![]() ![]() ![]() Some books it comes pretty obvious who is going to get involved with who but a few of these are surprises so here is the spoiler warning! So of course I’m going to be talking freely about the romances in these books and why I loved them so much and as a result there will be potential spoilers for some of the books. However, I promise you my heart is not completely made of ice! Here are a few of books that had romances that melted even my heart!Īlso just a fun little side note that I had “We Go Together” from Grease stuck in my head the entire time I wrote this for some reason: I think it’s safe to say if you’ve been following me for a bit that you all know that I am not the biggest fan of YA romances, romance heavy plots, or just the romance genre in general. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments The continuum concept book![]() ![]() ![]() If our Continuum expectations are not fulfilled during babyhood, our sense of self is compromised, and we will spend our adult life trying to recreate them. Her view is that evolution has not had time to catch up with the pace of change in the last few centuries. They are based on the normal experiences of a Human child born in the wild. We are born with a set of instinctive expectations of what life should be when we are a baby. So, what is the Continuum Concept? In a nutshell. I think she’s certainly onto something here, but she compromises the validity of her work somewhat by getting carried away with speculation and hammering her point home with an industrial sledgehammer. So although more formal research may support some aspects of her beliefs, references to science are minimal, and the approach is very subjective. My first critique is that her theories seem to be based purely on her own interpretations of her observations. As you might have guessed, the Yequana’s are the goodies in this equation, with Western parenting presented as a Dickensian villain. Jean Liedloff developed her philosophy of the Continuum Concept based on her observational research, spending time living with the tribe, and comparing their parenting and it’s outcomes to traditional Western parenting. It sometimes shows it’s age, but remains a fascinating insight into the child rearing practices of the Yequana tribe of Venezuela. ![]() ![]() ![]() They end up in the hidden village, Imdur that has the custom of worshipping rats. They get lost in a bamboo forest teeming with black rats and germs, which Krish hates. ![]() ![]() In her kidlit title Valley of the Rats (Cormorant 13.95), for ages 9 to 12, Narsimhan tells the story of book nerd Krish who goes with his father to Ladakh, India. A story of cultural transplantation in reverse, Embrace the Chicken (Orca $9.95) focuses on a young student, Shivani, recently arrived from Mumbai, who fears being embarrassed at her new Canadian school when her mother volunteers to cook one of her "stinky" Indian dishes for the school's annual fundraiser. She also published The Tiffin (Dancing Cat, 2011) and Mission Mumbai (Scholastic, 2016) in which a street-wise New York kid named Dylan Moore is invited to join his best friend, Rohit Lal, on a family vacation to India. Mumbai-born Mahtab Narsimhan immigrated to Canada in 1997 and worked in Ontario's IT Industry prior to receiving a Silver Birch award in 2009 for her debut YA novel, The Third Eye, the first in her Tara trilogy for Dundurn including The Silver Anklet and The Deadly Conch. ![]() |