![]() ![]() As a new bride, she lived on Gladstone Avenue in Toronto. She attended Runnymede Collegiate, but didn't graduate because the war started and she went to work (depicted in The Girls They Left Behind). ![]() The "new house" was on Cornell Avenue and she went to Birchcliff Public School, but most of her childhood and teens were spent on Lavinia, which is why Swansea claims her for their own. (Despite the hardships of poverty, it was her nature to be happy, so the books are upbeat.) They lived in Birchcliff and Swansea. The Booky Trilogy, set during the Great Depression, depicts her family being forced to stay ahead of the bailiff, who threw them out when her unemployed father couldn't afford the rent. She struggled in school because they moved so often. No Greats.īernice was the middle child of 5 children (Wilma, Gordon, Bernice, Jack and Robert). She married her high school sweetheart, Lloyd Hunter, and had two children, Anita and Heather, and four grandchildren, Meredith, Lisa, Hunter and Franceline. She was born in Toronto, Ontario, on Novemand died May 29, 2002. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() This is partially because homosexuality used to be classified as a disease, or disability, or symptom of some other mental disability/deficit. So, while many of the concepts in this book were already familiar to me, I was very glad to read this book and encounter them directly myself.Ĭrip theory is similar to queer theory like compulsory able-bodiedness is similar to compulsory heterosexuality- one of the arguments of the book is that both fields and experiences of oppression have a lot in common. ![]() I am friends with lots of people who read and work in disability studies, some of whom identify as disabled and some of whom do not (that I know of), but I haven’t done much reading in the field myself, so most of my knowledge is second-hand (third-hand?). This is a book that I had a general sense of already from how people I know talk about its concepts- crip time, cripping composition, etc. ![]() ![]() ![]() Second, he hoped his discoveries about racism would convince white people that the U.S. First, he sought to better understand the nature of antiblack racism by experiencing it himself. Griffin hypothesized that his disguise would subject him to racism, and he hoped this outcome would accomplish two main goals. To write his book Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin, a white journalist from Texas, embarked on an experiment in which he darkened his skin tone to appear like a Black man, then traveled for six weeks throughout the segregated Deep South. If you could spend several weeks in the body of someone of a different race, would you? In 1959, one man tried to do this. ![]() Read on for an overview of John Howard Griffin’s Black Like Me book. In the book, he argues that his hypothesis was correct: Black Southerners faced brutal racism. In Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin darkened his skin to appear like a Black man, then traveled for six weeks throughout the segregated Southern U.S. ![]() Want an overview of Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin? What were Griffin’s key takeways from his experiment? Like this article? Sign up for a free trial here. Shortform has the world's best summaries and analyses of books you should be reading. This article is an excerpt from the Shortform book guide to "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hingson learns to navigate the sighted world with the help of adaptive technologies and establishes the trust and teamwork needed between him and his guides. ![]() The flashbacks give you insight into how Mr. The tales are humorous, inspiring, and set the stage for their harrowing escape from the tower. Hinson growing up as a blind child, his trials and tribulations from school, to college, to life with his first and subsequent guide dogs. ![]() The book is peppered with flashbacks of Mr. Emerging from the tower just moments before it fell, Roselle guided them both through what must have been sheer terror, to safety in an underground subway station. Hingson writes about the fateful day that his guide dog saved his life- jumping up from under his desk when the plane struck his tower, and guiding him down 78 flights of stairs over the course of several hours while fires blazed above them and jet fuel fumes choked the air of the stairwell. In his memoir of the event, titled Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust, Mr. Hingson and Roselle were on the 78th floor of the World Trade Center on Septemwhen the planes struck the twin towers. For those that don’t know about this famous duo, Mr. As a guide dog puppy raiser (for the school Roselle came from, no less) I always intrigued by the story of guide dog handler Michael Hingson and his guide dog Roselle. ![]() ![]() ![]() He wants to go work for a competitor and therefore screw over his boss. He is a super-jerk, and everyone knows it. ![]() The basic storyline for The Contract is that Richard (aka, The Dick) is terrible. Unfortunately, this boss is not one of them. There are plenty of grumpy old dukes and mean bosses who have believable redemption arcs. Setting aside the fact that perpetuating this trope maybe doesn’t encourage the healthiest of relationships, I will admit that it can be done well. ![]() It’s nice to think that jerks just need someone to care about them, and then the world would be a better place. The trope of the Bad Man who becomes a better man through the love of the Good Woman is pretty standard in romance novels. Overall: Whatever muscles I use when I roll my eyes got an excellent workout Plot: A Bad Man is Reformed by the Love of a Good Woman Heat Factor: A virgin has a magic orgasm, of courseĬharacter Chemistry: A dickwad meets an angel of domesticity and forgiveness ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her work fell out of favor during the 1960s, but she continued to write and lecture extensively. She died in Shaftesbury, in 1996.īeginning with Torley Grange, published when when she was twenty-four, Courtney produced thirteen book for young readers. After the deaths of their parents, Courtney and her two sisters lived together for the rest of their lives, moving from place to place - Courtney had sustained an ear injury, during a bomb blast, that made quiet absolutely essential - as the need arose. ![]() She worked for a time in her father’s office, before joining Lord Goodman’s staff, during WWII, and prided herself on being the only civilian to work on Operation Overlord. The family moved to Wallasey when Courtney was young, and she was educated at Oldershaw High School. She was distantly related to author and educator Arthur Mee, and first cousins with Phyllis Norris, who wrote a number of books for girls. Born near Southampton in 1911, Gwendoline Courtney was the daughter of antiques dealer Edwin Courtney, and his wife Joanna. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rowlf the Dog sang a cover of this song in his album, Ol' Brown Ears is Back. ![]() Jerry Nelson, who served as Robin the Frog's performer, sang the song at Jim Henson's memorial service during a segment where various Muppet performers sang Henson's favorite songs as their characters. The track was also included on the CD The Best of The Muppets and the VHS Playhouse Video: Children's Songs and Stories. The sequence was refilmed for inclusion in Top of the Pops. The song was included on the LP The Muppet Show, later released separately reaching #7 on the UK Singles Chart in 1977. The sequence was reshot for a few different countries' broadcast of the tenth episode, with guest Harvey Korman. The performance was staged in the middle of a flight of stairs, and became the most significant performance of the season for Kermit the Frog's nephew Robin the Frog. "Halfway Down the Stairs" was used in the first season of The Muppet Show. "Halfway Down the Stairs" Ī song was created from the poem by Harold Fraser-Simson, who put many of Milne's poems to music. A "juvenile meditation", Zena Sutherland comments in Children & Books that both the poem and Ernest Shepard's illustration "has caught the mood of suspended action that is always overtaking small children on stairs." Christopher Robin, the child in Milne's Winnie the Pooh stories, is the presumed narrator of the poem. ![]() ![]() Milne, included in the 1924 collection When We Were Very Young. ![]() ![]() The Safeway bag was a signal: to activate his escape plan to be smuggled out of Soviet Russia. A senior KGB officer, for more than a decade he had supplied his British spymasters with a stream of priceless secrets from deep within the Soviet intelligence machine. The bag alone was mildly conspicuous, printed with the red logo of Safeway, the British supermarket. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other Soviet citizen. On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. 'The best true spy story I have ever read' John le Carré ![]() A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians - now with a new afterword. ![]() ![]() ![]() Without it, Ray feels like he's lost a piece of himself. But on the eve of the renowned and cutthroat Tchaikovsky Competition-the Olympics of classical music-the violin is stolen, a ransom note for five million dollars left in its place. ![]() ![]() When he discovers that his beat-up, family fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius, all his dreams suddenly seem within reach, and together, Ray and his violin take the world by storm. Not his mother, who wants him to stop making such a racket not the fact that he can’t afford a violin suitable to his talents not even the racism inherent in the world of classical music. But Ray has a gift and a dream-he’s determined to become a world-class professional violinist, and nothing will stand in his way. Growing up Black in rural North Carolina, Ray McMillian’s life is already mapped out. The riveting story of a young Black musician who discovers that his old family fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius: when it’s stolen on the eve of the world’s most prestigious classical music competition, he risks everything to get it back. ![]() ![]() ![]() As all the characters are plugged into the orphidnet mind network, their experiences are to some extent internal, and can only be accessed by describing what’s going on in their minds. ![]() The reason I bought the Gardner book is that I’ve been thinking about point of view to use for Postsingular, my seventeenth novel. (Remember I was a math major, not an English major.) Oh, I’ve looked through Strunk and White as well. I’ve never read a whole book on writing before I read part of Annie Lamotte’s Bird by Bird some years ago, but got tired of it: too much Annie and not enough notes on craft. Gardner was a novelist in his own right, also famous as a creative writing teacher. ![]() I’m almost done reading this great little book on writing, John Gardner, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers (Written 1983, Vintage Books edition 1991). We worked our way down to below Castle Rock Falls and back up. It was a beautiful green day, like descending into the Hollow Earth. I went for a 60th birthday hike up at Castle Rock Park on Skyline Drive yesterday with Emilio, a software engineer whom I initially got to know as an occasional commenter on this blog, and who I then got to know better as a student in my Computers and Philosophy class at SJSU last fall. ![]() |