![]() ![]() My partner’s job takes a lot of her time. My partner’s been at a birth for three days, and I’ve been minding children. Niko Stratis: It’s going well, how are you? ![]() Imogen Binnie: Hey, what’s happening? How’s it going? ![]() Note: This interview has been edited for clarity and length. And make notes in the margin, share those with a friend, or some newly realized trans woman in your life. Nevada is out now, and I cannot recommend enough that you read it. When it was announced Nevada would be getting a reissue in 2022, my mind immediately raced to the possibility I might get to chat with Binnie, who wrote the book that helped me feel seen as a trans woman when nothing else did, if I played my cards right. Nevada has been out of print for a number of years, and a lot of us who have read it have done so on the graces of an older trans somewhere, passing us a copy and telling us to read it. It’s unapologetic, messy, funny, heartbreaking, frustrating - and when it’s over, you want to talk about it with everyone. I think I’ve waited my whole trans career to talk to Imogen Binnie, who wrote Nevada, a seminal novel originally published in 2013 about being a trans woman.
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![]() ![]() Published between 20, the series features the adventures of protagonist Sapphire and her brother Conor, whose father mysteriously disappears at the start of the first book. They’re children’s books by the acclaimed late British poet and novelist Helen Dunmore, set in the rocky cliffs and azure sea of Cornwall in the southern part of Great Britain. The Ingo series has four books – Ingo, The Tide Knot, The Deep, and The Crossing of Ingo, with a standalone addition, Stormswept, published later with different characters. ![]() I’m rereading these children’s books in the sticky Auckland summer, diving into their ocean of adventure where it’s possible to breathe underwater and you can ride ocean currents like a rollercoaster. The spines of Helen Dunmore’s Ingo books, a collection of differently sized editions, make clear lines of blue and purple and green. Shanti Mathias explores what the quartet of underwater adventure novels meant to her childhood self, and what they mean to her now. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though it never attained name recognition in the United States, Momo is a classic in Ende’s home country and in much of Europe. Americans might be more familiar with the tale’s German author, Michael Ende, via his book The Neverending Story, which was made into the cult 1984 film of the same name. ![]() That’s the premise of the strange but beautiful children’s fantasy novel Momo, which was published 45 years ago. But what if the seconds, minutes, and hours of the day could be stolen away? And what if everyone was too busy to notice? In other childhood tales, time is a barrier to be broken, or a hidden door to another world. In Madeleine L’Engle’s beloved novel A Wrinkle in Time-whose long-awaited film adaptation hit theaters Friday-time can be bent (or tessered) to allow mortals to travel the universe at great speeds. But literature for young readers often handles the concept with a greater sense of imagination and possibility. From an early age, many children learn that time is precious, before growing into adults who see it as a commodity to be managed at all costs. ![]() ![]() Poirot has aged and the world has changed quickly around him. In the midst of this we find Hercule Poirot and his little grey cells. This time it is the 1930s a divided country where suspicion and hatred are on the rise, and the gap between wealth and poverty is great and growing greater. In her fourth Agatha Christie adaptation in conjunction with Agatha Christie Limited and Mammoth Screen, BAFTA nominated writer Sarah Phelps continues to explore the 20th century through the work of Britain’s greatest crime writer. If Poirot is to match his most cunning nemesis everything about him will be called into question his authority, his integrity, his past, his identity. As Poirot attempts to investigate he is thwarted on every front by a police force that no longer trusts him, a public that no longer adores him, and an enemy determined to outsmart him. ![]() They strike in a methodical pattern and leave a copy of the ABC railway guide at the scene of each of murder. ![]() The year is 1933 and a killer stalks Britain, known only as A.B.C. ![]() Widely regarded as one of Agatha Christie’s best mysteries, The ABC Murders is one of the most surprising and unusual appearances by literature’s most famous detective. Poirot returns in a new adaptation of one of his most exhilarating cases. ![]() ![]() ![]() New evidence, including testimonies of courageous priests, rapacious merchants, Indian captives, and Anglo colonists, sheds light too on Indian enslavement of other Indians - as what started as a European business passed into the hands of indigenous operators and spread like wildfire across vast tracts of the American Southwest. Reséndez builds the incisive case that it was mass slavery, more than epidemics, that decimated Indian populations across North America. There was no abolitionist movement to protect the tens of thousands of natives who were kidnapped and enslaved by the conquistadors, then forced to descend into the "mouth of hell" of 18th-century silver mines or, later, made to serve as domestics for Mormon settlers and rich Anglos. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in his myth-shattering The Other Slavery, it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. A landmark history - the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors up to the early 20th century. ![]() ![]() (Possible spoilers in the review please make sure to read the books before reading this review. This is my last chance, and I have no intention of losing her again, but as the deception of my past starts to unravel and close in, shedding my humanity may be the only thing that can save us both. ![]() With the lies I’ve told, the life I’ve led, my mistakes are beginning to catch up with me, day by day, one by one. Yet, she demands it still, the useless heart of the ruthless thief and shameless villain she fell for. Until she unearthed the starving vessel inside, forced me to acknowledge it, forced me to understand that I’m capable of bleeding the same as any other. ![]() Through the years, I lived more as an enigma than a man.įor so long, I denied I had a beating heart of my own. I’ve lived the entirety of my life wrapped up in subterfuge for one purpose-revenge. Published by Self-Published on January 27, 2021 ![]() ![]() ![]() Because it is all he has ever known, Jack believes that only Room and the things it contains (including himself and Ma) are "real." Ma, unwilling to disappoint Jack with a life she cannot give him, allows Jack to believe that the rest of the world exists only on television. The film was a critical and commercial success it received four nominations at the 88th Academy Awards including for Best Picture, and won Best Actress for Larson.įive-year old Jack lives with his 27-year old Ma in "Room", a secured single-room outbuilding containing a small kitchen, a basic bathroom, a wardrobe, a bed, and a TV set. The film adaptation, also titled Room, was released in October 2015, starring Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2010, and was shortlisted for the 2010 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the 2010 Governor General's Awards. ![]() The novel was longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize and won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize regional prize (Caribbean and Canada). Donoghue conceived the story after hearing about five-year-old Felix in the Fritzl case. ![]() ![]() The story is told from the perspective of a five-year-old boy, Jack, who is being held captive in a small room along with his mother. Room is a 2010 novel by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue. ![]() ![]() ![]() It also addresses bullying, regrets, and mental health. ![]() This is a story that addresses a wide variety of family dynamics, including questions about transgender behaviors and feelings. But sometimes it's important to peel back the emotional "onion layers" and see more than what's visible on the surface. They know practically nothing about Patrick, except how gruff he seems. But one day his ability to properly care for them is questioned and so they're eventually sent to live with their Uncle Patrick. After their mother dies they are sent to live with their Uncle Carl, who loves them deeply. And this is particularly the case since Birdie tends to be bullied due to his creative, colorful clothing. Jack is the mature older sister always seeking to protect her little brother. This tenderhearted story is of Jack and Birdie, two siblings who recently lost their mother. ![]() ![]() ![]() Green introduces Hazel's world to the reader through a trip to Support Group. The night that Hazel and Augustus go to Oranjee, Hazel thinks and converses at length about the canals, pedestrians, petal "confetti" (p.163) in the air, the slow descent of the sun, the "bottled stars" (p.163) of champagne, and more, creating a rich and welcoming background for some of the difficult scenes at this turning point in the book. Now that they are able to take the trip, Hazel shows a first look at Amsterdam to the reader with amazing imagery. Neither Hazel or Augustus have had the ability to travel much, as both were diagnosed with cancer in their early adolescence which saps away the ability to go far from one's doctors and much of the funds of a family. Even more than hurting people after you're gone, as Hazel fears, Caroline's case personifies the hurting of people before you go. Imagery of what cancer can do to a person is, obviously, rampant in The Fault in Our Stars, but Caroline's case is perhaps more gruesome than any of the other cases of cancer in the book because of its influence over her emotions, personality, and relationships. ![]() Even with this limited information, Green creates a terrifying, enthralling, and tragic image of Caroline. ![]() The character Caroline, Augustus's prior girlfriend who died of a brain tumor that changed her personality and ability to control her emotions as her illness progressed, is formed entirely from a few conversations between Augustus and Hazel and what Hazel is able to read publicly on Facebook. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, it was super to see Simon Brewer of Bridgewater and Taunton College again and to be introduced to Justin Olosunde FRGS – hearing all about the intense workforce mapping and planning to maximise regional skills impacts. Arwyn Williams and William Bateman, we look forward to welcoming your college team to the Equinor Great Yarmouth O&M base and a visit to East Coast College (courtesy of the amazing Rachel Bunn) in May. The tour of Pembrokeshire College was inspiring (especially the Welding and Fabrication Centre of Excellence, but also the beautiful Biology Labs!) and we witnessed first-hand the emerging regional collaboration opportunities already taking shape. ![]() Collaboration across and beyond the Celtic Sea region to develop experience and enable knowledge transfer was certainly a theme we heard repeated – whoever we engaged with. Reflecting on our Equinor Celtic Sea Supply Chain and Skills programme at the Bridge Innovation Centre, Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire and the National Maritime Centre in Falmouth, Cornwall last week - it was tremendous to appreciate the immense body of experience gearing up to the Floating Offshore Wind (FLOW) opportunities in the Region.įollowing presentations on Equinor and FLOW, an insight into potential supply chain opportunities and sessions on business support/innovation from our ORE Catapult colleagues, Nanna Aaserød and I led the Skills-related presentation and ‘Knowledge Café’. ![]() |