5/29/2023 0 Comments Brain Movies by Harlan EllisonIt’s here where Brain Damage truly leans into its drug metaphor. And when it feeds on human brain matter, rather than animal, its power becomes too strong to overcome. It turns out the parasite has survived for centuries by latching onto various hosts. A confrontation with Morris (Theo Barnes), an elderly man who used to own Aylmer, provides the necessary exposition dump. Palisades EntertainmentĪs his brother/roommate Mike (Gordon MacDonald) and girlfriend Barbara (Jennifer Lowry) grow increasingly concerned about Brian’s state of mind, the new junkie finally discovers the horrible truth.
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5/29/2023 0 Comments Political Risk by Condoleezza RiceEventually, Korbel founded the school's Graduate School of International Studies, and by the time he died in 1977, he left behind a legacy that spawned two generations of top diplomats and leaders. He landed in Colorado, where the University of Denver offered him a teaching post. He was a refugee from his native Czechoslovakia twice: first, as a young diplomat working for the government-in-exile in London while his beloved country was occupied by the Nazis, and then again after 1948 when Czechoslovakia became a Soviet satellite. But man for man (or rather, woman for woman), the less-well-known academic Josef Korbel has arguably had a more enduring and practical impact on the history of American policy. His students are, most certainly, influential today. That's one reason for the recent obsession with dead academics like Leo Strauss, a political philosopher who happened to educate - among others - president of the World Bank and former Bush official Paul Wolfowitz, writer Robert Kagan, academic Allan Bloom and journalist William Kristol.Īs a result, Strauss has been dubbed the "father" of the so-called neo-conservative movement. In today's politically polarized environment, polemicists seek out philosophical theories to explain and justify the behavior of contemporary leaders and thinkers. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Kathryn stockett the help 2009She says the alleged unauthorized appropriation of her name and image is emotionally upsetting, and her employers, Carol and Robert Stockett III agree. The 2009 novel was an instant favorite among book clubs, written in the voice of black "help" by a woman raised by maids herself and who is white.Ĭooper, 60, maintains that the book's fictional character - Aibileen Clark - is her. 22, 2011— - A lawsuit against Kathryn Stockett, the author of best-selling novel "The Help," has divided brother and sister in a dispute about the real-life identity of one of her fictional characters.Īblene Cooper, the longtime nanny for Stockett's brother, has filed a $75,000 lawsuit against the author, claiming she was upset by the book that characterizes black maids working for white families in the family's hometown of Jackson, Miss., during the 1960s.Ĭooper also once babysat for Stockett's daughter, according to the Jackson Clarion Ledger, and the lawsuit alleges that she had been assured by Stockett, 42, that her likeness would not be used in the book. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Oitnb my year in a women's prisonShe falls into a relationship with an older woman, Nora, and eventually becomes a drug mule. She paints herself as a WASP, with hippy parents and ‘a thirst for bohemian counterculture and no clear path’. The book starts a little bit slow with a a summary of Piper’s life. I’ve tried to keep this as spoiler-free as possible but read with caution! It is the basis for the fantastic Netflix show of the same name so when I spotted the book at my local library I had to check it out. Her memoir Orange is the New Black outlines Kerman’s prison sentence for her reckless involvement as a drug mule for her ex-girlfriend. Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s PrisonĮducated, white, middle-class with a steady career and relationship, Piper Kerman is not your average female inmate. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Book i kissed shara wheelerShe makes it her singular goal to become valedictorian, her only real competition being the most popular girl at school, Shara Wheeler. “I Kissed Shara Wheeler” follows protagonist Chloe Green, who moves to Alabama and is one of the only students at her intensely Catholic high school who is openly queer. Also integral to these plot points is how these places help McQuiston’s characters learn more about their identities. Indeed, McQuiston’s characters often find themselves isolated in new, strange places (which could be towns, countries, even timelines) and are lucky enough to find someone who changes everything for them, for better and worse. In “I Kissed Shara Wheeler,” McQuiston’s latest foray into the world of young adult romance, readers meet another set of couples grappling with much of the same challenges as those in “One Last Stop” (2021) and “Red, White & Royal Blue” (2019). With two New York Times Bestsellers already under their belt, author Casey McQuiston’s latest book released to much anticipation. Jamison Green combines candid autobiography with informed analysis to offer unique insight into the multiple challenges of the female-to-male transsexual experience, ranging from encounters with prejudice and strained relationships with family to the development of an FTM community and the realities of surgical sex reassignment.įor more than a decade, Green has provided educational programs on gender-variance issues for corporations, law-enforcement agencies, social-science conferences and classes, continuing legal education, religious education, and medical venues. 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This book is written for suburbanites who are worried about how to survive disasters like Hurricane Katrina. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Threadneedle novelThis is, pardon the pun, a magical read, full of drama, spells and amazing characters. I was really looking forward to reading Threadneedle and it didn’t disappoint. They show her a different side to magic, a different life if Anna is willing to take a chance. She just wants to blend in and study, but her life is thrown into turmoil when Effie and Attis arrive like a bomb in her life. Anna is a witch, but her aunt teaches her that magic is a sin so she can’t do spells. Threadneedle is the story of Anna, who not only faces the usual pit falls of being sixteen, but she is different in a way none of her contemporaries could know. Threadneedle has been on my radar since last year, so I can’t tell you how excited I was to be given the opportunity to review and be part of the blog tour. A club where revellers lose themselves in a haze of spells.īut as she is swept deeper into this world, Anna begins to wonder if her Aunt was right all along. A secret library where the librarian feeds off words. They open her eyes to a London she never knew existed. Now Anna counts down the days to the ceremony that will bind her magic forever. They destroy everything in the end …’Īnna’s Aunt has always warned her of the dangers of magic. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Harold bloom's the western canonSince the 1960s, feminists, left-leaning theorists, African-Americans and other minorities had challenged the entrenched verities of academia and journalism.īloom’s book shared its tone of grievance with Allan Bloom’s “Closing of the American Mind” (1987) and its presentiment of decline and disorder with Samuel P. The long struggle against the totalitarian “East,” which had helped make the “West” seem a coherent entity from Plato to NATO, had ended. Published in 1994, Harold Bloom’s “The Western Canon” could barely suppress its nostalgia for a time when the English department was the jewel in the crown of the humanities, and the literary critic with his refined sensibilities seemed the model public intellectual. In the 1920s and ‘30s, the study of literature - led by bow-tied men on East Coast campuses - became central to the cultural self-definition of a budding superpower’s elites. But a new empire of sweetness and light arose after the war across the Atlantic, and its most formidable paladins were literary critics with their new canons. Erskine’s “Great Books” curriculum advanced what Bourne called a “carefully deodorized and idealized education.” It may have been closing time in the gardens of Europe. |