![]() ![]() As far as I know, we are the most embarrassing sub-sect of people to belong to if you're a teenager. The shorthand for Mennonite is "like Amish, only in Canada" (there's a large Mennonite community in the US, too, but that rather spoils the analogy) - Nomi gives the terse specifics in the opening pages of the book: "We're Mennonites. The narrative voice is so strong, it could carry the least eventful, least weird adolescence in the world and still be as transfixing, but the fact is, this community is compellingly strange. Its author, Miriam Toews, was raised in just such a place, and got out as fast as she humanly could (the day after graduating from high school). ![]() A Complicated Kindness is the story of Nomi, a brilliantly acute, confused, generous-spirited 16-year-old growing up in a Mennonite community some miles from Winnipeg. ![]()
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"'Thank you Jean, and please try to understand - Midge's problem is over-identification with her father, which compelled her to embrace a patriarchal power system'" Here are some particularly noteworthy lines: Oh so ridiculous - this book just seems to take it all to new depths - I think I might prefer it to, partially because I've become more familiar with a) lesbian literature and b) trashy pulp in the intervening time, so I know what this book is parodying. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Review: I love fairy tale retellings! They are so clever and I am so impressed with how an author can read a story and then think up a prequel or a different version of it. The odds are against him, but with courage and friendship-and a cheeky sense of humor-he just might triumph in the end. To break the spell, Rump must go on a perilous quest, fighting off pixies, trolls, poison apples, and a wickedly foolish queen. ![]() With each thread he spins, he weaves himself deeper into a curse. His best friend, Red Riding Hood, warns him that magic is dangerous, and she’s right. Rump discovers he has a gift for spinning straw into gold. Goodreads Summary: In a magical kingdom where your name is your destiny, 12-year-old Rump is the butt of everyone’s joke. But when he finds an old spinning wheel, his luck seems to change. ![]() ![]() Readers of English do not have to take Baudelaire on faith any longer. It is the English edition to acquire.īaudelaire revoiced…Howard’s achievement is such that we can be confident that his Flowers of Evil will long stand as definitive, a superb guide to France’s greatest poet. Richard Howard, generally esteemed as the finest American translator from the French of the postwar era, offers a new version of this masterpiece. (NOTE: An English-only edition, The Flowers of Evil, is available at the link to the left.) The voice of Baudelaire lives in this masterful translation. The many kinds of love that lie outside traditional morality is the focus of “Fleurs du Mal” while rebellion is at the heart of “Révolte.” “Le Vin” centers on the search for oblivion in drink and drugs. “Tableaux Parisiens” condemns the crushing effects of urban planning on a city’s soul and praises the city’s anti-heroes including the deranged and derelict. In “Spleen et idéal,” Baudelaire dramatizes the erotic cycle of ecstacy and anguish-of sexual and romantic love. ![]() Scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, love, death, the corrupting and oppressive power of the modern city and lost innocence, Les Fleurs Du Mal / The Flowers of Evil remains powerful and relevant for our time. Charles Baudelaire’s 1857 masterwork, translated into English by acclaimed poet Richard Howard. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() OL15893593W Page_number_confidence 77.21 Pages 138 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200715190023 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 389 Scandate 20200702205301 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780613667357 Tts_version 4. This time, he is traveling through space to a new planet After agreeing to the presidents request to be Earths representative, Stanley and his family board a spaceship and head to the planet Tyrra. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:15:13 Associated-names Nash, Scott, 1959- illustrator Boxid IA1881015 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Stanley is off on another adventure with his family. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases-a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old. Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. ”- Buzzfeed A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick. From the author of The Bride Test comes a romance novel hailed as one of The Washington Post ’s 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2018 and one of Amazon’s Top 100 Books of 2018! “This is such a fun read and it's also quite original and sexy and sensitive.”-Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author “ Hoang's writing bursts from the page. ![]() ![]() "We are flabbergasted, Leah," Aunt Fraidy said. It was infuriating to be held accountable for my transgressions by people who were breaking the law at the same time. Jewish law forbade reading other people's letters. ![]() The letters were a sin punishable by God, but no one else. I had bared my soul in those secret letters to my best friend's older brother asking Naftali what basis he had to claim that college was permissible and how his perspective on Israel, as a modern Orthodox Jew, varied from the ultra-Orthodox yeshivish view with which I was raised, and revealing, in my eager interrogation of his favorite holidays and hobbies and music, my unabashed interest in him. "Your letters," Aunt Fraidy said, "to her son, Naftali." What papers had my best friend's mother found? She was cleaning house and found some papers she thought we should know about." ![]() My parents, concerned about the influence of my modern Orthodox classmates in our hometown of Pittsburgh, had sent me to live with my aunt's family in Manchester, the ultra-Orthodox environment that matched my parents' yeshivish strict values. "Aunt Fraidy!"Īunt Fraidy had been my host in my last year of high school. ![]() "It's for you," Goldy shouted from the kitchen. I was in Jerusalem staying with my oldest sister, Goldy, for the summer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hi, I'm Adam Becker, PhD, an astrophysicist and science writer. New to reddit? Click here! Get flair in /r/science Previous Science AMA's ![]() Repeat or flagrant offenders will be banned. ![]() Comments dismissing established findings and fields of science must provide evidence.Criticism of published work should assume basic competence of the researchers and reviewers.Non-professional personal anecdotes will be removed.No off-topic comments, memes, low-effort comments or jokes.All submissions must have flair assigned.No blogspam, images, videos, or infographics.Research must be less than 6 months old.No editorialized, sensationalized, or biased titles.No summaries of summaries, re-hosted press releases, or reposts.Directly link to published peer-reviewed research or media summary. ![]() ![]() The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the "100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life." All About Love is a powerful affirmation of just how profoundly she can. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for the individuals and for a nation. ![]() All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. In thirteen concise chapters, hooks examines her own search for emotional connection and society's failure to provide a model for learning to love. A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' 'Love Song to the Nation' trilogy. In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with lovelessness.As bell hooks uses her incisive mind and razor-sharp pen to explode th question "What is love?" her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Here, at her most provacative and intensely personel, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our view of love as romance. ![]() ![]() "The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet.we would all love to better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a mistake Ruby makes one too many times. It’s not a very good idea to run into the hands of an enemy, who has rumours surrounding them of child-murder. But also, she doesn’t seem to have learnt that in an apocalyptic world, people will do anything to survive, whether that be killing animals, strangers or friends. Saskia and Princess both have to struggle to stick by Ruby when they’re travelling about the country in their high-jacked cars. ![]() It’s fair to say that she went through some character development for her personality, but her actions sure didn’t change.įirst of all, she doesn’t seem to appreciate how much better surviving will be if your with another person. She was more comfortable in her situation and not so whiny. Ruby managed to survive on her own for 3 MONTHS? It must be easier than I thought! But, I began to warm up to Ruby. I’d didn’t quite realise that this book was set 3 MONTHS after the first book. ![]() |