![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At time I remember thinking that it was like playing pretend with your friends, where you have this nice gothic fantasy going about having to escape from your evil grandmother’s attic and you have this one inappropriate friend who keeps bringing weird sex stuff into it. I read it for the first time as an adult and was shocked that any 13-year-old got through enough of it to even giggle about the dirty parts. The third book is Flowers in the Attic, which (aside from being well known and widely-read) is a real literary mess. The second is Go Ask Alice, which I definitely feel like is too well-remembered and widely-read as a comprise I did review Anonymous/Beatrice Sparks’s Jay’s Journal, which in my humble opinion is much wilder and weirder than Alice and remains one of my favorite “discoveries” for this project. Kerr’s Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!, which I will probably get to at some point, even though I feel like it’s just on the cusp of being too familiar to qualify as a “Lost Classic”. Since this blog’s beginnings, there are three books that most frequently come in as readers’ requests. Now she will come face to face with the dangerous, terrifying secret everyone knows. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And it appears that Hozar tried to cram in as many examples of the suffering the Iranians endured, no matter what their belief system or economic status. ![]() The novel is historical, not autobiographical. Hozar was born in Tehran and moved to Vancouver as a child. It also helps if readers have some knowledge of Iranian history during this time. But as a narrative strategy, it can be confusing. The third person point of view shifts from character to character and through time and place in a somewhat incoherent manner, perhaps mirroring the turmoil facing individuals and the country. ![]() ![]() Hozar’s cast of characters is vast although each one has an effect on Aria, and to some degree is affected by her. While the baby is saved from death in the freezing Tehran night, her childhood is full of abuse from her new mother Zahra. Abandoned as a newborn under a mulberry tree by her mother Mehri, who fears the baby’s father will kill her, Aria is found by a man who takes her home to his wife. Nazanine Hozar’s debut novel tackles the chaos of Iran from 1953 to 1981 by focussing on the life of its title character, Aria. On March 12, 2020, Hozar’s Aria was one of five books shortlisted for the 2020 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes - Ed. Toronto: Penguin Random House (Knopf Canada) ![]() ![]() ![]() Some say that faith provides them with guidance and resources for knowing how to live well. 25% say that they have been "born again." Teenagers feel good about the congregations they belong to. 60% say that religious faith is important in their lives. Surveys reveal that 35% attend religious services weekly and another 15% attend at least monthly. But many teenagers are very involved in religion. ![]() Very few such efforts pay serious attention to the role of religion and spirituality in the lives of American adolescents. ![]() In innumerable discussions and activities dedicated to better understanding and helping teenagers, one aspect of teenage life is curiously overlooked. Download Soul Searching The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle ![]() ![]() Wells’s The Time Machine (1895).1 In his first novel, Wells invents not just a new plot but a new chronotope. Wells’s The Time Machine to postmodern science fiction as a brief history of a-historicity.Īs opposed to most narrative conventions, time travel originates in a single text, H. ![]() In this essay, I will trace the development of time travel, from H. The postmodern trouble with time finds its expression in the “spatial turn” in narrativity, which includes the topos of time travel (Smethurst 37). ![]() The roots of this ideology are in the evolutionary debate of the fin-de-siècle but its contemporary offshoots have become part of postmodernity’s problematic relationship with time and history. What is at stake in treating time “as a kind of space,” politically, philosophically, and narratologically? While time travel has often been dismissed as merely a popular science-fictional gimmick, it seems far more productive to regard it as an inscription of a specific ideology of temporality. ![]() “‘Scientific people,’ proceeded the Time Traveller, after the pause required for the proper assimilation of this, ‘know very well that Time is only a kind of Space’” (The Time Machine 268). ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile Musk’s marriage disintegrated as his technological obsessions took over his life. Musk was forced out as CEO and so began his lost years in which he decided to go it alone and baffled friends by investing his fortune in rockets and electric cars. He started a pair of huge dot-com successes, including PayPal, which eBay acquired for $1.5 billion in 2002. In the midst of these rough conditions, and the violence of apartheid South Africa, Musk still thrived academically and attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he paid his own way through school by turning his house into a club and throwing massive parties. He was a freakishly bright kid who was bullied brutally at school, and abused by his father. The personal tale of Musk’s life comes with all the trappings one associates with a great, drama-filled story. He is the real-life inspiration for the Iron Man series of films starring Robert Downey Junior. Musk wants to save our planet he wants to send citizens into space, to form a colony on Mars he wants to make money while doing these things and he wants us all to know about it. ![]() South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. ![]() ![]() The first three titles released in Tarcher's Supernatural Library are Ghost Hunter (by Hans Holzer), Romance of Sorcery (by Sax Rohmer) and Isis in America (by Henry Steel Olcott). The prestige edition of the classic, trail-blazing work on ghost hunting will intrigue new fans and longtime devotees alike-part of the new Tarcher Supernatural Library. ![]() This is the classic 1963 book that launched his publishing career and gained him international fame. Ghost Hunter presented some of the first-ever case studies of haunting investigations, taken from Holzer’s own practice in the New York City area-ranging from Civil War-era spirits to the tormented ghosts of murder victims.įor devoted ghost-hunting aficionados curious about the practice’s history, there is no better place to start than the first book Hans Holzer wrote, Ghost Hunter. ![]() Fifty years before The Conjuring, Paranormal State, Ghost Hunters, Insidiousand Most Haunted, there was Hans Holzer-a man known as the “Father of the Paranormal.” Holzer pioneered ghost-hunting methods still used today, and brought ghosts and ghost hunting into popular culture in the second half of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() It’s so singular that it’s almost irresistible indeed, if you can get past the gushing and the gruesome, “The Trauma Cleaner” is a book you shouldn’t wait to get your hands on. ![]() This is a biography of cringing, compassion, and somebody’s-got-to-do-it resourcefulness, plus irritations, but with a breezy heft of fabrication built in. The opposite of trauma is order, proportion. Winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature, Sarah Krasnostein’s The Trauma Cleaner:One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster is the fascinating biography of one of the people responsible for tidying up homes in the wake of naturaland unnaturalcatastrophes and fatalities. The goodness – and there’s an industrial-sized dustpan full of it – comes between the lines. Sarah Krasnostein, The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster tags: inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-quotes 13 likes Like The opposite of trauma is not the absence of trauma. ![]() She’s also exceedingly, perhaps needlessly, explicit in details of a sexual nature while largely ignoring big opportunities for enlightenment on the business side of the book. ![]() Here, though, Krasnostein uses familiarity to gush about her subject in a way that could make readers wince uncomfortably. Says Pankhurst, “None of us know what tomorrow’s got in store.”Īs enjoyable as this unique tale is, there are a few things you’ll need to know before you sweep through “The Trauma Cleaner.”įirst of all, in her get-to-know-you time, author Sarah Krasnostein became close friends with her subject, which is good in most cases. ![]() ![]() ![]() You feel it on the page even while they aren’t together, it’s in between every line, it’s palpable, it’s raw, and so deliciously enticing. (In some stories, I might argue it’s the friendships.) The love story however, is memorable and moving and so achingly brilliant because the prevalent longing between Sesily and Caleb feels guttural almost. MacLean writes friendship just as gorgeously as she does romance, but Bombshell’s strength is the love story. A whirlwind of chaos, mystery, and a whole lot of bombshells after another, but nevertheless, in the words of MacLean herself, it smashes. So much so, that towards the end, I completely lost track of the plot and had no idea what was happening. Sarah Maclean’s Bombshell, is in fact, very appropriately titled. Some minor spoilers from Bombshell read only after you’ve finished the novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Oh, someday, you'll get to die, yes, but that's a long way off. No doubt, you have a family and probably plenty of debt, by the looks of you. Put away this nonsense about living for yourself, free and easy in the wilderness like a savage. ![]() You can just dropp these fantastic ideas you have about running off to live a natural life or thinking about the life you should have lived. His house is in the village though He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. “Oh, and let me tell you this, you loitering fool. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Lyrics Whose woods these are I think I know. Are you sad about something? Having some personal hardship, are you? Are you feeling sorry for yourself? Well, boo-hoo and too bad for you! Now stop this foolishness and get on with it! There is work to be done, and it is not going to get done with you lagging here. ![]() “Hey, you there! Yes, you, dallying by my woods! Don't you have somewhere to be? I suppose your employer enjoys throwing his hard earned money away so you can sit out here in the cold gawking at trees? The poem is best summed up in this way:įor the working man in society, life sucks and then you die. There is no beauty or optimism in this poem, only gloom. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon the cynical and opportunistic Joe becomes Norma's kept man. ![]() Joe realizes that the script is hopeless, but the money is good and he has nowhere else to go. Upon learning Joe's profession, Norma inveigles him into helping her with a comeback script that she's been working on for years. Wandering into the spooky place, Joe encounters its owner, imperious silent star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson). Hotly pursued by repo men, impoverished, indebted "boy wonder" screenwriter Gillis ducks into the garage of an apparently abandoned Sunset Boulevard mansion. Gillis told his tale to his fellow corpses in the city morgue, but this elicited such laughter during the preview that Wilder changed it). From The Great Beyond, Joe details the circumstances of his untimely demise (originally, the film contained a lengthy prologue wherein the late Mr. The story begins at the end as the body of Joe Gillis (William Holden) is fished out of a Hollywood swimming pool. Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom. ![]() |