![]() ![]() ![]() This is another great King read, long and rambling but utterly engaging and compulsive, and worthy of a spot in any King library. The story shows how this setting transforms the people involved, and how they work together to try to defeat this evil being. King knows people and writes about people. Trying to explain what this book is about would make it sound rather silly, (a group of people in a mining town are kidnapped by an alien being that "uses" their bodies to destroy the town and everyone in it). His magic is in the interpersonal relationships of everyone in each story, and an almost exhaustive attention to detail that is never boring but engaging. He gets to the heart of the reader by describing elements in a story than anyone can relate to. Stephen King knows how to tell a great story. I normally read a book first before purchasing (I have to set some limits on the buying otherwise the books would take over), but I lucked out with this gem. ![]() And The Regulators, set on one suburban block in Wentworth, Ohio, employs many characters from its mirror novel, set in Desperation, Nevadabut often in far different roles. King says that The Regulators and Desperation (see below) are companion volumes, like Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. I picked this up almost as an afterthought at a discount store simply because the price was too good to pass up. Bachman/Stephen King in overdrive, fast as he can type and laughing with bloodglee. ![]()
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![]() Goffman introduces us to an unforgettable cast of young African American men who are caught up in this web of warrants and surveillance-some of them small-time drug dealers, others just ordinary guys dealing with limited choices. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance techniques criminalize entire blocks, and transform the very associations that should stabilize young lives-family, relationships, jobs-into liabilities, as the police use such relationships to track down suspects, demand information, and threaten consequences.Īlice Goffman spent six years living in one such neighborhood in Philadelphia, and her close observations and often harrowing stories reveal the pernicious effects of this pervasive policing. Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, the water fills with monstrous, slimy creatures. After that, the ship remains stuck, leaving everybody thirsty and hungry. Instead, the Mariner kills it with his crossbow. All the sailors welcome the majestic bird as a good omen. ![]() Soon enough, an albatross comes flying by, and as he circles around the ship, the ice starts to break. ![]() It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,ĭuring a voyage, the Mariner and his crew are hit by a dreadful storm, that conducts the ship inside a maze of ice. To this day, the interpretations of this ballad are numerous, because of its dense and mysterious symbolism. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner dwells in a rarefied atmosphere but also adopts the solemn tone of a maritime epic, like Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. In many of his literary creations, Coleridge works with fantastic, dream-like worlds, where realistic and supernatural events coexist. ![]() ‘By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, This is the premise of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the poem that opens Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads (1798). While walking together to a wedding, three young boys meet an old sailor: the man, curved by his age but with a “glittering eye”, stops one of them and tells him his story. ![]() ![]() ![]() The concepts and terms that refer to gender identity continually change, as our perceptions evolve. Learn more about the difference between sex and gender here. ![]() People typically use the terms “male,” “female,” or “intersex” to refer to a person’s sex. ![]() People may also refer to differences in sex development as intersex. This is called differences in sex development. A person may have the genes that people may associate with being male or female, but their reproductive organs, genitals, or both may look different. However, gender is not neatly divided along the binary lines of “man” and “woman.” SexĪ person’s sex is typically based on certain biological factors, such as their reproductive organs, genes, and hormones. In Western cultures, people associate femininity with women and masculinity with men, but this social construction varies across cultures. The World Health Organization (WHO) note that gender is a social construction that people typically describe in terms of femininity and masculinity. People may use clothing, appearances, and behaviors to express the gender that they identify with. GenderĪ person’s gender is how they identify internally and how they express this externally. The term gender identity refers to the personal sense of an individual’s own gender.īecause a person’s sex and gender identity do not have to be the same, it is important to know the difference between them. ![]() ![]() I’m keeping hush-hush on the premise until I’m finished writing this one but am sharing snippets on my blog every Wednesday. What are you working on now? Currently I’m working on a dark and gritty New Adult dragon shifter story. But I didn’t know I wanted to write young adult until I read the Twilight series. ![]() When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer? I’ve been writing since I could hold a pencil…short stories, poems, fan letters and diary entries. Last song (or album) you bought: The Lateness of the Hour album by Alex ClareĪ book/series you could read over and over again: Fever series by Karen Marie Moning ![]() Last book you read: Winter Fairy by Lola Karns Your favorite TV series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Your favorite dessert: Pineapple upside-down cake Where do you live: near the beach, wish it were the mountains though ![]() Welcome to the Author Spotlight, Karen Y. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2008, she published Devil's Brood, which was to be the final book in her trilogy about Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. The mysteries did not enjoy the same success as her "straight" historical novels, to which she returned in 2002, with Time and Chance, again covering the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II. In 1996, following the success of When Christ and His Saints Slept (which dealt with the Anarchy and the early career of King Henry II of England), Penman ventured into the historical whodunnit with four mysteries set in the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine during the reign of Richard I. The Sunne in Splendour, a novel about Richard III of England is one of the most popular books on the Historical Novel Society's list of best historical novels. Penman received her bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin, she majored in history, and also received a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Rutgers University School of Law, and later worked as a tax lawyer. ![]() ![]() ![]() I would 100% read a spin off about Kate & Dave, they were everything. And each of the important side characters had their own story arcs. The parents and side characters were developed, present, and engaging.It was refreshing to see such a young character stand her ground and respect herself enough to make such a tough decision. I really appreciated how Sunny’s relationship with her previous best friend played out. This is a bit of a spoiler so I’ll try and keep it vague. ![]() I love seeing difficult topics being discussed in younger books and Ashley Herring Blake handled everything delicately and respectfully. I really appreciated the heartwarming message of this book.She was an amazing Middle Grade main character. But she never let any of it slow her down. Her best friend betrayed her secret, her mother abandoned her, her heart broke. She took everything life handed her and confronted it face on. Sunny’s character was so precious but strong.It is told from 12 year old Sunny’s perspective and follows her through and after a heart transplant when her predictable, boring life is suddenly overturned.Ĭontent Warnings: Surgery/illness, abandonment, alcoholism What I Liked But when Sunny finds a new best friend, Quinn, she starts questioning step 3. And once she has her new heart, she’s ready to become the New Sunny. ![]() ![]() Maria lives in New Orleans with her better half, where she can generally be found hiking with her two dogs, Zeus and Athena, kayaking in Louisiana’s inter-coastal waterways, or curled up on the couch with a good book. What do the two eras have in common, you ask? Not much, except for disease, scandalous activities and crime–Maria’s favorite topics. New audiobooks release ' Kiss Me Tonight ' by Maria Luis Maria Luis - Kiss Me Tonight audi. When she’s not writing about strong men and the sassy women who sweep them off their feet, Maria is a historian who specializes in medieval England and 19th century New Orleans. Listen to the Kiss Me Tonight by Maria Luis audiobook online. ![]() But if you ask me, my new head coach is a pain in my left nut sac. Maria Luis is the author of sexy contemporary romances, though she may or may not have a few historical romances hiding in the cobwebs of her computer. If you talk to the locals, they’ll tell you Aspen Levi is the queen of high school football. ![]() ![]() ![]() He’d make it to the breakfast table with a smile on his face and sit down to toast and think everything was fine. But there were some mornings, like at the beginning of high school, where he would wake up and feel as if nothing had changed-in the good way. ![]() There was no hesitation in his mind that he was male, even if his body sometimes disagreed. JULIAN DECIDED he needed to tell three people before it became real. What happens during his slow process of coming out leads Julian down odd pathways of friendship, romance, Christmas shopping, random parties, bad movies, and a realization about why kids still believe in Santa-it’s sometimes better than discovering the truth. So Julian makes a deal with himself: if he can tell his secret to three people, it is no longer a hoax. A full year after discovering he’s transgender, Julian realizes life changes whether you’re ready for it or not. Aiden ditches him, and a new girl, Maria, keeps cornering him in the girls’ bathroom. His parents and friends still call him Julia and think he’s a girl, but so long as Julian can still hang out with his best friend Aiden and read sci-fi novels with his dad, life seems pretty good. ![]() When Julian Gibson realizes he’s transgender, he doesn’t think anything has to change. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The chapters are organized based on different categories of agents-travelers, ethnographers, religious leaders, artists, and political revolutionaries-whose voices cast ideas of Europe and Czech identity in the early modern period in a new and different light. Rather than simply constructing identity in opposition to the Islamic Other, Laura Lisy-Wagner shows how these authors played the Holy Roman and Ottoman Empires off of each other, creating an autonomous space for themselves in between.Lisy-Wagner introduces sources that are new to English-language historiography and uses them in a way that is new to Czech historiography as well. I saw so many testimony about how Dark Web Cyber hackers send them the atm blank card and use it to collect money in any atm machine and become rich I email. Later, through his book Jesus and the Disinherited, he foresaw a theology of American liberation based on the life of Jesus as a dispossessed Jew under. ![]() Unlike many narratives about the Czech lands, which place them on the periphery of their own history, this study considers Czechs as central characters, looking both east and west to find their place in the early modern world.Islam, Christianity and the Making of Czech Identity, 14531683 works through the descriptive and ethnographic texts produced by Czech speakers about Islam and the Ottoman Empire to show how they used this discourse to create Czech identities. ![]() |