![]() By now the fellow synesthetes are bound up in an emotional destiny in which Kreindia and Wade encounter unforeseen challenges that could make their separation-and thus the future of their universes-all the more perilous.JOIN KREINDIA OF AMORIUMBorn under the curse of time-blindness in the 8th century, her mind instead drift-samples other dimensions allowing her to spy through the tattered astral plane. Young Kreindia of Amorium, gifted with her own concentration of synesthesia-fueled powers, has uncovered new threats to Byzantium, and specifically her uncle, Michael Psellus, who sits accused of treason while Wade finds himself in a different century defending the Holy Roman Empire on his own. ![]() ![]() NEW THREATS TO BYZANTIUM.Wade of Aquitaine's troubles are just beginning when his female counterpart from the ninth century is claimed as the daughter of Wade's twenty-first century adversary. Kreindia of Amorium: Wade of Aquitaine Book Two ![]()
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![]() One famous reader had the audacity to spend decades on her own, non-gendered, non-hierarchical translation, even though she didn’t read Chinese. Not every reader of the Tao is male or approaches the text as the utterances of a patriarchal sage. ![]() That’s some heavy company for the rest of us to keep, maybe. “Every generation of admirers has felt, and continues to feel, a prescience in these ancient teachings so astonishing that they appear to have been written for their own time.” It speaks directly to us, we feel, or at least, that’s how we can feel when we find the right translation.Īdmirers of the Taoist classic have included John Cage, Franz Kafka, Bruce Lee, Alan Watts, and Leo Tolstoy, all of whom were deeply affected by the millennia-old philosophical poetry attributed to Lao Tzu. Perhaps no Chinese text has had more lasting influence in the West than the Tao Te Ching, a work so ingrained in our culture by now, it has become a “changeless constant,” writes Maria Popova. Ursula: There was an old cartoon in The New Yorker with a guy from an advertising agency showing his ad and the boss is saying “I think you need a little more enthusiasm Jones.” And his ad is saying, “Try our product, it really isn’t bad.” ![]() Brenda (laughing): Can you imagine a Taoist advertising agency? “Buy this if you feel like it. ![]() ![]() ![]() For one, the main character is completely insufferable, with actions, choices, and behaviour that are bizarre and ridiculous. However, there are a number of aspects that just did not work for me and which made the overall story feel jumbled rather than as a well pieced together puzzle. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is more or less part of the middle portion of the story, which I found to be quite interesting and page-turning. It has been compared to the Agatha Christie style of mystery, and it is in the way it consists of a room full of suspects in an isolated location and attempts to work out who the culprit is. However, when she raises the alarm she learns that the cabin next door is unoccupied and all on board have been accounted for.Īs a fan of mysteries, the premise of this novel captured my attention immediately. While initially, the cruise is the utmost in comfort, things take a turn when one night Lo is woken up by a disturbance in the cabin next door, and witnesses what she believes is a woman going overboard. The ship itself is small in size with only a handful of cabins and its guests consist of the rich and influential. “But I was almost certain-almost completely certain-that she was the woman in cabin 10.”Īs a journalist for a travel magazine, Lo Blacklock gets the opportunity of a lifetime, to set sail on the maiden voyage of a new luxury cruise. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This year West wih Giraffes is that book" -Jacksonville Florida Times-Union, USA TODAY Network "Every year I find at least one book that soars above all the others. "A flawless novel, West With Giraffes is exciting, and the end will leave you in tears of sadness and joy." -Austin American-Stateman, USA TODAY Network " West with Giraffes is a madcap scrape of a coming-of-age road trip, complete with stowaways, circuses, attempted giraffe-napping, biblical catastrophe, romance, shocking truths, brave sacrifices, and tragedy-in short, a grand adventure." -Lone Star Literary Life, National Book Critics Circle member –: 15 Historical-Fiction Books as Compelling as Kristin Hannah's The Four Winds " A perfect balance between history and fiction… Rutledge blends fictional characters with real historical personalities to create a story that is equal parts educational, quirky, and romantic." ![]() ![]() ![]() The Countess of Walrafen - who in a long-ago life had been known as Cecilia Markham-Sands - was newly possessed of a most fashionable villa in Park Crescent. Can a profligate knave persuade a virtuous woman that he is worthy of her trust - and her love? ExcerptĬhapter One: The incorrigible Henrietta Healy ![]() ![]() When treachery closes in, only he knows how to guard Cecilia from the consequences of her own principles. But he's a man who honors his wagers - and one result lands him in his brother-in-law's godforsaken mission, face-to-face with the woman who has long haunted his dreams. It's whispered that the womanizing Delacourt is vain, vindictive, and merciless. Just six years earlier, Delacourt had proven himself to be the immoral rake society called him, nearly ruining her reputation in the bargain. But when the dashing Lord Delacourt takes control, she feels an uncharacteristic urge to flee. In the lonely months since her husband's death, Cecilia Lorimer has hidden her emptiness by devoting herself to a charity mission for the unfortunate women of London's slums. From the grandeur of regency Mayfair to the dark danger of London's East End, Liz Carlyle sweeps you away with a powerful story of a love born against all odds, as an honorable young widow stands fast against the cynical rogue who seems determined to consume her, heart and soul. ![]() ![]() ![]() His story is a scintillating, beautiful reminder of the importance of leaving space for joy. With vulnerability, humor, and quick-witted insights into racial, sexual, familial, and professional power dynamics, Gomez shares a hard-won path to taking pride in the parts of himself he was taught to keep hidden. Readers follow Gomez through the queer spaces where he learned to love being gay and Latinx, including Pulse nightclub in Orlando, a drag queen convention in Los Angeles, and the doctor’s office where he was diagnosed a “high-risk homosexual.” I’ve always found the definition of machismo to be ironic, considering that pride is a word almost unanimously associated with queer people, the enemy of machistas…In a world desperate to erase us, queer Latinx men must find ways to hold on to pride for survival, but excessive male pride is often what we are battling, both in ourselves and in others.Ī debut memoir about coming of age as a gay, Latinx man, High-Risk Homosexual opens in the ultimate anti-gay space: Edgar Gomez’s uncle’s cockfighting ring in Nicaragua, where he was sent at thirteen years old to become a man. This witty memoir traces a touching and often hilarious spiralic path to embracing a gay, Latinx identity against a culture of machismo-from a cockfighting ring in Nicaragua to cities across the U.S.-and the bath houses, night clubs, and drag queens who help redefine pride High-Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez: 9781593767051 : Books Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography An Honor Book for the 2023 Stonewall Book AwardIsrael Fishman Non-Fiction Book. ![]() ![]() (Achugbue, 2003) Equity The guarantee of fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement while at the same time striving to identify and eliminate barriers that have prevented the full participation of some groups. ![]() A diverse group, community, or organization is one in which a variety of social and cultural characteristics exist. Diversity Psychological, physical, and social differences that occur among any and all individuals including but not limited to race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, socioeconomic status, education, marital status, language, age, gender, sexual orientation, mental or physical ability, and learning styles. ![]() Cultural Competence The capability to shift cultural perspective and adapt behavior to cultural commonality and difference. Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee Terms to Know Cultural Awareness A person's comprehension of the differences between themselves and people from other countries or other backgrounds, especially differences in attitudes and values. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story is designed as a very subtle hypnotic induction, with the intent of giving some (but not all) listeners the sensation that the Avatar's words actually contain the wisdom of the universe.įor some listeners, especially those under 30, God's Debris can be a mind altering experience. You and your friends will come to very different conclusions.The third level of the book is the most provocative, but it won't have the same effect on all listeners. Some of what the Avatar says is consistent with science, and some of it is pure fiction. The second level of the book involves arguing with your friends about what parts the Avatar got wrong. Adams uses a writing trick to make the Avatar's answers appear more persuasive than they should be. ![]() ![]() The Avatar reveals the truth about God, reality, science, probability, human perception, and even social success. On the surface, God's Debris is a simple fictional story of a delivery man who encounters an Avatar who knows literally everything. God's Debris is what happens when creativity and hypnosis intersect. What is less known about Adams is that he's a trained hypnotist. It is written on three separate levels by Scott Adams, better known as the creator of the Dilbert comic. ![]() ![]() After they met with TriStar Pictures in 2017, the film was greenlit in 2020. She recruited Cathy Schulman to develop it into a feature film, pitching it to several studios, who turned it down due to financial concerns. Rating in A+ īello conceived the idea for The Woman King in 2015 after visiting Benin, where the kingdom used to be located, and learning the history of the Agojie. The film also stars Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch, Sheila Atim, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, and John Boyega. It is directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood and written by Dana Stevens, based on a story she wrote with Maria Bello. Set in the 1820s, the film stars Viola Davis as a general who trains the next generation of warriors to fight their enemies. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Woman King is a 2022 American historical action drama film about the Agojie, the all-female warrior unit that protected the West African kingdom of Dahomey during the 17th to 19th centuries. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was all the greater triumph to Miss Nancy Lammeter's beauty that she looked thoroughly bewitching in that costume, as, seated on the pillion behind her tall, erect father, she held one arm round him, and looked down, with open-eyed anxiety, at the treacherous snow-covered pools and puddles, which sent up formidable splashings of mud under the stamp of Dobbin's foot. Some women, I grant, would not appear to advantage seated on a pillion, and attired in a drab joseph and a drab beaver-bonnet, with a crown resembling a small stew-pan for a garment suggesting a coachman's greatcoat, cut out under an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes, is not well adapted to conceal deficiencies of contour, nor is drab a colour that will throw sallow cheeks into lively contrast. ![]() |