6/26/2023 0 Comments Du mez book![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Many evangelicals were asking exactly the same question: “How could evangelicals who’d turned ‘WWJD’ (‘What Would Jesus Do?’) into a national phenomenon justify their support for a man who seemed the very antithesis of the savior they claimed to emulate” (p. In the aftermath of the 2016 election, sociologists and political scientists tried to understand how Trump became president with overwhelming evangelical support. The relevance of the book is perhaps best understood by working backwards chronologically. Because this review will be net negative, I’d like to begin with the positive aspects of the book, those which make it so compelling to so many people, including a large swath of conservative evangelicals. Her conclusion is that “evangelical support for Trump the culmination of evangelicals’ embrace of militant masculinity, an ideology that enshrines patriarchal authority and condones the callous display of power, at home and abroad” (p. 4) among evangelicals in the 20th and early 21st centuries. ![]() As a historian, Du Mez charts the rise of “militant white masculinity” (p. It was featured on NPR’s Morning Edition and received social media recommendations from Beth Moore, Jemar Tisby, Karen Swallow Prior, and Duke Kwon. Kristin Du Mez’s Jesus and John Waynehas struck a chord with both Christians and non-Christians. ![]()
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6/26/2023 0 Comments A Single Pearl by Donna Jo Napoli![]() ![]() Lalibela is a mountain region known for it's honey. But he can't help but think about a happy secret he can't wait to tell his family.Įthiopia: The Best Beekeeper of Lalibela: A Tale from Africa by Cristina Kessler. Young Ahmed spends the day delivering butane gas to customers all over Cairo. MORE: Middle Grade Books Set Around the World Turn the Pages to Discover AfricaĮgypt: The Day of Ahmed's Secret by Florence Parry Heide. Purchases made through these links may earn a commission for this blog.) (Note: this post contains affiliate links. I've also written much shorter reviews than usual - I would never have finished the list, otherwise! - and left off book covers, so as not to make the post too unwieldy. Note: I'm sure your favorite country is missing from the list! Several of my folktale lists have many other choices, but eave your recommendations in the comments. For those of you who want more nonfiction oriented books, those can easily be found by Dewey Decimal at your local library. ![]() Most of the titles are fiction and some are based on true events. I've also chosen a variety of fiction, modern, historical, biographies, folktales, and even poetry to add interest. In no way is the book I chose meant to be representative of the country. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Įugenides knew he wanted to be a writer from a relatively early age, stating "I decided very early during my junior year of high school. ![]() in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University. ![]() I felt that since I was going to try to add to the tradition, I had better know something about it." In 1986, he earned an M.A. I entered the honors program in English, which forced me to study the entire English tradition, beginning with Beowulf. Of his decision to study at Brown, Eugenides remarked "I chose Brown largely in order to study with John Hawkes, whose work I admired. He graduated from Brown in 1982 after taking a year off to travel across Europe and volunteer with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, India. He attended Grosse Pointe's private University Liggett School and then Brown University (where he became friends with contemporary Rick Moody ). The Virgin Suicides served as the basis of a feature film, while Middlesex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Médicis.Įugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan to a father of Greek descent and a mother of English and Irish ancestry. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011). Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American novelist and short story writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Luz recollects her ancestors’ origins, how her family flourished, and how they were threatened. ![]() As Luz navigates 1930s Denver, she begins to have visions that transport her to her Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory. Luz “Little Light” Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, is left to fend for herself after her older brother, Diego, a snake charmer and factory worker, is run out of town by a violent white mob. There is one every generation, a seer who keeps the stories. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Book Riot.“Sometimes you just step into a book and let it wash over you, like you’re swimming under a big, sparkling night sky.”-Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told YouĪ PHENOMENAL BOOK CLUB PICK AND AN AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Under the Blade by Matt Serafini![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Samantha Kolesnik is represented by literary agent Emmy Nordstrom Higdon at Westwood Creative Artists. Samantha Kolesnik’s next work, Beleth Station, a collaboration with the award-winning mass market horror paperback author, Bryan Smith, will be coming out in early 2023 from CLASH Books, as will a Spanish language edition of True Crime from La Biblioteca de Carfax. Kolesnik is a two-time Splatterpunk Award winner, as well as a Bram Stoker Award nominated editor for her horror anthology, Worst Laid Plans, now a motion picture from GenreBlast Films. MATT SERAFINI Amazon B&N Powell’s Hailed as one of the best new voices in horror fiction by horror grandmaster Brian Keene, Matt Serafini is a screenwriter and author whose books include Rites of Extinction, Feral, and Under the Blade, which FilmThrills called one of the best slasher films you’ll ever read. Kolesnik’s sophomore work, Waif, was featured in the Night Worms February subscription package, and has earned praise from iHorror, Mystery and Suspense Magazine, The Line-Up, and more. In honor of my latest release, Under the Blade, I’m doing a giveaway where everyone who enters becomes an immediate winner. Paul Wilson, Richard Laymon, Bret Easton Ellis. Her debut novel, True Crime, was released in 2020 to much acclaim from within and outside of the horror community, earning praise from iHorror, CrimeReads, The Library Journal, LitReactor, and more. Matt Serafini (Author of Feral) Matt Serafini Goodreads Author Born in The United States September 10 Website Twitter mattfini Genre Horror, Thriller, Crime Influences Stephen King, F. ![]() Samantha Kolesnik is an award-winning author of horror and transgressive fiction. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Master of mayhem saxon james![]() ![]() But there are also little random stereotype breaking traits as well, like a built like a tank footballer who knits, cmon is that not the cutest damn thing you ever pictured?!Īs always Iggy and Alexander are such an awesome narration duo. With friends to lovers, double bi-awakening. This is a very low angst read but has some great tropes. Frat Wars: Master of Mayhem by Saxon James is out now FRAT WARS: MASTER OF MAYHEM Frat Wars - Book Two by Saxon James Blog Tour Release Date: MaCover Design: Story Styling Cover Designs Genre: M/M College Romance Trope: Friends to lovers. Master of Mayhem (2022) Love’s a Gamble Book Covers. ![]() ![]() So naturally who would drive him insane? Robbie the giant man child of course. His job is to keep the pranks and parties safe. It’s what I’m known for, and if it’s not fun, I’m not interested, simple as that. As social chair of Sigma Beta Psi, I’m the life of the party. Brandon is a little more reserved and essentially the frat’s fun police. Book Title: Frat Wars: Master of Mayhem Author: Saxon James Release Date: March 23rd, 2022 Genres: Gay Romance, Contemporary, College Romance, LGBTQ+ My rating: 4.5/5 Stars. Robbie has strong golden retriever energy, he’s a giant goof and always down to make someone laugh. But one thing is for sure, Saxon always delivers with the shenanigans. ![]() From the frat pranks to the ridiculous and cute moments. This book was everything I hoped it would be. The ultimate bromance, a bro friend haha. Master of Mayhem is book two in the Frat Wars series by Saxon James. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Delany neveryon![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this regard, information about AIDS at the time Delany wrote his story was largely uninformed.įlight from Nevèrÿon has been described as “the first novel about AIDS from a major American publisher” for its inclusion of “The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals” story. Volume 3’s story, “The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals” written by Delany in 1984 flips between two diverse settings: the Nevèrÿon port city of Kolhari, a common setting in prior Nevèrÿon volumes, and the modern New York City circa 1983-1984 as it was dealing with the first and second years of the emerging AIDS crisis. Volume 3, Flight from Nevèrÿon, published in 1985, however, includes stories which deviate from the Nevèrÿon setting. Volumes one and two were entirely set within the fantasy world of Nevèrÿon - engineered by Delany for his sword and sorcery narrative to be a place just on the verge of science. Delany wrote his ambitious four-volume sword-and-sorcery Return to Nevèrÿon series beginning in 1978, with the first volume, Tales of Nevèrÿon. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Nijigahara holograph ivrea![]() Our past becomes our memories and we feel them creeping around the corners of our minds only to come to the surface unannounced in the most unexpected of forms. A collection of moments which can never be representative of all the time they’ve been alive. But things never really end, do they? What we experience is just a snippet in the lives of these people. We think that that’s the end for the people in it. We finish experiencing a story and we forget about it. Sure, such stories have a beginning and a conclusion. There is a near voyeuristic quality to stories in manga. Let’s break it down.Ī set of interconnected stories spanning 10 years in the lives of people who inhabit a city and have nothing in common apart from knowing a girl who sits by the Nijigahara embankment and says that a monster will come and bring an end to the world as we know it. ![]() This week around we will be talking about quite possibly my favorite mangaka of all time, Inio Asano and his nearly impenetrable puzzle-box of a manga, ironically titled Nijigahara (Rainbow-Field) Holograph. And you all know what that means, don’t you? Uh-ha! It’s time for another manga review! ![]() What do I see here? It’s another M in the Day’s column of the calendar. ![]() ![]() Sarina Bowen is the USA Today bestselling author of steamy, angsty Contemporary Romance and New Adult fiction. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have a lot of practice with either girls or parties. So when her roommate sets Andy up to be Katie’s date, he’d be crazy to say no. He’s had his eye on Katie since the moment her long legs waltzed into his art history class. She could only hope to get through the evening without her blind date noticing that he was spending the evening with a crazy person.Andrew Baschnagel is living proof that nice guys don’t finish first. Enjoying herself tonight was out of the question. ![]() She’d rather hide under the bed than attend a party where he'll be.Yet staying home would mean letting him win. Even worse, her last encounter with him resulted in utter humiliation. ![]() Two: the guy shall be an athlete, preferably an upperclassman.Unfortunately, Katie just broke up with her jerkface football player boyfriend. One: thou shalt not show up for the party without a date. What could possibly go wrong? As a sorority pledge, there are commandments that Katie Vickery must live by. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments George rr martin vampire book![]() ![]() He wrote one feature film in 1987 titled Nightflyers, based on a novella he wrote of the same name. Martin would also collaborate with Game of Thrones showrunners, and wrote several episodes before stepping back from the show after the 4th season. MARTIN Abner Marsh, a struggling riverboat captain, suspects that something’s amiss when he is approached by a wealthy aristocrat with a lucrative offer. MARTIN Abner Marsh, a struggling riverboat captain, suspects that something’s amiss when he is approached by a wealthy aristocrat with a lucrative offer. A THRILLING REINVENTION OF THE VAMPIRE NOVEL BY THE MASTER OF MODERN FANTASY, GEORGE R. A major chunk of Martin's screenwriting work was for a 1989 miniseries of Beauty and the Beast on which Martin was also a producer. A THRILLING REINVENTION OF THE VAMPIRE NOVEL BY THE MASTER OF MODERN FANTASY, GEORGE R. When a deal for a movie adaptation of one of his books fell through, Martin kept in touch with producers and landed a gig writing for the 1980s reboot of The Twilight Zone.Īfter this gig, he got a job writing for Max Headroom, an iconic 1980s pop culture character. Eventually, Martin's work would lead him to screenwriting. But of course, sci-fi and fantasy were always where he thrived. Martin published everything from vampire novels (Fevre Dream) to short horror stories like Portraits of His Children. ![]() After the death of a close friend, Martin decided it was time to focus on writing. Martins a Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series) : A Game of Thrones, a Clash of Kings, a Storm of Swords, a Feas. ![]() |