![]() ![]() Chua wrote of how when Lulu was 4, she rejected her daughter’s homemade birthday card for looking sloppy. The girls’ childhoods included a total ban on TV-watching, play dates and sleepovers. Courtesy of the familyĬhua detailed her strict “tiger mom” parenting tactics with her two daughters, Lulu, a rebellious violin prodigy, and Lulu’s older sister, overachiever Sophia, who was a Harvard-bound high school senior when the book came out. Seven years ago, Lulu was a 14-year-old high school freshman at the Hopkins School in New Haven, Conn., when her mom, Amy Chua, published her incendiary, best-selling 2011 memoir, “ Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.” Lulu (center, at her high school graduation with mom Amy Chua and dad Jed Rubenfeld) says Harvard wasn’t so hard. “I don’t slack - and that’s part of Tiger Mom.” But I can’t just blow off a paper,” says the bubbly 22-year-old Harvard senior. “If I could be the kind of person who could let loose, I would. Lulu Chua-Rubenfeld, on the other hand, just completed a 90-page thesis on Jewish-American identity in early 20th century New York and a 10-page paper on the Shah of Iran. Some second-semester college seniors are content to phone it in. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I received a copy of Straight On Til Morning from Scholastic Books Australia in exchange for an honest review, all thoughts are my own. Unexpected dangers and strange foes pop up at every turn, and a little pixie named Tinker Bell seems less than willing to help.īut when Captain Hook reveals some rather permanent and evil plans for Never Land, it’s up to the two of them to save Peter Pan-and his world. But Never Land isn’t quite the place she imagined it would be. So when an opportunity to travel to Never Land via pirate ship presents itself, Wendy makes a deal with the devil. After nearly meeting her hero, Peter Pan, four years earlier, she still holds on to the childhood hope that his magical home truly exists. Wendy’s only real escape is in writing down tales of Never Land. The doldrums of an empty house after her brothers have gone to school, the dull parties where everyone thinks she talks too much, and the fact that her parents have decided to send her away to Ireland as a governess-it all makes her wish things could be different. ![]() Sixteen-year-old Wendy Darling’s life is not what she imagined it would be. What if Wendy first traveled to Neverland… with Captain Hook? ![]() ![]() ![]() The Younger family is waiting for a $10,000 life insurance check resulting from the father’s recent death. Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun is set in a one-bedroom apartment shared by three generations of the Younger family: Walter and Ruth, their son Travis, Walter’s sister Beneatha, and their mother Lena. Just months before her untimely death, the playwright and activist spoke out against how little society had changed: “the problem is that Negroes are just as segregated in the city of Chicago now as they were then and my father died a disillusioned exile in another country.” Hansberry's book follows the Younger family Her father, Carl Augustus Hansberry, was a crusader against that very segregation. Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) wrote A Raisin in the Sun using inspiration from her years growing up in the segregated South Side of Chicago. ![]() Despite its specific era, the work speaks universally to the desire to improve one's circumstances while disagreeing on the best way of achieving them. A Raisin in the Sun is a play about an African American family aspiring to move beyond segregation and disenfranchisement in 1950s Chicago. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Together, these voices show how three very different women understand family, the costs of war, and how to exercise their power. Elektra’s and Cassandra’s sections can feel repetitive, but they tend to be shorter, which quickens the pace. Clytemnestra, the most fully realized, propels the narrative forward with a fresh, raw depth of emotion for a story that’s been told through the ages. But with the pieces in place, author Saint animates the three women and sets them off. The novel is told from the first-person points of view of these three women, and, at first, trying to sort out all the names and family histories, however familiar, feels like the homework assignment it once was. ![]() Try as she might to warn her people of the devastation she sees coming, she can’t overcome her reputation as a madwoman. Meanwhile, in Troy itself, Cassandra watches the daily horrors unfold. Her mother, Clytemnestra, seethes with rage, grief, and, above all, the desire for vengeance for what her husband is willing to sacrifice for this war of vanity. She pines for his return as she comes of age over the decade it takes for Troy to fall. The tale of the Trojan War told by three women who have their own battles to fight.Įlektra is just a girl when her father, Agamemnon, leads the largest Greek army ever assembled to wage war against Troy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. ![]() Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() |