![]() ![]() I think of Yoko’s famous line: Woman is the n-word of the world. The struggles of women are always “only” that. ![]() How to best resist it? Nothing’s ever been or will ever be equal, let’s start there. Because women’s bodies are an actual battlefield, with large political consequences.Įlisa Albert: It’s a hell of a persistent bias. Paula Bomer: I take issue with the idea that women’s fiction dealing with the “domestic,” in the case of After Birth, with birth and caregiving to the very young, isn’t political or even globally political. ![]() Interviewing her was equally gleeful, where we discuss, among other things, having little babies, second wave feminism, what I think of as bitch culture and she more intelligently calls “female aggression,” generosity among women, the failure of mothers’ groups, and so much more. Albert writes with a blistering honesty that may make some people uncomfortable, and I truly hope After Birth makes some people squirm, but of course, it was right up my female passage, or alley, so to speak. I just want to rub her novel all over me. ![]() Rarely have I had to read out loud so many passages to anyone who would listen because, damn, I had to share the brilliance. Reading After Birthby Elisa Albert felt like getting a big, wet, aggressively sloppy kiss. ![]()
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![]() Do you really want to go down that road now that you know everything that happens? Probably not. Alternatively, if you want to be a tyrant, here's how to do it, with extensive examples from history and the repercussions of these actions. If you want to be a good ruler, here's how to do it, with extensive examples from history. ![]() I mean, you could easily take bits and paragraphs out of context to create a negative case against Machiavelli, but reading it all the way through, it seems to have a pretty solid, sincere idea and message: I've read and re-read this book many times and I honestly can't find anything that sounds like malice (or satire of malice for that matter). I've also heard people say he wrote this as a satire because 'no one could be that ruthless'. ![]() I've heard people say that, because of this book, we have the word 'machiavellian'. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Your audiences need time to absorb the valuable words of your message. Be sure to maintain a measured pace when you present. Rhythm. Another impact of digital culture is the speed of our communication, particularly in the rate at which we speak. ![]() Aspire to precision and clarity when you speak. This is not to say that you should use long or esoteric words. Our digital culture of text messages, tweets, and email has impacted our spoken language, often reducing it to monosyllables, idioms, and clichés. Correctness of diction.“Diction” is often used to refer to articulation, but its primary meaning is word choice-think of dictionary. ![]() With all due respect to Sir Winston’s estimable writing skills, I’ve taken the liberty of extending his 1897 verbiage (bolded) into modern times: When he was just 23, he wrote an unpublished paper called “The Scaffolding of Rhetoric,” in which he offered five “principal elements” to win over audiences. Sir Winston’s oratorical skills were world famous, and he started developing them at an early age. ![]() ![]() You could actually see how close they were.īut then, there was Warner/Aaron and Juliette/Ella. I actually liked all their interactions with Kenji. I guess Mafi remembered that they existed and gave them dialogue lines. I guess? The crew from Omega Point was actually relevant in this one. The other kids of the supreme leaders were helpful at some points, but mostly just sort of. While Kenji was trying to add light to dark times and trying to keep his friends and found family together and safe, all the other major characters were off undoing their character development.Īdam is still irrelevant in this book so let's not even mention him. No wonder Kenji was constantly on the verge of a breakdown in this novel, the poor boy was carrying the whole story on his back! How does her mind come up with such lyrical sentences?Īlso, let me say that I really liked Kenji in this book. I had forgotten how atmospheric and beautiful it was. I am very glad about it because this novel was nothing at all like anything I could have possibly imagined.įirst, let me start with the good and say that I love Tahereh's writing. ![]() I didn't know what I was getting into and had no idea how it was gonna all turn out. I literally expected nothing from this novel. ![]() But no, I guess life is not in fact, good.įirst, I gotta admit, my hopes for this book were pretty gosh darn low. Life would have been good if it had ended with Ignite Me. This series should have remained a trilogy. ![]() ![]() The person to take it to was the deputy head, Mr. It was possibly just a joke, and Miss Cadwallader had no sense of humor to speak of. He decided not to take the note to the headmistress. He looked out over the bowed heads of Class 6B and wondered what to do about it. Crossley rubbed his ginger moustache unhappily. It was written in capital letters in ordinary blue ballpoint, and it had appeared between two of the geography books Mr. THE NOTE SAID: SOMEONE IN THIS CLASS IS A WITCH. Mind you, each book in the series does have a different 'flavour'.A very nice read, up to Ms Wynne Jones's usual high standards.Recommended. In an universe where magic practitioners are persecuted and burned at the stake, this leads to a fraught week where accusations and untamed magic abound, until the Chrestomanci is called in to save the day.Although I found the ambience of this book (a school story with cliques and bullies and lots of people keeping secrets) very different from other Chrestomanci books, it had me laughing out aloud at points. ![]() ![]() Though this is part of the Chrestomanci series (book 5), we don't see the connection until around the final quarter of the book.At the beginning of Witch Week, a supernaturally powerful time of the year between Hallowe'en and Guy Fawkes day, an anonymous note claiming that one of the class members is a witch lands on a teacher's desk. In fact, the story takes place on a parallel Earth where magic is forbidden (as opposed to merely hidden). This is a school story about magic but not a la Hogwarts. ![]() ![]() ![]() So that is where he’s put under house arrest. As a gentleman, he is staying and has been in the Metropole Hotel in Moscow for several years. They decide they can’t execute him, but they don’t want to let him go free because he could still cause them trouble later. Then the icing on the cake is the connections that he has. However, the man that sits before them seems to be an unapologetic gentleman or nobility, and there’s no room for him in their now Marxist communist regime because of those two things. ![]() As far as the Bolsheviks are concerned, that is a positive for him. He had written the poem that we read in our younger years, which was a call to rebellion or revolution against the previous regime. After the Bolshevik Revolution, he was on trial. He was an aristocrat under the old regime. It begins with a poem, and then we read the transcript of a Bolshevik tribunal, Alexander Rostov’s trial. This book takes place in Russia in 1922 Moscow. ![]() What if you have to spend the rest of your life inside a luxury hotel? The book is written in a very lucid language, so it’s a very easy read. A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles is historical fiction and cultural book that describes Russian culture. ![]() ![]() “I don’t remember what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I’m sure it wasn’t a debt ridden, people hating, dog loving, sarcastic bitch with an alcohol problem.” What do you do? Get your drunk ass off the carousel.” “You’re riding a horse full speed, there’s a giraffe next to you, and a lion chasing you. “You know you’re officially lost when you turn down the car radio and take off your sunglasses” “Somebody left a grocery list in this cart that said… Cheese and shit like that. “My housekeeping style is best described as there appears to have been a struggle” “Funny how drinking 8 cups of water a day seems like it’s impossible but 8 beers and 6 shots in 3 hours go down like a fat kid on a see-saw…” “I do not have the emotional strength to handle the sound of a person chewing loudly.” “Apparently spite is not an appropriate answer to what motivates you?” “I hate when I think I’m buying organic vegetables and when I get home I discover they’re just regular donuts” If they panic and start running to you, you’re old.” “One way to find out if you are old is to fall down in front of a lot of people. ![]() “Some days I have my shit together… Some days I spit toothpaste in my own hair.” “How to be a grown up at work: replace fuck you with ok, great.” “Me: I need some help around here! Also me: no, not like that…here, I’ll do it.” Well technically they are stupid people, but give me a few minutes.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() #AudiobookObsessionReviewerįU is in the underworld. I enjoyed listening to this and would listen to it again. I would recommend this to readers who liked Jennifer L. The ending, though dramatic as it may be, concludes with a big cliffhanger. Then you're left wondering, what the heck took him so long?! What were his bloody hang-ups? Meanwhile, the search to get out of the underworld soldiers on. Finally, after about a year and a half, he finally puts Piper out of her misery and worked her body the way she desperately craved! It was nothing short of pure, animal magnetism. It was sad that she felt she had to change her image for him to even tolerate her. I got so emotional for Piper after the repeated rejections, especially when she tried to do right by Kai, seeking a way to sever the bond. ![]() For some reason, I thought it was odd that Kai was super reluctant to complete the bond because I knew he felt the succubus pull too! Then I thought about the other reverse harems I've read and I'm quickly reminded of one simple fact: there's always that one stubborn as hell alpha-hole. ![]() ![]() ![]() It turned out needed someone to work in their video department, so I ended up working there. We all picked an animal to research, and I ended up choosing the capybara - the world’s largest rodent. SG: I did a biology project at the zoo when I was at Penn…for a course called Social Ethology. ![]() MP: I heard that Belly Up is based loosely on your experiences at the Philadelphia Zoo. He recently made time to speak with me about his novel, its success, and the experiences that inspired it. Gibbs has been writing movie and TV scripts in Los Angeles for years - including See Spot Run and Repli-Kate - but Belly Up is his first book. Joined by Summer McCraken, a sassy girl with her own secrets, Teddy sets out to uncover the truth in Belly Up, Stuart Gibbs’ C’91 new young-adult novel. A beloved hippo at FunJungle - “the newest, most family-friendly theme park in the world” - is dead, and 12-year-old Teddy Roosevelt Fitzroy suspects foul play. ![]() |