Classroom reopenings shift student reading toward school-approved books and reduce summer leisure reading habits. Many employed readers preserve personal off-hour reading, choosing favorites over literary canon. Current publishing highlights present a strong offering of biography, science, and fiction. A comprehensive biography focuses on the immense cultural presence of a prolific film and TV composer and uses interviews with the composer and Hollywood colleagues to examine his life and work. A novelist's second book revisits Reconstruction-era themes, depicting freedmen's perilous situation after the Civil War and intensifying conflict in its new narrative.
Gone are the heady days of the beach read, summarily swapped for the kinds of books a school board can really get behind. At least, that's true for the lucky folks who still get to make learning their primary occupation. For everyone else, there's a consolation for the drudgery of the day job: those happy off-hours when, instead of The Great Gatsby, say, you can still crack open whatever you darn well please.
It's virtually impossible to overstate the ubiquity of Williams' music. The composer has produced so many instantly recognizable scores for film and TV, it's a tall task to find just about anyone who doesn't have at least one of them tattooed on their brain whether that's the theme to Star Wars, Jaws, Jurassic Park, the Olympics or any number of others. Far less familiar is the voice of the man himself but that's an omission that Greiving aims to correct here.
When your first swing in the big leagues is a home run, the second visit to the batter's box tends to bear a heavier set of expectations. In Harris' case, that first swing was The Sweetness of Water, a historical epic that drew attention from Oprah, former President Obama and the literary prize circuit. His follow-up, Amity, like his debut novel, addresses the perilous situation for freedmen in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War. Only this time, things are headed even farther south,
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