5/21/2023 0 Comments Kipling poem ifAfter school he returned to India and worked as a journalist before embarking on a lengthy journey back to England that took him through the Far East and the United States. However, the influence of his unhappy childhood can perhaps be seen in his empathy for children in his writing, particularly in his acknowledged masterpiece, his 1901 novel Kim, but also in his writing for children such as The Jungle Book and Just So Stories on which his continuing popularity is largely based. However, these experiences didn’t lead him to overtly rebel against the system that inflicted them on him and he became the leading literary exponent of empire and the virtues of colonialism, ‘The White Man’s Burden’, with its assumptions regarding the superiority of Western, and specifically British, culture. At the age of six he was sent to England to be educated and spent a miserable few years in the neglectful care of foster parents and enduring the rigours of public school life. His father was a teacher in a local school of art. 1936) was born in Bombay (present day Mumbai).
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Many historians have been fascinated with Friedan's life and her, often uncomfortable, involvement in the rebirth of feminist activism in the 1970s. Cover of A Strange Stirring The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s Friedan had explained their own, as yet unnamed, frustrations. At the same time, a distinct group of white, educated, middle-class women were overcome with a sense of gratitude. On the one hand, American men were upset at Friedan's suggestion that their housewives could possibly want anything more than to see their children off safely to school, to take care of their husbands after a long day at work, and to keep their houses spotless. When Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique was released in 1963, it split the allegedly tranquil lives of the "greatest generation" in two. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Intisar khananiThis book is basically a fantasy detective novel in a medieval fantasy world where elves and magic exist. I somewhat regret that, because I wonder how I’d seen the old familiar characters if this book with the knowledge from the previous one.Įither way, my question is: When is the next one coming?īecause The Theft of Sunlight was really cool! It took me just a few days to finish it (with work and whatnot inbetween), and I enjoyed the setting and the characters a lot, even the ones who I don’t remember much about from Thorn. I really liked it, but so long had passed until this second book came around that I didn’t remember much at all. I had read Thorn, the first book of the Dauntless Path series years ago, I believe again through NetGalley. I received The Theft of Sunlight from the author via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. ( Author: Intisar Khanani) + ( Year: 2021) + ( Goodreads) 5/20/2023 0 Comments Elliot page book“Working on a book like this, one that speaks truth with raw beauty, is truly a career high and a moment for which I’ve been waiting as long as I can remember.” “Elliot’s story pieces together a complicated coming of age where he struggles to maintain his strong sense of self in the face of a society that slowly fractures and fragments anyone who doesn't fit neatly into a binary-driven world,” Clark said. A longtime advocate for LGBTQ+ causes, he came out as transgender in 2020.īryn Clark, Flatiron senior editor, said Page’s book “knocked the wind out of me.” He rose to fame after his roles in a series of films including Hard Candy, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Juno, the latter of which earned him an Academy Award nomination. Page began his acting career in the late 1990s, starring in the Canadian film Pit Pony and its television spinoff. “The memoir will delve into Page’s relationship with his body, his experiences as one of the most famous trans people in the world, and will cover mental health, assault, love, relationships, sex, and the cesspool that Hollywood can be.” “ Pageboy will give readers a look into Elliot Page’s journey from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Hollywood,” Flatiron said. Actor Elliot Page will tell the story of his life and career in a new memoir.įlatiron Books will publish the Umbrella Academy star’s Pageboy next year, the Macmillan imprint announced in a news release. 5/20/2023 0 Comments Putin's no 1 enemyWe were in the conference room of his offices in London. He spoke softly, methodically, though with great efficiency not scripted, but well practiced. If anything does happen to him, he reasons, the list of suspects would be short. (And technically it's an allegation that Putin has people killed, albeit one so thoroughly supported by evidence and circumstance that no one credibly disputes it.) Rather, he told me that by way of explaining why he was telling me anything at all: The more often and publicly he tells the story of Sergei Magnitsky, the less likely he'll be to get poisoned or shot or tossed out a window, which has happened to a number of Putin's critics. So he tends to kill people he can get away with killing."īrowder did not say this as if it were a revelation. But Putin likes to pretend that he doesn't kill people. "Putin kills people," Browder said to me one afternoon this autumn. But if he'd known about it in real time-that the staff of a major-party presidential candidate was listening intently to those who accuse him of murder and want him extradited and imprisoned-he would have been terrified. Browder wasn't sure what the implications were. 5/20/2023 0 Comments The Mars Strain by A.C. AndersonWe tested the influence of desiccation and freezing on the ionizing radiation survival of six model microorganisms: vegetative cells of two bacteria ( Deinococcus radiodurans, Escherichia coli) and a strain of budding yeast ( Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and vegetative cells and endospores of three Bacillus bacteria ( B. Radiation resistance of microbes is a key parameter in considering survivability of microbes over geologic times on the frigid, arid surface of Mars that is bombarded by solar and galactic cosmic radiation. We aim to better understand the impact of the martian surface on microbial dormancy and survivability. To better protect Earth and its biosphere from potential extraterrestrial sources of contamination, as set forth in the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, international efforts to develop planetary protection measures strive to understand the danger of cross-contamination processes in Mars sample return missions. Increasingly, national space agencies are expanding their goals to include Mars exploration with sample return. There’s so much to take away from the ten letters, but here’s a short-list of questions a young writer might ask, with Rilke’s responses. Each is a map of where he’s been and where he needs to go. They begin with a description of Rilke’s current setting (various cities across Europe) and continue into the subject of how to live and how to create. Rilke saw himself in Kappus, and so they’re written from Rilke to Rilke-both to his past and his present. The letters aren’t really letters, they’re diaries. And so o began a ten-letter correspondence lasting from 1902–1908. Rilke got lots of letters from aspiring artists, but Kappus’s touched him: Rilke had spent the worst five years of his young life forced by his parents into the same military school. Kappus sent Rilke some poems and asked him for advice about becoming a writer. Rilke was twenty-seven-still a young artist with his best work ahead of him-when he got a letter from a nineteen-year-old military school student named Franz Kappus. Because I’m totally unqualified and ill-equipped to deliver them such words, I’m reading The Master: Rainer Maria Rilke and his Letters To A Young Poet. I’ve received a few e-mails from young(er) writers in the past couple of months, many of them trying very hard to figure things out and looking for words of advice and encouragement. 5/20/2023 0 Comments Cuddy bookCuddy gives specific examples of how this works, also digging into the role of gender, cultural differences, and more. On the flip side, getting stuck in contracted, closed postures (hunched shoulders, crossed arms or ankles – anything that shrinks you into less space) makes you feel and act more timid and powerless. Basically, using open, expansive postures (shoulders back, head up, chest out – things that make you physically bigger) leads to greater feelings of confidence, calm, and self-efficacy, which translates into taking more risks, having better pain tolerance, and much more. In this book, she explains all the research, her own and that of others, that demonstrates the power of body posture to change mood, thoughts, and behaviors. When she became a psychology researcher, Cuddy began investigating the role of the body in determining or changing psychological states. It’s the bestselling follow-up to her popular TED talk, “Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are”.Īfter a brain injury in college, Amy Cuddy began a lifelong fascination with identity, self-confidence, self-doubt, and how good performance happens. A very convincing, evidence-based explanation of how our posture has a huge impact on how we think, feel, and behave, Amy Cuddy’s Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges is the book of science-backed empowerment we all need. 5/20/2023 0 Comments Sing me forgotten bookThank you to Harper Collins Children’s Books U.K. ‘Enchanting, lush and decadent’ Adalyn Grace, author of All the Stars and TeethĪlso by Jessica S. For even as she struggles with her growing feelings for Emeric, she learns that in order to take charge of her own destiny, she must become the monster the world tried to drown in the first place. But the price of freedom is steeper than Isda could ever know. Haunted by this possibility, Isda spends more and more time with Emeric, searching for answers in his music and his past. His voice is unlike any she's ever heard, but the real shock comes when she finds in his memories hints of a way to finally break free of her gilded prison. For if anyone discovers she survived, Isda and Cyril would pay with their lives.īut Isda breaks Cyril's cardinal rule when she meets Emeric Rodin, a charming boy who throws her quiet, solitary life out of balance. All he asks in return is that she use her power to keep ticket sales high–and that she stay out of sight. Since that day, he has given her sanctuary from the murderous world outside. At least not beyond the opulent walls of the opera house.Ĭast into a well at birth for being one of the magical few who can manipulate memories when people sing, she was saved by Cyril, the opera house's owner. ‘A deliciously magical feminist twist on the beloved classic The Phantom of the Opera’ Kester Grant, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Court of Miracles Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrow ‘Lush and lavish, Sing Me Forgotten hit all the right notes’ Erin A. 5/20/2023 0 Comments Leckie annDuring the confrontation, she claims that AIs are independent, autonomous, and sentient species distinct from humanity, and thus protected by the terms of humanity's treaty with the Presger. She returns to Athoek Station and confronts Anaander with the aid of Zeiat. After this incident, Breq forges an alliance with the AI in charge of Athoek Station and begins work to disable Anaander's ships and render Station and other AIs immune to her overrides. Meanwhile, Translator Zeiat, a messenger from the alien and mysterious Presger empire arrives, as does Breq's enemy, the reactionary faction of the divided Anaander Mianaai – ruler of an empire at war with herself.Īnaander captures Athoek Station and executes members of its governing body on a live newsfeed. While searching Athoek Station's slums, Fleet Captain Breq finds someone who appears to be an ancillary from a ship that has been hiding beyond the Radch's reach for three thousand years. It is the final novel in Leckie's "Imperial Radch" space opera trilogy, which began with Ancillary Justice (2013) and was followed by Ancillary Sword (2014). Ancillary Mercy is a science fiction novel by the American writer Ann Leckie, published in October 2015. |