![]() The author writes beautifully and the second part of the book is pretty much a song of love and gratitude towards his mother. ![]() How We Fight for Our Lives is a one of a kind memoir and a book that cements Saeed Jones as an essential writer for our time. Each piece builds into a larger examination of race and queerness, power and vulnerability, love and grief: a portrait of what we all do for one another-and to one another-as we fight to become ourselves.īlending poetry and prose, Jones has developed a style that is equal parts sensual, beautiful, and powerful-a voice that’s by turns a river, a blues, and a nightscape set ablaze. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence-into tumultuous relationships with his mother and grandmother, into passing flings with lovers, friends and strangers. Haunted and haunting, Jones’s memoir tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. The ‘I’ it seems doesn’t exist until we are able to say, ‘I am no longer yours.’ ” We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. “We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. ![]() ![]() “People don’t just happen,” writes Saeed Jones. From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power. ![]()
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![]() ![]() "Set in the postwar U.S., On Swift Horses alternates chapters between Muriel, a young newlywed who has recently relocated from Kansas to San Diego and become fascinated by the city's racetrack, and her wayward brother-in-law Julius, a young gay man working in a casino in Las Vegas. On Swift Horses is a debut of astonishing power: a story of love and luck, of two people trying to find their place in a country that is coming apart even as it promises them everything. When Henry is eventually discovered and run out of town, Julius takes off to search for him in the plazas and dives of Tijuana, trading one city of dangerous illusions and indiscretions for another. Meanwhile, Julius is testing his fate in Las Vegas, working at a local casino where tourists watch atomic tests from the roof, and falling in love with Henry, a young card cheat. And so she begins slipping off to the Del Mar racetrack to bet and eavesdrop, learning the language of horses and risk. ![]() The air is rich with the tang of salt and citrus, but the limits of her new life seem to be closing in: She misses her freethinking mother, dead before Muriel's nineteenth birthday, and her sly, itinerant brother-in-law, Julius, who made the world feel bigger than she had imagined. Muriel is newly married and restless, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in San Diego. A lonely newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law follow divergent and dangerous paths through the postwar American West. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, John is stranded nearly 2,000 miles away from home with no easy way to make it back to his loving family in need. ![]() While on one fateful trip away, the heartland of the country is rocked by a series of devastating earthquakes that cripple the nation by destroying massive amounts of infrastructure, killing and injuring hundreds of thousands, and displacing millions of inhabitants. This new job requires him to travel across the country and work long hours away from home. With the economy slowing down and inflation heating up, John takes a new job to help make ends meet at home after his wife is laid off from her high paying job. If you like survivalist, post-apocalyptic, dystopian and TEOTWAWKI books, this book is right up your alley. ![]() Hello everyone! Long time lurker, just started posting but I wanted to share a link to my new book that just came out. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is an offer eagerly embraced from Asia to Africa - and even by England, whose dragons have long rankled at their disrespectful treatment.īut Laurence and his faithful dragon soon discover that the wily Napoleon has one more gambit at the ready - one that that may win him the war, and the world. Temeraire is a series of 10 books written by Naomi Novik. ![]() While the emperor regroups, the allies have an opportunity to strike first and defeat him once and for all - if internal struggles and petty squabbles don't tear them apart.Īware of his weakened position, Napoleon has promised the dragons of every country - and the ferals, loyal only to themselves - vast new rights and powers if they fight under his banner. With the acclaimed Temeraire novels, New York Times bestselling author Naomi Novik has. William Laurence and the dragon Temeraire pursue the retreating enemy through an unforgiving winter, Napoleon is raising a new force, and he'll soon have enough men and dragons to resume the offensive. Series list: Temeraire (10 Books) by Naomi Novik. Napoleon's invasion of Russia has been roundly thwarted. Now, with LEAGUE OF DRAGONS, Novik brings the imaginative tour-de-force that has captivated millions to an unforgettable finish. With the acclaimed Temeraire novels, New York Times bestselling author Naomi Novik has created a fantasy series like no other. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A thriving medical practice, money in the bank, and a standing. ![]() ![]() This was the first book she had ever written in total, although she has several pieces of work she’s written in the past but promises they will never see the light of day. Garrett Dixon I have it all, or so it seems. Reformation is part of the Salvation Society by Corinne Michaels. I first discovered Chelle Sloan on Tik Tok because I am divorced thirty-something woman who has not had sex since before her divorce and had the maturity of a 19 year old boy, so all those half naked, sweatpants wearing, hip thrusting. Chelle is a new author who released her first book in 2020, Reformation. Schmidt Add to Goodreads: Salvation Society Author Page: Amazon US: h ttps://amzn. Reformation by Chelle Sloan Weekly Feature and 5 Review. Welcome back to Corinne Michaels’ Salvation series world!! The first collection of books are NOW AVAILABLE!! THE SALVATION SOCIETY is a collection of books written by various authors, filled with Navy SEALs, strong heroines, CIA operatives, and so much more!!! BINGE READ TODAY!! Fearless by Chelle Bliss Add to Goodreads: Salvation Society Author Page: Amazon US: Amazon UK: Amazon CA: Amazon AU: Seconds by Freya Barker Add to Goodreads: Salvation Society Author Page: Amazon US: Amazon UK: Amazon CA: Amazon AU: Reformation by Chelle Sloan Add to Goodreads: Salvation Society Author Page: Amazon US: Amazon UK: Amazon CA: Amazon AU: Deviated by Esther E. ![]() ![]() Instead, the very concept of a chord is dissolving into a matrix of intervals."Īrmed with such a detailed aural roadmap, even a troglodyte-or a heavy metal fan-can explore these pivotal works anew. But there is no longer a sense of tonalities colliding. In them may be discerned traces of the bifurcated scale that begins Salome. The movement ends in a fearsome sequence of four-note figures, which are made up of fourths separated by a tritone. For Schoenberg, the song seems to represent a bygone world disintegrating the crucial line is 'Alles ist hin' (all is lost). It contains fragments of the folk song 'Ach, du lieber Augustin'-the same tune that held Freudian significance for Mahler. The second movement, by contrast, is a hallucinatory Scherzo, unlike any other music at the time. The first movement, written the previous year, still uses a fairly conventional late-Romantic language. Take Ross's description of Schoenberg's Second Quartet, "in which he hesitates at a crossroads, contemplating various paths forming in front of him. Not only does Ross manage to give historical, biographical, and social context to 20th-century pieces both major and minor, he brings the scores alive in language that's accessible and dramatic. Anyone who has ever gamely tried and failed to absorb, enjoy, and-especially-understand the complex works of Schoenberg, Mahler, Strauss, or even Philip Glass will allow themselves a wry smile reading New Yorker music critic Alex Ross's outstanding The Rest Is Noise. ![]() ![]() ![]() Spoiler alert: important details of the novel are revealed below. What happens further deliberates the theme and the intention of the author. Snowball is blamed for treachery and overthrown by Napoleon. Soon corrupted the nature of power starts to take its toll, as some of the animals become a victim of it. Troubles start to brew in the animal farm. ![]() Meetings are held to get the general opinion of the animals.Īs the story progresses, the seasons change so does the situation in Animal Farm. ![]() With a vision of a promising future ahead: less work, better education, and more food, the animals work hard. They prepare seven rules “7 commandments” called animalism for a life of equality among the animals. He works day and night to idealize the dream of Old Major. Life at the Animal Farm seems to be flourishing under the leadership of Snowball, a selfless young pig. ![]() Also, they rename the property as Animal Farm. One fine day, the rebellion breaks out and the animals, fed up with Farmer Jones, drive him and his family out of the farm. Soon after the death of Old Major, the pigs, smarter animals on the farm, works to achieve freedom. The animals embrace his dream and he motivates them to aspire to attain that dream. He shares his dream in which animals are free and happy without any humans to control them. The story of “ Animal Farm” by George Orwell opens with the Old Major, a prize-winning boar, in Manor Farm, calls for a secret meeting at night. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Full of strange inkblot illustrations, the journal tracks her mother's love affair with Olivia's father, his mysterious death, and her own descent into madness, closing with one final, desperate entry addressed to Olivia: "The shadows are not real. An orphan who can't speak, Olivia has learned to lash out at her bullies while nurturing her own blossoming identity: practicing drawing, learning sign language (which no one else can understand), and combing through an old journal, the only thing her mother left her before she disappeared. When we meet Olivia Prior, she's the black sheep at Merilance School for Independent Girls. Schwab's "Gallant" (available now) has one of the best young-adult protagonists I've read in some time, and she's the one leading us through a deliciously creepy world filled with mysterious journals, haunted houses, and gothic magic. A fantasy book can have all the dazzling magic, intricate plotting, and gorgeous prose in the world, but it won't amount to much if there's not a solid main character in there driving things forward. ![]() ![]() Malorie therefore can only risk the outside world while blindfolded, and so must rely only on her hearing and that of her children to know what dangers lurk around her. The catch however is that Malorie lives in a world populated with creatures the very sight of which send people into insane, suicidal rage. The story begins with Malorie, who is leaving the house she and her two children have lived in alone for the past four years to undertake a hazardous twenty mile boat trip up river. Like Wyndham's classic Day of the Triffids and several subsequent works Bird Box is an apocalypse with a theme of sight, but one taken in a slightly unusual direction. ![]() The first thing that interested me about Bird Box (despite some reservations over the scope of the apocalypse setting) was its premise. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 7.16 Chapter 27: The Lightning-Struck Tower. ![]()
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