![]() ![]() But Georgia's determined to get her life right, with the help of (and despite the major drama of) her friends. Disrupting the narrative that she's been told since birth isn't easy - there are many mistakes along the way to inviting people into a newly found articulation of an always-known part of your identity. It's not until she gets to college that she discovers the A range of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum - coming to understand herself as asexual/aromantic. She's surrounded by the narrative that dating + sex = love. ![]() This is the funny, honest, messy, completely relatable story of Georgia, who doesn't understand why she can't crush and kiss and make out like her friends do. since there are plenty of other ways to find love and connection. Alice Oseman offers one of her best works to date, unafraid to show the intricacies of human connection and the importance of valuing those around us to create a community of support and love in a world that always seems to go against us. For fans of Love, Simon and I Wish You All the Best, a funny, honest, messy, completely relatable story of a girl who realizes that love can be found in many ways that don't involve sex or romance.įrom the marvelous author of Heartstopper comes an exceptional YA novel about discovering that it's okay if you don't have sexual or romantic feelings for anyone. Loveless is a beautiful tale of self-discovery and self-acceptance, as well as a celebration of friendships. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() It is a family whose path first crossed his in Ireland and whose persistence puts at risk all his hopes for fulfilling his destiny. Through it all, Cormac must fight, generation after generation, a force of evil that returns relentlessly in the scions of a single family. In return for aiding an African shaman who was brought to America in chains, Cormac is given an otherworldly gift: he will live forever - as long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan.Ī writer, a painter, and a man of sensual appetites, Cormac takes part in the dramas of his times through fat years and lean. His quest brings him to the settlement of New York, seething with tensions between English and Irish, whites and blacks, British and Americans, where he is swept up in a tide of conspiracy and violence. ![]() * A magical, epic tale tracing New York's dramatic history through the eyes of an extraordinary man blessed - and cursed - with immortalityįrom the shores of Ireland, Cormac O'Connor sets out on a fateful journey to avenge the deaths of his parents and honour the code of his ancestors. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Song of Solomon focuses on the individual's need to achieve self-knowledge, identity, and visibility as a complex, real human being. ![]() It moves from the present to the past, from the North to the South, from innocence to experience, from ignorance to wisdom. The novel begins and ends with scenes of flight. While the story of Song of Solomon involves numerous fictional and historical events, the plot focuses on Milkman's quest for his inheritance, which he believes to be Pilate's elusive bag of gold. For example, in Chapter 1, to establish the fact that Southside residents tend to rely on local gossip for their news rather than on newspapers, which often ignore events affecting the black community, the narrator tells us that "word-of-mouth news just lumbered along." To illustrate the crushing poverty of Southside residents, we see women "getting ready to go see what tails or entrails the butcher might be giving away." And in Chapter 11, to establish the feeling of a small, rural community, the narrator introduces us to the women of Shalimar, Virginia, who "walked as if they were going somewhere, but they carried nothing in their hands." ![]() Morrison is renowned for her powerful metaphors and her use of detail to establish a tone or mood. Song of Solomon takes an unconventional approach to conventional elements such as plot and setting. ![]() ![]() ![]() The other Fink deck truss remaining is the Puenta Bolivar in Arequipa, Peru, built in 1882 by Gustav Eifel. This included the following Fink deck truss bridges: the Appomatox High Bridge in Virginia– built in 1869 and featured 21 Fink deck truss spans, the Verrugas Viaduct in Peru– named after the virus that inflicted the workers who constructed the highest bridge in Peru with three Fink deck truss spans in 1869, the Lynchburg Bridge in Virginia– built in 1870 and is the last of its kind in the US and one of two known bridges left in the world. ![]() Many trusses built with this design were in the name of the German bridge engineer, who was born in Lauterbach in Hesse and emigrated to New York after completing his engineering degree in Darmstadt. ![]() Invented and patented in 1854 by Albert Fink, the truss design features a combination of Warren and Bollmann trusses, and with the diagonal beams criss-crossing the panels, especially the deck trusses resembled a triangle with many subdivided beams. The Fink Truss: one of the most unusual of truss bridge types ever designed and built. Houston Street Bridge in San Antonio Photo courtesy of Texas Transportation Museum ![]() Bridges of Amsterdam | Bruggen van Amsterdam.The Bridges of Glauchau (Saxony), Germany.Iron Bridge at Aue Closed for Rehabilitation.More Photos The Bridgehunter´s Chronicles on YouTube ![]() ![]() Persephone is one of the daughters of the current Demeter, and she longs for the day that she will come into her inheritance and be able to leave Olympus for the wider world. Demeter, for example, is an elected title whose role involves overseeing the agricultural resources of the city. The Thirteen are titles representing major Greek gods and goddesses (Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, etc.) and can be either inherited or elected titles. In the modern city of Olympus, the Upper City and Lower City are separated by the river Styx, and ruled by the Thirteen. ![]() While it took me a little while to orient myself in the author’s world, overall this book proved to be a promising start to this new series by Katee Robert. ![]() I’ve always been a fan of fantasy romances, and so Neon Gods easily caught my eye as a mix of fantasy, Greek mythology, and erotica. ![]() ![]() The protagonist startled opens the door letting in the old proprietor, Vizniak. The puppet moves off in that direction just as the proprietor who has been sleeping above raps his knuckles on the front door of the shop. ![]() Just as protagonist is about to lose his mind and do something rash, the puppet turns its head toward the back of the store where a curtain covers a small store room. The puppet floats before him with its dead eyes hollowed out of some hellish mind, bound to strings that vanish in a blur above it in the ceiling where some invisible puppeteer of the abyss hides, withdrawn in his dark object-hood, while the clown puppet like some sensuous artifact of wood and string dances on the hollow thoughts of a mad god. This intrusion surprises him because he had never thought that anyone else would become a part of the visitation. ![]() The protagonist is working in a medicine shop one night when the clown suddenly appears handing him a small book, a passport - the passport of his boss, Ivan Vizniak. None of these strange encounters is every very revealing, instead they seem to be both banal and utterly absurd in their marked propensity to undermine any meaning whatsoever. ![]() In such a world as this, we can wonder what horrors are in store, but we might not need to look too far for my favorite human-loathing author Ligotti shows us a universe that is dysphoric and nihilistic, one that is fascinatingly revealed in the story of The Clown Puppet, where the protagonist receives certain visitations from a puppet clown at different junctures in his life. ![]() ![]() ![]() More recently, Alex completed one of the most epic road trips ever to be documented by summiting what those in the overlanding community call, the Mount Everest of motoring. Enamored by world history, Alex has traveled to the far corners of the globe in search of interesting stories to tell, but more importantly, to shed light on a locale’s culture and current events. Standing next to him however, you would never guess that the guy is an established documentary filmmaker, premiering successful works such as In Forgotten Allies which explores the bygone history of WWII in south-east Asia, as well as a documentary entitled We Were Kings, which tells the true story of Burma’s lost royal family, and won Alex the inaugural award for the first-ever Whicker’s World Foundation Funding Award. ![]() In a crowded bar, he blends right in, participating in each new interaction with the same warm enthusiasm. And if one thing can describe just how much of a jovial person Alex is, then let this tiny anecdote he shared about how he got his watch stolen in Argentina while filming a documentary paint a picture for you – “It was the nicest robbery I’ve ever been a part of.” Alex Bescoby, Author and Filmmaker of The Last Overland A conversation with Alex seems less akin to getting to know a stranger, and more like catching up with a long-time friend. ![]() ![]() After spending some time with Alex Bescoby, it doesn’t take long to be completely disarmed by his charm and charisma. ![]() ![]() ![]() The growing resentments reach a tipping point when Caleb and August are discovered, resulting in a tragic murder and cascading acts of violence that could destroy the town. The couple struggle with distance in their marriage and with their son Caleb, a disgraced soldier returned from war and tormented by his longing for his friend August. ![]() ![]() Neighbors resent George and his wife, Isabelle's, fair treatment of the men, but they both appreciate the men's presence. Prentiss is wary and protective of his brother, and the two plan to leave the South when they have the means. He finds respite in the beauty of nature and water. Landry is a gentle giant, injured and silent after years of torment at the hands of his enslavers. When George Walker, a former northerner in Georgia, meets Prentiss and Landry in his woods, he offers them lodging and jobs helping him cultivate new peanut fields. Following the end of the Civil War, newly freed Black people are left to fend for themselves among resentful white people who do not want to hire them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Such will indeed be one of the conclusions of the present essay. Hence should result this consequence that our intellect, in the narrow sense of the word, is intended to secure the perfect fitting of our body to its environment, to represent the relations of external things among themselves-in short, to think matter. It shows us in the faculty of understanding an appendage of the faculty of acting, a more and more precise, more and more complex and supple adaptation of the consciousness of living beings to the conditions of existence that are made for them. The history of the evolution of life, incomplete as it yet is, already reveals to us how the intellect has been formed, by an uninterrupted progress, along a line which ascends through the vertebrate series up to man. ![]() Cover.jpg angel1.jpg Henri Bergson Creative Evolution Angel2.jpg top10-world.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() George Atherton, who was courting her mother, became more interested in her daughter, Gertrude and they eloped in 1876 to live on his estate with his domineering Chilean mother, in what became Atherton, California. Gertrude Franklin Horn was raised by her maternal grandfather, who insisted she be well read, after her parents separated when she was two. Her novels and stories often feature strong female characters forging independent lives.Ītherton's gothic horror story, The Striding Place is a standout to be enjoyed by all short story readers. ![]() That novel's story line follows an aging middle-aged woman turned young again by a miraculous glandular therapy. She is best known for a series of novels based in California including her 1923 work Black Oxen, which was made into a silent film. Pen Name: Gertrude Atherton, Frank Lin Born: OctoDied: June 14, 1948Ī prolific American novelist, short story author and early feminist, Gertrude Atherton (1857 - 1948) cut a strong and often controversial figure as she made her way in California and in the literary world. ![]() |