![]() ![]() I'd forgotten just how much I enjoyed the series (And just how much fans of Percy Jackson will also be beyond enchanted and enthralled!) and how much I'd missed the characters.Īru Shah and her friends/sisters have grown so much since the first book. ![]() ![]() (And I think I may do a series overview as well, because this series is incredible and deserves that.) As I read each book, I got more and more immersed in the world. This past month, I re-read all of the early Aru Shah books and then read the ones I was behind on, concluding my binge with the series finale ARU SHAH AND THE NECTAR OF IMMORTALITY. It isn't often that a finale lives up to its predecessors and delivers everything it has promised readers. “(Aru) had two paths before her - destroy or be destroyed - and she couldn't stomach the thought of taking either one.” ~ARU SHAH AND THE NECTAR OF IMMORTALITYīack in 2018, I interviewed Roshani Chokshi over at BroadwayWorld about her brand-new series Aru Shah and reviewed the first book (Which I've reposted today if you're new to the series and want Zero Spoilers! Check that out instead and you can STILL enter to win ARU SHAH AND THE NECTAR OF IMMORTALITY for when you're all caught up!) ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() “What was that book called” posts are exempt from this rule, as they are unlikely to show up in future searchesīook requests must be specific and contain detail.Book request titles must contain details about the kind of book you’re looking for.Inflammatory titles like Does Anyone Else, Unpopular Opinion, or similar are not allowed.Gush and critique posts should contain the book title/author if applicable. Reviews and screenshots of book excerpts must contain the book title/author in the post title. ![]() Book request titles must contain details about the kind of book you’re looking for and/or keywords that will inform future searches.Rules Post titles must be clear and informative For updated information regarding ongoing community features includings upcoming AMAs, please visit 'new' Reddit. Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with informative links about Book Clubs, AMAs, etc. Home of the magic search button and endless book recommendations as well as discussions about tropes and characters, Author AMAs, book clubs, and more. R/RomanceBooks is a discussion sub for readers of romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As a graduate student doing coursework in the early 2010s, I had learned a great deal both from Asad’s argument for understanding Islam as a discursive tradition, as well as from the theoretical sophistication and nuance evident in Mahmood and Hirschkind’s ethnographies of Islamic piety in Egypt. When Vincent Lloyd approached me in the January 2021 about organizing a roundtable on an issue of significant debate within the field of Islamic Studies, my mind went immediately to the conversations produced by the work of Talal Asad, Saba Mahmood, and Charles Hirschkind. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Many of her poems deal with metaphysical themes such as death, hope, loneliness, eternity, and spirituality. Dickinson's cultural legacy in American literature and culture is prominent, inspiring poets in later generations as well as the construction of an Emily Dickinson Museum in 2003 in her honor.ĭickinson’s solitude was likely a reason for her prolific poetic output. Subsequently, along with many of her other unpublished poems, “Hope” was published in 1891. “Hope” was first included in one of Dickinson's hand-sewn fascicles, and discovered again after her death by her sister Lavinia Dickinson. Only ten of her 1,800 poems saw publication during her lifetime. She was considered eccentric and reclusive by her neighbors, shunned guests, and never married. ![]() Not much is known about the circumstances in which the poem was written because much of Dickinson’s life in Amherst, Massachusetts remains shrouded in mystery. “Hope is the thing with feathers” is a lyric poem split into three stanzas, written by American poet Emily Dickinson around 1861. ![]() Note that all parenthetical citations within the guide refer to the line number from which the quotation is taken. "Hope is the Thing with Feathers." Poetry Foundation Online. The following version of this poem was used to create this guide: Dickinson, Emily. ![]() ![]() ![]() Blind Spots: On Subconscious Sex and Gender EntitlementĦ. Boygasms and Girgasms: A Frank Discussion about Hormones and Gender Differenceĥ. Before and After: Class and Body TransformationsĤ. 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A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her diverse background as a lesbian transgender activist and professional biologist. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then a trip to the doctor and, a few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, a diagnosis: leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. Next came the exhaustion, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. It started with an itch-first on her feet, then up her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. ![]() The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter “the real world.” She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. Jaouad’s insights about the self, connectedness, uncertainty and time speak to all of us.”- The Washington Post Her writing restores the moon, lights the way as we learn to endure the unknown.”-Chanel Miller, The New York Times Book Review “I was immersed for the whole ride and would follow Jaouad anywhere.ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Rumpus, She Reads, Library Journal, Booklist A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into “normal” life-from the author of the Life, Interrupted column in The New York Times. ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, not asking for help isn't working at all! Luckily for the Scouts, someone unexpected comes along to set them all straight about what the motto really says: Scouts have the courage to ask for help and work together. But the Scouts soon find that figuring out how to pitch a tent, make a fire, and find their way through the woods is tough to do by themselves. Grandpa teaches everyone the Scouts motto he still remembers, which says that Big City Scouts are always able to solve problems without asking for help. ![]() And they have a special guide: Grandpa Ratso! He was Scoutmaster when Ralphie and Louie's dad, Big Lou, was a kid. Ralphie and Louie Ratso and the rest of the Big City Scouts are leaving the city to go camping for the first time. ![]() Louie and Ralphie discover that camping is not easy - especially since Scoutmaster Grandpa Ratso doesn't think they should ask for help - in the latest adventure in the Infamous Ratsos series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Beyond the bedroom sprawls the landscape of a never-ending city, the lights a mirror of the stars above, continuing until it disappears into the cloud cover at the horizon. If I stare down at the floor, I can see through it to the dozens and dozens of levels beneath us, ceiling–floor, ceiling–floor, until they vanish to a point somewhere far below, stretching deep into the earth.Įven though the soft rays of dawn are streaking in, chasing away the dim blue of night to illuminate our skin with a buttery glow, an impossible blanket of stars can still be seen clearly against the sky, coating it in a film of gold-and-white glitter. ![]() I know it’s a dream because we are in a white bed at the top of a skyscraper I’ve never seen before, in a room made entirely of glass. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We all feel like we are constantly making choices. “ Here’s the thing: People from different generations, raised by different parents who earned different incomes and held different values, in different parts of the world, born into different economies, experiencing different job markets with different incentives and different degrees of luck, learn very different lessons.” - Morgan Housel, author of “The Psychology of Money”. ![]() Traumatic experiences (or miracles) that happened completely outside of your control.Your social sphere is often based on circumstance (who you grow up around, go to school with, play sports with, become friends with).Most (if not all) of your conditioning/programming growing up (language(s)/symbols you speak and think in, education, religion/ideologies, values).Who you were born to (parents, genetics, race, ethnicity, physical appearance, birth order, disability/chronic illness, gender, sexual orientation).When you were born (generation, zeitgeist, economy, socioeconomic mobility).Where you were born (geographic nation, first/third world, peaceful suburb/war zone).But, what does that really mean when you look at all the things included in that? It means you didn’t have any control over: It’s easy to say that we are the sum total of our genes (nature) and environment (nurture). The reality is that there’s nothing internal or external to you that is a blank slate when you arrive in the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was nominated for a 2016 Harvey Award for "Best Syndicated Strip or Panel" (7/16). ![]() Together, they must get to the bottom of the mystery and save the town from the magic storm.*BEST-SELLER:Unicorn vs Goblins, the third Phoebe and Her Unicorn book, hit the New York Times Best-Seller List (3/16).* AWARD WINNER: Unicorn on a Roll won a Pacific Northwest Book Award (1/16) Phoebe and Her Unicorn won the Washington State Book Award (10/15).* SUPER-SPARKLY COVER.* SYNDICATED SUPERSTAR: Phoebe and Her Unicorn had one of the largest roll-outs in Universal Uclick history and is in more than 150 newspapers (3/16). To solve the case, they team up with Max, who is desperate for the electricity to return so he can play video games, and frenemy Dakota, who is aided by her goblin minions. Phoebe and Marigold decide to investigate a powerful storm that is wreaking havoc with the electricity in. The adults think it's just winter weather, but Phoebe and Marigold soon discover that all is not what it seems to be, and that the storm may have a magical cause. The first Phoebe and Her Unicorn graphic novel. ![]() ![]() The first Phoebe and Her Unicorn graphic novel! Phoebe and Marigold decide to investigate a powerful storm that is wreaking havoc with the electricity in their town. The first Phoebe and Her Unicorn graphic novel Phoebe and Marigold decide to investigate a powerful storm that is wreaking havoc with the electricity in their. ![]() |