![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Keep an eye on this site for more details. We have big plans! We’re going to be experimenting with audio and podcasting, bringing you more events like the Blackout Poetry Snack Break, and more. Download the instructions and try it out! Looking AheadĪs the semester comes to a conclusion this month and we finish up final projects and prepare for final exams, the BMCC Reads team is already looking ahead to the fall. We’ll be making a zine out the poems made that day-look for it at the library.ĭid you miss the event? You can make your own blackout poems all the same. Participants grabbed a snack and sat with us for a few minutes or longer to make poems out of the words they found on the pages of books and magazines. We celebrated National Poetry Month with a Blackout Poetry Snack Break outside the library on April 19. Today I’m sharing the first monthly update of what the BMCC Reads team has been reading, writing, and doing. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Even though it does not make any new arguments or add value to the existing nationalist literature, Tharoor’s ‘ferocious and astonishing’ writing distinguishes it from others. Its popularity as one of the Sunday Times top ten bestsellers shows the wide and enthusiastic acceptance of this book. Inglorious Empire, which was published in India in 2016 under the title An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India, a brilliant work by Shashi Tharoor, is distinguished among this literature in its manner of presentation and dazzling arguments. Even though there is plenty of literature about the looting and brutality of the colonial powers, most of this has gone unnoticed among the academic community. Such narrations portray colonial rule as an inevitable and progressive stage in the economic, political and social development of Asian and African countries. The dominance of European scholars and a Euro-centric framework in social sciences, including history, has both stemmed from and perpetuated ignorance about the perspectives and feelings of colonized people in writing about the colonial period. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Everett cleverly makes this point when Monk introduces himself as an individual with ‘dark brown skin, curly hair, a broad nose’ whose ‘ancestors were slaves’. However, any descriptions of race must ‘conform to expectations of race and its workings’. ![]() As Taylor points out in the foreword, Erasure highlights how readers do not like racial ambiguity they ‘want to know if a character is black’. Monk’s novel goes on to receive a six-figure movie deal, putting him in a moral conundrum.Įverett’s novel is deeply thought-provoking. After picking up a copy of Juanita Mae Jenkins’s bestseller We Lives in Da Ghetto, a supposedly ‘authentic’ depiction of the ‘African-American experience’, Monk is inspired to write a hilariously absurd parody entitled My Pafology. Reviewers and publishers alike are critiquing The Persians for having ‘little to do with the black experience’. Sales of Monk’s latest novel, The Persians, are at an all-time low. ![]() Erasure follows Thelonious ‘Monk’ Ellison, a self-proclaimed ‘writer of fiction a son, a brother, a fisherman, an art lover, a woodworker’. First published in 2001, Erasure by American writer and Professor of English Percival Everett, is being reissued in August with a new foreword by Brandon Taylor, Booker-shortlisted author of Real Life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her movie star elan captivates in peacetime during the war, the breezy glamour is a tool for survival.Ī decade later, Will encounters a very different but equally vivid creature, Claire Pendleton, an initially shy, rather naive wife of a British engineer. Will is swept into the orbit of Trudy Liang, a vivacious, beautiful woman who alternately charms and appalls the fashionable society of which she is very much the center, even though, as a Eurasian, she is also a perpetual outsider. The man in the romances is the same: Will Truesdale, a handsome Brit who just happens off a boat and into Hong Kong and never leaves. ![]() Both tales involve denizens of Hong Kong's monied expat community, though one takes place during the Second World War and the other 10 years later, when everyone (more or less) is a damaged survivor, having been complicitous in or self-destructively resistant to the events of 19. Lee's first novel, "The Piano Teacher," is a bargain, because it has not one but two epic romances. Lee Viking 328 pages $25.95ĭoes one read grand love stories in fiction anymore? If not, Janice Y.K. ![]() ![]() Each of these stories focus on long-standing farming communities that maintain traditions dating back to the communities' early days, and deal with outsiders, crops and, of course, sacrifice. The three that most readily come to mind are the excellent Robin Hardy film The Wicker Man (1973), Stephen King's short story " Children of the Corn" (1977), and their predecessor Harvest Home, Thomas Tryon's follow-up to his successful first novel The Other. ![]() The early 1970s experienced a mini-trend in pagan-related horror, pagan communities subsisting in modern society, featuring harvest rituals, heaps of corn and various forms of sacrifice. Read about other Friday's Forgotten Books at Patti Abbott's blog. ![]() ![]() _, Harvest Home, New York: Fawcett Crest, July 1974 (my edition) Tryon, Thomas, Harvest Home, New York: Alfred A. ![]() ![]() There was nothing for him to use against her. At this point in the story, there were no children for her to protect from Doro. Anyanwu could have done anything-gone anywhere. All this while expecting her to be “shared” by him and his father. ![]() There, he convinces her-easily in my opinion- to indenture (enslave?) herself to his father for the rest of her life. ![]() I nearly stopped listening during the conversation between Anyanwu and Isaac. I at least expected her to realize that he was not a man (or thing) of his word and know that whatever she thought she was doing to protect her people was irrelevant. I kept expecting her to rise up against Doro regardless of what she thought he might do to her. There just seemed to be way too much of Anyanwu spending her time coddling men, bearing their children, or saving them from certain disasters. Apologies for the term, but that's just how annoyed I was while reading this book. Instead, I got the story of a woman playing the role of the “savior-negro”. ![]() ![]() Given Anyanwu’s stunning gifts, I was expecting a whole other kind of story. It’s nearly unbelievable that I’m giving this story a 4- a 3, is just inconceivable (but probably more indicative of my true feelings). Although the writing was top-notched and unparalleled (it's Octavia Butler, after all), this book irritated the heck out of me. However, on the days I read “Wild Seed,”… let’s just say. First, let me say that I consider myself an Octavia Butler fan all day long. ![]() ![]() In 2018, she was awarded an Honorary Platinum Award by Nielsen for achieving significant lifetime sales across her entire book output. ![]() ![]() See more ideas about white queen, the white princess, red queen. Philippa is a member of the Society of Authors and in 2016, was presented with the Outstanding Contribution to Historical Fiction Award by the Historical Writers’ Association. Explore Andrea Spencer's board 'The White Queen, The Red Queen, & The Kingmaker's Daughter', followed by 369 people on Pinterest. She is a fellow of the Universities of Sussex and Cardiff and an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck University of London. She holds honorary degrees from Teesside University and the University of Sussex. Now a recognised authority on women’s history, Philippa graduated from the University of Sussex and received a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, where she is a Regent and was made Alumna of the Year in 2009. King Charles III receives The St Edwards Crown during his coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey, King and Queen deeply touched at celebration of. Her flair for blending history and imagination developed into a signature style and Philippa went on to write many bestselling novels, including The Other Boleyn Girl and The White Queen. She wrote her first ever novel, Wideacre, when she was completing her PhD in eighteenth-century literature and it sold worldwide, heralding a new era for historical fiction. Without a son and heir, he uses his daughters Anne and Isabel as pawns in his political games, and they grow up to be influential players in their own right. ![]() Philippa Gregory is one of the world’s foremost historical novelists. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() _Soul Eater _is book one of Monstrous, a post-apocalyptic fantasy series featuring monsters and human men falling in love. It is a m/m love story and contains sexually explicit content and graphic depictions of torture and violence. And when I’m the only soldier out of hundreds that the Soul Eater leaves alive, I realise that something about me has intrigued him.īut what is it? What could a twenty-three-year-old guy from the south, with no one and nothing in the world, have possibly done to capture the attention of a death monster with horns, blackened fingertips and a face hidden in the dark depths of his hood? ![]() I’ve only been in the military for six months, but now I’m part of a unit tasked with trying to stop and capture him. He appears every three years, making his way across the country and slaughtering humans randomly, sucking them dry until they’re nothing but husks. A lawless, desolate and dangerous place, teeming with monsters that have claimed the land for their own. One where humans live in military-controlled, cramped and dirty cities along the coasts, and the majority of the United States is known as the Wastes. Twenty years ago, monsters rose on earth and began a new age of civilization. ![]() ![]() ![]() and neither of them sees that if they’re not careful, they’ll have no choice but to give up everything. She won’t give up her plans he won’t give up his power. It has been some time since I read book one ( Wicked and the Wallflower) of this new series, the Bareknuckle Bastards (which, come onit’s hard to take seriouslyand then it’s impossible not to), but I would say that Brazen and the Beast is stronger. Soon, Hattie and Whit find themselves rivals in business and pleasure. He is more than happy to offer Hattie all she desires…for a price. ![]() When he wakes in a carriage at Hattie’s feet, Whit, a king of Covent Garden known to all the world as Beast, can’t help but wonder about the strange woman who frees him-especially when he discovers she’s headed for a night of pleasure. ![]() Everything is going perfectly…until she discovers the most beautiful man she’s ever seen tied up in her carriage and threatening to ruin the Year of Hattie before it’s even begun. But first, she intends to experience a taste of the pleasure she’ll forgo as a confirmed spinster. When Lady Henrietta Sedley declares her twenty-ninth year her own, she has plans to inherit her father’s business, to make her own fortune, and to live her own life. New York Times Bestselling Author Sarah MacLean returns with the next book in the Bareknuckle Bastards series about three brothers bound by a secret that they cannot escape -and the women who bring them to their knees. Brazen and the Beast The Bareknuckle Bastards Book II By Sarah MacLean On Sale: J8.99 Now: 7.19 Spend 49 on print products and get FREE shipping at HC. ![]() ![]() ![]() Island of Demons is a fascinating historical novel, mixing anthropology, the history of ideas and humour. Charlie Chaplin, Noel Coward, Miguel Covarrubias, Vicki Baum, Barbara Hutton and many others sought to experience the vision Spies offered while Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, the foremost anthropologists of their day, attempted to capture the secret of this tantalizing and enigmatic culture. The rich and famous flocked to Spies' house in Ubud and his life and work forged a link between serious academics and the visionaries from the Golden Age of Hollywood. In the 1920s and 30s, Walter Spies - ethnographer, choreographer, film maker, natural historian and painter - transformed the perception of Bali from that of a remote island to become the site for Western fantasies about Paradise and it underwent an influx of foreign visitors. ![]() Many men dream of running away to a tropical island and living surrounded by beauty and exotic exuberance. ![]() |