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![]() These abuses left their toll on Kallinger in the form of severe mental illness. ![]() Abandoned as a child by his birth mother and adopted by unfeeling parents who resented him, Kallinger experienced his childhood as a rotary of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. Culled from years of interviews and research with Kallinger himself, Schreiber paints a horrifying picture of a lifetime of abuse after abuse. How Schreiber does this is by chronicling not just Kallinger’s crimes, but his entire life, beginning from the point of his birth and tracing exactly how events in his childhood lead to Kallinger’s deranged mental state and the horrific crimes he committed later in life. Flora Rheta Schreiber has achieved the nigh insurmountable task of portraying this man – someone who most people would see the death penalty as too good for – as someone deserving of our sympathy and pity. Torturing animals to death, abusing children, enlisting his twelve-year-old son as an accomplice for a series of brazen home invasions and sexual assaults, and murdering both children (his own and others) and women are just some of the crimes among the litany of abuses Kallinger committed. ![]() It would be easy to depict Joseph Kallinger as a monster. ![]() ![]() What makes The Shoemaker, a “true crime” book about a series of murders in Pittsburgh, so disturbing is not that it details genital mutilation, child murder, and rape, but that you may find yourself sympathizing with the man behind those crimes. ![]() ![]() ![]() The kind of super-villains, as it turns out, who don’t even shy away from taking out their own children in order to protect their sinister and very profitable secret society. When the six teenage protagonists of Runaways are forced to spend a few hours together during their parents’ annual charitable get-together, they are shocked to discover that the so-called charity work is merely cover-up for a criminal, downright evil organization called “The Pride,” and that their parents are, in plain fact, super-villains. But what if those guardians don’t actually deserve all that reverence? What if they were never as benevolent as we were brought up to believe? Looking at the current economic and environmental state of the world, today’s youth may well raise the question: Have our parents secretly been the bad guys all along? Reverence for parental figures has traditionally been held up as an untouchable virtue in superhero comics, with heroes like the Batman and Spider-Man devoting their entire lives to the memory of their guardians. ![]() “Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, that your days may be prolonged.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Gr 9 Up–Lee’s #OwnVoices debut is a butterflies-inducing rom-com. With his blog and his heart hanging in the balance, Noah will have to choose between following his own advice or accepting that some of the most romantic endings are the ones that go off script.įrom exciting new talent Emery Lee comes a delightfully wise story about love and identity that is brimming with heart and humor. Noah quickly realizes that dating in real life isn’t the same as crafting idealized meet cutes. The only way to save his blog is to convince everyone that the stories are true, but how? Then Drew walks into Noah’s life, and the pieces fall into place: Drew is willing to fake-date Noah to save the Diary. ![]() When a troll exposes the Diary as fiction, Noah’s world unravels. What started as a trans boy’s daydreams has grown into a blog with thousands of devoted, hopeful followers. There’s just one problem: all the stories are fake. ![]() He has to be for his popular blog, the Meet Cute Diary, a collection of trans meet cutes. Noah Ramirez thinks he’s an expert on romance. In this own voices rom-com debut, a transgender teen must decide if he’s dedicated to romantic formulas or open to unpredictable love after an internet troll attack on his blog compels him and a fan to start fake dating. ![]() ![]() ![]() He pulled it out of his backpack and set it on Tim’s desk. Shawn brought the chess set with him to school one morning. It was ideal for using in a car, or even possibly a classroom. The board was made of metal and the pieces were magnets, so they didn’t fall off accidentally while playing. He had a really cool magnetic chess set which he’d gotten for Christmas the previous year. He’d learned by eavesdropping that Tim loved to play chess. ![]() In general, Shawn just continued to be extremely pleasant and friendly to the boy who had humiliated him. ![]() He congratulated him on winning the spelling bee. He offered him a pencil one day when his lead broke. He first elected to focus on Tim, mainly because he sat right next to him in class. Instead he opted to kill them with kindness. He remembered Jesus’ instructions about forgiveness: if someone smites you on one cheek, turn the other and allow them to smite that as well. ![]() Honestly, he didn’t really understand why they would have anything against him in the first place. He knew they never would help him, but he also knew that he didn’t want them to hate him. So Shawn knew he didn’t stand a chance of becoming friends with these guys as his teacher had suggested to him. ![]() ![]() ![]() Much as he dotes on adulation, he is equally happy to be loathed, and he regales Woodward with video clips of his opponents glaring at him during his State of the Union address last winter: “See the hate!” he says, weirdly elated. ![]() Like every statement he makes, it was a boast. “I bring rage out,” Trump tells Woodward in one of their early encounters. Unleashed by his executive power, he snarls, incoherently froths and, in scenes witnessed by Woodward’s sources, runs around yelping “Holy shit!” or “I’m fucked!” A better title for Rage, perhaps, would be Rabid. ![]() ![]() Yet when closeted with his harried aides or beleaguered cabinet members, Trump mutates into the carnivorous hound of the Baskervilles. “Honey, I’m talking to Bob Woodward!” he proudly announces when Melania interrupts one of their phone calls, and he even imparts whispered nuclear secrets in the hope that this upright, fanatically factual journalist – who began his career by exposing the Watergate burglary and thus scuttled Nixon’s presidency – will relax into an obsequious court reporter. That’s OK.” It’s the creed of a grovelling lap dog, and Trump follows up with flattering licks and whiny appeals to have his belly scratched. “I love this guy,” says Trump when granting access to Bob Woodward. There’s no need: he is his own fawning poodle and envenomed cur. Now I understand why Trump refuses to have a dog in the White House. ![]() ![]() Undoubtedly the author is a good writer, and brown Muslims are not a monolith, but I feel like sometimes we need to square away who we are before we just clamor for what we want. ![]() There was a lot of potential to discuss mental health and family expectation, but the end unraveled all that the book could have been. But alas I felt that she let other’s fight her battles and she really only threw her religion and culture around as weighted plot oppressors, not as strands of her life that she had to decide to embrace or understand in the process of growing into herself. The author mentions in the forward that she is representing her story, not a representation of all Bangladeshi- Muslim American girls, but for an OWN voice book with such a clever premise, I really wanted to be shown more than I was told, I wanted to feel the protagonists strength, and cheer her on as she found her happiness on her terms. Sadly, by the end, I was disappointed with the conclusion, the predictability, the stereotypes, and the cliche’ of it all. ![]() ![]() I was genuinely invested in the characters and wanted to see how it all resolved. ![]() I have to be honest that this book really held my attention and was hard to put down for about two-thirds of the 416 pages. ![]() ![]() ![]() And Gary’s wife, Twyla, is having a nervous breakdown, buying up all the lipstick in drugstores around New Orleans and bursting into crying fits. ![]() Meanwhile Gary, Alex’s brother, is incommunicado, trying to get his movie career off the ground in Los Angeles. ![]() ![]() (A power-hungry real estate developer, he is, by all accounts, a bad man.) She travels to New Orleans to be with her family, but mostly to interrogate her tight-lipped mother, Barbra.Īs Barbra fends off Alex’s unrelenting questions, she reflects on her tumultuous life with Victor. Now that her father, Victor, is on his deathbed, Alex-a strong-headed lawyer, devoted mother, and loving sister-feels she can finally unearth the secrets of who Victor is and what he did over the course of his life and career. “If I know why they are the way they are, then maybe I can learn why I am the way I am,” says Alex Tuchman of her parents. From critically acclaimed New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a novel of family secrets: think the drama of Big Little Lies set in the heat of a New Orleans summer. ![]() ![]() In between are the relationships that were once the foundation of Shingo’s life: with his disappointing wife, his philandering son, and his daughter-in-law Kikuko, who instills in him both pity and uneasy stirrings of sexual desire. At night he hears a distant rumble from the nearby mountain, a sound he associates with death. For in his portrait of an elderly Tokyo businessman, Yasunari Kawabata charts the gradual, reluctant narrowing of a human life, along with the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate its closing.īy day Ogata Shingo is troubled by small failures of memory. ![]() ![]() “The apparently fixed constellations of family relationships, the recurrent beauties of nature, the flaming or flickering patterns of love and lust-all the elements of Kawabata’s fictional world are combined in an engrossing novel that rises to the incantatory fascination of a Nō drama.” - Saturday Reviewįew novels have rendered the predicament of old age more beautifully than The Sound of the Mountain. ![]() ![]() As Camille learns the truth, she’s forced to choose between loyalty to those she loves and the future. In a fast and furious story full of the glamour and excesses, intrigue and deception of these dangerous days, no one can be trusted, everyone is to be feared. The girl’s no aristocrat, but her dark and disturbing powers means both the Royalists and the Revolutionaries want her. But their latest rescue is not what she seems. As the Battalion des Morts they cheat death, saving those about to meet a bloody end at the blade of Madame La Guillotine. Summary:Ĭamille, a revolutionary’s daughter, leads a band of outcasts – a runaway girl, a deserter, an aristocrat in hiding. I was starting to get into a slump, and then I began reading “Dangerous Remedy”. There wasn’t much that was grabbing my interest, and I ended up finishing half as many books as March. ![]() Well, April was not a good month for me in terms of reading. I received an Advanced Reading Copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. ![]() |