I am happy to report that, yes, books with ace homo/bi/panromantic women characters do exist! Here’s a list of eight of these very real books. Are there any books that have women loving women, who are homoromantic or bi/panromantic or romantically into other women in some way, who are also ace, or demi-ace, etc.? I don’t even know if these books exist but I reallllly hope they do! I hope you can find some books to help me! I’ve been learning and sorting out that romantic and sexual orientations are not always the same thing (!) in general and also for myself, and exploring identity on the asexual spectrum. I got this lovely email a few weeks ago and thought it was the perfect question to tackle in this month’s Ask Your Friendly Neighborhood Lesbrarian: The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.
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It wants you to know / it remembers you.” Readers are graced with a dedication that speaks to the heart of the child in everyone that could be found imagining what it would be like to be inside the fairytales they love so much. Gill starts “Fierce Fairytales” with a dedication to you “who has never forgotten / the magic. In an interview with Marie Clare, Gill explained the most important message of the entire project, her third book: “Question everything-question the stories you’re told, question the things you are reading.” Nikita Gill’s “Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul” is a wondrously crafted collection of poetry and prose, accompanied by hand-drawn illustrations from the author herself, that places the magical tales of history within the context of modern-day society. Take every single fairytale archetype you and everyone else in the world has grown up knowing and fling them out the metaphorical door. I had such a hard time putting this book down. Although, truth be told, I think the “Blond Bobs” belong more in the Pacific Grove/Carmel regions, but that’s neither here nor there.Īs for the book, even coming into it with foreknowledge from the show, I was hooked on every page. Regardless of that, I felt like I was reading a transcript for the show.Īll I’ll say about the show is that I think it was really well done, expertly cast, and completely makes sense as to why it took place in Monterey. I’m leaving within the week, and I wanted to give this book a go before I left, even though I knew the book itself took place in Australia. At the time of this writing, I am living in Monterey where a great portion of the show was filmed. Like many others, I came to this book after the TV show. I loved every second of Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty. Drawing from her own experience reporting on the politics and culture of her hometown, as well as interviews with musicians, protesters, and writers who have watched their home transform, Karen Cheung gives us a rare insider’s view of this remarkable city at a pivotal moment-for Hong Kong and, ultimately, for herself.īorn just before the handover to China in 1997, Cheung grew up questioning what version of Hong Kong she belonged to. But it is also misunderstood, and often romanticized. Hong Kong is known as a place of extremes: a former colony of the United Kingdom that now exists at the margins of an ascendant China a city rocked by mass protests, where residents rally-often in vain-against threats to their fundamental freedoms. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post about what it means to find your place in a city as it vanishes before your eyes.”- The New York Times Book Review A boldly rendered-and deeply intimate-account of Hong Kong today, from a resilient young woman whose stories explore what it means to survive in a city teeming with broken promises. She works constantly, researches mostly on the internet, and has books stacked up and waiting to be written. A loom is gathering dust and needs rethreading, a wooden ship model awaits construction, and the cats demand their own time much more urgently. Her studies include planetary geology, weather systems, and natural and man-made catastrophes, civilizations, and cosmology…in fact, there's very little that doesn't interest her. She has written science fiction since she was ten, spent ten years of her life teaching Latin and Ancient History on the high school level, before retiring to full time writing, and now does not have enough hours in the day to pursue all her interests. She sketches, occasionally, cooks fairly well, and hates house work she loves the outdoors, animals wild and tame, is a hobbyist geologist, adores dinosaurs, and has academic specialties in Roman constitutional law and bronze age Greek ethnography. She began with the modest ambition to learn to skate backwards and now is working on jumps. Her hobbies include travel, photography, reef culture, Mariners baseball, and, a late passion, figure skating: she intends to compete in the adult USFSA track. She is the author of more than forty novels. Cherryh has won four Hugos and is one of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed authors in the science fiction and fantasy field. Currently resident in Spokane, Washington, C.J. Later, notwithstanding the withering attacks on German nationalism and the refined praises of Judaism scattered liberally throughout his books, philosophy professors scoured Nietzsche's writings for fragments to show that he was a spiritual father of National Socialism. In World War I, German soldiers read Thus Spake Zarathustra in the trenches for inspiration. Indeed, there may have been as many major interpretations of Nietzsche since he slipped into insanity at age 44 in the winter of 1889 as there have been generations who have sought to understand him.Īs he lay wasting away in the 1890s, first in Naumburg under the care of his mother, and then in Weimar under the care of his unscrupulous sister (who helped lay the groundwork for what became the Nazi version of his thought), Nietzsche's fame as a teacher of Lebensphilosophie, which sought to liberate life from the stifling clutches of convention, began to grow in Germany it continued to do so after his death in 1900. It is a tribute to Nietzsche that the interpretation of his books seems to present to each new generation of readers a defining temptation and test. By Reviewed Peter Berkowitz August 18, 2002 "Based on research that includes interviews with former agents, the author raises plenty of questions and exposes many problems involving the Secret Service's conduct and protection of Kennedy on that fateful day."- The Post & Courier Kennedy assassination ever"- Secret Service Agent John Carman "Most accurate, detailed and Factual Report on the John F. Your work is most interesting and even chilling"- Best-selling author and Kennedy cousin John Davis "I am impressed with your research, accuracy, and willingness to 'tell it like it is'"- Secret Service Agent Robert DeProspero, former head of President Reagan's Detail "You are, unquestionably, the main authority on the Secret Service with regard to the assassination"- author Vincent Bugliosi "Vince Palamara is a Secret Service expert"- The History Channel, November 2003 "A great book"- JFK era Secret Service Agent Abraham Bolden "I continue to be impressed with your research"- JFK era Secret Service Agent Lynn Meredith "Wonderful and informative book"- JFK era Secret Service Agent Frank Stoner It is always a difficult task for a writer to take a step back and across like that, and the result can often seem stilted and mannered. The first story, ‘Jarabe’, is set on the debatable early nineteenth-century border between Mexico and Texas, and the writer has to find some way to convey, in modern English, the flow of Mexican Spanish at that time. Having been captivated before by his short stories, especially one from his earlier collection, Where There Is Ruin, where someone keeps returning to a spot in the woods where a beautiful body is decomposing over time, I was only too eager to read his latest collection. There is also a hint of modernism in his short stories, the medium within which he works at his best, inasmuch as there is often not so much a resolution to them as a sense of moving onwards, as though peace and kensho are the next step, or the one after next. His unique style may be compared to that of Cormac McCarthy, but with an added baroque touch, a sense of wonder and of the phenomenal within the experience of each moment. His debut novel Hagridden was a re-working of Kaneto Shindo’s movie Onibaba, transposed to the bayous of Louisiana during the chaos of the American Civil War, but with extra forces of nature and supposed super-nature working upon it. Sam Snoek-Brown is one of those under-the-radar writers who deserve more attention. There’s only one way for me to get this obsession out of my head, and that’s by jumping in with both feet and putting it into practice. So when one of my brothers hooks up with a dude from another frat house, it catches me off guard when I can’t stop thinking about them … together. It’s what I’m known for, and if it’s not fun, I’m not interested, simple as that. Master of Mayhem- Bro big or bro home.Īs social chair of Sigma Beta Psi, I’m the life of the party. A relationship with Chad would be betraying the very legacy that brought me here.īut I can’t help myself. Our houses have always had a rivalry, but some of the guys seem to hate Chad specifically, and I don’t know why. It’s a lot of pressure, but I’ve always been responsible, never had that rebellious need to rock the boat, and I like it that way.īut after a party at Sigma-the jock frat-I meet Chad Doomsen, and for the first time in my life I want to step outside my square. I don’t know where he came from or why I’m so obsessed.Īnd our houses have a rivalry that’s written into legend. Parties, pranks, and frat politics-college life has never been sweeter. I get all the benefits of being in charge with hardly any of the responsibility. And without all the dying.īeing VP of Sigma Beta Psi is wild. Frat Wars - We’re basically Romeo and Juliet. Overview: Author of mm romance, and alter-ego of YA author S. Requirements: epub, mobi, azw3 reader, 872 kb 319 KB It is hoped that the framework will serve as a guide for mitigating disaster, housing inadequacy and thereby improving the livelihoods of the urban poor. It provides a broad understanding of dynamics and interrelationship between inadequate housing, disasters, vulnerability and urban poverty, as well as the causes and effects of inadequate housing on its inhabitants. This paper aims to develop a viable strategic framework specifically address the impact and vulnerability of dwellers of the substandard housing so as to enhance the creation of resilient communities and significantly improve their living conditions. More vulnerability reduction interventions are needed to tackle the devastating impact of climate change on the urban poor who are highly vulnerable as a result of their unplanned environmental conditions, low-quality shelter and poor infrastructural systems. It affects their economic, political, and social development, as well as providing poor resistance to natural and human induced hazards. Inadequate housing has a significant impact on the livelihoods of poor people in Nigeria. |