Améry asserts that he who has been tortured remains forever tortured. That “further east” is a telling comment, implying that torture is something Westerners associate with non-Western cultures - and yet, as Améry and Funder amply demonstrate, 20th century Europe seems to lead the field in the institutional technologies of torture. This contraption belonged further east and further back in time, in some Pythonesque sideshow of history.” “It seemed too primitive for the mid-20th century and too primitive for here. In the course of her gripping and alarming book about the former East Germany, Anna Funder finds, in East Berlin’s Hohenschönhausen Prison for Political Prisoners, the machinery of torture used by the Stasi, presumably into the late twentieth century. In his memoir of his imprisonment by the Nazis in the Danish fortress of Breendonk (translated into English as At the Mind’s Limits, Jean Améry describes and tries to rationalise his own experiences of torture. “Irgendwann fällt jede Mauer” (“Eventually every wall falls”)
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Meanwhile, as Mary's Earth is dealing with a collapse of its planetary magnetic field, her boss, the enigmatic Jock Krieger, has turned envious eyes on the unspoiled Eden that is the Neanderthal world. Aided by banned Neanderthal technology, they plan to conceive the first hybrid child, a symbol of hope for the joining of their two versions of reality.īut after an experiment shows that Mary's religious faith - something completely absent in Neanderthals - is a quirk of the neurological wiring of Homo sapiens brains, Ponter and Mary must decide whether their child should be predisposed to atheism or belief. Now, in Hybrids, Ponter Boddit and his Homo sapiens lover, geneticist Mary Vaughan, are torn between two worlds, struggling to find a way to make their star-crossed relationship work. In that book and in its sequel, Humans, Sawyer showed us the Neanderthal version of Earth in loving detail - a tour de force of world-building a masterpiece of alternate history. Sawyer introduced a character readers will never forget: Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist from a parallel Earth who was whisked from his reality into ours by a quantum-computing experiment gone awry - making him the ultimate stranger in a strange land. In the Hugo-Award winning Hominids, Robert J. Aurora says I should be proud of my gifts. Humiliated and shamed by the same nobles who pay me to bottle hexes and then brand me a monster. One who isn’t bothered that I am Alyce, the Dark Grace, abhorred and feared for the mysterious dark magic that runs in my veins. Not the way they care about their jewels and elaborate parties and charm-granting elixirs. Let me tell you, no one in Briar actually cares about what happens to its princesses. You’ve heard this before, haven’t you? The handsome prince. A curse that could only be broken by true love’s kiss. Once upon a time, there was a wicked fairy who, in an act of vengeance, cursed a line of princesses to die. Keep reading this book review to find out my full thoughts. Because I love the construction of monstrous women and seeing the stories behind what we’ve been taught to see as villains. I’ve been excited for Malice ever since you told me queer “Sleeping Beauty” retelling from Malice’s POV. I will always be willing to read queer fairy tale retellings – no exceptions. There's really something to the very obvious moral of this story that appeals to me. They still hold a lot of the original magic, which is wonderful. My mother recently dug these books out of storage and I'm now re-discovering them by reading them with my son. I collected as many as I could over the years. When I was a small child, I discovered the Serendipity books through the school book order program. Not their best work.īasic Plot: Something new comes to a world of crystal and Shimmeree decides to protect it instead of fear it. The ending is also strangely anticlimactic, and the moral falls flat. None of the creatures look like they're made out of crystal, glass, or diamonds: Shimmeree looks like an entirely ordinary horse, with blue wings. One of the major complaints is that "you can't see through it like crystal," which means "it just has to be evil."Įxcept you can't see through anything else in the illustrations, either. When some dirt and a seed somehow appear in the land, the creatures fear it because it's different from anything else they've seen. Shimmeree's world is described as one that's entirely made out of crystal, glass, and diamonds. The character design in this book, though, misses the mark. Robin James draws extraordinarily beautiful horses - Shimmeree being no exception - and usually the quality of the art saves the less creative stories. Maybe it's because I read this one for the first time as an adult, although my favorite Serendipity books hold up to multiple rereads. There’s futuristic flirting from Kass Morgan and Katharine McGee, a riveting transgender heroine from Meredith Russo, a subway missed connection moment from Jocelyn Davies, and a girl determined to get out of her small town from Ibi Zoboi. Readers will experience Nina LaCour’s beautifully written piece about two Bay Area girls meeting via a cranky customer service Tweet, Sara Shepard’s glossy tale about a magazine intern and a young rock star, Nicola Yoon’s imaginative take on break-ups and make-ups, Katie Cotugno’s story of two teens hiding out from the police at a house party, and Huntley Fitzpatrick’s charming love story that begins over iced teas at a diner. Meet Cute is an anthology of original short stories featuring tales of “how they first met” from some of today’s most popular YA authors. Whether or not you believe in fate, or luck, or love at first sight, every romance has to start somewhere. This is the greatest dog story, never fully told until now. The heroic dash of dog teams across the Alaskan wilderness to Nome inspired the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and immortalized Balto, the lead dog of the last team whose bronze statue still stands in New York Citys Central Park. The lifesaving serum was a thousand miles away, the port was icebound, and planes couldnt fly in blizzard conditions-only the dogs could make it. Book Synopsis When a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through Nome, Alaska, in 1925, the local doctor knew that without a fresh batch of antitoxin, his patients would die. The Cruelist Miles is the never-before-told tale of the dogs and men who braved blizzard conditions to save Nome, Alaska, from diphtheria. Without it, the people of Nome will not survive. About the Book Alaska, 1925: the diphtheria serum is 674 miles away. To begin with, the young Rousseau stayed with a friend, Madame de Warens, who lived in Savoie, only a few kilometres away from Geneva. Les Charmettes, dwelling of Madame de Warens, drawing by Töpfer Madame de Warens wielded much influence over him and was also instrumental in his conversion to Catholicism This was the beginning of the long, interesting epic journey which would last most of his lifetime. Later, he was apprenticed by his uncle to an engraver but as he was unhappy he decided to flee from Geneva when he was still a teenager. He brought his son up carefully, encouraging him to read all kinds of works, some very advanced for his age, which meant that he was far ahead of his peers in his level of education. However, he spent a happy childhood with his father, who had a loving nature. Sadly, his mother, (whose father was a pastor) died only a few days after his birth. His childhood was mostly spent in Geneva. He always remained fond of his native town, even though he did not actually live there much indeed, from 1750 onwards, when signing his many works, he never forgot to mention that he was a Citizen of Geneva. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born on 28 th June 1712 in Geneva. If you’ve never heard of Lucia Franco, she is the author of the indefensibly popular Off Balance series. Those of you in groups with her or who follow her FB page, please tell Franco that this reflects incredibly poorly on her and that a statement of some kind to her fans is necessary to avoid being seen as complicit in endangering other human beings. But the sole purpose of doxing is to terrorize. The one-star bombing and mass-reporting of books to Amazon in an attempt to see them removed as punishment? That’s shitty behavior. If you are a Lucia Franco fan, please let her know that this is happening and that she has a moral obligation to speak out against this strategy of “defending” her. Update: Lucia Franco defenders are now doxing those who dared to speak up about this, posting their home addresses and, in the cases of pseudonymous authors, their real identities, online. CW: CSA, Rape, Grooming, Reproductive Coercion Victorian class lines are crossed when cook Kat Holloway is drawn into a murder that reaches all the way to the throne. Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. By AUTHOR Jane Austen Eric Carle Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Sydney Hanson C. Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games
At least, that’s what Michaela’s past boyfriends told her when she revealed her darkest, dirtiest fantasies. He always wanted what he couldn’t have… Playing With Fire, Book 1 Forbidden desires, secret needs…that’s not what girls are made of. Who knew the smell of pine could make you feel so lusty? Read online And maybe, if he agrees, she might have time for a life after all…Warning: Fresh mountain air and sultry Tahoe nights equals steamy hot sex with old friends turned lovers. It would be gentlemanly of him to leave, but the amazing woman in front of him elicits visions of the wickedly lusty things he’d like to do with her.With work pushed to the back burner and a weekend indulging with Tyler on high simmer, Julie makes a startling discovery. Tyler Nichols, a guy she remembers as quiet and nerdy…nothing like the drop-dead-gorgeous hunk who knows how to fill out his underwear.One look at all-grown-up Julie refuels Tyler’s memories of long, lazy summer vacations, and the crush he was too shy to admit. After all, Mom won’t know she’s sneaking her laptop along to get a little work done.Not only the cabin is a blast from the past, so is the occupant of her bedroom. Somebody’s sleeping in her bed…A Tahoe Nights story.There’s only one way for busy PR executive Julie Lancaster to get her mother off her back-cave in and take a weekend break at the family cabin in Tahoe. |