The humor in this book reminded me of that same guy who said he liked reading Bob Ong. Often found myself giggling in amusement from what I was reading. I like that it was also told in a very humorous way. Our school life also plays a big role in how we become as we grow up and how we deal with things out there in the real world as adults. I learned a lot and I don’t just mean from my subjects. There are good memories from my school days. I studied in a private school but the stories he shared of his school life had a lot of similarities from my own.Īs someone who studied in one school from kindergarten until high school, I knew almost everyone by the time I reached secondary school. I thought this book was very much relatable. This local author’s book has been around for years and still very relevant. A retelling of his childhood life – elementary, high school, university life and finally his adult working life. This book seems to be an autobiography of local author, Bob Ong.
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Both ribald and erotic, it is also a brilliant novel about the passage of time and the relentlessness of grief. Richly comic, as well as deeply disturbing, A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force. She’s about to fall in love for the first time. One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound. She distrusts her judgment in men, for good reason.Ī Widow for One Year closes in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother. Description for A Widow for One Year Paperback. The second window into Ruth’s life opens on the fall of 1990, when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career. A Widow for One Year ranks with A Prayer for Owen Meany as my favorite Irving novel. When we first meet her-on Long Island, in the summer of 1958-Ruth is only four. (Stephen King and Salmon Rushdie being the others). 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He was kind, and beautiful, and special, and hurting. But when he warned me about the mute boy who also lurked in those woods, the one the priest had declared to be the spawn of Satan himself, I refused to listen. Or the way they sparkled with mischief when he told me tales about the magical creatures that dwelled in the forest behind his humble Irish sheep farm-shy fairies who liked to eat tea biscuits, cruel witches who liked to eat children, a moody lake spirit with a taste for expensive gifts.Īs a child, I believed every fantastical word. I can't remember anymore if my grandfather's eyes were blue or green, but I'll never forget the way they wrinkled at the corners when he laughed at one of his own jokes. This special edition includes eight scenic, full-page photographs.įrom the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of 44 Chapters About 4 Men (inspiration for the Netflix Original series Sex/Life) comes a dark mafia romance steeped in Irish folklore. 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In addition, her novels have received starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, and Publishers Weekly, and have been published in more than twenty countries. Her books have received numerous awards and recognition, including the PEN America Literary Award, the Blue Ribbon Award from the Bulletin for the Center of Children's Books, ALA’s Best Books for Young Adults, and ALA’s Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults. Robin Benway is a National Book Award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author of six novels, including Far From the Tree, Audrey, Wait!, the AKA series, and Emmy & Oliver. Though the breadth of the latter attacks was unexpected, Aslan wasn’t entirely surprised by the academic uproar, as he has come to understand that popularity doesn’t often mix well with professorial pursuits. It came quickest from far-right commentators who questioned why a Muslim would ever explore the origins of Christianity (not surprisingly), but also subsequently from more mainstream critics and the academic world itself, which called Aslan’s own credentials into question. Though it begins with a description of Aslan’s own strong-yet-brief connection with Christianity, the book unfolds as an easy-reading, colorful, and research-based account of what Palestine was like in the first century, where this man named Jesus fit into the picture, and how his message of social justice and political upheaval managed to survive the centuries.Īlthough Zealot doesn’t posit much that other scholars haven’t already suggested, the backlash Aslan received for daring to tackle Jesus was immediate. 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