Van Veen’s essay focuses on the way in which Fledgling questions the human not just through species, but race, highlighting the need to pay attention to discourses of blackness, black culture, and black feminism in discussing Butler’s work. van Veen argues that Fledgling is particularly crucial to understanding the relationship between discourses of Afrofuturism, which (re)imagine blackness in the future or past by way of science fiction, and posthumanism, which critically re-evaluates Western ideas of the human while proposing models for post-human entanglements with animal, machine, earth, and alien.
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Lydia weaves past and present, field biology and neuroscience, to show how our bodies and minds are designed for friendship across life stages, the processes by which healthy social bonds are developed and maintained, and how friendship is changing in the age of social media. At long last, social connection is recognized as critical to wellness and longevity. She meets scientists at the frontiers of brain and genetics research and discovers that friendship is reflected in our brain waves, our genomes, and our cardiovascular and immune systems its opposite, loneliness, can kill. Lydia sees this urge to connect reflected in primates, too, taking us to a monkey sanctuary in Puerto Rico and a baboon colony in Kenya to examine social bonds that offer insight into our own. She finds friendship to be as old as early life on the African savannas―when tribes of people grew large enough for individuals to seek fulfillment of their social needs outside their immediate families. In Friendship, Lydia takes us in search of friendship’s biological, psychological, and evolutionary foundations. Indeed, in her chapter on the comma, Truss even quotes Scripture to make the point. That aside, the point of the joke is obvious: poorly punctuated sentences can lead to hilarious, but sometimes also to dire, confusion. The British tend to leave it out (as in this book’s title). Now, it must be noted, I punctuated that joke in the American fashion that includes a comma (technically known as either the “Oxford comma” or the “serial comma”) prior to the final “and” in a serial list. Turning to the entry for “panda,” they read, “Panda: large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. He hands them a (poorly punctuated) dictionary and encourages them to look it up for themselves. Bewildered, the customers ask the restaurant manager what is going on. Upon finishing his meal, the panda stands up, pulls out a pistol, fires several shots into the back wall of the restaurant, and then walks out. The book’s title comes from a joke: A panda walks into a restaurant and orders some food. In her surprise bestseller Eats, Shoots and Leaves, British author Truss launches a frontal assault on the English world’s increasing sloppiness when it comes to precision of linguistic expression. According to a well-known Puritan adage from Joseph Hall, “God loveth adverbs and cares not how good, but how well.” It may well be true that the Almighty loves adverbs, but if Lynne Truss is to be believed, then God would have to be passionate also about proper punctuation. But in the process learns that she’s been making a family in this new galaxy all along. That mystery hangs over her head as Viv spends her time trying to get back to her home Earth. What are the Empress’s motives? Why would someone so all-powerful bring Viv into a universe where she would be useless? There’s a strange religious faith that’s studying the Empress and how she does the goddess-like things she does, such as wiping out entire civilizations (for what she considers good reason). People are connected via the Cloud–except for her, it seems, they consider Viv soulless. The green goddess known in these parts as the Empress disappears as soon as they arrive and Viv is dropped into a universe of unknowns. Not exactly the results she was expecting. And in the process of using her hacking skills to stop said evil ones she is plucked away from the earth by a green goddess and transferred to another galaxy. In the opening pages of EMPRESS OF FOREVER, Viv finds herself being pursued by people who would stop her from using her genius and influence to change their hold over the world economy. I will admit I had no idea about this book’s existence until it’s sequel, Vengeful, arrived on bookshelves over the summer of 2018, and the gorgeous cover design immediately drew me in, and the blurb inside sounded like an amazing journey too! I go onto my bible, Goodreads, and saw that it was actually the sequel to another title, the very book this review is about. I wish to someday sit down with Victoria (V.E.) Schwab and just talk to her and find out where the hell she gets all her ideas from… How does she think up the stories that pop into her head? Where does she draw her inspiration from? Is she actually in fact human, or is she some enchanted Poet Laureate that is gifted from the gods in creating amazing stories? I want her to publish a book on creative writing or on her process because her books are seriously just so breathtaking, so unique, so creative, and so inspiring! Genre(s): Sci-Fi/Fantasy (Urban Fantasy) Total Star Rating: 4 Stars Rethink the way you manage your daily life. Then they sit around and wonder why they're not getting significant results in their lives. More often than not, people fill their lists with a disorganized mess of tasks, wants, needs and random ideas. The hard part is creating a list that's actionable and also fits into your busy life. The wrong type of list can be de-motivating, causing you to slack off and procrastinate.ĭiscover: How to Create To-Do Lists That are Both Actionable and Doable Sadly, to-do lists often have the opposite effect. We all write lists with the hope that they will turn us into productivity machines. You work hard at a frantic pace, but you end up feeling frustrated because there's not enough time to do everything. Next thing you know, the day is almost over. Learn: Why Most People FAIL At Getting Things DoneĪre you creating to-do lists that never get to-done? It's easy to start each workday with a lengthy list of tasks. “Livingston’s intense novel will satisfy eager readers. “Memorable characters and a plot replete with some staggering acts of loyalty and betrayal will have fans eagerly awaiting the next installment.” - QUILL & QUIRE Perfect for fans of Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments series, and set in the same universe as Lesley Livingston’s much-loved Wondrous Strange trilogy, with roots in Greek, Roman, Norse, Egyptian and Celtic myths and legends, this thrilling conclusion to the acclaimed Starling trilogy is filled to the hilt with sweeping adventure and soaring romance. Has this unstoppable heroine-smart, savvy, deadly with a blade-reached the limits of what her sword can vanquish and her soul can survive? Even if he lives, their future is far from certain as chaos swirls around them. On a terrace high above the streets of Manhattan, Mason Starling kneels beside her beloved Fennrys Wolf, who lies in a pool of blood, his life hanging in the balance. Fittingly the Broadway theatre where his last play will be produced in 2006 has been renamed the August Wilson Theater in his honor. Gem of the Oceanrecently played across the country and on Broadway, with Phylicia Rashad as Aunt Esther.Įarlier in 2005, on the completion of the final work of his ten play cycle-surely the most ambitious American dramatic project undertaken in our history- August Wilsondisclosed his bout with cancer, an illness of unusual ferocity that would eventually claim his life on October 2. Aunt Esther, the drama’s 287-year-old fiery matriarch, welcomes into her Hill District home Solly Two Kings, who was born into slavery and scouted for the Union Army, and Citizen Barlow, a young man from Alabama searching for a new life. Set in 1904 Pittsburgh, it is chronologically the first work in August Wilson’s decade-by-decade cycle dramatizing the African American experience during the 20th century-an unprecedented series that includes the Pulitzer Prize–winning plays Fencesand The Piano Lesson. Gem of the Oceanis the play that begins it all. The play holds the stage and its characters hammer home, strongly, the notion of newfound freedom.”-Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune Theatergoers who have followed August Wilson’s career will find in Gem a touchstone for everything else he has written.”-Ben Brantley, The New York Times “A swelling battle hymn of transporting beauty. “No one except perhaps Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater.”-John Lahr, The New Yorker Journey through dense forests, flowering fields, rolling hills, murky swamps, scorching deserts, dark caverns, plagued cities, towering waterfalls, erupting volcanoes, and snowy mountain peaks. With each resource you refine, fortification you lay, vassal you recruit, alliance your form, and battle you triumph, you will slowly establish your medieval dynasty.Įxplore a vast world teeming with danger and beauty. Hunt wildlife, gather resources, build your settlement, and forge weapons and armor to protect yourself. You wake up on the stranded shores of an unfamiliar land, with nothing but a club made of driftwood to defend yourself. Reign and Ruin is an immersive multiplayer medieval experience in which you must survive, craft, build, fight, siege, and ultimately establish your reign across the realm. |