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Broken book by jenny lawson6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() And I’m comfortable saying things out loud. So 10, 12, 14 years ago, writing about mental illness was different than today. And the more you talk about it, the less there is reason for stigma. ![]() ![]() We’re more comfortable with being uncomfortable. “I think we’re in such a better spot now, when it comes to openness about so many things that were extremely uncomfortable before,” she says. Lawson’s frankness about depression, mental illness, anxiety and other monsters typically relegated to the basement endeared her to a following that isn’t easily quantified, but it’s clearly in the millions. ![]() That image - a twisting infant of a monster - summarizes the content of the bestselling books Lawson has written over the past nine years, an outgrowth of writing she did for a quietly and then formidably reverent readership for her blogs going back to 2009. Sometimes, even with a strong grip, it can be difficult to hold onto something that isn’t designed to be held. And her grip captures it upper-mid-thorax, but there’s a lot of twisty, turny beast below capable of creating energy and torque to escape her clutches. The fanged beast has a mouthful of flowers. Monsters bear mention because the cover of “Broken” finds Lawson clutching a horrible, adorable creature under its front legs/arms. 285 pages, $27.99 See More Collapse Personal monsters ![]() The music & the mirror lola keeley6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() August 2005 saw the band play at the dual-venue V Festival. In autumn 2004, they released their second album Welcome to the North and the accompanying single " Freedom Fighters", before touring with Incubus. ![]() June 2003 saw them filling in for an absent Zwan on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival. Two further singles from the album, " Getaway" and "The Truth is No Words" reached No. Their debut single was re-issued as part of a two-disc set to promote the album, and reached No. In 2002, following another EP ( The People) they released The Music which reached No. The band were quickly signed by Hut, who released their first EP You Might as Well Try to Fuck Me. Around this time NME and Steve Lamacq were describing them as the best unsigned band in Britain. ![]() ![]() In 2001, the song " Take the Long Road and Walk It" circulated as a demo before being released by Fierce Panda as a 1000-copies-only single, a rarity from its day of release. The Music all met at Brigshaw High School (except Phil Jordan, who went to Garforth), and began playing in 1999 as Insense. The band released two further studio albums, Welcome to the North (2004) and Strength in Numbers (2008), before parting ways in 2011. Comprising Robert Harvey (vocals, guitar), Adam Nutter (lead guitar), Stuart Coleman (bass) and Phil Jordan (drums), the band came to prominence with the release of their self-titled debut album in 2002. The Music are an English alternative rock band, formed in Kippax, Leeds in 1999. ![]() Mr. and Mr. Smith by HelenKay Dimon6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() In addition to writing, HelenKay is the president of the Romance Writers of America and frequently teaches workshops and classes on fiction writing and romance writing.Ībout HER OTHER SECRET: Whitaker Island is more than a getaway. She’s also a Reviewers’ Choice Best Book Award winner in romantic suspense for The Fixer. Fine and The Fixer) and is 2018 RITA® Award winner for The Fixer. She is a four-time RITA® Award finalist in romantic suspense (for Mr and Mrs Smith, Facing Fire, Guarding Mr. Her books have been featured in various national and international venues and she has had two books named Red-Hot Reads in Cosmo magazine. HelenKay Dimon is a former divorce lawyer turned bestselling author of more than 40 Romantic Suspense, Contemporary, and Erotic Romance books and novellas. ![]() ![]() Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes RWA president and romantic suspense author HelenKay Dimon. ![]() The Boys, Volume 3 by Garth Ennis6/28/2023 ![]() You can only maim and murder so many superheroes before someone decides to do something about it, and in The Boys' case that means Payback - a superteam of unimaginable power, second only to the mighty Seven. ![]() An evil so profound it threatens all mankind! The mightiest heroes on the planet uniting to defend us all! A secret crisis of such utter finality that a countdown to civil or infinite war seems unavoidable! But have you ever wondered what really happens during Crossovers? The Seven, Payback, Teenage Kix, Fantastico, and every other superhero on Earth team up for an annual event like no other - and where the superheroes go, can a certain "five complications and a dog" be far behind? But as the fun and games begin, it seems our heroes have set their sights on bigger game than usual. ![]() Includes both volumes 5 & 6 of this acclaimed series in one volume. ![]() Jodie sweetin biography book6/28/2023 ![]() In this deeply personal, utterly raw, and ultimately inspiring memoir, Jodie comes clean about the double life she led-the crippling identity crisis, the hidden anguish of juggling a regular childhood with her Hollywood life, and the vicious cycle of abuse and recovery that led to a relapse even as she wrote this book. ![]() The harrowing battle she swore she had won was really just beginning. Even then, she kept a painful secret-one that could not be solved in thirty minutes with a hug, a stern talking-to, or a bowl of ice cream around the family table. Her ups and downs seemed not so different from our own, but more than a decade after the popular television show ended, the star publicly revealed her shocking recovery from methamphetamine addiction. ![]() Jodie Sweetin melted our hearts and made us laugh for eight years as cherub-faced, goody-two-shoes middle child Stephanie Tanner. ![]() In this “explosive” ( Us Weekly) and “brutally honest” (E! Online) memoir, Jodie Sweetin, once Danny Tanner’s bubbly daughter on America’s favorite family sitcom, takes readers behind the scenes of Full House and into her terrifying-and uplifting-real-life story of addiction and recovery. ![]() Foucault prison6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the incarceration rate in the US increased by a factor of five, reaching an incarceration rate of 1 in 100 by 2008. Foucault, who died in the 1980s, did not witness the "unparalleled escalation of prison populations" : 391 of the carceral state in the United States. The 1973 English publication of the book by Solzhenitsyn called The Gulag Archipelago referred to the forced labor camps and prisons that composed the sprawling carceral network of the Soviet Gulag.Ĭoncepts developed in Foucault's Discipline and Punish have been widely used by researchers in the growing, multi-disciplinary field of "carceral state" studies, as part of the "carceral turn" in the 1990s. Foucault referred to the "island" units of the "archipelago" as a metaphor for the mechanisms, technologies, knowledge systems and networks related to a carceral continuum. The phrase combines the adjective "carceral", which means that which is related to jail or prison, with archipelago-a group of islands. The concept of a carceral archipelago was first used by the French historian and philosopher Michel Foucault in his 1975 publication, Surveiller et Punir, to describe the modern penal system of the 1970s, embodied by the well-known penal institution at Mettray in France. Concept introduced by social theorist Michel Foucault ![]() Sands of arawiya6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Texts contained in Cookies typically consist of identifiable data, website’s name and some numbers and texts. ![]() ![]() Cookies will be stored in your browser when you visit that website in which Cookies’ content can be retrieved or read only by the server that created such Cookies and such content will be sent back to the original website of each visit. Cookies will be created when user accesses to the website in which the server has created Cookies. 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Likewise is the famously tall and gaunt Ichabod Crane (“one might have mistaken him for … some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield”), scared out of his wits in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by the terrifying, blood-curdling sight of the Headless Horseman.Īs rooted in folklore as “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” are, they are not, in fact, popular legends and myths that sprang up during the early years of the United States - they are works of fiction penned by Washington Irving. The tale of Rip Van Winkle, the man who famously fell asleep for years and years and awoke to a changed, unfamiliar world, is about as familiar as it gets when it comes to American folklore. The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane (1858) by John Quidor | Google Art Project Largely forgotten today, Washington Irving has an odd historical legacy that dips deep into the families and lands of Westchester County. ![]() Ian mcewan robot book6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I wanted to conjure a world of politics and reality that is sort of familiar, but different.” The Falklands War could’ve been a terrible failure. “I rather wanted Alan Turing to be alive, and also considered how the present could so easily have been otherwise. “I’m always a little bored of sci-fi set in the future,” McEwan said in a telephone interview in mid-April. This unsettled larger context frames a personal story marked by the tensions that come when wading into unknown territory. Londoners are in shock after the military defeat, alarmed by high and growing unemployment, and conflicted about a proposed withdrawal from the European Union. The political backdrop is built around the loss of the Falklands War. “Machines Like Me” is a ruminative mix of science fiction, romance and alternate history set in 1980s London. Talese/Doubleday, April 2019Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu ![]() |