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A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.Traditionally, Americans …
“As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in …
A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and discovers dark fae …
If falling in love is the peak of human experience, then marriage is the slow …
I think I'd enjoy this more if I were a more prickly gal. Being proposed to on the wrong part of the coast of Spain is not really a problem I can imagine focusing on.
In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series Shrill exposes misogyny in …
Margaret Killjoy’s stories have appeared for years in science fiction and fantasy magazines both major …
I love the same thing about these stories as I love about Margaret Killjoy's podcasts: hope in the face of plenty of reasons to despair. As an added bonus, there's wonderful love stories throughout this book, some of them new ways for this old lady to think about love.
Discworld's only demonology hacker, Eric, is about to make life very difficult for the rest of Ankh-Morpork's denizens. This would-be …
Two American couples, just out of college, enjoy a pleasant, lazy beach holiday together in Mexico. On an impulse, they …
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness is an autobiographical work by American writer Edward Abbey, originally published in 1968. …
I was enjoying refreshing my memory about some things in this book, despite some hyperbole and not learning anything new or useful.
Then I saw the reviews and I realized that the author is the guy who told leftwing straight white dudes to abandon their non-straight-white-dude friends to the whims of Donald Trump in 2016. www.thedailybeast.com/anarchists-for-donald-trumplet-the-empire-burn
If he actually wrote like Edward Abbey like the jacket blurb claims, I might keep reading. But life is short, and I need to spend my time on solutions to the problems straight white dudes with nothing to lose but unearned power have caused the rest of us.
I just used this on my kid and it worked!!! I asked what he likes best about his summer program and he said "Nothing."
I asked what he likes least, which I would normally never do, and he said "The snacks." He went on kind of a tirade about gross jerky and wheat crackers and I told him that someone bought that thinking he'd like it, so make sure not to hurt their feelings. He said "I know" and then said "And I'm learning stuff! But then I forget it."
I told him that's how it works for me and I have to learn everything twice and that's okay. He was quiet, but I think he was taking it in. This gives me a way to talk about learning with him that might help a lot. Also, maybe I'll buy my picky eater some snacks.
I wish I'd read this …
I just used this on my kid and it worked!!! I asked what he likes best about his summer program and he said "Nothing."
I asked what he likes least, which I would normally never do, and he said "The snacks." He went on kind of a tirade about gross jerky and wheat crackers and I told him that someone bought that thinking he'd like it, so make sure not to hurt their feelings. He said "I know" and then said "And I'm learning stuff! But then I forget it."
I told him that's how it works for me and I have to learn everything twice and that's okay. He was quiet, but I think he was taking it in. This gives me a way to talk about learning with him that might help a lot. Also, maybe I'll buy my picky eater some snacks.
I wish I'd read this sooner, but no time like the present!
Unfamiliar Fishes is a nonfiction book by This American Life contributor Sarah Vowell, first published in 2011 in print and …
