his world. He thought it would be just like last year, with its endless bullying and recesses spent re-shelving books in the library with his best and only friend Carleen. The sissy boy and the fat girl had bonded over their shared outcast status. But Carleen shows up filled with sassy confidence and declares they’re going to rule the school. By Christmas, the freaks and nerds would be the cool kids, and the mean girls and jocks would be the outcasts. Something had happened to her over the summer, but what? And then, the two of them lay eyes on the new boy at the Academy. Doug has auburn feathered hair, veiny biceps, and green eyes the color of

Not you're average re-telling....an incredibly dark and shocking tale based on Lewis Carroll's beloved Alice in Wonderland. What I Learned: This made me think about the world we live in where mood altering medication amongst other things can be handed out really easily rather than giving people the tools they need to cope with life unmedicated. Probably if you look around the place that you are sitting right now more than two-thirds of the people there are on medication of some description...so many people with their moods altered by chemicals...I wonder how different the world would be if we were all in our "natural" states? Sometimes the only choice and control we have in life is to choose how we react to everything going on around us. A beautiful observation about loss and remembering. The discussions about fate versus choice and nature versus nurture are probably as old as time. I know when I start thinking about these things I

Hope this finds you all well and enjoying the first official days of Spring! Here are my top picks of new books I've added to my To Be Read list today! High Heel by Summer Brennan Object Lesson Series (Non-Fiction) Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Fetishised, demonised, celebrated and outlawed, the high heel is central to the iconography of modern womanhood. But are high heels good? Are they feminist? What does it mean for a woman (or, for that matter, a man) to choose to wear them? Meditating on the labyrinthine nature of sexual identity and the performance of gender, High Heel moves from film to fairy-tale, from foot binding to feminism, and from the golden ratio to glam rock. It considers this most provocative of fashion accessories as a nexus of desire and struggle, sex and society, violence and self expression, setting out to understand what it means to be a woman by walking a few hundred

Here's my pick of books that I've added to my to be read list this week - so many books so little time! Three Little Birds by Lysa Mullady (Children's Fiction) Blue’s feelings are hurt when he’s not invited to find worms with Red and Yellow. So Blue impulsively starts a rumour. Before he knows it, his little fib has spiralled out of control, and all the birds are caught up in the big drama. Can Blue make things right before it’s too late? Includes a Note to Parents, Caregivers, and Professionals with more information on dealing with gossip and helping children build positive relationships. Minutes of Glory by Ngugi wa Thiong o (General Fiction / Multicultural Interests) A dazzling short story collection from the person Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls “one of the greatest writers of our time” Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, although renowned for his novels, memoirs, and plays, honed his craft as a short story writer. From “The Fig Tree” written in 1960, his first ye

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