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To help her granddaughter accept the risks of loving, Sadie Watson mines her memory for the tale of the unquenchable love of her life, Jim. Sadie’s Jim was an ambitious young slave and seer who, when faced with the prospect of being sold, escaped down the Mississippi with a white boy named Huck Finn. Sadie is suddenly left alone, worried about her children, reviled as a witch, punished for Jim’s escape, and convinced her husband is dead. But Sadie’s will and her love for Jim animate her life and see her through.
Told with spare eloquence and mirroring the true stories of countless slave women, My Jim recreates one of the most controversial characters in American literature. A nuanced critique of the great American novel, My Jim is a haunting and inspiring story about freedom, longing, and the remarkable endurance of love.
Look for the Reader’s Group Guide at the back of this book.
Customer Reviews:
Easy, interesting read..........2007-06-27
'My Jim' was a interesting love story. I have never read 'Huckleberry Finn', but I will now. I would like to know Jim from Mark's point of view. Although the story was told in the ending days of slavery, the lives of Jim and Sadie are so similar to black men and women's lives today. Men are setting out to find whatever and leaving their families behind, often making new ones along their journey. Meanwhile, the woman waits behind trying to hold to the love and the keep the family together.
The woman he left behind.......2006-09-21
Among the many poignant scenes in Twain's "Huckleberry Finn", few stand out like "Jim's" soliloquy on his lost family's life. Jim's discovery that a daughter was deaf was one of many things Huck discovered about Jim's humanity - and his own. What was omitted in the account was mention of Jim's wife, dear Elizabeth's mother. Nancy Rawles has taken Twain's character, a runaway slave who shatters Huck's traditional views, and weaves a tale about this unknown woman. Of greater significance, however, is Rawles' vivid personalising of what it meant to be a black slave in the freedom-loving United States. In a book economical with words, but graphically rich, Rawles has given us a gut-wrenching account of slave life.
Jim's granddaughter has an offer of marriage, but is hesitant. The gran, Jim's wife Sadie, urges her to accept the proposal from "a good man". Sadie will make the pair a quilt, which will have the family story illustrated in the patches and pieces sewn in. As the quilt is assembled, Sadie relates the story of her own life and the man she loved. As a slave with "healing" talents, Sadie led a precarious life on a tobacco plantation near Hannibal, Missouri. While her powers were in demand by white and black alike, her situation as a slave made her vulnerable. The scenes of abuse, both verbal and physical, are sure to keep the book out of the reach of children. That's a shame, since the story is being told to a teen-ager, who has little more notion of slave life than today's youngsters. Sadie is able to glean some comfort from Jim, finally coming to love him. The marriage scene, performed by members of the slave community instead of a white church, is telling.
Jim, owned by Miz Watson and kept out of the fields, follows a peripatetic life. He is in and out of Sadie's ken, and Rawles' technique for imparting his journey with Huck down the Mississippi is handled with tantalising subtlety. If you haven't read "Huck Finn" much will be lost in translation. Jim's more extensive experiences in comparison with other slaves gives him a raging desire for freedom. Sadie, ever cautious and wary of patrollers who recover runaways, tries but fails to temper Jim's ambition. Later, when emancipation does come during the Civil War, it proves largely illusory. The blacks may be free, but they're hardly secure - and never "equal" with those who fought to end slavery. If for no other reason, this situation is a strong motivation for Sadie's daughter to marry a man who seizes opportunities for betterment.
In one sense, this book is a tease. Jim's infrequent appearances depict him as a man of intense feelings. Twain's picture of Jim pointed out that he was as human as the next man - a significant departure in US literature at a time when segregation was coming into its own as a legal fiction. Rawles' sketches project him fully as a man - an individual with hopes, fears, successes and failures - just like the rest of us. Rawles' created character Sadie, strong and enduring as she is, remains locked in a narrow perspective. She doesn't see the world as Jim had. While she endures with a strength he might lack - after all, he ran away and left her behind - her wants are limited to family. What is needed is a companion to this volume. It's time some skilled author, who understands Twain, the era and the people, tackle the job of producing "Jim's" biography or "autobiography"? [stephen a. haines - Ottawa, Canada]
Lyrical and poignant mastery.......2006-02-09
My Jim flowed like a great poem through its rhythm and imagery. I read this book in eight hours and enjoyed every minute. Sadie was a rock, who had weakenesses, like real people. I appreiciated that about her character. The only thing that took me for a loop was the absence of punctuation marks, particularly commas and quotation marks. I believe Ms. Rawles omitted them for dialect effect, but it forced me to re-read some sentences to see who was speaking, or to clarify the meaning for the sentences. But otherwise a great read!
OUR Jim.......2005-08-16
What an amazing novel! Rawles' portrayal is of Jim the man, seen through the eyes of the woman who loved him, the woman who was left behind when he escaped and who was tortured and punished for years because of it. I don't think I have ever read anything that speaks more poignantly about the power of love, or the misery that was wrought by it at a time when people (black people, that is) did not control their own bodies. I was so moved, inspired, and devastated by My Jim that I cried for a full 15 minutes after I finished it.
On behalf of all of the people whose anscestors have been the Jims and Tontos and Prissies in HISstory, thank you, Nancy Rawles, for adding this remarkable work to the body of American literature. I can't wait to read what's next.
Bare bones writing delivers a fleshed-out story.......2005-07-04
In MY JIM, as Sadie, a former slave, and her granddaughter, Marianne, piece together a quilt, Sadie pieces together her own story, gradually revealing the history of the items she has kept for years in a canning jar: a small knife, a piece of felt, the bottom of a clay bowl, a child's tooth, a shiny gold button, and a corn pipe thick with tar. The contents of the jar represent a lifetime of misery, pain, heartache, and survival.
"I gives you my first heart Marianne. The heart I gots for my mama. And the heart I gots for my Jim." In those few words, Rawles lets the main character, Sadie, tell us her stark truth: To survive a brutal life that would drive some to suicide or madness, Sadie has allowed few people into her "first heart." Living as a slave, Sadie learns quickly that friends, family, even your own children, can be wrenched from you with no warning. But Jim enters a young Sadie's "first heart" on the day he is born and lives in it always; his love for her, her love for him, and the hope of his return carry Sadie through years of soul-deadening losses.
Rawles writes simply, relating the most gut-wrenching scenes with control and reserve, with a matter-of-factness that serves to underscore the fact that Sadie's losses were not uncommon but rather a fact of life for a person in bondage. As I read MY JIM, I wondered about the other Sadies and Jims that walked this earth, knowing that this story isn't the story of one but of many.
I finished the book with tears forming, a weight on my chest, and admiration for the writing of Nancy Rawles. She has produced a work of art.
Book Description
Think teenagers don't read as much as they used to? Drop in any bookstore and you're likely to find a teenager sitting cross-legged on the floor, paging through the latest Zits book. Zits chronicles the daily lives of a teen in a way that's not done in the popular media-with respect. "Having teenagers in the house is like having a front-row seat to one of life's great passages," says Jim Borgman. "Zits tries to respect that period by taking a sympathetic view of all the players involved-the parents, as well as the kids."
"We like to think of Zits as the antidote to all of the bad stuff you read about teenagers today," adds Jerry Scott. "Many people believe that modern adolescence is all about gangs, guns, drugs, and AIDS. While all of that exists, Zits takes a look at the teen years from ground level, where, for most kids, relationships, friendships, school, and sports are the stuff of daily life." Zits levels the playing field and often causes (gasp!) communication to occur between kids and their parents.
Appearing in over 1,200 newspapers worldwide, this enormously popular comic strip has been a comic staple since it was first syndicated by King Features in 1997.
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Customer Reviews:
Teenager guidebook for parents........2007-05-01
We are parents to a just-teen teenager.
I can't help but to relate the book to real-life experiances, and you just can't help but to laugh at them. Good therapy.
If you have younger kids, I recommend the Baby Blues series.
Sketchbooks and Treasuries.......2006-12-30
OK Will you people stop complaining about overlapping content? Get it through your head: They release sketchbooks. They bundle them two at a time in the Treasuries. Here's how it works out, seeing as I gotta spell it out for you:
Humungous Zits - Sketchbooks #1 and #2
Big Honking Zits - Sketchbooks #3 and #4
Zits Supersized - Sketchbooks #5 and #6
Random Zits - Sketchbooks #7 and #8
Crack of Noon - Sketchbooks #9 and #10
Once they release the 12th sketchbook, another treasury will be created that contains Sketchbooks #11 and #12. Also, if you look at the page numbers, a sketchbook is 128 pages. A Treasury, containing 2 sketchbooks, is 256 pages. To all those who ended up spending more, tough luck.
My Favorite Comic Strip.......2006-08-31
I own all of the Zits books, and I love them all! Being a teenager myself, I can identify with a lot of what happens in the strip, and I imagine that parents of teens feel the same way. Always fun to read, so go buy all the Zits books!
A note about the reviewer who gave this 1 star: all of the bigger Zits books (the treasuries) contain the material from two of the smaller books (the skechbooks). I think most people would figure that out, though. Just too bad it had to lower the overall rating!
To Ripoff by Thomas G. Field, Jr........2006-07-12
If you look at the back of "Crack of Noon" by the UPC bar code it says "Includes cartoons from 'Thrashed' and 'Pimp My Lunch'" "Crack of Noon" is the collection those two books are included in. All of the larger books of Zits are collections.
Ripoff.......2006-05-27
I like Zit's, but it's scandalous that this and other Andrews McMeel books don't specify overlapping content. Thrashed and Pimp My Lunch contain nothing other than the contents of Crack of Noon.
I wasn't happy to learn that I spent (not counting S&H) over $17 for what I could have had for $11. Also, in Crack of Noon, the Sunday strips are colored.
Book Description
America's a big country full of all sorts of different people. Our hero in this book tells us about a dozen or so he met during a zany, zigzag trip around the country on his sister's rusty bike. As he says:
I met some gals. I met some guys.
I met their critters too.
And though you may be dubious,
I swear that it's all true.
Whether the truth gets stretched a bit or not, children will be amused by such regular folks as Pat McDuff, whose cats are, well, rather different. In Granite Falls, Minnesota, Jojo Jones's pet toads would be the envy of any toad in the land. And then there's Benny Finn of Toonerville, Colorado, whose house gets rather lively whenever he sets out to vacuum the rugs. Jim Aylesworth's witty, homespun rhymes blend perfectly with Richard Hull's quirky, stylized illustrations to introduce this gathering of Americans who, in their own eccentric way, suggest the breadth of the land.
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Subcutaneously My Dear Watson: Sherlock Holmes and the Cocaine Habit
Jack Tracy , and
Jim Berkey
Manufacturer: Gaslight Publications
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Fine overview and analysis --- but VERY academic.......2005-06-16
It's great that there's now this critical overview of Harrison. It's also great that other books by and about him have come out recently---his memoir and the "Conversations." Altogether they're an amazing look at a wonderful writer.
(I have to note that in his "Conversations" Harrison repeatedly trashes the academic MFA system and bemoans the fact that a writer can't make a living unless he does something else---in Harrison's case, write screenplays. Do other prominent writers today express similar sentiments or is Harrison a stand-out in his candor in this regard?)
"True Bones" is a fine ruminating overview of Harrison's work. I'm greatly enjoying it (most of the way through). BUT! "Ruminating" implies way too much accessibility. It's extremely academic---intentionally so, but this isn't mentioned in the other reviews. It's almost impossible for a layman to read. I've read a ton of hard stuff and I can just barely manage this one. There are occasional standout paragraphs of direct clarity but most requires heavy digging. Be prepared! Complex, convoluted sentences ahoy!
I guess it also serves to introduce one to some of the values in academia today, such as in the essay that gives a postmodern analysis, but---hoo, that one was over the top. It doesn't give a hint as to WHY one would have such values, except that it, too, did have a few neat insights, again making it worth the work.
Still, it's great to see someone paying such close and literary attention to Harrison's work. And there are indeed insights in it throughout. I wrote this "Reader Review" mostly to note that it's a big effort, but well worth it. (I write, too, with wishes that academia would be more accessible.)
The scattered other reviews of Harrison's work are undoubtedly more accessible. But "True Bones" is sustained, in-depth and references many of those reviews as well as many other academic ideas, explaining and showing how Harrison works in light of them, even though the "light" of academia is a tricky thing and even though academia is a scene that seems out of touch---as Harrison himself often notes.
A must have for the serious Harrison fan..........2002-11-03
This compilation of critical essays by Dr. Patrick Smith is the first full-length text to thoroughly examine the scope of Harrison's fiction. Smith's writing is clear and concise and offers itself as an intellectually rich and beautifully written companion to the work of a truly incredible contemporary writer. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who appreciates the fiction of Jim Harrison. Thank you Dr. Smith!
Brilliant and insightful!.......2002-07-09
If you care at all about Jim Harrison's peerless work and the timeless craft of writing, you will devour the emerging talents of Patrick Smith as he leads you through the rich world of Mr. Harrison's work.
Insightful analysis, thought-provoking attitudes and fresh reasoning pour forth from the new and credible voice of Dr. Smith, who demonstrates complete mastery of his subject matter. I applaud this long-overdue look at one of the great voices in fiction, by a new and worthy writer.
Bravo, Dr. Smith!
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Eat My Dust (Garfield Pocket Books)
Jim Davis
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Garfield - Light of My Life (Garfield Pocket Books)
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The Green Hornet #1 (My Last Case, Volume 1)
Ron Fortier
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The Green Hornet volume 1, issue #1. Double sized premiere collectors edition! November 1989. My Last Case.
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In My Skin: The Eminem Graphic (Eminem) (Eminem)
Barnaby Legg , and
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An exciting graphic novel from the creative team behind the groundbreaking Godspeed: The Kurt Cobain Graphic, published by Omnibus Press in 2003. From the Government housing slums in Detroit to the bling-bling penthouses of the Hip-Hop monarchy, Marshall Mathers has had quite a journey. This is a presentation of the documentation of his life that is angry, vivid, and shockingly honest. By taking the stories, characters, and rantings that exist on his albums, a dramatic, operatic and highly comedic adventure is told. In addition to biographical events, the authors draw on the self-created characters that exist in Eminem s music. This is a graphic novel about the world s one and only true crossover rap superstar, and a story both as profound and profane as the man himself.
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If White Kids Die: Memories of a Civil Rights Movement Volunteer
Dick J. Reavis
Manufacturer: University of North Texas Press
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Customer Reviews:
A Moment in Time.......2001-07-08
This book was recommended by a friend who is mentioned in the book. Otherwise I probably would not have bought it. However I found it easy to read and very enlightening. I graduated from high school in 1962 from a small town in the South. Although my path took me a different direction; I was fascinated by Dick Reavis' accounts of his experiences at voter registration in a small Southern town. He is certainly very honest in his portrayal of his contributions to the movement. Learning more about the struggles of the college students and the people in the city where they worked helped me have a better understanding of the issues they were trying to help change. I was very naive back then and quite frankly unaware of some of the restrictions that were imposed on African Americans at that time. Thanks for enlightening me. I intend to do more reading on this important chapter in American history.
Book Description
A powerful three-generational saga of a Sri Lankan family's search for coherence and continuity in a country broken by colonial occupation and riven by ethnic wars.
Customer Reviews:
When Memory Dies.......2003-08-04
Sivanandan's book is a vivid telling of three generations of a Sri Lankan Tamil family and of the disintegration of ethnic harmony on the island. Having fled Sri Lanka after the 1956 riots Sivanandan's novel is remarkably even-handed and captures the humanity on both sides. Sri Lanka's post-colonial history is one of failed expectations and avoidable disasters. Sivanandan thoughtfully sketches the path to Sri Lanka's civil war and the painful breakdown in relations between the Sinhalese and the Tamils. The tragedy of the estrangement between some of the key Sinhalese and Tamil characters in the novel is all the more poignant considering that Sinhalese nationalism and Tamil Eelam nationalism are painfully intertwined. I wonder if the title "When Memory Dies" is an allusion to the fact that Sinhala-Tamil enmity in Sri Lanka is less than a hundred years old and was preceded by about 2500 years when ethnicity did not matter?
A good book to describe how socialists wreck poor countries.......2000-05-02
A. Sivanandan left Sri Lanka in the aftermath of the '56 riots. His descriptions of the environment of Sri Lanka in the book after that tragedy are thus largely based on speculation and tales spun by others like him. The story is an attempt to give a history of Sri Lanka in the twentieth century from a socialist's point of view. He basically tells the reader that socialism was corrupted by Sinhala politics (he gives absolutely no attention to Tamil ethnic politics, which played at least an equal role in the creation of tensions) and 'greed.' Perhaps he has not considered that socialism is such a flawed philosophy because it is so easy to subvert- that much is obvious to any student of modern Sri Lankan history. Book Three is full of misperceptions and speculation- for example, he presents Sinhala people as being fully cognizant of the problems created by Sinhala nationalism (nothing is farther from the truth- few people, Tamil or Sinhala had any idea the politics of the day would lead to a civil war). His hero in Book Three, Vijay (an erstwhile hybrid- a Sinhala who had been "blessed" with some Tamil upbringing-) is a character paralyzed with ignorance and uncertainty. He can barely argue against his own grade-school students, who are horrible stereotypes of Sinhalas "brainwashed" by ethnic nationalism. The weak arguments he does present are those used by current Eelamists- they are hardly accepted by many, if not most Sri Lankans. Sivanandan's point of the story seems to be that ignorance of history leads to loss of identity. I agree- I would advise him and people like him to treat history seriously, not as a diversion to earn royalties.
note: this review was written by an actual Sri Lankan
Historical fiction at a high level of sophistication........1999-07-02
I have used this book as an introduction to the contemporary political and cultural history of Sri Lanka for college students who will be studying on the island for the academic year. In some ways, it is a somewhat cynical rendering of the evolution of the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. That is, it is difficult to come away from reading it with much of a sense of hope for the current political situation. But it is precisely the evocation of hopelessness that makes Sivanandan's compelling novel realistic, as unfortunate as that sounds. Idealism, indeed, seems to have little space in Sri Lanka these days. There is much in this novel that educates its readers to the nature of ethnic conflict, class consciousness, caste, family, religion and political identity. I found it a tour de force, a remarkable novel.
A century of racial harmony and discord in Sri Lanka.......1998-10-24
The writer takes us through twentieth century Sri Lanka ( or Ceylon as it was known ) through three generations of a Tamil family. From the struggle for independence both from poverty and the British through to the birth of the struggle for Eelam in the North, the writer has not held back or favoured any one faction in particular but told it like it is. Definitely one of the best books I have ever read. The narrative is fast paced, the descriptions vivid yet not overdone, the language is simple and not flowery but the overall effect is engrossing.
Customer Reviews:
No Kidding.......2006-03-23
This book was pretty entertaining at times. However, it was easy to see why this family had so many difficulties on the island - many of their choices were pretty questionable. They move onto a mountain in a foreign country (a mountain to which they refer as "our mountain"), burn the natural vegetation to clear it for building, let their young child swing from trees barefoot WHILE the fire is burning, and then marvel that their child burned her feet when she jumped down and landed in the fire. Huh? Are you kidding? Multiply this by like 500 and you have a whole bookful of Memories to Die For. Go figure.
Some good, lotsa bad.......2006-02-07
I found this book to contain some very interesting information about Grenadian people and their customs, but the text is interspersed throughout with "poor me" stories which leave this reader wondering why these comfort-seeking Floridians just picked up and moved to the wilds of Grenada in the first place. Many aspects of the Grenadian culture are not only not appreciated, but are considered primitive or ignorant. The Howards are upset that the locals step on mice which fall from their harvested banana bunches rather than treating them as pets. We are told of attacks by human vampires which are as believable to the author as the claim that men have landed on the moon. I suggest reading this book with a great deal of skepticism.
Very Disappointed.......2005-10-14
I bought this book, upon returning from a visit to Grenada, in preparation for my upcomming move to the island. I enjoyed the descriptions of the island itself but I could not overlook the obvious pretention and ethnocentric attitude of the author. I am a world traveler who prefers to visit countries with cultural differences - not to point out how inferior, or morally insufficient the people are, but to immerse myself in another world and step into someone elses shoes and life. Mrs. Howard's stories came across to me as whiny and self-serving.
Loved this book!.......2000-09-05
Very well written and full of adventure. I felt as if I were part of the Howard family. The author has described so much beauty and culture that my wife and I plan to visit Grenada on our next vacation. This is a must read book if you like adventure, suspense, culture and to dream.
What an adventure!.......2000-09-05
I couldn't put this book down! The author did such a fantastic job of describing the scenery and situations that I felt that I was really there. This family went through it all! I liked it so much that my wife and I are planning to take our next vacation in Grenada.
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I Die, But the Memory Lives on
Henning Mankell
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A powerful, moving and tragic account of the families shattered and children abandoned as a result of the spread of HIV and, through the Memory Books project, a hope for the future.
Henning Mankell is not a public figure in the way that politicians are, nor does he court publicity for himself, but he is one of the most successful authors of our time and has devoted his recent years to work with Aids charities. In
I Die, But the Memory Lives On, this master storyteller has written a fable to illustrate the importance of books as a means of education, of preserving memories and of sharing life.
Memory Books is a project through which the HIV-infected parents of today are encouraged to write portraits of their lives and testaments of their love for their orphans of tomorrow. Through a combination of words and drawings they can leave a legacy, a hope that future generations may not suffer the same heartbreaking fate. The publication of this book will raise awareness of this international problem which, though it may not always be on the front pages of our newspapers, must be always on our minds until something has truly changed for the better.
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This is a guided journal. Donnette begins with a page about loss and healing:
"When someone close to you dies, the impact is life-changing . . . . In the midst of grief, it's often hard to know what you need. One thing that can help is to realize that your spirit has suffered a very serious wound . . . . "
She then briefly introduces the journal pages:
"A journal is a place where your heart can speak in privacy and freedom. It is a place where it is safe to be completely honest about what you are thinking and how you are feeling. It can uncover thoughts and emotions you may be scarcely aware of."
Pages 10 through 93 provide space for journaling. At the upper left and lower right of each page spread are thoughts and quotations on grief, healing, and afterlife. Some quotes are from the Bible and others are from a wide variety of sources, such as John Adams, Shakespeare, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emanuel Swedenborg, Helen Keller, and Charles Lindbergh. After the journaling pages, Donnette concludes with some text about afterlife, and then provides a list of "Recommended Reading" books about grief recovery and about afterlife.
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Celestial Essence of Life Die-Cut Photo Album
Ann Skelly
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Die Bedeutung der Erinnerungen an Eigenschaftsattribuierungen fur die Personlichkeitsforschung und die psychologische Diagnostik (Europaische Hochschulschriften :)
Klaudius Siegfried
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