![]() These books are not to be taken seriously – they are farces and knowing that the reader just need go along for a very enjoyable ride. Wylde’s books – I read The Wicked Wager a bit ago (see my review) and truly enjoyed it. ![]() She holds a degree in English literature and adores reading and writing. She can cook a mean curry, and her idea of exercise is occasionally stretching her toes. What follows is a series of misadventures, love affairs, moonlit balls, fancy clothes, fake moustaches, highwaymen, sneering beauties, pickpockets, and the wrath of a devilishly handsome duke.Īnya Wylde lives in Ireland along with her husband and a fat French poodle (now on a diet). ![]() Unfortunately, her rustic finesse turns out to be as delicate as a fat bear trying to rip apart a honeycomb infested with buzzing bees. Thus begins our heroine’s tale as she attempts to tackle the London season with all her rustic finesse. ![]() The dowager, no less, has invited her for a season in London, where she will attempt to catch a husband. Leaving behind the rural charms of Finnshire, Miss Penelope Fairweather arrives in London with hope in her heart and a dream in her eye. ![]()
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![]() They are socially constructed. The way they are constructed is through the use of signs. Furthermore, the appearance that they are natural is also created with signs. People misuse the word ‘natural’ when they mean socially conventional, moral, or beautiful. What seems ‘natural’ or conventional varies with social settings and time-periods. ![]() ![]() Barthes claims that dominant institutions lull us into the belief that the current system is natural. It portrays the way things are as natural and eternal. It also portrays conventional, ‘common sense’ ways of viewing things as natural and obvious.įor instance, old reactionaries in Barthes’s day (and some today) would maintain that it is natural that men and women are attracted to each other, that certain ‘races’ are superior to others, and that a woman’s place is in the home. People who think in ‘bourgeois’ ways assume that everyone has to ‘pay their way’ and that life is a transaction.įor Barthes, all such arrangements and ways of seeing are never natural. ![]() ![]() As Zara and Gina learn the details of Nonna’s life, loves, and losses in 1940s Rome, Zara opens her heart to the possibility of a future with Nicolas. Zara also finds time to reconnect with Nicolas Bernard, a man she met while caring for his wife, Catherine, before she died of ovarian cancer. When Zara agrees to Nonna’s request to clean out her attic, she discovers a journal that sheds light on Nonna’s past. Twenty-nine-year-old hospice nurse Zara Mitchell returns to Richmond, Va., where her grandmother, “Nonna,” lives with Zara’s sister, Gina, upon learning that Nonna’s heart is failing. ![]() ![]() Taylor ( Honeysuckle Season) skillfully toggles between present-day Virginia and WWII-era Rome as a woman learns her grandmother’s secrets in this emotional romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() Feeling isolated and overwhelmed, I was excited to finally read something from a Black author. My hopes for collaboration and friendship with my cohort were dashed in the first few weeks of courses when I learned that the three of them (all cis straight white women from affluent backgrounds) had organized weekly meetups without me. I had associated that word with whiteness and privilege. ![]() in African American Studies, I had only taken one undergraduate course on women and poverty, and I wasn’t even sure if I was a feminist. Unlike my peers, I had not graduated from a prestigious undergraduate institution, I earned my B.A. I was the only Black student in the class and the only Black student in my entering cohort. The class covered a general history of feminism, women’s liberation movements, and academic feminism. Her book was one of many assigned in the Feminist History course, but it was the only book on the list that I enjoyed reading. It was in the first year of my doctoral program in Women’s and Gender Studies. The first book that I read by bell hooks was Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984). This essay is part of our online special issue honoring bell hooks ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() More than half a century ago, Susie Hinton (soon to be known by her gender-neutral pen name) was a student at Will Rogers, where she received a D in creative writing because class assignments were nowhere near as important to her as working out the plot and characters of The Outsiders. “It’s been a long time, so I was kind of looking around … and a woman came up and asked me, ‘Is this your first time inside the school?’ I said, ‘No, not really.’” “It was funny when I first came into the building,” she said near the end of a phone conversation last Halloween, a week and a half after her appearance with Macchio. Prior to the event, Hinton was quietly going about her business, wandering the school’s halls absent-mindedly. Hinton, the writer whose teenage words would forever be emblematic of young adult literature and whose most famous creation, The Outsiders, helped launch Macchio’s career some 40 years earlier. Hosted by Magic City Books, the live conversation in the Art Deco auditorium at Will Rogers High School featured another pop culture icon: S.E. Ralph Macchio (most recently of “ Cobra Kai” fame) was in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to promote his memoir, Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me. In late October 2022, a big-time streaming star returned to the city where it all began for him. ![]() ![]() ![]() To study Rand’s use of allusion and source materials (The Bible, Greek mythology, etc.).To prepare students for more complicated dystopia novels.To explore philosophical questions of society and government.8 Reasons why you should teach Anthem by Ayn Rand: I am not trying to teach students to think like me I am teaching them to think for themselves. Using a text in class is not a personal endorsement of the ideas. The divisive themes are one of the reasons that teachers should teach Anthem. Students should learn to consider a wide range of views and reach their own conclusions. Should we avoid using a text in the classroom because we feel that the inclusion serves to endorse its messages? In this case, we are asking, “Should I teach Anthem by Ayn Rand?” What should you do if you admire Rand’s writing but despise her themes? Controversial literature is always a challenge. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lucky for us given the nice weather, this week's science unit about animals and their habitats called for outdoor nature walks. We are planning to have her record one final video about the experience. Music Appreciation: Polonaise in A Major: No.Singing: "Tom Dooley" (recording by the Kingston Trio) "Molly Malone" (recording by the Dubliners).Art appreciation: Blind Man's Bluff by Kitagawa Utamaro from Come Look with Me: World of Play by Gladys S.6 of National Geographic Explorer (Trailblazer edition): "Parrots in Peril" by Christine Dell'Amore, "Pulley Power" by Glen Phelan, and "Food for the Future" by Joe Levit Poems from Sing a Song of Seasons: A Nature Poem for Each Day of the Year selected by Fiona Waters, illustrated by Frann Preston-Gannon (Nosy Crow, 2018): "Spring Song" by William Blake, "After Winter" by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, "Cat and Crocuses" by Eva Martin, "Rabbit" by Caryl Hart, "Spring" by William Blake.Basically, this meant we didn't do Catechism or much memory work and no one did any Singapore Math. ![]() We had four days of increasingly warm and beautiful weather this week, so we lightened the school load a bit to be able to spend more time outside. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Johnson's graphic novel will resonate with readers who are figuring out who they are and where they belong."- Publishers Weekly " Johnson's character designs, with coloring by Kevin Czap, are spectacular. Her young people also represent a diverse array of sizes, shapes, colors, and notions of attractiveness. Holm's Sunny Side Up, and Raina Telgemeier's Drama." -School Library Journal, "Using minimal detail, artwork realistically portrays the characters' relatable emotions and wide-ranging reactions. ![]() "A down-to-earth friendship story for readers of Svetlana Chmakova's Awkward, Jennifer L. ![]() ![]() ![]() We will notify you once we’ve received and inspected your return, and let you know if the refund was approved or not. The fastest way to ensure you get what you want is to return the item you have, and once the return is accepted, make a separate purchase for the new item. Tickets will not be refunded or exchanged if cancelled within 7 days of the event start date. Unfortunately, we cannot accept returns on gift cards, and cannot refund vouchers used for discounts on purchases. ![]() Please get in touch if you have questions or concerns about your specific item. 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We have a 30-day return policy, which means you have 30 days after receiving your item to request a return. ![]() ![]() A living soldier named Cheris with an unlikely facility for mathematics, and Jedao, the centuries-old ghost of a brilliant general and known mass-murderer who lives in her shadow and in her head. ![]() It is the result of heretical forces allied against this world's rulers, and someone is going to have to go in there and purge the non-conformist thought from the system. Here's the plot, presented as simply as I can make it: In the Fortress of Scattered Needles, a "calendrical rot" has begun altering the fabric of reality. ![]() And then twisting himself in the opposite direction, asking (and answering) how, in a place so alien, can you root the experience in something that gives it the roundness of an internal humanity? ![]() So how much can you screw with a world before you take it completely to pieces? How much fundamental similarity to our own must an author's imaginary place possess in order to hang together for a reader? With Ninefox, Lee has turned this elementary concern into a game of chicken he plays with himself, pushing hard to see how many of the essential, structural underpinnings of the universe can be removed before the fabric of stars unravels. ![]() Lee's is a universe that operates under different laws than does ours, where science and technology are based not around the manipulation of atoms (necessarily), but the interface of numbers and observance of a calendar, where power derives from the order given unto things by acceptance and belief in them. ![]() |