![]() ![]() Ward is a major American writer, multiply awarded and universally lauded, and in Sing, Unburied, Sing she is at the height of her powers. ![]() Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi’s past and present that is both an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. ![]() Publishing Info: Scribner, September 2017īook Description: A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. Book: “Sing, Unburied, Sing” by Jesmyn Ward ![]()
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Zane (born 1966/1967) is the pseudonym of Kristina Laferne Roberts, author of erotic fiction novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a few instances does the book have a take-home message that was easy enough to hang on to and those bits were the most interesting to me (especially in the discussion of situations where one is presented with so many choices, for example in health care plans or retirement investments, that one gives up or procrastinates and decides not to choose at all, thereby making the worst possible choice) ![]() Because of the sheer scope of the topic, and the sometimes contradictory conclusions that the studies showed, it was tricky as a non-psychologist to synthesize the material into a coherent outline. So much material was presented on so many aspects of choice that I felt its significance continually slipping from my grasp. 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Then my car broke down on the turnpike on my way back from a work trip and I learned that I will need to buy a new one. Then my life got a little crazy: less than one week after I booked flights for an epic (but kind of expensive) adventure in London and Iceland this summer I found out my rent was going up by quite a lot. That turned out to be a fail: we made the 5 hour drive after the sun went down, and I completely forgot that I would need sunlight in order to read in the car. Then, once I had it, I planned on reading it in the car on the way to my brother’s house, where my family was helping him move. But things were going slow… First it took me a while to get the book. It was the March book for Our Shared Shelf, Emma Watson’s feminist book club on Good Reads (of which I’m a member). This book was the perfect cure- completely consumed within 24 hours!īefore this, I was trying to work my way through All About Love by bell hooks. ![]() I’ve been in a funk recently there’s a lot going on in my life and I haven’t been able to really get into what I’ve been reading. Girl Underwater was just what I needed this weekend. ![]() ![]() ![]() Filming gay porn might seem like an odd career path for a straight man, but it’s never bothered Joey. → Joey Finch (40), the head cameraman for the Ballsy Boys porn studio for the better part of a decade. The list is a bit long, so I put it in a spoilers tag. It was a simple, fast forward with barely any angst - if any at all - read. cute? I mean, it wasn't exactly very steamy. I had expected something else, maybe even more, but at the same time, my expectations were pretty low to begin with. That being said, the book wasn't bad per se, but it was far from great. ![]() Then there's the age, which normally wouldn't have been a problem, but they keep mentioning it and it bothered me. And while Hunter was a daddy - as in he takes care of his boys -, he wasn't all that alpha male. ![]() Okay, Okay, I have to admit that I'm a bit uncomfortable with the ‘Daddy’ kink, I am, but the theme of straight man falling for a man is a theme I enjoy so I just had to give this one a chance. ![]() ![]() ![]() All the chapters now conclude with a check list which includes definitions and key equations. Almost every chapter has at least one Box showing the relevance of the material to modern chemistry. There are new or rewritten chapters on the solid state, on molecular interactions, macromolecules, and electron transfer. The new author team has introduced many innovations. This major revision of the world's leading textbook of physical chemistry has maintained its tradition of accessibility but authority and has brought it thoroughly up to date. Statistical thermodynamics: the machinery Spectroscopy 1: rotational and vibrational spectra ![]() Quantum theory: techniques and applications Quantum theory: introduction and principles ![]() Physical transformations of pure substances Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nor that the “whatsisname” should roam the streets, committing a series of murders. Saadawi suggests that, amid all the horror and spiritual degradation, there is nothing especially unlikely in the idea that this thing of shreds and patches should find reanimation from the soul of a security guard blown to shreds. It seems unsurprising in this present-day hell, then, that an opportunistic tinker and ne’er-do-well, Hadi, could seize upon myriad spare body parts covering the streets and create a patchwork human being. In war-torn Baghdad, where truck bombings are an unremarkable part of everyday life and where human life is a trinket to be tossed away, positive force is in short supply. “B e a positive force and you’ll survive,” a character repeatedly mutters in Ahmed Saadawi’s hallucinatory and hilarious novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() “You have to have an IQ number less than 75 to be retarded. “I am thirty-two years old and I am not retarded,” says Perry. But look closer: Perry is “slow.” Don’t mistake that for being retarded. Crandall says the “L” in his name stands for “Lucky.” And considering he does win $12 million in the Washington State Lottery, you might suppose he is. And while that makes his once distant family glom onto him like a barnacle to a boat, it’s really his lack of brains and beauty that make Perry a hero to the reader. He is not a savvy, successful businessman. He is not the all-American boy next door. He is not blessed with a high IQ or charming good looks. And in society, Perry would not even be considered likeable. In Patricia Wood’s debut novel “Lottery,” her narrator is not what those in literary circles would call reliable. ![]() ![]() ![]() In The War for Late Night, New York Times reporter Bill Carter offers a detailed behind-the-scenes account of the events of the unforgettable 2009/2010 late-night season as all of its players-performers, producers, agents, and network executives-maneuvered to find footing amid the shifting tectonic plates of television culture. What followed was a boisterous, angry, frequently hilarious public battle that had millions of astonished viewers glued to their sets. 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