![]() ![]() Because of the narrative choice, this part really feels like it’s happening to you, the reader. Pirates have invaded, all adults seem to be dead, and he is taken – along with some other children – to the pirate ship Ghengis Khan where the captain Falcone takes a particular fancy to Jos. Jos Musey, an 8-year-old boy, is hiding on Mukudori, the space ship that is his home. I don’t believe I’ve ever read something like this, something that not only works (read: doesn’t throw you out of the story) but is also incredibly effective. That second person narrative is maintained throughout the entire first part of the novel (after which we switch to first person). He is soon coerced into becoming a spy against the human race. When Jos’ parents are killed in an attack on their trading ship, the boy is kidnapped by the attackers and then escapes – only to fall into the alien hands of humanity’s greatest enemies. Here we are, me a happy reader and Karin Lowachee plus one fan.įirst sentence: You didn’t see their faces from where you hid behind the maintenance grate. ![]() I first stumbled across the beautiful cover of her book Gaslight Dogs (which I got for Christmas last year – YAY!), then a bit of Googling turned up nothing but rave reviews of her military sci-fi novel Warchild. ![]() Karin Lowachee had been on my radar for a few years. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Interest theory conceives ideology as a mask and a weapon within a “universal struggle for advantage” (201), while strain theory sees it as a symptom and a remedy for “sociopsychological disequilibrium” (201). The weakness of the evaluative conception becomes evident in the two dominant approaches to the study of the social determinants of ideology, which examine ideology’s social and psychological functions. This raises the question of how ideology can be an analytic tool in the social sciences when scientists exhibit bias in their arguments. For example, Werner Stark paints ideology as psychologically deformed by human emotion, while more sophisticated arguments also present ideology as “a form of radical intellectual depravity” (197). This evaluative conception produces what Geertz refers to as Mannheim’s paradox, whereby the term’s lack of neutrality limits scientific objectivity-in this case, much sociological theory considers the relation between science and ideology in simplistic, judgmental terms. Geertz argues that the social sciences have developed only an evaluative conception of ideology. ![]() ![]() Aaron can't deny his unexpected feelings for Thomas despite the tensions their friendship has created with Genevieve and his tight-knit crew. ![]() Grief and the smile-shaped scar on his wrist won’t let him forget the pain. But when Aaron meets Thomas, a new kid in the neighborhood, something starts to shift inside him. In the months following his father's suicide, sixteen-year-old Aaron Soto can’t seem to find happiness again, despite the support of his girlfriend, Genevieve, and his overworked mom. ![]() In his twisty, heartbreaking, profoundly moving New York Times bestselling debut, Adam Silvera brings to life a charged, dangerous near-future summer in the Bronx. ![]() A special Deluxe Edition of Adam Silvera’s groundbreaking debut featuring an introduction by Angie Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give a new final chapter, "More Happy Ending" and an afterword about where it all began. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s just that I’m standing on the other side of the moat. I walk around with my chest puffed out, making sure hat everyone knows about my Harvard and Stanford degrees, as if those things encapsulate me, and when I do so, I give in to the same facile, lazy thinking that characterizes those who think of addicts as horrible people. I know that it’s easier to say Their kind does seem to have a taste for drugs, easier to write all addicts off as bad and weak-willed people, than it is to look closely at the nature of their suffering. I don’t want to be dismissed the way that Nana was once dismissed. I, too, have spent years creating my little moat of good deeds in an attempt to protect the castle of myself. They want to believe that they have been loved enough and have raised their children well enough that the things that I research will never, ever touch their own lives. Look how strong-willed they are, how many good choices they’ve made. ![]() ![]() What they’re really saying is that they may have partied in high school and college but look at them now. They use words like “will” and “choice,” and they end by saying, “Don’t you think there’s more to it than the brain?” They are skeptical of the rhetoric of addiction as disease, something akin to high blood pressure or diabetes, and I get that. ![]() “Anytime I talk about my work informally, I inevitably encounter someone who wants to know why addicts become addicts. ![]() ![]() She is trying to make every interaction, possibly their last, perfect. She goes into the restroom and finds an expensive bottle of rosewater face mist. ![]() There is her father, a titan of the 20th century, emaciated and unable to walk, propped on a hospital bed in his study. ![]() This was a man who liked to make little girls cry.īrennan-Jobs, now 40, opens her book with a deathbed scene unlike any other. “ Small Fry,” the new memoir by his daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs, depicts a sadistic man and a horrible father: sexually inappropriate, verbally and psychologically abusive, pitiless and cheap - with his time, money, emotions, attention. The myth he built - a difficult man whose genius made him so and justified any personal failings - has finally been leveled. Steve Jobs would never have survived #MeToo. Walls close in on Alec Baldwin as his gun lie falls apart New witness statements show Brad Pitt may be the villain of the story ![]() Sheryl Sandberg has finally been exposed as a fake feministĭoesn't 'ring' true: Impossible to take Ben Affleck's privacy pleas seriously after extravagant J.Lo wedding Toddler and tiara: Meghan Markle STILL throwing tantrums about royal family ![]() ![]() ![]() The two towns hold a long grudge manifested through their hockey teams, and because of the storm’s destruction Hed is forced to practice in the Beartown arena, which prompts a few brawls. ![]() The Winners begins with a huge storm that sweeps through Beartown and Hed, knocking down huge trees and cutting power to almost everyone for at least a few hours. Backman’s books will always hold a special place in my heart, and this latest release is no different. ![]() This whole series is about hockey, and even though I could care less about sports, I still felt moved by these books and the characters within them. I didn’t read the middle book titled Us Against You, but its events were quickly summarized in The Winners anyway, so I never felt like I was missing out on anything. This Fall I was sent the third and last installment in that series called The Winners, which took me awhile to read due to its length (670 pages) but I enjoyed once I was able to ‘get into it’ ( a requirement for any larger book). Last year I read the bestseller Beartown by Fredrik Backman, the first in the Beartown series which had come out years ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Dorothy Must Die is kind of the ultimate in girl-powered literature. PRAISE FOR DOROTHY MUST DIE: “Readers of Baum’s books will take special delight in seeing new twists on the old characters, and they will greet the surprise climactic turnabout with the smugness of insiders.” - Kirkus Reviews Somehow, across a twisted and divided land, I have to find the Order, protect the true ruler of Oz, take Dorothy and her henchmen down-and try to figure out what I’m really doing here. And the home I couldn’t wait to leave behind might be in danger. Except my job as assassin didn’t work out as planned. ![]() And the Wicked Witches who were left? They’d joined forces as the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked, and they wanted to recruit me. Glinda could no longer be called the Good Witch. ![]() Dorothy had returned, but she was now a ruthless dictator. But it wasn’t like the Oz I knew from books and movies. After a tornado swept through my trailer park, I ended up in Oz. My name is Amy Gumm-and I’m the other girl from Kansas. In this New York Times bestselling sequel to Dorothy Must Die, who is good-and who is actually Wicked? The Wicked Will Rise is perfect for fans of richly reimagined fairy tales and classic tales like Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles and Gregory Maguire’s Wicked. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yes I would recommend it to everyone who likes books with twists and turns. Would I recommend it to someone or not and why? I felt great as the book had lots of twists and turns in it. Digital Fortress by Dan Brown Book Review Digital Fortress by Dan Brown St. What did I feel after reading the last page of the book. Caught in an speeding whirlwind of secrecy and lies, betrayed on all sides, Susan Fletcher finds herself fighting not only for her country but fot her life, and in the end, for the life of the man she loves. Forever.įrom the underground hallways of power to the skyscrapers of Tokyo to the towering cathedrals of Spain, a desperate race unfolds. And with him has died the secret to an inpenetrable code-writing formula that threatens to eradicate the post-cold war balance of power. Meanwhile, in Seville, Spain, the creator of the code, Ensei Tankado, is found dead. The NSA is being held hostage….not by guns or bombs, but by a code so inventively complex that if released it could destroy US intelligence. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. So it calls for its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. Brief Description of this book.Īt National Security Agency, Fort Meade, Maryland, the most powerful intelligence organization on earth’s invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break. Digital Fortress is written by Dan Brown. ![]() ![]() ![]() I also appreciate that care was taken not to be overly dramatic, thus keeping the narrative moving and contemplative. This is a first person narrative, and as such, it is important that the voice have a real authenticity to it. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. What does Anna Fields bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book? The descriptive scenes of homage and ceremony are a delightful repast, vivid and yet concise. ![]() What was one of the most memorable moments of In Morocco?Įdith Wharton's empathy for those forced into slavery or raised to labor is moving, especially given the time period in which she writes. Although the visit takes place in a bygone era, the descriptions of people and ceremonies gives a feel for the recent history of this country and for the background of the people still living there. ![]() Edith Wharton's use of language is beautiful, her descriptions colorful and her experience delightfully presented. During a five-week stay, Wharton journeyed to souqs in Marrakesh, an ancient necropolis in Rabat, medieval mosques in Fez, religious sites in Moulay Idriss. ![]() ![]() The memory of Kay Thompson’s nightclub act, however, is in good hands. Today, the Rose Club occupies its place to the left of the Plaza’s Fifth Avenue entrance. The Persian Room closed its doors in 1975, as nightlife turned toward discotheques and more relaxed jazz clubs. ![]() ![]() The slacks were later sold at Saks Fifth Avenue as “Kay Thompson’s Fancy Pants.” By the time Hilary Knight visited the Persian Room, Thompson was a sensation in scandalous, sometimes zebra-print slacks that she designed. Thompson’s specialty was stamping popular songs with her own brand of “bazazz”: adding a verse to “Basin Street Blues” (“got my traveling shoes with the traveling shoelaces, ready to go places”) or revamping Irving Berlin’s ballad “How Deep Is the Ocean” with a jazz beat and a scatty riff. They sang and danced to lightning musical arrangements, created by Thompson herself, who only a few years earlier had been MGM’s top music arranger and vocal coach. ![]() ![]() Instead of standing still by the piano, as club entertainers of that time usually did, the quintet hung microphones from the ceiling, allowing them to race across the floor. In 1951, she and the Williams Brothers (“Moon River” singer Andy Williams and his three brothers, Bob, Don, and Dick) were booked at the Persian Room for four weeks, after Thompson’s successful nightclub tour of America and Europe. ![]() |