![]() ![]() Ethel Turner died in 1958, leaving as her memorial a book that is now regarded as a classic in children's literature. Seven Little Australians has been read and loved by children all over the world, and it has been continuously in print for over 100 years. Ethel Turner went on to write over 40 books in her lifetime, including children's stories, short stories and poems, many of which appeared in the Town and Country journal and in the Sun Herald newspaper. ![]() It has been translated into at least 11 languages, performed as a stage play, and been made into a film, a BBC television series in 1953, and a 10-episode television series for the ABC in 1973. ![]() Since then the book has sold over 2 million copies in the English language and has been reprinted over 50 times. In January 1893 she recorded in her diary, "Night started a new story that I shall call Seven Little Australians." Later that year, she finished the book, parcelled it up and sent it off to a publisher in Melbourne. Ethel kept diaries for a remarkable 62 years, recording the details of her full and eventful life. She showed a great love of literature while at school and in her late teens launched a literary and social magazine in Sydney with her sister Lilian Turner. Born in England in 1870, Ethel Turner came to Australia with her mother and sisters when she was 10 years old. ![]()
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![]() TCG: In our email conversation, you mentioned to me that the cover took a LOT of work. Today, fabulous author Siobhan Vivian stops by on the blog - who willingly allowed me to prod her brain a bit for more details about The List’s cover. This is one of the best kind of reactions when you’re looking at a book, because they tend to lend themselves to thoughts like, “I need to know what this book is about yesterday. The multitude of emotions flashing in those eyes make me feel slightly uncomfortable. The first thing that caught my attention about this cover art was the model’s face. Recently, that certain type of cover was Siobhan Vivian’s The List. ![]() It takes a certain type of cover with a certain type of face to grab my attention. My opinion of faces on covers hasn’t always been a positive one, and not much has managed to change my opinion over the past few years, either. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, when I actually read the novel, what I found was a unfocused, mundane, performatively progressive (but not actually progressive), non-horrific, sensationalizing novel. ![]() In short, the pioneers hungered for land, but the land turned that hunger into a real, tangible, horrifying weapon that almost completely destroyed them. Since I was also reading this as a potential case study for my PhD thesis about contemporary Euro-American depictions of Indigenous ghosts, I was also hoping that there would be some moments in the novel that used the story of the Donner Party as an allegory for the destruction that colonisers wrought upon Indigenous people, but with the horror mirrored back on the colonisers. What I hoped to get from this novel was a slow build of horror, much like what happened with the real Donner Party who seemed to run into misfortune after misfortune on the latter half of the trail. It certainly didn’t hurt that the promotional blurb on the front cover is from Stephen King, who states that the novel is, “Deeply, deeply disturbing.” As a historical fiction horror novel for young adults, The Hunger by Alma Katsu ticked almost all of my favourite boxes on a surface level. The concept of a horror story centered around the Donner Party is an incredibly good one, I think, and I have always been interested in the real Donner Party and have watched several documentaries, listened to podcasts, and read a book about their journey. I had some pretty high hopes for this novel. ![]() Content warnings: racism, colonisation, rape, incest, homophobia ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is where we see the worst of it - mild and implied violence, social ostracizing, mean talk, name calling, kids ganging up on the girl socially and verbally. The main substance of the book was the battle between the school's status-quo philosophy and the main character's determination to be independent. It was not dwelt on, nor was it a graphic or inappropriate description. There was a little bit of crude language, a mention of alcohol, a mention of making out, and one scene where the main boy and the main girl share a kiss. As such, there were a few more mature elements in the book, but most were generally mentioned in passing conversation or train-of-thought narrative. This book had a 4th grade reading level sticker on it in our school library, so I was surprised to find that the characters were juniors and seniors in high school. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bullying is not taken lightly parents would have spoken up years ago where I come from. I have a hard time believing that they simply let it be because it’s a “tradition”. ![]() I also kept wondering why the faculty had let this go on for so long, especially seeing the damage it does to the girls on it. We’ve got an eating disorder, overprotective mother, outcast rebel, and of course plenty or romantic issues all thoroughly interesting, some even deeply serious, but sadly most of these go unresolved leaving us with no idea of what’s going to happen to these girls. Each girl has their own personal problems above now having to deal with being the center of attention. With eight different points of view, we’re taken into each of the four ugliest, as well as the four prettiest girls’ lives spanning the week after being put on this List. You think being a “prettiest” would be easy? Think again!Īlthough The List addresses several teen issues throughout the story, it ended up being a much fluffier read than I expected. A light, quick read – The List follows eight girls who have been named ugliest or pretties on this “List” which has been posted around the school every year for decades. ![]() ![]() ![]() Discovering what raptors eat is an important part of confirming their feeding ecology and how this might change over time, vary on a local level or in response to changing prey populations, as well as dispelling myths and assumptions about what certain raptor species eat. Including over 100 species of bird and mammal prey of raptors such as sparrowhawks, peregrines and hen harriers, this photographic guide highlights the common feathers, fur and other body parts found at raptor nests, roosts, plucking posts and other opportunistic spots. Are you curious about the remains of an animal you have found? This compilation of the most likely found body parts of animals eaten by raptors will help you identify your discovery. ![]() ![]() ![]() The study authors seem to know why their work might be a tough sell in many newsrooms. You’ll find it mentioned in The Wall Street Journal, but only in an editorial. Inside Higher Ed covered it, but that probably doesn’t count as a major outlet. It’s encouraging news, but, as of this writing, I have found no major mainstream print outlet that covered the study as news. In other words, young women who aspire to work in the academic sciences can be reasonably sure they’ll be paid fairly. ![]() What accounts for the remaining disparity?Įven this 4% unexplained gender salary gap may be due to factors such as career discontinuities, less-aggressive salary negotiations, gender differences in seeking competing offers, and grant awards-and, importantly, may also be due to women’s lower overall productivity-rather than to overt gender bias. A gap remained, but it was smaller-just under 4 percent. Too often gender pay watchers fail to account for potentially confounding factors, factors that are often driven by choices workers make-like which fields to pursue or how many hours to work.Īfter accounting for various potential confounders, the authors' apples-to-apples analysis didn’t find an 18 percent salary gap. The authors note that “it is common to read that women earn only 82 cents for every dollar that men earn.”ĭisparities often look worse when you compare apples to oranges. ![]() ![]() ![]() I know a few people who have become "instafamous" and the following they get is incredible. I really liked the social media star aspect, because it is so common now a days. So not your typical meeting place that happens in typical romances. ![]() It was a great romance that began by staring at a stranger for 3 minutes. I found the idea of this book to be intriguingly different. With a push from her oldest friend, Allison embarks on a journey to find out if what she and Esben shared is the real thing-and if she can finally trust in herself, in others, and in love. When time is called, the intensity of the experience overwhelms Allison and Esben in a way that unnerves and electrifies them both. Neither she, nor Esben Baylor, the dreamy social media star seated opposite her, is prepared for the outcome. Suddenly, she finds herself in front of a crowd, forced to interact with a complete stranger for 180 seconds. One unsuspecting afternoon, Allison is roped into a social experiment just off campus. But as she begins her third year in college, she finds it increasingly difficult to disappear into the white noise pouring from her earbuds. Adopted at sixteen, she knows better than to believe in the permanence of anything. For Allison Dennis, all it takes is 180 seconds…Īfter a life spent bouncing from one foster home to the next, Allison is determined to keep others at arm’s length. Some people live their entire lives without changing their perspective. ![]() ![]() While it will never be published, it paved the way for her future career as an author. She wrote her first serious manuscript as a high school student when she ripped off a “Lord of the Rings” storyline. ![]() Neuhold first considered herself a writer when she started spending a lot of time in the study hall to write stories while she was in middle school. At some point, she realized that it was more fun to write down her day dreams than to simply have them run through her mind. ![]() In her childhood, she preferred to be left alone with her thoughts and it is from this period that she developed a knack for telling stories. But she soon got fed up with her day job and decided to try her hand at writing which is something she had always wanted to do ever since she was a child. She had always dreamed of becoming a veterinarian and she would go on to become a veterinary assistant for seven years. She went to UW Madison from where she graduated with a bachelor of science degree in Animal Science. ![]() KM Neuhold is a thirty year old mother, wife and dog mom that is best known as a gay romance and contemporary romance author. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1927, the 25-year-old Air Mail pilot from Detroit rose to fame, literally, when he flew the first nonstop solo trans-Atlantic flight. ![]() aviator, writer, activist and, sadly, anti-Semite. Let’s separate fact from fiction and explore the real historical figures and events behind “The Plot Against America,” with some help from the JTA archive. While “The Plot Against America” is a work of fiction, it features many real newsreels from the period and involves several true stories. The story follows the Jewish Levin family - young Philip, his brother Sandy and his parents, Bess and Herman - caught in an America that’s veering toward fascism, where anti-Semitism has become mainstream and commonplace. ![]() Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election and encourages anti-Semitic attitudes throughout the country. ![]() The eerily captivating series, which borrows details from the iconic Jewish author’s life and a crucial moment in American history, depicts an alternative reality in which isolationist Charles Lindbergh defeats Franklin D. ( JTA ) - The new TV show based on Philip Roth ‘s novel “The Plot Against America,” helmed by David Simon, the Jewish creator of “The Wire,” has premiered on HBO and made a splash with critics and fans. ![]() |
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