![]() ![]() “I’ll tell you what was the first division of Ireland. Put together, all these forms are the vast spiral of information that defines us, guides our growth, and makes sure our future looks like our past - they are the DNA of the Night Watch.”īorn place: in Dallas, Texas, The United States (The form for commandeering a genuine NYC garbage truck may be thirty-four pages long, but one day I will think of some reason to fill it out, I swear to you.) There are even forms that activate other forms or switch them off, that cause other forms to mutate, thus bringing newly formed forms into the world. There are forms with which to requisition peep-hunting equipment, from tiger cages to Tasers. There are forms that make things happen, from installing rat traps to getting lab work done. There are forms that tell the Night Mayor's office what we hunters are doing - starting an investigation, ending one, or reaching various points along the way. You see, like every other department in the city, Records runs on Almighty Forms. ![]()
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![]() The book is on a ninth grade reading list for the school. ![]() Angie Thomas’s award-winning debut The Hate U Giveis one such title under the spotlight by anti-anti-racism activists in Putnam County, New York. Opponents to Critical Race Theory (CRT) are flooding school and library board meetings, hoping to squash use of titles that explore anti-racism. If fights about masking or not masking during a global pandemic and rise of the COVID-Delta variant weren’t enough, nor were protests against access to inclusive sexual education material, now teachers and librarians have to fight a third front. In most parts of the US, if public schools aren’t back in session, they will be soon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are only four words on page 86 that made it plain, so I think if that clue had been removed, it would not have ruined the mystery too early. I figured out the big plot reveal on page 86, and it is not actually revealed until page 163. I loved the story so much! I was laughing and crying and clutching the book to my heart! The emotional power in the story is very reminiscent of Charlotte Bronte’s style. ![]() Chalfont can save the innocent child she has come to love. It is only when the ruthless Emma appears on the scene that the depths of crime and hatred become apparent, and only Mrs. Ellin, she embarks on a journey of discovery and intrigue to unravel the secrets the child is hiding. Chalfont is a lonely widow who adopts an abandoned child and tries to penetrate the mystery of the child’s true identity. There is a gothic moodiness, plot twists, wild scenery, and of course, complex and compelling characters. The themes and plot have many elements that I would expect to find in a Bronte story. The writing doesn’t exactly mimic Charlotte Bronte’s writing style, but it does a fair job. I am usually skeptical about modern authors trying to finish work from a classic author, but this was well done. She only finished the first two chapters of this book, and it has been finished by “another lady”. This book is a continuation of Charlotte Bronte’s last writing before she died. ![]() ![]() ![]() England that’s been described as The Breakfast Club meets Guardians of the Galaxy: This month also brings The Disasters (HarperTeen), a queer YA space opera from debut author M.K. But it’s more than just a collection of lyrics, according to the publisher they’re each “contextualised by a personal commentary and an introduction by the author which gives a fascinating insight into the process and genesis of writing.” The Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant also has a book coming out this month: One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem(Faber & Faber Social). ![]() ![]() Together, they paintĪ moving and often funny view of the loneliness and desire that defined gay life of that era-a time in which Richard Nixon’s resignation intersected with David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs-from one of the leading voices in experimental gay writing of the past thirty years.Īlso out this month is Mark Griffin’s new biography of Rock Hudson, All That Heaven Allows (Harper), which the publisher is describing as the “definitive biography of the deeply complex and widely misunderstood matinee idol of Hollywood’s Golden Age.” A movie is also apparently already in the works. This month, we’re looking forward to Semiotext(e)’s release of Kevin Killian’s Fascination: Memoirs, edited by Andrew Durbin, which combines Killian’s 1989 memoir, Bedrooms Have Windows, with two other unpublished works: Bachelors Get Lonely and Triangles in the Sand. It’s December, and we’ve got some new LGBTQ books to help you wrap up the year! New in December: Kevin Killian, Mark Griffin, Neil Tennant, and M.K. ![]() ![]() ![]() Clarke emerges far more vividly, with Benson, who befriended Clarke near the end of his life, offering a uniquely privileged glimpse of the author’s personality-“an earnest manner leavened by his quick wit”-and day-to-day life as a British expat in Sri Lanka. Even after 500 pages, the reserved, controlling Kubrick feels like a distant figure. ![]() In the end, this is very much Clarke’s story. Key figures, such as special effects expert Douglas Trumbull and actor Keir Dullea, are introduced quickly only to disappear for long stretches (helpfully, Benson does includes a list of major characters). Unfortunately, Benson struggles to cover his protracted story, which is alternately sketchy and repetitive. It plays out as a straightforward production history but one set apart by the project’s massive scale and extended gestation period, from Kubrick making first contact with Clarke in 1964, with a two-page letter proposing “doing the proverbial ‘really good’ science fiction movie,” to the film’s 1968 release. Benson ( Otherworlds) celebrates the 50th anniversary of the classic SF film 2001: A Space Odyssey with this wide-ranging, if somewhat lopsided, chronicle of the collaboration between director Stanley Kubrick and novelist-turned-screenwriter Arthur C. ![]() ![]() Valkyrie came back with a running dropkick, before kicking a downed Turner. They’d battle over control of a top wrist lock, and Turner used her height to take Valkyrie down. Valkyrie ran up the turnbuckle and landed on her feet, but Turner was able to roll her down to the mat and apply a headlock of her own. She’d lock up with Valkyrie and end up in a headlock, but manage to shove her off into the corner. ![]() Certainly one to keep your eyes on in this stacked division. Stevie Turner was making her debut for the brand tonight, and was formerly known as STARDOM’s Bobbi Tyler, a close friend and stablemate of Hana Kimura in Tokyo Cyber Squad. Stevie Turner Looks To Make Her Mark On NXT UK Valkyrie remains undefeated, but that anxiety can drive someone insane. Tonight, she will once again prove she belongs in the title picture, and will likely do it at the expense of Stevie Tyler. ![]() Many have felt she has been ready to challenge Kay Lee Ray for a while yet, but she hasn’t gotten the chance yet. The recent addition of Meiko Satomura to the NXT UK Women’s roster has everyone stepping up their game, including Aoife Valkyrie. ![]() ![]() That is this injustice and disadvantage that they carry with them like air in their lungs something they’re unable to purge as it poisons them. ![]() Black Women are seen to be strong in their pain, that they are expected to feel less and respond quietly. When Kendall discusses femininity, feminism and womanhood within her book, she makes one thing painfully clear. No book lives in a vacuum, so, before I review Luster – I’d like to take a moment to discuss some points raised by Mikki Kendall in Hood Feminism. Racism, Police Brutality, Sexual Aggression, Alcoholism/Substance Abuse, Violence, Mental Health, Suicide, Bereavement, Miscarriage. Razor sharp, provocatively page-turning and surprisingly tender, Luster by Raven Leilani is a painfully funny debut about what it means to be young now. ![]() As if navigating the constantly shifting landscape of sexual and racial politics as a young black woman wasn’t already hard enough, with nowhere else left to go, Edie finds herself falling head-first into Eric’s home and family. And then she meets Eric, a white, middle-aged archivist with a suburban family, including a wife who has sort-of-agreed to an open marriage and an adopted black daughter who doesn’t have a single person in her life who can show her how to do her hair. No one seems to care that she doesn’t really know what she’s doing with her life beyond looking for her next hook-up. ![]() She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office, is sleeping with all the wrong men, and has failed at the only thing that meant anything to her, painting. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reading the stories of Saunders’s first collection, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, through the lens of postsecular literary theory and Saunders’s own comments on Catholicism, we suggest that Christianity, for Saunders, is a double-edged sword: crucial to his social critique of the power structures of post-industrial, postmodern life, and yet ultimately prone, in its institutionalized forms, to cooptation by those very same power structures. Drawing on what American short story writer and novelist George Saunders has described as the urge toward kindness in his work, as well as its myriad allusions to Christian symbology and religiosity, this paper explores the intersection of languages of labour or “work” and religious tensions in Saunders’ oeuvre. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dramatic Competition entry Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Justin Simien ( Dear White People) with the Midnight film Bad Hair, Jeff Baena ( Life After Beth) with Horse Girl, Josephine Decker ( Madeline's Madeline) with Shirley, The Daniels ( Swiss Army Man) with Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia and Benh Zeitlin ( Beasts of the Southern Wild) with a spin on Peter Pan in Wendy.Īmong the documentaries, profile subjects include Taylor Swift, Bruce Lee, Natalie Wood and The Go-Go's. Returnees include Eliza Hittman ( Beach Rats, It Felt Like Love ) with the U.S. Sundance alums and high-profile documentary subjects highlight the program announcement for the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, opening Jan. ![]() ![]() What’s behind this rapid increase isn’t totally clear yet. The record may not seem huge – it’s nearly two-tenths of a degree higher than the previous record in 2016 – but given how much heat is needed to warm up this huge body of water, “it’s a massive amount of energy,” Matthew England, professor of ocean and climate dynamics at the University of New South Wales, Australia, told CNN. ![]() ![]() Johnson, an oceanographer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which calculates the ocean surface temperature using a network of ships, buoys, satellites and floats.Īlthough it’s still preliminary data, if it holds up, he said, “this is another milestone.” Temperatures have fallen since their peak in April – as they naturally do in the spring – but they are still higher than they have ever been on record for this time of year. Temperatures began climbing in mid-March and skyrocketed over the course of several weeks, leaving scientists scrambling to figure out exactly why. ![]() Ocean surface heat is at record-breaking levels. ![]() |