![]() ![]() The injustice of Wallace's story commands our attention but his perspective on white middle-class mores fuels plenty of low-key comedyĮspecially troubling to them is Wallace’s wish to keep private the recent death of his father. The novel’s ever-present crackle of jeopardy owes much to his weary recognition that whatever he says or does, he must above all consider the sensitivities of his supposedly benign white friends, who view him as a mirror in which to assess their own lives, often in self-congratulatory fashion. ![]() While his work life is more or less Kafkaesque – he soon finds himself branded a misogynist – the racism he faces isn’t limited to the lab. ![]()
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![]() I’ve seen someone who shouldn’t be alive. Against all common sense, I’m falling for Daemon. He knows what’s happened to me and he can help, but to do so, I have to lie to Daemon and stay away from him. And there’s this new boy in school who’s got a secret of his own. If they ever find out what Daemon can do and that we’re linked, I’m a goner. SOMETHING WORSE THAN ARUM HAS COME TO TOWN So I’ve sworn him off, even though he’s running more hot than cold these days. Thanks to his alien mojo, Daemon’s determined to prove what he feels for me is more than a product of our bizarro connection. ![]() The story picks up right where Obsidian is left and is such an amazing story that if Obsidian didn’t convince you to continue the series, Onyx will. ![]() Yes, it’s me with another book talk from one of my favorite books from one of my favorite authors, JLA.Īs I mentioned in the previous book talk from book one (Obsidian), I’m doing a reread of my favorite series of all time, the Lux series and I want to take you on this journey with me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tade Thompson's innovative, genre-bending, Afrofuturist series, the Wormwood Trilogy, is perfect for fans of Jeff Vandermeer, N. He has seen inside the biodome, and doesn't care to again - but when something begins killing off others like himself, Kaaro must defy his masters to search for an answer, facing his dark history and coming to a realization about a horrifying future. Kaaro is a government agent with a criminal past. ![]() A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry, and the helpless - people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumored healing powers. *Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel, winner Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, winner Rosewater is the start of an award-winning trilogy set in Nigeria, by one of science fiction's most engaging voices. ![]() ![]() As the mad general draws new allies together, he is single-minded in his quest to destroy the only two men who ever beat him. He strikes at Jack and Ethan from the shadowy corners of the globe, unraveling their entire world. ![]() And Ethan steps back into the action with Lieutenant Adam Cooper, taking charge of a covert kill team tasked with hunting down General Madigan once and for all.īut Madigan is elusive, and his dangerous reach is long. But President Puchkov has secrets of his own, secrets that could rip everything apart. In the chaos, Jack’s relationship with the Russian president, Sergey Puchkov, grows closer, and the two nations find themselves working almost as allies. When it seems like the world turns against them, Jack and Ethan must turn to each other, finding the strength together to press on. Jack moves Ethan into the Residence, but as Ethan settles into his new role as first gentleman of the United States, not everyone is thrilled with their choices. ![]() ![]() ![]() President Jack Spiers and former Secret Service Agent Ethan Reichenbach throw caution to the wind, committing themselves publicly as the first out male lovers and partners to occupy the White House. One general is determined to destroy them both. Fifteen years from now, an affair rocks the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Book of Queer Prophets: 21 Writers on Sexuality and Religion / Ruth Hunt Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians / Austen Hartke Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity / Rev. Sex Difference in Christian Theology: Male, Female, and Intersex in the Image of God / Megan K. Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology / Patrick S. ![]() Unashamed: A Coming-Out Guide for LGBTQ Christians / Amber Cantorna Walking the Bridgeless Canyon: Repairing the Breach Between the Church and the LGBT Community / Kathy Baldock They’re here because they’re worth reading. Not all of these books are perfect, and I do not agree with all of them. If you have books you would like to add, contact me.ĭisclaimer: I have not read all of these books. ![]() ![]() ![]() It also set fire to the gerbil's fur and whiskers, causing it to scurry further up Kiki's colon, which in turn ignited a larger pocket of gas further up the intestine, propelling the rodent out of the cardboard tube like a cannonball.' Tomaszewski's hair and severely burning his face. "The match ignited a pocket of intestinal methane gas in Kiki's colon. ![]() I tried to retrieve Raggot but he simply would not come out, so I peered into the tube and struck a match, thinking the light might attract him."Īt a hushed press conference, a hospital spokesman desribed what happened next. "As usual, Kiki shouted out 'Armageddon,' my cue that he'd had reached nirvana, so to speak. "I pushed a cardboard toilet paper tube up his rectum and slipped Ragout, our gerbil, in," he explained. ![]() Tomaszewski and his homosexual partner, Andrew "Kiki" Farnum, had been admitted for emergency treatment after a felching session had gone seriously wrong. But I was only trying to save the gerbil," Eric Tomaszewski told the bemused doctors in the Severe Burns Unit of Salt Lake City Hospital. (1997 - 1998) "In retrospect, lighting the match was my big mistake. They are included on the Darwin Awards website because they are inspirational narratives of the astounding efforts of legendary Darwin Awards contenders. Home Darwin Awards Survivors Rules Search Slush Pile ![]() ![]() But patches of the truth about her past begin to surface, along with the special talent that Professor Plush is helping her explore. Verity helps them solve cases and slowly becomes one of the family. ![]() She can easily find things that are lost! When Verity is wrongly accused of theft and dismissed from her job, she goes to live with the Plushes - a slightly Bohemian family who run a Confidential Inquiry Agency. ![]() But Verity is no ordinary girl - she has an almost perfect memory and possesses the talent of Teleagtivism. Verity Sparks is good at finding lost things, but will she be able to uncover the truth about her own past? Verity Sparks is a thirteen-year-old orphan working as a milliner in Victorian London. ![]() |