6/30/2023 0 Comments Hunger by roxane gay sparknotesPeople see bodies like Roxane’s and make assumptions. She systematically built a cage around the girl she once was, hoping to protect herself from any more pain and hurt. But she did understand that fat people weren’t desirable. In the aftermath, she didn’t understand how to cope. As a young girl, Roxane experienced trauma. Her size is of her making, but it isn’t solely her responsibility. But she doesn’t want to be noticed: She wants to hide. In a world that tells women to be small, to not take up space, Roxane will always take up space. She never will be, not least because she stands at 6 feet 3 inches tall. It’s not a story of success, but a story of truth - a confession. It’s not a story with stark before and after photos, nor is it a tale of harnessing willpower. This is a memoir of Roxane’s body and her hunger. Enjoy fresh, honest perspectives of the worldĮach of our bodies has a unique story to tell.Are interested in human stories and life experiences.Want to understand the effects of trauma and shame.Roxane hungers for safety and acceptance, but more than anything she hungers to be comfortable in her own skin.Īn honest expression of shame and empowerment in an unaccommodating world. Learn how widespread the damages of sexual violence can be, and how a girl simply tried to cope with them by making her body a fortress. This book review of Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, explores Roxane Gay’s moving story about shame, vulnerability, trauma, and strength.
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Blue highways moonFour years later, his book “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America” became a massive bestseller, launching a career and reinventing the notions of both travel writing and memoir. He lived out of his monastically customized Ford van, ate at a lot of local cafes and kept a journal. Relegating a broken marriage and a lost job to the rear-view mirror, he spent three months exploring the continental United States by way of its back roads and the people he encountered upon them. In 1978, he put a general lust for wandering to emotional, existential and then literary use. William Least Heat-Moon is just such a traveler. And that can come in handy when the road, or the places along it, are denied him by pandemic or the cussed realities of age. A man who knows the road well enough can learn to travel in place. 6/30/2023 0 Comments I am alfonso jones by tony medinaWhen Alfonso wakes up in the afterlife, he's on a ghost train guided by well-known victims of police shootings, who teach him what he needs to know about this subterranean spiritual world. But as he is buying his first suit, an off-duty police officer mistakes a clothes hanger for a gun, and he shoots Alfonso. He also wants to let his best friend, Danetta, know how he really feels about her. The Hate U Give meets The Lovely Bones in this unflinching graphic novel about the afterlife of a young man killed by an off-duty police officer, co-illustrated by New York Times bestselling artist John Jennings.Īlfonso Jones can't wait to play the role of Hamlet in his school's hip-hop rendition of the classic Shakespearean play. Skipping Stones Honor Award, Skipping Stones Magazineīest Books for Kids, New York Public Library Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens, American Library Association (ALA)Ĭhoices, Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) In the Margins Top Ten List, In the Margins The Latinidad List of Best Books of 2017, Latinidadīest Books for Teens, New York Public Library 6/30/2023 0 Comments Starfish by akemiSo when she receives an invitation from her childhood friend to leave her small town and tour art schools on the west coast, Kiko jumps at the opportunity in spite of the anxieties and fears that attempt to hold her back. With a mother who makes her feel unremarkable and a half-Japanese heritage she doesn’t quite understand, Kiko prefers to keep her head down, certain that once she makes it into her dream art school, Prism, her real life will begin.īut then Kiko doesn’t get into Prism, at the same time her abusive uncle moves back in with her family. Kiko Himura has always had a hard time saying exactly what she’s thinking. I received an eARC of this book from the publisher Simon Pulse in exchange for an honest review. Publisher: Simon Pulse (September 26th 2017) 153 elementary school in Brooklyn, New York, students were seated in order of their IQ. She was the only daughter and the middle sibling of three children. Her father worked in the export-import business and her mother in advertising. Early life and education ĭweck was born in New York. She is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. She was on the faculty at Columbia University, Harvard University, and the University of Illinois before joining the Stanford University faculty in 2004. Dweck is known for her work on motivation and mindset. She is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. The Role of Expectations and Attributions in the Alleviation of Learned Helplessness in a Problem-Solving Situation (1972)Ĭarol Susan Dweck (born October 17, 1946) is an American psychologist. James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award (2013).Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2012). Sony Pictures and Rooster Teeth ended their professional relationships with him. In the wake of the MeToo movement, allegations of sexual assault and harassment have been made against Mignogna by fans and professionals in the voice acting industry. In live-action work, he has participated in several Star Trek fan productions, including Star Trek Continues, where he plays Captain James T. In video games, he has voiced E-123 Omega in the Sonic the Hedgehog series and Junpei Iori from Persona 3. Flowright in Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Dark in D.N.Angel, Kurz Weber in the Full Metal Panic! series, Zero and Ichiru Kiryu in the Vampire Knight series, Christopher Aonuma in Digimon Fusion, Nagato and Obito Uchiha in Naruto Shippuden, Ikkaku Madarame in Bleach, Rohan Kishibe in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable, Qrow Branwen in RWBY, and Matt Ishida in Digimon Adventure tri. Other animation roles include Broly from the Dragon Ball films, Tamaki Suoh in Ouran High School Host Club, Fai D. Victor Joseph Mignogna ( / m ɪ n ˈ j ɒ n ə/) born August 27, 1962) is an American voice actor and musician known for his voice-over work in the English dubs of Japanese anime shows, such as Edward Elric from the Fullmetal Alchemist series, which earned him the American Anime Award for Best Actor in 2007. 6/28/2023 0 Comments Lord of scoundrels goodreadsI really enjoyed Lord of Scoundrels even though I’m weary of these types of books. About the EndingĮverything, I mean everything wraps up perfectly. Truthfully, I skimmed some of the sex scenes, but the ones I read were good. Sex scenes were good without being explicit. I enjoyed the rocky journey of them getting together, although I felt the Lady was too understanding of Lord Dain’s antics. The great brute was an abomination, a disgrace to his country, an idle reprobate with no more conscience than a dung beetle. Actually, when it came to pistols, she was the best of the whole family, and that was saying something. She could ride, fence, and shoot with the best of them. … the silken hair nearly blue-black in color, almond-shaped silver-grey eyes, alabaster complexion, and graceful figure…Miss Jessica had inherited her late father’s brains, physical agility, and courage. Lord of Scoundrels is an ode to Beauty and the Beast featuring, Lady Trent, the beauty” The speech was authentic without me struggling to figure out what was happening. However, I didn’t feel lost or out of sorts. Lord of Scoundrels takes place in England and France during the eighteen hundreds among Lords and Lady’s, counts and countesses, March’s and Marchionesses. No respectable woman would have anything to do with the Sebastian Ballister, the notorious Marquess of Dain, is big, bad, and dangerous to know. They call him many names, but Angelic isn't one of them. Genres: Fiction, General, Historical, Romance As always, Cather makes her landscape – the arid New Mexican plains – a palpable character in the story, and she shows an early empathy with the Navajo and Hopi nations’ reverence for unspoiled nature. In Cather’s hand they become the aged, withdrawn bishop Jean Marie Latour and his practical and hopeful vicar, Joseph Vaillant, who struggle together to bring Old World religion to the New World by building a cathedral in the desert Southwest. Considered by many to be Cather’s greatest work, Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) is an experimental novel based on the real-life experiences of two French missionaries in New Mexico. The author of 12 novels and nearly 60 short stories, Cather won a Pulitzer Prize in 1922. One of the most important American writers of the twentieth century, Willa Cather mined her childhood experiences on the Nebraska plains and her later love for the Southwest to create timeless tales of romance, tragedy, and spiritual seeking. Publisher: Book-of-the-Month Club by arrangement with Alfred A. 6/28/2023 0 Comments The greatness mindset lewis howes
6/27/2023 0 Comments Nam joo choKim Jiyoung, Born 1982, is Cho Nam-Joo’s most successful novel due to her palpable honesty surrounding the uncomfortable and gut wrenching reality of Korea’s patriarchy. The reader can rightfully assume that societal pressures led to the collapse of Jiyoung’s mental health, and at the end of the novel, she falls victim to psychosis. From blood relatives scolding her for sharing her younger brother’s food, to sexist employers viewing her as an incompetent and unreliable worker, and even random strangers calling her a “lazy mother,” Jiyoung has greatly suffered from Korea’s brutal patriarchy. Throughout all stages of her life, Kim Jiyoung has endured countless demeaning critiques, from both men and women, that have positioned her status as lower than men. This novel narrows in on the hard truths that women, including Jiyoung, must face regarding cases of sexual assault, unfair sexism, familial pressures placed upon women, and a loss of self-identity. This straightforward novel wastes no time by jumping right into Kim Jiyoung’s, the protagonist’s, story about how sexism casually dictates the lives of most Korean women. BRIANNA HIRAMI WRITES - Cho Nam-Joo’s eye opening novel, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, displays how South Korea’s demoralizing rules and societal norms negatively affect the lives of Korean women. |