![]() ![]() ![]() This is a novel written by trans author Alex Gino and the title was just changed from George to Melissa earlier this year. ![]() This is a novel that shows how being different can make one person feel among other ‘normal’ people. This is a novel of differences, acceptance, and coming together. Over the course of this short novel, George tells her best friend Kelly who she actually is and that she wants to be Charlotte from Charlotte’s Web in the school play and Kelly is all for that! She has not told anyone who she really is, including her family. As the reader reads the novel, they see how George feels. George is in 4 th grade and though she physically looks like a boy, she knows in her heart that she is a girl. Not just so she can be Charlotte - but so everyone can know who she is, once and for all.įorget what you personally believe about transgender people, we need more books like this! Whether this will be a book for a transgender child to read, this book can be for everyone as it shows how one person who feels they are very different from others can be their own person. ![]() With the help of her best friend, Kelly, George comes up with a plan. But the teacher says she can’t even try out for the part. George really, really, REALLY wants to play Charlotte. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte’s Web. George thinks she’ll have to keep this a secret forever. When people look at George, they think they see a boy. ![]()
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Everything he writes about is profound, precise and invoiced: Liberty and the lack of it, hope and the lack of it, power and the lack of it, love and the terrible yearning that takes its place when the loved one has been taken away."-Arundhati Roy, "Remarkable. This is a book of controlled rage sculpted with tools of tenderness and a searing political vision. 'eoeJohnBerger has given us an exquisite thing. This is a book of controlledrage sculpted with tools of tenderness and a searing political vision. Everything he writes about is profound, precise and invoiced: Libertyand the lack of it, hope and the lack of it, power and the lack of it,love and the terrible yearning that takes its place when the loved onehas been taken away.'e�, "John Berger has given us an exquisite thing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She lived with Deken for nearly 30 years before her death on November 5, 1804. While living in Burgundy with Deken, Bekker was exposed to some of the dangers of the Revolution, and she is said to have escaped the guillotine only by her presence of mind. After Adriaan's death in 1777, Bekker began to write with her close companion Aagje Deken. Her writing debut in 1763 consisted of poetry of moral contemplation, though her later poetry became satirical. Born at Vlissingen, northern Netherlands, on Jdied in The Hague, on Novemmarried Adriaan Wolff (a Reformed cleric at Beemster), in 1759 (died 1777).ĭaughter of Calvinist merchants, Elizabeth "Betje" Bekker entered into a theoretical marriage with Adriaan Wolff, a vicar 31 years her senior. Name variations: Elisabeth Bekker Elizabeth Betjen Wolff Elizabeth Wolff-Bekker Betje Wolff. Bekker, Elizabeth (1738–1804)ĭutch novelist. ![]() Employed by the Bosch family, she was befriended by their daughter Maria Bosch the two wrote religious poetry together: Stichtelijke gedichten was published in 1775. Deken was orphaned at an early age and lived in an Amsterdam orphanage before becoming a servant and governess. Born in 1741 in the northern Netherlands died on November 14, 1804.īorn in the northern Netherlands in 1741, Aagje Deken would become a frequent collaborator with novelist Elizabeth Bekker on realistic stories of Dutch life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s it, Really? I got a sinking feeling reading this book that its a kind of ‘Stoicism’ for VC ’s in the Valley (see second quote below from my book notes) who think having lunch together is working. ![]() The other problem is that the advice is repetitive, never nuanced and a little shallow A good example was the story about Robin Hurricane Carter who went to prison unjustly and ‘didn’t eat prison food’ how the hell did he do that and stay alive then? The stories all too often fall down from lack of detail, context etc so they ended up feeling perfunctory. 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