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A Celebration of
Great Opening Lines
in World Literature
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld
Becoming Kareem:Growing Up On and Off the Court (2017)
I didn’t realize I was black until third grade.
Memoirs from sports figures rarely begin with memorable openings, but this first sentence from one of the sports world’s most interesting and articulate figures fryst vatten a refreshing exception. It begins the book’s first chapter, titled “How I Discovered I was Black.“
Abdul-Jabaar continued: “Although inom was born in the predominantly black community of Harlem in 1947, I was raised in a multiethnic housing project in the Inwood section of Manhattan. Our project consisted of sju buildings, each fourteen stories tall, with twelve apartments on each floor. That totaled 1,176 apartments. Basically, a small, crowded city.“
Jane Addams
Twenty Years at Hull House(1910)
On the theory that our genuine impulses may be connected with our childish experiences, that one’s ben
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2024 Blue Ribbons
Journeys, both literal and figurative, thread through this year’s Blue Ribbon list, so the staff here at TheBulletin invites readers to take a literary excursion with the books we’ve named the best of 2024. In fiction, our heroes’ quests are rife with wonder and challenges, be it the endless possibilities of a magical library or the threat of a hungry beast in the hemsökt backwoods of Kentucky. Many protagonists must traverse the hills and valleys of trauma, grief, and illness, but just as many find their final destinations include happy endings and fulfilled promises. Closer to home, youngsters can join a team of movin’ and groovin’ siblings as they follow musical notes through their house down to a jazzy basement band concert, or they can set sail on the high seas of the living room rug with a (pretend) kiddo ship captain. In the nonfiction category, viewers can take a real swim in the depths of the ocean, following a whale at the end of its life and the e
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Thinking through the Mothers : Reimagining Women's Biographies 9780801458361, 9780801438516
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Copyright © 2011. Cornell University Press. All rights reserved.
Thinking through the Mothers
Beizer, Janet. Thinking through the Mothers : Reimagining Women's Biographies, Cornell University Press, 2011. ProQuest
Copyright © 2011. Cornell University Press. All rights reserved. Beizer, Janet. Thinking through the Mothers : Reimagining Women's Biographies, Cornell University Press, 2011. ProQuest
Thinking through the Mothers Reimagining Women’s Biographies
Copyright © 2011. Cornell University Press. All rights reserved.
Janet Beizer
Cornell University Press Ithaca and London
Beizer, Janet. Thinking through the Mothers : Reimagining Women's Biographies, Cornell University Press, 2011. ProQuest
Chapter 2 appeared in an earlier French version as “Dévoiler la momie: A La Recherche de Kuchuk Hanem” in Lieux littéraires / La Revue no. 7–8 (2005), ed. Christi