![]() Especially where one storyline was much more difficult to read than the other simply because of the way one character was treated. This helped to keep the flow going for me as a reader. One storyline was more conservative and traditional, while the other was about empowerment and change. This was the set up where one story line lead perfectly into the next, but all the while, I couldn’t wait to just cruise through the book to see what was going to happen next from each perspective! ![]() The chapters with varying perspectives were woven together so wonderfully. We spend most of the book bouncing between the mother and the teenager’s story lines, but the grandmother gets her fair share of the spotlight in order to tell her perspective as well. This tale centers around three women of different generations a grandmother, a mother, and a teenager. Let’s dive into my review! My Thoughts on A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum When I had skipped multiple months in a row, BOTM gave me the option to pick from a previous option and this one was one of the books available! I’m so happy that I was able to get a copy. I was kicking myself for passing this one up in a previous BOTM because I saw so many of my blogging friends absolutely raving about this one. This tale is heart-breaking and infuriating, but it is also uplifting and hopeful. ![]() A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum is a very powerful tale about family and tradition, with a quick dash of mystery. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Queering Your Craft combines queer aesthetic and culture (like DIY culture and an emphasis on chosen family over formal covens) with pagan and metaphysical spiritual practice in a way that is commonplace but has not been written about until now. While there are books that address magick for resistance and queer myth, until now there has not been one that specifically addresses the practice of queer magick from an LGBTQ+ standpoint. Through creative and unique journal prompts, introspection, rituals, and spells, Snow achieves this beautifully, and herein lays the perfect guide for the queer witch to stand in their power and stand beside others truly queering our craft with compassion and pride.”-Mat Auryn, author of Psychic Witch: A Metaphysical Guide to Meditation, Magick, and ManifestationWitchcraft has always belonged to the outsiders and outcasts in society, yet so much of the practice enforces and adheres to the same hierarchy we face in the world at large-a hierarchy that isolates and hurts those living beyond society’s binaries and boundaries. Summary “As evident through the pages of this book, Snow holds a vision for the queer aspirant who hears the call to witchery, to find healing, empowerment, strength, and pride through their craft. ![]() ![]() ![]() READ Queering Your Craft - Witchcraft from the Margins Cassandra Snow ![]() ![]() Early critics tended to prefer the earlier quarto, seeing it as a “purer” version, purged of “low” comic scenes, but later critics like the 1616 Faustus better. The most vivid of the legends tells us that real devils were once conjured during a performance, that actors were confounded, spectators driven mad, and that the Faustus who spoke the summoning words, Edward Alleyn, renounced his profession from that day forward and spent his remaining days performing works of charity.Įven the play itself is a bit of a puzzle, for it has come down to us in two different texts the brief quarto of 1604 and the longer quarto of 1616. ![]() At any rate, it so captured the public imagination that people told stories about it. We know the play was wildly popular, but not when it was written or first performed: perhaps as early as 1588, when Marlowe was twenty-four, or perhaps as late in 1593, the year Marlowe died. ![]() ![]() Faustus, its composition and its performances, is obscured by legend and shrouded in surmise. ![]() ![]() Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town's most high-profile company and economic heart, Abby begins to find strange connections to Barrens's biggest scandal from more than a decade ago, involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell and her closest friends-just before Kaycee disappeared for good.Ībby knows the key to solving any case lies in the weak spots, the unanswered questions. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartment, and her pick of meaningless one-night stands.īut when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small-town roots. ![]() From actress, producer, and writer Krysten Ritter, a gripping, tightly wound suspense novel about a woman forced to confront her past in the wake of small-town corruption ![]() ![]() ![]() Long story short, Wanda eventually learns her sons' souls are formed from an aspect of the demon lord Mephisto. ![]() That's only the beginning of a very convoluted origin, however. They were born in 1986's The Vision and the Scarlet Witch Vol. In response, Wanda magically creates two twin sons to complete their nuclear family. Because Vision is an artificial being known as a Synthezoid, he's not actually capable of fathering biological children of his own. Wanda and Vision have shared a tumultuous romantic history over the years. ![]() Given that their mother is a spell-caster and their father is an android, it goes without saying that Wiccan and Speed have a pretty unusual origin story. “ The Origins of Scarlet Witch's ChildrenWiccan and Speed were created by writer Allan Heinberg and artist Jim Cheung, with Wiccan debuting in 2005's Young Avengers #1 and Speed following in Young Avengers #10. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eight-year-old Connie witnesses her older siblings protesting segregation in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960. Picture Booksįreedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins. Introduce the following titles to students and encourage them to be inspired by those who questioned the world around them and succeeded in making change. ![]() Their grassroots strategies, including nonviolent resistance, protests, boycotts, and rallies, raised the nation’s consciousness and produced reforms in education and voting rights and banned discriminatory employment, public facility, and housing practices. Day and Black History Month with books that portray the leaders and everyday heroes of the civil rights movement.įrom the desegregation of public schools to the Montgomery Bus Boycott to the March on Washington, the civil rights movement drew its strength not from its high-profile leaders-Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X-but from the thousands of individuals, many of them young people, who sacrificed and often risked personal harm to effect change and combat racism. ALA Upcoming Annual Conferences & LibLearnXīook Links January 2008 (vol.Related Groups, Organizations, Affiliates & Chapters. ![]() Dealing with censorship challenges at your library or need to get prepared for them? Visit our Fight Censorship page for easy-to-access resources. ![]() ![]() As a top-performing series on Destination America, PARANORMAL LOCKDOWN’s third season is currently in production and will premiere in 2018. “Living” at these haunted locations, Groff and Weidman believe that the longer they stay, the more the spirits will communicate with them and the more information they can gather about the unknown. (Silver Spring, Md.) – Production is currently underway for season 3 of PARANORMAL LOCKDOWN, starring famed paranormal investigator Nick Groff and beloved paranormal researcher Katrina Weidman as they spend an unprecedented 72 hours locked inside legendary haunted locations. There Will be Plenty of Bourbon and Boos as World-Renowned Paranormal Investigators Nick Groff and Katrina Weidman e mbark on the First-Ever Televised Paranormal Investigation of the Jim Beam® American Stillhouse in Clermont, Ky. ![]() ![]() ![]() But consciousness after death? A myth, mainstream science says, and yet books detail personal testimony from people who have “died” and come back to life. “Consciousness” is a much-debated state, especially among people who deny the notion of spirit. Increasingly, and maybe especially among intellectuals/scientists, skepticism abounds about the nature of any kind of spiritual existence. In the West, we seem to have an uneasy relationship with the idea of ghosts. One's consciousness is not connected with a physical body, one experiences a variety of phenomena.” “In some schools of Buddhism, bardo is an intermediate, transitional, or liminal state between death and rebirth. ![]() “His mind was freshly inclined toward sorrow toward the fact that the world was full of sorrow that everyone labored under some burden of sorrow that all were suffering that whatever way one took in this world, one must try to remember that all were suffering (none content all wronged, neglected, overlooked, misunderstood), and therefore one must do what one could to lighten the load of those with whom one came into contact”-of Lincoln, in Saunders The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth”-Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment ![]() "Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She was ten years younger than I, but we were as close friends as she with her alternate frankness and reserve would permit. We had not seen each other for a year, and had so much to say that we did not sleep at all. So many were the guests that Chonita and I slept together. Benicia, my little one, was at the rancho with Ysabel Herrera, and I was staying with the Alvarados. The house was full of girls, relatives of the young mother, gathered for the ceremony and subsequent week of festivities. She arrived the morning before the christening, and no one thought to tell her that Estenega was to be godfather. Chonita came to Monterey to stand godmother to the child of Alvarado and of her friend Dona Martina, his wife. ![]() I had told him much of her, but had never cared to mention the name of Estenega in the presence of an Iturbi y Moncada. It was at Governor Alvarado’s house in Monterey that Chonita first knew of Diego Estenega. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, The View from the Cheap Seats brings together for the first time ever more than sixty pieces of his outstanding nonfiction. An inquisitive observer, thoughtful commentator, and assiduous craftsman, Neil Gaiman has long been celebrated for the sharp intellect and startling imagination that informs his bestselling fiction. An enthralling collection of nonfiction essays on a myriad of topics-from art and artists to dreams, myths, and memories-observed in #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman's probing, amusing, and distinctive style. ![]() |