5/14/2023 0 Comments Feminism 99 percent![]() At first a ripple, then a wave, it has become a massive tide: a new global feminist movement that may gain sufficient force to disrupt existing alliances and redraw the political map.īut that is not all: this burgeoning movement has invented new ways to strike and infused the strike form itself with a new kind of politics. ![]() For the last two years, its slogans have resonated powerfully across the globe: #NosotrasParamos, #WeStrike, #VivasNosQueremos, #NiUnaMenos, #TimesUp, #Feminism4the99. ![]() ![]() From its origins in the streets, the movement then surged through workplaces and schools, eventually engulfing the high-flying worlds of show business, media, and politics. By the end of the month, an upwelling of radical refusal had already crossed the ocean to Argentina, where striking women met the heinous murder of Lucía Pérez with the militant cry: “Ni una menos.” Soon it spread to Italy, Spain, Brazil, Turkey, Peru, the United States, Mexico, Chile, and dozens of other countries. The recent feminist strike movement began in Poland in October of 2016, when more than 100,000 women staged walkouts and marches to oppose the country’s ban on abortion. ![]()
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5/14/2023 0 Comments Mr. Perfect by Linda Howard![]() ![]() And the joke turns deadly serious when one of the four women is murdered. No one expected this avalanche of attention for something that began as a joke among friends. ![]() And it doesn't stop there: the List becomes an overnight sensation, grabbing the interest of local newspapers and television coverage. The next thing they know, the List, as it has come to be called, spreads like wildfire throughout their company and sizzles along e-mail lines. Perfect - and they write down a tongue-in-cheek checklist that's both funny and racy. ![]() What qualities would he have? Would he be tall, dark, and handsome? Caring and warmhearted - or will just muscular do? Jaine Bright and her three girlfriends start off with the basics - he'd be faithful and reliable, the responsible type, with a great sense of humor.īut as the conversation picks up momentum, so do the quartet's requirements for Mr. What would make the perfect man? That's the delicious topic heating up the proceedings at a certain table of professional women at their favorite restaurant, Ernie's, tonight: Mr. ![]() 5/14/2023 0 Comments Mindwalker kate dylan![]() ![]() The Stranger finds herself adrift in a ravaged, unwelcoming landscape, full of people who hate and fear her space-born existence. But her escape pod crashes hundreds of miles away from the rest of the wreckage. This Stranger is a crewmember on the first ship in centuries to attempt a return to Earth and save what’s left. Then a ship falls from the sky, bringing the planet’s first visitor in three hundred years. What passes for justice is presided over by the High Sheriff, and carried out by his cruel and ruthless Deputy. ![]() Technology has been renounced, and saints and sinners, lawmakers and sheriffs, travelers and gunslingers, abound. For those who stayed a lawless society remains. In the distant future most of the human race has fled a ravaged Earth to find new life on other planets. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Mars aspect, he felt, was irrelevant. In an interview towards the end of his life, conversation turned to a recent spate of novels set on Mars and a possible setting for a John Christopher story: strand a group of people in a remote Martian enclave and see what happens. ![]() ‘I read somewhere,’ Sam once said, ‘that I have been cited as the greatest serial killer in fictional history, having destroyed civilisation in so many different ways – through famine, freezing, earthquakes, feral youth combined with religious fanaticism, and progeria.’ He is perhaps best known as John Christopher, author of the seminal work of speculative fiction, The Death of Grass (today available as a Penguin Classic), and a stream of novels in the genre he pioneered, young adult dystopian fiction, beginning with The Tripods Trilogy. ![]() Over the following decades, his imagination flowed from science-fiction into general novels, cricket novels, medical novels, gothic romances, detective thrillers, light comedies … In all he published fifty-six novels and a myriad of short stories, under his own name as well as eight different pen-names. Samuel Youd was born in Huyton, Lancashire in April 1922, during an unseasonable snowstorm.Īs a boy, he was devoted to the newly emergent genre of science-fiction: ‘In the early thirties,’ he later wrote, ‘we knew just enough about the solar system for its possibilities to be a magnet to the imagination.’ ![]() 5/14/2023 0 Comments Convenience store woman review![]() ![]() ![]() Keiko has never fit in, neither in her family nor in school, but when she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch of "Smile Mart," she finds peace and purpose in her life. ![]() The English-language debut of one of Japan's most talented contemporary writers, selling over 650,000 copies there, Convenience Store Woman, is the heartwarming and surprising story of thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident Keiko Furukura. The English-language debut of an exciting young voice in international fiction, selling 660,000 copies in Japan alone, Convenience Store Woman is a bewitching portrayal of contemporary Japan through the eyes of a single woman who fits into the rigidity of its work culture only too well. Longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation ![]() Shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award But Keiko knows what makes her happy, and she will not let anyone come between her and her convenience store… Her friends wonder why she won't get married. Keiko's family wishes she'd get a proper job. She's never had a boyfriend and worked in the same supermarket for eighteen years. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments The joy luck club author![]() That year, the then-35-year-old traveled with her mother Daisy to visit the three daughters Daisy had been forced to leave behind after fleeing the communist country in 1949. ![]() Tan, the daughter of immigrants, had never been to China prior to 1987. ![]() The Joy Luck Club was inspired in part by a trip to China. Becoming a novelist was the furthest thing from her mind, but Tan did have an interest in short fiction and attended a writer’s group led by Molly Giles, setting her on the path to becoming a full-time fiction writer. to travel Europe before Tan graduated from high school in Switzerland.Īfter stints at five different colleges, Tan emerged with degrees in English and linguistics and became a language development specialist before turning to freelance business writing. At 15, her father John and brother Peter both succumbed to brain tumors, prompting her mother to take Tan and her younger brother John Jr. ![]() Before the age of 18, Tan had lived in 12 homes around the San Francisco area. If lived experiences inform a writer’s best work, then Amy Tan has a deep reservoir to draw from. The Academy Presents "The Joy Luck Club" (1993) 25th Anniversary / Alberto E. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Black swan affair by kl kreig![]() ![]() KL had me from page one and I had to pry my fingers off my Kindle when it was over. “Black Swan Affair is intense, mesmerizing, a gripping page-turner that had me guessing until the very end! A top 2016 read!” – Anne Mercier, Bestselling Author Jasinda Wilder (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1 time as brothers-share-heroine) avg rating 4.02 53,368 ratings published 2013. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Black Swan Affair is a must read!!” – NYT & USA Today Bestselling Author Nashoda Rose avg rating 3.86 2,099 ratings published 2016. A yo-yo of emotions that left me breathless with every scene. Yes, seven hours I was glued to the pages of this book. “OMG what did I just read? This book… wow!! It’s been years since I read a book straight through. ![]() Title: Black Swan Affair Genre: Contemporary Erotic Romance Author: KL Kreig Release Date: October 17, 2016 So I did the only thing a girl like me in my position could do. And he destroyed me-us-the day he married my sister instead of me. But instead of smelling of promises, he stunk of betrayal. It didn’t even matter when he left me behind to go to college and start his adult life. It didn’t matter that he looked at me as a kid sister even as I grew into a woman. It didn’t matter that he was five years older than me. He wears scruff like he invented it and ambles with a swagger that makes panties drop. The gangly boy with big brown eyes and unruly hair who grew up into an intoxicating man. ![]() I’ve loved him as long as I can remember. Genre: Contemporary Romance, Erotic Romance ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Dark Reign by Amelia Wilde![]() ![]() The Midnight Dynasty Universeis a collection of books (series and standalones) written by different authors but feature the characters from a collective world. HOWEVER, I did not enjoy the Beast of Bishop’s Landing Series which is also written by Amelia Wilde so I wasn’t sure what to expect with this novel but I went in with an open mind… The Concept – Midnight Dynasty: It’s alluded to in Secret Beast ( Beast of Bishop’s Landing) and I have been curious about it ever since. For one thing, I was really excited to read Daphne Morelli’s story. So I went into this book with mixed expectations. Publication Dates: November 2021 – March 2022 Heat Rating: Hot (Kink: minor (#1,#3) & major (#2)) Genre: Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Dark, Erotica Series: The Collector Trilogy | Midnight Dynasty Series ![]() She’ll be the perfect addition to his collection. ![]() It doesn’t matter that she’s a living, breathing person with her own hopes and dreams. Innocent Daphne Morelli is more exquisite than anything he’s ever seen. He only ventures out in pursuit of new art for his collection. Emerson LeBlanc doesn’t enter society much. Synopsis for Dark Reign (from Goodreads): Series Review: Is this series worth your time? Does it get better as the novels progress? Or does it get worse? 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And in telling the Moses story, Caro both opens up to an unprecedented degree the way in which politics really happens-the way things really get done in America's City Halls and Statehouses-and brings to light a bonanza of vital information about such national figures as Alfred E. One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York. A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. ![]() |