![]() ![]() Scholars have noted that the rhinos turning green can be read as a symbolic representation of the green Nazi uniforms, while the argument over whether the rhinoceroses are Asian or not reflects Nazi propaganda claiming that Jewish people were interlopers from Asia-while the rhinoceroses themselves function as commentary on the idea of an Aryan “master race” that, Ionesco suggests, is violent but powerfully appealing to people unwilling to interrogate what joining in actually means on a moral level. Ionesco was studying at a university in Romania when the Iron Guard was coming to power, and unlike some fascist movements, the Iron Guard’s main hold was in universities. ![]() Rhinoceros was inspired primarily by Ionesco’s experience of World War II and specifically, the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany and the Iron Guard in Romania. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() KAYLA: This week we're talking about the first ace book that's coming out in this. Kayla, what are we talking about this week? And if you're like I very specifically want to support Sarah and Kayla's favorite bookstore, you should get it from Literati Book Store in Ann Arbor, Michigan ![]() KAYLA: And you can buy it from there so you can support your local bookstores. KAYLA: But if you go to indiebound you can put in your zip code and it'll show you Indie stores near you that are offering pre-order on their online websites SARAH: I think that's also one that works KAYLA: It is now available at a lot of Indie stores, so if you go to indiebound is it. SARAH: I hope the rest of you had a good regular weekend unless you also had a long weekend SARAH: I hope all of our Americans had a good long weekend last week KAYLA: On today's episode: compulsory sexuality SARAH: Talk about all things to do with love, relationships, sexuality, and pretty much anything else we just don't understand KAYLA: And a bi demisexual girl, that's me Kayla SARAH: Hey what's up hello, welcome to Sounds Fake but Okay, a podcast where an aroace girl, I'm Sarah that's me ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Macbeth has just learned of the death of this wife, and is in despair. In Macbeth, the protagonist’s “tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow / creeps in this petty pace” soliloquy laments the meaninglessness of life. Yet the title has been fully appropriated, de-contextualized from its original intent. What this says about how we have been conditioned, as readers, is interesting, especially given that the title of the book draws from Shakespeare, master of romance and key forebear to the genre writ large. Though we are well beyond the era of “the marriage plot,” the book seems dead-set, even slightly elbows-out, about the fact that this is not a love story, and still, I wondered the entire time whether Sadie and Sam would end up together. ![]() There are moments in which you think the two protagonists might turn lovers, and there is even a slightly titillating will-they-won’t-they energy that Zevin courts, but Sadie (and, it is to be assumed, Zevin) asserts: romantic relationships are “common,” while “true collaborators in this life are rare.” The fact that this message supersedes all else in this complicated, dark, expansive plot is a feat in and of itself, and an interesting “talk back” to convention. Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow is a story of creative kinship between two gamers, Sam and Sadie, whom we meet as children and follow through their quarterlives. Alert: This Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow book review contains spoilers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Isabelle wrapped up the remains of her sandwich and returned it to her lunch bag. "Oh, my mother went crazy with the hot flashes," somebody said, and thankfully-Amy could feel her heart slow down, her face get cooler in the heat-irritable Wally was left behind hot flashes and crying jags were talked of instead. "They yanked the whole business with Dot." ![]() "Because you didn't have your ovaries out." Arlene nodded again-she was a woman who believed what she said. "You get dry after a hysterectomy, you know." Arlene Tucker offered this with a meaningful nod of her head. Amy's heartbeat quickened, sweat broke out above her lip. "Tell him to take care of it himself," someone said, and there was laughter. "But I take it Wally's getting irritable. "She wishes it was three more months," and here the soda can was popped open. The black line tightened between Amy and Isabelle. "Three more weeks and Dottie can have sex," she said. Fat Bev hit a button on the soda machine and a can of Tab rocked noisily into place. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His five-year voyage on the Beagle established him as a geologist whose observations and theories supported Charles Lyell’s uniformitarian ideas, and publication of his journal of the voyage made him famous as a popular author. In modified form, Darwin’s scientific discovery remains the foundation of biology, as it provides a unifying logical explanation for the diversity of life.ĭarwin developed his interest in natural history while studying medicine at Edinburgh University, then theology at Cambridge. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and the general public in his lifetime, while his theory of natural selection came to be widely seen as the primary explanation of the process of evolution in the 1930s, and now forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory. Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, eminent as a collector and geologist, who proposed and provided scientific evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process he called natural selection. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Booth, meanwhile, shoplifts and dreams of running a three-card monte game on the street like his brother used to do, all with the goal of impressing the girl of his dreams. Even though he is underpaid - in part because of his race - he clings to the job, fearing that he will be replaced by a wax dummy. Lincoln works in an arcade, dressing in whiteface as his namesake, pretending to watch his final play as customers shoot cap guns at him. "Topdog/Underdog" tells the story of brothers named Lincoln and Booth - their father's idea of a joke. "When we read the play on the first day of rehearsal, I had the feeling like, 'Wow, who wrote this? This is a really good play.' " When playwright Suzan-Lori Parks signed on to direct her own Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Topdog/Underdog" for the first time with Two River Theatre Company, the 2002 work felt completely new. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kingsolver, whose 1998 novel, The Poisonwood Bible, was a previous Oprah’s Book Club pick, reacted to the new book’s selection on Instagram, writing, “DEMON COPPERHEAD meets the world today! Along with this smashing surprise we’ve been keeping secret for so many months, it truly feels like a birth day. “This book is an extraordinary coming-of-age tale that journeys through poverty, child labor, addiction, love and loss.” ![]() “Her new novel is just the kind of book you want to read right now: an epic tale set in the mountains of southern Appalachia and narrated by a truly unforgettable protagonist, Damon,” Winfrey wrote on Instagram. ![]() In a starred review, a critic for Kirkus called the novel, inspired by Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, “an angry, powerful book seething with love and outrage for a community too often stereotyped or ignored.” ![]() Kingsolver’s novel, published Tuesday by Harper, follows the son of a single mother struggling to deal with loss and addiction in an economically depressed part of Virginia. Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead is the latest pick for Oprah Winfrey’s popular book club. ![]() ![]() Among Naylor’s other honors, her nonfiction book How I Became a Writer (1978) earned a Golden Kite Award from the Society of Children’s Book Writers. She would continue Shiloh’s story in Shiloh Season (1996) and Saving Shiloh (1997). ![]() ![]() Naylor received numerous awards for her work, most notably the Newbery Medal for Shiloh, a story about a boy who discovers the complexity of decision-making while trying to save an abused dog. She began publishing collections of short stories for children and young adults in 1965, and her first children’s novel, What the Gulls Were Singing, appeared in 1967. In 1963 she received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from American University in Washington, D.C., but decided to forgo graduate school to devote herself to writing full-time. She began writing stories in grade school and was published in a church paper as a teenager. Naylor was born Phyllis Dean Reynolds on January 4, 1933, in Anderson, Indiana. ![]() She was the recipient of the Newbery Medal in 1992 for the book Shiloh (1991). ![]() American author Phyllis Naylor Reynolds wrote more than 125 books for children, young adults, and adults, making a name for herself in a variety of genres. ![]() ![]() ![]() A compelling synthesis of seasoned blues standards (Johnny “Guitar” Watson’s “Too Tired”) and potent original material (“Avalanche”), Ice Pickin’ was Collins’ sixth long-player and, arguably, his best. ![]() Albert Collins: Ice Pickin’ (Alligator, 1978)īorn Albert Gene Drewery in Texas and nicknamed “The Ice Man,” Collins was a cousin of blues maven Lightnin’ Hopkins but was inspired to sing and take up the guitar after hearing a John Lee Hooker record. Listen to 100 Years Of The Blues on Apple Music and Spotify, and scroll down for our list of the best blues albums ever. How many do you have? And just as importantly, what have we missed? Let us know in the comments below. Suffice to say, every album here should be in any discerning blues fan’s collection. We have given you our list of the best blues albums alphabetically, having given up trying to number. ![]() ![]() Then there are some albums that you may not know, like Blind Mississippi Morris’s Back Porch Blues, Koerner, Ray & Glover’s Blues, Rags and Hollers, and Tampa Red’s Don’t Tampa With the Blues they are all equally worthy of inclusion. There are blues albums that everyone acknowledges as among the best – Robert Johnson’s King of The Delta Blues Singers, Junior Wells’s Hoodoo Man Blues, Albert King’s Born Under a Bad Sign, and Magic Sam’s West Side Soul. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Daniel is an omega, just like Ansel, and in polar bear shifter culture a “blood-bond” can only exist between two people who have a child that is genetically related to both of them. In fact, Daniel wants nothing more than to love and take care of Ansel. Ansel’s learned that men only want one thing from him, and then they’re gone. Selecciona el departamento que quieras buscar. Or send him photos that Daniel claims are “irresponsible.” But Daniel’s so cute when he blushes, and it’s just a bit of fun. Alaskan Pebble Gifters Bundle: Books 1&2 (English Edition) eBook : Bellows, Amy: Amazon.es: Tienda Kindle. Ansel probably shouldn’t flirt with Daniel. ![]() Specifically his friend’s father Daniel, a penguin shifter who is surprisingly innocent for a forty-seven-year-old man. It’s set in the same world as the Heron Manor series, but it stands alone. A Pebble for Lewis is a 37,000-word best-friends-to-lovers romance with a size difference, knotting, and MPreg of the penguin egg variety. An Egg for Ansel (Alaskan Pebble Gifters #2) by Amy Bellows – Free eBooks Download But as Lewis’s Pebble Gifting Season draws closer, their forbidden friendship turns into a passion neither of them can ignore. ![]() |