![]() ![]() Within a first few pages, I was hooked and looking back, maybe at 21 I just wasn’t ready. This time around, I decided to read the preface, which is what I hear adults do and was delighted to learn that it was satirical in nature and thought I’d give it a go. Recently, Herland has been on my mind and decided to pick it up again. I had very little interest in a man’s perspective, even if it was written by a woman. As I read the first few pages of Gilman’s Utopian text about a land of only women, I noticed that it was from a man’s point of view and immediately lost interest. Years ago, I bought Herland after reading Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, craving that same satisfied woman-centered feeling that I was left with as I closed Chopin’s book. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Armies of "free" black men labored without compensation, were repeatedly bought and sold, and were forced through beatings and physical torture to do the bidding of white masters for decades after the official abolition of American slavery.The neoslavery system exploited legal loopholes and federal policies that discouraged prosecution of whites for continuing to hold black workers against their wills. Steel-looking for cheap and abundant labor. Government officials leased falsely imprisoned blacks to small-town entrepreneurs, provincial farmers, and dozens of corporations-including U.S. Thousands of other African Americans were simply seized by southern landowners and compelled into years of involuntary servitude. With no means to pay these ostensible "debts," prisoners were sold as forced laborers to coal mines, lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, quarries, and farm plantations. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history-an "Age of Neoslavery" that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II.Under laws enacted specifically to intimidate blacks, tens of thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily arrested, hit with outrageous fines, and charged for the costs of their own arrests. In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat. Pursued by the Silver king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red-and-Silver fighters to join in the struggle against her oppressors. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from the prince and friend who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind. 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But the enemy she’s facing is unlike anything she’s ever encountered before. ![]() Before long, she has to juggle dealing with the annoyingly attractive, ex-military, new neighbor, Sean Evans-an alpha-strain werewolf-and the equally arresting cosmic vampire soldier, Arland, while trying to keep her inn and its guests safe. ![]() Under the circumstances, "normal" is a bit of a stretch for Dina.Īnd now, something with wicked claws and deepwater teeth has begun to hunt at night.Feeling responsible for her neighbors, Dina decides to get involved. Meant to be a lodging for otherworldly visitors, the only permanent guest is a retired Galactic aristocrat who can’t leave the grounds because she’s responsible for the deaths of millions and someone might shoot her on sight. But Dina is.different: Her broom is a deadly weapon her Inn is magic and thinks for itself. She runs a quaint Victorian Bed and Breakfast in a small Texas town, owns a Shih Tzu named Beast, and is a perfect neighbor, whose biggest problem should be what to serve her guests for breakfast. On the outside, Dina Demille is the epitome of normal. ![]() This is a short novel, about 60,000 words. ![]() ![]() ![]() Until fairly recently, it has been common practice in ballet companies for the female dancers in ballets like “Swan Lake,” “Giselle” and “La Bayadère” to apply a whitening makeup in order to look like beings from another world, be they swans, sylphides, spirits or Shades. Lopes Gomes, who is French, is the only Black female dancer at the Staatsballett Berlin, and just a few days earlier, she said in an interview, one of the company’s ballet mistresses had told her to use the white makeup to color her skin for “Swan Lake.” Then, she later recounted, she repeatedly dipped a wet sponge into a pot of white pancake makeup, applying it carefully to her face, neck and upper body. Chloé Lopes Gomes had done her hair and makeup and fixed the feathered swan headdress in place before the rehearsal in February. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2013, she was spent that year mentored by Margaret Atwood. Working on a programme about electric eels for the BBC while writing The Power provided creative inspiration, too: the supernatural element to the novel is that girls generate and channel their own destructive electricity. I think that’s a massively valuable discipline for any artist”. You can't write a thing that is hermetically sealed there has to be a way for the audience to get in and participate. ![]() Her numerous strands of work often feed each other directly: game design taught her that “you have to leave room for your player. Her novels Lessons (2010) and The Liars’ Gospel (2012) soon followed – and in the meantime, she co-created a top-selling smartphone game called Zombies, Run! and wrote the Doctor Who tie-in novel Borrowed Time (2011). ![]() Translated into 10 languages, it earned her the 2006 Orange Award for New Writers, the 2007 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, and a place among Waterstones' 25 Writers for the Future. Disobedience was an immediate success, if (or perhaps because of) a little controversial for its subject matter. She attended Oxford and then the University of East Anglia to study creative writing before becoming a novelist. ![]() ![]() ![]() No way I’ll be caught washing dirty underwear in the sink! Eeeiu. And spare ones for those gruesome toilet moments. I wonder where we’ll be taken.Ĭlean Underwear (One pair for each day of the trip. ![]() It’s going to be one FANTASTIC trip! I’m really looking forward to my f irst overseas expedition. Oh boy, I can’t wait to pack! And I know exactly what I’ll bring with me on my trip. I should also get one of those cool trolley cases that have 360-degree spinner wheels! Those cases are compact enough to store everything, plus they provide bum rest. I hope we can apply to have our own credit cards when we travel. ![]() Brilliant! It’s the perfect excuse to leave Singapore during the holidays! Just imagine: no tuition, no remedial classes and no sports training! But the best part? Getting AWAY FROM FAMILY! No naggy Mum, no annoying siblings either. I read in a newspaper article that up to 90,000 kids in Singapore get to travel on overseas school trips yearly. Secondary school is that we get to go on overseas trips in the name of a learning journey. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Octavian and his troops have landed on the northern edge and need to find a way to meet up with the other Aleran nobles in Riva. Most of the Aleran resistance is based in the city of Riva, on the far eastern end of the continent. Returning from the ruined continent of Canea, Gaius Octavian, his betrothed Kitai, the Canim warmaster Varg, and their legions find that most of the Aleran Empire has been destroyed or besieged by the insect-like Vord, a monstrous race led by a single sentient Queen that consumes everything they come across. Battling ancient enemies, forging new alliances, and confronting the corruption within his own land, Gaius Octavian became a legendary man of war – and the rightful First Lord of Alera.īut now, the savage Vord are on the march, and Octavian must lead his legions to the Calderon Valley to stand against them – using all of his intelligence, ingenuity, and furycraft to save their world from eternal darkness. ![]() It is the sixth and final book of the Codex Alera novel series.įor years, he has endured the endless trials and triumphs of a man whose skill and power could not be restrained. First Lord's Fury is a 2009 high fantasy novel by American writer Jim Butcher. ![]() ![]() ![]() “This is not as pathetic as it looks,” her Butch pointed out. Apparently there had been quite a bit of drinking going on, empty bottles of vodka and whiskey littered around them, glasses in hands or on thighs. The hallway beyond was filled with the males of the house, the Brothers and other fighters and Manny sitting on the floor with their backs to the bare walls, their legs stretched out, propped up, crossed at the knees or crossed at the ankles. “I’ll be in touch-and, V, for the love of God, will you turn off his fucking mic-” “Ow! Hey! What the fuck, V-” “That’s because it doesn’t want to be around you any more than we do.” “You keep this up and I’m going to start thinking my enmity is mutual.” “About fucking time.” Right, Butch didn’t get off on dragging soaking-wet, panicked idiots out of a pool-but, man, he was really frickin’ glad he wasn’t on the back side of the house with those two fighting. I’ll let you know when you can-” “I’m losing air over here, you know,” Lassiter bitched. “We’ve got another four minutes in the gym. “Shut up.” Butch fought to keep his voice low. I can’t do singing right now.” “It’s from Despicable Me,” the angel commented. “I was born ready for this.” “Of all the people who could be immortal,” V muttered, “why are you one of them?” “Because I’m a“Shut up, Lass. “Is it my turn yet?” Lassiter asked over the earpiece. ![]() ![]() ![]() From 1951 to 1953, when he settled in San Francisco, he taught French in an adult education program, painted, and wrote art criticism. He received a Master’s degree from Columbia University in 1947 and a Doctorate de l’Université de Paris (Sorbonne) in 1950. ![]() Navy in World War II as a ship's commander. Following his undergraduate years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he served in the U.S. Though imbued with the commonplace, his poetry cannot be simply described as polemic or personal protest, for it stands on his craftsmanship, thematics, and grounding in tradition.įerlinghetti was born in Yonkers in 1919, son of Carlo Ferlinghetti who was from the province of Brescia and Clemence Albertine Mendes-Monsanto. Often concerned with politics and social issues, Ferlinghetti’s poetry countered the literary elite's definition of art and the artist's role in the world. A prominent voice of the wide-open poetry movement that began in the 1950s, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has written poetry, translation, fiction, theater, art criticism, film narration, and essays. ![]() |