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![]() ![]() From his early experiences of sexual violence, to his suspension from college, to his trek to New York as a young college professor, Laymon charts his complex relationship with his mother, grandmother, anorexia, obesity, sex, writing, and ultimately gambling. ![]() In Heavy, Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson, Mississippi. Laymon invites us to consider the consequences of growing up in a nation wholly obsessed with progress yet wholly disinterested in the messy work of reckoning with where we’ve been. ![]() In his essays, personal stories combine with piercing intellect to reflect both on the state of American society and on his experiences with abuse, which conjure conflicted feelings of shame, joy, confusion and humiliation. In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a black family, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse. ![]() ![]() ![]() Is this their second chance at being together or just a chance to finally get needed closure? ![]() Seeing each other again brings back a myriad of feelings for both men, but while Zander is contemplating asking Cole for another shot to be with him, Cole doesn't know quite how to handle having his not-quite-an-ex around, especially not with Cole having an actual boyfriend who should be occupying his thoughts more than Zander is. The last person Cole expects to enter his classroom more than a decade and a half later is Zander, who just happens to be the father of Cole's troublesome and possibly troubled student Savanah. ![]() Seventeen years ago, Cole spent eight months falling in love with Zander only to have his declaration of love thrown back in his face. Her latest release, Accepting the Fall, is a second chance romance between thirty-four-year-old marine turned firefighter and single father Zander Brooks and thirty-three-year-old kindergarten teacher Cole Whitaker. Meg Harding is a new-to-me author, though I have come across her titles on Goodreads, most of which have gotten pretty good ratings on the average. ![]() ![]() He doesn't want to take time off work to deal with the children, he doesn't want to put them to bed, he doesn't want to babysit on the one night out his wife wants with her friends, he doesn't want to cook, do any shopping, take her out for the evening, in fact he doesn't want to do anything he doesn't want to. And in common with a lot of husbands and fathers he doesn't want to do much. The agreement between the husband and wife is that he is the major earner and she works part-time and does all the child care, housework, and anything else that he doesn't want to. But it goes two layers deep, and it made me very sad. ![]() ![]() On the surface, this is a humorous look at a middle-class, middle-aged couples marriage with an appalling new-age leech of a sister-in-law and a pretentious mother-in-law. ![]() ![]() 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. ![]() ![]() The Color Purple is Alice Walker’s best-known work. Climax: Celie’s enraged outbursts at Mister at dinnerĪlice Walker is a versatile writer who has written and published many collections of poems, memoirs, essays, short stories, and novels.Setting: Early 20th century Georgia and Memphis in the USA and a fictional village in Africa called Olinka.Genre: Epistolary Novel African-American Literature.The abuse and travails Celie suffers render her numb to life but she eventually begins to heal and triumph over her adversities through support from a strong woman named Shug Avery and the loving words of her sister Nettie who shows her different places in the world through her letters. She is later married off to an older widower who continues to rape and abuse her. ![]() The novel centers on Celie, a fourteen-year-old African-American girl who is constantly raped by her father but has no one to help her or to confide in and so resorts to writing letters to God as her only outlet. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thanks to Harper Collins UK for sending me a paperback copy of this lovely, life – affirming and tear jerking novel. ![]() This is a tadem read where bookstagramers recieved gifted copies of Cecelia Ahern’s sequel of PS, I Love You, or you can use your own copy and request just the prompts so you can take part. I was super thrilled to be accepted to be a part of the Tadem Collective Postscript readalong over on Instagram. And if Holly can find the courage meet them, she’ll learn what it really means to live life to the full.īecause every love story has one last thing to say… Now, the mysterious club wants something from her. They’re words that are engraved on her heart – because PS, I Love You is how her husband, Gerry, signed his last letters to her, letters that mark a year she will never forget. These are the six words written on a card handed to Holly Kennedy. ![]() ![]() Student (Mercer): I'm a Liberal! I'm a Liberal! Instructor: Do you think Quebec should be recognized as a nation inside of Canada? Student: Yes. Novem Instructor: Let's say you're a Liberal. Just bring your resume and a two-year supply of food! North Korea - where business is booming. So why not come to where the jobs are? North Korea! We're looking for qualified applicants in the fields of geology, seismology, radioactive leak cleanup, public relations, and mathematics - the kind that measures arcs. Female American tourist: Experiencing your exotic tax system makes us feel like Canuckians!Īnnouncer: Central Canada lost thirty thousand full-time jobs last month, and recession fears are growing. Male American tourist: Wherever we go, we like to live like the locals. ![]() That's right, the visitor rebate program has been canceled! So now you can fully enjoy our Canadian taxes. ![]() ![]() Rick Mercer Quotes Season 4 Octo Announcer: Hey, Americans, come to Canada. ![]() ![]() These women were not just writing for each other by virtue of rescripting the Gothic to express their own anxieties and desires, they also participated in a conversation of sorts with the masculine tradition of the supernatural tale, and negotiated with cultural expectations concerning the place of women in American culture and the relation of women to writing and professional authorship. ![]() ![]() In attending to these ghost stories by nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American women, we are eavesdropping on a conversation of sorts - an exchange among women in dialogue with the larger tradition of American and British supernaturalism more generally. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here, Charlotte and Jamie are finally out of prep school and spending the summer in a pre-college program at Oxford, which is supposed to be an idyllic interlude for two teens in love. Parents need to know that A Question of Holmes is the fourth and final installment in Brittany Cavallero's Charlotte Holmes series, featuring the troubled, brilliant, but well-meaning 18-year-old descendants of the original Holmes and Watson. An important scene takes place in a hotel bar.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. The story takes place in Oxford, England, where all the characters are of legal drinking age, and there's a drunken party at which Charlotte and Jamie get a lot of useful information as alcohol loosens lips, then deal with barfing, hungover teens afterward. Charlotte's working on staying clean and sober after harrowing substance abuses and mishaps in earlier installments she still smokes cigarettes. ![]() |