![]() It isn’t enough to focus only on “equal pay for equal work” as that argument mostly focuses on jobs where someone can negotiate their salary. At the same time, it does present an opportunity to change the way we value service work. In this essay from Dissent Magazine, author Sarah Jaffe argues that when the fastest-growing fields are low-wage, it isn’t a victory for women. Even in fast-growing fields where women dominate (retail sales, food service, etc), women make less money than men. Here are five essays about feminism that tackle topics like trans activism, progress, and privilege: “Trickle-Down Feminism” – Sarah Jaffeįeminists celebrate successful women who have seemingly smashed through the glass ceiling, but the reality is that most women are still under it. ![]() Modern feminism is moving to a more inclusive and intersectional place. Over the years, the movement expanded from a focus on voting rights to worker rights, reproductive rights, gender roles, and beyond. It’s the belief that women should be politically, socially, and economically equal to men. ![]() On the surface, the definition of feminism is simple. ![]()
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![]() It’s inherent in the United States’ abject ambivalence regarding its role as an imperial superpower. Daniel Immerwahr makes it pretty clear that any ignorance of the status of these islands, or the history of Hawai’i and Alaska, isn’t just a failure of the education system. But I’m not going to spend my entire review dissing the American education system. ![]() Did you know that the US owned the Philippines from 1898 to 1946? I didn’t! To be fair, I at least have the excuse that I’m Canadian, not American. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States is all about the overseas territories and possessions of the United States of America. Even when you’ve done your best to be diligent and check your biases, at the end of the day, there is just so much history! There’s just so much of it, and it’s just so subject to interpretation depending on the evidence available, the lens you use for that evidence, and your own biases. These days I read history books because I’ve discovered since leaving school that history is actually really, really difficult to learn. ![]() I heard about this book on Twitter, I think, and read an excerpt (basically the introduction of the book) in The Guardian, and I was immediately sold. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When I started City of a Thousand Dolls, I’d been given the impression that it would contain mostly action and romance but was graced with no such luck. The title was interesting, if not a little perplexing, but the cover was nothing short of intriguing and so, I decided to see if it would change the way I feel about the genre. I’ve read plenty in my lifetime but have only ever enjoyed a few. I’m highly selective when it comes to high fantasy. ![]() But by getting involved, Nisha jeopardizes not only her own future in the City of a Thousand Dolls-but her own life. Until one by one, girls around her start to die.īefore she becomes the next victim, Nisha decides to uncover the secrets that surround the girls’ deaths. ![]() Only when she begins a forbidden flirtation with the city’s handsome young courier does she let herself imagine a life outside the walls. Nisha makes her way as Matron’s assistant, her closest companions the mysterious cats that trail her shadow. Now sixteen, she lives on the grounds of the isolated estate, where orphan girls apprentice as musicians, healers, courtesans, and, if the rumors are true, assassins. Nisha was abandoned at the gates of the City of a Thousand Dolls when she was just a child. An exotic treat set in an entirely original, fantastical world brimming with deadly mystery, forbidden romance, and heart-stopping adventure. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I didn’t heed the warning and decided to read them during a trip to Mississippi with my girls for a Soccer College Showcase. I kept seeing TikTok videos and Bookstagram posts on how these books would break me. I told myself I would hold off reading The Ravenhood books by Kate Stewart. At least that was the case for me and the men I trusted my foolish heart to.Looking back, I’m convinced I willed my story into existence due to my illness. And all were punished. You can’t re-live your own love story, because by the time you’ve realized you’re living it, it’s over. But in order to keep them, I had to be in on their secrets.Secrets that cost us everything to keep.That’s the novelty of fiction versus reality. I gave into temptation and fed the beating beast, which grew thirstier with every slash, every strike, every blow.Triple Falls wasn’t at all what it seemed, nor were the men that swept me under their wing. Published by Self-Published on July 28, 2020Ĭan you keep a secret?I grew up sick.Let me clarify.I grew up believing that real love stories include a martyr or demand great sacrifice to be worthy.Because of that, I believed it, because I made myself believe it, and I bred the most masochistic of romantic hearts, which resulted in my illness.When I lived this story, my own twisted fairy tale, it was unbeknownst to me at the time because I was young and naïve. ![]() ![]() ![]() Satanists? Kidnappers? The rumors won't stop, and soon the mystery has dangerous repercussions that spread far beyond the town. When the posters begin appearing everywhere, people wonder who is behind them and start to panic. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us. ![]() The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. Romantic and creative sparks begin to fly, and when the two jointly make an unsigned poster, shot through with an enigmatic phrase, it becomes unforgettable to anyone who sees it. Louis Post-Dispatch * Sunset Magazine * Time * Town & Country * The Millions * USA Today * Vogue * Vulture * The Week An exuberant, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives forever Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge-aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner-is determined to make it through yet another summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother's house and who is as awkward as Frankie is. NATIONAL BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * Kirkus Reviews * USA Today * Entertainment Weekly * Garden & Gun * Vox * Atlanta Journal-Constitution A Most Anticipated Book of Fall from: Associated Press * Atlanta Journal-Constitution * BookPage * Book Riot * The Boston Globe * Entertainment Weekly * Esquire * Garden & Gun * LitHub * St. ![]() ![]() Note too that both kinds of spy novels, from E. ![]() In the first kind, the “good guys” and the “bad guys” are easily distinguished one from the other, and in the second there are no good guys or bad guys, the villain is the state, or history, and the spy/hero is a deeply conflicted figure, and by no means an attractive or athletic person (George Smiley, for example, is overweight, a cuckold, and in many ways not dissimilar from his KGB opponents).Īll I can say is that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene would have read his books with pleasure, and that somebody like Orson Welles could have made a marvelous movie. There are two schools of spy fiction: The first is glossy, techno-oriented, full of spectacular violence and even more spectacular sex, the prime example of which are Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels (and the posthumous sequels) and the second, the back-streets, seedy, morally ambiguous world that was virtually created by Eric Ambler and Graham Greene, and very successfully continued by John le Carré. ![]() ![]() ![]() The series counts as one of its fans no less than horror master Stephen King himself, who declared, in an infamous surprise call to Good Morning Americaduring a Cronin appearance for the The Passage, “you put the scare back in vampires, buddy.” Much of the early portion of The Twelve, Cronin’s highly anticipated second installment of the expected three-part trilogy, recounts “Year Zero,” when the vicious, limb-tearing vampires decimated the continent.īut while vampires may, for some, seem a tad over-exposed in today’s fictional landscape, Cronin’s post-acopalyptic novels have broken through, generating huge buzz among adult readers. In The Passage, the futuristic dystopia created by Justin Cronin, a rampaging horde of vampire-like creatures called “virals” create mayhem for the world, wiping out civilization as we know it. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the first half of the book, Aswil has Tomoyuki drugged, forcibly kisses him, and has sex with him despite his protests. I don't know why I have so many Juné novels - most of them are terrible and rapey, and this one is no exception. But will it be possible for him to escape? The two of them can't marry, and Aswil will soon be marrying someone else, so does Aswil mean to keep him like some sort of mistress? As much as Tomoyuki still loves the man, he doesn't think he can live that kind of life. ![]() ![]() There's no way Tomoyuki could ever have a future with a man like that, so he's confused and upset when Aswil suddenly shows up and has him kidnapped. Six years ago, Tomoyuki had fallen in love with Aswil, only to have his heart broken at the revelation that Aswil was next in line for the throne of the country of Madina. ![]() However, it turns out the trip is a sham arranged by Tomoyuki's ex-lover, Aswil al-Murshid. When he's told that his company requires someone proficient in English and Arabic to travel to England for an emergency business trip, he thinks nothing of it. Tomoyuki works for the planning department of a Japanese trading company. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Armand’s prose weaves together the City’s thousand-and-one fascinating tales with a deeply personal account of one lost soul set adrift amid the early-90s’ awakening from the nightmare that was the previous half-century of communist Mitteleuropa. Reinhard) of the 20th (who attempted and succeeded in turning flesh into soap). Edward) of the 16th/17th centuries (who attempted and failed to turn lead into gold), and the infamous H’s (e.g. Golem City, the ship of fools boarded by the famed D’s (e.g. ![]() “Golem City”), across the 20th-century and before/after. In 8 octaves, 64 chapters and 888 pages, Louis Armand’s The Combinationsis an unprecedented “work of attempted fiction” that combines the beauty & intellectual exertion that is chess with the panorama of futility & chaos that is Prague (a.k.a. IS THIS THE ULTIMATE “PRAGUE NOVEL”? The “European anti-novel” in all its unrepentant glory is here in The Combinations, following in the tradition of Sterne, Rabelais, Cervantes, Joyce, Perec. Kafka’s The Trial meets Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities. Shortlisted for the 2016 Not the Booker prize. Order from, from Barnes and Noble, or via Print-on-Demand (paperback only) or try the Kindle edition. ![]() ![]() ![]() The three men find themselves in strange, but hospitable surroundings. Part 1, Chapter 7: A Whale of Unknown SpeciesĪronnax, Conseil, and Ned Land have a close encounter with the creature. Arronnax finds himself in a precarious situation. Ned Land's harpooning of the creature fails to produce the desired result. Part 1, Chapter 6: At Full Steamįearing the loss of his ship, Farragut chooses not to attack until morning. Ned Land impresses the crew with his abilities. Part 1, Chapter 4: Ned LandĪronnax gives is account of Captain Farragut, Ned Land, and the the capabilities of the Abraham Lincoln Part 1, Chapter 5: At Random Part 1, Chapter 3: As Master WishesĪronnax feels compelled to hunt the monster. The narrator is invited to join an impending expedition. Different theories are debated as to the cause of the recent shipwrecks. The narrator introduces himself to the reader. The public becomes concerned with a series of shipwrecks. ![]() Talk spreads throughout Europe and America about the sighting of a huge sea creature. ![]() It is about the fictional Captain Nemo and his submarine, Nautilus, as seen by one of his passengers, Professor Pierre Aronnax. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne, published in 1870. ![]() |