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![]() ![]() ![]() By turning the study of Islam into a science of observation and description of objective reality, Western scholars and writers propogated the idea of a known Islam that was available to general Western imagination. He describes how philology and anthropology played a large role in encouraging Orientalist views of Islam. In the second chapter, Said deepens his discussion of Orientalism by analyzing several cultural texts with an emphasis on Western studies of Islam. This effort is motivated by a self-perpetuating crisis: the more the West involves itself with the Orient and professes to contain it, the more complicated the Orient becomes to the West. However, as the Orient is a culturally-diverse, politically-nuanced, and highly-expansivegeographical space, the West constantly returns to it through their scholarship and political intervention in a persistent effort to contain it. ![]() ![]() While Orientalism is a force that has shaped different intellectual and political activities across the West and the Orient, its impacts could always be traced back to its consolidating tendency. In the first chapter, Said addresses the scope of Orientalism as a historical practice of consolidating knowledge about the Orient into forms that can be studied and conveyed to a Western audience. Across three chapters, each with four topical sections, Said moves through the discussion of Orientalism, addressing first its scope, then its various structures, and, finally, its most recent iterations. ![]() ![]() Falling in love with someone who knows exactly who they are and exactly why they can't love you back might be impossible. But falling in love can be hard when you don't know who you are. It is the story of an unlikely friendship, where hope fosters healing and redemption becomes love. Her fantasy novel, The Bird and the Sword, was a Goodreads Book of the Year finalist. This is the story of a nobody who becomes somebody. This is the story of a nobody who becomes somebody. Amy Harmon has written eighteen novels including the USA Today Bestsellers, Making Faces and Running Barefoot, as well as The Law of Moses, Infinity + One and the New York Times Bestseller, A Different Blue. Tough, hard, and overtly sexy, she is the complete opposite of the young British teacher who decides he is up for the challenge, and takes the troublemaker under his wing. ![]() With no mother, no father, no faith, and no future, Blue Echohawk is a difficult student, to say the least. At nineteen, when most kids her age are attending college or moving on with life, she is just a senior in high school. Abandoned at two and raised by a drifter, she didn't attend school until she was ten years old. She doesn't know her real name or when she was born. ![]() ![]() The Spencer Hill Press release will have bonus content never before available.īlue Echohawk doesn't know who she is. ![]() ![]() ![]() Over the course of the next 24 hours, Clare takes Nora’s phone to text with James (as Nora). The text is to James, asking him to come to the house to talk to Nora. Flo (the doting BFF and maid of honor) is easily convinced and doesn’t question the request. Clare says she’s planning a hen party to tell Nora in person, when in actuality she knows telling Nora will only make things worse, not better.Ĭlare has Flo send a “joke” text from Nora’s phone when Nora arrives to the house. James says he can’t trust her, but might be able to forgive her if she comes clean to Nora. ![]() James did not take well to the new knowledge that Clare had lied to him and Nora and caused their breakup. She saw this as a sign of love and desirability, and decided to share her own secret in return. ![]() This makes her realize that Clare was the one that sent the break up text and leads to the revelation and confirmation that Clare set everything up.Ĭlare’s plan started when James revealed to her that he had played some games to get his first date with her. Nora had been pregnant, when she told James, he freaked out and asked for space, and that’s when Clare saw an opportunity to break them up. Leonora (aka Nora, aka Lee) realizes that the text she received from James as a teenager breaking up with her referred to her as “Lee”, when James actually called her Leo. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Perhaps the most sublime piece of popular literature America has ever produced…. The first five novels were originally published. The stories recount the lives of a broad cross-section of the city’s denizens, and the transformative impact that the characters and the city have on each other. “An enormously talented writer-witty but always sympathetic, generous in showing us the secrets of his heart.By writing about what’s seemingly different Armistead Maupin always manages to capture what’s so hilariously painfully true for all of us.” - Amy Tan Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City is a series of eight novels set primarily in San Francisco, spanning from 1976 to the present. “A consummate entertainer who has made a generation laugh.It is Maupin’s Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly.” - Edmund White, Times Literary Supplement The first of nine novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, Tales is both a sparkling comedy of manners and an indelible portrait of an era that changed forever the way we live. The first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.įor almost four decades Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culture-from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel, to a television event that entranced millions around the world. Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City ![]() ![]() To get the gig, he must agree to a fluffy joint article with Stiletto. except that his playboy reputation makes his new editor nervous. Oxford is adding a travel section, and Jake-with no wife and no kids and a willingness to live anywhere, eat anything, do everything-is perfect for the job. or is she? Jake Malone wants to get back to the fly-by-night, who-knows-what's-next guy he used to be, and he knows exactly how to do it. ![]() Grace 1.0 may have been instantly smitten with the gorgeous correspondent, but Grace 2.0 has sworn off relationships for six months, and she's not falling for his outstanding bod and trophy-winning kisses. After Grace takes a heart-mending hiatus, her first assignment is to go on a couple of dates with a counterpart from the men's magazine Oxford and report her impressions. ![]() ![]() She just never suspected her fiancé would be one of them. As a leading columnist for Stiletto, Grace Brighton has built a career warning women about rotten, cheating liars. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The amount of money they have and their skills play an important role in their social status. At the beginning, the students make a donation to the school, which will represent the amount they will use in gamble. The system is a little similar with Liar Game. Yes, the whole school is a damn casino, in which those kids bet money. But this school is pretty unique not only is full of rich punks, but it has a special system, that revolves around. The action happens in a private school where are enrolled the progenitors of the elites (politicians, rich bastards, etc.). That why I will not give too much information, otherwise I will spoil you. This manga doesn’t have a review and I consider it deserve at least a short one, even though it has just 6 chapter for the moment. ![]() ![]() The science fiction of that time was more hopeful, much less dystopian than nowadays, and may even sound a little hokey to an adult reader of the 21st century. The question is, how can Jon return to his own planet before his presence gets the Beans into serious trouble? Jon doesn’t understand money or airplanes or killing animals for meat, but he does seem to understand some things quite well and learn things exceptionally quickly. The Beans come to realize that Jon is from an “advanced civilization” where things are simpler and more honest than they are on Earth. I could picture the story played out on the small screen. But this story takes place back in the hills of the Carolinas, and not everyone is as welcoming as the Beans are to strangers, especially a strange boy who can run like a deer and who can possibly read minds.Īs I said, this short 140 page juvenile novel reminded me of a TV episode from the 1960’s. Then, the Bean family-Thomas and Mary Bean and their children Brooks and Sally-befriend Jon and try to help him remember and return to his own home. Jon first meets up with some unfriendly, even hostile, people who chase him and are frightened by his exceptional abilities. He only knows that he has fallen through the forgotten door to this strange planet, Earth, and that he is in great danger. ![]() The boy, Jon, has lost his memory and does not know who he is or where he came from. ![]() ![]() The Forgotten Door by Alexander Key is another older science fiction title, published in 1965, and it reads like a vintage episode of The Twilight Zone. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Benjamin’s essay extolled the role of story tellers in the history of Western civilization and was published in 1936, the year of McMurtry’s birth. The genesis for this volume took place some years ago while McMurtry was sitting in the Archer City Dairy Queen, reading an essay by the German literary critic Walter Benjamin. ![]() More than anything else, this memoir reveals that the Archer City author has always placed a much higher priority on what he takes into his creative mind than on what flows from it. But as this volume-length essay demonstrates, what moved this most famous of the state’s native literary sons from the obscurity of West Texas cat tle country to quasi-greatness as an American novelist was not his love of writ ing, but rather, his devotion to reading. It may well be that Larry McMurtry’s forty-some-odd-year career will be as close as the Lone Star state will ever come to providing the literary world with a monumental scribbler whose works have come to stand for excellence in let' ters. Reviewed by C lay R eynolds University of Texas at Dallas Texas has produced a number of great books, but no truly great writer. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:īOOK REVIEWS Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond. ![]() ![]() At least in Western countries, aspiring yogis, intimidated by the Gita's Sanskrit terminology, set the book aside to be studied later. The sad truth is that most people are not studying the Bhagavad-gita, traditionally seen as a yoga-sutra, a treatise on yoga. Most people get beyond that and see that it's much, much more." ![]() As supermodel Christy Turlington, pictured on the cover as an ardent practitioner, is quoted as saying, "Some of my friends simply want to have a yoga butt." Patricia Walden, a prominent yoga teacher who has made a fortune producing instructional videos, responds to what many would consider a shallow approach to yoga: "If you start doing yoga for those reasons, fine. ![]() When Time magazine ran a cover story on the science of yoga, it reported that "fifteen million Americans include some form of yoga in their fitness regimen-twice as many as did five years ago." Yet one wonders if any of the fifteen million are getting out of yoga what they should. Lord Krishna discusses the major forms of yoga, setting up a hierarchy and saying clearly which one belongs at the top. ![]() |