![]() ![]() ![]() After moving to Tokyo to study drama, she started the Motoya Yukiko Theater Company, whose plays she wrote and directed. Yukiko Motoya was born in Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan in 1979. In these eleven stories, the individuals who lift the curtains of their orderly homes and workplaces are confronted with the bizarre, the grotesque, the fantastic, the alien-and find a doorway to liberation. A newlywed notices that her spouse’s features are beginning to slide around his face to match her own. A saleswoman in a clothing boutique waits endlessly on a customer who won’t come out of the fitting room, and who may or may not be human. ![]() ![]() A boy waits at a bus stop, mocking commuters struggling to keep their umbrellas open in a typhoon, until an old man shows him that they hold the secret to flying. In the English-language debut of one of Japan’s most fearlessly inventive young writers a housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique, which her workaholic husband fails to notice. Winner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, these eleven surreal tales, set in the offices, zoos, bus stops, boutiques, and homes of contemporary Japan "are reminiscent, at least to this reader, of Joy Williams and Rivka Galchen and George Saunders" (Weike Wang, The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice). ![]()
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![]() The young woman lives alone, never receives visitors, and wanders around outside at night, which seems innocent enough, but this attracts Fountain’s interest. Fountain is renting a house in the French Riviera while she writes her latest manuscript when a young woman moves in next door. The story opens simply enough with Molly Fountain, a mystery novelist who had served as a secretary in British intelligence circles during the war, wondering who her mysterious new neighbor is. ![]() Though it doesn’t involve any of the protagonists of his earlier Black Magic novel (THE DEVIL RIDES OUT), TO THE DEVIL, A DAUGHTER is explicitly set in the same setting, with some of the events of RIDES OUT briefly alluded to in DAUGHTER. TO THE DEVIL, A DAUGHTER is one of Wheatley’s “Black Magic” novels (one of eleven out of his 60+ novels) recently reprinted by Bloomsbury. Long before William Peter Blatty’s THE EXORCIST ushered in a new-found fascination with the Devil, Satanism, and all things occult in the 1970s, Dennis Wheatley was penning occult thrillers that attracted readers by titillating them with tales of Satanic cults committing unspeakable acts in service of the Devil. ![]() ![]() Tragedy has claimed the lives of four of her twelve sisters, and it soon becomes clear that their deaths were not an accident. ![]() This is the story of Annaleigh Thaumas, who lives with her father, stepmother, and sisters in a beautiful but haunted island manor. “The Twelve Dancing Princesses,” the Brothers Grimm fairy tale that House of Salt and Sorrows riffs on, is my favorite fairy tale, and this book is a retelling par excellence: There’s devoted sisters, strong women, and lush descriptions of period fabrics and clothing (I'm a sucker for an iridescent ball gown). ![]() I'm convinced I was uniquely positioned to love this book-but I’m equally convinced that you'll love it too. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ayla’s father is Alessio’s mother's killer. Little did he know, the woman he fell for was the daughter of his greatest enemy. She burrowed her way into his heart, and that is where she would stay. ![]() Alessio didn’t think he was even capable of that emotion, but Ayla proved him wrong. Don’t get too comfortable with the sweet nothings and stolen kisses, because shit is about to get real!Īlessio did the one thing his father warned him would be his undoing. The Mafia and His Angel, Part 2 is the continuation of Alessio and Ayla’s complicated love story, and it completely exceeded my expectations! I will admit that the beginning seemed a little too lovey dovey at times, but once I saw what the author had in store, everything made so much sense. ![]() ![]() ![]() At a certain point it almost ceases to deal with esthetic experiences and becomes a confession of a seeker after unity, of a pilgrim who hopes to find in the Middle Ages an emotional repose-peace-Nirvana. "One has the feeling that during the process of writing, the book grew way beyond its original plan and intention to be the informal travel talk of an art tourist, or an art-uncle for nieces with Kodaks. "Emerson discussed man's need to discover a system of unity for his age Henry Adams did the same for an age when the conflict was infinitely more acute and the solution less apparently obvious."-Robert Spiller " Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres is undoubtedly Adams's greatest work though not apparently related to his earlier writings, this inspired work of poetry is the crowning achievement of his severe and somber historical oeuvre."-Maurice le Breton MONT-SAINT-MICHEL AND CHARTRES when we turn from the western view, and look at the church door, thirty or forty yards from the parapet where we stand. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Baudrillard argues that this commodification of objects has led to a commodification of human relationships as well. This lack of differentiation is what allows these objects to be bought and sold so easily they are interchangeable commodities. In contrast, mass-produced objects are exactly alike there is no differences between one instance of the object and another. ![]() For example, a sword might be passed down from generation to generation as a family heirloom. He observes that prior to the Industrial Revolution, most objects were handmade and unique they served a specific purpose and were imbued with symbolic value. Baudrillard begins by examining the history of objects. This commodity fetishism, as Marx called it, is at the root of much of the alienation and anonymous social interactions that characterize modern life. These objects no longer serve any real purpose other than to be bought and sold they are simply commodities that we exchange with one another. In particular, Baudrillard argues that the proliferation of mass-produced objects has led to a loss of meaning in our lives. In his book “The System of Objects,” French philosopher and sociologist Jean Baudrillard explores the concept of consumerism and how it has changed our perception of objects. ![]() ![]() It's a program for Indigenous liberation, life, and land-an affirmation that colonialism and capitalism must be overturned for this planet to be habitable for human and other-than-human relatives to live dignified lives. The Red Deal is a call for action beyond the scope of the US colonial state. Politicians may or may not follow-it is up to them-but we will design, build, and lead this movement with or without them. Only mass movements can do what the moment demands. It is time to reclaim the life and destiny that has been stolen from us and rise up together to confront this challenge and build a world where all life can thrive. We have barely a decade to turn back the tide of climate disaster. We-Indigenous, Black and people of color, women and trans folks, migrants, and working people-did not create this disaster, but we have inherited it. ![]() One-part visionary platform, one-part practical toolkit, the Red Deal is a platform that encompasses everyone, including non-Indigenous comrades and relatives who live on Indigenous land. ![]() ![]() Now, in response to popular demand, the Red Nation expands their original statement filling in the histories and ideas that formed it and forwarding an even more powerful case for the actions it demands. When the Red Nation released their call for a Red Deal, it generated coverage in places from Teen Vogue to Jacobin to the New Republic, was endorsed by the DSA, and has galvanized organizing and action. ![]() ![]() She wanted a good read and she wanted value for money, so she decided that the best option for her limited budget was to purchase the book with the most pages.Īt school Mrs. She then started her book collection when she bought her first book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer-an unusual choice for a young girl from the Deep South. At fourteen she started saving her small allowance until she had enough to purchase a book. ![]() ![]() ![]() By the beginning of her teens had read every book in the school library. From the time she could read, she was a voracious reader. ![]() ![]() The homestead house on the property consists of a c.1898 log cabin and c.1909 additions. Stewart, whose own homestead filing was close by. Elinore Pruitt Rupert, the author-to-be, arrived in Wyoming in 1909 and filed for homestead property before marrying Mr. I Elinore Pruitt Stewart, Letters of a Woman Homesteader (1914 Boston, 1982). It is significant for representing "the long overlooked role of women homesteaders in the American West" and for its association with Elinore Pruitt Stewart's book, Letters of a Woman Homesteader, which was a basis for the 1979 film Heartland. Stewart understood that the original Homestead Act of 1862 allowed. Also known as the Elinore and Clyde Stewart Homestead, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. ![]() women did not homestead prior to the early 20th century the letters presented in. The Elinore Pruitt Stewart Homestead, near McKinnon, Wyoming, United States, has significance dating to 1898. Elinore Pruitt Stewart, Elizabeth Corey, and Cecilia Hennel Hendricks. ![]() ![]() ![]() Afterwards, the series shifts from fighting random vampires to fighting Satan's wife Lilith, who is setting up the Apocalypse while tending to the Antichrist, who will rule the world it not stopped. The twelve-book series uses religious and mythological lore as the Neteru team fights demons while becoming physically and emotionally stronger, whereas Carlos works as a Reverse Mole for Damali's team. This job becomes more difficult when Carlos Rivera, Damali's love interest, is turned into a vampire because of his lifestyle as a drug dealer. Banks following Damali Richards, the ultimate vampire huntress, and her team as they fight.well, vampires and other supernatural beings, which are in this series demons from Hell that mainly attack people with darkness in their hearts. In this series of contemporary fantasy and horror, a battle is brewing, and increasingly brutal supernatural murders are happening-and only Damali can stop the evil. Damali is the Neteru, a vampire huntress whose mission is to vanquish evil from the world. Most people believe these creatures are only myth or fantasy-but Damali and her Guardian team know otherwise. ✥ Damali Richards is a successful hip-hop artist by day, but come nightfall, she hunts vampires and demon-predators. 4.2 Companion Series, Spinoffs, Sequels or Prequels. ![]() |