![]() ![]() ![]() Her mindset-altering essays are interwoven with conversations and insights from other feminist thinkers, including Audre Lorde, Joan Morgan, Cara Page, Sonya Renee Taylor, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Drawing on the black feminist tradition, she challenges us to rethink the ground rules of activism. How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Author and editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls “pleasure activism,” a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form of work. ![]() Pleasure Activism is part of the Emergent Strategy Series. ![]()
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5/19/2023 0 Comments The dark tower series in order![]() ![]() Fighting off the delirium brought on by the lobstrosity’s poison, Roland forces himself along the beach where he discovers three freestanding doorways that lead into our world. ![]() Roland kills the clawed creature, but not before it bites off two of his fingers and half of one big toe. Tab will move on to the next part of the site rather than go through menu items.Īfter his final confrontation with the Man in Black in a remote mountain Golgotha, an exhausted Roland awakes on the beach of the Western Sea and is immediately attacked by a shoreline monster known as a lobstrosity. Enter and space open menus and escape closes them as well. Up and Down arrows will open main level menus and toggle through sub tier links. Left and right arrows move across top level links and expand / close menus in sub levels. The site navigation utilizes arrow, enter, escape, and space bar key commands. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Big needle ken follett![]()
5/19/2023 0 Comments Kiss the Girls by James Patterson![]() ![]() homicide investigator and forensic psychologist who has been called to go to South Carolina with his partner to the scene of the latest murder by Casanova. The ending wraps up nicely while leaving room for the next installment.Īt the start of Kiss the Girls there is a serial who calls himself “Casanova” and has been abducting and torturing beautiful and successful young women in their early twenties. There are a few references to characters and occurrences from the first novel but nothing that would confuse a reader. Kiss the Girls starts off where Along Came a Spider left off, but it is definitely a stand alone read. ![]() Two clever pattern killers are collaborating, cooperating, competing-and they are working coast to coast.Īfter having read and really enjoyed Along Came a Spider I knew I had to read the second in the Alex Cross series. In the sequel to Along Came a Spider,Washington D.C.’s Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. ![]() First line: For three weeks, the young killer actually lived inside the walls of an extraordinary fifteen-room beach house. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Ansary destiny disrupted![]() He clarifies why two great civilizations-Western and Muslim-grew up oblivious to each other, what happened when they intersected, and how the Islamic world was affected by its slow recognition that Europe-a place it long perceived as primitive-had somehow hijacked destiny. ![]() ![]() He introduces the key people, events, ideas, legends, religious disputes, and turning points of world history, imparting not only what happened but how it is understood from the Muslim perspective. His story moves from the lifetime of Mohammed through a succession of far-flung empires, to the tangle of modern conflicts that culminated in the events of 9/11. In Destiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world history as it looks from a new perspective: with the evolution of the Muslim community at the center. ![]() Destiny Disrupted tells the history of the world from the Islamic point of view, and restores the centrality of the Muslim perspective, ignored for a thousand years. The Western narrative of world history largely omits a whole civilization. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Blindsight by Peter Watts![]() ![]() You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. ![]() Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. ![]() Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight ![]() ![]() ![]() The steadiest of the three children, Dean is the one that Jamison turns to in moments of distress. Three years older than her, he acted as a role model and protector to his younger sister. Jamison's older brother is an important figure in her early development. As Jamison aged, her father developed a drinking habit and became more prone to depression and violent outbursts. Later, his moods took a turn for the worse. Susceptible to grand moods and ideas, he would spend large amounts of time lecturing his children on literature, linguistics, and the meaning of life. During her early childhood, he was a big personality beloved by the neighborhood children. The disease progressively strained his relationship with his family. Also manic-depressive, Colonel Jamison's mental illness slowly emerged over the course of Jamison's life. He is credited with laying the basis for Jaison's love of literature, science, and the sky. Marshall Jamison is a meteorologist who strongly encouraged his daughter's love of medicine. A colonel in the Air Force, he raised her with a sense of duty and rigidity. Marshall Verdine Jamison is Jamison's father. In An Unquiet Mind, she relates how the disorder has influenced her life, and the good and bad that comes with manic-depressive illness. ![]() Jamison has lived her entire life with bipolar disorder. Kay Jamison is the first-person narrator of this autobiographical book. ![]() ![]() Almost two years later the situation has, impossibly, worsened. Insecurity was already at life-threatening, economy-shrinking levels before July 2021, when President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his bedroom. In its gruesomeness and horror, this episode of mob justice (13 men were killed) is of a piece with Haiti’s new normal, and inspired vigilante killings across the country. According to a witness, they beat and stoned the suspects, before burning them alive. The men were reportedly face down on the ground when ordinary citizens, sick in every way from years of violence, terror and powerlessness, began to murder them. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the morning of 24 April, police detained a busload of passengers in the Port-au-Prince neighbourhood of Canapé Vert, rounding them up as suspected gang members. The lynching happened in broad daylight, and it was widely cheered. ![]() ![]() In 1909, she took up what was to be a sixty-year residence at 20 Rue Jacob and began her “Fridays,” as she referred to her salon (a gathering of intellectuals for the exchange and discussion of ideas). She settled in Paris, and her network of friends rapidly expanded. After her father’s death in 1902, Barney received a substantial inheritance that allowed her complete financial independence for her lifetime. At an early age, she showed an interest in art and writing. ![]() She was an intelligent and rebellious child, educated by governesses and at a French boarding school. In French, “l’Amazone” means both horse rider and Amazon, the warrior women of Greek mythology.īarney was born on October 31, 1876, to a wealthy family. Barney is also known as “The Amazon,” a nickname given to her by the poet Remy de Gourmont after she made headlines for riding a horse astride, rather than sidesaddle, which was customary. She is celebrated for openly living and writing as a lesbian during a time when women’s behavior was closely circumscribed. ![]() Natalie Barney was both a poet and a prose writer, who was famous for her weekly salons, which gathered together many of the twentieth century’s greatest artists and writers from the Western world. ![]() 5/18/2023 0 Comments Joseph heller goodreads![]() ![]() Heller died almost a quarter-century ago, in 1999. Heller that he had never written anything as good as Catch-22, the author shot back, ‘Who has?’” The book made him rich. The Times said, “When an interviewer told Mr. It continues to have influence and is currently number seven on the Modern Library Top 100 Best Novels list. Though set in WWII, the book, as a savage satire of the military and bureaucracy, fit the Vietnam-era, counterculture sensibility perfectly. ![]() Heller was prominent among the riotous talent, often seen as lacking in decorum or respect, that emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s.Ĭatch-22 (begun in 1953, published 1961) was slow to catch on in the States, but once the public got it, it stuck. ![]() Yesterday marked the centenary of the birth of Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22, Something Happened, Closing Time, and other novels, story collections, plays, and autobiographical nonfiction. B-25 Mitchell used in the film version of ‘Catch-22.’ Courtesy Bill Larkins, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic ![]() |