![]() But what makes So You Want to Talk About Race such a strong addition to books that address race is that the author also turns her eye toward much more complex issues like intersectionality, the school-to-prison pipeline, and cultural appropriation with wit and heart. The book is divided into chapters that tackle issues such as the myth that class is a bigger problem than race or what racism and micro-aggressions actually are. ![]() ![]() ![]() While white readers are going to gain insight on hard-to-understand-unless-you’ve-lived-it topics in So You Want to Talk About Race, readers of color generally will find camaraderie and a resource in Ijeoma Oluo’s conversational approach to race, racism, and racial violence in America. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But realizing their heart's true desire is not enough. Torn between passion and prejudice, conviction and taboo, love and obligation, each is forced to question everything they knew and everything they were sure they wanted. In the smoldering aftermath of a grueling battle, they find themselves in unfamiliar positions-Nena as a captive-Jarl wanting something he cannot have. Proud, strong and fiercely disciplined, her tribe has dominated the territory for centuries, and they fear no opponent-certainly not the beast-like, invading Northmen. NENA, daughter of a regional war-chief, is an accomplished warrior in her own right. His forces cut a wide swath through the land, taking everything of value-capturing or killing any who stand in their way. ![]() JARL, a powerful Viking leader, returns to the rich lands near the Caspian Sea at the helm of his magnificent new longship, The Treasure Huntress. Under the fiery Middle Eastern sun, two enemy worlds collide. VOTED TOP 4 - "BEST VIKING ROMANCES" ON GOODREADS - (February 17, 2020). GOLD MEDAL WINNER - 2019 READERS' FAVORITE INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2019 B.R.A.G. ![]() ![]() ![]() With roots primarily in Protestantism, spiritualism (unlike the occult) was not interested in magic and (unlike paganism) did not incorporate earth-based deities into its beliefs or practices. Spiritualism, however, which arose in the United States in the 1840s, offered public rather than private displays of supernatural events, with a keen investment in establishing scientific confirmation of the ability to communicate with the dead. At this time, paganism-whether as an ancient or contemporary earth-based spirituality-was usually envisioned as having occult interests in secret knowledge and practices. ![]() ![]() Practised in telepathy and automatic writing and an acquaintance of Theosophical leader Madame Blavatsky, Stead hoped his new journal would foster attention to and respect for spiritualism and related subjects, such as paganism and the occult. Stead launched the periodical Borderland: A Psychical Quarterly (1893–1897) with the vision of bringing the study of immaterial phenomena to ‘the great mass of ordinary people’ (1893, 5). ![]() 1 Janet Oppenheim offers a succinct discussion of Stead’s engagement with spiritualism in The Other W (.)ġIn July 1893, editor W. T. ![]() ![]() ![]() Treating other entities-people, of course, but also the natural world-as ![]() ![]() The book is also a manifesto of sorts against the prevailing capitalist priorities that underlie the attention economy: efficiency (which demands a “ frictionless” experience, so coveted by web designers, in order to maximize time spent on commercial activities) productivity (in which people need to be creating “value”-whatever that term means-at all times) and progress (the catchall justification for prioritizing economic growth and technological advancement over other values).Īttention from the distractions of social media feeds requires, sensiblyĮnough, paying attention to things of a qualitatively different sort. The book is about how to defy the machinations of powerful digital platforms that seek to capture the scarce resource of a person’s attention long enough to sell something. How to Do Nothing’s true subject is the subtitle: Resisting the Attention Economy. The title of Odell’s book is, as she notes, not entirely accurate it’s not a primer on inactivity, as absurdly apropos as that might be for the present moment. Not unimportant, exactly, but elbowed into theīackground by this new and frightening disease. The pre-pandemic world, many of which Odell writes about thoughtfully in herīook, seem very distant. ![]() Much besides the pandemic, and few people take the bus anymore. Whether people are still reading the book. By “everyone” I mean the hosts of aĬouple podcasts that I listen to and a woman on my bus to work. ![]() ![]() ![]() “There might be some napkins in the glove box.” She sighed and let her fingers drop to her lap. “Didn’t seem like the right time to point out that you puked so hard your mascara started to run.” “Because I like my head where it is?” he suggested. “God, Cade, I look like crap! Why didn’t you tell me I had raccoon eyes?” she demanded, using her fingers to scrub at the black smudges beneath her eyes. Rynn leaned forward to pull down the visor mirror and promptly did a double take. She kept him honest and he promised to keep her safe.ġ4+ due to sexuality and adult situations She taught him about friendship and family. Rynn Lewis was eighteen and pregnant, on the run from her ex-boyfriend, when Cade found her on the streets of Minneapolis. Until the night he decided it was time to risk it all. Yet over the course of a year, he’d watched his own life slowly spiral out of control. After high school, he’d agreed to be a bouncer for his sister’s club, not a dancer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, Mei finds herself thrust together with an eccentric classmate as panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. ![]() She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep - and doesn't wake up. Named One of the Best Books of the Year by Glamour "A startling, beautiful portrait of a community in peril." ( Entertainment Weekly ) New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceĪn ordinary town is transformed by a mysterious illness that triggers perpetual sleep in this mesmerizing novel from the bestselling author of The Age of Miracles. ![]() ![]() Hope's plane, they decide on Libby Blair, who is traveling by commercial airline. Rican terrorists is thinking of hijacking a plane with Bob Hope aboard. The most difficult part of her job, muses the First Lady, “was having a husband so preoccupied with the world's needs that he had no time to pay attention to his wife's needs.”Įnter dashing General Killian, the President's military aide, and the Oval Office begins to look triangular. On the night that “Libby” Blair has organized a rare evening just for two, the President decides to go to the World Series instead. ![]() (“Off the field and on, Ted had been known for his gentlemanly conduct.”) But he does neglect his wife. Ron Nessen's President is Ted Blair, an ex‐ballplayer and sports enthusiast. Since Water, gate, however, the bottom has dropped out of White House fiction.Įxhibit “A” is a behind‐the‐scenes novel by President Gerald R. Man,” in which a ‘ black President was accused of rape and a cross was burned on the White House lawn. ![]() ![]() UNTIL Watergate, I had thought that the worst novel about the United States Presidency was Irving Wallace's “Theīy Ron Nessen. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They are planning a trip to Vegas since Gideon has to go to Arizona for work anyway to give themselves some time to figure things out and fix their relationship as friends. However, Cary messed up his love life by engaging in a clusterfuck orgy on the living floor and Eva is having to deal with the fallout of that but I do believe she is partially at fault for it since she and Cary have always leaned on each other for support and she unknowingly took that away from him by spending all her free time with Gideon. The opening just recaps the ending of the first book, how we learnt of Eva’s incredibly messed up past and how Gideon’s is just as bad even though they haven’t openly spoken about it yet because he isn’t ready to. Re-joining Gideon Cross and Eva Tramell was amazing, even though I am still reminded of the irony of Eva’s name and it makes me laugh. ![]() I re-read Bared to You a little while ago and still loved it, way more than Fifty Shades of Grey and I am finally continuing with the series since I’ve heard that it gets so much better. Title: Reflected in You by Sylvia Day (Crossfire Book 2) ![]() ![]() That said, I do NOT recommend jumping into Shorefall if you haven’t read Foundryside. I don’t remember all the details about Valeria from the first book, but she must have been really important. Yep, that’s about all I remember from the first book. I remember really digging the magic system, really liking Clef and his whole deal, being kinda meh on Sancia even though she has a tragic backstory and a metal plate in her head, and really digging the magic system. So I dived into Shorefall, with very, very fuzzy memories of Foundryside. ![]() But then i was like do I really have time to reread Foundryside? And I liked that book, but did I like it enough to want to reread it? I meant to reread Foundryside before reading Shorefall. Where I got it: Received ARC from the publisher (Thanks Jo Fletcher books!) What’s this, a book review? I know, right? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She discovers socialising, parties and masked balls, and also the love which will ruin her and reduce her to a shell of her former self. As she becomes a young adult, she moves to the manor of an impoverished noble family who are expected to provide her the requisite social “polish” for high society. As a result, a half-brother is added to the household who is thoroughly unlikeable and who takes great delight in upsetting his sister. Such a sorry start in life is continued when she finds out that her beloved father has another family in addition to her. Throughout the book the reader watches Miss Havisham grow up a lonely child with only a young maid for a companion. ![]() The book both shows the descent into madness of Dickens’s infamous character, but also explains how she comes to be who she is. Havisham, is a book based on the life of Great Expectations’ Miss Catherine Havisham, the mad woman who, after being left at the altar, takes in the orphan Estella and teaches her to break the hearts of men. ![]() |