5/21/2023 0 Comments The starless sea erin morgenstern![]() ![]() I can see why this book was so heavily recommended, but it wasn’t for me. It was in those chapters I was the most connected to the novel. Not just because of the narration, I love the epistolary format. ![]() Her chapters were the most interesting as Katrina Hawkins was my favorite character. I did enjoy the narration and was pleasantly surprised to hear the voice of Bahni Turpin. And worse I could see the strings, the muscle of it, and that made it kind of a drag. I could see, even feel the lines in it, constantly reminding me that I was listening to a story. And even though the pieces still fit together, there are chasms where it was cut. It was like Morgenstern had an idea for a story and then rather than write it, she turned it inside out and cut it into pieces. ![]() Interesting for sure, but also, afterward, the magic is gone. This book felt like a magician revealing his tricks. ![]()
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5/21/2023 0 Comments The wars thomas findley![]() More specifically, however, the consolidation of the narrative of "Canada" as a sturdy colonial youth in world affairs, seeking independence and maturity by participation in a "world" war, is also questioned through the novel's reliance on figures of innocence, childhood, and a pastoral, pre-industrialized world. The "evolutionary narrative of historical continuity" that Homi Bhabha theorizes as necessary to the pedagogical reproduction of the nation is questioned by the novel's narrative method (and amply documented in scholarship on historiographic metafiction). The Wars, a fictional biography of the reluctant coming-of-age of one Canadian soldier, encodes the story of Canada's initiation into the rights of nationhood and state power through the rites of military, technological, and familial participation in the Great War. Timothy Findley's work has played a significant role in the making of postmodernism in Canada, yet such apparently "ex-centric" texts as Findley's can also tell some very centric stories when read not for their play between historiography and fiction but for a material unconscious encoded in the figural level of the text. ![]() ![]() A POSTMODERN INCREDULITY toward master narratives has been celebrated as a sign that Canadian literature and letters not only survived the paraphrase of thematic criticism and arrived at a new stage of cultural maturity but did so on an international footing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Currently, I teach forensic psychology and criminal justice at DeSales University. ![]() I hold graduate degrees in forensic psychology, clinical psychology, criminal justice, creative writing and philosophy. I have also been an executive producer for "Murder House Flip" and "BTK: Confession of a Serial Killer." From ghosts to vampires to serial killers, I have taken on a variety of dark subjects, mostly in crime and forensics. I began my writing career with "Prism of the Night: A Biography of Anne Rice." I had a bestseller with "The Vampire Companion." Since then, I've published 69 books and over 2,500 articles, reviews and short stories. I follow my own muse, because it leads me on interesting adventures. I've been fortunate to be able to find great joy in what others have written and sometimes to give this to readers. I've loved books since I was 3, and the library was a highlight of my childhood. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments The likeness book![]() Human agency is involved in the categorization of patterns of behaviour as illnesses such as ADHD, alcoholism, or schizophrenia. The likeness argument takes it for granted that the radical questions are about what we may observe or discover. ![]() ![]() The nature of the failure is, however, instructive. They are not and so the likeness argument must fail. In particular, the idea that the features that should decide the issue (as the first assumption states), are describable independently of views about the issue (as the second assumption states), is false. I have argued that the likeness argument cannot close these disputes, because two of the assumptions it relies upon to do so do not stand up to scrutiny. Disputes continue on all sides about which likenesses and differences are to count, and what they are to count for. As a matter of fact, no one has yet produced a version of it which achieves what it aims and claims to be able to achieve, namely to answer the question whether or not conditions such as schizophrenia really are illnesses or not. The likeness argument dominates the dispute over the reality of mental illness. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Unsweetined book![]() ![]() The harrowing battle she swore she had won was really just beginning. Even then, she kept a painful secret-one that could not be solved in thirty minutes with a hug, a stern talking-to, or a bowl of ice cream around the family table. Her ups and downs seemed not so different from our own, but more than a decade after the popular television show ended, the star publicly revealed her shocking recovery from methamphetamine addiction. Jodie Sweetin melted our hearts and made us laugh for eight years as cherub-faced, goody-two-shoes middle child Stephanie Tanner. ![]() In this "explosive" ( Us Weekly) and "brutally honest" (E! Online) memoir, Jodie Sweetin, once Danny Tanner's bubbly daughter on America's favorite family sitcom, takes readers behind the scenes of Full House and into her terrifying-and uplifting-real-life story of addiction and recovery. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Shana by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss![]() ![]() ![]() Rather than follow the advice of the rejection letters and rewrite the novel, she instead submitted it to paperback publishers. The Flame and the Flower was rejected by agents and hardcover publishers, who deemed it as "too long" at 600 pages. The novel revolutionized mainstream publishing, featuring an epic historical romance with a strong heroine and impassioned sex scenes. ![]() She is credited with the invention of the modern historical romance novel: In 1972 she released The Flame and the Flower, an instant New York Times bestseller that created a literary precedent. She wrote her first book in longhand while living at a military outpost in Japan. Air Force Second Lieutenant Ross Eugene Woodiwiss at a dance, and they married the following year. She long relished creating original narratives, and by age 6 was telling herself stories at night to help herself fall asleep. Kathleen Erin Hogg was born on June 3, 1939, in Alexandria, Louisiana, she was the youngest of eight siblings by Gladys (Coker) and Charles Wingrove Hogg, a disabled World War I veteran. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Count your lucky stars alexandria![]() And then fate (the heartless bitch) intervenes. But now her entire crew has found "the one" and she’s beginning to feel like a fifth wheel. She tried and it blew up in her face, so she’ll stick with casual hookups, thank you very much. ![]() Bellefleur writes as if she's captured fairy lights in a mason jar, twinkly and lovely within something solid yet fragile." – Entertainment Weeklyįollowing Written in the Stars and Hang the Moon, Lambda Literary Award winner and national bestselling author Alexandria Bellefleur pens another steamy queer rom-com about former best friends who might be each other's second chance at love… ![]() There's a sparkling quality here, one that mirrors the starry title. ![]() "Bellefleur has a droll, distinct voice, and her one-liners zing off the page, striking both the heart and funny bone. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Sisters telgemeier![]() ![]() ![]() Telgemeier’s drawing will delight readers with her characteristic colourful pictures that are easy to absorb and understand. In a story told over a long family road trip mixed in with memories from the past, Raina comes to see maybe having a sister, even one who is different than she expected, is maybe not so bad after all. ![]() Tight quarters do not help the relationship between Raina and Amara especially when each girl wants her own privacy. We watch as the family grows bigger in an apartment that seems to shrink. Her younger sister likes to play by herself, is always cranky and does not want much interaction with anybody, including the long-lost cousins they visit. Raina dreams of the day she will become a big sister but, when that day arrives, it is nothing like she imagined. In this graphic novel, Telgemeier tells the story of two sisters - namely herself, Raina, and her sister, Amara. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Running out of time haddix![]() ![]() ![]() Can she get help before the children of Clifton, and Jessie herself, run out of time? In the world outside, medicine exists that can cure the dread disease, and Jessie’s mother is sending her on a dangerous mission to bring back help.īut beyond the walls of Clifton, Jessie discovers a world even more alien and threatening than she could have imagined, and soon she finds her own life in jeopardy. When diphtheria strikes the village and the children of Clifton start dying, Jessie’s mother reveals a shocking secret -it’s actually 1996, and they are living in a reconstructed village that serves as a tourist site. Jessie lives with her family in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana, in 1840-or so she believes. "Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies" by the National Council for Social Studies and the Children's Book Council, 1996.Starred review in School Library Journal.Maryland Library Association Black-Eyed Susan Award, 1998. ![]() A YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, 1997.A YALSA Quick Pick for Young Adults, 1996.School Library Journal Starred Review, 1995.American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, 1995. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Youtube cohen![]() ![]() ^ a b Breaking News Videos No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen.Guests that have appeared on No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen include ![]() Ĭohen acted in a handful of film and television roles from 2012 to 2016. ![]() He had been an occasional contributor to The Huffington Post prior to launching his show. In addition to hosting his podcast and YouTube videos, Cohen has been a speaker at Netroots Nation, at Collision, and at Web Summit in Lisbon. He had the honor of addressing the graduating class of 2011 as their class president. In 2011, Cohen graduated from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania with a BS degree in Business and Economics and a BA degree in English. By then, Cohen had interviewed notable political figures for nearly two years. On February 25, 2022, Cohen became the first YouTube creator/podcaster to interview U.S. His growing YouTube channel has nearly 2 million subscribers. ![]() He is best known for hosting the progressive podcast No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen, where he interviews leading political figures, reports on politics, and live-streams major events, including debates and election results. For the retired American professional boxer, see Brian Cohen (boxer).īrian Tyler Cohen (born 1989) is an American YouTuber, podcaster, political commentator, and journalist. This article is about the podcaster and journalist. ![]() |