![]() Horne has written both a scholarly treatment enriched by primary sources excavated from archives three hundred years old but also a fierce polemic that hearkens back to those of CLR James and WEB Dubois. My hopes were not only met, they were exceeded. For the indigenes or slaves who were victimized throughout the 17 thcentury, there was no glory in being shot down by a musket. Turning the clock back a century, this time around Horne zeros in on the Glorious Revolution of 1688 that was glorious only to the slave-trading merchants of England and their colonial cohorts. Just as importantly, I expected it to be in line with his provocatively titled “The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America” that was a timely debunking of our Founding Father myths. While Horne’s history is focused on slavery, there are frequent allusions to what he calls the “indigenes” or native peoples. It might help me develop a deeper understanding of the genocidal tendencies of Dutch and British colonialism I reviewed in a CounterPunch article about the ethnic cleansing of Munsee Indians from New York State in the 17 thcentury. ![]() ![]() ![]() I had high hopes for Gerald Horne’s The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean for a couple of reasons. ![]()
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![]() In The Complete Life of Krishna, Vanamali, a leading Krishna expert from a long line of prominent Krishna devotees, provides the first book in English or Sanskrit to cover the complete range of the avatar’s life.ĭrawing from the Bhagavad Purana, the Bhagavad Gita, the Mahabharata, and India’s sacred oral tradition, Vanamali shares stories from Krishna’s birth in a dungeon and early days as a merry trickster in Vrindavana, through his time as divine ruler at Dwaraka, to his final powerful acts as the hero Arjuna’s charioteer and guru in the Kurukshetra war. Krishna, one of the most beloved characters of the Hindu pantheon, has been portrayed in many lights: a god-child, a prankster, a model lover, a divine hero, an exemplary ruler, and the Supreme Being.
![]() ![]() this is the one thing he didn't say in the book but he might as well have. ![]() "Get down on your knee and ask his hand in marriage". Along the way, he explodes some commonly held myths about what it is that guys really want, shares strategies on how women can take control of their dating destinies, and empowers them to go out there and find an exhilarating, adventurous love life. In Get the Guy, Matthew shares his dating secrets and provides women with the toolkit they need to approach men, and to create and maintain relationships. ![]() ![]() His Get the Guy coaching events are hugely successful and the glowing testimonials he receives from those he has helped to find love just go to show that his advice really does work. He is now using this "insider information" to advise women who have been unsuccessful in their quest for a lasting relationship with the right man. Through his work as a peak performance coach, Matthew has gained unparalleled access into what makes guys tick when it comes to women. Using simple steps, Matthew guides us through the complex maze of dating and shows us just how to find the guy, get the guy, and keep the guy. This is the audiobook that single women have been waiting for! Created by the hottest dating coach on the scene, Matthew Hussey, it offers clear, honest, and practical advice for women on how to find their ideal man - and, importantly, how to keep him. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Perdita is a young water sprite, delighting in the wet splash and sparkle, and sad about the day her people will finally finish building their door to another world, in search of a place that humans have not yet discovered.īut when Luna’s little sister falls ill with the river sickness, everyone knows she has only three weeks to live. These are just stories, though-no sensible person would believe in such things.īeneath the waves is someone who might disagree. ![]() All her life she has heard tales of the time before the dam appeared, when sprites danced in the currents and no one got the mysterious wasting illness from a mouthful of river water. In a small river village where the water is cursed, a girl’s bravery could mean the difference between life and death in this magical story of “perseverance and hope” ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review) from the author of Parched and Audacity.Īlong a lively river, in a village raised on stilts, lives a girl named Luna. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are similarities in his writing to how our founding fathers thought. By the time he died in 1674, Britain had experienced many different types of governments. “He was born in 1608 to a century of revolution – in politics, in print media, in science and the arts. ![]() “People often find old books intimidating, but they are very accessible – and Milton is relevant to today’s readers,” says Thomas Fulton, associate professor of English and a Milton scholar. Thirty-two of the titles were printed before 1700. Rutgers owns the fifth-largest Milton collection at a public American university – 56 books in a temperature- and humidity-controlled vault in the Special Collections and University Archives Department. On the basement level, visitors will find a treasure trove of early editions of the iconic English author’s books, most of which focus on freedoms in government, speech and the press. Venture into Rutgers University’s Alexander Library in New Brunswick, and you’ll discover how much more. John Milton wrote more than Paradise Lost. ![]() ![]() ![]() In London he met the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired him in writing about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about this ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. ![]() During the next 10 years Barrie continued writing novels, but gradually his interest turned toward the theatre. The publication of The Little Minister (1891) established his reputation as a novelist. His early works, Auld Licht Idylls (1889) and A Window in Thrums (1889), contain fictional sketches of Scottish life and are commonly seen as representative of the Kailyard school. He took up journalism, worked for a Nottingham newspaper, and contributed to various London journals before moving to London in 1885. The son of a weaver, Barrie studied at the University of Edinburgh. Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I feel if the spotlight fell on ONE that received all the development, it would have been a lot more effective. It was really confusing and after finishing, I still have little to no grasp on the rules, history, and motivation of these cults. With two different cults taking the front of the story, it was extremely difficult to follow. Unfortunately, I did not love the way it was written in the final book. Throughout the series, the focus shifts a bit to include a mastermind cult, which I still found to be an interesting direction to explore. I loved reading about teens investigating serial killers and getting too deep into some heinous situations. Part of the reason why I fell in love with The Naturals was it is all about crime. I'm not sure I could find that answer unless I were to reread the first three books as an adult.ĬW: murder, torture, mention of rape, child abuse, abduction, cults I’m unsure if this particular book was a bizarre disappointment, or if it’s just that my taste has matured in the last 3 years where this series is no longer satisfying. The Naturals was a FAVORITE of mine as a late teen, though I put off reading the final installment for a few years. ![]() Unfortunately, I was pretty let down by this conclusion. ![]() ![]() ![]() The two women fall in love and set out on a road trip across the United States. Carol’s in her thirties and has been involved with women before, but Therese is, in modern parlance, a baby queer. The Price of Salt tells the story of Therese, an aspiring stage designer whose life is altered forever when Carol, a housewife in the midst of a bitter divorce, comes into the department store where she works. I was reading queer stories to teach myself how to write one. ![]() With that realization came a creative breakthrough: that my manuscript, a multi-vocal novel set at an art school, was at its heart a love story between its two female protagonists. ![]() For months, I’d been reading my way through the queer canon, having realized a year into my marriage that I was bisexual. I’d just begun an MFA and was working on a novel, but The Price of Salt wasn’t an assigned text for class. I paid 99 cents, plus $3.99 for shipping. Last year, I bought a secondhand copy of Patricia Highsmith’s iconic 1952 lesbian novel The Price of Salt. ![]() ![]() ![]() A young Laymon must weather frustrated attempts to put these experiences into words under the tutelage of a beloved but abusive parent. To treat this awareness as a source of authority, Laymon must also navigate the prevailing conclusion that his body is trying to destroy him, either due to the body’s mere existence in a white supremacist nation bent on obliterating African American men, or through the acts of self-harm, addiction, and negation the body manifests in order to counter its expectation of powerlessness. ![]() ![]() Crucially, Heavy positions somatic awareness as a reference-point for generating the language to discuss trauma, failed love, and injustice. What is weight? In Heavy: An American Memoir, Kiese Laymon suggests that it depends on whether you see excess or abundance flesh or a body baggage, or the story of a young man navigating a fractured relationship with his mother and his country. ![]() ![]() From 552 Asia Minor to 1918 England and 1972 Virginia, the two souls share a long and sometimes torturous path of seeking each other time and time again. Interwoven through Sophia and Daniel's unfolding present day relationship are glimpses of their expansive history together. For all the times that he and Sophia have been drawn together throughout history, they have also been torn painfully, fatally, apart. Daniel has "the memory", the ability to recall past lives and recognize souls of those he's previously known. Life after life, crossing continents and dynasties, he and Sophia (despite her changing name and form) have been drawn together-and he remembers it all. Daniel has spent centuries falling in love with the same girl. ![]() |