![]() The only problem? Her parents rely on her in ways they’re not willing to admit, including working practically full-time at her family’s pho restaurant.įor years, the Mais and the Nguyens have been at odds, having owned competing, neighboring pho restaurants. She loves art and dreams pursuing a career in it. Stable when unlit, but full of potential for joy and fire. If Linh Mai had to describe herself, she’d say she was a firecracker. He works at his parents’ pho restaurant, and even there, he is his parents’ fifth favorite employee. His grades are average, his social status unremarkable. Steady and strong, but not particularly interesting. If Bao Nguyen had to describe himself, he’d say he was a rock. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Dimple Met Rishi meets Ugly Delicious in this funny, smart romantic comedy, in which two Vietnamese American teens fall in love and must navigate their newfound relationship amid their families’ age-old feud about their competing, neighboring restaurants. “Will leave readers swooning.” - PopSugar ![]()
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![]() (I hear and see my friends across the pond using the term more often than we Yanks.) Shamanism is more specific than many people believe it is, and the use of therm in conjunction with practices like Wicca feels especially frowned upon in many parts of the world, especially the USA. Issues arise in Cunningham the moment you get to the first chapter, “Wicca and Shamanism.” In fairness to Cunningham, there are no grandma stories in his book, but he does choose to place Wicca’s roots in shamanism. ![]() (I write that knowing that your experiences may differ, and I’m looking forward to the commenter that suggests they do everything exactly as Cunningham said to in 1989.) There’s good information in this book, but there’s also a lot of stuff that’s very out of place in the Wiccan world of 2020. His footnotes had me giggling during my re-reading. Cunningham’s prose is warm and inviting, and even funny at times. If you want to practice Wicca right-away this book allows you to do that. ![]() He explains things succinctly without a lot of fuss. Cunningham has been popular for forty years because he’s a good writer. ![]() Despite the criticisms that are coming your way soon enough, I’d never argue that Wicca is a bad book, in fact there’s a lot to recommend it. ![]() ![]() As Tad tries to fend off the terror that comes to him at night from his bedroom closet, and as Vic and Donna face their own nightmare of a marriage on the rocks, there is no way they can know that a monster, infinitely sinister, waits in the daylight. They are seeking peace and quiet, but life in this small town is not what it seems. Meanwhile, Vic and Donna Trenton, and their young son Tad, move to Maine. One day, Cujo chases a rabbit into a cave inhabited by sick bats and emerges as something new altogether. Cujo is a two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard, the best friend Brett Camber has ever had. ![]() Outside a peaceful town in central Maine, a monster is waiting. ![]() Get ready to meet the most hideous menace ever to savage the flesh and devour the mind. The #1 national bestseller for Stephen King’s rabid fans, Cujo “hits the jugular” ( The New York Times) with the story of a friendly Saint Bernard that is bitten by a sick bat. ![]() Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine ![]() ![]() 'This witty, disturbing book deals with sexism, mental health issues and the hypocrisy of a country where young women are “popping caffeine pills and turning jaundiced” as they slave away in factories helping to fund higher education for male siblings. Hardback- Book of the Month: This hardcover edition is a book of the. Kim Jiyoung has started acting strangely. Fair: shows wear and tear but all the text pages and illustrations or maps are present. Kim Jiyoung is a wife who gives up her career and independence for a life of domesticity. ![]() Kim Jiyoung is a model employee but gets overlooked for promotion. ![]() Kim Jiyoung is a good student who doesn’t get put forward for internships. Kim Jiyoung is a daughter whose father blames her when she is harassed late at night. Kim Jiyoung is a female preyed upon by male teachers at school. Kim Jiyoung is a sister made to share a room while her brother gets one of his own. Kim Jiyoung is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy. ![]() The life story of one young woman born at the end of the twentieth century raises questions about endemic misogyny and institutional oppression that are relevant to us all. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is the South Korean sensation that has got the whole world talking. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Everything’s speeding up,” Lukianoff says. And unrest on college campuses continues. Three years later, political polarization has only increased, as has anxiety among young people. In that story, “The Coddling of the American Mind,” Lukianoff, a First Amendment lawyer and the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education ( FIRE), and Haidt, a social psychologist at New York University, observed that “in the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don’t like,” and argued that capitulating to requests to banish certain ideas from classrooms and campus events would likely increase student anxiety and depression, rather than ameliorate it. “As each side increasingly demonizes the other, compromise becomes more difficult … So it’s not hard to imagine why students arriving on campus today might be more desirous of protection and more hostile toward ideological opponents than in generations past.” ![]() “It is a very serious problem for any democracy,” he and his co-author Jonathan Haidt wrote in a cover story for The Atlanticthat year. Greg Lukianoff was preoccupied with political polarization-not just the divisiveness he observed, but the fallout-and specifically the effects of tribalism on college campuses. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lee Edelman would, in his iconic 2004 book No Future, argue that because queerness cannot produce the patriarchal ideal of a Child, it is fundamentally defined by a drive towards death. Each line may be brief, but together they are infinite.Ĭarson points out that Sappho associates desire with death, an idea that-interestingly enough-is also a function of queer theory in later times. ![]() I particularly loved her choice to end on the brief verses, page after page of lines with no context beyond. I also appreciated Carson’s commentary on 16, 55, 94, and 98. Her insights on poem 137’s use of the extremely loaded term aidos (shame), and poem 142’s use of the term hetairai (friend) to connote an intimate relationship with a woman, each deepen the meaning of the poem. Through this translation, Anne Carson attempts to convey the best of her work, through both presentation-sometimes the spacing makes the poem, as with verse 26-and wording, as she discusses in her final notes of the book.įor me, half the appeal of this edition was the work put into translation notes by Carson. Believed to have written 8 or 9 books, her lover Megara, daughter Kleis, and enemy Andromeda all appear within these texts. Sappho (c.630-c.570BCE), one of Ancient Greece’s Nine Lyric Poets, is an absolutely gorgeous poet and writer, one who’s been the subject of much academic discourse. Yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful thingsĪnd your tongue were not concocting some evil to sayīut rather you would speak about what is just ![]() ![]() ![]() That novel is going to be published, despite all expectation. Unfortunately, Phoebe has already met Sylvester and took such a dislike to him that she used him as the villain in a novel she wrote. Sylvester’s visit is disguised as a hunting party, but Phoebe Marlow is informed by her detestable stepmother that the duke is coming to make her an offer. Although he is warm and thoughtful to those he cares for, since his twin brother’s death, he has been aloof to others and comes off as haughty. When his beloved mama mentions that she and her best friend made a plan for their children to marry many years before, he decides to go inspect the girl, his godmother’s granddaughter, to see if he might like her. His only difficulty is in deciding which of five eligible girls to marry. The extremely eligible bachelor Sylvester, Duke of Salford, has decided to take a wife. Just recently, I reread Sylvester, which in some editions is titled Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle. ![]() On occasion, I reread a few of Georgette Heyer’s Regency romances, which have been some of my favorite reading for many years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but lonely author, travels to the Queen of the Adriatic in search of an elusive spiritual fulfillment that turns into his erotic doom. In a widely acclaimed translation that restores the controversial passages that were censored from the original English version, "Death in Venice" tells about a ruinous quest for love and beauty amid degenerating splendor. perfectly nuanced translation" ( The Boston Globe) of Thomas Mann's greatest short worksįeaturing his world-famous masterpiece, "Death in Venice," this collection of Nobel laureate Thomas Mann's stories and novellas reveals his artistic evolution. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We know we'll be seeing new places in this story, we wonder what's going to happen on our journey, and we know we're going to end up at the tip of India, where three oceans meet, which sounds pretty exciting.įirst line: Madam Hortensia loved straight lines. Why it works: Sets the scene of the story, makes the reader wonder something, and hints at the end. It hints at the love between grandmother and grandchild, and since it's a counting story, we assume it's going to end with 10 or 100.īy Rajani LaRocca, art by ARchana Screenivasanįirst line: We decide to travel to the very tip of India, where three oceans meet. We assume this will be a counting story involving Grandma and the reader. Why it works: sets the tone of the story, introduces the main character, hints at a universal theme, and hints at the end. ![]() If *some* have a voice like a tree, what do others have a voice like? And these lines are poetic, which hints at a lyrical description of the different voices we have. Why it works: makes the reader wonder something and sets the tone for the story. What is W hite, and what does it mean that it's spreading through the sky?īy Jimmie Allen, art by Cathy Ann Johnsonįirst line: Some have a voice as tall as a tree-loud and proud and sways in the breeze. Why it works: introduces the main character, makes the reader wonder something,and starts in the middle of the action. First line (over two spreads): White wakes up.and spreads through the sky. ![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Adriann Ranta Zurhellen, Foundry Literary. Alternating between the perspectives of Tress, Felicity, and a panther that escaped from the attraction, McGinnis succeeds in crafting an engaging tale, but the reasoning behind the girls’ taking things to extremes feels underestablished, and poetic interludes from the panther fail to cohere with the overall narrative. In the first book of a suspenseful YA duology, award-winning author Mindy McGinnis draws inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe and masterfully delivers a dark, propulsive mystery in alternating points of view that unravels a friendship. With significant nods to Edgar Allan Poe’s macabre work, everything comes to a head on Halloween night at the last party at the old Usher estate, which the town council plans to tear down. ![]() ![]() Tress has lived with her grandfather in a trailer at his dodgy animal attraction ever since, and Felicity, the last to see Tress’s folks, claims to remember nothing from that night and has distanced herself from Tress-except to buy drugs. Seven years ago in Amontillado, Ohio, Tress Montor’s parents disappeared and her former best friend, Felicity Turnado, was found shivering by the river. Two girls recall the major events that forced them apart in an intricate, duology-opening story of mystery and revenge by McGinnis ( Be Not Far from Here). ![]() |