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5/27/2023 0 Comments Dirty english by ilsa madden millsWith only a cardboard-thin wall separating their bedrooms, he dreams of possessing the vulnerable girl next door forever. She gives him one night of unbridled passion, but he longs for more. A tattooed British street fighter, he’s the campus bad boy she’s supposed to avoid, but when he saves her from a frat party gone bad, all her rules about sex and love fly out the window. But then she meets Declan Blay, the new neighbor at her apartment complex. She’s learned the hard way that people you love the most always hurt you in the end. There are three things you need to know about Elizabeth Bennett: she’s smart as a whip, always in control, and lives by a set of carefully crafted rules. THE BRITISH ARE COMING! THE BRITISH ARE COMING! Read the #1 Book on Amazon! From New York Times best-selling author Ilsa Madden-Mills comes a new stand alone romance. 5/27/2023 0 Comments The vine witchI acquired this book through Amazon’s First Reads program in September 2019. Now she must try to restore her vineyard to former glory while seeking revenge on the one who cursed her. When she returns home to her vineyard, she finds it under new ownership. Smith’s debut novel, a witch who was cursed for seven years as a frog manages to break out of the curse and turn back into a human. The Vine Witch is a unique story about utilizing magic in a way I’d never seen done before, managing vineyards. Each wine its own entity, each vintage as unique as the heart and mind of the witch who crafted it.” This review contains minor spoilers from the beginning of the book “Wine, after all, was a living, breathing thing. A young witch emerges from a curse to find her world upended in this gripping fantasy of betrayal, vengeance, and self-discovery set in turn-of-the-century France. Roger Devlin offers a non-traditional defense of traditional sexual morals and institutions and shows us the way out of today's sexual dystopia. The most controversial aspect of Devlin's work is his argument that today's sexual dystopia is rooted just as much in women's nature as men's, exploring such taboo topics as female hypergamy (mating up), narcissism, infidelity, deceptiveness, and masochism. Devlin, however, is very critical of mainstream conservative responses to the sexual revolution, which often eerily echo feminist complaints about innocent women being preyed upon by wicked men who must be scolded and punished. Like many political revolutions, the sexual revolution of the 1960s began with a euphoric feeling of liberation. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. Devlin shows that the breakdown of monogamy results in promiscuity for the few, loneliness for the majority, and unhappiness for all.Įvery revolution gives rise to a reaction. Roger Devlin explores today's sexual dystopia, with its loose morals and confused sexual roles its soaring rates of divorce, celibacy, and childlessness and the increasingly arbitrary and punitive attempts to regulate and police it. But when utopian programs clash with dissenters-and with reality itself-the result is chaos, which revolutionaries seek to quash with repression and terror. Like many political revolutions, the sexual revolution of the 1960s began with a euphoric feeling of liberation. 5/27/2023 0 Comments Dear Girls by Ali WongGleaming with Tolentino's sense of humor and capacity to elucidate the impossibly complex in an instant, and marked by her desire to treat the reader with profound honesty, Trick Mirror is an instant classic of the worst decade yet. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos the literary heroine's journey from brave to blank to bitter the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our bodies, should become more efficient and beautiful until we die. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly through a culture that revolves around the self. Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. Now, in this dazzling collection of nine entirely original essays, written with a rare combination of give and sharpness, wit and fearlessness, she delves into the forces that warp our vision, demonstrating an unparalleled stylistic potency and critical dexterity. Jia Tolentino is a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea of changes that define us and our time. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion Newcomers to this (or probably any) country can see things about it and its people that long-timers often don't, and these things are useful for us to contemplate. When one's heart is always or often in a different place from one's body, life takes on a wistful tone. I even found echoes of themes I've encountered repeatedly in Irish-American literature of the divided nature of immigrant experience. Also, I had read Cutting for Stone a couple of months ago, and the two make nice bookends, so to speak, if you're interested in Ethiopia, which I am.Īnyway, BESIDES all of that, it is a great book! Mengestu does a lovely job pacing Sepha's story, and showing the reader the many angles of his, and his associates, lives. has further relevance to me as someone who lives in the D.C. In light of President Trumps's recent outrageous comments about immigrants from certain parts of the world, it could not be more timely, and its focus on gentrification and tensions between different populations in Washington, D.C. The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears was published in 2007 and its events take place in the late 1980s, but it registered with me as something I wanted to read when the NEA chose it as a "Big Read" book a few months back. Maud's father, an aerospace engineer turned lawyer, was an educated man who extolled the virtues of slavery and obsessed over the "purity" of his family bloodline, which he traced back to the Revolutionary War. Mental illness and religious fanaticism percolated through Maud's maternal lines back to an ancestor accused of being a witch in Puritan-era Massachusetts. Her mother's grandfather killed a man with a hay hook and died in an institution. Her mother's father, who came of age in Texas during the Great Depression, was said to have married thirteen times and been shot by one of his wives. Maud Newton's ancestors have vexed and fascinated her since she was a girl. "A roadmap for all of us who long to understand, at the deepest level, where we come from."-Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her wildly unconventional Southern family-and finds that our obsession with ancestors opens up new ways of seeing ourselves. 5/27/2023 0 Comments Street gang by michael davisStreet Gang is the compelling, comical, and inspiring story of a media masterpiece and pop-culture landmark. Today, it reaches some six million preschoolers weekly in the United States and countless others in 140 countries around the world. Sesame Street is the longest-running-and arguably most beloved- children's television program ever created. Finally, we get to touch Big Bird's feathers.” - The New York Times Book Review “Davis tracks down every Sesame anecdote and every Sesame personality in his book. Now an acclaimed documentary from Screen Media, the New York Times bestselling account of the story behind one of the most influential, durable, and beloved shows in the history of television: Sesame Street. Guest: Cecelia Watson, faculty, Language and Thinking, Bard College, and author, “Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark” While many think they know the story, few know the real history of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth and their 13 children. Published in 1948, then adapted into several movies by the same name, "Cheaper by the Dozen" is an American favorite. Guest: Jane Lancaster, Visiting Fellow, Brown University, and author, "Making Time: Lillian Moller Gilbreth-A Life Beyond 'Cheaper by the Dozen'" The Real Story of an Iconic American Family Born on a farm in Ontario, their upbringing took a strange turn when the government assumed guardianship of them and then exploited them as a tourist attraction. Yvonne, Marie, Annette, Cécile, Émilie, and Marie Dionne were the first quintuplets to survive past birth. Guest: Sarah Miller, author, "The Miracle and Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets" The Miracle and Tragedy of the First Surviving Quintuplets 5/26/2023 0 Comments Finding winnie sophie blackallAfter meeting Winnie at London Zoo, Christopher names his own bear Winnie and the Winnie-the-Pooh stories are created. The story of Christopher Robin who owned a nameless stuffed teddy bear. As that story concludes with Winnie being left at London Zoo another story begins. The first story is of Harry acquiring Winnie on his way to war. The book is presented as two stories within one and adopts the format of mother - Lindsay Mattick - reading a bedtime story to her son Cole. The incredible true tale of how Winnie-the-Pooh came to be is lovingly and vividly retold by the great-grand-daughter of Winnie’s saviour, Lindsay Mattick, and is beautifully illustrated in watercolour by Sophie Blackall. Finding Winnie is an adorable book that will be loved by many a reader both young and old. |