![]() ![]() ![]() If a tree falls in the forest and you weren't there to see it, did it not fall? ![]() Perception can be reality when reality is what we not just perceive, but truly see. Maybe what we think we see but would never dare believe is actually what's absolutely real. When we do trust our eyes, and what information it is relaying to our rational brain, perhaps we shouldn't. When we don't trust our eyes, perhaps we should. This was a quick anecdote, and seemingly innocuous, but as the discussion moved on, this visual vignette and its explanation sent my mind reeling. This gave him pause, and in pondering what he had just seen, or thought he had seen, he surmised that it could be possible that the bird he first saw may have physically transformed itself into the leaf that he found. As he drew nearer, he realized that what he was certain was a bird was actually a dead leaf, rocking back and forth in the wind. As he was walking to his car one afternoon, he noticed a fluttering object up ahead of him, trapped in the corner of the structure, that appeared to be a distressed bird most likely injured and unable to fly. During the Q & A session after he read his latest collection's titular piece, Evenson shared a personal story that had occurred in a parking garage just days before. I recently attended a Brian Evenson reading held at Skylight Books in the appropriately understated, enduringly cool east Hollywood enclave of Los Feliz. ![]()
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![]() This book is pure (sophomoric) colonial masturbation. The prose is an insufferable imitation, somewhere between Ishiguro fanfic and oriental fetishization. The characters, our 1st person POV included, are inhuman alternately overworn, lifeless stock and amorphous author's pawns, equally unbelievable and unsympathetic. Pretentious, sentimental, artificial - there's not a single redeeming quality in this book. This sounds so cliche but maybe this book has more to say about the people/culture who read it than about the people/culture it was written about? I don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater just because I don't understand the context it was written in. ![]() Approaching an 'instant classic' like this well after its zeitgeist moment may be problematic I suppose. ![]() ![]() I'm curious if there are any older readers who can share cultural context from when this book was released? I was only 11 at the time and reading it now the book is 16 years old. ![]() ![]() It's here! #1 bestselling author Stephenie Meyer makes a triumphant return to the world of Twilight with the highly anticipated companion, Midnight Sun: the iconic love story of Bella and Edward told from the vampire's point of view. This comprehensive handbook - essential for every Twilight Saga fan - is full-color throughout with nearly 100 gorgeous illustrations and photographs and with exclusive material, character profiles, genealogical charts, maps, extensive cross-references, and much more. This must-have edition - the only official guide - is the definitive encyclopedic reference to the Twilight Saga and provides readers with everything they need to further explore the unforgettable world Stephenie Meyer created in Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, and The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner. 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".an angst filled, morose tale that will grip your heart violently and threaten to rip it from your chest. ![]() Breaking the Bully, by Jessa Kane - An Intense Yet Beautiful Story of Love and Survival. ![]() ![]() Once Paper Petey was brought to life by the Witch Doctor, he brings terror to the city. The cops thought Petey was crushed by a bulletin board, and is brought to the Witch Doctor, on accident. Meanwhile, Petey escaped from prison again, and is seen decoying himself with a verson of himself made out of paper. In an accident, Flippy is fed some Brain Dots, and he becomes evil, taking over the city with his telepathic powers. The Chief has a birthday, and he receives a can of Brain-Dots, and an angelfish named Flippy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dog Man Unleashed is the second book in the Dog Man series, being the sequel of Dog Man. 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The much-anticipated sequel to the popular The Object of His Desire 1: Wanted. ![]() ![]() It's a story of falling in love, loss, grief, and what life there is in the deep, deep sea. ![]() Like all good novels, it goes deep and then deeper again. There is an almost spiritual endlessness to its quest. ![]() Our Wives Under The Sea is the debut novel from the critically acclaimed author of salt slow. Indeed, though the writing is relentlessly exacting, Our Wives Under the Sea tends towards the unknowable, which might also be synonymous with death or the uncanny. ![]() Living in the same space but suddenly separate, Miri comes to realize that the life that they had might be gone. Memories of what they had before - the jokes they shared, the films they watched, all the small things that made Leah hers - only remind Miri of what she stands to lose. To have the woman she loves back should mean a return to normal life, but Miri can feel Leah slipping from her grasp. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home. Our Wives Under the Sea is a tour de force, especially impressive as it is a debut novel, although her book of stories, 2020’s salt slow, has already won her acclaim. Our Wives Under the Sea Julia Armfield 3. ![]() It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah may have come back wrong. Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a work of critically engaged political theory, Glen Sean Coulthard challenges recognition as a method of organizing difference and identity in liberal politics, questioning the assumption that contemporary difference and past histories of destructive colonialism between the state and Indigenous peoples can be reconciled through a process of acknowledgment. The term “recognition” shapes debates over Indigenous cultural distinctiveness, Indigenous rights to land and self-government, and Indigenous peoples’ right to benefit from the development of their lands and resources. Over the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonization between the nation-state and Indigenous nations in North America. Studies in Political Economy Book Prize.Canadian Political Science Association’s C.B. ![]() Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. He was quickly disillusioned and quit in frustration after two months. Hunter, then known as Salvatore Lombino, took the teaching job in 1950 after graduating from Hunter College. Smith Career and Technical Education High School in the South Bronx. Hunter's novel was based on his early job as a teacher at Bronx Vocational High School, now known as Alfred E. In 2016, Blackboard Jungle was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". It is remembered for its innovative use of rock and roll in its soundtrack, for casting grown adults as high school teens, and for the unique breakout role of a black cast member, film icon Sidney Poitier, as a rebellious yet musically talented student. Blackboard Jungle is a 1955 American social drama film about an English teacher in an interracial inner-city school, based on the 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle by Evan Hunter and adapted for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks. ![]() ![]() ![]() You'll find all of these and more in the pages of Duke Most Wanted. I've heard that Bradley's other series are better so I may give her another try sometime. The action heats up in the final 1/4 but it is too little too late even though the twist regarding Sophie's identity is entertaining. ![]() Graham's sudden realization that Sophie is the love of his life is completely unrealistic and the fact that it stems from her physical transformation presents him as shallow and egotistical. ![]() The first 3/4 of the book are boring and drawn out. Her plots are simplistic and her characters superficial and one dimensional, even more so in this book than in the previous two. This series is my first encounter with Celeste Bradley and overall, I'm not impressed. Suddenly, Sophie is in the running for the Pickering inheritance and for the man of her dreams. She never thought to marry let alone set her sights on a duke until Graham Cavendish, the only man she has ever felt comfortable around, unexpectedly inherits a title and a mountain of debt with it. ![]() |