![]() Joneny’s initial impression of the Star Folk was based on one superficial study by a scholar who considerately “corrected” some results when the data didn’t line up with expectations. So it is that Joneny is sent off to take a closer look at the Star Folk. ![]() His mentor disagrees, if only because no other culture has ever experienced the depths of interstellar space. Isolationist and backward, the Star Folk seem content to remain in the orbiting reservation the Federation granted them.Īs far as ambitious anthropology student Joneny is concerned, being assigned to study the Star Folk is not an opportunity but a punishment, a task that offers no chance of professional glory. ![]() The Star Folk! What a glorious name! What a deplorable reality! Their flotilla of star ships spent twelve generations traveling from Sol to the Leffer system, only to arrive in a system that has already been settled by humans, thanks to the much faster, much safer hyper-drive. These two books are also very, very short. Expectations based on later works like Dhalgren, Triton, or Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders may well be misleading. ![]() It’s not quite my first pick for a Delany review for my Because My Tears are Delicious to You series (more on that later), but it is as close as I can come with my current library. ![]() Delany’s 1965 novel The Ballad of Beta‑ 2and his 1966 novel Empire Star. The Ballad of Beta‑ 2 and Empire Star is a 1976 omnibus of Samuel R. ![]()
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![]() Lamb is Christopher Moore’s masterpiece–a brilliant combination of the sacred and the profane, an imaginative and ingenious look at the “missing years” of Christ’s life story. To fully understand the kind of writer that Moore is, I need to tell you the subtitle of Lamb: “The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal.” Having dispatched with the most consistently amusing vampire series out there (it is … I swear!), I eagerly moved on to Lamb. ![]() Since I’d mistakenly started with the second book of his vampire trilogy, I backtracked and read the rest of them (Bloodsucking Fiends and Bite Me). The first time I read a Christopher Moore book (the wonderfully titled You Suck), I knew I had found an author whose back catalog I would plunder like a thief in a bank vault. Give Me Moore … But Maybe Not Too Much Moore! Please welcome today’s guest blogger: Jenners from Life…With Books, who will be discussing the best and worst of Christopher Moore. Visit the series page for more information about the guest bloggers, the featured authors, and the sign-up form. Each Wednesday I am featuring a guest post by a book blogger detailing which books they think are the “best” and “worst” by the author of their choice. ![]() ![]() As well as a terrifying plot masterfully told, this book has nuanced, tender relationships between characters, and is particularly good on female friendship. I rooted for Niamh all the way through, as she navigated her way through horror after horror. ![]() But can her new friends be trusted? Will she be able to stay ahead of the attacker? Or will she be next? Packed with voice-driven whodunit storytelling, and a retro slasher-movie feel reminiscent of cult classics Scream and Urban Legend, this dark, pacy, and irresistibly-creepy debut really has something for everybody! 'Last One to Die is by turns chilling, funny and gripping. ![]() But Niamh is determined not to let her fear destroy her Summer. 16-year-old, Irish-born Niamh has just arrived for a summer of freedom, and quickly discovers that the girls being attacked look frighteningly similar to her. ![]() 'Chilling, funny and gripping' Emily Barr, author of The Truth and Lies of Ella Black 'A supernatural terror-fest!' Kat Ellis, author of Harrow Lake 'Point Horror for a new generation' Kathryn Foxfield, author of Good Girls Die First Young, brunette women are being attacked in London. One of Us is Lying meets This Lie Will Kill You but with a chilling supernatural twist that will keep you guessing until the very end. ![]() ![]() Duke and his attorney then proceed to Las Vegas alone. However, they quickly frighten him with their erratic behavior and he leaps out of the convertible. On the way to Vegas, the two men pick up a young hitchhiker. The men have amassed a huge stockpile of drugs in the trunk of their rental car, including ether, amyls, cocaine, pills, LSD, and marijuana. He has brought his attorney (and friend) along for the weekend. Duke explains that he is a journalist who has been contracted by a magazine to cover the Mint 400 motorcycle race in Las Vegas. ![]() Both he and his passenger (who is also his attorney) have taken a large amount of drugs and are just starting to feel the effects. ![]() The narrator, Raoul Duke, is driving a bright red convertible. The novel begins somewhere near Barstow, one hundred miles southwest of Las Vegas. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wells-Barnett, Lorde, Alice Walker, Michelle Wallace, Angela Davis, bell hooks, Paula Giddings, Michelle Alexander, Roxane Gay and Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche. ![]() With the feel of memoir, these essays align with female thinkers Anna Julia Cooper, Ida B. is the writer herself, a feminist foot soldier. An act of self-definition spanning four decades, the central person in DeFacto. A distinguished semifinalist for OSU's 2016 Non/Fiction Collection Prize, De Facto & is a cross between Audre Lorde's Zami: A New Spelling of My Name and Jean Toomer's Cane, blending essay, poems, graphics and literary criticism. "DeFacto Feminism: Essays Straight Outta Oakland views activism and feminism as they play out in one writer's political, artistic and spiritual life. Report from The Front, i.e., Berkeley, CA.All the women in my family read Terry McMillan.The N-Word: let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater.Five comrades in the Black Panther Party, 1967-1970. ![]() ![]() ![]() and released on his own recognizance four hours and 15 minutes later. 2022 Fomonyuy was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center at 3:47 p.m. 2022 Hulsoor was arrested but later released on personal recognizance, the statement said. ![]() ![]() 2023 On Thursday, he was freed on a $250 million personal recognizance bond to live with his parents in Palo Alto, California, after an electronic monitoring bracelet was attached to him so authorities could track his whereabouts. 2023 Bankman-Fried was released on a $250 million personal recognizance bond co-signed by his parents and two other non-parental sureties. 2023 Warner was processed and released on personal recognizance bail. Recent Examples on the Web The Collin County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Monday that Merritt was given a personal recognizance bond. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They say So-and-So is awfully in love with Miss S. 'No, never.' He looked alarmed at the bare suggestion. Johnny was asked if he were not succumbing, too, to Buck's fascinations. Let her alone, she will soon recover,' said Mary C cheerfully. 'Don't you know her yet? She would not listen to that poor fellow while he was alive, and now that he is dead she is brokenhearted. 'What is the matter with Buck? She has been languishing on that sofa, profoundly indifferent to me and the rest of mankind,' said John Darby. Alfred Rhett has killed Cousin Ransom in a duel.' Here she drew the mantle close around her face. 'Buck, what makes you so pale, dear-and why have that black mantle around you on this warm day?' In those Columbia days, a cloud had come over her bright face. Once she came in and sat on the edge of my bed. In Columbia, on hearing the name: 'Shall I answer him? See here.'Īnnie, on hearing the name: 'Answer! Did you see the paper today? He is killed.' Annie the practical. Ransom Calhoun, Braddy Warwick, Claude Gibson, the Notts. But then, there seemed a spell upon her lovers-so many were killed or died of the effects of wounds. "Buck, the very sweetest woman I ever knew, had a knack of being 'fallen in love with' at sight and of never being 'fallen out of love' with. ![]() ![]() And in the world of the slaver, such treasure is worth a hefty fee. Unfortunately, Marcus isn’t the only one who believes the feisty redhead is a prize worth capturing. But as he comes to know Gabrielle and sees the alluring sweetness beneath the sass, he starts to fall for her. When the club owner insists he admit an incredibly bratty trainee, he’s furious. She’d expected punishment, even humiliation, but she sure never expected to fall in love with a damned lawyer.Ĭourtesy of a prima donna ex-wife, Marcus loathes disobedient submissives. But she soon discovers he’s not as stuffy as she’d thought. She finds that being a bratty sub comes naturally, especially when she gets to twit the appallingly conservative Master of the trainees. When her friend falls prey to the slavers, FBI victim specialist Gabrielle volunteers to be bait in a club not yet hit: the Shadowlands. ![]() ![]() Whose heart will surrender first?Īcross the country, rebellious BDSM submissives are being systematically kidnapped, one from each club. ![]() ![]() Mercedes Quintana, 29, wondered why on earth she ever thought cooking three separate breakfasts for her family was a good idea. “Waking up is hard, everything feels hard right now, so we let it out,” she said. ![]() ![]() The shouts had become something of a morning ritual for them in the pandemic - a catharsis amid the stress of the last 11 months. It was 6:30 a.m., and her 11-year-old son - watching cartoons in the living room - screamed back. Liz Halfhill, 30, let out a guttural scream from her bedroom in Spokane, Wash. ![]() “I was like, what’s the worst thing that could happen if I just did this right now?” she said. This article is part of “The Primal Scream,” a series that examines the pandemic’s effect on working mothers in America.ĭekeda Brown, 41, was in her local grocery store in Olney, Md., thinking back to a year ago, when she was onstage in New York accepting an award for “Working Mother of the Year.” Her husband watched proudly from the crowd, texting photos to her daughters, 11 and 15.Īlmost exactly one year later, Dekeda was standing in the wine aisle, cellphone and keys in hand, contemplating whether she should begin smashing bottles. ![]() ![]() Stalin proclaimed that collectivization, the end of market relations and the descent into despotism were in fact the building of socialism - and the author of this volume agrees - but to Stalin’s critics on the left (Trotskyists, Social Democrats and independent Marxist intellectuals) they were the “revolution betrayed,” a sanguinary counterrevolution. ![]() In one year, 1937-1938, between 700,000 and 800,000 Soviet citizens and unfortunate foreigners in the country were executed. The wholesale collectivization of some 120 million peasants necessitated levels of coercion that were extreme even for Russia, and the resulting mass starvation elicited criticism inside the party. ![]() The 1930s was the decade of the “revolution from above” that dispossessed peasants and converted them into agricultural suppliers to the state, the city and the army it was the time when the state unleashed mass terror against elites and ordinary people that decimated the Soviet Communist Party decapitated the Red Army disciplined the intelligentsia into straitjacketed conformity and drove millions of people into exile, prison camps and emigration, if they managed to survive. Stephen Kotkin’s Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 19291941 is the story of how a political system forged an unparalleled personality and vice versa. In “Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941,” a mammoth volume of more than 1,100 pages, Princeton University historian Stephen Kotkin presents in vivid, irresistible and unrelenting detail that part of Stalin’s life - and Soviet history - that has, more than any other, fascinated scholars and general readers about the Soviet experience. Author Stephen Kotkin (Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941) continues his multi-volume biography of Joseph Stalin, with a focus on Stalins leadership. ![]() |