6/26/2023 0 Comments Roxane gay memoirIn the years that followed, Gay ate to gain weight, to make herself less physically appealing to men who might do her harm. Despite this betrayal, the bookish and shy Gay believed she was to blame for the assault. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body stems from a single horrific event: When Roxane Gay was 12, a group of boys-one of them being her then “boyfriend,” whom she calls “Christopher”-gang raped her in an isolated cabin. Stories about fat people losing weight-and gaining society’s “acceptance” in the process-are framed as those with “happy endings.” In contrast, Gay’s story is one of trauma and the painful process of working toward acceptance. Though Gay’s memoir centers her body, food, and self-image, she also confronts society’s fatphobia-the world’s unwillingness to accept fat people as they are due to assumptions about health and work ethic. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (2017) is a memoir by Roxane Gay that addresses the emotional, physical, and psychological effects of sexual assault-and how they tie into self-image.
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She then acted out this role for the benefit of medical students who were learning how to elicit information from their patients in order to make a correct diagnosis.īesides that, the students would be graded on something else as well: their degree of empathy. Jamison describes her time working as a medical actor: someone who pretends to be sick with a particular condition, with a particular list of symptoms and a specific background history (married or divorced, kids or no, dead brother, good job, etc). The book kicks off with the titular essay “The Empathy Exams”, which chronicles the author’s involvement in a fascinating but faintly disturbing exercise. Not every essay is equally riveting, but there are certainly moments so naked as to make some readers squirm, and it’s a powerful collection overall. It’s a strong collection, marked by intellectual restlessness, a knack for the arresting phrase, and an almost alarming honesty. Her debut collection of essays, The Empathy Exams, touches upon recurring themes of illness and pain, and our responses to the same. As with all good essays, her subjects tend to begin tightly focused but then spiral outward to include topics and questions that might not appear immediately relevant. Leslie Jamison is a novelist and essayist, and this book of diverse essays features work originally published in such outlets as Harper’s, Believer and Tin House. 6/25/2023 0 Comments Love For Dunces by Kelli M. KnightMary Beth and I looked at each other and fell out laughing. Somehow the pup remembered us and couldn’t stop yapping. Mary Beth and I turned to see the ‘good guy’, who I’d stalked, in his red truck with his yellow lab. Incessant barking caused all three of us to switch our attention to the car stopped next to us. The speed limit was 65 for God’s sake! We got off the bridge and turned onto the main highway only to find the first traffic light red. “Because y’all picked me up late and you drive like a mawmaw! And like I want to die today!” I finally got in front a car that was putting along at 45 miles per hour. “Ollie, I swear to you if you kill us and I don’t get to see my child grow up I will haunt you even in the afterlife. We were racing across the bay, but I was driving Mary Beth’s car and Zoey was in the back seat. Strangely enough I found myself in a similar situation to the time when Mary Beth and I had just gotten our Heaven tickets. My notebooks are the workshops from which all my books have developed. I do this for myself and to inform my teaching. I keep a notebook as part of my continuing attempts to understand how architecture works – how architects work. Usually, on the cover or in the back pages, there are jotted phone numbers, train times, sketches made by others to describe a route or where to ask about access. Some notebooks are filled with enigmatic but nevertheless beautiful stream-of-consciousness traces or colour studies. Perhaps, there are notes and quotations, reminders of more abstract ideas that struck some chord. Sometimes there are sketched design ideas, conceptual seeds from which mighty projects may or may not grow. Mostly, there are travel sketches of buildings and places, focussing on topography, form, atmosphere, inhabitation, economically rendered as the fleeting moment allowed. A graphic facility in others can provoke envy, but being given access into someone else’s mind and seeing where it wanders is always stimulating.Īs the examples published by Drawing Matter illustrate, architects’ notebooks harbour many different kinds of content. Looking into other people’s notebooks is to witness moments of creative exploration and growth. 6/25/2023 0 Comments Eloquent rageWhen Cooper learned of her grandmother's eloquent rage about love, sex, and marriage in an epic and hilarious front-porch confrontation, her life was changed. It reminds women that they don't have to settle for less. Eloquent rage keeps us all honest and accountable. It's what makes Beyoncé's girl power anthems resonate so hard. Black women's eloquent rage is what makes Serena Williams such a powerful tennis player. But Cooper shows us that there is more to the story than that. Yet too often Black women's anger has been caricatured into an ugly and destructive force that threatens the civility and social fabric of American democracy. In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper reminds us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting. "So what if it's true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. TitleĮloquent rage : a black feminist discovers her superpower / Brittney Cooper. Request This Author Cooper, Brittney C., 1980- author. Willa is from a formerly very wealthy family who used to be very prominent in the town. Rachael has fallen in love with a local boy and has set up a small cafe within Willa’s store where she’s making a study of what soft of coffee people drink and what it says about their personalties. She leads a fairly quiet life, keeping to herself and socialising mostly only with a 22yo traveler named Rachael. The death of her father and inheriting his house brought her back to the small town she grew up in, to be close to her grandmother who is now in a nursing home suffering dementia. After a wild teenage stage where she was known as the Joker for pulling practical jokes at her high school, she left for college, flunking out before she could graduate. Willa Jackson runs a sporting goods store in her hometown of Walls of Water, North Carolina. 6/25/2023 0 Comments Minor mage t kingfisherSounds simple enough, except for the fact that our hero is 12-year-old Oliver, a decidedly minor mage. It’s been years since the town of Loosestrife needed any magic stronger than charms and herbs, but a drought is quickly drying up the wells and killing all the crops, so it’s vitally important for the town mage to travel west through the dangerous Harkhound Forest and into the Rainblade Mountains and meet with the mysterious Cloud Herders in order to bring rain back to the town. A mage is handy to have around to deal with small problems like poison ivy, or gremlins in the mill. Someone had to bring back the rains, and apparently it was going to have to be him.Īll towns have a little magic somewhere, but the luckiest ones have their own mage. 6/24/2023 0 Comments Yoke my yoga of self acceptanceShe questions why the Western take on yoga so often misses-or misuses-the tradition’s spiritual dimension. She calls out an American yoga complex that prefers debating the merits of cotton versus polyblend leggings rather than owning up to its overwhelming Whiteness. In a series of deeply honest, funny autobiographical essays, Jessamyn explores everything from imposter syndrome to cannabis to why it’s a full-time job loving yourself, all through the lens of yoke. This larger idea of “yoke” is what Jessamyn Stanley calls the yoga of the everyday-a yoga that is not just about perfecting your downward dog but about applying the hard lessons learned on the mat to the even harder daily project of living. In Sanskrit, yoga means to “yoke.” To yoke mind and body, movement and breath, light and dark, the good and the bad. Finding self-acceptance both on and off the mat. And once Nash decides to make Lina his, he’s not about to be dissuaded…even if it means facing the danger that nearly killed him. But Knockemout has a way of getting under people’s skin. Once she gets what she’s after, she has no intention of sticking around. A relationship with a man who expects her to plant roots? No freaking way. A hot, short-term fling with a local cop? Absolutely. Too bad Lina’s got secrets of her own, and if Nash finds out the real reason she’s in town, he’ll never forgive her. The physical connection between them is incendiary, grounding him and making her wonder if exploring it is worth the risk. As a rule, she’s not a fan of physical contact unless she initiates it, but for some reason Nash’s touch is different. But his new next-door neighbor, smart and sexy Lina, sees his shadows. Nash isn’t about to let anyone in his life know he’s struggling. He feels like a broody shell of the man he once was. But now, this chief of police is recovering from being shot and his Southern charm has been overshadowed by panic attacks and nightmares. Nash Morgan was always known as the good Morgan brother, with a smile and a wink for everyone. I am already looking forward to Nash’s story and look at this cover – gorgeous □. I just started reading my copy of Things We Never Got Over (book 1 in the series) and I love all of the characters already! I’ve laughed out loud so many times and have also highlighted passages that have pulled on my heart strings. Things We Hide From the Light by Lucy Score ORDER ONLINE LINKS DISCUSSION FORUM FOR THE BOOK Things We Hide from the Light by Lucy Score PDF How to get Things We Hide from the Light by Lucy Score PDF : 1. 6/24/2023 0 Comments Savvy sheldonBut as any home-reno-show junkie can tell you, something always falls apart during renovations. The only thing that doesn’t seem to require effort is her ride-or-die squad of friends. Starting from the outside in, Savvy tackles her crumbling kitchen, her relationship with her body, her work–life balance (or lack thereof) and, last but not least, her love life. But when Savvy’s world starts to crash down around her, she knows it’s time for some renovations. Savvy Sheldon spends a lot of time tiptoeing around the cracks in her life: her high-stress and low-thanks job, her clueless boyfriend and the falling-apart kitchen she inherited from her beloved grandma-who taught her how to cook and how to love people by feeding them. It is sure to please foodies, home-makeover buffs, and anyone looking for a light-hearted romantic read.” –USA TodayĪ sexy romance about a plus-size sweetheart who gets a full-life makeover after a brutal breakup and falls for the incredibly hot contractor renovating her home. “This feel-good, uplifting read is filled with positive messages about self-care and self-love. |