Huế 1968 by Mark Bowden5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() As empires crumbled in the aftermath of the Second World War, the French were faced with increasing cries for national self-determination in their colonies. The French had ruled over what are now Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia under the name of French Indochina since the nineteenth century. ![]() In fact, the reasons for the conflict go much further back. More than 40 years since it came to a close, the horrors of the Vietnam War remain etched into our collective memory, a proxy for the Cold War at large. The Vietnam War was rooted in the region’s colonial history.
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Unshapely Things by Mark Del Franco5/28/2023 ![]() Overall, the fantasy elements are very attentively realized while the crime stuff sticks to formula. We don't exactly have the femme fatale, though we do have a couple of femmes you don't want to mess with. We have the grim loner detective hero with a checkered past, we have his sympathetic cop friend, we have the serial killings that seem inconsequential prostitute murders until the involvement of powerful politicos reveals there's more than meets the eye, and we have the requisite scenes in which our hero takes a beating. ![]() Bad thing #1: this means that, for much of the book, Del Franco doesn't do much with that template other than mine it for clichés. ![]() In his debut novel, Bostonian Mark Del Franco takes an entirely straight-faced approach to the hard-boiled detective/police procedural template, keeping the snark to a minimum even when presenting us with dead fey prostitutes. Good thing #1: it's not a Jim Butcher knockoff. Here's yet another urban-fantasy/crime-thriller hybrid. ![]() Calliope middlesex5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() To become a male, Callie peregrinates across the United States and becomes a midwife of her new life by teaching herself to forget what she has learned as a female. At 14 years old, Callie experiences a second birth to come to be Cal. Succeeding the Great Fire of Smyrna, Lefty and Desdemona must start life once more. Although at the end of the book, it seems that Cal has yet to become totally comfortable with who he is and his physical differences, the reader is left with the feeling that he is on the path to self-acceptance. Ultimately, we all have to learn to accept ourselves as we are. Despite being a hermaphrodite, all adolescents feel abnormal and monster-like at some point while growing up. Believe it or not, this story is very relatable. Cal's story is one of coming of age, of learning about himself, and going through the stages of life: childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. ![]() No exit book summary taylor adams5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Trapped in an increasingly dangerous situation, with a child’s life and her own on the line, Darby must find a way to break the girl out of the van and escape. One of her fellow travelers is a kidnapper. There is no cell phone reception, no telephone, and no way out. Who is the child? Why has she been taken? And how can Darby save her? In the back of the van parked next to her car, a little girl is locked in an animal crate. ![]() Inside are some vending machines, a coffee maker, and four complete strangers.ĭesperate to find a signal to call home, Darby goes back out into the storm. With the roads impassable, she’s forced to wait out the storm at a remote highway rest stop. On her way to Utah to see her dying mother, college student Darby Thorne gets caught in a fierce blizzard in the mountains of Colorado. Soon to be a Hulu original film: a fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat thriller about a determined young woman who struggles to save a kidnapped child while trapped in a blizzard-and who must unmask and outwit a deviously twisted psychopath before it’s too late.Ī kidnapped little girl locked in a stranger’s van. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Have a look at the full range of genuine products and brands in our Reference and Etiquette Guides & Advice categories that you can safely buy online in Kuwait at discounted prices. Rude bitches make me tired Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. 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It needs some kind of analogon – an equivalent of perception – to work. Sartre also notes that imagination is a fundamental human freedom. Imagination is essential to our humanity, and it breaks us free of our past, allowing us to do new things. Imagination can be anything – a synthesis of past experience, past perceptions, our disciplines and so forth. When we are conscious, we are conscious of something, and our consciousness can distinguish between what is imagined and what is perceived. Perception is about what is in front of us, reflecting a particular subject (and thus its ‘existential’ truths). Sartre makes clear the distinction between perception and imagination. In fact his work contains a surprising paucity of reference to other research.īarthes notes that an image could be considered from three angles – the subject of the photograph, the viewer of the photograph, and the photographer him or her self. But he only views it from the perspective of the first two of these three.Ī clue to his approach is on the first page – In Homage to L’Imaginaire by Jean-Paul Sartre (1940). It has become a classic text on the subject – yet Barthes was not a photographer, and had little time for colour images or ‘clever theories’ from the photographer’s perspective (such as Cartier-Bresson’s ‘Decisive Moment’). Camera Lucida, by Roland Barthes, is an odd book. ![]() Kindred octavia butler5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There, they experience first-hand views of the horrors associated with slavery, while perplexing the plantation owner (“True Blood’s” Ryan Kwanten) and others with their dress and interactions, which seem inordinately familiar for what’s supposed to be a White Southerner and his property. After meeting a guy at a local restaurant, Kevin (Micah Stock), she discovers it’s not inside her head, but rather an inexplicable ability to zap back to a nineteenth-century plantation before the Civil War, inadvertently bringing Kevin back with her. The series does begin promisingly enough, as Dana (Mallori Johnson) moves into a new house in Los Angeles and begins to experience a series of eerie visions. In that regard, it joins “The Time Traveler’s Wife” and “Paper Girls” as recent examples of just how difficult this genre can be, offering scant compensation for the time spent watching them. Butler’s time-traveling novel into an eight-part Hulu series that spends far too much time spinning its wheels. After starting out well, “Kindred” gets lost in a maze of its own making, adapting Octavia E. ![]() Potent pleasures by eloisa james5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() La protagonista se la pasaba pensando en su gordura. ![]() O sea, ya ni lujuria era!!!! No había nada de nada entre ellos. Y que lo droga y lo manda al barco con la ex. «me casé contigo porque te amo y no pensarás que fui violada, pero como te amo debo dejarte ir con tu francesa, tu verdadero amor» El caso es que NO me gustó.Įn primer lugar, El protagonista se la pasó enamorado de otra casi el 60% del libro.Įl amor entre los dos ni siquiera fue creíble, apareció de golpe como solo por aparecer. Creo que o una de dos, ya cambié muchísimo de gustos o estoy tan en modo hater que no me tolero ni yo. Las 4 estrellas de antes me parecen demasiado. ![]() Me había encantado la relación entre los protagonistas e incluso llegué a pensar que fue muy parecido al libro nueve reglas que romper para conquistar un granuja y también un poco al de el falso prometido. Y ya se habrán dado cuenta la calificación que le di esta vez. La verdad estoy demasiado decepcionada como para hacer una reseña larga, solo debo decir que este libro la primera vez que lo leí fue un libro 4 estrellas. Esta es la primera vez que releo un libro concientemente. ![]() Nick michael farris smith review5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() I was disappointed, but more than that, I was angry. It sounded like Rebecca, but…only in the way S Club 7’s “Natural” sounds like Fauré. Danvers, who hadn’t perished in the fire at the end of Rebecca. Yes, there were Maxim and the nameless narrator. But when I started it, something wasn’t right. de Winter worked its way to me.Īt length it arrived, on a Friday, and I looked forward to a weekend of blissful transport. I hastily added my name to the wait list and marked off the days impatiently as Mrs. And, it turned out, I could! As the librarian told me, there was a sequel. ![]() For those few days I wasn’t curled at the foot of an unmade bed, I was walking the grounds of Manderley. I spent the next two days in my room reading Daphne du Maurier’s masterpiece. On Christmas when I was 13, a family friend gave me a copy of Rebecca. ![]() Becoming abolitionists5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Becoming Abolitionists is essential reading for our times. With deep insight and moral clarity, Purnell invites us not only to imagine a world without police, but to muster the courage to fight for the more just world we know is possible. It is hard work.Īn informed, provocative, astute consideration of salvific alternatives to contemporary policing and imprisonment.
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