![]() Then a trip to the doctor and, a few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, a diagnosis: leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. Next came the exhaustion, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. It started with an itch-first on her feet, then up her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter “the real world”. A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission and, ultimately, a road trip of healing and self-discovery. ![]()
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![]() Blake ultimately succeeds in making this woman of antiquity feel of our times, offering no easy answers to the many questions Naamah poses." - Paste "Revelatory, ethereal and transfixing, Naamah cracks open the ancient tale of Noah. Blasphemous, carnal and committed to exaltation, Naamah delivers its truths in a torrent of heresies dares us to center the experience and wisdom of women." -The Washington Post "A dreamy and transgressive feminist retelling of the Great Flood from the perspective of Noah''s wife as she wrestles with the mysterious metaphysics of womanhood at the end of the world." -O, The Oprah Magazine " Naamah is the feminist bible retelling we need in 2019. ![]() It also left me with an abiding admiration for the writer''s charged powers of imagination." -Joan Silber, New York Times Book Review "An urgent feminist response to the Old Testament. ![]() ![]() " wild and superbly intelligent reimagining. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But beyond that, it can erode our relationships with other people, with time, and with the environment around us. Yes, at the most basic level, social media and the news cycle take away our ability to reflect and think deeply about what’s actually happening underneath the status updates and headlines. ![]() The bulk of this book is about the things that we are unable to do when our attention is tied up in social media or the news cycle. There is really no how-to in this book, and I don’t think Odell’s work here can be even halfway summarized with buzzwords like “mindfulness” or “digital detox” or whatever. Instead it’s a really well-researched book on some abstract and sometimes seemingly esoteric concepts: the self, attention, bioregionalism, what it means to refuse/resist in place, and the effects of late stage capitalism on all of the above. The title is misleading as this is not at all a how-to on unplugging or leaving social media (for that, maybe read Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism or Catherine Price’s How to Break Up With Your Phone). First, I understand the negative reviews of this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() 2, Im Pretty Sure Youre Gonna Regret That Darcy Pistolis, Sep-2020. ![]() If she's lucky, the mystery guy will show up and knock her socks off again.īut unexpected feelings for her best friend complicate Darcy's plan, proving there's much more to life than living on the edge. Series list: Im Pretty Sure About That (3 Books) by M.J. Determined to find the mystery kisser, she devises the Kiss Contest. When the lights go out during a kissing game at a summer party, Darcy experiences the kiss of a lifetime-one that offers an adrenaline rush like she's never known before. The younger sister of Violet Pistolis, who tragically died at just twenty years old, doesn't see herself slowing down anytime soon-especially if it means letting the memory of her sister slip from her grasp. ![]() Darcy Pistolis never met a dare she could turn down, and her antics are usually the talk of the town. I’m Pretty Sure About That Series: I’m Pretty Sure You’re Going to Miss Me Ronin McKinsey, I’m Pretty Sure You’re Gonna’ Regret That Darcy Pistolis (Coming 2020) About the Author. Darcy Pistolis never met a dare she could turn down, and her antics are usually the talk of the town. ![]() ![]() But the ground moves beneath his feet when he gets an eyeful of the girl next door. Owen’s comfortable with his playboy status and the hype in the media. Of course, the neighbor would have to be hot, hot nightclub owner bad boy Owen McKay, just the kind of man Callie is determined to avoid. It must be puppy love! It’s doubly embarrassing since she’s a professional dog trainer. That’s right! Callie Lassiter’s normally well-behaved Great Dane Jack has run off and done the wild thing with the neighbor’s dog. ![]() ![]() Published September 29th 2012 by Blue Moon Creativeįirst book in the Going to the Dog series and is a short novella at 26,000 words. Posted November 28th, 2012 by Sara in Blog, Contemporary Romance, Review / 0 comments Leashed (Going to the Dogs, #1) by Zoe Dawson Review: Leashed (Going to the Dogs, #1) by Zoe Dawson ![]() ![]() ![]() Successfully campaigning to remove heterosexuality from the medical requirements for gender affirming surgery, Lou was pivotal in our modern understanding of gender and sexuality as distinct identities. ![]() Lou navigated his identity with few role models and was perhaps the first publicly gay transgender man. Through these extracts, we hear Lou's life in his own words: from 'playing boys' in his childhood in Wisconsin, to cruising San Francisco's gay bars for handsome 'youngmen' from first hearing about gender non-conforming communities, to becoming a vital part of them as an activist, author, and archivist. Lou kept candid diaries from the age of 10. A unique first-hand account of a historical gay trans man's whole life, which reads like a celebratory coming-of-age novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Under these conditions, it shouldn’t be surprising, but is rarely considered, that such daily interactions produce and reproduce white racial resentment among many correctional officers and fuel the racialized tensions that prisoners often describe as the worst forms of dehumanization.Īngela J. ![]() Smith and Hattery explore the outcome of building prisons in rural, economically depressed communities, staffing them with white people who live in and around these communities, filling them with Black and brown bodies from urban areas and then designing the structure of solitary confinement units such that the most private, intimate daily bodily functions take place in very public ways. Hattery and Earl Smith present "Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement"īased on hundreds of hours of observation in solitary confinement units and interviews with both those who are incarcerated and those who work in solitary confinement, Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement, uncovers the ways in which specific structures of solitary confinement, including the close and intimate contact between the incarcerated and the correctional officer, serve as a petri dish that fuels the production and reproduction of white racial resentment. ![]() ![]() Just so darn many feels for the boy who was hard to not fall in love with, just a bit. So much of his loss, his guilt, his self loathing. And Realm? His story, the hatred he had for himself, it was heartbreaking to read. I have always loved James, but I love him just a bit more now because of it. ![]() ![]() I loved watching how their friendship has changed, grown, and evolved from when the story left off. I have to say, the best part about this whole short story, was James and Realm. I was so curious how the world was dealing with the loss of the Program, was it better, worse? Were things back to a better “normal” now that it was all over? Knowing James (and maybe even Sloane) was going to be in this, just made it even better. I really wanted some kind of happily ever after for the guy, after all, he wasn't all bad and he was trying to make up for his past sins, you can't really fault someone for that now can you? ![]() Okay, that might have been a bit harsh, he did redeem himself after all and if truth be told, I am thrilled that this is his story after The Program was disabled. ![]() Even though Realm did some pretty awful things, I couldn't help but like the villainous thug. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her father was a cowboy not a bounty hunter and her mother was a nursemaid (called a nanny now) not the ranch owner.Ĭynthia credits her wonderfully supportive husband Jim and the great friends she's made at CRW for saving her sanity and allowing her to explore her creativity. ![]() Although Tame A Wild Heart takes place in Creede that is the only similarity between the stories. ![]() Her first western romance Tame A Wild Heart, was inspired by the story her mother told her of meeting Cynthia’s father on a ranch in Creede, Colorado. A romance about a little boy she liked at the time.Ĭynthia loves writing and reading romance. She wrote her first story at the age of ten. This is where young Cynthia first got the storytelling bug. Her mother was a librarian and brought new books home each week. That fierce friendship lasted until his death in 2006.Ĭynthia was and is an avid reader. Their closest neighbor was about one quarter of a mile away, so her little brother was her playmate and her best friend. She spent her early years running wild around the mountain side with her friends. She was born in Denver, Colorado and raised in the mountains west of Golden. Cynthia Woolf is the award winning and best-selling author of twelve historical western romance books and two short stories with more books on the way. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jack Kerouac Is Dead to Me reminded me exactly why I adore a well written YA contemporary novel. I don't think I can give this book the proper justice it deserves, but here we go. "I lie back on his pillow, my head spinning, and for one split second I think how crazy it will be when I get home and tell Aubrey everything. I'd love to interact with you here or there. ![]() You may also find me on Instagram or twitter or on facebook here. But for the most part, I'm only going to add the word recommended.Īs for writer-me, if you want to know more about me, you can find me at my website,. Because of this, it feels arbitrary and capricious to assign them, and I'd rather merely provide (in some cases) my brief thoughts on the book (unless I really can't help myself in giving it 5-stars, which usually means I wish there were lots more to give.). A 3-star review, for example, can mean such different things to readers and reviewers, some rarely give more, so 3 means pretty great, to others 3 is barely mediocre. ![]() Please note that, although I originally tried to assign star-ratings to my book reviews (and, thus, you will see some of my favorite books with stars), I have stopped doing so. I am a wannabe mermaid and the author of THE MEMORY OF THINGS, SEVEN CLUES TO HOME and several other novels for readers young, old or in between. ![]() |