![]() ![]() We suspected that by arguing that women can solve the problem themselves, advocates of the “DIY” approach may imply that women should be the ones to solve it - that it is their responsibility to do so. Plus, it has the benefit of seeming to help women now, rather than waiting decades - or even centuries - for societal change. ![]() But the latter message has been inspiring and motivating to many people it’s solutions-oriented and individualistic, appealing especially to Americans who tend to appreciate DIY solutions to societal problems. The first message, that it’s processes and organizations that need to change, has been gaining traction in more recent years. In a world in which men dominate leadership roles, should we focus on changing the systems and structures that favor men at women’s expense? Or should we emphasize the tactics individual women can use to get ahead? ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() For the first three of Armstrong’s record seven Tour de France victories, Hamilton was by Armstrong’s side, clearing his way. Postal Service team in the 1990s and quickly rose to become Lance Armstrong’s most trusted lieutenant, and a member of his inner circle. In the 2003 Tour de France, he finished fourth despite breaking his collarbone in the early stages-and grinding eleven of his teeth down to the nerves along the way. Tyler Hamilton was once one of the world’s best-liked and top-ranked cyclists-a fierce competitor renowned among his peers for his uncanny endurance and epic tolerance for pain. The result is an explosive book that takes us, for the first time, deep inside a shadowy, fascinating, and surreal world of unscrupulous doctors, anything-goes team directors, and athletes so relentlessly driven to succeed that they would do anything-and take any risk, physical, mental, or moral-to gain the edge they need to win. Over the course of two years, Coyle conducted more than two hundred hours of interviews with Hamilton and spoke candidly with numerous teammates, rivals, and friends. The Secret Race is a definitive look at the world of professional cycling-and the doping issue surrounding this sport and its most iconic rider, Lance Armstrong-by former Olympic gold medalist Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle. Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs ![]() ![]() ![]() Is it a metaphor for our relationship to nature? Fuck off. Is Bear one of those 1970s books about growing out your armpit hair? Kind of, but not only. ![]() There is also something timeless to be written. ![]() Jokes about never-to-be-seen footage, enjoinments to hear every sentence in Werner Herzog’s voice. It perhaps contains a tie-in with The Revenant (2015), and an anecdote about the time your mother saw it in the cinema by mistake and texted: ‘The bear did not rape Leo as was reported.’ It perhaps contains a reference to the tame Instagram bear Stepan, whose duty it has somehow become to sensually embrace a variety of hot Russian models in fields. It involves the aforementioned cover art, 1970s plaid shirt feminism, the rediscovery of this book every two years by roving groups of content foragers, who must live on the phallic morels they find in the woods. There is a modern essay to be written about this work. The bear of the title looms over her shoulders, a Muppet designed to be sexual, smiling inside the dark cavern of his face and presumably doing her from behind. Her tits are perfect, like two drawers of a card catalogue. I am talking about the notorious mass market paperback of Marian Engel’s 1976 masterpiece, where the body of a softcore librarian is completely laid open to us, surrounded by flowing silk. ![]() ![]() ![]() The only hint being that at the slightest glimpse of the Margrave, their eyes seem to turn blood red. ![]() And Wilfrid? Well, no one is quite sure what they desire. Wilfrid, for their part, ends up entangled with the enigmatic Oswald, a charge of the King desperate on retaking the city the Margrave holds. But, they very well may face his wrath regardless. The guard, Beppe and his ally, Anton, will face the wrath of the Margrave should their plot be discovered. They’ve hatched a plot to get Wilfred out of the city, which has fallen under control of a disgraced fanatic, the Margrave. It is asked innocently, as if between friends, as a guard plays cards with his prisoner, the mysterious Wilfred. How do you think you’re going to die? It’s the first question posed in Jennifer Doyle’s queer revenge thriller, Knights Errant. A comiXologist recommends… KNIGHTS-ERRANT Vol. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Suddenly caught in a dubious plot involving Soviet spies, Hong Kong’s criminal underground, and the hostile takeover of his company, Dunross holds nothing back in the fight for the Noble House.Įspionage, mayhem, and high-stakes betrayals make Noble House Clavell’s most prolific and imaginatively crafted narrative in the Asian Saga. But his rival, Quillan Gornt, has other plans. And he’ll do whatever it takes-including striking a hard-fought deal with an American millionaire. Ian Dunross, the current tai-pan of the illustrious yet financially troubled Struan empire, is racing to undo the damage his predecessor left behind and to once again stand on stable ground. Taking place over the course of an eventful week in 1963 Hong Kong, James Clavell’s Noble House is a masterfully woven novel of true suspense. ![]() ![]() The epic novel of espionage, betrayal and turbulence in 1960s Hong Kong by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell ![]() ![]() ![]() An original copy of the poem Moore wrote and signed for an acquaintance in 1860 sold for $280,000 to a Manhattan CEO in 2006 who later read it to guests-in a protective plastic sleeve-at his holiday party.Ħ. Nicholas” until 1844 when he included it in a book of poetry.ĥ. First attributed to Moore in 1837, he didn’t publicly claim authorship of “A Visit from St. Donner was actually Dunder’s second name change-he was also called Donder.Ĥ. Donner and Blitzen were originally named Dunder and Blixem. ![]() The poem first appeared uncredited in the Troy Sentinel on December 23, 1823.ģ. A friend visiting from upstate New York was so impressed, she sent it to a newspaper editor (without permission) who published it the following year.Ģ. ![]() Nicholas,” he read it to his children on Christmas Eve. After Moore wrote the poem he named “A Visit from St. Here, a few things that you may not know about it-including a long-standing controversy questioning authorship.ġ. Originally a simple poem written by biblical scholar and professor, Clement Clarke Moore for his children in 1822, “The Night Before Christmas” is the most well-recognized, iconic holiday poem in American pop culture. Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse…” “'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house ![]() ![]() Shortly after her death, Dictée went out of print. The paper made no mention of her art or writing. “A woman who was found slain in a Chinatown parking lot was identified yesterday as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, 31, of 247 Elizabeth St.,” read a short item in the New York Daily News two days later. An initial police report described her as an “Oriental Jane Doe.” The public barely eulogized her. Sanza, who committed a series of rapes in Florida before relocating to New York, dumped her body in a parking lot blocks from the building. A security guard there named Joey Sanza raped and strangled Cha. On November 5, 1982, mere days after the book’s release, she traveled to Manhattan’s Puck Building to meet her husband, the photographer Richard Barnes, who was working on a project documenting the building’s renovations. The book signaled a step forward for her. “It is hard to say what I feel, how I feel, except that I feel freed, and I also feel naked,” she wrote her brother John Cha just months before the book’s publication. A resolutely avant-garde book, Dictée liberated Cha from her malaise. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For many years, he has had a secret love whose name was Mrs Silver. Mr Hoppy is a shy elderly man who lives alone in an apartment, tending to his many plants, which have been the centre of his life since he retired from his job in a bus garage several years before. Crossposted at WordPress, Blogspot, & Librarything by Bookstooge’s Exalted Permission This review is written with a GPL 4.0 license and the rights contained therein shall supersede all TOS by any and all websites in regards to copying and sharing without proper authorization and permissions. It's a short book but one of his better ones. It wasn't the best thing ever, but it was a funny little love story and I was amused reading it. They just don't grab me, for all I do like Quentin Blake's illustrations. I generally don't really like Roald Dahl's books. Mrs Silver, so impressed by him, agrees to marry him and they all live happily ever after. I enjoyed the silliness and creativity Mr Hopper demonstrates in solving the problem. And then by actually buying all the tortoises available at a bunch of pet shops and replacing Alfie with a slightly bigger tortoise every week for eight weeks. Which he does with a backwards poem (because the language of tortoises is backwards - obviously - said night and day. When Mrs Silver says she desperately wants to see Alfie grow bigger, Mr Hopper is determined to make it happen. ![]() Mr Hopper is desperately in love with his neighbour Mrs Silver who spends all her time doting on her pet tortoise Alfie. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Not having the patience to wait until June, I sourced myself a proof copy and soon after sat down to meet one of literature’s dark and disturbing characters to date. Announced at the end of last year, and published by Bloomsbury, Animal is described as a depiction of female rage at its rawest, and a visceral exploration of the fallout from a male-dominated society, and has been lauded by writers and critics alike in the lead up to its publication. An unputdownable exploration of the love lives of three women living in modern-day America, it swiftly became one of 2019’s most sought-after non-fiction books, and subsequently positioned American author and journalist Taddeo, as something of a literary sensation.Īnd so, like many readers around the world, after finishing Three Women, I eagerly awaited her next book. Like many readers around the world – I read – and loved Three Women by Lisa Taddeo. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ernst Theodor Wilhelm, born on 24 January 1776, was the youngest of three children, of whom the second died in infancy. In 1767 he married his cousin, Lovisa Albertina Doerffer (1748–96). His father, Christoph Ludwig Hoffmann (1736–97), was a barrister in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), as well as a poet and amateur musician who played the viola da gamba. Hoffmann's ancestors, both maternal and paternal, were jurists. ![]() Hoffmann's stories highly influenced 19th-century literature, and he is one of the major authors of the Romantic movement. The ballet Coppélia is based on two other stories that Hoffmann wrote, while Schumann's Kreisleriana is based on Hoffmann's character Johannes Kreisler. ![]() He is also the author of the novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is based. His stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which Hoffmann appears (heavily fictionalized) as the hero. ![]() Jurist, author, composer, music critic, artistĮrnst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann 24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist. Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia, Holy Roman Empireīerlin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Confederation ![]() |