![]() ![]() I just listened to the sixteen hour audiobook in two days and it’s a DELIGHT. So, those are the pages to avoid if it's something that squicks you out, and they absolutely can be skipped, you can figure out what happens in them in the next chapter.Įdit: 4.9.20: it’s OUT have FUN drink WATER. So if eye stuff gets to you (it gets to me idk how i wrote this) I'd be careful with this one!Įdit: 8.1.19: i have the Actual Page Numbers now and while there's weird eye stuff throughout the book but there's massive eye trauma on pages 513/514. There is so much eye horror in this book I don't know what happened. If you like cosmic horror, forests that want to eat you, and very sad very pretty boys and very tired very done with everything girls then i have a book for you.Įdit: 6.19.19: ~we have a cover~ and i'm just going to come out ahead of arcs and put the necessary content warnings here because we're dealing with about the same level of blood/self harm as Wicked Saints, about the same level of alcoholism (Serefin is Having A Time), i guess the same level of gore? That one is rough because each person's understanding of what gore is in a book is different, I didn't think WS was particularly gory but some readers did! So! Keep that in mind I think RG is about the same level in regards to that, some minor drug use as a magic avenue (it's mushrooms, but still!), the big one in this book is body horror/eye horror. ![]() It's weird! it's cerebral! everyone is sad! it nearly killed me! it's a good 100 pages longer than WICKED SAINTS! ![]()
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![]() ![]() I went to this book not knowing a lot about it. She wrote an amazing book and I loved it. ![]() I know these are some books that not everyone loves but I just love them with all my heart and let me just tell you that Colleen Hoover did it again. One thing you should know about me is how much I love Colleen Hoover’s books. Until one day Fallon becomes unsure if Ben has been telling her the truth or fabricating a perfect reality for the sake of the ultimate plot twist. Over time and amidst the various relationships and tribulations of their own separate lives, they continue to meet on the same date every year. together, and her eventful life becomes the creative inspiration Ben has always sought for his novel. Their untimely attraction leads them to spend Fallon’s last day in L.A. Beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover returns with an unforgettable love story between a writer and his unexpected muse.įallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. ![]() ![]() ![]() Erich Fromm felt acquisitions create the core aspect of our character. William James believed that me, mine and self consist of what we possess. Hume saw possession as a part of the person. Locke felt things belonged only to those who work for them. Sir Thomas Aquinas believed we just held stewardship over God’s things. Hoarders sometimes keep stuff “just in case they need it later.”īut what gives things value? Why do we own what we do?” Plato says that ownership should be banned but Aristotle felt that ownership was essential for a person’s moral character. They have a fear of waste and take comfort in objects. ![]() They often shop compulsively, some are even kleptomaniacs. ![]() They have a fear that if it is out of sight, it is out of mind. What are the characteristics of a hoarder? Many suffer from perfectionism, indecision, powerful beliefs about attachments to objects, being unable to figure out where things go or where to put it. Hoarding has been around a long time, but it has only recently gained media attention. What made news was the fact that the house contained 170 tons of junk, including 14 Grand Pianos and a Model T Ford. ![]() In 1947 two dead bodies were found in a New York Brownstone. Compulsive Hoarding and The Meaning of Things ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But from the moment his arms close around her, enveloping her in a sorcerer's spell, Darius seems to understand her unique gifts. ![]() Tempest has always felt different, apart from others. It has been centuries since he last saw colors or even felt emotions.Īlthough the mechanic Tempest Trine needs the job, she quickly realizes that in touring with Darius, she's bitten off more than she can chew. When Darius, the leader of a group of Carpathian musicians, first sees the new mechanic hired to work on the band's touring vehicles, he is astonished to see the red color of her hair. It is the second book in a trilogy written within the Dark Series, and it starts several months after the events in Dark Challenge. Dark Fire is the sixth book in the paranormal/ romance series Dark Series by American author Christine Feehan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Afraid he has the disease, Mitty goes online and tries to find answers. He inhales dust from one of the scabs and believes that he has received the smallpox disease. On a trip to Connecticut, Mitty finds a book containing an envelope of 100-year-old scabs from smallpox. Lynch assigns the class to write a report on an infectious disease. He is a carefree student who doesn’t really care about school or his grades. The novel revolves around a teenage boy Mitchell “Mitty” Blake who lives in New York City with his parents. Also, The Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy has named the book as one of their Young Adult Choices for 2007. The novel has won a National Science Teachers Association award. One of her most famous works, Code Orange was published in 2005 and has gain praise and numerous awards. It follows a boy named Mitchell Blake who discovers a book for a project that changes his life forever.Ĭooney is an American author of suspense, romance, horror, and mystery books for young adults. Code Orange is a young adult novel written by Caroline B. ![]() ![]() ![]() Naylor, Butler, and Okorafor all do the work of biomythography by foregrounding, in fiction, the rich inner lives of Black women in a way that directly challenges two dominant myths of Black womanhood-the mammy and the breeder-and, in Okorafor’s case, reclaims and rewrites the narrative of the Race Woman. ![]() With close readings of three novels by contemporary black women writers-Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day, Octavia Butler’s Dawn, and Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix-I argue that work currently considered in the genre of Afrofuturism should instead be read as biomythography. Since 1982, the term biomythography has become a sort of umbrella for many types of feminist (auto)biographical writing. Lorde’s unique method of storytelling utilizes elements of traditional biography as well as the history of myth, this combination constituting a “new spelling” of her name. In doing so, Lorde suggested a new genre of writing that challenges the boundaries of existing genres, particularly for Black women writers. Audre Lorde categorized her semi-autobiographical novel Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, published in 1982, as biomythography. ![]() ![]() ![]() Edwards Award for his lifetime contribution to young adult literature. He received the Newbery Honor, awarded to the best American children’s books, for each of the three books, and in 1997 was granted the Margaret A. And “The Winter Room,” published in 1989, tells the story of two boys living on a farm in northern Minnesota during a harsh winter. His 1985 book “Dogsong” follows a 14-year-old Eskimo boy who takes a sled dog team into the tundra and reconnects with his culture. His 1986 novel “Hatchet,” a mainstay of required reading in American schools, tells the story of a 13-year-old boy who must survive in the remote woods on his own with only a hatchet. ![]() ![]() Paulsen wrote over 200 books and some 200 articles and short stories over his career, and his best-known works focused on coming-of-age themes featuring boys fighting the harsh elements of nature. Gary Paulsen, the acclaimed young adult author known for his wilderness adventure novels “Hatchet,” “Dogsong,” and “The Winter Room,” died on Wednesday at age 82, according to the publishing company Penguin Random House. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With signature sass and straight talk, Jolie takes on questions ranging from the basic-how do I use a mop? -to the esoteric-what should I do when bottles of homebrewed ginger beer explode in my kitchen? My Boyfriend Barfed in My Handbag proves that even the most nightmarish cleaning conundrums can be solved with a smile, the right supplies, and a little music. Thankfully, Jolie Kerr has both staggering cleaning knowledge and a sense of humor. And let’s be honest: no one is going to ask Martha Stewart what to do when your boyfriend barfs in your handbag. Life is filled with spills, odors, and those oh-so embarrassing stains you just can’t tell your parents about. The author of the hit column “Ask a Clean Person” offers a hilarious and practical guide to cleaning up life’s little emergencies “Jolie Kerr really cuts through the grease and grime with her new book. Beeton for the postcollege set.” -Penelope Green, The New York Times For a generation overwhelmed not just by dust bunnies, but by bong water on the carpet, pee stains on the ceiling and vomit seemingly everywhere, Jolie Kerr dispenses cleaning advice free of judgment. ![]() The Lorrie Moore short story, or the Tina Fey memoir, of cleaning tutorials.” -Dwight Garner, The New York Times Taking it in sections heading toward the door, work the Oxi solution into the tile and grout with your scrub brush, then allow the solution to sit for 30-60 minutes before mopping up the water with. ![]() ![]() Basically, funny books are the most requested books in the children's rooms of libraries and the most difficult kinds of books to recommend. You can't help but appreciate it, regardless of whether or not you're a fan of guys holding light sabers in outer space. Sure, you might have a few folks avoid it because there appears to be a Star Wars reference on the cover, but c'mon. It's been a while since I found a book that can truly be called genderless (in that it has wide appeal across the board). That's sort of how I approach The Strange Case of Origami Yoda. If the book is strong, the premise believable, and the characters well developed then you're gonna have fans of all sorts, regardless of gender. Boys read Babymouse all the time and girls dig Diary of a Wimpy Kid. ![]() ![]() "Oh, boys won't read anything with a pink cover." "Oh, girls won't pick up a book unless there's some romance in it." Phooey. ![]() You see these stereotypes referred to all the time. By which I mean, the novel that perfectly balances out the stereotypical vision of what boys like in a book versus what stereotypical girls like in a book. Let us now sit back and consider what the ultimate boy/girl middle grade novel would contain. ![]() ![]() At Alloy, Lucy fell in love with story development, the art of high-concept, and creating properties with a great hook. In both her books she enjoys creating funny characters, strange scenarios, and playing with big romantic tropes: What if you met the boy of your literal dreams? What if your life played out like a YA romance? Her work has now been translated into seventeen languages. DREAMOLOGY was released in 2016, followed by LITERALLY a year later. ![]() ![]() She grew up in Boston and attended Williams College in the Berkshires before spending many years in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.Īfter five years of editing books, pitching story ideas and getting LOTS of coffee at Alloy Entertainment, Lucy sold her debut novel in a two-book deal to HarperTeen. ![]() |