![]() ![]() In Company Town, technology is better, faster and cheaper but, there is an ever-widening gap between the top percent of the population and everyone else. For the most part, if one resides in North America there are privileges that keep one shielded from the realities our fellow human beings experience on this world. If a novel were set today in Aleppo, Syria might it not be seen as dystopian from the perspective of those in that time? The same could be said for fiction in our current time took place in a sweatshop. Perhaps, the perspective is grounded in characters who do not have many good options in life. I kept asking myself, is this a dystopia? I’m not sure it is. The novel mixes science fiction with mystery as a killer is on the loose in this depressing future. In Madeline Ashby’s Company Town, almost the entire story takes place on a self-contained oil rig off the coast of Newfoundland. ![]()
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![]() ![]() > Click here to get your copy of Crazy Love. << This is one book I would buy for friends and would like to read with our Sunday school class at church. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn’t come through.” “But God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. ![]() ![]() Chan’s conversational writing is easy to digest but he keeps coming back to these points that we seem so often to rationalize in our lives as followers of Christ.Ĭhan calls us again and again to step out of our comfortable, highly managed lives and into a life of discipleship. He weaves personal experience with the scripture of the Bible in a way that is easy to follow and compelling.Ĭrazy Love is a challenging read. ![]() He reads the Bible and when he comes across a command, he obeys it.Ĭhan’s writing style is much like he preaches. He is a straight shooter and a hard hitter. I listened to his sermons on iTunes and have shared his Balance Beam video countless times.Ĭhan is decidedly a Jesus follower and this book is written to the church in America, those who would call themselves evangelicals and Christians. Now we have returned permanently and it was just the book I needed to remind me of what I want to be important in my life. I read it first a few years ago while we were home visiting from Turkey. I just finished listening to Francis Chan’s Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God for the second time. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And despite the girls having been trained to hate each other so it will be easier to kill their siblings when the time comes, its clear that won’t be so simple. As they lived together and knew each other until they were six years old, there are variable memories some of them are able to dredge up. The complexity paid to the relationship of the three sisters holds solid interest. The present-tense POVs alternate primarily between each queen, although there’s a sprinkling of side character perspectives as well-which all work and feel needed to deepen reader insight. The beginning provides a good hook and sets the darker tone of the overarching story. And unfortunately for some, these queens are far from evenly matched… ![]() This generation’s sisters are Katherine the poisoner, Arsinole the naturalist, and Mirabella the elemental-each representing a sub-peoples who possess their same abilities. When they come of age, it is expected that these young queens battle each other to the death for the right to rule. On an island kingdom steeped in magic and sadistic tradition, triplet girls are always born to the ruling queen. The dark YA fantasy tale of a brutal matriarchy, and its vicious method of choosing its rulers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But the fact remains that all witches are women. ![]() Intriguingly, it has also found itself at one time or another banned for perceived misogyny, as Dahl states that only women can be witches: 'I do not wish to speak badly about women,' the author writes. Winner of the Whitbread Award for Children's Novel in 1983, The Witches was also successfully dramatised on several occasions, most famously perhaps the 1990 film featuring Anjelica Huston as the Grand High Witch, which featured a differing ending from that in the book (much to the author's chagrin). ![]() A classic dark tale from a master of the genre, the macabre menace only slightly mitigated by the target audience being children. In The Witches, a large cross-section of women didn’t just not want children but they wanted to kill everyone else’s, an unapologetic and bloodthirsty desire for a child-free world. Page stock somewhat browned as usual, a little cocked but a very nice copy in the price-clipped dust jacket. First edition, first impression 8vo illustrations by Quentin Blake publisher's boards, dust-jacket with artwork by Quentin Blake. ![]() ![]() ![]() by one walker, with much doubling back and looking around." That's accurate, if a little modest "Wanderlust" is a delightful, mind-expanding journey that strays from Søren Kierkegaard's Copenhagen and William Wordsworth's Lake District to the top of Everest and the New Mexico desert, from the first hominids to walk upright (whoever and wherever they were) to contemporary women who face the hazards of solitary walking. ![]() Her history is, as she puts it, "an idiosyncratic path traced. Of course, as Solnit points out, she has written a history of walking, not the history, which is all but infinite. Why not the history of talking, or breathing? Whether she takes this trinity to extremes is a matter of interpretation, but you could argue that even the attempt to write a history of walking - arguably the defining human activity - is itself extreme. Discussing an eccentric 18th century peripatetic named John Thelwall in her new "Wanderlust: A History of Walking," Rebecca Solnit writes that he suggests "something of a pattern: autodidacts who took the trinity of radical politics, love of nature, and pedestrianism to extremes." While I'm pretty sure Solnit herself has a formal education, her astonishing range of reference and her indefatigable curiosity suggest the passion of an autodidact, and in every other respect she fits the pattern, too. ![]() ![]() “I don't mean to sound like a spoiled brat," she wrote. Wurtzel wrote of growing up in a home torn by divorce, of cutting herself when she was in her early teens, and of spending her adolescence in a storm of tears, drugs, bad love affairs and family fights. Critics praised her for her candor and accused her of self-pity and self-indulgence, vices she fully acknowledged. “Prozac Nation" was published in 1994 when Wurtzel was in her mid-20s and set off a debate that lasted for much of her life. Wurtzel's husband, Jim Freed, told The Associated Press that she died at a Manhattan hospital after a long battle with cancer. ![]() NEW YORK - Elizabeth Wurtzel, whose blunt and painful confessions of her struggles with addiction and depression in the best-selling “Prozac Nation” made her a voice and a target for an anxious generation, died Tuesday at age 52. ![]() ![]() The puppy paints stripes on its body, but Mom lovingly provides assurance: She likes that we are different. The text doesn’t acknowledge this, but it reveals related concerns: I was worried I didn’t look like Mom. Keep reading for some Mother's Day inspiration and get your hands on a gift for Mother's Day now. 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CBS Essentials is created independently of the CBS News editorial staff. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reaching the top spot is Jack, which has also achieved popularity in the United States, New Zealand, and across Europe. There may be an ocean between us, but we still have plenty in common with our Scottish neighbors.ġ. It turns out that some of the most popular names in Scotland in recent years are also on the list of top baby boy names in the United States. Whether you're searching for a name that pays homage to your Scottish heritage or simply looking for a name that stands out from the crowd, these Scottish baby boy names and their meanings are sure to please. From traditional Gaelic monikers to modern Scottish favorites, this list has boy names for every taste. Are you looking for a strong and unique name for your little one? Look no further than Scotland, a country with a rich history and culture that has produced some truly distinctive and masculine names. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, when I actually got the opportunity to read the book, I was left a little disappointed, to be honest. This alone had got me excited, because I believe the current discourse around sex and gender has too much unscientific philosophy and theory, and too little reference to the facts of biological science. The End Of Gender claims to debunk 'the myths about sex and identity in our society' in a way that is 'backed by science and facts'. ![]() This time, I want to look at what is in the book itself. Last time, we looked at the reaction to Debra Soh's The End Of Gender among gender critical feminist circles, and what we can learn from that. Welcome back to Trans Deeper, a show where we take a deeper look at what people are saying in the trans conversation, and whether their claims are valid or not. ![]() ![]() ![]() Naslund's childhood interest in Marie Antoinette was re-piqued after she completed "Ahab's Wife" and was thinking of future book projects. ![]() Naslund, who lives in Louisville, Ky., is the author of the best-selling novels "Ahab's Wife" and "Four Spirits," and is one of the headline authors at the Sarasota Reading Festival, to be held Nov. "To me that was very frightening, that a person of such privilege could be brought so low as to lose her head by the guillotine," said the author, whose next novel, "Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette," will be published this fall by William Morrow. (Marie Antoinette) was born to the role of being a princess, but then she lost her position and her power and her prestige." Not to mention her head. "In a fairy tale, there's a person who works hard, who's neglected and who becomes a princess. "Her story was like a reverse fairy tale to me," said Naslund. ![]() Eighteenth-century French queen Marie Antoinette has fascinated author Sena Jeter Naslund since childhood. ![]() |