Depending on who you ask, it’s either a sturdy studio drama jolted alive with B-movie savagery or a B action picture with pretensions of seriousness. (It would lose the big one to a more sweeping portrait of American violence, The Godfather.) Boorman, the British genre specialist who made the Lee Marvin existential noir Point Blank, situated the film at the intersection of prestige and exploitation. It earned strong reviews, too, and picked up some major academy award nominations, even inching its way into the best picture race. When else but the heyday of New Hollywood could a shocking survival thriller featuring an infamously grueling scene of sexual violence become one of the biggest hits of the year?ĭeliverance didn’t just make money and the careers of most of its cast. Revisiting the film, on the verge of its 50th anniversary, feels like its own choppy expedition into the rough-and-tumble past. It’s a version of America nearly extinct, the more wild and dangerous one traversed by the explorers of legend, that the four city slickers of Deliverance go searching for on their ill-fated canoe trip down the fictional Cahulawassee River.
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In 2001, she co-founded Mule Design Studio where she directs the research, interaction design, and strategy practices. Erika Hall has been working in web design and development since the late 20th century. You'll start doing good research faster than you can plan your next pitch. Learn how to discover your competitive advantages, spot your own blind spots and biases, understand and harness your findings, and why you should never, ever hold a focus group. In Just Enough Research, co-founder of Mule Design Erika Hall distills her experience into a brief cookbook of research methods. And done well, it will save you time and money by reducing unknowns and creating a solid foundation to build the right thing, in the most effective way. It's something every member of your team can and should do, and which everyone can learn, quickly. Good research is about asking more and better questions, and thinking critically about the answers. Design research is a hard slog that takes years to learn and time away from the real work of design, right? Wrong. Her answer is a resounding “yes.” Men and women have myriad sexual preferences, anatomies, accelerators, and brakes. Nagoski argues that beneath all these inquiries is a longing to know that personal sexual experience is normal. Come as You Are addresses the questions that many men and women have about genitalia, genital response, arousal and desire, and numerous other topics.ĭr. Emily Nagoski’s book Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life investigates the mythologies surrounding women and sex and replaces these dangerous narratives with scientific research. The book also references instances of sexual violence and rape.ĭr. While she uses words like “woman” and “female” in the book to explain this science, she recognizes that the information offered may not encompass the vast array of experiences regarding gender and sexuality. Nagoski makes clear in the introduction that her work is based on existing science, which tends to center on cisgender women. This guide uses the 2021 paperback reprinting by Simon & Schuster.Ĭontent Warning: Come as You Are is an exploration of sex, anatomy, and neuroscience. Nagoski’s works have received the SSTAR’s 2017 Consumer Book Award, Goodreads Choice Awards for Top 5 Science and Technology Books, Book Riot’s Best of 2015, and Buzzfeed’s “17 Things That Changed Our Sex Lives in 2015.” Come as You Are is a New York Times bestseller. I loved this book from beginning to end, it was the perfect definition of "meant to be".This is one unforgettable novel :)" "I thought this book was going to be worse than twilight but man oh man did this book prove me wrong, I could not put this book down yet I was dreading the moment I was to put it down for good. Can fate intervene to bring them together once more? His name is Oliver, he's British, and he's sitting in her row.Ī long night on the plane passes in the blink of an eye, and Hadley and Oliver lose track of each other in the airport chaos upon arrival. Then she meets the perfect boy in the airport's cramped waiting area. Having just missed her flight, she's stuck at JFK airport and late to her father's second wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon-to-be stepmother Hadley's never even met. Today should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old Hadley Sullivan's life. Set over a twenty-four-hour-period, Hadley and Oliver find that true love can be unexpected. Quirks of timing feature in this romantic novel about family connections, second chances, and first loves. He marries into a family whose patriarch, Yellow Kidney, has survived a terrible ordeal at the instigating hands of a few rogue Napikwans-whites and it is to revenge this that some of the Lone Eaters (not Fools Crow) turn rogue themselves. And with the name come the rights and responsibilities of an important member of the tribe. The central character is a young, at first hardly-brave brave named White Man's Dog-who, after taking part in a daring horse-robbery raid against a rival tribe, is given the honor of a new, stronger name: Fools Crow. He focuses here on a tribe of Blackfeet Indians in Montana after the Civil War-the Lone Eaters-and how misunderstanding, venality, internal dissension, and, ultimately, physical plague wipe them out utterly. Like Larry McMurtry with Lonesome Dove, Welch has gone back into history to suggest the foundations of his previous fiction (The Death of Jim Loney, Winter in the Blood) and its world of the modern deracinated American Indian. Rye is unbelievably stubborn, but has good reason to be - she's not only dirt poor, but that way for good reason. Flora, the rich upper class love interest is *so* so sweet and patient. It got a half a star for that alone. Secondly the characters are fun. Once I figured out what I had, I almost just deleted it, But oh the blurb was actually intriguing, and the author is a kiwi and I just thought why not. Turned out, it was pretty good. Firstly, it had a ton of little nods to NZ (mostly plants and flowers) which cracked me up and probably won't anybody else (although the idea of anyone not-kiwi trying to pronounce Kahikatea is giggleworthy). So I quite literally have no idea how I ended up with a lesbian romance set in a world populated with sprites, nymphs, goblins and the occasional fairy. I'm not queer, and I don't like fairies much. But Rye is a poor builder's labourer with a teenage sister to raise, while Flora is a wealthy artist-celebrity with a tree-top condominium and a sporty, late-model flying carpet. Broken Wings is a soaring celebration of the power of love, family, and justice to triumph over intolerance, homophobia, and slavery." I rarely read romance, I don't much like erotica (although, the heat level on this is pretty low). I mean look at this: "When Rye Woods, a fairy, meets the beautiful dryad Flora Withe, her libido, as squashed and hidden as her wings, reawakens along with her heart. This book is so far outside my wheelhouse, I hesitated to review it, because I have no idea what I'm talking about. The author currently makes her home in South Carolina, where she lives with her beloved husband. The Wall Street Journal has even highlighted her engaging and educational presentations, which have appeared on the newspaper's front page.Īn accomplished author with rich and authentic characterization, Deeanne has received several awards, including: Best Long Historical of the Year (RITA Award), National Readers’ Choice, Best Historical of the Year (RT Reviewers), Librarians’ Choice, Golden Quill, and many more. in Elementary Education from Texas A&M, Deeanne taught for five years before becoming a freelance journalist with credits including People Magazine, Parents and Parenting. She is popularly known for writing the bestselling It Happened at the Fair (2013) and Fair Play (2014), and the RITA Award-winning Tiffany Girl (2015). Deeanne Gist is an American international bestselling and award-winning author of historical fiction and historical romance novels. The essays range from probing journalistic investigations, such as Moore’s reporting on the labor conditions of the Cambodian garment industry, to the uncomfortably personal, as when Moore, who suffers from several autoimmune disorders, examines her experiences seeking care and community in the increasingly complicated (and problematic) American healthcare system.įeaturing illustrations by Xander Marro, Body Horror is a fascinating and revealing portrait of the gore of contemporary American culture and politics. In Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes, award-winning journalist and Fulbright scholar Anne Elizabeth Moore explores the global toll of capitalism on women with thorough research and surprising humor. Vampira: Dark Goddess Of Horror W Scott Poole, HoboEddy Joe Cotton, Music Minus One Flute, Violin, Or Alto Recorder: Telemann & Handel-Three Sonatas For Alto Recorder, Harpsichord & Viola Da Gamba (Book & CD) (Music Minus One (Numbered))MMO Music Group Inc. Every day, heinous acts are perpetrated on women's bodies in this political economy-whether for entertainment, in the guise of medicine, or due to the conditions of labor that propel consumerism. Here, the living long to speak with the dead and the dead with the living, but the divide is uncrossable. Human Acts takes place during and after the 1980 Gwangju Uprising, during which hundreds, possibly thousands, of students and other civilians protesting the coup d’état that installed the dictator Chun Doo-hwan were killed by the South Korean military. The reader, like the characters themselves, experiences a loneliness so profound that it verges on physical sensation: a wrenching desire to mend these broken connections. Characters cut off from communication-by death, by time, by life’s other cruelties-often address unreachable interlocutors, struggling to be heard, yet only Han’s reader is there to listen. All three books stage conversations hauntingly out of joint, severed dialogues that yearn toward impossible completion. What does it mean to speak without the hope of a response? To address someone who cannot or will not hear you, who cannot or will not reply? The first three full-length novels by the South Korean writer Han Kang to appear in English pose these questions with an uncompromising starkness. As their individual perspectives tied together Lie, Lie Again soon becomes the nail-biter the blurb promised, with a dead body just waiting to be discovered. Every move Sylvie made unraveled their lives just that much more, their own small secrets and white lies soon went up in flames. While I loved Sylvie most, I do love a good unreliable character, I related most with the meeker two. Embry and Ricky were classic female characters, especially in the LA setting. Sylvie was cutthroat and manipulative, her perspective was easily my favorite and really tied the story's strings together. While each thinks the others' lives are perfect, inside the walls of their apartments all is not quite as it seems. The women of Mockingbird Lane aren't exempt from feelings of jealousy, insecurity, and hopelessness. Polite in passing previously, the three women band together to fight the sale of their complex, never realizing all the tiny secrets they've each been holding onto nor how any of it could lead to a dead body. Sylvie is desperate for a husband, Ricky is struggling both with money and a hopeless crush, and finally there's too-sweet Embry, mother of two and wife to a struggling actor. Stacy Wise gives readers a glimpse into the lives of three women living in an apartment complex and the desperate decisions they make as the lies pile up. Suburban drama, superb writing, and so many lies made Lie, Lie Again a hit for me. Find this review and others at Carlene Inspired. |