First, there's a foreword by someone connected with the show (for S3 it's Sera Gamble), then an overview of the season as a whole. The publishers, Titan Books, follow a consistent framework for each season (in fact, it's the same one they've been using for their Smallville companion books for years). If you haven't yet treated yourself to one of these companion books, I'll give you a quick rundown of what they contain. I can't imagine a fan who wouldn't find it a valuable addition to their collection. Just like the two that came before it, it's an amazing volume, chock full of information, anecdotes, photographs, glimpses behind the scenes, and insightful quotes from everyone involved in the production of this show we love so much. My copy of Supernatural: The Official Companion Season 3, by Nicholas Knight, arrived yesterday, and of course I ended up staying up way too late reading it cover to cover in one sitting.
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5/30/2023 0 Comments Panic oliverI've been a Lauren Oliver fan since I first came across "Before I Fall" a few years ago. In this gritty, spellbinding novel, New York Times best-selling author Lauren Oliver delivers a gripping narrative of friendship, courage, survival, and hope. Everyone has something to play for.įor Heather and Dodge, the game will bring new alliances, unexpected revelations, and the possibility of first love for each of them - and the knowledge that sometimes the very things we fear are those we need the most. But what he doesn't know is that he's not the only one with a secret. His secret will fuel him, and get him all the way through the game he's sure of it. But when she finds something, and someone, to fight for, she will discover that she is braver than she ever thought.ĭodge has never been afraid of panic. She'd never thought of herself as fearless, the kind of person who would fight to stand out. Heather never thought she would compete in panic, a legendary game played by graduating seniors, where the stakes are high and the payoff is even higher. Panic began as so many things do in Carp, a poor town of 12,000 people in the middle of nowhere: Because it was summer, and there was nothing else to do. 5/30/2023 0 Comments VHS by Cesar BravoTags: Interminable Rambling, Mat Johnson, Matthew Teutsch, Warren PleeceĬomments Off on Deconstructing Whiteness in “Incognegro” Today, I want to look at a couple of moments from Incognegro and discuss how these moments add to the class’s discussions we have had throughout the course of the semester… We concluded the semester with Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece’s Incognegro, a graphic novel that breaks down constructs of race and highlights the ways that society, especially those who want to maintain power, constructs one’s identity. We explored it in the ways that Manar navigates her identity in a new land in Mohja Kahf’s “Manar of Hama” to the ways that Long Vanh navigates his Afro-Asian identity in the face of the community and his own family in Genaro Kỳ Lý Smith’s The Land South of the Clouds. We looked at this from the beginning of the semester through the end. This semester, in my Ethnic American Literature course, we explored the ways that we, as individuals, construct our identities based on ourselves and on the ways that others view us, specifically when they place their preconceived notions upon us. However, when a class ends poignantly on a recurring theme, I find it a really serendipitous occasion. No matter the class, I construct my courses around themes, all teachers do. SmithĮvery semester, I am amazed at the connective tissue that runs through the texts I place on the syllabus and the themes that arise. Matthew Teutsch, Director of the Lillian E. Rooted in analysis of current abolitionist practices and interviews with on-the-ground organizers resisting state violence, building networks to support people in need of abortion care, and nurturing organizations and convergences that can grow transformative cities and movements, Practicing New Worlds takes readers on a journey of learning, unlearning, experimentation, and imagination to dream the worlds we long for into being.Īndrea J. Practicing New Worlds explores how principles of emergence, adaptation, iteration, resilience, transformation, interdependence, decentralization and fractalization can shape organizing toward a world without the violence of surveillance, police, prisons, jails, or cages of any kind, in which we collectively have everything we need to survive and thrive.ĭrawing on decades of experience as an abolitionist organizer, policy advocate, and litigator in movements for racial, gender, economic, and environmental justice and the principles articulated by adrienne maree brown in Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, Ritchie invites us to think beyond traditional legislative and policy change to create more possibilities for survival and resistance in the midst of the ongoing catastrophes of racial capitalism-and the cataclysms to come. An exploration of how emergent strategies can help us meet this moment, survive what is to come, and shape safer and more just futures. I tried to remember that I didn’t need to have a professional take on events and in fact that would kill the story. Finally, in November 2019, I decided that I would start the book again and no matter what, I would not give up. I am not a journalist, so writing about things as they happen and trying to get perspective is a challenge. I kept getting stuck because it was set in real time. This book was going to be a ghost story set in a bookstore, with one of the booksellers contending with the haunting. I started The Sentence six or seven years ago. Did you start writing The Sentence before or after the pandemic began? Had you already decided to weave in current events? The pandemic and the protests that gripped Minneapolis following George Floyd’s murder are central to your new novel. (Hint: better than you’d expect!) Buy now: $27, A member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and a resident of Minneapolis for more than 20 years, Erdrich shares her inspiration for the novel, her love of the city’s green spaces, and what it feels like to run a bookstore during the pandemic. In her latest novel, The Sentence (November 2021, HarperCollins), Pulitzer Prize–winning author Louise Erdrich chronicles the relationship between Tookie, a formerly incarcerated Ojibwe woman, and the ghost of a white woman haunting the Minneapolis bookstore where Tookie works-a store modeled after Erdrich’s own Birchbark Books. 5/30/2023 0 Comments Cover her face novelI believe their choices should be supported and accepted by their parents, but I do not think kids have the mental capabilities to make rational, logical decisions on things of a magnitude that will affect them for the rest of their lives. In his lengthy response to being dropped by Pride, Snider attempted to explain his viewpoint, saying, “I’ve recently stated I do not believe young children are ready to decide their gender allocation. James' debut novel, the first Adam Dalgliesh mystery, and a thrilling work of crime fiction set in the English countryside, from the best-selling author of Death Comes to Pemberley and Children of Men. The message perpetuated by that tweet casts doubt on young trans people’s ability to self-identify their gender.” “However, when we were notified about the tweet in which Dee expressed support for Kiss’s Paul Stanley’s transphobic statement, we were heartbroken and angry. “Dee has always been a vocal supporter of LGBTQ+ rights ,” said SF Pride in a statement on the matter. The tweet resulted in Pride dropping Snider from its main stage where he was set to perform Twisted Sister’s hard-rock anthem “We’re Not Gonna Take It.” Glad my parents didn’t jump to any rash conclusions.” Snider retweeted Stanley’s remarks, adding, “You know what? There was a time where I ‘felt pretty’ too. 5/30/2023 0 Comments Robert e lee and me ty seiduleIn a unique blend of history and reflection, Seidule deconstructs the truth about the Confederacy-that its undisputed primary goal was the subjugation and enslavement of Black Americans-and directly challenges the idea of honoring those who labored to preserve that system and committed treason in their failed attempt to achieve it. From a soldier, a scholar, and a southerner, American history demands a reckoning. Now, as a retired brigadier general and Professor Emeritus of History at West Point, his view has radically changed. Army, every part of his life reinforced the Lost Cause myth: that Lee was the greatest man who ever lived, and that the Confederates were underdogs who lost the Civil War with honor. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S. Get yourself a mentor for leadership and networking. How to stay put and not get distracted from your purpose. Advice for someone thinking of quitting his job to focus on his side hustle. How to define your most important task and how to do it. Ideas on more ways your business can generate income. Appreciating yourself and recognizing how far you’ve come. The period of not executing versus the time you decide to start implementing your plans. How to make money freelancing Building a system around achieving your goals. Making an informed decision about how much salary to be paid. How the Debt-Free Die Trying book came by. What You Will Learn: How Marcus’s $9000 debt tripled in three days. He shares his story from once being buried in debt to starting a business of his own. In 2021, he relaunched his brand under the name Marcus Garrett. Marcus is a motivational speaker, recovering auditor, and ranked number on amazon kindle bestselling for his book D.E.B.T Free or Die Trying. This episode discusses Marcus Garrett’s journey of getting out of debt, starting a business, and venturing into full-time entrepreneurship. Do you need to get past debt, start a successful business, or just get ahead financially? This is the show for you! 5/29/2023 0 Comments Angelique serge golonLearn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them!
5/29/2023 0 Comments Catch Me If You Can by L.B. GreggNo one ever said Ce’s life was a walk in the park. Oh, and don’t forget the whole blackmail thing, too. In the meantime, he’s also got a job so financially inadequate that he’s forced to live with his Nana, a large Italian family-some of whom are a bit on the shady side-and he’s also dealing with the theft of a bust of Justin Timberlake sculpted entirely of watches. He has an ex-boyfriend who’s keeping a big one, a boss who’s keeping a somewhat bizarre one, a private investigator following him who’s keeping a rather significant one, and that’s just to name a few. “A lie never lives to be old.” – SophoclesĬaesar Romano seems to have a knack for attracting people who not only outright lie but also like to keep a variety of secrets, as well. |