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![]() ![]() Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. The ALC’s leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji’s darkest secret: the cult’s bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with.īut when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him-the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. "A long, sustained scream to the various strains of anti-transgender legislation multiplying around the world like, well, a virus." -The New York Times A furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors. ![]() The bell jar sylvia5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() The writing that I was a little sketchy about at first helped me visualize the setting and get to know the characters. ![]() But that only remained within the first two pages, because after that I became absorbed. I went into the novel knowing that Plath was a poet and felt that at first the book was just another form of her poetry and her showing off her writing abilities. Her descriptions were crisp and precise, often using words that one rarely hears spoken or even read. When I first started reading the book I was a little put off, feeling it was an extremely pretensious novel. I assure you, The Bell Jar is a book all on it's own and should not be compared to any other book. I liked Catcher but I know there are many people who didn't and upon hearing that may be similar to Catcher not have the desire to read it. I was a little caught of guard when I read a few reviews of The Bell Jar comparing it to The Catcher in the Rye stating how it's the female version of it. I am gladly considering myself one of them. There are many who have read The Bell Jar and absolutely loved it. ![]() Lorna doone kindle5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet for the majority of the novel, the plot moves swifly apace over several years, reaching a satisfactory denoument, with most of the young people married off and Justice being served. Expect highly improbable plot contrivances, with unrealistic events thrown in to help the romantic protagonists. It was slow getting into, but one must make allowances for Blackmore's (to us) antiquated style: archaic vocabulary, country dialect to slog through, plus a great deal of religious and political warfare-obscure historical references for most Americans. In my opinion, LORNA is much more readable and almost enjoyable. This book is quite different from Blackmore's AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND no intertwined Fact and Fantasy here, but a curious blend of Romance and Adventure, as if the author were not entirely certain which genre he was brewing up in the wild countryside. Novels written in the 19th century are not everyone's cup of English tea, so taste therefrom with literary trepidation. ![]() "Forbidden Romance in the Ruthless Highlands" ![]() The worst best man book review5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Maybe it’s common, but not as much in my field(s), so it was fun to read about. First, it was such a cool way to handle a job interview for such a hands-on and creative position. ![]() So yea, working together on this project is going to be tough, but succeeding will both help Lina find the stability/upward mobility she wants in her career and give Max the chance to finally get out from under her brother’s shadow. The same younger brother who had a hand in her ex-fiancée’s decision to walk away from their wedding. However, throwing a giant wrench into her career and life plans, the marketing specialist she’s paired with to create her pitch is none other than her ex-fiancée’s younger brother, Max. When she is invited to apply for a position with a hotel group as their wedding coordinator, the new opportunity is exactly what she wants. But she’s tucked all her emotions about it away and has forged an incredibly successful career and an outwardly unflappable demeanor. Lina, a wedding planner, was left at the alter three years ago. ![]() A spool of blue thread goodreads5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() I’ve never in my life measured something by the square foot. I’ve lived in apartments my entire life, and lengthy descriptions of houses often make me jittery with stupidity. Part of the problem is that there’s a great deal of time spent describing the family house on Bouton Road. That’s less an implicit bias and more of a cultural exhaustion. When I read the jacket copy, I was worried that I wouldn’t find a good way into Anne Tyler’s A Spool of Blue Thread for the same reason I stopped watching Noah Baumbach movies a few years ago: Time is finite and I simply cannot fill my life to the brim with stories about neurotic white people. ![]() ![]() Known connections to this year’s contenders: “None.” She lives in the “not Brooklyn” part of New York City. Danielle Henderson is a new TV writer and old freelancer. ![]() The kreutzer sonata book5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Pozdnyshev relates that after he meets and marries his wife, periods of passionate love and vicious fights alternate. He further states that women will never enjoy equal rights to men as long as men view them as objects of desire, yet describes their situation as a form of power over men, mentioning how much of society is geared towards their pleasure and well-being and how much sway they have over men's actions. He then relates how he used to visit prostitutes when he was young, and complains that women's dresses are designed to arouse men's desires. Convention dictates that two married people stay together, and initial love can quickly turn into hatred. When a woman argues that marriage should not be arranged but based on true love, he asks "what is love?" and points out that, if understood as an exclusive preference for one person, it often passes quickly. Tolstoy's novella inspired the 1901 painting The Kreutzer Sonata by René-Xavier Prinet.ĭuring a train ride, Pozdnyshev overhears a conversation concerning marriage, divorce and love. ![]() Witcher the time of contempt5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() However, they were attacked by a gang who then raped all the women, including Mistle. Having been pampered since childhood, she couldn't keep up with fugitives and wandered alone until manhunters found her, intending to sell her and the other young girls off. Mistle came from a wealthy, noble family but their town was forced to flee from approaching " pacifiers". Giselher was pinned to a tree by one but was then rescued by the elf Aenyeweddien, better known as Iskra, who'd been banished by her people, meaning almost certain death for herself if she traveled alone. Giselher had deserted from an unknown army and joined a gang in the area, but they were unlucky enough to stumble into a free elf territory and most were killed by their arrows. ![]() Despite this, both 16 year olds joined forces and killed and robbed a tax collector. One such soldier was Reef, whose comrades had left behind due to his injuries. Kayleigh's village had been ransacked by Nilfgaardian forces. Each member came from a different troubled background. ![]() They Live by D. Harlan Wilson5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Likewise, works of cultural theory, such as Deleuze and Guattari's, typically appear only in passing. The significant trope of "becoming-Piper" does not, however, achieve centrality as the analysis's unifying framework until the book's later chapters. Wilson efficiently signals the book's engagement with professional wrestling and other aspects of 1980s American culture as the bases for many good critical insights throughout the book. Wilson begins his analysis of John Carpenter's cult classic They Live (1988) with "The Becoming-Piper," a concise introduction to a variety of topics: two provocative lines of dialogue from the film, the casting of "Rowdy" Roddy Piper as the film's protagonist Nada, and Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the "becoming-animal." This multifaceted introduction exemplifies the volume's benefits as well as its constraints. London and New York: Wallflower Press, 2015. ![]() American psycho book cover5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() While it's true that Patrick is experiencing delusions and hallucinations, it doesn't mean that the murders are in his head. Writer and The L Word actress Guinevere Turner has also been adamant that the American Psycho ending explained that Bateman was the killer all along. Related: 2000 Was A Fantastic Year For Horror Movies I think it's a failure of mine in the final scene because I just got the emphasis wrong. All I wanted was to be ambiguous in the way that the book was. Harron stated, "One thing I think is a failure on my part is people keep coming out of the film thinking that it's all a dream, and I never intended that. In an interview with Charlie Rose, Mary Harron states that she wished to make the ending ambiguous as a direct homage to the book, never intending people to believe that the American Psycho ending explained Bateman was never a killer at all. When in fact, both filmmakers agree that the ending did happen in real life, and Batman actor Christian Bale's Bateman won't be prosecuted for his crimes based on his affluence and high-society station. ![]() AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |