5/13/2023 0 Comments Barbara kingsolver monarchs![]() It’s less entertaining than some of the others, but has the distinction of being true. For that reason, as a supplement to the other versions that are now in the world, I provide here my own version of the Barbara Kingsolver story. ![]() I’ve also learned, the hard way, that Wikipedia abhors a vacuum: others gladly fill in the biographical details I decline to offer myself. Yet I understand that for many people, art inspires curiosity about the artist. I do not believe this information improves the understanding of my books, in any way I offer the world my books, which stand on their own without explanation, and never imagine the details of my personal life should interest anyone but friends and family. I’ve never written anything in that line. Among the worst things I commonly heard people say about a woman, in my childhood, was that she was “parading herself around.” This may explain why I’m happy to put a three-pound novel into the hands of anyone inclined to heft it, but squeamish about autobiography. Prolonged self-revelation seems discourteous to me, and self-aggrandizing is vulgar. ![]() In the culture in which I was raised, it was considered charming to tell long, entertaining stories about peculiar relatives or a runaway hog or anything under the sun-except yourself. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Sarah schulman act up book![]() ![]() ![]() This is a tactician’s bible." - Parul Sehgal, The New York Times "This is not reverent, definitive history. ![]() One of NPR, New York, and The Guardian's Best Books of 2021, one of Buzzfeed's Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2021, one of Electric Literature's Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021, one of NBC's 10 Most Notable LGBTQ Books of 2021, and one of Gay Times' Best LGBTQ Books of 2021. Longlisted for the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. A 2021 New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbriath Award for Nonfiction, the Gotham Book Prize, and the ALA Stonewall Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award. Winner of the 2022 Lambda Literary LGBTQ Nonfiction Award and the 2022 NLGJA Excellence in Book Writing Award. ![]() ![]() ![]() Against this backdrop, Shilts tells the heroic stories of individuals in science and politics, public health and the gay community, who struggled to alert the nation to the enormity of the danger it faced. ![]() Shilts shows that the epidemic spread wildly because the federal government put budget ahead of the nation's welfare health authorities placed political expediency before the public health and scientists were often more concerned with international prestige than saving lives. America faced a troubling question: What happened? How was this epidemic allowed to spread so far before it was taken seriously? In answering these questions, Shilts weaves the disparate threads into a coherent story, pinning down every evasion and contradiction at the highest levels of the medical, political, and media establishments. By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the disease had spread across the nation, killing thousands of people and emerging as the greatest health crisis of the 20th century. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Tiger magic by jennifer ashley![]() ![]() As she slowly gets to know him better, she is willing to do anything to protect him and the love that is developing between them. When circumstances push Carly in to Tiger’s world and his arms, she finds her original impressions of shifters radically changed. Not having interacted much with shifters, she is surprised when her body and mind both zero in on the shifter-shouting MINE. When her car breaks down in the middle of the desert, she turns to see a single shifter staring at her across the sand. Not sure where his life is going, when he happens upon a human woman stranded on the side of the road, he knows instantly he is seeing his destiny.Ĭarly Randal has a fabulous life with a supposedly faithful fiance and a job she loves. Unusual in his make up, Tiger is a loner who makes all shifters, except for children, very uneasy. Rescued by the Las Vegas shifter pack, he is sent to the Austin pack until they can figure out what exactly to do with him. ![]() ![]() Tiger was held in a secret lab for forty years experimented on and tortured. Tiger Magic (Shifters Unbound #5) by Jennifer Ashleyįavorite Quote: “I’m a little afraid, sure it’s not everyday I slap duct tape over a man’s mouth and stuff him in my truck.” ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The Way It Is by Donalda Reid![]() ![]() Tacopina could be pivotal to his defense. Trump is avoiding the trial - he is running to regain the presidency and made a campaign appearance in New Hampshire on Thursday afternoon - and the cross-examination by Mr. Trump after they ran into each other at the Bergdorf Goodman store on Fifth Avenue in the mid-1990s. ![]() Tacopina, who made it clear he was seeking to undermine her testimony about what she says was a vicious attack by Mr. Carroll underwent hours of cross-examination by Mr. ![]() “I’m telling you, he raped me, whether I screamed or not,” she declared. “They are always asked, ‘Why didn’t you scream?’” Ms. Carroll, her voice rising, said from the witness stand that women often keep silent about an attack because they fear being asked what they could have done to stop it. Trump’s lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, said he was not doing that, but Ms. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Superhero by eli easton![]() Her family home, once a prosperous plantation, is languishing since the abolition of slavery, and death of her father. In the opening portion of Wide Sargasso Sea, Antoinette narrates her childhood in Jamaica. She gave a name: Antoinette Cosway, and a face: a beautiful creole face, and a story to the poor woman. That’s rather unfair, and I guess Jean Rhys felt the same way. I loved Jane Eyre, but I admit I didn’t give much thought to the madwoman, other than as an obstacle to Jane’s happiness. Wide Sargasso Sea – is her story.Īnd a very interesting story. ![]() ![]() In Jane Eyre, Thornfield Hall has a mysterious secret that is eventually revealed to be a madwoman locked in an upper room, the wife of Edward Rochester, master of Thornfield Hall. Spoiler Alert: My comments contain spoilers, for both Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre. I would call it an early form of fan fiction, though scholars refer to it as a feminist and anti-colonial response. ![]() Wide Sargasso Sea is the prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. So there is still the sound of whispering that I have heard all my life, but these are different voices. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Renegades book 4 marissa meyer![]() I could go on and on about these two, but I'll just say that (1) I really loved them as individual characters and (2) I really loved their interactions. We follow two main POVs, Nova (who is an Anarchist) and Adrian (who is a Renegade). What drove this book for me was definitely the characters. However, based on my pure enjoyment and the fun I had reading this, I had to give it the full 5 stars. If I wanted to get into the deep analysis of pacing, plot, character development, etc then this book would probably be 4 or 4.5 stars instead of the 5 that I've given it. I'll start off by saying that, objectively, this book has flaws. Still, it took me up until a few days ago to finally start it and I'm so happy that I finally did! ![]() ![]() Finally, I bought this book over a year ago. However, over the past few years, I saw the hype around this series and I'd read other things by Marissa Meyer so I became more intrigued. To be fair, when this book first came out I wasn't at all interested in reading about superheros and preferred watching them in movies. ![]() ![]() Why did it take me so long to read this book?! I'm cursing past Lauren for her mistake because this book was amazing and she should have read it sooner. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Terminal boredom suzuki![]() Suzuki's work excels, in particular, at the use of unreliable narrators – earnest tellers of tales, initially and sometimes enduringly unaware that they have been duped by the authorities or the System. Translator Daniel Joseph has characterized Suzuki's work as "a kind of SF version of kitchen-sink realism, told from the perspective of the one stuck doing the dishes." In that regard, it draws heavily on the sort of radical 1970s thinking typified by Shulamith Firestone, whose The Dialectic of Sex: A Case for Feminist Revolution ( 1972 nonfiction trans Hiroko Kobayashi as Sei no Benshōhō – josei kaihō kakumei no baai, 1972) similarly interrogates the impact, or lack thereof, of Technology on gender roles and other elements of human society. ![]() Her husband, the saxophonist Kaoru Abe, died of a drug overdose in 1978, after which Suzuki threw herself into an incandescent creative streak, ending with her Suicide a decade later. ![]() ![]() Moving to Tokyo in 1970, she moonlighted as a bar hostess, nude model and actress under the name Naomi Asaka or Naomi Senkō. ![]() (1949-1986) Japanese author who, at the beginning of her troubled career, quit her teenage job as a key-punch operator after a Fanzine story gained an honourable mention in a competition run by the literary magazine Shōsetsu Gendai. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Addicted a novel by zane![]() ![]() As her life spins out of control and her sexual escapades carry her toward a dangerous choice, Zoe is racing against time to uncover the source of her “fatal attraction”-as chilling secrets tumble forth from the recesses of a woman's mind, and perilous temptations lead toward a climax that can threaten her sanity, her marriage.and her life. ![]() ![]() From the sensitive artist with whom she spends stolen hours on rumpled sheets to the rough and violent man who draws her toward destruction, Zoe is a woman desperately searching for fulfillment-and something darker, deeper, and perhaps deadly. Her books are sumptuous, entertaining, and sexy as hell. But Zoe feels helpless in the grip of an overpowering addiction.to sex.įinding a compassionate woman therapist to help her, Zoe finally summons the courage to tell her torrid story, a tale of guilt and desire as shocking as it is compelling. Per Novelist: 'Two friends on a Grand Tour of 18th-century Europe stumble across a magical artifact that leads them from Paris to Venice in a dangerous manhunt shaped by pirates, highwaymen and their growing attraction to one another.' Addicted by Zane: Never sleep on Zane. Once described as “the hottest paperback in the country” by the New York Times and now a major motion picture distributed by Lionsgate, this wildly popular novel by the Queen of Erotica follows one woman’s life as it spirals out of control when her three extramarital affairs lead her down a dark and twisted path.įor successful African-American businesswoman Zoe Reynard, finding the pleasure she wants, the way she wants it, is not worth the risk of losing everything she has: marriage to the man she has loved since childhood, a thriving company, and three wonderful children. ![]() James’s 50 Shades of Grey, there was Zane’s Addicted. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The smed and the smoos![]() Speaking about the partnership, Andoh said: “What Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler have completely nailed with this story is its intergenerational appeal. The Smeds and the Smoos was directed by Samantha Cutler and Daniel Snaddon.ĭonaldson was the 2011–2013 Children’s Laureate and is best known for her popular rhyming stories for children, especially those illustrated by Scheffler, which include The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom and Stick Man. ![]() ![]() (BBC/PA)Īshna Rabheru and Daniel Ezra will play the young couple, Janet and Bill, respectively. Meera Syal will play Aunt Smed and Rob Brydon will be returning for his tenth Magic Light film as Uncle Smoo. The all-star cast includes double Oscar nominee Sally Hawkins as the narrator, Bridgerton’s Adjoa Andoh as Grandmother Smoo and comedian Bill Bailey as Grandfather Smed. Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s story of a love which overcomes divisions will air on BBC One and iPlayer in December 2022. ![]() The Smeds and the Smoos tells the story of the pair who fall in love and run away together, forcing their red and blue families to put aside their differences to search for them. ![]() |