![]() ![]() Yet, Ada is nagged by the feeling that this is all temporary, and soon, Mam’s return threatens her newfound stability. ![]() At times, Ada does not know what to make of this kindness, often reacting inappropriately.Īda begins to experience a life she never imagined - she starts caring for a horse, Butter, connects to neighbors in the village, and makes a best friend, the wealthy Maggie Thorton. Susan helps Ada learn to read, sews her clothing, and most strikingly, hopes to arrange an operation for her foot. However, the three soon forge an incredible bond. Susan is grappling with a deep grief of her own, and is initially hesitant about caring for children. ![]() The unkempt and malnourished siblings struggle to find placement but are ultimately sent to live with a woman named Susan Smith. Mam forbids Ada to go, insisting that nobody will want her but on the day Jamie is set to leave, Ada escapes with him. Ada’s only interactions with the outside world occur through the sliver she can view from the apartment window.Īs the war worsens, children are sent to stay with families in the countryside. Ada was born with a clubfoot and Mam frequently insults and mistreats her, keeping her trapped in their dingy apartment. Ada lives with her younger brother, Jamie, and Mam, her abusive mother, in a London flat. The year is 1939 and World War II is raging. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She laughs too loudly, eats without decorum, and mixes up most. She fears the dark.He rules it.Her dresses are too tight, her heels too tall. ![]() ‘And I’m not going to give it back.’” (Maddest Obsession by Danielle Lori)What does he mean when he says about the coin bringing him to America? What does he mean when he said that he stole someone else’s fate? I need answers because I’m sooo confused □□ My friend and I are struggling. The Maddest Obsession - Danielle Lori - Google Books. That shine had brought me here, to the United States, to my wife and daughter.” And then fast forward to the end he says “‘I stole someone else’s fate, Sasha.’ I twisted the knob and opened the door. Twenty-nine years ago, when I’d stolen it from someone’s pocket, it held an optimistic shine. The year was 1955, and the silver was dull and cloudy. Does anyone know the last chapter when Christian was talking to the therapist what was he talking about? For context “‘I always thought if I believed in fate, I couldn’t believe in choice.’ My voice was thoughtful, as I turned the quarter to let a ray of sunlight shimmer across it. It delves deeper into the world of organized crime and forbidden love. ![]() SPOILER ALERT IF YOU HAVEN’T READ IT Hey everyone so I just read Maddest obsession and it was great! But I’m confused about the last chapter. The Maddest Obsession by Danielle Lori is the second book in the Made series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We can tell which one is the good guy because he on one occasion suggests she might have a choice, but there is no choice in the book because The Girl has no personality and no role that doesn't include being there for men to fight over who gets to fuck. There are multiple conversations where two men argue about which one of them she "belongs" to. She is called a girl despite two of the main characters having sex with her, because "woman" is probably a scary word to authors with that much interest in 11-year-olds' tits. She is allegedly a warrior princess (not queen) but she does absolutely nothing except be protected by men. The girl is, we are explicitly told, born to suffer and inspire men to fight because of her suffering and sacrifice. We know about her state of puberty because the narrator makes a point of describing her naked body and especially the barely formed breasts. ![]() One of these is a barely pubescent soothsayer. Women are almost completely absent from what I regret to report is called "the racial unconscious" (why yes, everyone in this book *is* white, since you ask) except for two. You will be staggered to learn that all of the humans in question are men, and all but two of the mythagos are.men. The premise of this book is that archetype creatures, mythagos, arise in the wood plucked from human minds. Won the World Fantasy Award in the 1980s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Production notes: This ebook of Beyond Good and Evil was published by Global Grey in 2017. ![]() This book has 161 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1886 this is a translation by Helen Zimmern. ![]() Part of the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Great Books of the Western World set. From the Preface: 'SUPPOSING that Truth is a woman-what then? Is there not ground for suspecting that all philosophers, in so far as they have been dogmatists, have failed to understand women-that the terrible seriousness and clumsy importunity with which they have usually paid their addresses to Truth, have been unskilled and unseemly methods for winning a woman? Certainly she has never allowed herself to be won and at present every kind of dogma stands with sad and discouraged mien-IF, indeed, it stands at all!' Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich NietzscheĪvailable to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle ebook formats.Ī fascinating critique of past philosophers. Buy the entire collection (over 2,400 ebooks) for only £15. The following translation retains Nietzsches short quotations and phrases in languages other than German and includes, immediately. ![]() ![]() Calling for a queer environmental ethics, the book delineates the discourses that have worked to prevent such an ethics and argues for a concept of queerness that is attuned to environmentalism's urgent futurity, and an environmentalism that is attuned to queer sensibilities. The book's thoughtful analyses of works such as Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues, Todd Haynes's Safe, and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain illustrate how homophobia, classism, racism, sexism, and xenophobia inform dominant views of the environment and help to justify its exploitation. ![]() ![]() By drawing upon queer theory and ecocriticism, this book examines how contemporary queer fictions extend their critique of “natural” categories of gender and sexuality to the nonhuman natural world, thus constructing a queer environmentalism. ![]() This book investigates the ways in which contemporary queer fictions offer insight on environmental issues through their performance of a specifically queer understanding of nature, the nonhuman, and environmental degradation. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1985, there were twenty-five empty storefronts… There was a running joke: the last store owner out of downtown Spencer, please turn off the lights.” “In 1979, there wasn’t a vacant storefront in town for Santa to set up shop in. ![]() ![]() Then Land O’Lakes, one of the town’s biggest employers, closed its plant. Librarian Myron, who discovered Dewey as a kitten in the book drop box one brutally cold morning, gives a lot of background about the town of Spencer, Iowa, a community hit hard by the financial crisis of the 1980s, in which half the farms in the area went into foreclosure. However, the Wikipedia article on Dewey stated that it “told the story of Dewey’s life at the library, interspersed with the difficulties faced by the town and Myron in her personal life,” which made it sound like it would be more interesting than I’d originally thought. I had heard of Dewey-he was pretty famous for a cat, after all-but I guess I assumed that the book would be 300 pages of cute-animal anecdotes. “If you haven’t read the book about Dewey, I heartily recommend it!” ![]() “I chose Iowa because the only thing I knew about the state was that they had a lot of corn, and that they had a world-famous library cat named Dewey Readmore Books,” she said in an email. Earlier this year, my mom’s book club read Katarina Bivald’s The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, and in an email, the Swedish author shared some information on how she managed to write about small-town Iowa despite the fact that she’d never even visited the U.S. ![]() ![]() Yours Cruelly, Elvira is an unforgettably wild memoir. She got the job as “Elvira,” never imagining it would lead to fame and a forty-year career. In 1981, as a struggling actress considered past her prime, Cassandra auditioned for a local LA station as hostess for their late-night horror movies. She eventually made her way to Los Angeles, where she joined the famed comedy improv group, The Groundlings. Then a chance encounter with the “King” himself, Elvis Presley, inspired her to travel to Europe where she worked in film and toured Italy as lead singer of a band. By age seventeen, she was performing as a showgirl in Las Vegas. Cassandra left home at fourteen and supported herself as a go-go dancer. ![]() ![]() She miraculously survived, but burned and scarred, the impact would stay with her and become an obstacle she was determined to overcome. ![]() ![]() The paperback includes 32 new images and an original poem composed by Cassandra when she was 16, perfect for fans to collect.Īt only eighteen months old, Cassandra Peterson reached for a pot on the stove and doused herself in boiling water, resulting in third-degree burns over 35 percent of her body. The woman behind the icon known as the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story, filled with intimate bombshells, told by the bombshell herself. ![]() ![]() Jane Wilkinson was seen entering the house just before the murder occurred, and the police are ready to arrest her for murder. Later that night, Lord Edgware is found dead in his study, stabbed in the neck. Curious, Poirot follows through with the request but is surprised to learn that Lord Edgware wrote to Jane months ago to say he was willing to allow the divorce. She accosts Poirot after the performance and asks him to go and visit her husband, Lord Edgware, and try and convince him to divorce her so she is free to marry a Duke she has been courting. Unfortunately, it turns out my memory was not quite as good as I thought it was.Īfter a night at the theatre seeing the latest show by celebrated comic Carlotta Adams, Poirot and Hastings run in to Jane Wilkinson, the air-headed and selfish Lady Edgware. I thought I remembered it really well, and was content to settle down and see how it was done, rather than worrying about who the killer was. ![]() ![]() Lord Edgware Dies, it turns out, I haven’t read since 2012, so it’s one of the handful that aren’t on the blog yet. ![]() ![]() What I find when it comes to re-reading all the Christie novels is that I often think I remember the solutions. ![]() ![]() ![]() The negative connotation around “nice guys” existed long before Robert Glover’s book. Nice Guy,” but we’ll first discuss the history behind this phrase. ![]() In this article, we’ll discuss the meaning of “no more Mr. In his book, Glover offers advice for avoiding the Nice Guy mindset, which we will explain fully in this article.įind out the true meaning of “no more Mr. Nice Guy” depends on the context in which it is used. Robert Glover’s book of the same name, but it has been around much longer than that. What is the meaning of the phrase “no more Mr. Like this article? Sign up for a free trial here. Shortform has the world's best summaries and analyses of books you should be reading. This article is an excerpt from the Shortform book guide to "No More Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As one character's life is chased to extinction, Safran Foer multi-layers the story with immense, anxious, at times disorientating imagery, crossing both a sense of time and place, making the story of one person's last day everyone's story. ![]() Tree of Codes is the story of 'an enormous last day of life'. Inspired to exhume a new story from an existing text, Jonathan Safran Foer has taken his favourite book, The Street of Crocodiles by Polish-Jewish writer Bruno Schulz and used it as a canvas, cutting into and out of the pages, to arrive at an original new story told in Safran Foer's own acclaimed voice. Initially deemed impossible to make, the book is a first - as much a sculptural object as it is a work of masterful storytelling. With a different die-cut on every page, Tree of Codes explores previously unchartered literary territory. Tree of Codes, is a haunting new story by best-selling American writer, Jonathan Safran Foer. ![]() |