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However, some parents don’t want their kids on the team, some schools don’t want to play a town that is in the middle of a scandal, and some of the players think they are destined to be losers. So when he discovers that the junior high baseball team was disbanded when the coach was fired, Jeremiah takes it upon himself to coach the few who are willing to come out. ![]() However, soon after they arrive, the Hornets are caught up in a scandal and the town is left wondering if they would be better without baseball.Īlthough Jeremiah can’t play baseball because of his heart transplant, he knows that baseball is too important to give up. When his father gets a new job in Ohio, instead of being upset at having to leave his best friend, Jeremiah is excited to go to a town that is known for its winning baseball team, The Hornets. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For most readers, this read may be too crushing to complete, but I would encourage most to continue reading since I found it to be the best exposure to nihilist thought I’ve come into contact with. He traces the emergence of this “literature of pessimism” from not only philosophical sources but literary ones, such as Lovecraft and he tries his best to bring out how humanity truly does not matter in the face of a cold, empty universe. This text is not specifically philosophical as much as Ligotti wishes to cloak it as such. It is truly a book for those, who will not be bothered or overly depressed after slogging through such pessimistic thought.Īs a philosopher myself, I found delving into pessimism via the lens of Schopenhauer and Peter Zapffe to be really interesting, especially since I’ve never really read any of them nor their writings. ![]() ![]() (Note: I use the term subversive liberally here.) Both a literary criticism and an exploration of nihilism as a perspective, Ligotti is a preeminent figure in this sphere of thought, as both a writer of horror and alternative thought. The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror by Thomas Ligotti is by no means an intro text into the wild world of nihilism and subversive thinking. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gush and critique posts should contain the book title/author if applicable. Reviews and screenshots of book excerpts must contain the book title/author in the post title.Book request titles must contain details about the kind of book you’re looking for and/or keywords that will inform future searches.Rules Post titles must be clear and informative For updated information regarding ongoing community features includings upcoming AMAs, please visit 'new' Reddit. ![]() Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with informative links about Book Clubs, AMAs, etc. Home of the magic search button and endless book recommendations as well as discussions about tropes and characters, Author AMAs, book clubs, and more. R/RomanceBooks is a discussion sub for readers of romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was bothered by how Black families weren’t represented as being whole-that they were without fathers, that men sired the children and left. I wanted to be published! And I wanted to tell the story of a strong Black family, like mine. When you created these characters, what did you hope to accomplish? In a rare interview, Taylor spoke with O books editor Leigh Haber about what’s kept her focused on this one emblematic family over the decades. ![]() In this triumphant conclusion, Taylor brings the Logans through World War II, the Great Migration, and the civil rights movement, all the way to the Obama era. ![]() All the Days Past, All the Days to Come is the final volume in the Logan saga, which has tracked the family through Jim Crow and the Depression, depicting the strength and love it takes to resist being dragged down by racism or torn apart by the winds of change. That book was followed by the now-classic Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, which won the Newbery Medal and made Cassie Logan a literary heroine for the ages. Taylor’s Song of the Trees introduced readers to the Logans, a Mississippi family only a couple of generations removed from slavery. ![]() ![]() I have read every book in the series to shreds, in some cases dozens of time each, and would probably have to call them my lifetime favorite books. ![]() The Lord Peter books were written by Dorothy Sayers, a Christian theologian, noted Dante translator and one of the first women to graduate from Oxford (before the university gave women degrees, actually, though they made an honest woman of her in 1915), from the 1920s through the end of the 1930s, and set in England in the period between the two world wars. No more perfect romance has been established in all of literature than the one between the effete, incunabula-collecting, quotation-spouting detective Lord Peter Wimsey and bluestocking detective-novelist Harriet Vane. There were crimson roses on the bench they looked like splashes of blood. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s complete with vegetables, chickens, turkeys, ducks, rabbits, bees, and pigs. Novella starts a full-on urban farm in an abandoned lot behind her house. That’s how she finds herself in a run-down part of Oakland combining her loves of farm and city. She loves the energy, the community, and the eclectic individuals. Novella Carpenter is the daughter of two hippies who raised her to live off the land-and yet she loves cities and urban life. If you’re interested in hippies, folk singers, Haight-Ashbury, poetry, free love, Woodstock, living off the land, and environmentalism, this list is for you, flower child! Farm City by Novella Carpenter Some of these books for your inner flower child are from the 1960s–70s, and some are just about shirking convention in search of a radical, counter-cultural lifestyle. ![]() ![]() This one takes Riley to the Spiritrealm, where she hopes to fix what she’s broken and prove to her family that she belongs in this magical world she’s always called home. Like the Fallen Moon to the Fallen Star, the second book in the Gifted Clans series is a perfect companion to the first. ![]() When we find Riley again in The Last Fallen Moon (June 14), we see her dealing with the consequences of her actions. While she doesn’t have any powers herself, that hasn’t stopped her from studying everything there is to know about Gom traditions.Ī lot of things go wrong for Riley in the first book, but these series of events also open up the world in a way she never thought possible. The Gifted Clans series by Graci Kim is a beautifully vibrant world full of magic and mythology, steeped in Korean culture and bursting at the seams with the most delicious food you’ve ever read about.īook 1 in the trilogy, The Last Fallen Star, introduces us to Riley Oh, who’s been adopted into a magical family of healers. ![]() Our interview with Graci Kim takes us from The Last Fallen Moon and whether we’ll ever get a true Rick Riordan Presents crossover, to the author’s next project. ![]() |