But off the court? I never saw her coming. Or that one semester with her would change everything. What I didn’t know is that she is all the things I didn’t realize I wanted or needed. Sorority girl, fine as f**k, determined, ball buster… these are the things I knew about her. What’s the best way to get rid of the peppy and unrelenting girl that keeps asking me to tutor her? If I knew, I wouldn’t be staring at her tan legs and attempting to teach her statistics. What I didn’t know is that he is a seriously smart jock. What’s the probability of insulting the one guy on campus I need to help me pass statistics? If I knew, I wouldn’t be standing in front of Wes Reynolds begging him to tutor me.īasketball player, sexy, arrogant, always sleeping through class… these are the things I knew about him. You know those stories where the smart girl tutors the dumb jock? This isn’t it.
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He teaches courses in fiction and contemporary literature at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. He has been awarded writer-in-residence fellowships to the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshops, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, the Ragdale Arts Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and several other locales. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Another Chicago Magazine, Big Other, Black Warrior Review, Identity Theory, PANK, and The Operating System. Reminiscent of Percival, Harryette, Ishmael, and Ralph Ellison himself, this is an experimental novel you must read.' Sheree Renée Thomas, author of Nine Bar Blues & the World Fantasy Award-winning. Silverfish, Paperback by Shavers, Rone, ISBN 1944866744, ISBN-13 9781944866747, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK Silverfish is a syncretic tour-de-force. Rone Shavers is author of the experimental Afrofuturist novel Silverfish (Clash Books 2020), recently named a finalist for the CLMP Firecracker Award in fiction and a “Best Book of 2020” by The Brooklyn Rail. A contemporary Dust Bowl Gothic novel (Rone Shavers, author of Silverfish) imbued with melancholy cheer, Dog on Fire unfolds around a familys turmoil. 'Part incantation, revelation, and elegy, Rone Shavers Silverfish offers a surprising New World, Du Boisian source code. Join the Written Arts Program and Experimental Humanities for a reading with writer Rone Shavers, followed by a conversation with Bard College faculty member and MacArthur Fellow, Dinaw Mengestu. I hoped to like this short holiday story, and I wound up loving it. Even with the story’s shortness, the mystery has got a good number of clever twists, and I’m all for the quirky-and-proper flavor I expected to find in a read like this. The old-fashioned English Christmas elements are downright charming, as are the little nods to romance. Nevertheless, I’m so glad I read this tale all the way through. While I do read murder mysteries from time to time, I have certain preferences concerning the tone of such stories, and I can’t say that murder and Christmas are two ingredients that I’d be eager to mix. This is the second Poirot short I’ve read recently, and I got a bit nervous in the middle of reading this one, unable to recall if it was supposed to be a murder mystery. And Poirot may have to watch what he eats-for reasons beyond the gastronomical-in The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by author Agatha Christie. Adventure of the Christmas Pudding 1960 UK The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and a Selection of Entrées is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 24 October 1960. More than holiday cheer awaits Detective Hercule Poirot at a Christmas celebration when a jewel thief is in the midst. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding: A Hercule Poirot Short Story by Agatha Christie I tend to rate books not according to how “perfect” they are, seem to be, or are said to be in general but rather t o how perfect they are to me. The four people who created this revolution were: Margaret Sanger, who believed that women could not enjoy sex or freedom until they could control when and whether they got pregnant scientist Gregory Pincus, who was fired from Harvard for experimenting with in-vitro fertilization and bragging about it to the mainstream press John Rock, who was a Catholic OB-GYN and worked with Pincus to conduct tests of the pill on women and Katharine McCormick, who funded much of the research. How?Įig tells the history in his new book The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution. 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We are republishing this piece on the homepage in allegiance with a critical American movement that upholds Black voices. Even though both of Rosaline’s love interest are men, her identity as a bisexual woman is never undermined. Rosaline is proudly bisexual and the book handles this in a nuanced way looking at issues of bi-erasure and prejudice. It also gives Rosaline the unexpected opportunity for finding love when two very different fellow contestants catch her eye. The baking competition is her chance to shine and set an example for her daughter about following her dreams. Her wealthy parents, despite being loving grandparents, are disappointed in how Rosaline has lived her life and what they see as her lack of ambition. Rosaline is a young single mom and amateur baker. The series has as its backdrop a baking competition that bears striking similarities to the fan favorite Great British Baking Show. Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake is the first in Alexis Hall’s new Winner Bakes All series. To end the month I thought I’d focus on two romance novels, I recently enjoyed, featuring bisexual protagonists both set in the competitive world of baking shows. I started off Pride Month, this June, with a post about Trans and Non-Binary Authors writing speculative fiction. The religious holiday in the winter is called Crossmas. Crosses are believed to be higher in society because they are closer to God than noughts. Noughts & Crosses explores the theme of religion and who religion is for. The theme of racism is explored in large racist gestures-racial violence including Lynette being beaten and a Cross shopping center being bombed-as well as the microaggressions faced by noughts, such as Band-Aids being made for black skin instead of white, increased suspicion in public spaces, and frequent identity checks and police harassment. The world of the novel has many close parallels to the era of the civil rights movement and the Jim Crow era in America in the 20th century. Crosses, with dark skin, are seen as the superior race, and noughts are understood to be inferior. One of the main themes of Noughts & Crosses is racism. After spotting Maggie in the background of a crummy exploitation flick, Ethan begins pulling at the tangled threads of a seedy operation and unravels a tale of the city’s fall from hippie optimism, with movie producers taking advantage of fresh-off-the-bus ingenues, an Aleister Crowley meets Charles Manson cult, and Nazi skinheads (“for some reason, there always had to be skinheads”). Falling hard for Linh Tran, a tough-as-nails library clerk, he agrees to help find her sister Maggie, who vanished into the Hollywood fleshpots years before. It’s 1985 and ex-FBI agent and current paladin for hire Ethan Reckless is grinding through private-eye cases, mourning his father, and losing himself by watching old sitcoms at his shuttered movie theater office. Ghosts of the 1960s and ’70s haunt this bruising second entry in Brubaker and Phillips’s bloody-knuckled L.A. Terms here that are of my own confection, rather than Marx’s, appear within “double quotation marks”. Main entries and cross-references appear in bold red. Where I think there are supporting citations in Marx, however, these are indicated in blue: the reference is to Karl Marx, Capital volume 3 (Harmondsworth, 1981). At some point in the future I do intend to produce a textual glossary of some of these terms using Marx’s own words – the two glossaries, the textual and the interpretative, would then complement one another. I cite references to Marx’s text where relevant. It is ‘interpretative’ in the sense that the definitions given are my recapitulated interpretations of what I think the terms mean, rather than direct textual citations of what Marx says or implies they mean (even if, given that the glossary has been prepared from my own reading notes, I may in places more or less closely paraphrase Marx). It is thus not exhaustive of the volume’s terms and concepts, but it does try to deal with some of the most important of them. Like my glossaries for volumes 1 and 2, this glossary of volume 3 of Marx’s Capital has been produced principally for purposes of self-clarification. IndieBound | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Books-A-Million | Indigo iBooks | Google Suddenly Bianca realizes with absolute horror that she's falling for the guy she thought she hated more than anyone. It turns out that Wesley isn't such a bad listener, and his life is pretty screwed up, too. Eager for escape, she throws herself into a closeted enemies-with-benefits relationship with Wesley. Desperate for a distraction, Bianca ends up kissing Wesley. And when he nicknames her "Duffy," she throws her Coke in his face.īut things aren't so great at home right now. She's also way too smart to fall for the charms of man-slut and slimy school hottie Wesley Rush. Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper is cynical and loyal, and she doesn't think she's the prettiest of her friends by a long shot. |