5/28/2023 0 Comments Landing by Emma Donoghue![]() ![]() As Monika Fludernik notes, ‘Western culture is steeped in images of imprisonment’ as she goes on to show in her wide-ranging study of metaphors of confinement in Anglophone literature, these images are refracted and (re)interpreted within specific cultural contexts ( 2019: vii).Įmma Donoghue’s Room is not an autobiographical account of incarceration, nor does it focus on a state institution of confinement such as a prison. While each carceral institution is inherently local (it restricts a body to a particular place), the real-world presence of sites of incarceration in different parts of the globe allows stories of imprisonment to find differently informed readerships, which create new meanings in the process. ![]() Moreover, their restricted focus gives such stories the ability to communicate across actual territorial borders, due to the potentially broad resonances of a carceral narrative space. In this sense, narrating coercive confinement is a form of border crossing, whether working from the inside out-telling of the long wait till freedom arrives-or from the outside in, bringing a reader into a world they do not know. In autobiographical accounts of incarcerated experience, the very impetus of writing is often to communicate to a broader audience what is, by definition, hidden from the outside world. For all their focus on restricted space, narratives of coercive confinement are inherently mobile. ![]()
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5/28/2023 0 Comments Call me russell by russell peters![]() ![]() It also led to larger and larger shows, not only in arenas in his native Canada, where he became the first comedian to sell-out Toronto’s Air Canada Centre in 2007 (as of today, six times and over 100,000 people), but to arenas in the United States, the UK, Australia, South Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Asia. ![]() I still don’t know how to upload anything on the web to this day.” That upload launched a new level of fame and unforeseen success. ![]() Peters says: “I never put the special on YouTube. In 2004, Peters gained critical and global recognition for his CTV “Comedy Now!” special which wound up on YouTube. He spent the next fifteen years honing his craft at clubs across Canada and the UK. Russell Peters started doing stand-up at the age of nineteen at open mics in his native Toronto in 1989. In comedian Russell Peters’ case, “success” may be a drastic understatement. Only a handful of today’s artists can claim their success began with YouTube, and even less, if any, having then been named alongside such luminaries as Richard Pryor, George Carlin and Eddie Murphy in Rolling Stone’s recently released list of the 50 Best Comics of All Time. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The two men are sucked into the perilous depths of this moral and ethical vacuum when Lord Palmerston commissions Burton to investigate assaults on young women committed by a weird apparition known as Spring Heeled Jack, and to find out why werewolves are terrorizing London's East End. BUY THIS BOOK The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack Mark Hodder, Pyr, 16 paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-61614-240-7 A historical figure already larger than life, Capt. Algernon Charles Swinburne - unsuccessful poet and follower of de Sade, for whom pain is pleasure, and brandy is ruin! They stand at a crossroads in their lives and are caught in the epicenter of an empire torn by conflicting forces: Engineers transform the landscape with bigger, faster, noisier, and dirtier technological wonders Eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpaid labor Libertines oppose repressive laws and demand a society based on beauty and creativity while the Rakes push the boundaries of human behavior to the limits with magic, drugs, and anarchy. Sir Richard Francis Burton - explorer, linguist, scholar, and swordsman his reputation tarnished his career in tatters his former partner missing and probably dead. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Siddhartha a novel![]() The archaeologists who discovered it indicate that the figure is made of stone, probably extracted from a region in the south of present-day Istanbul, Turkey. The 71-centimeter statue shows Buddha standing next to a lotus flower, holding his clothing with the left hand and with a halo of sun rays around his head, in allusion to his radiant mind. ![]() It is the first complete figure of the father of Buddhism, Siddhartha Gautama, discovered in the country, and it sheds new light on the human and commercial links that existed between Roman Egypt and India. archaeological mission has recently announced the discovery of an almost 2,000-year-old marble Buddha statue in a temple dedicated to the ancient Egyptian goddess Isis in Berenice, an important port city on the banks of the Reed Sea from the Greco-Roman period. Ministerio de Turismo y Antigüedades de EgiptoĪ Polish-U.S. The marble statue of Buddha discovered in Berenice, in an image released by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Dangerous things book![]() With little evidence and few leads for the police to chase, the case quickly went cold. One year ago, Isabelle Drake’s life changed forever: her toddler son, Mason, was taken out of his crib in the middle of the night while she and her husband were asleep in the next room. Here are some excerpts that I liked the most from the conversation□įollowing up her instant New York Times bestseller, A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham delivers a totally gripping thriller about a desperate mother with a troubled past in All the Dangerous Things. Her inspirations and challenges to write her books. I read this book as a partnership with Minotaur Books □Īuthor Stacy Willingham gave an interview for Goodreads telling a little about ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments The nonesuch by georgette heyer![]() ![]() ![]() Georgette Heyer was a prolific historical romance and detective fiction novelist. Can Sir Waldo convince the practical Miss Trent that it is not above her station as a governess to fall in love with him? Twenty-eight year old Ancilla Trent had put away any and all thoughts of romance when she became a governess, and at first she could only be amused at the fuss over Sir Waldo. While there, he meets Tiffany Wield, a positively dazzling young heiress who is entirely selfish and possessed of a frightful temper, as well as her far more elegant companion-governess. The famed sportsman himself! Heir to an uncounted fortune, and a leader of London society! The local youths idolized "the Nonesuch" the fathers disapproved and the mothers and daughters saw him as the most eligible-and elusive-man in the kingdom. When they learned that Sir Waldo was coming, the village gentry were thrown into a flurry. ![]() At the age of five-and-thirty, Sir Waldo Hawkridge, wealthy, handsome, eligible, illustrious, and known as the nonesuch for his athletic prowess, and when he comes north to inspect his unusual inheritance at Broom hall in the West Riding, his arrival leads to the most entertaining of ramifications. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins![]() ![]() I really wanted her to go on the mission to rescue Peeta (though I guess this would have made the book super long) instead of staying home feeling lost. I still enjoyed reading it, but I felt like Katniss remains a passive character for much of the beginning. This is my least favorite book in the Hunger Games series. She must become the rebels’ Mockingjay–no matter what the personal cost. To do this, she must put aside her feelings of anger and distrust. ![]() The success of the rebellion hinges on Katniss’s willingness to be a pawn, to accept responsibility for countless lives, and to change the course of the future of Panem. Everyone, it seems, has had a hand in the carefully laid plans–except Katniss. District 13 has come out of the shadows and is plotting to overthrow the Capitol. It is by design that Katniss was rescued from the arena in the cruel and haunting Quarter Quell, and it is by design that she has long been part of the revolution without knowing it. Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Published on AugAmazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() * "Brown's middle-grade debut, an uplifting story about an unexpected visitor whose arrival disrupts the animal inhabitants of a rocky island, has a contemporary twist.Brown wisely eschews a happy ending in favor of an open-ended one that supports the tone of a story that's simultaneously unsentimental and saturated with feeling. * "This strong debut middle grade novel by the acclaimed picture book author/illustrator is a first purchase for most middle grade collections."- School Library Journal, starred review Thought-provoking and charming."- Kirkus, starred review * "While the end to Roz's benign and wildlife is startling and violent, Brown leaves Roz and her companions-and readers-with hope. Expect readers to go wild for his robot-themed novel."- Booklist, starred review ![]() * " Brown's picture books are consistent bestsellers and critically acclaimed. "Roz may not feel emotions, but young readers certainly will as this tender, captivating tale unfolds."- The Washington Post The sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot, by award-winning author Peter Brown Roz is no ordinary robot. "Brown has written a lively tale that is sure to engage young readers."- The New York Times ISBN 10: 1848127510 / ISBN 13: 9781848127517. A New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Best Middle Grade Book of the Year An Amazon Best Book of the Year Top Pick An IndieBound Bestseller An ALA Notable Book for Children New York Public Library Best Books for Kids Pick Kirkus Best Children's of the Year Pick School Library Journal Best of the Year Pick Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year Pick Sunshine State Young Readers Award List Pick ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Books like neanderthal seeks human![]() ![]() Utilizing a frame story set in then-present Victorian England, Wells' text focuses on a recount of the otherwise anonymous Time Traveller's journey into the far future. ![]() The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle or device. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time. The Time Machine is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments The ethics of ambiguity![]() Thus, every man has to do with other men. It remains a concise yet thorough examination of existence and what it means to be human. The Ethics of Ambiguity is the book that launched Simone de Beauvoir’s feminist and existential philosophy. Ultimately, de Beauvoir argues that in order to achieve true freedom, one must battle against the choices and activities of those who suppress it. De Beauvoir outlines a series of “ways of being” (the adventurer, the passionate person, the lover, the artist, and the intellectual), each of which overcomes the former’s deficiencies, and therefore can live up to the responsibilities of freedom. ![]() ![]() In this classic introduction to existentialist thought, French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity simultaneously pays homage to and grapples with her French contemporaries, philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, by arguing that the freedoms in existentialism carry with them certain ethical responsibilities. From the groundbreaking author of The Second Sex comes a radical argument for ethical responsibility and freedom. ![]() |