And through her informed analysis of gender inequality, Elva reveals the social mechanisms that create male sexual entitlement.' - Lou Heinrich * Weekend Australian * `What saves South of Forgiveness from being a book-length rehashing of old hurts interspersed with worthy sentiments about forgiveness, is the blossoming of Elva and Stranger's personal quest into something larger. The monstrous shadow is given meek human form, allowing men's actions, not women's, to be interrogated. By owning the label ``rapist'' and exploring his motivations, Stranger allows the mythical perpetrator to be demystified. Crucially, Elva has the humility to claim she has the same capacity for darkness as Stranger, yet the privilege and power he is afforded as a man means he is more inclined to commit violence. Hats off to Elva and Stranger for a brave journey that might well change lives.' - Christina Patterson * The Sunday Times * `South of Forgiveness reads like group therapy: deep pain is unearthed and examined like a jewel beneath a light. The resulting book, South of Forgiveness, is one the reader will barely be able to wrench themselves from.' * Sunday Business Post Dublin * `Both Elva and Stranger have been brave enough to publicly expose their separate vulnerabilities, in order to contribute to an important debate about sexual violence.' * The Irish Times * `Extraordinarily moving. as compelling and uncomfortable as it is complex. `Very brave.' * Catholic Herald * `Elva and Stranger's story.
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First published in the pages of a pulp-fiction magazine, Tarzan of the Apes has gone on to become one of America's most enduring cultural icons. This edition also features an up-to-date bibliography, chronology, and helpful notes as well as appendices that include selections of letters from readers to the editor of The All-Story magazine where the novel first appeared, histories of feral children, African explorers, and American advocates of self-reliance. Jason Haslam' s engaging introduction situates the novel not only in the pulp fiction industry, but also against the backdrop of adventure stories, European exploration in Africa, and the debates over nature versus civilization. When he encounters a group of white Europeans, and rescues Jane Porter from a marauding ape, he finds love, and must choose between the values of civilization and the jungle. The infant Tarzan, lost on the coast of West Africa, is adopted by an ape-mother and grows up to become a model of physical strength and natural prowess, and eventually leader of his tribe. A central figure in American popular culture, Tarzan first came swinging through the jungle in the pages of a pulp-fiction magazine in 1912, and subsequently appeared in the novel that went on to spawn numerous film, full-length cartoon, and theatrical adaptations. David Halberstam, who won a Pulitzer for his reporting on Vietnam, wrote a piece in Harper’s that said of Bouton: “He has written . . . Fans liked discovering that athletes were real people-often wildly funny people. It was even banned by a few libraries.Īlmost everyone else, however, loved Ball Four. Ballplayers, most of whom hadn’t read it, denounced the book. Bouton was called a Judas, a Benedict Arnold, and a “social leper” for having violated the “sanctity of the clubhouse.” Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force Bouton to sign a statement saying the book wasn’t true. When Ball Four was published in 1970, it created a firestorm. The 50th Anniversary edition of “the book that changed baseball” (NPR), chosen by Time magazine as one of the “100 Greatest Non-Fiction” books. At least the millions of those who have bought her book would be.īyrne repeats herself, and writes badly. If this nonsense worked, there would be no sick people and we would all be rolling in money. Poor people need jobs not gibberish about the law of attraction. Dying people need support and love, not ridiculous expectations of miracle cures. I’m tired of these SHAM (Self Help Alternative Medicine) gurus. It follows therefore, that you deserve to be poor, or unemployed or sick. Nothing will happen unless you do something along with the thinking.īooks like these repeat that we get what we deserve. Visualisation is lovely, but these authors confuse positive thinking with positive action. The Desperati spend billions every year on The Secret and its clones. The world is lost in a sea of love and light. Interviewing her would be like watching Barbie think. Byrne proves there are suckers born every minute – and they buy lots of her books. So, when her mother informs her that she has been betrothed to an officer in the Imperial army on the Floating Islands, Evelyn is shocked, but she is not surprised.įlorian has been working on The Dove, a pirate ship that masquerades as a passenger ship, which takes on passengers, and when they are far enough away from civilization not to be caught, informs them they are to be sold into slavery. Even though she is from a noble family in the Nipran Empire, she has no interest in politics or the social gatherings her family hosts, and she would rather read her novels about romance and adventure. She would rather walk the seashore in search of shells, a practice her mother finds dirty and pointless, than study etiquette or history. The Sea, which the Nipran Empire uses and is attempting to subjugate to its will, will bring these different individuals together for an adventure that will change them and their world, in The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall.Įvelyn Hasegawa has been a constant disappointment to her parents. A witch lives in seclusion because the Nipran Empire has declared her kind a threat that must be eliminated. A mermaid is captured and threatened with death because her blood, when drunk, allows humans the solace of forgetting things they don’t want to remember. A young pirate struggles to survive and protect his brother from the dangers inherent in the life they have been forced to live. A young noblewoman is betrothed by her parents into an unwanted, arranged marriage. As the trio journeys over breathtaking green hills, past countless castles, and through a number of fairy-tale forests, Addie hopes her guidebook will heal not only her broken heart, but also her shattered relationship with her brother. Suddenly Addie finds herself on a whirlwind tour of the Emerald Isle, trapped in the world’s smallest vehicle with Ian and his admittedly cute, Irish-accented friend Rowan. So when Addie discovers an unusual guidebook, Ireland for the Heartbroken, hidden in the dusty shelves of the hotel library, she’s able to finally escape her anxious mind and Ian’s criticism.Īnd then their travel plans change. Miserable, Addie can’t wait to visit her friend in Italy and leave her brother-and her problems-behind. But her brother, Ian, isn’t about to let her forget, and his constant needling leads to arguments and even a fistfight between the two once inseparable siblings. From the author of the New York Times bestselling Love & Gelato comes a heartwarming tale of a road trip through Ireland filled with love, adventure, and the true meaning behind the word family.Īddie is visiting Ireland for her aunt’s over-the-top destination wedding and hoping she can stop thinking about the one thing she did that left her miserable and heartbroken-and threatens her future. Putnam Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Like most people, I knew Raboteau as a consummate scholar and critical thinker, the Henry W. Read our latest issue or browse back issues. But undergraduates come and go swiftly, most of them an indistinguishable mass of names and faces.Īt the coffee shop, the first thing he said to me was, “Call me Al.” But that was one thing I could never do-not even when I received news of his death last month, and not even as I remember with these few words the impact he had on generations of students. You get to know your doctoral students, those you are guiding into the profession, those you plan to welcome as colleagues after a long apprenticeship. Raboteau agreed to meet, although I was sure he did not remember me, given the number of undergraduate students most college professors teach over a lifetime. Could we please meet for coffee? With his trademark kindness, Dr. As I explained in the email I sent a week earlier, I had recently moved back to Princeton to take a faculty position, and I was a former undergraduate student of his. Albert Raboteau’s meeting with me in 2007 was out of professional obligation. 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At first, she has no idea what’s happening to her, but over time, and as her parents work with her to shift her mindset and bring her to a therapist, Raina learns how to cope with her anxiety. In this story, protagonist Raina, begins to experience anxiety that manifests physically and mentally (as anxiety usually does). But Guts, by the incredible author of Smile and Sisters (also graphic novels I recommend!) does a beautiful job exploring it, even drawing on personal experiences to tell the story. The unfortunate thing is, it’s not talked about much in YA or middle grade books. I’m willing to bet that most you nodded your head yes to that question. Anyone have students with anxiety? □□♀️ But it also provided me with unexpected comfort. The book scared me, is what I’m trying to say. Even by junior high, I’d seen enough “very special episodes” to be cynical and dismissive of these types of stories, but something about Go Ask Alice’s adjacency to my sister, whose problems (while still vague and mysterious to young me) were all too real, gave it the hue and heft of legitimacy. I somehow ascertained the premise of the book: the diary of a young girl grappling with drugs. What Do Marvel and Faulkner Have In Common?ĭuring this time, I noticed a book in my sister’s stuff-a black cover with only a glimpse of a girl’s face, as if she were photographed in a dimly lit dungeon, and the words Go Ask Alice text-wrapping around her eye. |