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Despite statistics that show bisexuality is more common than homosexuality, bisexuality is often invisible. Ask people to name famous bisexual actors, politicians, writers, or scientists, and they draw a blank. It’s an admission, she writes, that usually causes people’s pupils to dilate, their cheeks to flush, and their questions to start flowing. For psychologist and bestselling author Julia Shaw, this is both professional and personal-Shaw studies the science of sexuality and she herself is proudly and vocally bisexual. A provocative, eye-opening, and original book on the science of sexuality beyond gender from an internationally bestselling pop-psychologistĭespite all the welcome changes that have happened in our culture and laws over the past few decades in regards to sexuality, the subject remains one of the most influential but least understood aspects of our lives. But when she is accused of committing a horrifying act, she is forced to go on the run once more in order to stay alive.ĭetermined to clear her name, Zu finds herself in an uncomfortable alliance with Roman and Priyanka, two mysterious Psi who could either help her prove her innocence or betray her before she gets the chance. Melissa Marr, author of the bestselling Wicked Lovely series, on The Darkest Mindsįive years after the destruction of the so-called rehabilitation camps that imprisoned her and countless other Psi kids, seventeen-year-old Suzume 'Zu' Kimura has assumed the role of spokesperson for the interim government, fighting for the rights of Psi kids against a growing tide of misinformation and prejudice. 'A riveting emotional read that kept me on the edge!' “The first decade of the 20th century was not a great time to be born Black and poor and female in St. The subsequent feelings of abandonment stayed with Angelou for years, but their reunion, a decade later, began a story that has never before been told. In MOM & ME & MOM, Angelou details what brought her mother, Vivian Baxter Johnson, to send her and her older brother away when Vivian’s marriage began to crumble. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: the relationship with her mother.Īnyone who’s read I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings knows Angelou was raised by her paternal grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. Through Pixar, the iPod, and the iPhone, Jobs revolutionized the major industries of movies, music, and phones. Finding himself a beginner again, Jobs entered into one of the most creative periods of his life. But soon after success, Jobs was fired from the top spot of his own company. Quickly rising to the top of the computer industry, Jobs pushed all boundaries and cultivated what became the intrinsic hallmark of his genius-his perfectionism, taste, and design style. Steve Jobs was given up for adoption at birth, he dropped out of college after one semester, and at the age of twenty-one, he created Apple in his parents' garage with his friend Steve Wozniack. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” -Steve Jobs, Stanford commencement speechįrom the start, his path was never predictable. Karen Blumenthal - Steve Jobs the Man Who Thought Different Since then, the author has completed three trilogies, three novellas and numerous short stories. Naturally magical, often possessing unearthly beauty, and sometimes deadly, the Wraeththu have captivated readers since Storm Constantine’s first novel, The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit, was published in 1988. New custodians of a battered planet, they have a choice: work and grow to become worthy custodians of the world, or succumb to the lingering humanity within them, and perish as their forerunners did. Wraeththu – a new species or the next step in the evolution of humankind? Androgynous, and stronger in mind and body than their human predecessors, Wraeththu rose from the ruins of human civilisation to start afresh. Lovecraft strength definitely is better appreciated and with better effect on his shorter stories. It shows the amazing world living inside his head, there are very precious moments in the story and some suspense, but the over explanation and rationalization towards the Necronomicon, the tribute to Poe and others that feels to me the ambition for the story was way too big and failed not because he didn’t have the skills to paint the picture, but lacking the skills to wrap them in a good narration. What started as a suspense, horror story, turns into something cartoonish at times. The adventure on the finals parts are interesting and the scenery also, but the chronicle narration gets lost when Lovecraft goes all in in the myths, then there’s nothing reliable and you Im understand that the story was just a excuse to pain the world of the Old Ones and their story. He knew very well how things looked like, but the narration loses effect many times when he forces his myths every now and then. The next part of the story must has been Lovecraft in his top macabre imagination, creating a wonderful destination that loses hits effect in over description at times. Lovecraft on his peak, that is for good and for bad the beginning is quite exiting as a chronicle and the covert knowledge of the English language by Lovecraft helps to set the mood. It’s hard for me to give it 3 stars when there’s so much accomplished here, nevertheless, while this is H. It’s a pity that they aren’t as widely read, enjoyed and celebrated as they deserve to be.Īlso read: How Dante’s Vita Nova inspired an art exhibition Over the last four decades, her books for adults and children have continuously pushed the boundaries of the real and the imagined. They inhabit a morally dubious, if exciting, universe, where conventional beliefs about life and art, gender and sexuality, right and wrong, turn topsy-turvy.īorn in 1941, UK-based Namjoshi embraces these contradictions in her writing with an elan that’s hard to rival. The best fabulists are masters of the art of fibbing. But it could equally mean a liar, a compulsive teller of tales. The word, deriving from the Latin fabula (“story”), refers to a storyteller. Few contemporary writers own the epithet of a “fabulist” with as much sass as 81-year-old Suniti Namjoshi. Kill as Few Patients as Possible by Oscar LondonĬhekhov’s Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov’s Medical Tales by Anton Chekhov Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story by Ben Carson The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story by Abraham Verghese The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande This Won’t Hurt a Bit (and other white lies): My Education in Medicine and Motherhood by Michelle Auīetter: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance by Atul GawandeĬomplications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi I’ve split the list up into different categories: Writing by Physicians, Writing by Patients, Books about Health Care, Medical History Books, and Other. Here is a compilation of some of my favorite books about medicine. PART 4 - Opps! sorry no spoilers (but you will be intrigued by what happens). PART 3 - Henry is revived and his relationship to this new era is exposed. PART 2 - How he is discovered and what anxiety and/or thrills it causes in these future societies in both a political and spiritual way. PART 1 - How Henry Matthews finds his way to 50,000 A.D. but what? This novel also tries to establish relationships between 'ancient' and 'new' by comparing a few aspects of the different cultures and languages that you would expect to change over these vast periods of time: does the hero of the story manage to figure out what the new languages he encounters evolved from? Henry Matthews must be something other than a human being. However, some refuse to believe human history is older than 35,000 years, so that could only mean one thing. Since their own ancient record of human existence only goes back 35,000 years, trillions of people are startled to discover the existence of an unknown ancient history when Henry awakens. 50,000 years into the future Henry Matthews is about to embark on a journey of great discovery. By pure chance, his head along with all his thoughts and memories were protected and preserved, allowing him to stay alive for 50,000 years. You might say he's the luckiest man in the universe. He was in stasis for 50,000 years until his revival. What is the future like? And I mean, way into the future, like 50,000 years. |