![]() ![]() Nor may it be understood as a return to the "fact" versus "vision" opposition which characterized Woolf's interventions in debates on modern fiction in the 1920s. Tracing the destiny of the manuscript's material reveals that The Pargiters's failure cannot be explained simply as a retrospective recognition of the essay and the novel's generic incompatibility. Yet by 1933 she had abandoned the project the manuscript's remains were divided up into a novel, which became The Years, and an essay, which became Three Guineas. 2 Integrating the world of "fact" into the aesthetic domain, connecting the sexual and professional spheres through the novelistic form, this work also promised to inaugurate a new phase in Woolf's approach to the relationship between literature and society. This new book, soon entitled The Pargiters, was to be an "essaynovel" opening up a new avenue for formal experimentation after the text she was then completing, the "play-poem" The Waves. I have this moment, while having my bath, conceived an entire new book-a sequel to A Room of One's Own-about the sexual life of women: to be called Professions for Women perhaps-Lord, how exciting! 1 In 1931, Virginia Woolf hit on new idea for a book: ![]()
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![]() ![]() Angelica wonders if she is about to be forced out of her much-needed job by an inanimate object-one with a preternatural ability to uncover the most deeply buried secrets of the humans around it. One day, Sayoko receives a present: a cutting-edge robot “friend” that will teach itself to anticipate Sayoko’s every need. In Tokyo, Angelica Navarro, a Filipina nurse who has been in Japan for the last five years, works as caretaker for Sayoko Itou, a moody, secretive woman about to turn 100 years old. ![]() ![]() This population crisis has precipitated the mass immigration of foreign medical workers from all over Asia, as well as the development of finely tuned artificial intelligence to step in where humans fall short. In a tour-de-force tapestry of science fiction and historical fiction, Andromeda Romano-Lax presents a story set in Japan and Taiwan that spans a century of empire, conquest, progress, and destruction.Ģ029: In Japan, a historically mono-cultural nation, childbirth rates are at an all-time low and the elderly are living increasingly longer lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() Originality - The sheer ingenuity of the story to the appropriateness of the punishments makes this one of the most original storylines on the market. Warning- may be disturbing to sensitive readers. Offering up heart-pumping tales of revenge, suspense and horror in all its guises, this book is filled with dark humor, political incorrectness, gruesome and sadistic acts from beginning to end. ![]() The streets are no longer a safe haven for the wicked with Seth lurking in the shadows of the dark, waiting to bestow the most sadistic and over-the-top inhumane acts of vengeance that will stagger the mind. Seth takes the man on a journey into his twisted world of vengeance filled with the most unimaginable and barbaric things that could only be found in the deepest and darkest parts of hell. The main character, Seth Coker, has invited a reporter, Wyatt Carter, to go on a road trip across America. Summary: This is book Two in the A Glimpse into Hell series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?īetween the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis.Īmericans have built an empire on the idea of "race," a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men-bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. ![]() ![]() This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They elected officers, divided their booty equitably, and maintained a multinational social order. ![]() At their best, pirates constructed an egalitarian society starkly at odds with the social hierarchy of their time. Rediker shows how sailors emerged from deadly working conditions on merchant and naval ships, turned pirate, and created a starkly different reality aboard their own vessels. The high-seas drama of 1716-1726 featured the dreaded black flag, the Jolly Roger swashbuckling figures such as Blackbeard and the unnamed pegleg pirate who was likely Robert Louis Stevenson’s model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island. Villains of All Nations explores the Golden Age of Atlantic piracy and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story begins simply: with Gregg and his older brother, Duane, growing up in the South, raising hell with their guitars, and drifting from one band to another. ![]() Now, he tells the unflinching story of his life, laying bare the unvarnished truth about his wild ride that has spanned across the years. ![]() For almost fifty years, he's been creating some of the most recognizable songs in American rock, but never before has he paused to reflect on the long road he's traveled. As one of the greatest rock icons of all time, Gregg Allman has lived it all and then some. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Publisher’s Note: Blacque/Bleu is related to Chrysalis and Mad at the Moon, which were published by Changeling Press. Now Blacque and Bleu just need to survive long enough for Arcada’s magic to work for them. But in the mysterious and magical town of Arcada, the unexpected is always waiting right around the corner. In Bleu’s world, all living creatures are little more than vessels for food and sex. In Blacque’s world, vampires and werewolves make uneasy bedfellows, and a gay werewolf is an impossibility. He’s even less sure Bleu will let him go. ![]() He’s not sure he can walk away, even for the commitment he’s made. When the sun rises on Monday, lust has shifted to love and devotion. At sunset on Friday, it’s all about urgent lust and the drive to lose his virginity. On the day that Blacque makes an important commitment to his family and pack, he also succumbs to temptation and agrees to a passionate weekend with the alluring vampire. More than anything, he needs Lukas Blacque and the rich blood that flows through his veins. Oliver is a vampire who is slowly dying from insomnia. Lukas Blacque is a deeply closeted werewolf, and almost more than anything in life, he desires his neighbor, Oliver Bleu. ![]() ![]() ![]() A mix of anxiety, stress and overwhelm.īut here I was, in the most beautiful setting, reading this amazing book, SO excited about wanting to “get to work” on all the things I was reading. At some point, in all of those jobs, a creeping sense of dread seeped into Sunday night. It’s Sunday night! I’ve worked a lot of jobs over the years. I was in awe of the beauty and magic of this place.Īnd a crazy thought came into my mind. I sat and read for about an hour as the sun started to set. There was nice path through the towering trees that comes to a bench overlooking the water. ![]() On the Washington coast the dense forest pushes right up against the ocean. So instead of curling up in bed and watching Netflix for an hour before bed, I headed out for a walk down the beach. ![]() I’ve been trying to unplug more this week at the beach. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Empty Planet, Ibbitson and Bricker travel from South Florida to Sao Paulo, Seoul to Nairobi, Brussels to Delhi to Beijing, drawing on a wealth of research and firsthand reporting to illustrate the dramatic consequences of this population decline-and to show us why the rest of the developing world will soon join in. In much of the developed and developing world, that decline is already underway, as urbanization, women's empowerment, and waning religiosity lead to smaller and smaller families. ![]() This time, however, we're thinning ourselves deliberately, by choosing to have fewer babies than we need to replace ourselves. Throughout history, depopulation was the product of catastrophe: ice ages, plagues, the collapse of civilizations. Rather than growing exponentially, they argue, the global population is headed for a steep decline. But a growing number of experts are sounding a different kind of alarm. ve warned that a burgeoning planetary population will soon overwhelm the earth's resources. For half a century, statisticians, pundits, and politicians ha. ![]() Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Declineįrom the authors of the bestselling The Big Shift, a provocative and groundbreaking argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political, and economic landscape. ![]() ![]() After that we are given a whistle stop journey between 1973 (when Hunt came into F1) to 1975. The two definitely did race each other in F3, but I am not convinced as to whether this actual incident occurred. I'm not sure if this is further artistic licence. The two are first seen in competition in 1970 at a Formula 3 race at Crystal Palace (where they have a coming together) and sets the scene for the rivalry throughout the film. ![]() We are introduced to both characters through their own narrative and scenes that leave the watcher in no doubt as to their background and philosophy on life. ![]() This bit of artistic licence does not spoil the film and is reasonable in order to make the battle between the two for the F1 crown more intense. The two are depicted as enemies, but in actual fact they were good friends who trusted and respected each other on, as well as off-track. ![]() The film centres on the battle for the 1976 Formula 1 World Championship, and the rivalry between the Austrian "professor" Nikki Lauda and the British playboy James Hunt. The film is just over 2 hours long, but when it was over it seemed like I had been in the cinema about 30 minutes. ![]() |