Back in May during the Raincoast TeenReads Fall 2017 Preview, Meet Cute was the top title on my review book wish list. Even before the preview, when I first found out about this book I knew that it would automatically be on my must read list. After all YA Contemporary fiction is (probably) my favourite genre to read, and many of my favourite authors like Emery Lord, Nicola Yoon and Katharine McGee contributed to this collection of stories about fateful “meetings”. Typically in short story collections there’s at least one story that I’m not sold on, however with Meet Cute I found that even if I did not love the story there was always some aspect of each of the stories that I enjoyed. Some of the more memorable stores were Emery Lord’s Oomph
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In the novel, Katniss and Peeta, used the strategy of showing fake love in order to win hearts of the people and get attention of sponsors in order to survive the competition. Katniss’s on-air romantic relationship with Peeta, which helps her to survive throughout the course of the series, echoes the overtly dramatic romantic tensions at the center of so many reality shows, ranging from The Real World to The Bachelor. (Wright 102)
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Throughout this novel, journal entries written by Sam Peek appear for the readers in order for us to get a closer look on exactly who Peek is. Deep emotions for his late wife and son, struggles in his life, his thoughts about White Dog, old memories and events from his past, and opinions about each of his children and himself appear through these entries. The touch...
This book is a study of the personal tales of many single mothers, with intentions to understand why single mothers from poor urban neighborhoods are increasingly having children out of wedlock at a young age and without promise of marrying their fathers. The authors chose to research their study in Philadelphia’s eight most devastated neighborhoods, where oppression and danger are high and substantial job opportunities are rare. They provide an excellent education against the myth that poor young urban women are having children due to a lack of education on birth control or because they intend to work the welfare system. Instead, having children is their best and perhaps only means of obtaining the purpose, validation and companionship that is otherwise difficult to find in the areas in which they live. For many of them, their child is the biggest promise they have to a better future. They also believe that though their life may not have been what they want, they want their child to have more and better opportunities and make it their life’s work to provide that.
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Many people think that boys in our culture today are brought up to define their identities through heroic individualism and competition, particularly through separation from home, friends, and family in an outdoors world of work and doing. Girls, on the other hand, are brought up to define their identities through connection, cooperation, self-sacrifice, domesticity, and community in an indoor world of love and caring. This view of different male and female roles can be seen throughout children’s literature. Treasure Island and The Secret Garden are two novels that are an excellent portrayal of the narrative pattern of “boy and girl” books.
romance book? Or a good romance story? First of all, romance books should always relate to the
The Good Boy was an interesting book about an unconventional, young preacher named Wesley who was asked to come preach at a small church. Before he even had a chance to preach on his first Sunday, a teenager in the community committed suicide. Pastor Wesley arrived at the mother’s house to minister to her and the press showed up causing a huge scandal for the church. The mother is also offered to be on a reality TV show, which would include the church and give them more negative publicity. The congregation was obviously unhappy about this since the woman and her daughter never attended the church and her mother was accused of pushing her to commit suicide. All this aside, Pastor Wesley is dealing his own personal struggles. His wife died, he
“The Little Match Girl,” gives readers an insight on what it is like to be a starving, freezing, homeless, and mistreated little girl.
Literature has been part of society since pen met paper. It has recorded history, retold fables, and entertained adults for centuries. Literature intended for children, however, is a recent development. Though children’s literature is young, the texts can be separated into two categories by age. The exact splitting point is debatable, but as technology revolutionized in the mid-twentieth century is the dividing point between classic and contemporary. Today’s children’s literature is extraordinarily different from the classics that it evolved from, but yet as classic was transformed into modern, the literature kept many common features.