![]() She will not be what people tell her she should be.” ![]() She’s not ignorant of the trope, and she can’t force herself to be ignorant to others expectations of her, which have only decreased in light of her “transformation.”Īs Frankie thinks to herself, “She will not be simple and sweet. It started out as a fun, if not overdone, story about a girl, suddenly made beautiful by powers unknown, and her quest to obtain the hottest-not to mention most popular-boy in school.īut what was supposed to happen after she got the boy? Frankie constantly raises this question as her relationship with Matthew grows deeper and deeper. Just as Frankie didn’t start out trying to dismantle the patriarchy, The Disreputable History didn’t start out as a story about feminism. But Frankie is excruciatingly aware of the double standard and actively tries to raise awareness of it-to the ire of her friends, boyfriend, and faculty at her elite boarding school. Not in that precise wording, perhaps, because that precise wording never once occurs to Frankie. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks is first and foremost a story about feminism. ![]()
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![]() (And so, for informal discussion, I sometimes use these words instead of more formal hedging expressions around those "misused" technical terms to indicate that I'm using the technical terms loosely.) Those examples happen to have the infinitival marker "to" incorporated into the word.) These kind of words usually have the exact same meaning as the more standard spelled expression (but not always).Īnyway, the reasons why I, personally, might use them are:Įxplicit hedging because I know that I'm over-generalizing or slightly misusing a technical term. (There are other non-standard spelt words which sometimes are used for similar intentions: gonna, gotta, hafta, oughta, supposta, usta, wanna. I'm AmE, and I do sometimes use those colloquial, non-standard spellings, such as "kinda", "sorta", and others - intentionally. ![]() ![]() I guess I kinda can add something of value here. ![]() ![]() What we need is air cover in this battle to design better forms. I have heard this war story many times from many interaction designers and information architects, with little variation except in the details. The sky has turned the color of black ink, and you can smell sulfur in the air as one team member after another debates the alignment of form labels.īefore you can toss up a quick Hail Mary, marketing says that the opt-in for marketing solicitations has to be defaulted to yes, and you can feel your soul sucked out of your body through your nose as a simple one hour meeting turns into a 3 hour discussion over the pro’s and cons of inline validation while your stomach grumbles because you just missed lunch. You’re presenting wireframes of the registration process for a new web application when the discussion veers down a dark alley. 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Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen-even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They are very personal poems, made universal by the persistently kind and gentle touch of the poet.īecause this is a collection of poetry, there is no particular plot structure to the work, except that it begins with the poet's newest poems from the year 2000, then swings back to 1988 with selected poems chosen from ensuing years. Her poetry collection, Blessing the Boats: New & Selected Poems 1988-2000 (BOA, 2000), won the National Book Award for Poetry. They allude to persons and places personal to both the poet as well as public. Lucille Clifton (1936 2010) was an award winning poet, fiction writer, and author of children’s books. Although they are free verse, they lean heavily on iambic scansion with occasional near-rhymes. These poems are gentle, pared-down, and well-crafted. ![]() In addition, she has had two books of poetry chosen as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has been a famous poet since the late 1980s, having received the Shelley Memorial Prize, the Charity Randall prize, the Shestack Prize from the American Poetry Review, and an Emmy Award. blessing the boats Lucille Clifton (at St. This is a collection of free verse poetry by a black woman poet noted for her spare, powerful imagery. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Shared with sincere care, these stories take you on a journey to remote villages, bustling city slums, and through the authors’ own revelations as they encounter these women in their contexts. Kristof and WuDunn follow these women and girls through years of trials, tears, successes, and failures. There are many hopeful, practical caveats about people making a difference in their communities and the world, such as the story of a young “social entrepreneur”3 who runs an innovative social justice movement in the United States. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s Half the Sky by Mikka McCrackena girl sold into sex slavery in Asia who goes on to start her own small, now flourishing business and a young woman in Africa who first lacked access to prenatal care and later opens a hospital in her community. The story lines capture three main abuses: “sex trafficking and forced prostitution gender-based violence, including honor killings and mass rape and maternal mortality.”2 We read, for example, of Nicholas D. ![]() Each chapter and section of the book is built around a single person’s story, mostly the accounts of women and girls from Asia and Africa. Through the deft journalistic documentation of real people’s stories, these well-traveled authors have composed a vivid and compelling book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.1 Kristof and WuDunn are the first married couple to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism. Kristof, a columnist for the New York Times, and Sheryl WuDunn, a former editor and bureau chief for the Times, know, they know stories. ![]() ![]() Even as he dabbled in parts of the mainstream DC Universe, including storylines involving the Golden Age superhero the Sandman and D-list character Element Girl, Gaiman grounded everything in real human emotions. The original 75-issue run, all written by Gaiman, brought horror and fantasy back into the mainstream. The Sandman helped revolutionize comics in the late 1980s and 1990s. ![]() ![]() Along the way, Dream will be aided by his sister Death (Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Killing Eve), the Lady Johanna Constantine (Jenna Coleman, Doctor Who), Matthew the Raven ( Patton Oswalt, The King of Queens), and Mervyn Pumpkinhead (voiced by the legendary Mark Hamill). The series picks up as a something of a hybrid between a mad scientist and a petty magician named Burgess (Charles Dance) captures Dream for decades, leaving his kingdom in ruins.Īs he tries to restore his powers and kingdom, Dream must contend with those who have enjoyed his absence, including the madman John Dee (David Thewlis, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) and the Corinthian (Boyd Holbrook, Logan), a nightmare who escaped into our world. The Netflix series stars Tom Sturridge as Dream aka Morpheus aka Sandman, ruler of the Dreaming and master of Dreams. After years of development, the long-awaited adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman finally comes to screens. ![]() ![]() ![]() “The scandal that Wolf discovered in a secret Vatican archive, in 1999, would have left a true-crime writer salivating. has an enviable handle on the palace intrigues motivating all the players.” - Salon juicy history with a raft of serious (yet accessible) research into the intricacies of Vatican bureaucracy, the underlying philosophical disputes among various key Roman Catholic figures, and the complex political landscape of mid-nineteenth century Italy.” - The Boston Globe The following year, German historian Hubert Wolf found something that, as they say on the Internet, will blow your mind.” -Lev Grossman, Time “In 1998, Pope John Paul II opened the secret archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith-better known to you as the Inquisition-to outside researchers. It’s also a very serious study of how the church deals with scandal.” - The Washington Post ![]() much more than a true-crime thriller about murderous lesbian nuns. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite his double-sainted name, 18-year-old Edwin St. The novel opens in 1912 when the son of an aristocratic British family is banished to Canada for some rash dinner-table remarks about colonial policy. In "Sea Of Tranquility," Mandel summons up not one, but three fully realized worlds in three distinct time periods. ![]() ![]() World builder is a phrase that's rightly used to describe Mandel's immersive powers as a novelist. ![]() I didn't just read "Station Eleven," "The Glass Hotel" or Mandel's latest, "Sea of Tranquility." I lived in those novels and felt the remnants of their weird, chill atmosphere long after I had to move on. MAUREEN CORRIGAN, BYLINE: Read is one of the best verbs in the English language, but it doesn't feel like the right verb to use in connection with Emily St. Here's Maureen's review of "Sea Of Tranquility." Our book critic Maureen Corrigan says success hasn't dulled Mandel's powers. And its successor by Mandel, "The Glass Hotel," and her latest, "Sea Of Tranquility," are also set to be adapted for TV. John Mandel was adapted into a TV series on HBO Max. The 2014 blockbuster novel "Station Eleven" by Emily St. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this violent process of collapse, some. ![]() ![]() A landmark in its time for classical and historiographical scholarship, its fame today, however, rests more on the scope and force of Gibbon’s argument and the brilliance of his style. Scanned by the Boston Library Consortium/Open Content Alliance as part of the BLC OCA Digitization Project from a copy at the Tisch Library, Tufts University. A young barbarian king named Odoacer forces the last Roman emperor in the West, Romulus Augustus, to abdicate the. Edward Gibbon’s account of Roman decline remains a remarkably fresh and vital contribution to the subject more than two centuries after its first publication. Medford, MA : Tisch Library, Tufts University, 2015. Beginning in the second century at the apex of the Pax Romana, Gibbon traces the arc of decline and complete destruction through the centuries across Europe and. 2 published in 1844.Įlectronic reproduction. The preface, notes and corrections, translated from the French expressly for this edition with a notice of the life and character of Gibbon, and Watson's reply to Gibbon.ġ online resource (2. A new edition, revised and corrected throughout /preceded by a preface, and accompanied by notes, critical and historical, relating principally to the propagation of Christianity: by M. ![]() |