6/30/2023 0 Comments Protecting Her by Holly Jaymes![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a delightful, engaging gem of a read. The attraction is still there, which poses the question - is this adventure doomed to end in disaster too? Morrissey’s dual POV romance is full of sarcastic banter and lovable characters, but she also explores the delicate complexity of identity, loss, and reconciliation. If anything, it’ll be great podcast material, right? But as they continue to spend time together in close quarters, old feelings begin to resurface. She’s dying to know what Ben is like now - and to uncover what really happened in the aftermath of their friendship imploding. But out of nowhere, Ben shows up at Dee’s doorstep, asking to fulfill the promise they made each other, which involves making the same road trip they took together when they were teens. Now, 28-year-old Dee currently co-hosts a podcast while Ben is a middle school science teacher. What it's about: Two high school best friends, Dee Matthews and Ben Porter, haven’t spoken to each other in years. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Emergent strategy adrienne brown![]() ![]() ![]() She is the writer-in-residence at Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute. brown grows transformative ideas in public through her writing and art she is a poet changing the world. ![]() She has been a part of many of the most significant social movements in recent years, including Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street. Adrienne maree brown is an author, activist, social justice facilitator, healer, and doula living in Detroit. With narrative "fables" of speculative fiction and "spells" that play with the lines between poetry, instruction, song, and chant, Fables and Spells demonstrates how good writing can engage the present while providing expansive visions of the possible worlds humans can build.Īdrienne maree brown's previous work includes Octavia's Brood, Emergent Strategy, the New York Times best-selling Pleasure Activism, We Will Not Cancel Us, Holding Change, and Grievers. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Worlds, Shaping Change by adrienne maree brown. The remaining sixty-seven pieces explore moments of beauty, conflict, and transformation that also weave deep, radical lessons. ![]() Included here is brown's most beloved story, "The River," as well as the two sequel tales of her Water Trio. This should be required reading for anyone looking for Black feminist speculative literature."įables and Spells is a vibrant selection of visionary works, both previously published and brand new. ★ "The 70 short stories and poems that make up Brown's phenomenal debut collection (after the novella Grievers) explore social justice through an Afrofuturist lens.It's a masterful mix of genre and form that showcases Brown's range and skill. ![]() ![]() ![]() Looking up into her face with one of his characteristic grins, which made him look like a full-grown chimpanzee, he said: "Guanya Pau, I understand it all, you are yet young and inexperienced your fair complexion has not yet been burnt by the sun's heat, nor your hands hardened by work. in excess of the average African, with a face perpetually bearing the expression "I - don't-care - which-way-thewind-blows, I am Kai Kundu, the short, the ugly, the clumsy, Kai Kundu." He made an attempt to seat himself on the mat beside Guanya Pau, who immediately rose, went into the adjoining room, brought a bamboo chair, which she set at a more than respectable distance from the mat, thus avoiding all possible means of proximity between herself and his lordship. His name was Kai Kundu, because of his short, stumpy form he was homely beyond description, with nose and lips twenty-five per cent. On the following day, Guanya Pau being now near her sixteenth birthday, within a few weeks of the time when her master would come to take her to his home, he came to the GregreeBush to visit her. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. ![]() This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. ![]() |