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I really enjoyed this book! I can't wait to read the rest of the series!

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A good short psychological horror read. Marie attempts to get back to normal after a tragic event, but her second chance backfires and Marie is back to grieving a different kind of loss.

A collection of stories told by a grandmother to a young girl; each story is introduced by a discussion between them.

A good short psychological horror read. Marie attempts to get back to normal after a tragic event, but her second chance backfires and Marie is back to grieving a different kind of loss.

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Contains short stories, some in picture books, chosen by Adele Geras with new illustrations,
including Captain Jiri and Rabbi Jacob by Marilyn Hirsh.

a book about dance. the illustrations in this book were very pastel and pink, which made the illustrations easy on the eyes and pleasing to look at.

A retelling of the fall of Troy as a YA romance? It sounds kind of awful, but it sort of works. I liked it, at any rate. Geras is quite faithful to the original myths, and I love her take on the gods and how their interactions with mortals work.

Tilly loves ballet and this book tells about why she loves her class so much! What they do and wear and everything there is to know about class.

Ages: 3-5
Source: Pierce College Libray

This is an impressive collection of short stories, aimed at the “Young Adult” market, about the impact on young women of the First World War. Each of these well-written, engaging and thought-provoking stories was written by well-known authors, including Anne Fine, Adele Geras, Sally Nicholls and Melvin Burgess, with various themes offering very different slant on the impact the war had on women’s lives. The norm is for the war to be written about from the point of view of the suffering endured by men and the bravery they displayed during this period of conflict. However, this glimpse into the lives of what young women endured, of the actions some of them took to play a more active part in the war, of their day to day persistence and courage, creates a vivid picture of the contributions so many of them made, as well as the courage and bravery they too displayed. These are stories about spies, nurses, shop-girls, farm-workersThe young women portrayed come from a range of backgrounds but what all have in common is a desire not only to “do their bit”, but also to use their experiences to achieve a greater independence than they would otherwise have been able to. I particularly enjoyed the way in which the stories portrayed the huge social upheaval which came about as a result of the war and explored both the immediate, and the long-term implications this had on communities.
There wasn’t one of these stories which failed to move me but three stand out as exceptional in their capacity to engage me on an intensely emotional level – Mother and Mrs Everington, which captured, in a very powerful way, all the rage, outrage, horrors faced, absolute bravery and compassion of a young woman who put herself in danger at the Front; The Marshalling of Angelique’s Geese, about a young woman in France who was desperate to keep the family farm going (this also offered an insight into theory behind the origins of the Spanish ‘Flu epidemic) and Going Spare which highlighted the plight of women in the aftermath of a war which killed so many young men, thus making marriage and children an almost impossible dream.
A quote from Going Spare, by Sally Nicholl’s – “They didn’t just do nothing,” ….. “All those women. They changed the world.” seems to me to sum up why I think it is worth reading this collection of thought-provoking, poignant and moving stories.

Review pending.

Read for the "book set in my home town" bit of the Popsugar challenge. Was pleasantly surprised to find that there was one!

Tilly loves ballet, she loves wearing special clothes, all the different dance positions, and doing her best cat impression. But when it comes time to preform at the big recital, Tilly learns what else comes with ballet, performance anxiety. Ages 2-6

A pleasant enough read. Set on Ithaca during Odysseus's absence, and centred on Klymene, handmaid to Penelope. The framing of the story is a little odd, taking a human angle on the mythological story but retaining the active involvement of the gods (though only Klymene can see them). The tensions between characters such as wistful Klymene, grumpy Telemachus, disengaged and besotted Ikarios, and beautiful treacherous Melantho, are neatly if not deeply worked out, with a nod to the more animal instincts of the suitors. I do think the development of the plot and characters seems to take place over too short a timescale (or fails to develop sufficiently) given the many years assumed in the Odyssey. The tentative affair between Penelope and Leodes is a nice answer to the questions of whether the suitors were really all uniformly repellent, and whether Penelope could or would have hung out for Odysseus so long without giving in to temptation. (Those offended by the divergence from the narrative of the Odyssey would do well to remember that Homer is not writing history, but giving shape to a long folk tradition, and that the adaptation or subversion of myths was common in later Greek literature.)

MB 7-i-2017½

This is the short story of Rob Stone a British soldier who returns from World War I with a terrible face injury.
He had gotten close to his Captain who was killed in combat.
Rob decides he must find his Captains wife and daughter and pass on the Bible and photo the Captain carried with him.

He tracks her down and gets very friendly with her sister.

This book is about Tilly who loves ballet and is excited about everything from the clothes, the different positions, the music, and then at the end of the book, Tilly goes to ballet recital! This charming book has beautiful illustrations and lots of vocabulary relating to ballet and dance. Genre: children's picture book and informational. I would use the "Skimming" reading strategy with this book, to do a gallery walk through the book before reading it to students, looking at illustrations and talking about what the book is about.

I would classify this book as an informational book, though it is written as fiction our main characters talks a lot about ballet and what it involves. Tilly loves Tuesdays, because she has ballet class and she loves to dance.
This book can be used while talking about ballet or sports related subjects, it can be turned into a creative arts or writing assignment, and can be a leeway into informational books. I really like how the author walks us through classes and the recital, the book also includes boys and non-pink colors, which is a bonus in this content area.

Not to my taste at all. The tales were spoiled by these retellings - the magic of the traditional themes washed out. And if you ask me, [a:Hans Christian Andersen|6378|Hans Christian Andersen|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1183230200p2/6378.jpg]'s tales shouldn't be retold at all. Or at least they should be credited! The jacket flap mentions including two by [HCA]" but doesn't say which, and inside the book, even the copyright page, nothing about any sources. And in the illustrations - um - Beauty is ugly. Not traditionally beautiful, not exotically beautiful, but deformed.

So here's my message to Geras and Brierley: If you can't improve a tale, don't mess with it. If you feel the need to sell a book with your name on it, create something original."

I read 'The Cunning Little Vixen' for the Children's Books group and decided not to read the rest. They just didn't appeal, at least by this author, in this format, to me.

I love anything that has to do with the Trojan War and this was an interesting take on the well known subject but it was just shy of boring.

It's funny, I'm not at all interested in ballet itself, but I enjoy fiction about ballet. This one pulled me in and I kept reading more at a sitting than I had intended.½

In Ithaka the story of what is happening on Ithaca during Odysseus' ten year journey home is told from the perspective of Klymene, a servant that grows up with her twin brother Ikarios and Telemachus, the son of Odysseus and Penelope. There are lots of neat historical details, the readers gets to see the Gods interference, and there is action, adventure and romance. Glad I finally got to it.

Like many others who read this book, I was unaware that it was the second book in a series. It can be read as a standalone title though. It's an interesting twist on the Sleeping Beauty story that is definitely worth reading. I may have to start looking around for the rest of the story.

This book tells the story of the end of the Trojan War, focusing on two sisters, young servant girls that work for Hector's family. Xanthe and Marpessa are sisters who thanks to Aphrodite's meddling are in love with the same boy. We also follow a bunch of other minor towns folk including three elderly serving women, Iason (in love w/ Xanthe) and Polyxena (the singers granddaughter, friends w/ the sisters, in love with Iason).

It's interesting to see the girls personal problems against the back drop of the larger issues of the war. The war is followed and you see what parts don't affect them. There are many myths interspersed in the story in a very natural way. You also get to see some larger then life characters very humanized.

I really liked the language as well. The whole story was just beautifully written. I absolutely loved it.

In Ithaka the story of what is happening on Ithaca during Odysseus' ten year journey home is told from the perspective of Klymene, a servant that grows up with her twin brother Ikarios and Telemachus, the son of Odysseus and Penelope. There are lots of neat historical details, the readers gets to see the Gods interference, and there is action, adventure and romance. Glad I finally got to it.