![]() ![]() For example, she hints at a Jamaican musician in one part of the story. ![]() Her knowledge of the Jamaican culture really brings the book together, even though the book didn’t really have too much to do with Jamaica itself. I was able to put myself in their shoes and feel the emotions they may have felt.Īnother cool thing about the book is that Nicola Yoon is described as an American/Jamaican author. I really did enjoy it! Even though I’m not in the same situation as either of these kids, for the time it took me to read the book, I felt like I was going on their journey with them. Some people might find it boring, but I highly recommend that you at least try it. I would recommend it to a friend or family member, but I will say that the book probably isn’t for everybody. This book falls into two genres: romance and realistic fiction. ![]() They go out for coffee together, and Daniel even cancels his interview for her! Talk about risking everything for your one true love – he did it! Daniel meets Natasha on the way to an interview, and they fall in love. His family comes from Korea, but they are legal immigrants. Daniel is a teenage boy with an older brother that he hates. She and her family are illegal immigrants, and she is pushing for the government to let her, her parents, and her brother stay in the U.S. One character is Natasha, a Jamaican teen. This book is set over one day and really focuses. ![]() The book deals with real-life situations, and includes two main characters. The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon is one of the few books that I was able to develop an attachment to. I recently read a book entitled The Sun Is Also a Star, by Nicola Yoon. ![]()
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![]() Unlike any study undertaken before, this book details Bach's creative process across the various instrumental and vocal genres. Matthew Passion, Art of Fugue, and B-minor Mass. Emerging from a complex and massive oeuvre, Bach's Musical Universe is a focused discussion of a meaningful selection of compositions-from the famous Well-Tempered Clavier, violin and cello solos, and Brandenburg Concertos to the St. Wolff delves deeply into the composer's own rich selection of collected music, cutting across conventional boundaries of era, genre, and instrument. In this companion volume to his Pulitzer Prize-finalist biography, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, leading Bach scholar Christoph Wolff takes his cue from his famous subject. ![]() These benchmark works, all of them without parallel or equivalent, produced a steady stream of transformative ideas that stand as paradigms of Bach's musical art. Instead, he methodically organized certain pieces into carefully designed collections. ![]() ![]() Throughout his life, renowned and prolific composer Johann Sebastian Bach articulated his views as a composer in purely musical terms he was notoriously reluctant to write about his life and work. ![]() |