![]() ![]() There was a red glass bowl on the small table by the door where I unloaded everything from my pockets, including my phone. Plus with my odd hours doing concerts, practicing, recording, it was better all around. But no twenty-two-year-old man wanted to worry about sneaking a boy into his bedroom with his parents down the hall. ![]() They weren’t bad, they had come a long way, and they tried. I was happy to not be living with my parents anymore. It maybe wasn’t the best neighborhood, but it was my own place. Luckily I was on the end, only had one shared wall, and the middle unit was currently unoccupied. It wasn’t anything special, part of a triplex. With fist bumps and hugs, the five of us parted ways. Luckily, Jonah, the bass guitar player, had a safe place to keep the van so we wouldn’t have to unload everything again tonight. ![]() ![]() We weren’t quite big enough yet to have a full tear-down crew, though a couple of hands from the club helped us load all our instruments into our van. After one final appearance in front of the crowd, and a wink at my bj blondie, that was a wrap for the night. I might even be able to sleep tonight after all. After blondie finished the job he’d started with that cute mouth of his, I was floating back down to earth. Having a way to release some of that excess energy was a step in the right direction. No matter the physical exhaustion after doing a full set, my body and mind would be humming and buzzing and it always took a while to come down from that. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The dystopian worldbuilding is interesting and I liked the idea of the separation between the relatively safe town and the ‘wild’. I’m glad I decided to give Rot & Ruin a go, because I ended up really enjoying this story despite my reservations for zombie stories. Especially since I have had this series by Jonathan Maberry on my wishlist for a long time in the first place. So when I was browsing Rivetedand saw I could read Rot & Ruin for free (until August 1st), I decided to jump right in. Zombie stories are normally not really for me, but I’ve become less prejudiced after I finished and loved The Girl With All The Gifts earlier this month. It was probably always there, but most people are never tested, and they go through their whole lives without ever knowing that when things are at their worst, they are at their best.” “Often it was the most unlikely people who found within themselves a spark of something greater. Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023 Netgalley And Edelweiss Reading Challenge.2017 Netgalley And Edelweiss Reading Challenge. ![]() ![]() ![]() The sisters in the poem, Lizzie and Laura, are tempted by the magical and dangerous fruit the goblins sell as they trudge along the glenside. Christina dedicated the poem to her own elder sister, Maria, and perhaps the tribute encodes some shared memory Even more startling is the depiction of the sinister little goblins themselves: "One tramped at a rat's pace/One crawled like a snail/One like a wombat prowled, obtuse and furry/ One like a ratel tumbled hurry skurry." If there's any dull moment, it's not until the last verse, which unfurls a homely happy ending around its un-especial moral, "For there is no friend like a sister.", reminding us that Goblin Market may have been conceived as a children's poem. There's the long wishlist of fruit at the beginning, of course: "Bright-fire-like barberries/ Figs to fill your mouth/Citrons from the South…" reminding us of Christina's Italian ancestry. Many brilliant "set pieces" make selection difficult. Rossetti allows herself the full freedom of her poetic gifts: her visual sense, her musicality, her skill in both narrative and lyric modes. ![]() ![]() Often read as a poem of renunciation – as perhaps all Rossetti's poems fundamentally are – Goblin Market is also a wonderful fairytale from a writer who was not so far away from her own childhood when she completed it in April 1859. This week's choice is an extract: lines 408–446 from Christina Rossetti's lavishly sensuous masterpiece, Goblin Market. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She stiffens under my touch, and I know she’s not fully awake, the nightmare still holding her captive. I can see the light filtering through the blinds on the window, and I know it must be morning. “Wake up, baby,” I murmur, stroking her slender arm. She must’ve been having the nightmare for a while. Her skin, however, is cold and damp from sweat. She’s turned away from me, facing in the opposite direction, so I can’t see her face to check if she’s crying. Moving more carefully, I place my right hand on Nora’s shoulder and try to gently shake her awake. The pain in my ribs and arm is better now, more tolerable. I’m lying next to Nora in my luxurious hospital bed, and we’re both safe, the clinic in Switzerland as secure as Lucas can make it. There’s no danger, nobody coming after us right now. My body, coiled for combat, relaxes slightly. She must be in the grip of another nightmare. My pulse is pounding, and it takes a moment to realize what woke me. ![]() ![]() The cast on my left arm bangs into the heart-rate monitor next to the bed, and the wave of agony is so intense that the room spins around me in a sickening swirl. My uninjured eye flies open on a rush of adrenaline, and I jackknife to a sitting position, the sudden movement causing my cracked ribs to scream in protest. A gasping cry wakes me up, dragging me out of restless sleep. ![]() ![]() But probably the most important part of the equation for this book is that actions have consequences. Part of it is that I had what I thought was a fast fun plot that continued the story in a way that would be entertaining to write and to read. This is the third book of a series and certainly part of my motivation for writing it is that this is a fun world to play in and I like these characters enough to want to spend more time with them. That's a surprisingly difficult question to answer. Why this book? 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Kelly McCullough's first novel in the WebMage series, WebMage, was released by Ace in 2006 to considerable critical praise. ![]() ![]() ![]() That is why the places they’ve dealt with us homosexuals, transsexuals, interssexuals and the like have so often been medical: the surgeon’s clinic, the analyst’s couch, the psychiatrist’s asylum, the conversionist’s camp. No wonder, then, that in the eyes of the bosses, fathers, priests, cops, and their allies, we threaten to pull the entire world with us into a decadent morass of pleasure, joy, laziness, and freedom. ![]() At its best, queerness promises porous, polymorphous perversities, a refusal to submit to proper relations beyond consenting desire. In the West, we are a disease on the social, an illness to be cured and purged from a healthy body politic. 736 pages.ĮVEN BEFORE AIDS, patriarchy has made an association between queers and plague. 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This 1985 City, along with his friend and love-object, Shalaya Crump, discovers a way to travel into the future, and steals a laptop and cellphone from an orphaned teenage rapper called.Baize Shephard. ![]() The next day, he’s sent to stay with his grandmother in the small coastal community of Melahatchie, where a young girl named Baize Shephard has recently disappeared.īefore leaving, City is given a strange book without an author called “Long Division.” He learns that one of the book’s main characters is also named City Coldson-but “Long Division” is set in 1985. In the first, it’s 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, 14-year-old Citoyen “City” Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity. ![]() The book contains two interwoven stories. Kiese Laymon’s debut novel is a Twain-esque exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in Post-Katrina Mississippi, written in a voice that’s alternately funny, lacerating, and wise. Agate Publishing Read reviews on Goodreads & Amazon ![]() ![]() ![]() Her most recent book, One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying our Democracy, was Long-listed for the National Book Award in Non-Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Galbraith Book Award in Non-Fiction. ![]() Her third book, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide, won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and is also a New York Times Bestseller and a New York Times Editor’s Pick, and listed on the Zora List of 100 Best Books by Black Woman Authors since 1850. Her lecture is “One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy.” She is the author of Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African-American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955, which was published by Cambridge University Press and awarded both the Gustavus Myers and Myrna Bernath Book Awards as well as, Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960, which was also published by Cambridge. Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University. ![]() |