(and) these pieces of religious propaganda were overwhelmingly intended to enforce the compliance of women,” she writes. “Every public and most private spaces were saturated with radical books, brochures, and cassette sermons. Rules - especially for women - are everywhere, and so are the punishments for breaking them. The book provides a rare glimpse into Saudi society, and especially into the lives and emotions of women. The story of her time in a filthy jail is riveting, but “Daring to Drive” does far more than explore that episode and its aftermath. “Daring to Drive” is a brave, extraordinary, heartbreakingly personal story of one woman’s battle for equal rights, told through the minute details of an everyday life that boiled over after years of frustrations.Īl-Sharif was arrested for driving afterward, people bombarded her with both abuse and praise. Manal Al-Sharif illuminates the insidious nature of that reality in Saudi Arabia.
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My characters tell me their stories and I write them.Ĥ.Tell us about your love of marine biology. I do some planning, but I’m more of a pantster. All beings deserve to be treated with consideration. We’re “human beings”, an octopus is an “ocean being”, dogs and cats are “furry beings”. I work to protect the environment and I support “being” rights. I love art, science, math, writing, music, history. Several reviews recommend these books for all ages.Ģ.What subjects & causes are near and dear to your heart? He’s made a Healer bag like Scree’s and wants to be an octopus for Halloween. One reviewer wrote that the Dragon Dreamer story has a “profound human message.” Another mentions a 2-yr-old obsessed with the octopus heroine Scree. This series of stand-alone books can be read on many levels. The Dragon Dreamer books have clean science fantasy adventure. I’ve nearly completed an adult coloring book with the fantasy snowflakes that my dragons grow in the winter clouds. 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His engines tended to be the driving force of id Software, each game often being touted with a new engine that in turn relied upon Carmack's efforts. The primary reason he got involved with games is because it offered all the aspects of programming, whilst at the same time not limiting him into one direction. Faith and Dylan may have stopped the Quinns from destroying the Western State the last time but now the twins have joined forces with Hotspur Chancethe. While John Romero in particular was well known for maintaining relations and being very open with the public, Carmack was notably more reserved.Īfter using an Apple II computer at his school, Carmack became determined to be a programmer. Set in a cinematic world where telekinetic powers dominate, Quake is the pulse-pounding finale to an epic story of love and revenge for fans of I Am Number Four and The Maze Runner. This had a lot to do with focusing on designing a complex engine for Quake. Carmack also created VQuake, but after its completion he vowed to never write another propriety port, citing his frustration with Rendition’s Speed圓D API.Ĭarmack was notably reserved in talking about Quake during its design at most he showed his progress through. He created the fully 3D engine and also a TCP/IP networking model for Quake. He was the lead programmer for Quake, Quake II, and Quake III Arena he also served as the technical director for Quake 4. Carmack (born August 20, 1970) is a computer programmer who helped found id Software in 1991 and worked for it until his official resignation in November 22, 2013. Fans of action-packed sci-fi thrillers such as I Am Number Four and The Maze Runner will love bestselling author Patrick Carmans Pulse, with its epic action scenes and memorable love story. Quake, Quake II, Quake III Arena, Quake 4 One day, Zack sees a ship outside his classroom window that resembles one of those from Armada, and returns home to look through his late father Xavier's notebooks about a conspiracy theory involving pop culture films ( Star Wars, Flight of the Navigator, The Last Starfighter), novels ( Ender's Game), and video games about alien invasions and military simulations. Zack Lightman, a high school senior with a reputation for getting into trouble, is one of the world’s top players of the video game Armada, an online combat flight simulation game in which the Earth Defense Alliance attempts to save the earth from extraterrestrial invasion. Plans for a film adaptation are also in process. Wil Wheaton, who narrated the audiobook version of Cline's previous novel, Ready Player One, performs the audiobook of Armada as well. The story follows a teenager who plays an online video game about defending against an alien invasion, only to find out that the game is a simulator to prepare him and people around the world for defending against an actual alien invasion. Print ( hardcover and paperback), e-book, audiobookĪrmada is a science fiction novel by Ernest Cline, published on Jby Crown Publishing Group (a division of Penguin Random House). For reasons I couldn't understand, I found it difficult to connect with the world. In my own short life, I had a sadness whose cause I could not put in words, and a yearning for friendship I could not express in my interactions with my peers. Every word and person and loss had a purpose. Pain existed only in the service of the story, and it always came to an end. Every secret was revealed and understood. In those stories, strangers always came to fully know each other. I opened this book despite the fact that, at 11, I was beginning to suspect that all books were nothing more than cruel lies.Īll the books that were mine - like Erich Kastner's books, or Anne of Green Gables - promised meaning and closure that I found nowhere in real life. Still, it was a miracle that I opened it. Maybe I sought it out because it was not one of my books. Maybe I opened it because it had a picture of a young girl on the cover. Maybe I opened this book because it was short. Usually, these books were too long for me. I found it on the shelf in my room that belonged to my parents' old books. It was a yellowing Hebrew translation of Tarjei Vesaas' Norwegian novel The Ice Palace. When I was 11, I found a book that did not know it was a book. Shani Boianjiu is the author of The People of Forever Are Not Afraid. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Ice Palace Author Tarjei Vesaas and Elizabeth Rokkan Troy-Jeffrey Allen: For those not familiar with Zombie Love Studios, what can you tell us about the mission of your studio? What is the hook? In February 2023, Barnes invites readers to experience two very distinct worlds of suspense with the graphic novel Blacula and his new series Monarch. PREVIEWSworld's Troy-Jeffrey Allen hung out with the hardest-working man in show business to find out more about his latest forays into the world of comic books! Inexhaustible, Barnes' creative talent stretches past must-see TV and into the four-color format we call "comics!" Horror comics, in particular. From American Gods to Winning Time - producer-writer Rodney Barnes has an IMDB profile featuring some of the most beloved/critically-acclaimed shows of the last twenty-odd years. This continuous interjection of hindsight, scientific backup, personal impressions, and painful insight brings the issue of eating disorders into the realm of the human, providing the reader with a solid idea of what the illness looks like from inside the patient, building a new understanding with every turn of the page.The book is a memoir of one woman’s journey through the disease and is presented exactly as such. Interspersed here and there is the odd statistic or scientific quote that helps to illuminate various aspects of what the illness entails, such as her preoccupation with food or the evidence that suggests girls who mature early are more likely to suffer from eating disorders. Rather than presenting her story in the detached, rather clinical way in which many of these stories are presented, Hornbacher takes an in-depth look into her own soul, writing out the events of her life in sequential order, yet imbuing the text with her own impressions, ideas and beliefs as she grew up. In many ways, the illness becomes her way of defining herself, and treatment options must therefore provide an alternative means of identification if it is to have any chance of success. It’s in my city, Atlanta! The University of Atlanta is fictional, but its location is near where another college sits, and I used to live across the street.ħ-Are you a plotter (follow an outline) or a pantster (write by the seat of your pants)? Darryn turns to Grant and to his parents.Ħ-What do you love about the setting of your book? Grant turns to his twin sister, Annie, his parents-and Darryn. What happens when that relationship turns sour?ģ-What word best describes your POV hero?Ĥ-What makes your love interest hero irresistible?ĥ-Who are the people your main characters turn to when they need help? Grant and Darryn, two friends, college roommates, and gymnastics teammates who discover they’ve fallen for each other-but one of them has already moved on with someone else. 1-What’s the name of your latest release? |