![]() ![]() Linda is also the administrator for Homer’s Web site, 1. ![]() Other books include the nonfiction work Torpedo Junction, which was a Military History Book-of-the-Month Club selection, and the novel Back to the Moon, presently in development for a feature Hollywood movie.Ĭommentary provided by Linda Terry Hickam, assistant (and wife!) to Homer Hickam. He is the author of five books including his “Coalwood” memoirs that began with his #1 New York Times best-seller October Sky/Rocket Boys, and continued with The Coalwood Way and Sky of Stone. ![]() He is a full-time writer and lives in Huntsville, Alabama with his wife Linda and their four cats. Homer Hickam was born and raised in Coalwood, West Virginia. “A great read … One closes the book with an immense feeling of satisfaction.” “A stirring tale that offers something unusual these days … a message of hope in an age of cynicism.” “A thoroughly charming memoir … eloquent evocation of a lost time and place.” The introspective son of the mine’s superintendent and a mother determined to get him out of Coalwood forever, Homer fell in with a group of misfits who learned not only how to turn scraps of metal into sophisticated rockets but how to sustain their hope in a town that swallowed its men alive.Īs the boys began to light up the tarry skies with their flaming projectiles and dreams of glory, Coalwood, and the Hickams, would never be the same. It was 1957, the year Sputnik raced across the Appalachian sky, and the small town of Coalwood, West Virginia, was slowly dying.įaced with an uncertain future, Homer Hickam nurtured a dream: to send rockets into outer space. Kiki Leyba, teacher, Columbine High School, Littleton, CO I really feel that Homer’s book helps us to look not only up, but also to the future!” I have developed 10-15 projects related to the novel, including activities demonstrating group dynamics and teamwork. “This is the third year I have taught Hickam’s Rocket Boys in my classroom. ![]() “400 schools in Canada and the USA using Hickam’s autobiographical October Sky to teach lessons that go beyond typical classroom learning.” “ October Sky rewards every mother and teacher who ever told children they could be anything they wanted if they worked hard enough.” In the meantime, since there’s no regulation around sex-toy materials, some tried-and-tested toys that play by our rules: YES to medical-grade, nonporous materials and a rock-hard NO to phthalates.This Reader’s Group Guide for Homer Hickam’s October Sky/Rocket Boys is designed to stimulate discussion and enhance the reader’s appreciation of this exceptional book. For sexuality coach Layla Martin’s tips on introducing toys to your repertoire, bringing up the idea with a partner, and how they can help tap into your unique sexual presence, turn to page 37 of The Sex Issue. Consult each toy’s individual packaging for cleaning and storage instructions. For obvious reasons, intimacy enhancers require a pretty thorough scrub-down between uses. (Take a deeper dive into clean personal-care products in chapter 30 of The Sex Issue.) And since it goes into particularly permeable parts of the body, make sure to read the lube label and avoid any ingredients that end in -paraben. – Personal massagers vary wildly in shape, size, and intensity, though generally speaking the endgame is usually the same: orgasm by clitoral stimulation. The latter vibrate and can get impressively high-tech the former are always manual and are meant to go inside, vaginally or anally. –ěoth dildos and vibrators are technically just dildos. For the uninitiated, half the fun of sex toys is experimentation. Some don’t know the difference between a dildo and a vibrator, while others have to make time to Marie Kondo their BDSM dungeons. ![]()
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