About Topics of Conversation A compact tour de force about sex, violence, and self-loathing from a ferociously talented new voice in fiction, perfect for fans of Sally Rooney, Rachel Cusk, Lydia Davis, and Jenny Offill. “Shrewd and sensual, Popkey’s debut carries the scintillating charge of a long-overdue girls’ night.” — O, The Oprah Magazine A Best Book of the Year by TIME, Esquire, Real Simple, Marie Claire, Glamor, Bustle , and more Composed almost exclusively of conversations between women—the stories they tell each other, and the stories they tell themselves— Topics of Conversation careens through twenty years in the life of an unnamed narrator hungry for experience and bent on upending her life. In exchanges about shame and love, infidelity and self-sabotage, Popkey touches upon desire, disgust, motherhood, loneliness, art, pain, feminism, anger, envy, and guilt. Edgy, wry, and written in language that sizzles with intelligence and eroticism, this novel introduces an audacious and immensely gifted new novelist.
Are you looking for a new, unique way for your students to review significant characters and symbols within a novel? There are fourteen different reading strategy foldables included in this file, which will be used to reflect a variety of important elements within William Golding's, Lord of the Flies. The interactive foldables are not only a kinesthetic activity and fun to complete, they could also easily be incorporated into an existing interactive notebook or filled-out and used to decorate a character analysis bulletin board. In addition, three writing frames have also been included for students who need to organize their thoughts first before putting their ideas onto the foldable. An editable rubric has also been included. The featured character analysis foldables include: • Ralph • Jack • Piggy • Simon • Roger • Samneric • Littluns • Conch • Sow's head on a stick • Signal fire and glasses • Vocabulary analysis • Connection analysis Note: It is not expected that students would necessarily complete a foldable for each character foldable included; rather, students (or the teacher) could select a character or two per student to complete, so that in-depth analysis could be completed on a smaller scale. © The Classroom Sparrow
Clarke fans waited 16 years for this follow-up to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. Here, Clarke limns a magic that is part of the very fabric of the universe.
This is a list of the upcoming 2021 Best Book Club Books, limited to hardcover new releases to be published in 2021. I’ll be updating this list as more titles are announced, so stay tuned for more! If there’s a book you think belongs on this list of anticipated book club reads, please do drop ...
Ismail Kadare is a poet, essayist, and dramatist from Albania. He get fame in Albania and published his first novel in 1963.
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Tells the story of one man coming to terms with the mutable past.
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Ready to discover the power of story structure? Now, don't frown at me. I know story structure doesn't sound like the most exciting thing in the world. Well, not to everyone anyway. Personally, I'm kind of a structure freak, so I AM SUPER EXCITED FOR THIS BLOG SERIES. *ahem*
Your BIG list of all the historical, costume and period dramas coming to - and leaving - Netflix US in Spring 2019: February, March, April, May.
In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century...
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– Bim AdewunmiA satirical alternate history of the transatlantic slave trade - in which black Africans colonise the Americas and enslave white Europeans to work the sugar plantations.
