![]() ![]() There are many reasons why this book worked so damn well for me but in order to explain them properly, it’s mandatory for me to give a little insight on what LitRPG is and what first made the genre famous. ![]() I’ve read Senlin Ascends and the previous years’ SPFBO top 3 books, so I know what I’m saying is a very bold claim but I’m confident with it due to one simple reason: I am the perfect audience for this book. In fact, I think of SAM as the best book to ever appear in SPFBO. Like Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft or The Grey Bastards by Jonathan French, Sufficiently Advanced Magic (SAM) by Andrew Rowe is truly a gem in the self-published fantasy world that is on par or even better than many traditionally published fantasy books. This kind of book is why I’m thankful for the SPFBO competition because without it I might have never heard about this book at all. Simply enthralling and fun from cover to cover. ![]()
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![]() ![]() So far, so recognisable, even to human children. But Ran wants to take things more slowly. MapHead feels a real longing to meet his mother and wants to rush things along. As they need to pass for humans, they've taken new names - Boothe and Powers, from a random movie - practised their English, and enrolled MapHead at the same school as his half-brother. MapHead is a halfling and now he is almost 12, Ran has brought him to meet his human mother. ![]() MapHead can flash the map of any place across his face and bald scalp. Ran can travel through time, make things disappear and erase human memories. MapHead and his father Ran are of the Subtle World. Funny characters and universal emotions make this a truly heartwarming rite of passage story. Summary: Lovely story of a boy from a parallel world returning to make contact with his human mother. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At this year’s annual conference of the Association of Black Foundation Executives (ABFE), practitioners of liberatory leadership shared what they are learning in a session on the topic. Now, the concept of liberatory leadership is beginning to take form. I wrote about my own experience last year, in response to conversations with nonprofit leaders about my book, The Power Manual, where I make a case for liberatory power, the ability to create what we want. They are at the forefront of such exploration, as they are currently charged with transforming organizations that were created with dominant cultural assumptions and even values. Women of color, many of whom are running formerly white-led nonprofits, are asking themselves what it means to be a liberatory leader. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Based on the famous series of dialogues between Francois Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock from the 1960s, the book moves chronologically through Hitchcock's films to discuss his career, techniques, and effects he achieved. It changed the way Hitchcock was perceived, as a popular director of suspense films - such as Psycho and The Birds - and revealed to moviegoers and critics, the depth of Hitchcock's perception and his mastery of the art form.Īs a result of the changed perce. ![]() ![]() ![]() The two eventually fall in love and the experience ushers Thompson into the beginnings of an adult, independent life. Beautiful, open, flexibly spiritual and even popular (something incomprehensible to young Thompson), Raina introduces him to her own less-than-perfect family to a new teen community and to a broader sense of himself and his future. By high school, Thompson's a lost, socially battered and confused soul-until he meets Raina and her clique of amiable misfits at a religious camp. ![]() Thompson's grimly pious parents and religious community dismiss his budding talent for drawing they view his creative efforts as sinful and relentlessly hector the boys about scripture. ![]() But escapist reveries can't protect them from the cruel schoolmates who make their lives miserable. Skinny, naïve and spiritually vulnerable, Thompson and his younger brother manage to survive their parents' overbearing discipline (the brothers are sometimes forced to sleep in "the cubby-hole," a forbidding and claustrophobic storage chamber) through flights of childhood fancy and a mutual love of drawing. Revisiting the themes of deep friendship and separation Thompson surveyed in Goodbye Chunky Rice, his acclaimed and touching debut, this sensitive memoir recreates the confusion, emotional pain and isolation of the author's rigidly fundamentalist Christian upbringing, along with the trepidation of growing into maturity. ![]() |