6/12/2023 0 Comments Ling ma bliss montage review![]() ![]() These and other scenarios investigate the ways that the outlandish and the ordinary are shockingly, deceptively, heartbreakingly alike. An ancient ritual might heal you of anything-if you bury yourself alive. A toxic friendship grows up around a drug that makes you invisible. A woman lives in a house with all her ex-boyfriends. In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales of people making their way through the madness and reality of our collective delusions: love and loneliness, connection and possession, friendship, motherhood, the idea of home. What happens when fantasy tears the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our end? “Dazzling.” -Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air Genius.” -Michele Filgate, The Washington Post ![]() Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Story Prize, and a Windham-Campbell Literature PrizeĪ Best Book of the Year at The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, Houston Chronicle, Roxane Gay’s The Audacity, Mashable, Polygon, Kirkus Reviews, and Library JournalĪ New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "In this intelligent and humane book, Rosemary Mahoney writes of people who are blind. As part of her research, she spent three months teaching at Tenberken's international training center for blind adults in Kerala, India, an experience that reveals both the shocking oppression endured by the world's blind, as well as their great resilience, integrity, ingenuity, and strength.īy living among the blind, Rosemary Mahoney enables us to see them in fascinating close up, revealing their particular "quality of ease that seems to broadcast a fundamental connection to the world." Having read For the Benefit of Those Who See, you will never see the world in quite the same way again. In the tradition of Oliver Sacks's The Island of the Colorblind, Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school.įascinated and impressed by what she learned from the blind children of Tibet, Mahoney was moved to investigate further the cultural history of blindness. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Hope less melissa haag![]() ![]() Breene, and Stephenie Meyer won't want to miss this immersive world of werewolves and mayhem filled with all the romance and hot alpha maleness you're looking for. Time is running out to discover who or what wants her, and Gabby’s just starting to realize there’s more at stake than the heart and freedom of one human girl.įans of Dannika Dark, K.F. Melissa Haag (Author of Hope (less)) Discover new books on Goodreads Melissa Haag Goodreads Author Born in The United States Website Twitter MelissaHaag Genre Romance, Paranormal, Fantasy Member Since January 2013 edit data I love to write Sharing the worlds I've created is beyond amazing. Now, hunted for the secrets she’s spent her whole life protecting, Gabby must turn to the one man she didn't want for the help she needs. Not only does Clay follow, but something truly dangerous does as well. Gabby does what any sane girl would do and runs. The silent, ruggedly-handsome werewolf is determined to win his mate by any means necessary. With a single look, Gabby knows Clay is the one. ![]() ![]() As a human, she has no plans to attach herself to a werewolf. After years of meeting single werewolves and successfully dodging the mating bullet, she's on her way to her last Introduction to say "No, thanks" one final time. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Blueshift joshua dalzelle![]() ![]() The story focuses on the drama of the situation but the world created was quite interesting and I would have enjoyed learning more about this version of our future. There are no real surprises in this adventure, even the ironic twist seemed inevitable, but I thoroughly enjoyed the tale. Maybe he was given help.Ī classic example of human survival behaviour in a rather interesting scenario. I had to quit this book, I was sickened.But! But! his later books seem better. Thus any attempt at humour falls flat and credibility that these folk are fit astronauts is laughable. " the characters are immature, aggressive, sarcastic. ![]() Flirt, idiot, shes flirtatious, chick, idiot, smokin hot", idiot, dousche bag, naked, idiot. How could a supposedly bright man think it was ok to write in this offensive manner? Im stunned Audible has this book on the site. it had potential but he cheapened this book with constant gratuitous swearing and sexual references and some of the worst blatant sexist treatment of female characters (who supposedly have multiple degrees ). Glad he improvedĪRRRGH!!! If you enjoy Sci fi apparently written by a foul mouthed sex obsessed 16 year misogynist then this one is for you. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Get happy gerald clarke![]() ![]() Other revelations, such as of Garland attacking her young son, Joey, with a butcher's knife, are simply shocking. Many of Clarke's revelations are of a sexual nature-he mentions affairs with Sinatra, Glenn Ford, Yul Brynner and Tyrone Power as well as with women. But while most portray Garland as tormented by inexorable and sometimes inexplicable inner demons, Clarke brings to his work a far harsher evaluation of how the singer was treated by her employers, family and lovers: her mother gave her amphetamines at the age of four producers at MGM sexually harassed her as a young teen husband Vincente Minnelli cheated on her with men soon after their marriage husband Sid Luft stole millions from her fourth husband Mark Herron had an affair with Garland's son-in-law, Peter Allen (then married to Liza Minnelli). It follows the basic themes established by the best of the more than 20 biographies and memoirs of Garland that have appeared since her 1969 death (in particular, Gerald Frank's 1975 bio, authorized by her family). ![]() ![]() This exhaustively researched and illuminating biography by Clarke, whose bestselling 1988 life of Truman Capote won critical praise, is as compassionate as it is wrenching. Judy Garland's on-screen longing for a land where ""sorrows melt like lemon drops away above the chimney tops"" was answered with a life plagued by emotional agony, dependency on drugs and alcohol, exploitative relationships, suicide attempts and physical violence. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments The Blood Stones by Wallace Moore![]() ![]() ![]() “I actually asked that he be on the board when I joined I used to respect Alexis Ohanian. That’s a stunning lack of leadership and an incredibly shitty thing to do. “Then when the hate-train started up against Pao, Alexis should have been out front and center saying very clearly “Ellen Pao did not make this decision, I did.” Instead, he just sat back and let her take the heat. In this case it shouldn’t have traveled upstream to her, it came from above her. He had different ideas for AMAs, he didn’t like Victoria’s role, and decided to fire her. In a thread discussing the firing of Victoria, Yishan spoke up about the events that surrounded the decision that would eventually lead to Pao’s resignation, saying: “Alexis wasn’t some employee reporting to Pao, he was the Executive Chairman of the Board, i.e. Also See: Ironically, the #DontJudgeMeChallenge is Pretty Much Devoted to Judging People ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments The sun is also a star book about![]() ![]() ![]() The 1997 study, The Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness, was conducted by Arthur and Elaine Aron. It was published in January of 2015 and, as Daniel explains, provides a brief overview of a study in which researchers developed a set of 36 questions intended to foster closeness and intimacy between research subjects. The New York Times article that Daniel mentions in the novel was part of the Modern Love column written by Daniel Jones. Though the total number of immigrants who were removed and then returned have decreased since then, this shift has remained controversial as the total number of deportations actually rose. Since the mid-2000s, the US has actually moved away from voluntary departure in favor of other forms of removal. The act added civil penalties, such as fines, for people who refuse to depart the US voluntarily, as well as increased the amount of time immigrants are ineligible for various forms of relief. ![]() ![]() Much of the legislation that guides Natasha's immigration experience was put into place with the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (New York: Ballantine Books, 1999). Haley, A., The Autobiography of Malcolm X Ballantine Books: New York, 1989.ġ. 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Learn how to create in-text citations and a full citation/reference/note for The autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X using the examples below. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments The dow of pooh![]() In the book When We Were Very Young (the same book that introduced Edward Bear), Milne wrote a poem, telling how Christopher Robin would feed the swan in the mornings. The "Winnie" part of the name came from a visit to the London Zoo, where Milne saw a black bear who had been named after the city of Winnipeg, Canada.Īs for Pooh? Well, originally Pooh was a swan, a different character entirely. Initially, he went by the name of Edward Bear, before changing to Winnie in time for that aforementioned official 1926 debut. In fact, when first introduced by Milne, Winnie wasn’t even Winnie. Milne’s writing clearly struck a chord, and the character’s many subsequent TV and film adaptations have endeared him to an even wider audience.īut why is Winnie called a Pooh rather than a bear? Given that most children (and grown-ups, for that matter) have a different idea of what a Pooh is, how has the name stuck? ![]() Milne published the first official Winnie the Pooh story in 1926, the character has become beloved by children across many generations. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Sight by Jessie Greengrass![]() ![]() Now she stands apart and I must reach for her, on each occasion a little further until it seems her progress towards adulthood is a kind of disappearing and that I know her less and less the more she becomes herself.” Juxtaposed against the woman’s meditation on motherhood is her loss of her own mother, some years before, when the narrator was 21 and “at that turning spot between adolescence and adulthood,” a death she continues to mourn and mull as the “defining event in life,” fracturing it in two. “She used to clamber over me, her legs around my waist, her arms around my neck, as though I were furniture or an extension of herself, unthought-of or intimately known. “The weight of her body when I lift her takes me by surprise, its unfamiliarity a reiteration of the distance between us,” Greengrass’ narrator muses. ![]() ![]() This debut novel considers the intrinsic intimacy and distance between mother and daughter, from the perspective of a narrator who is both, as well as the struggle to clearly see one another and oneself.Ī woman, pregnant with her second child, gazes out a window at her firstborn, a little girl, playing in the garden, and contemplates the deep sense of loss that accompanies her daughter's growth. ![]() |