https://padlet.com/camerona0804/30ui8v6dmhuu en-us 2017-03-21 07:27:41 UTC 2024-06-09 03:03:51 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Brightnessdown.png camerona0804 https://padlet.com/camerona0804/30ui8v6dmhuu/wish/161393514 "Native Son is divided into three books entitled Fear, Flight and Fate, depicting the final days of Bigger Thomas. The story is set in the Depression-era and Bigger is the novel's twenty-year-old protagonist, a resident of the "Black Belt," a Chicago ghetto that is predominantly black."
www.gradesaver.com/native-son/study-guide/summary 

This book is a possible read because it does seem very interesting.

]]> 2017-03-21 07:30:01 UTC https://padlet.com/camerona0804/30ui8v6dmhuu/wish/161393514 camerona0804 https://padlet.com/camerona0804/30ui8v6dmhuu/wish/161395500 "In San Francisco, a group of aging Chinese women (Kieu Chinh, Tsai Chin, France Nuyen, Lisa Lu) meet regularly to trade familial stories while playing Mahjong. In a series of sixteen vignettes that spans generations and continents, this adaptation of Amy Tan's bestselling novel explores cultural conflict and the often-turbulent relationships between four first-generation Chinese-American women (Ming-Na Wen, Tamlyn Tomita, Lauren Tom, Rosalind Chao) and their mothers."
https://www.google.com/search?q=summary+of+joy+luck+club&safe=active&espv=2&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_1-7XjOfSAhXI0iYKHYxqCp8Q_AUIBSgA&biw=1157&bih=650&dpr=2

It doesn't seem very interesting, so i do not think i would enjoy reading this . ]]> 2017-03-21 07:42:12 UTC https://padlet.com/camerona0804/30ui8v6dmhuu/wish/161395500 camerona0804 https://padlet.com/camerona0804/30ui8v6dmhuu/wish/161395973 Offred is a slave name that describes her function: she is "of Fred", i.e. she belongs to her Commander, Fred, as a concubine. In the novel, Offred says that she is not a concubine, or a geisha girl, but just a tool; a "two legged womb".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid's_Tale

]]> 2017-03-21 07:45:25 UTC https://padlet.com/camerona0804/30ui8v6dmhuu/wish/161395973 camerona0804 https://padlet.com/camerona0804/30ui8v6dmhuu/wish/161396380 "In current day Empire Falls, the Empire Grill is a small diner run by protagonist Miles Roby, but owned (as much of Empire Falls is) by Francine Whiting. The shirt factory and the textile mill have been closed for over twenty years, but the town and the Empire Grill limp onward."
www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/empire-falls]]> 2017-03-21 07:47:53 UTC https://padlet.com/camerona0804/30ui8v6dmhuu/wish/161396380 camerona0804 https://padlet.com/camerona0804/30ui8v6dmhuu/wish/161396813 "The Silver Spoon. Middlesex opens with Cal Stephanides (also known as Calliope) introducing herself/himself. Cal was born a girl in January of 1960 in Detroit, Michigan to a Greek-American family. (S)he is a 5-Alpha-Reductase pseudohermaphrodite, which he discovered when he was sixteen."
www.gradesaver.com/middlesex/study-guide/summary-book-one
Not something i can relate to at all to i am not interested.

]]> 2017-03-21 07:50:03 UTC https://padlet.com/camerona0804/30ui8v6dmhuu/wish/161396813 camerona0804 https://padlet.com/camerona0804/30ui8v6dmhuu/wish/161397567 "Delaney Mossbacher and Cándido Rincón live totally different lives, but share Topanga Canyon as their home. Delaney is a middle-class liberal humanist and Cándido is a homeless illegal Mexican immigrant. The novel begins with Delaney unexpectedly hitting Cándido with his car. The accident really startles Delaney, but instead of making sure Cándido gets proper medical attention, Delaney gives him 20 dollars and hopes he will disappear from his life."
https://tcboyletortillacurtain.wordpress.com/summary/

Possible read seems like a intriguing plot. ]]> 2017-03-21 07:54:15 UTC https://padlet.com/camerona0804/30ui8v6dmhuu/wish/161397567 camerona0804 https://padlet.com/camerona0804/30ui8v6dmhuu/wish/161398144 "In this adaptation of Truman Capote's seminal true-crime novel, ex-convicts Perry Smith (Robert Blake) and Richard "Dick" Hickock (Scott Wilson) hatch a plan to rob a wealthy Kansas family, the Clutters. The men enter the Clutter home expecting to find a safe filled with cash, but in fact find no money at all. Enraged, they kill the entire family and flee. While on the run, they face not only the realities of their terrible crime but also their own earthly impermanence."
https://www.google.com/search?q=in+cold+blood+summary&safe=active&espv=2&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwitiLSxk-fSAhXLSSYKHRdwCLUQ_AUIBygA&biw=1157&bih=606&dpr=2
Possible, seems very interesting and fun to keep up with while reading.

]]> 2017-03-21 07:57:14 UTC https://padlet.com/camerona0804/30ui8v6dmhuu/wish/161398144 camerona0804 https://padlet.com/camerona0804/30ui8v6dmhuu/wish/161398242 The Romantic Egotist"—The novel centers on Amory Blaine, a young Midwesterner who, convinced that he has an exceptionally promising future, attends boarding school and later Princeton University.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Side_of_Paradise
Not another story like Gats]]> 2017-03-21 07:57:47 UTC https://padlet.com/camerona0804/30ui8v6dmhuu/wish/161398242 camerona0804 https://padlet.com/camerona0804/30ui8v6dmhuu/wish/161398466 a 1969 autobiography about the early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou. The first in a seven-volume series, it is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature can help overcome racism and trauma.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Know_Why_the_Caged_Bird_Sings
To much conflict and not the tone i am looking for.]]> 2017-03-21 07:59:08 UTC https://padlet.com/camerona0804/30ui8v6dmhuu/wish/161398466 camerona0804 https://padlet.com/camerona0804/30ui8v6dmhuu/wish/161398713 The Bell Jar is the story of 19-year-old Esther Greenwood, the breakdown she experiences, and the beginnings of her recovery. The year is 1953 and Esther Greenwood, having finished college for the academic year, has won a one-month paid internship at Ladies Day magazine in New York City.
https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/b/the-bell-jar/book-summary
I don't relate much to the character described, not interested.]]> 2017-03-21 08:00:27 UTC https://padlet.com/camerona0804/30ui8v6dmhuu/wish/161398713 camerona0804 https://padlet.com/camerona0804/30ui8v6dmhuu/wish/161398784 "Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 1937 novel and the best known work by African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston. The novel narrates main character Janie Crawford's "ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Their_Eyes_Were_Watching_God 
Seems quite boring and not a fun topic at all.]]> 2017-03-21 08:00:47 UTC https://padlet.com/camerona0804/30ui8v6dmhuu/wish/161398784 camerona0804 https://padlet.com/camerona0804/30ui8v6dmhuu/wish/161399060 The Sun Also Rises Summary. The narrator, Jake Barnes, describes Robert Cohn, a rich Jew who graduated from Princeton with low self-esteem, had an unsuccessful marriage, lost most of his inheritance, and moved to Paris with an exploitative woman, Frances, to write a novel. Jake plays tennis with him.
www.gradesaver.com/the-sun-also-rises/study-guide/summary
I don't want to read something that seems this formal.]]> 2017-03-21 08:02:34 UTC https://padlet.com/camerona0804/30ui8v6dmhuu/wish/161399060