“A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women” (which provided the title of this book) examines particular artworks but also human perception itself, including the biases that influence how we judge art, literature, and the world. Armed with passionate curiosity, a sense of humor, and insights from many disciplines she repeatedly upends received ideas and cultural truisms. In a trilogy of works brought together in a single volume, Siri Hustvedt demonstrates the striking range and depth of her knowledge in both the humanities and the sciences. A compelling, radical, “richly explored” ( The New York Times Book Review), and “insightful” ( Vanity Fair) collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy from prize-winning novelist Siri Hustvedt, the acclaimed author of The Blazing World and What I Loved.
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7/6/2023 0 Comments Black sea by neal aschersonHe is the author ofPolish AugustandThe Struggle for Poland, among other books. Neal Ascherson, a leading British scholar-journalist, writes forThe Independentin London andThe New York Review of Books. As he shows with skill and persuasiveness,Black Seapatterns in the Caucasus, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Turkey, and Greece have linked the peoples of Europe and Asia together for centuries. What makes the Back Sea cultures distinctive, Ascherson agrues, is the way their comonent parts came together over the millennia to shape unique communities, languages, religions, and trade. Winner of theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize for History In this study of the fateful encounters between Europe and Asia on the shores of a legendary sea, Neal Ascherson explores the disputed meaning of community, nationhood, history, and culture in a region famous for its dramatic conflicts. You know what I’ve been noticing with this author’s writing? She loves switching between POVs. I really don’t want to imagine how it was like for the bookworms who had to wait for this last book to come out.Īs of writing this post, I finished this book about ten minutes ago and I’m very, very happy with it. However, in the end, things picked up and, the story didn’t let up from then on.Ī Conjuring of Light builds on that same energy because it picks up right where the other ended. I recognize that a lot of that slow work at first was necessary, but it was still painful. It became hard for me to make progress since I felt that nothing was really happening. If you read my review of the previous book, you’ll know that it fell a little short for me pacing-wise. Meanwhile, the disgraced Captain Alucard Emery of the Night Spire collects his crew, attempting a race against time to acquire the impossible. But now she must learn to control the magic, before it bleeds her dry.Īn ancient enemy returns to claim a city while a fallen hero tries to save a kingdom in decay. Lila Bard, once a commonplace-but never common-thief, has survived and flourished through a series of magical trials. In the wake of tragedy, Kell-once assumed to be the last surviving Antari-begins to waver under the pressure of competing loyalties. Genres: Fantasy, Historical, Action & AdventureĪs darkness sweeps the Maresh Empire, the once precarious balance of power among the four Londons has reached its breaking point. She was bedridden for nearly a year having slipped a disc that caused her so much pain, she could hardly move. Mathewson always had a love for reading but this was rekindled in 2008, during a particularly hard time in her life. The single mother of two admits to a major hot chocolate and romance novel addiction, and a perfect day is when she can combine the two. She has also written three collections of short stories. She now has more than thirty titles in the “Hollywood Hearts,” “Pyte/Sentinel,” “Neighbor from Hell,” “EMS,” “Cursed Hearts,” “Honeymoon from Hell,” “Anger Management” and “Neighbor from Hell YA” series. She published her debut novel “Tall, Dark and Lonely” of the “Pyte/Sentinel” series in 2010 and has never looked back since. Her novels are characterized by a distinctive sense of humor and down to earth characters that get into steamy relationships with demons, vampires, and werewolves. Some of the experiences and fond memories from her plethora of jobs can be seen in some of her novels. She would then get a job as a museum worker, fast food cook, and bellhop and then EMT which got rid of all of her shyness. Mathewson grew up a painfully shy nerd but things changed once she graduated from high school and went to college. Mathewson is a contemporary romance and paranormal romance author from New England best known for the “Pyte/Sentinel” and the “Neighbor from Hell” series of novels. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Jen sinceroWith over two million copies sold and available in twenty-plus languages, You Are a Badass continues to grow in popularity around the world. Jen Sincero is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life. As a success coach and “motivational cattle prod,” Jen helps people across the world transform their personal and professional lives through her books, seminars, speaking engagements, products, and newsletters.Īs a highly sought-after speaker, Jen shares her signature brand of motivational comedy with everyone from women entrepreneurs and multinational corporations to non-profits and educational institutions. She has run her business from all corners of the globe and continues writing, speaking, coaching and encouraging people to live lives of unbridled awesomeness. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Love on brain bookBut, here is the KICKER, we CAN expect to feel the same things. Not all books can be the same, and not all books have to contain that same aesthetic. I was trash for Hazelwood’s first novel, and I even went in not expecting much because I HATE when people compare to an author’s first work-it’s not wholly fair. And, up until a certain point, I was in love-AGAIN. The way that this one hurts me to write….look. The real villain is love: an unstable isotope, constantly undergoing spontaneous nuclear decay. The possibilities have all her neurons firing.īut when it comes time to actually make a move and put her heart on the line, there's only one question that matters: What will Bee Königswasser do? But Levi made his feelings toward Bee very clear in grad school - archenemies work best employed in their own galaxies far, far away.īut when her equipment starts to go missing and the staff ignore her, Bee could swear she sees Levi softening into an ally, backing her plays, seconding her ideas. Sure, Levi is attractive in a tall, dark, and piercing-eyes kind of way. But the mother of modern physics never had to co-lead with Levi Ward. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in which a scientist is forced to work on a project with her nemesis-with explosive results.īee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project - a literal dream come true - Marie would accept without hesitation. 7/5/2023 0 Comments Nickel & dimedEhrenreich calls the state of the poor in America “a state of emergency” and concludes her book with a plea for help. What is more, low-wage work itself is often grueling, withering, leading the way to ailments and pains, and permeated with a callow sense of dehumanization: Wal-Mart treats its employees like babies, while The Maids instructs ill workers to “work through it”. Poverty is not just a side-effect of unemployment rather, those fully employed can slip into the deepest poverty, with wages too low to cover rising rents. America, with its paucity of social programs, seems particularly unconcerned with its least privileged citizens-the low-wage workers whose ranks Ehrenreich temporarily joins. Ehrenreich writes of poverty, especially toward the close of her book, with the verve and vibrancy of a Dickens or Sinclair, excoriating society’s indifference to this endemic problem. Ehrenreich had written extensively about poverty in America prior to embarking on Nickel and Dimed, so the revelations of her endeavor do not come so much as a surprise to her as a confirmation of her suspicions-namely, that poverty has not been helped by the late-nineties boom, and that if anything it may have been worsened by it. Cam and Avery are amazing if you love this genre. Lynn…BEST I after Beautiful Disaster! Closest I have found. Jill: Just finished this book and I, too, found it fabulous! I read a lot of bad bay/alpha male books because they’re my favorite, but this was a wonderful change of pace. Both with similar subjects, a college vibe, great book boyfriends and a great weekend read! Lynn and it was so awesome! very similar to ‘My favourite Mistake’ by Chelsea Cameron. Renate: …just finished ‘Wait for You’ by J. (You can read my review right here).Īnd now that it’s been “picked up” by a publisher, a second book has just been released and a third is already on it’s way!!! A chance at a new start (in a new school… in a new city)! But… not if her enemies have anything to say about it. This one took us by storm back in the day when it was still “indie” (and continues to do so, now)! Great “new adult” novel with plenty of angst and romance, potential heartache and “secret pasts” that comes back to haunt her as she tries to navigate her new world at college. MARYSE’S SURPRISE FROM HER FAVORITE BOOK BOYFRIEND’S.ALL MY REVIEWS (ALPHABETICAL BY AUTHOR). 7/5/2023 0 Comments Bad Judgment by Sidney BellEven more unnerving: the closer he gets to Embry, the more Brogan starts to suspect he might be protecting the wrong man.Įmbry was sure nothing but vengeance would satisfy him-until Brogan offers him something far more tempting. But when he sets his eyes on his client's sexy assistant, he can't get him out of his mind. Even if that means working for-and bedding-a man he loathes.Īs a bodyguard to a shadowy arms dealer, Brogan Smith knows distractions can kill as easily as a bullet. Now he's living under the radar, desperate to hide his identity and determined to learn the truth behind what happened. Sidney Bell's debut male/male romantic suspense Bad Judgment delivers an emotionally charged and adrenaline-packed story perfect for fans of Josh Lanyon's Fair GameĮmbry Ford was a quiet, ordinary guy-until tragedy ripped his life apart. It is, however, a work of period significance, so may be of interest in itself. Although the cover states that this is the spellbook of Marie Laveau, the connection is apparently only circumstantial and speculative, according to the translator’s introduction. The Spellbook of Marie Laveau: The Petit Albert is a pseudonymous work of Albertus Parvus Lucius translated by Talia Felix, available from Hadean Press, presumably from some version of the 18th Century French « Secrets merveilleux de la magie naturelle et cabalistique du Petit Albert», itself an apparent translation of a 13th Century Latin original. |