![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The modern anorexic is seen as making a political protest through an act of courage, which in these three books is described as a bid for autonomy using the limited material that comes to hand – a woman’s body: but which can also seen as the ultimate denial of that body unto death. Mothers and mothering become the pivotal points of the daughter’s development, Freud’s hysterics become heroines, grimly and doggedly determined to tell a truth that the analyst will not hear, and Demeter now stalks the earth mourning all her raped and lost daughters, prisoners of phallocentrism or the underworld. We are in the middle now of some quite explicit recasting, conscious attempts to reverse accounts, particularly psychoanalytic accounts, which place masculinity at the centre of the picture, and which have in the past defined femininity in relation to it. In this case, then, we should expect their periodic recasting, as the day-to-day narratives shift and change. Myths can be seen as particular kinds of symbolic story designed to explain all the other stories that people tell about themselves. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The rise of eBooks made room for indie publishing and small presses like Entangled. Ginger's sister gets her own book in Unfixable. Derek also appears as a secondary character in the Crossing the Lines series, where he assembles a team of ex-cons and misfits as a special crime fighting team. Derek and Ginger also appear in a follow-up novella, Protecting What's Theirs. The hero of Protecting What's His is Derek Tyler, which is Jen's second favorite romance Derek. Jen wrote about Johanna Lindsey and her New York Times obituary in a column for Kirkus. Meanwhile, Jen went to see Bug by Tracy Letts at the Steppenwolf Theater, which is known for being the home theater of John Malkovich and also where hope goes to die. She's going to see Rachel Hawkins and Naima Simone! Based on the description of that event, Jen suspects that she was outside orienteering. The last time she was there, it was when she was a kid going to a Science Olympiad competition. ![]() Sarah was heading to Birmingham for the Southern Voices Book Festival. ![]() ![]() If it were up to Quinn, he would efficiently propose, marry, and beget Janie with child all in the same day - thereby avoiding the drama and angst that accompanies the four stages of pre-matrimony: engagement, meeting the parents, bachelor/bachelorette party, and overblown, superfluous wedding day traditions. After just five months of dating Janie, Quinn - former Wendell and unapologetic autocrat - is ready to propose marriage. There are three things you should know about Quinn Sullivan: 1) He is madly in love with Janie Morris, 2) He's not above playing dirty to get what (or who) he wants, and 3) He doesn't know how to knit. ![]() It is the sequel to ‘Neanderthal Seeks Human,' it is book #1.5 in the ‘Knitting in the City' series, and it is a full length, 105k word novel. ![]() ![]() Towards the end, she was weak, groggy from medicines, and could not go for walks with him as before. He ‘knows’ that this is because he could not do his rituals in school and so could not protect her. He remembers his mother taking him for walks and teaching him about plants, he remembers her kindling his interest in books, and when he is in school, he gets the news that she died. It is touching from almost the beginning, with David ‘trying to prevent’ his mother dying by making sure that he always knocks on doors even times and other ‘tricks’.Īs she grows weak, he reads aloud to her from the childhood books that she read to him in the past. This is about a boy, David, who lost his mother to a terrible disease. Overall, what impression does it create? Read on to find out. ![]() It gets preachy too, but it is done in a way that is not cloying but certainly the preachy parts are not subtle. ![]() This starts out like a poignant family drama and then morphs into a kind of a fairytale based tale, albeit with some twists. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is not what 70-year-old writers of genre fantasy are supposed to do, but then, there aren't many writers around like Le Guin. In her new novel, however, she reconsiders the relationship between magic and something even more basic: life and death itself. In Tehanu (1990), the fourth book in the series, Le Guin rethought the traditional connection between gender and magic that she had assumed in the original Earthsea trilogy. Even Ged, the former archmage, now living in peaceful, self-imposed exile on Gont, starts to have disturbing dreams. The new ruler of the Kargad Lands sends his daughter west in an attempt to wed her to King Lebannen. The dragons break their long-standing truce and begin to move east. Soon, more general signs and portents begin to disturb Earthsea. He begins to dream of the land of the dead and sees both Lily and other shades reaching out to him across the low stone wall that separates them from the land of the living. ![]() Alder, the man who unwittingly initiates the transformation of Earthsea, is a humble sorcerer who specializes in fixing broken pots and repairing fence lines, but when his beloved wife, Lily, dies, he is inconsolable. Now she returns with a superb novel-length addition to the Earthsea universe, one that, once again, turns that entire series on its head. First, there was The Telling, the widely praised new novel in her Hainish sequence, followed by Tales from Earthsea, a collection of recent short fiction in her other major series. ![]() ![]() When Yazidipopulated Sinjar and Bashika came under attack, Yazidis retreated to Mount Sinjar and began flocking to the Turkish border. The town of Sinjar, where the Yazidi population in Iraq is concentrated, is of vital importance with regard to Kurdistan's integrity.īut after the fall of Mosul and Telafer, Sinjar became effectively defenseless. ![]() There are more than 5,000 Yazidi refugees in Batman, the last place where native Yazidis continue to live in Turkey. ![]() The first group of Yazidi refugees took shelter in a bus terminal in Mardin and then they were gradually directed to an AFAD (Disaster and Emergency Management Authority) camp in Midyat, which was prepared to house them. That number is expected to reach 100,000. The total number of Yazidi refugees has already reached 30,000. ![]() The number of Yazidis fleeing from ISIS attacks and taking refuge in Turkey increases every day. ![]() ![]() ![]() Scarred from too many betrayals, he has no intention of forming a lasting tie with anyone. But now he’s back, and the last thing he needs are complications from the gorgeous man who is staying with him. Will he turn away? Can he?Īsa is a talented actor who has spent time away from the scene to look after his son. But by the end of the summer his reasons for not staying are still valid. ![]() It leads to an unexpected summer of falling in love with a larger-than-life man and his child. However, an accident at home one night leads to him making a new deal and accepting the offer of help from an unlikely source. Get in, get out, and no ties with anyone. He made a deal with himself and his hook-ups. However, circumstances decreed a long time ago that this was his path, so he’s resolutely stayed on it and accepted his fate with good grace. His life is full of casual hook-ups with pretty men in glamorous locations, but it’s still empty. Jude is a highly successful model, but a very reluctant one. Sometimes your mouth makes deals that your heart can’t honour. ![]() ![]() From early Christian mystics to the illustrations of William Blake and the Romantics, this collection spans science, philosophy, and otherworldly mystery over the ages. The roots of surrealism and many other more recent artistic movements can be found in this treasure trove.įables, folklore, and fantasy-this compendium of all things alchemical and mystical gathers centuries of esoteric mythology in the form of writings, drawings, paintings, and prints. Each richly illustrated chapter begins with an introduction and quotes from alchemists by specialist Alexander Roob. ![]() Even for those with no knowledge of the fascinating history of alchemy, this book is a delight to explore. The enigmatic hieroglyphs of cabalists, Rosicrucians, and freemasons are shown to be closely linked with the early scientific illustrations in the fields of medicine, chemistry, optics, and color theory. ![]() ![]() The Hermetic Museum takes readers on a magical mystery tour spanning an arc from the medieval cosmogram and images of Christian mysticism, through the fascinating world of alchemy to the art of the Romantic era. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rather than talk about it, Jean berates Bérenger for his tardiness and drunkenness, until a rhinoceros rampages across the square, causing a commotion. They have met to discuss an unspecified but important matter. Two friends meet at a coffee shop: eloquent, intellectual and prideful Jean, and the simple, shy, kind-hearted drunkard Bérenger. The play starts in the town square of a small provincial French village. The play is often read as a response and criticism to the sudden upsurge of Fascism and Nazism during the events preceding World War II, and explores the themes of conformity, culture, fascism, responsibility, logic, mass movements, mob mentality, philosophy and morality. ![]() Over the course of three acts, the inhabitants of a small, provincial French town turn into rhinoceroses ultimately the only human who does not succumb to this mass metamorphosis is the central character, Bérenger, a flustered everyman figure who is initially criticized in the play for his drinking, tardiness, and slovenly lifestyle and then, later, for his increasing paranoia and obsession with the rhinoceroses. The play was included in Martin Esslin's study of post-war avant-garde drama The Theatre of the Absurd, although scholars have also rejected this label as too interpretatively narrow. ![]() Rhinoceros ( French: Rhinocéros) is a play by Eugène Ionesco, written in 1959. ![]() ![]() ![]() More than half of humanity now lives in cities, and it’s been incredible successful. But if cities in the developed world are growing, that is nothing compared to the growth of cities in the devloping world. Glaeser talks about how, in the 19th century, Americans moved into the vast continent, and spread out. In the 21st century we’re moving closer together and taking advangtage of the benefits of being close to each other, and cities are growing tremendously. ![]() “At their heart,” he says, “cities are the absence of physical space between people.” And cities are powerhouses of the economy: The three largest metropolitan areas produce 80% of GDP but contain only 13% of population. He is also one of the world’s experts on the nature of cities, and he was invited to set the stage for the TED2012 wish. ![]() Ed Glaeser is a economist at Harvard, and the author of Triumph of the City, and as his business casual look he wears a bow-tie with ice-cream cones. ![]() |