6/30/2023 0 Comments Red at the bone jacqueline woodson“That afternoon, the years that separated us could have been fifty – Iris standing at the bottom of the stairs watching me. Melody can’t help but observe that her relationship with her mother is full of regrets and thorns. On a spring day in 2001, while Melody and Malcolm, her childhood friend and date, swirl around the dance floor, so do the memories for the teenager and the key players in her life. The baby bump deprived Iris of her own introduction into society: now she must look on as her daughter descends the stairs wearing the white dress she was not permitted to wear and is serenaded by an orchestra playing an instrumental version of Prince’s “Darling Nikki”. Melody is also the product of a teenage pregnancy that has left her estranged from her mother, Iris, who chose the distance of college in Ohio over nappies, baby bottles and the domesticity of her parents’ Brooklyn brownstone. Melody is smart, pretty, private school privileged and much adored by her father, Aubrey, and proud grandparents, Sabe and Po’Boy. I n US author Jacqueline Woodson’s haunting novel, a 16-year-old girl’s coming-of-age party prompts an avalanche of memories for her middle-class African American family.
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6/30/2023 0 Comments The Ionia Sanction by Gary CorbyHe must meet Themistocles, the military genius who saved Greece during the Persian Wars, and then defected to the hated enemy.Īnd to solve the crime, Nico must uncover a secret that could not only destroy Athens, but will force him to choose between love, and ambition, and his own life. Somehow he has to placate his girlfriend, who is very angry about that slave girl. He's being chased by brigands who are only waiting for the right price before they kill him. Beyond that, there are only a few minor problems: The Persians will execute him on the spot if they think he's a spy. The case takes Nico, in the company of a beautiful slave girl, to the land of Ionia within the Persian Empire. But when an Athenian official is murdered, the brilliant statesman Pericles has no choice but to put Nico on the job. His girlfriend's left him and his boss wants to fire him. Life's tough for Nicolaos, the only investigating agent in ancient Athens. Life's tough for Nicolaos, the only investigating agent in ancient Athens. 'Corby has not only made Greek history accessible-he's made it first-rate entertainment.' &151 Kelli Stanley, award-winning author of Nox Dormienda and City of DragonsAthens, 460 B.C. "Corby has not only made Greek history accessible-he's made it first-rate entertainment." -Kelli Stanley, award-winning author of Nox Dormienda and City of DragonsĪthens, 460 B.C. 6/30/2023 0 Comments The hero with a thousand facesThe superficial similarities of many stories worldwide is further to be analysed in terms of rights of passage, Freudian and Jungian themes. After making this dodgy reductionist move the field is open for Campbell to further reduce and over generalise everything he can find to fit into a single monomyth about the hero. The difference is that the former is directed at a local audience whereas the latter is a mythology for everyone. For Campbell, it seems, mythology and religion are to be conflated. Campbell knits together the worlds mythologies and the stories therein are interesting and pleasant to listen to it is the connecting material that is sadly lacking. I'm afraid that I just find it a triumph of over generalisation and reductionism. I am obviously aware that this work is treated with great reverence (it was allegedly an inspiration for Star Wars after all!). I've got half way through this and am returning it. A triumph of over generalisation and reductionism Please see extended rules for appropriate alternative subreddits, like /r/suggestmeabook, /r/whatsthatbook, etc. ‘Should I read …?’, ‘What’s that book?’ posts, sales links, piracy, plagiarism, low quality book lists, unmarked spoilers (instructions for spoiler tags are in the sidebar), sensationalist headlines, novelty accounts, low effort content. Promotional posts, comments & flairs, media-only posts, personalized recommendation requests incl. Please use a civil tone and assume good faith when entering a conversation. All posts must be directly book related, informative, and discussion focused. If you're looking for help with a personal book recommendation, consult our Suggested Reading page or ask in: /r/suggestmeabook Quick Rules:ĭo not post shallow content. It is our intent and purpose to foster and encourage in-depth discussion about all things related to books, authors, genres or publishing in a safe, supportive environment. Subreddit Rules - Message the mods - Related Subs AMA Info The FAQ The Wiki Join in the Weekly "What Are You Reading?" Thread!. Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulates Rajesh Kumar, son of PMO Daftary who cleared the civil services examinationĪ civil servant is paid to perform, to deliver. Honesty is necessary but not a sufficient condition for the welfare of the people. But if it is to thrive, honesty alone is not enough. However, as I point out in my book, “Ethical Dilemmas of a Civil Servant”, in order to do that effectively, the bureaucracy has to not only survive but thrive in the interest of the country and its people. In fact, it has retained its significance as an essential tool to carry out the business of governance. He resigned from Indian Civil Service on Ap"The most important quality in a civil servant is honesty without it, all other virtues are meaningless." - Mahatma Gandhi, Father of the Nation.Īs mentioned in the previous article, “ Ethics in bureaucracy: does honesty pay?” (published earlier) bureaucracy may be condemned, criticized, castigated, and ridiculed all around the world but it has not withered away. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s resignation letter. Starting from that place of wonder, the world begins to change: It is a practice that can transform a relationship, a community, a culture, even a nation. It enjoins us to see no stranger but instead look at others and say: You are part of me I do not yet know. &“In a world stricken with fear and turmoil, Valarie Kaur shows us how to summon our deepest wisdom.&”-Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love How do we love in a time of rage? How do we fix a broken world while not breaking ourselves? Valarie Kaur-renowned Sikh activist, filmmaker, and civil rights lawyer-describes revolutionary love as the call of our time, a radical, joyful practice that extends in three directions: to others, to our opponents, and to ourselves. An urgent manifesto and a dramatic memoir of awakening, this is the story of revolutionary love. 6/28/2023 0 Comments Maximum city lost and found bookdelving into the stories of the countless people who come from the villages in search of a better life and end up living on the sidewalks the essential saga of a great city endlessly played out. opening the doors onto the fantastic, hierarchical inner sanctums of Bollywood. following the life of a bar dancer who chose the only life available to her after a childhood of poverty and abuse. He approaches the city from unexpected angles taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs who wrest control of the city s byzantine political and commercial systems. A brilliantly illuminating portrait of Bombay and its people a book as vast, diverse, and rich in experience, incident, and sensation as the city itself from an award-winning Indian-American fiction writer and journalist.Ī native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us a true insider s view of this stunning city, bringing to his account a rare level of insight, detail, and intimacy. 6/28/2023 0 Comments John j marshallPMID 30339823 DOI: 10.1016/J.Bbamcr.2018.10.009īanala S, Arvin MC, Bannon NM, Jin XT, Macklin JJ, Wang Y, Peng C, Zhao G, Marshall JJ, Gee KR, Wokosin DL, Kim VJ, McIntosh JM, Contractor A, Lester HA, et al. A novel function for the ER retention signals in the C-terminus of kainate receptor subunit, GluK5. Hong X, Jeyifous O, Ronilo M, Marshall J, Green WN, Standley S. Genetic disruption of Grm5 causes complex alterations in motor activity, anxiety and social behaviors. Xu J, Marshall JJ, Kraniotis S, Nomura T, Zhu Y, Contractor A. Intersectional mapping of multi-transmitter neurons and other cell types in the brain. Xu J, Jo A, DeVries RP, Deniz S, Cherian S, Sunmola I, Song X, Marshall JJ, Gruner KA, Daigle TL, Contractor A, Lerner TN, Zeng H, Zhu Y. 6/28/2023 0 Comments Secret Six, Vol. 1 by Gail SimoneSix rogues are recruited by the enigmatic Mockingbird, charged with opposing the Society and given assignments to thwart their rivals and even help their enemies. Lawley Alabama Who Where Receive obituaries Sandra Gail Long October 24. Together, they want to take a stand to stop the super-heroic community from tampering with their minds and to prove how deadly they can be! But not everyone agrees to this agenda. Collecting the series that led into INFINITE CRISIS Six of Justices deadliest enemies band together to start a revolution. Home Highway 231 North Wetumpka AL LARRY JORDAN OBITUARY Mr 723 likes 1. Language eng Summary Six of justice's deadliest enemies band together to start a revolution. Supervillains - Comic books, strips, etc.Label Secret Six, Volume 1, Villains united Title Secret Six Title number Volume 1 Title part Villains united Statement of responsibility Gail Simone, writer Dale Eaglesham, Brad Walker, artists Title variation Villains united Creator Featured Characters: Storm (Ororo Munroe) Antagonists: Magneto (Max Eisenhardt) Other Characters: Dylan & Amy (First appearance). DC 4.3 star 14 reviews Ebook 332 Pages Bubble Zoom familyhome Eligible info 19.99 9.99 Ebook Free sample About this ebook arrowforward Collecting the series that led. 6/28/2023 0 Comments The martian chronicles coverI liked that the main character was the setting, Mars. Can you tell what my favorite decade is?) This says to me that Bradbury inspired all the Twilight Zone reruns I watched as a child. (For the record, I’ve typed 1920 when trying to put a year every time. It goes to show how cutting edge Bradbury’s book is because it was published in 1950. To me, Martians and aliens had a very 1970s feel and wasn’t something I was interested in. I ended up liking this book a lot more than I thought I would from the description. In the end, another World War starts on Earth and everyone goes home, leaving a stranded few on Mars for the forseeable future as rocket technology is wiped out on Earth. Subsequent stories talk about human adjustment to life on the new planet from how they change it to be more like Earth, the relationship with those back on Earth, and interactions with the native Martians. The book starts off with the four successive exploratory missions of human spacemen to Mars to see if the planet is fit to inhabit. The Martian Chronicles is a collection of short stories that Bradbury wrote focusing on the human colonization of Mars. Well, I listened to it, but I think that counts still. I’ve never been much of one for science fiction, but our facilitator said she’d have me read a science fiction book by the time she was through with me and she succeeded. |