by How to withdraw PPF by legal heirs but not nominee? By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 18:56:17 GMT Hello Sir,some years ago, my brother committed suicide and died. He had a PPF account which i recently discovered.I found nominee details thru net banking. The name registered as Nominee doesn't even exist and we don't even know anyone with that name. Now what is the procedure to withdrawal funds? Full Article
by Clinton Leads Trump By 2 Points: Poll By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is leading Republican rival Donald Trump by 2 percentage points among likely voters, according to a national Fox News poll. Full Article
by U.S. Presidential Elections: Hillary Clinton Leading Donald Trump By Four Points Says, Poll By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton leads her Republican rival Donald Trump by 4% points, a latest national opinion poll said on Sunday, two days ahead of the crucial US general elections. Full Article
by Bobby Jindal Among Probables In U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump's Cabinet By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Two-term Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, the first ever Indian-American to be elected as a state Governor, is among the shortlisted candidates for Trump's Cabinet, according to a media report. Full Article
by Future Jobs To Be Driven By Digital Tech By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Automation and digital technologies will drive jobs of the future even as they cannibalise conventional employment while creating a large number of new opportunities, says biotech entrepreneur Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw. Full Article
by Hiring By Top 4 Indian IT Companies Dips 43 Pct In Sep Quarter: Report By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Total hiring by top-four Indian IT companies in the September quarter stood at 14,421, a decline of 43 pct from a year-ago period, mainly due to a slowdown in growth of these companies, says a report. Full Article
by Auto Sector Can Generate 6.5 Cr New Jobs By 2026: Maruti Suzuki By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Indian automobile industry can contribute over 12 pct to the country's gross domestic product (GDP) and generate around 6.5 crore additional jobs over the next decade, a top Maruti Suzuki India official said on Wednesday. Full Article
by Project Mgr-NPD/Process Engg-Ludhiana (Hot Forged/Steel & Alloy Parts by Progrssive & Tansfer Dies) By jobs.monsterindia.com Published On :: 2019-11-28 16:32:50 Company: P & I Management ConsultantsExperience: 0 to 50location: IndiaRef: 24341084Summary: Job Description: New Product & Process Development Engineer/Project Manager-Ludhiana must have: 1. Knowledge and ability to develop new products and process of hot forged Steel and Alloy components 2. Knowledge and ability to.... Full Article
by Sales Executive Bathroom Fittings- Jaipur (3 yrs exp in CP Bath Fittings by MP Dealers/Distributors) By jobs.monsterindia.com Published On :: 2020-04-07 23:04:51 Company: P & I Management ConsultantsExperience: 0 to 50location: Jaipur, IndiaRef: 24792528Summary: Job Description: Job Description 1) Should have knowledge and confidence to appoint Sub Dealers/dealers/distributors and to represent before Architects and Builders. 2)To achieve targeted top-line and bottom line.... Full Article
by It’s not just Richard Branson’s businesses that are hurt by lockdown By www.ft.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 12:00:08 GMT Crisis has exposed the dissonance between the tycoon’s public image and reality Full Article
by Rugby has plan 'to AXE six games' and midweek matches seem likely By Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 23:03:32 +0100 EXCLUSIVE BY NIK SIMON: Premiership clubs are working towards six different return-to-play scenarios and could cancel six rounds of fixtures to salvage the 2019-20 season. Full Article
by Man at anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne is dragged to the ground by police while his kids cry By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 15:59:02 GMT The father was dragged to the ground by police while his two distressed toddlers watched on at a tense anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne on Sunday. Full Article
by Christian Eriksen is living at training ground, running in car park and was told off by police By Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 01:53:48 +0100 Inter Milan new boy Christian Eriksen has revealed that the coronavirus pandemic has caused him a personal nightmare since his move from Tottenham in January. Full Article
by April power bills can be paid by May 30 in Gujarat By timesofindia.indiatimes.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 04:38:00 IST The deadline for payment of electricity bills for March-April has been extended till May 30, the state government took the decision on Saturday. This is for power customers of all electricity distribution companies in the state. Full Article
by Crop loan NPAs rose by 3.2% in Gujarat: SLBC By timesofindia.indiatimes.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 11:13:45 IST Thanks to the unseasonal rain around Diwali, the extended monsoon and growing debt of farmers, non-performing assets (NPAs) among crop loans in Gujarat rose marginally by 3.2% in the third quarter of 2019-20. Full Article
by Gold Prices Fall On Global Cues; Prices To Jump To Rs. 51000 Per 10 gm By Aug-Sept By www.goodreturns.in Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 09:57:24 +0530 Gold prices in trade today inched lower on cues from global rates. On the MCX, gold futures price for delivery in June declined by 0.24% or Rs. 111 to Rs. 46050.00 per 10 gm. On Thursday, on weak economic data, gold Full Article
by Govt Prepared To Restart Passenger Airlines; Domestic Flights May Resume By 15 May By www.goodreturns.in Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 17:39:04 +0530 Union Minister of Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri was interviewed by some media channels this week wherein he spoke of the preparedness from the ministry's side on restarting operations for passengers, however, there will be changes to the way people travel Full Article
by Govt Prepared To Restart Passenger Airlines; Domestic Flights May Resume By 15 May By www.goodreturns.in Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 17:39:04 +0530 Union Minister of Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri was interviewed by some media channels this week wherein he spoke of the preparedness from the ministry's side on restarting operations for passengers, however, there will be changes to the way people travel Full Article
by Priyanka Chopra Gets A Makeover By A Very Special Make-up Artist By www.boldsky.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 11:40:37 +0530 Priyanka Chopra has been spending the quarantine time with her husband, Nick Jonas and their two adorable dogs. And with a very special and curious make-up artist. The first Monday of May is the Met Gala day and the event, Full Article
by Alia Bhatt’s Sabyasachi Saree Worn By This Bride-To-Be in Canada! By www.boldsky.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 18:31:47 +0530 Alia Bhatt's traditional outfits have been aced by a number of brides. Recently, her Sabyasachi saree also inspired a bride-to-be. Sonia Wahlla wore the same Sabyasachi saree for her pre-engagement celebration in Vancouver, Canada. She looked elegant and let's Full Article
by Health Issues Caused By Eating Disorders By www.boldsky.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 18:00:03 +0530 Eating disorders are serious conditions that are characterized by irregular eating habits and severe distress about one's body weight or shape. It not only affects one's physical health but their mental health [1]. Eating disorders are complex mental health conditions Full Article
by Musical and socio-cultural anecdotes from Kitāb al-aghānī al-kabīr: annotated translations and commentaries / by George Dimitri Sawa By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 07:43:52 EDT Rotch Library - ML189.M87 2019 Full Article
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by Union Minister Babul Supriyo booked by Kolkata police for sharing fake picture on Twitter By www.dnaindia.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 10:59:00 GMT Supriyo has shared the picture on May 8, claiming that if Sinha and Banerjee are together then it "raises many questions". Full Article India
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by Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo By guyslitwire.blogspot.com Published On :: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:41:00 +0000 When her big chance comes, however, she throws it all away to rescue a teenager drowning off the coast of her island home.Interacting with a human is strictly forbidden in Diana's culture, let alone saving one and hiding them in a cave. This, however is no ordinary human. Her name is Alia and unbeknownst to her she is a Warbringer, someone who may be responsible for the greatest war ever to befall the human race.Using a controversial myth as a guide, Alia and Diana set off to end the curse that Alia has become convinced she carries. she does her best to stand out.Full of action, sarcastic wit and strong female characters, Wonder Woman: Warbringer is a great teen read for anyone who loves superhero backstories. Bardugo has created a character with real depth that flies off the page, highly recommend this! Diana is desperate to prove herself. Surrounded by warriors who make every feat of strength and agility look like a cake walk, Full Article Digging the Classics Flying Cars and Lost Cities Science Fiction Superheroes Survival
by Backbiters by Debra Leea Glasheen By guyslitwire.blogspot.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 13:00:00 +0000 Guiluli is a Red Mighty, a mutation of humans born from the Corporate World War. After 54 years of existence, Pre-ev (non mutated) humans still don't much like the Red Mighties and as a result, the Red Mighties have created their own Nationland.Despite all of the world's natural resources being either consumed or poisoned by the war, the Nationland has cleaned up its land, so they have pure water and soil free of contaminants in which to grow food. Yet another reason for those off the Nationland to dislike the Red Mighties.I like the idea of the evolved/mutated species emerging from a human race destroyed by its own vices and desires. It seems that hominids may be ripe for another evolutionary step, after all we have been homo sapiens for a while now. Maybe this is the next step.This is an interesting twist on a typical dystopian novel in that I feel there is way more hope of a future that isn't just trying to exist day to day but actually thrive as a civilization. The possibility of cleaning up what we have destroyed. Backbiters is a great read for those that enjoyed the Hunger Games, Divergent, Not a Drop to Drink. Full Article dystopian
by Turtles All the Way Down by John Green By guyslitwire.blogspot.com Published On :: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 16:01:00 +0000 This book. This book is grounded inside its main character's mind and body in an almost visceral way, and if you've ever had a "crazy" friend--and who hasn't, but I mean one who is actually diagnosed with anxiety disorder and/or OCD--even though this book is entertaining and wonderful and all the things good fiction should be, it will help you to "get" them in a way they might not have been able to articulate to you. Aza is the star of the show. Or maybe she's not. She's so stuck inside her head, where twisty thoughts and logic have her spinning about the bacteria in her body and how it might just take over and kill her, that maybe she's the victim. Worse, maybe she is the bad guy. And the victim. And the star. Life is complicated.Aza is lucky in that she has a best friend, Daisy. Daisy, who talks all. the. time. but who sticks by Aza even though Aza isn't easy to stick by. So when Daisy suggests that she and Aza make like Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden to solve the mystery of the missing billionaire, Aza goes along with it. Things happen. So many things. And I don't want to talk about any of them, really, because it would spoil this book, which unspools almost magically. It starts from a very clenched place and almost literally unwinds to a a better stasis. Read it. Read it to find out what role Aza plays in her own life. To see if she can find her way out of her own head, at least a little. And to find out what the title means: "turtles all the way down." So yeah - consider this review the equivalent of me standing next to you, shoving this book into your hands, making almost uncomfortable levels of eye contact while imploring you to read it.But really. Read it. Full Article Everyone's Got Issues First Love Keeping You On the Edge of Your Seat Mysteries
by Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham By guyslitwire.blogspot.com Published On :: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 16:00:00 +0000 Mark Twain famously said (or, more likely, famously didn’t say), “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” This truth is made clear in Jennifer Latham’s searing young adult novel, Dreamland. What rhymes with all too much clarity in Latham’s story is how our nation continues to fall far short of its aspirational tale of freedom and justice for all. Dreamland is the tale of one city in two different time periods, one historical and one present-day. That city is Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the historical time period is one that has been whitewashed out of too many history books.In 1921, the city of Tulsa contained a thriving African-American community known as Greenwood. Though Greenwood thrived commercially and culturally, its residents still knew what it was to be the “other.” Will Tillman also knows something of what it means to be “other,” as he is the biracial teenage son of a white father and a mother who is a full-blooded member of the Osage Nation. Working for his father brings Will into contact with the African-American community, albeit in quiet defiance of Jim Crow laws. But his work also brings Will into contact with other members of Tulsa’s white business community, members eager to bring the noxious ideals of the Klan to the forefront of Tulsa’s civic life. Students of history will already know what happened in Tulsa in 1921, but even they will benefit from the historical detail Latham includes in her fictional narrative. What happened in the city remains a national shame, while what happens to Will Tillman and Latham's other characters in 1921 remains a mystery.In present-day Tulsa, Rowan Chase, herself a biracial teenager with an African-American mother and a white father, finds herself connected to this deadly mystery when the renovation of her family’s home uncovers a skeleton. While Rowan and her friend James seek historical answers, the present starts rhyming in ominous ways, and Rowan is forced to confront the racial tensions that still exist in Tulsa and elsewhere in our nation.Skillfully switching chapters, narrators, and time eras, Latham convincingly demonstrates how American carnage is not a new phenomenon. The means and methods may have changed, but the racial injustice remains. Latham also convincingly shows how individual acts of courage and conscience can lead to larger positive cultural change, however slow and halting that change may be. Novels matter—just because they aren't "true" doesn't mean they aren't truth. And novels like Dreamland push history to rhyme on the truths rather than the myths, helping the arc of justice straighten and move forward, . As Rowan says early in the novel, the stories are there to be told—we just need the living to listen. Dreamland is a story well worth listening to. Full Article Historical Fiction History Matters Mysteries The Way We Live
by Nyxia by Scott Reintgen By guyslitwire.blogspot.com Published On :: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 15:57:00 +0000 Emmett is a humble teen from Detroit. His family has been downtrodden for generations, working menial jobs after menial jobs and he isn't showing much to prove that he can break the cycle that has plagued his family.One day however, he gets a chance to go to a strange planet to work with an alien people called Adamites. However, there's a catch- he is going to have to compete for his spot against teens from around the world each as hungry as he is to make the cut. Babel, the company who is sponsoring the trip promises a big payout if they can succeed.Thus begins a gauntlet of events in groups and alone that sees the teens become hardened and their skills improve. The group has many distinct personalities some of which don't mesh and the inevitable conflicts arise.The tasks the kids are asked to do test their limits in many ways but perhaps the most difficult is manipulating the alien substance, nyxia. For some reason the substance also reminded me of the alien symbiote that Spiderman encountered in his whole Venom story arc because soon the line between manipulator and that which is being manipulated becomes blurred.Babel is a mysterious company and the folks in charge seem to have a ton of secrets themselves. There definitely seems to be some larger plan in place-the reason the kids have been recruited is because the Adamites like children. I can't wait to see what else is in store for Emmett on Eden. Some read alikes to this book are the Maze Runner series and Philip Reeve's Railhead. Full Article Keeping You On the Edge of Your Seat Pure Science Science Fiction
by The Extinction Trials by S.M. Wilson By guyslitwire.blogspot.com Published On :: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 19:44:00 +0000 Stormchaser is a teen who lives in a world ravaged by hunger and disease. Food is scarce, and an illness that starts with the blistering and peeling of one's skin soon leads to death. In her world, a few dinosaurs still exist. Stormchaser has befriended a plesiosaur she's named Milo. This is a secret she must guard closely because dinosaurs are universally hated.When the Trials are announced, Stormchaser enters on a whim; she doesn't have a family, doesn't have anyone dying from the plague like the others.The contest is a deadly one: enter the area of the world known as Piloria, where the dinosaurs are abundant, and retrieve as many dinosaur eggs as possible. The winner will receive health care and food, two things essential in order to survive their daily nightmare.She's joined on the Trials by Lincoln and Leif, two boys with a lot on the line. As the competition heats up, they must learn to trust each other if they're going to avoid being eaten alive. But as Stormchaser soon learns, you can't really trust anyone in the Extinction Trials and what she finds hiding under the surface of Piloria will change her life forever.The Extinction Trials is a super fast action adventure that anyone looking for a strong female hero will love. It's got elements of The Hunger Games without a doubt, and that's a good thing because it means it will make my job as a School Librarian all the easier when I promote this book in the coming weeks. And promote it I shall, because it's got some great scenes, fully realised characters and a ton of action. Highly recommended, can't wait for the sequel! Full Article dystopian Everyone's Got Issues Flying Cars and Lost Cities Science Fiction The Great Outdoors
by Disappeared by Francisco X. Stork By guyslitwire.blogspot.com Published On :: Sat, 09 Dec 2017 00:03:00 +0000 Sara is a journalist who wholeheartedly throws herself into her work as a journalist for a newspaper in Juarez. Mexico however is a country where journalists sometimes do their work under threats to themselves and their families and going to the police is not always a good idea. Sara soon finds that if she wants to pursue this particular story she could be putting the lives of herself, her younger brother Emiiano and their mother in danger.Emiliano is a soccer star at his high school and in addition to this he is also a member of a school group called Jiparis who do hikes through the desert in order to build character in the young men, some of whom were involved in unsavory activities before joining the group.One part of the Jipari pledge goes , "I will be honest with myself and others". This is easier said than done especially in a city like Juarez. One of the characters tells Emiliano, "everything is a spiderweb" and the speed with which he is enveloped in said web is astounding. Emiliano tells himself that he wants to help his family and friends out but are those his real reasons? Like any teen he wants to be seen as cool and there is also the small matter of a girl he wants to impress.The first part of the book is told from each character's viewpoint and the author weaves the tale together in a very credible way showing how circumstancesMake no mistake, Disappeared is not a peaches and cream, hunky dory teen novel. It is a gritty and very realistic novel with a ripped from the headlines quality to it. The city of Juarez and the violence there doesn't dominate the headlines as it did a few years ago, but Stork's novel is a timely reminder that evil still exists and that it takes many people working in tandem to defeat it. Full Article Everyone's Got Issues
by The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz By guyslitwire.blogspot.com Published On :: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 17:00:00 +0000 Lyrical, visceral, and wise, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz haunts the melancholy middle between heartbreak and hope.Salvador confronts his senior year and the anxiety that accompanies this countdown to supposed independence—questions of college and new beginnings and one’s true place in this world. Add to these the accumulating stressors particular to Sal’s life: homophobic slurs against his openly gay adopted father, feeling Mexican-American but looking white, the deteriorating health of his beloved grandmother Mimi, the deteriorating home life of his friend Fito, the devastating loss experienced by his best friend Samantha. Not surprisingly, Sal finds himself greeting more days with fists and tears. Sal desperately wants to find himself in the larger sense, but as Sáenz deftly demonstrates in this young adult novel, all growth is loss—a truth that can make growth a daunting task.With one of many eloquent words of wisdom, Sal’s father tells him early on we must “find a way to discipline our hearts so that their cruelty doesn’t turn us into hurt animals” (13). But how do we discipline our hearts without hardening them? How do we fight the darkness without devolving into darkness ourselves?In Sal’s case, he scrapes together every illuminating spark: the tenacity of Fito, the loyalty of Sam, the grace of his father, the serenity of his grandmother. And through the spark of The Inexplicable Logic of My Life and Sáenz’s luminous prose, we learn anew how family is forged by more than blood—and though who we are is our life’s work, identity is never a solitary act. Full Article Everyone's Got Issues The Way We Live
by Kick by Mitch Johnson By guyslitwire.blogspot.com Published On :: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 18:26:00 +0000 Budi has a plan. He wants to be a football star like his hero Kieran Wakefield. When Budi's a star he won't have to work in the sweatshop anymore. He won't have to be beaten by his foreman when he doesn't work fast enough or makes mistakes. Most of all, he'll be able to pay for his Grandma's medication and move his family into a neighbourhood that isn't crawling with poverty, sickness and addiction.This is Budi's life, yet he doesn't stop dreaming.Then one evening when Budi and his friends are in the street playing football, he accidentally kicks the ball into the home of The Dragon, the most dangerous man in Jakarta. The Dragon is angry, and tells Budi to do some dirty work for him. If he refuses, The Dragon will use his influence with the police department and make life even worse for him and his parents. Caught in an impossible situation, Budi is forced figure out a plan if he's going to protect the ones he loves. This is a great book, and an important one. I've already written a blog post on it discussing how attractive it is for reluctant and struggling readers which you can read here. Full Article Get Your Game On Real Lives
by The Disappearances by Emily Bain Murphy By guyslitwire.blogspot.com Published On :: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 15:00:00 +0000 From my recent Locus review of The Disappearances, a WW2 era fantasy that includes a curse, a literary mystery, some grave robbing, and the disappearance of the stars:Initially, Emily Bain Murphy’sThe Disappearances reads as straightforward historical fiction. It’s 1942 and teenage Aila is facing the stark reality of life in the wake of her mother’s recent death. To make matters worse, her father is off to the war in the Pacific and she and her younger brother Miles must go live with their mother’s oldest friend in Sterling, Connecticut, where she grew up. Aila knows very little about her mother’s childhood but is resigned to doing her best to fit in. Readers will feel immediate empathy for these children and their predicament but likely expect little in the way of fantasy from reading the first few pages. Then Aila and Miles arrive in their new home with the Clifton family and, in spite of the pouring rain that greets them, Aila is stunned to notice that Matilda Clifton remains completely dry. Clearly, everything in the seemingly dull town of Sterling is not as it appears. Highly recommended for those who like to see how things used to be done (before cell phones which would have made a lot of the clue-following in this book a lot easier!) and as a reminder that sometimes nothing beats hitting the library. (Cue relevant Doctor Who quote here!) Full Article Fantasy Historical Fiction Mysteries
by Black Light Express by Phillip Reeve By guyslitwire.blogspot.com Published On :: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 15:30:00 +0000 From my recent review of Black Light Express for Locus:Philip Reeve’s absolutely incredible world building again takes center stage in Black Light Express, the sequel to Railhead. The second book picks up soon after the events that brought Railhead to a stunning close, with former thief and unwitting catalyst Zen Starling having fled the Network Empire along with Nova, his android girlfriend. Meanwhile, completely against her will, Threnrody Noon, the Paris Hilton of the empire-controlling Noon family, has assumed the position of Empress. She is only a pawn of more powerful interests however and virtually trapped in the palace attending a haze of pointless engagements while her former fiance, Kobi, is on the other side of the galaxy about to be forced into a corporate approved marriage with someone he has never met. Basically, the fallout from Railhead is reverberating across all the lives of the major characters while, unknown to them, it’s about to get a lot lot worse. What Black Light Express (and the first book, Railhead), offers readers is sentient trains, a vapid rich girl who decides she doesn't want to be a pawn anymore, political machinations, alien technology, aliens, dinosaur-descended aliens, human-android romance, the fact that the human-android romance is the best kind of romance, more stupid rich people, the satisfaction of rich people losing because they are stupid, a protagonist who is smart and scrappy and more than willing to walk on the wrong side of the law because playing by the rules gets you only so far (and those rich jerks are the ones who wrote the rules in the first place).Oh - and a train is killed and that is far more upsetting than you would think. As I wrote in my review, I'm really surprised that these books are not more well known. They are excellent SF (which is not too common in the YA literary world) as well as being excellent political mirrors for much of modern society. Check them out! Full Article Science Fiction
by Dear Martin by Nic Stone By guyslitwire.blogspot.com Published On :: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:00:00 +0000 Lots of authors are publishing gritty, raw stories grounded in current events and this book by Nic Stone is another that falls into this category. The young man on the cover bears an uncanny resemblance to Trayvon Martin what with the hoody and all. Also on the cover is a quote from author Jason Reynolds proclaiming the novel to be "raw and gripping". That quote alone was enough to make me pick this book up as it will for many readers, I am sure.Justyce is bright, articulate and for the most part just a regular high school kid trying to make it to graduation and then make his way to a prestigious college if all goes well. In the novel's intro we meet him trying to do right by his on again, off again girlfriend Melo who is about to make a bad decision. His actions are somehow misconstrued by a passing police officer and before he knows it Justyce ends up face down with a face full of asphalt. This is only the precursor to what is destined to be an eventful Senior year to say the least.As it so happens Justyce's grades have allowed him to gain entry to one of Atlanta's most prestigious private schools where seemingly every teacher has at least three degrees. Most of the students are bright, many come from well to do families such as his best friend Manny whose parents are successful professionals. As you would expect, the campus is not very diverse and some of the students display white privilege (perhaps a bit too predictably by lamenting the fact that minorities have it "easy") Justyce's way of dealing with the many, many changes occurring in his life is to write letters to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He's studied the Civil Rights leader's speeches in class and is trying to reconcile the words and the values espoused therein with the realities of daily life. As if that isn't complicated enough, there is also the not so small matter of the evolving relationship with his debate partner SJ.I've read The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas and All-American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely and this novel is just as gripping, timely and relevant. Stone does a great job balancing the heavy stuff with some touchy feely stuff so it isn't too hard to digest. Well worth a read. Full Article Everyone's Got Issues First Love
by Saying Goodbye to Guys Lit Wire By guyslitwire.blogspot.com Published On :: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 14:30:00 +0000 This is the final post for Guys Lit Wire.We started this site many years ago (I'm honestly afraid to even see how many years), after an online discussion about how teenage boys seemed less willing to browse for books they wanted than teenage girls. (The argument being that if the guys had more easy to find recommendations, they would read more but when they didn't know how to find books on subjects they liked, they just gave up looking.)So that was what we set out to do (as evident from the site's name): recommend some books that we thought teenage boys would like. This often meant books from a boy POV, or graphic novels that might lure in reluctant readers, or nonfiction that might appeal to specific audiences that don't read a lot but like certain subjects. What all of these books had in common is that one of our many contributors thought it was a good book and deserved some more attention from readers who would probably love it if they knew about it. We certainly hope that all kinds of kids and teens (boys and girls) have picked up a book because of something we posted here.Beyond that, we also supported several schools and organizations devoted to getting books into the hands of kids who needed them via underfunded library shelves. Cumulatively, over 10,000 books have been bought & shipped due to our efforts. Most recently, for Ballou Sr High School in Washington DC, over 200 books were bought off their wish list by our readers and sent their way at the end of 2017. Support for the Annual Book Fair for Ballou will continue, as I take those posts over to my site, Chasing Ray, and continue to host the book fair there. Please follow me on twitter, (@chasingray), for updates on that effort.Personally, Sarah Stevenson & I would like to thank everyone who was with us on this ride. We are both writing much more heavily now on our own projects and bring an end to GLW with a heavy but grateful heart. Simply put, it is time. All of us at the site are confident however that we accomplished far more here than we ever thought possible. The archives will remain live and there are a ton of great book recommendations to peruse; be sure to check them out. Sincerely,Colleen Mondor & Sarah StevensonJanuary, 2018 Full Article GLW General Information