![]() ![]() “Beautiful World, Where Are You?”, which was published early this month, failed to live up to the lucidity of Rooney’s earlier novels. Rooney is the novelist I go to when I want to be seen and validated, so waiting for her highly anticipated third novel was like waiting for an old friend to return home. She takes seriously the kind of stories that are often deemed frivolous merely because their subject matter (girls) is not seen as a viable cultural subset for which to make art, manifested in the phrase “chick lit.” Art which portrays female perspectives - especially young, contemporary female perspectives - is often viewed as separate and illegitimate. Her first two novels, “Conversations with Friends” and “Normal People,” catalog the romantic and intellectual obsessions of her college-aged subjects with rare tenderness and precision. Reading Sally Rooney is like finally being compensated for being a young woman. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Sometimes Alexis dresses femme and preppy, other times she’s all T-shirts and denim. I loved the subtle way Weatherspoon highlighted the tension between Alexis’s family expectations and her own way of being in the world. I related to Alexis in particular, her anxiety, self-doubt, and difficulty navigating her gender presentation. The characters in this novella were so concrete and relatable from the start. Rebekah Weatherspoon is a new-to-me author, but once my bank account recovers from my recent book-buying spree, I plan to read much more from her. Like, ignored folding my laundry and doing all my Sunday chores because I couldn’t stop reading, loved it. Alexis is surprised and delighted to reconnect with the beautiful stripper when she discovers they are in the same computer science class. The two women meet and share a sexy moment when Alexis comes to Trisha’s club for a bachelorette party. Treasure is a sweet, contemporary lesbian romance about Alexis, an anxious and adorable soft-butch from a well-to-do black family, and Trisha, a warm and pulled-together stripper working on her undergrad degree. So, first up… Treasure by Rebekah Weatherspoon. ![]() These posts will be more rambling thoughts than legit reviews because I don’t really have any consistent evaluative criteria and I really only want to talk about books I love! Hi friends! In honor of Pride and because I have three weeks off before my summer job starts, I thought it might be fun to blog about some of the LGBTQ+ books I’m reading. ![]() ![]() ![]() And that’s not exactly what I’m talking about. ![]() “There’s another sense of empathy which is narrower and which has to do with understanding other people. "I think that understanding people is important, but it’s not necessarily a force for good. Some people take empathy to mean everything good or moral, or to be kind in some general sense. “I’ve come to realize that people mean different things by empathy. In his book, Bloom argues that empathy itself is not inherently a good tool, only that it has the potential to be. It’s often seen as a bridge to communication and a fundamental pillar in having a moral and just society.īut according to Paul Bloom, a professor of psychology at Yale and author of Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion, the concept of empathy is more complicated than we may assume. ![]() The world becomes a more sympathetic place when we intentionally try to understand what another person is feeling. For the most part, we tend to think of empathy as a good thing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her cerebral, witty, multichambered essays tend to swing around to one topic in particular: what we mean when we say we feel someone else's pain. ![]() she calls to mind writers as disparate as Joan Didion and John Jeremiah Sullivan as she interrogates the palpitations of not just her own trippy heart but of all of ours. ![]() She draws from her own experiences of illness and bodily injury to engage in an exploration that extends far beyond her life, spanning wide-ranging territory-from poverty tourism to phantom diseases, street violence to reality television, illness to incarceration-in its search for a kind of sight shaped by humility and grace. Published in the UK, Brazil, Germany, Holland, Italy, France, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Korea, and China.īeginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison’s visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How can we feel another’s pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed? By confronting pain-real and imagined, her own and others’-Jamison uncovers a personal and cultural urgency to feel. Finalist for the ABA Indies Choice Award and the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Named a Top 10 Book of 2014 by Entertainment Weekly, Publisher's Weekly, Oprah, Slate, Salon, the L Magazine, and Time Out: New York. New York Times Bestseller, Notable Book of 2014, and Editors' Choice. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Great Peloponnesian War, also called the First Peloponnesian War, was the first major scuffle between them. It was only a matter of time before the two powerful leagues collided. The Spartans, meanwhile, were part of the Peloponnesian League (550 BC- 366 B.C.) of city-states. In reality, the league also granted increased power and prestige to Athens. ![]() united several Greek city-states in a military alliance under Athens, ostensibly to guard against revenge attacks from the Persian Empire. The formation of the Delian League, or Athenian League, in 478 B.C. The Peloponnesian War marked a significant power shift in ancient Greece, favoring Sparta, and also ushered in a period of regional decline that signaled the end of what is considered the Golden Age of Ancient Greece. The two most powerful city-states in ancient Greece, Athens and Sparta, went to war with each other from 431 to 405 B.C. ![]() ![]() We meet the original owner of the brooch. The story begins in Legacy of Love by Kristi Ann Hunter. ![]() ![]() What a wonderful collection of stories whose common thread is a brooch that is passed on from generation to generation. I was given this book by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. It would be hard to pick a favorite novella out of these. I loved following the story of the brooch throughout the years. When a church Christmas project brings them together and she stumbles upon an old family brooch, might it finally be her turn for love? In Becky Wade's "Because of You," Maddie Winslow has spent years in love with a man whose heart was already spoken for. She never expected her family's brooch might be how a fellow hunter turns her attention from competition to romance. In Sarah Loudin Thomas's "A Shot at Love," Fleeta Brady's rough-and-tumble childhood means she prefers hunting to more feminine activities. But the more she comes to know the man behind the stern businessman, the more she hopes for a second chance at love. In Karen Witemeyer's "Gift of the Heart," widow Ruth Albright uses the family brooch as collateral for a loan from the local banker. and introduce her to the woman's grandson, a man far above her station. In Kristi Ann Hunter's "Legacy of Love," Sarah Gooding never suspected returning a brooch to an elderly woman would lead to a job. ![]() ![]() ![]() Series like Down to Earth with Zac Efron and Eugene Levy’s The Reluctant Traveler have taken their stars all over the world, offering a more diverse array of new stories to tell. The best, by far, is Stanley Tucci’s Searching for Italy, though the CNN show only focused on cuisine in the Mediterranean country. ![]() Though Bourdain and his Parts Unknown are the best pairing, a handful of these similar new series have been quite impressive. I can’t pretend I’m not jealous, having watched at least one episode of every one of these shows. Got an army of fans and a soft, calming voice? Apple TV+ is going to send you to Antarctica for a year-enjoy! For actors and other big personalities over the age of 35, these days, becoming a globetrotter has become a profitable profession. In the wake of Anthony Bourdain’s passing, it feels like tons of male celebrities have tried their hand to fill the travel host’s shoes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His book, 'The Idea of India' has a very poetic narration, one gets a feeling of reading a great literature, a shakespeare or milton like. The focus of my current research, Indian politics and history, derives from an interest in how, in the 20th century, the core political theories and ideas. ![]() More: Race Racism African-Americans Martin Luther King, Jr. OL2709948W Page_number_confidence 86.99 Pages 294 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.14 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210604214201 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 279 Scandate 20210603180514 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780374525910 Tts_version 4. Sunil Khilnani, is a great writer, and is an honest and adept political scientist. Sunil Khilnani is the author of Incarnations and The Idea of India. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:00:35 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40130517 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() “The Antigone myth appeals today because of the fantasy that one young woman can take down a fascist state,” she said. In her new book, “Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths” (Bold Type Press, 2020), Helen Morales, the Argyropoulos Professor of Hellenic Studies at UC Santa Barbara, takes a fresh look at feminism and what the millennia-old stories tell us about what it means to be human today. Some 2,500 years later, Antigone has become a symbol of feminist resistance. One exception to this narrative was Antigone, the young woman whose defiance and death in Sophocles’ tragedy destroys the household of Creon, the king of Thebes. ![]() Tales from antiquity made heroes of the men who killed Amazons, warrior women considered the equal of men. In Greek mythology, misogyny was often a virtue. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Survival emerges as the organizing concept for a variety of democratic political forms that center the corporeality of desire in social movements contesting the expanding management of life by state institutions across the globe. Chrostowska looks to the vibrant, visionary mid-century resurgence of embodied utopian longings and projections in Surrealism, the Situationist International, and critical theorists writing in their wake, reconstructing utopia's link to survival through to the earliest, most radical phase of the French environmental movement. At the same time the left must reassume utopia as an action-guiding hypothesis-that is, as something still possible. Utopia in the Age of Survival makes the case that critical social theory needs to reinstate utopia as a speculative myth. A pathbreaking exploration of the fate of utopia in our troubled times, this book shows how the historically intertwined endeavors of utopia and critique might be leveraged in response to humanity's looming existential challenges. ![]() |