![]() ![]() The essays find positive meanings in each use of “thick,” which comes to connote physical and intellectual power. “Thick” is the overarching concept, signifying a method of anthropological description rich in evocative detail, a criticism of women’s physical appearance, and a complaint about complex writing and thinking that is difficult to label and categorize. The title essay sets the tone for the entire collection. Each piece weaves together details from McMillan Cottom’s life, observations on US society, and sociological research and theory in order to illuminate the fraught cultural space occupied by black women. The collection covers a range of topics-beauty, healthcare, sexual assault, media representation, and more-always with a focus on the experiences of black girls and women. These essays examine race, feminism, and culture with fierce intelligence. Combining personal experiences with scholarly insight, Tressie McMillan Cottom’s Thick: And Other Essays is essential reading for our times. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hopefully I’ll never have to build one in a hurry. When trying to describe them, I tried to think of materials that people might actually use. But they ultimately became the thing that tied the whole book together. I wish we had more of them lurking in the fields still. I think they’re super creepy and also very creative and iconic. I’m obsessed with scarecrows so they were always going to play a role. The child sized decoys around the town are spooky and the stuff of nightmares- were these always a part of your story? Was there some fun in creating them and imagining their components? This element of the book took shape over many rewrites, with much scratching of head, weary sighs, sleepless nights and the occasional eureka moment while standing in the shower or walking the dog. I’m what’s known as a pantser, meaning that I don’t plan much and only have a loose idea of a story before I begin writing. The interconnectedness of the characters and the House was perfect! Did this come naturally or take meticulous planning? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thus he is simultaneously without a self-``no one''-and the theater for myriad selves-``one hundred thousand.'' In a crazed search for an identity independent of others' preconceptions, Moscarda careens from one disaster to the next and finds his freedom even as he is declared insane. ![]() Vitangelo Moscarda ``loses his reality'' when his wife cavalierly informs him that his nose tilts to the right suddenly he realizes that ``for others I was not what till now, privately, I had imagined myself to be,'' and that, consequently, his identity is evanescent, based purely on the shifting perceptions of those around him. The great Pirandello's (1867-1936) 1926 novel, previously published here in 1933 in another translation, synthesizes the themes and personalities that illuminate such dramas as Six Characters in Search of an Author. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cale has also acquired a reputation as an adventurous record producer, working on the debut studio albums of several innovative artists, including the Stooges and Patti Smith. Since leaving the band in 1968, Cale has released sixteen solo studio albums, including the widely acclaimed Paris 1919 (1973) and Music for a New Society (1982). He studied music at Goldsmiths College, University of London, before relocating in 1963 to New York City's downtown music scene, where he performed as part of the Theatre of Eternal Music and formed the Velvet Underground. Over his six-decade career, Cale has worked in various styles across rock, drone, classical, avant-garde and electronic music. John Davies Cale OBE (born 9 March 1942) is a Welsh musician, composer, and record producer who was a founding member of the American rock band The Velvet Underground. ![]() ![]() But now that he's dug up the camera, bad things are happening. He just wanted to prove old Sourball wrong. ![]() And he just gave Greg a big fat "F" on his oral report. That's what Greg calls his English teacher, Mr. Say Cheese and Die-Again! (Goosebumps #44), R.L. Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. ![]() Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series. ![]() Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Don’t think that you will survive the encounter, because you won’t. Byron will mutilate, rape, and then kill you. (Descriptions are taken from the blurbs.)Īlpha Studs in Charge by DJ Heart: (Dark)īad Things by Varian Krylov: (Dark) WARNING: Although this is a story about two people falling in love, there are extended, explicit sex scenes, including some BDSM and m/m/m scenes as well as scenes of dubious consent and references to sexual violence which may be a trigger for some readers, although there is no graphic depiction of rape in the book.īetter the Devil You Know by Bey Deckard: (Dark/Extreme) What’s the catch, you ask? Just this: if Byron finds you suitable, he will subject you to utterly depraved forms of torture. I’ll add to this periodically… It’ll be slow at first because this is something I’m procrastinating with (oops). ![]() ![]() ![]() An abortion had led to her being suspended from school. The two become physically intimate but when summer comes Masami disappears and Kayako learns that she has gone to Tokyo to meet a married man with whom she had an affair the year before. ![]() Their feelings deepen beyond friendship and she proclaims her love for Endo on a lonely beach. She is impressed with Endo's greater knowledge of music and art, and although Endo proclaims that she is insignificant with no aim in life, Kayako says that she wishes that she could be like her new friend. As her friendship with Masami grows, she loses contact more and more with the others. One day she invites Masami Endo to join the group. ![]() Live-Action Synopsis Quiet and introspective Kayako routinely has lunch on a rooftop with three of her friends that attend an all girls high school with her in a seaside town. Blue Production Partnership, Omega Micott Inc, Eisei Gekijo, Kobi Co. ![]() ![]() ![]() With enormous wit and an insider's eye, Sykes captures the nuances of the rich and spoiled in a heartwarming social satire, featuring a loveable "champagne bubble of a girl" who's just looking for love (and maybe the perfect pair of Chloe jeans). Amid Legal Onslaught, Trump Faces Writer’s Suit Accusing Him of Rape. Bergdorf Blondes is the 2004 chick lit dbut novel of Plum Sykes, an English-born fashion writer and New York it girl. But what is Moi to do when her engagement falls apart? Can she ever find happiness in a city filled with the distractions of Front Row Girls, dermatologists, premieres, and eyebrow waxes? Is it possible to find love in a town where her friends think that the secret to happiness is getting invited to the Van Cleef and Arpels private sample sale? And how is she going to deal with the endless phone calls from her mother in England demanding that she get married to the Earl next door? 'Bergdorf Blondes' is written by Plum Sykes, who coincidentally has a few of the characteristics as the main protagonist of her book does, such as being a columnist for a fashion magazine. With invitations to high-profile baby showers and benefits, more Marc Jacobs clothes than is decent, and a department store heiress for a best friend, our heroine known only as Moi is living at the peak of New York society. ![]() Plum Sykes beguiling debut welcomes readers to the glamorous world of Park Avenue Princesses, the girls who careen through Manhattan in search of the perfect Fake Bake (tan acquired from Portofino Tanning Salon), a ride on a PJ (private jet) with the ATM (rich boyfriend), and the ever-elusive fiance. ![]() ![]() Critics, reviewers, peers and fans have awarded these books such top honors as RWA's Top Ten Books of 2002 (Fantasy Lover), RT Booklover's Reviwer's Choice Awards, and the Dark Hunter books stormed the Paranormal PEARL Awards by taking 4 out of 9 of the awards, with a fifth Dark Hunter nominee receiving an Honorable Mention. ![]() ![]() Her fans are not alone in acknowledging her rare talent. Her rewards have been great, garnering her an almost cult-like following even before the books were published and her readership continues to grow at a phenomenal rate. ![]() Bursting onto the scene in 2002 with a Dark Hunter prequel, Fantasy Lover and the first book of the series, Night Pleasures, Sherrilyn continues to redefine the genre by bringing a fresh perspective only this imaginative writer can. Welcome to book 2 of Sherrilyn Kenyon's exciting new paranormal vampire and demon series, Dark Hunter. ![]() ![]() ![]() Furthermore, Alexander refers to magic using the antiquated idea of black and white magic, which is rooted in racism. Some people have more than one, while others spend much of their lives searching for their one. ![]() She makes it seem like you can pick your spirit animal to aid in certain magic, but in most traditions, the animal picks you and stays with you it doesn't change because you are casting a protection spell instead of a love spell. She has written a book on spirit animals, but I am not so sure she knows what she is talking about, at least not in this book. There is also a section on "spirit" animals that bothered me. As well written and researched the book is, this section is false. This is part of the reason it has 4.5 stars. Second, she lumped hedgewitches in with kitchen witches, a mistake many authors seem to make that drives me INSANE! Hedgewitches and kitchen witches are NOT the same things, although she does mention shamanism and trances, common practices in hedgecraft. ![]() ![]() There isn't a bunch of history in this book as its focused on witchcraft today so you don't have too much to worry about in that regard. However, always take caution when it comes to a history lesson. I'm no expert on the history of witchcraft so I can't say for sure how accurate the information is in this book, but Skye is a reputable author and I assume she has done her homework. First of all, I'd take the history with a grain of salt. So let's talk about what I didn't like before delving into all the great things about it. ![]() |