![]() ![]() I read both of these while I was having a hard time coming to terms with my sexuality. As well as making me laugh and want to read, these two books made a big impression on me. I love Jen Wilde so much that I'll read everything she writes. Queens of Geek and The Brightsiders by Jen Wilde The following are four books about bisexuality that helped me learn about and claim it for myself. Because we're real, we don't get the same attention as other groups. It does not mean I am straight or a lesbian. A real person can be confused about their sexuality. As someone who didn't know a lot about bisexuality before, I welcome you and ask that you join me on my journey to learn more about bisexuality. As a book nerd, I turned to books about bisexuality because that's what I like to do. Biphobia and bi erasure are very real things that people have inside of them. Because I didn't know that I could be bisexual, I didn't know that was something I could say. ![]() At first, I didn't know what it meant when I felt attracted to more than one person. ![]() When I recently came out as bisexual (Hi! My name is Bisexual.) :) It took me a long time to figure out this about myself and be able to say it. This year is a different animal all together. If I did, I didn't apply it to myself or think about how it could help me. ![]() To make sure that people can see you if you are bi, today is Bi Visibility Day. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Geek Love is dark, disturbing and (if you are of a gentle, sheltered disposition) distasteful tale that filled a freak-show shaped hole in my heart. The Jim Rose Circus as brilliant as it was did not count as that was pure showbiz hucksterism. She is a bald, hunchbacked, albino dwarf.įreak Shows have been out of fashion for a long time, there is a part of me that always wanted to go and see a traditional show (I still do). Their story – by turns shocking, tender, touching and cruel – is narrated by their sister, Olympia. The modern form and the popular use with reference to circus sideshow “wild men” is from 1946, in William Lindsay Gresham’s novel “Nightmare Alley” (made into a film in 1947 starring Tyrone Power).Īrturo the Aqua Boy is a limbless megalomaniac, Electra and Iphigenia are musically gifted Siamese twins with a penchant for prostitution and Fortunato is possessed if strange telekinetic powers. ![]() ![]() carnival and circus slang, perhaps a variant of geck “a fool, dupe, simpleton” (1510s), apparently from Dutch gek or Low German geck, from an imitative verb found in North Sea Germanic and Scandinavian meaning “to croak, cackle,” and also “to mock, cheat” (Dutch gekken, German gecken, Danish gjække, Swedish gäcka). On the plus side if they ignore reading the blurb on the back cover (that blurb is fantastic – do not skip it) it will not be long before their preconceptions are destroyed and they realise that they are caught up in: I am sure that when many people hear or see the title Geek Love their thoughts will immediately turn to: ![]() ![]() ![]() ' (Kirkus Reviews (starred review)), Extraordinary. , The large canvas of sweeping moral issues, both personal and global, comes to life through careful attention to details, however seemingly mundane-from ill-fitting shoes and mosquito bites to a woman tenderly braiding another woman's hair., An expansive page-turner . . . Patchett's fluid prose dissolves in the suspense of this out-there adventure . . . that readers will hate to see end., The large canvas of sweeping moral issues, both personal and global, comes to life through careful attention to details, however seemingly mundane-from ill-fitting shoes and mosquito bites to a woman tenderly braiding another woman's hair., 'A spellbinder from bestselling author Patchett.Thrilling, disturbing and moving in equal measures'even better than Patchett's breakthrough Bel Canto. A spellbinder from bestselling author Patchett. . . . Thrilling, disturbing and moving in equal measures-even better than Patchett's breakthrough Bel Canto. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nevertheless, Nicki insists on having snow-white gloves, and Baba finally agrees to knit them for him. Nicki’s grandmother, Baba, does not want to knit a pair of white mittens for Nicki because it will be very difficult to find the mittens if they are dropped in the snow. Seven-year-old Nicki expresses his desire for a pair of white wool mittens. Narrated in the omniscient third person, the story begins during the snowy wintertime. In 1996, The Mitten was released as a board book. The Mitten has been called “a charming lap book to be pored over again and again” by School Library Journal. These include a mole, rabbit, hedgehog, owl, badger, bear, and mouse, all of which begin to peacefully cohabitate inside the mitten. As Nicki wanders in the snow unaware of his loss, woodland animals take residence inside the mitten one at a time. The story follows seven-year-old Nicki, who accidentally loses one of his white wool mittens in the snow. A New York Times bestselling children’s book, The Mitten: A Ukrainian Folktale (1989), written and illustrated by American author Jan Brett, is based on an old Ukrainian folktale. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Imaginative realism is a growing genre that is rapidly becoming a significant part of the contemporary realism movement. Even the Tate Britain, for its 2012 exhibition of the work of Romantic painter John Martin, turned to imaginative realist painter John Harris to provide a quote and reference for the show’s catalog. IX Arts-the premier organization dedicated to the promotion of the genre-has begun an ongoing partnership with the Delaware Art Museum to showcase contemporary imaginative realist artists. Individual shows have been mounted at a variety of museums across the country over the past few years, including the Canton Museum of Art, the Allentown Art Museum, the Riverside Art Museum, and others. In the most recent ARC Salon, work in the imaginative realism category by Tenaya Sims (Semillas) won the coveted Best in Show award. This exploration is being noted at the institutional level as well. ![]() ![]() Solo, 40, was given 30 days credit for time she spent at an in-patient rehabilitation center and was ordered to undergo a substance abuse assessment and complete all recommended treatment. The former women’s national team goalkeeper was handed down an active sentence of 30 days and a suspended sentence of 24 months as well as $2,500 in fines plus a $600 fee to cover the cost of lab tests. US soccer star Hope Solo pleaded guilty to driving while impaired Monday nearly four months after she was found passed out behind the wheel of a car with her two-year-old twins in the backseat at a North Carolina Walmart. Hope Solo postpones Hall of Fame induction to enter rehab after DUI arrest Hope Solo opens up on ‘destructive’ drinking after DWI arrest with 2-year-old twins Hope Solo: I was ‘mother-shamed around the world’ after DWI arrest New footage surfaces from Hope Solo’s drunken driving arrest: ‘I took a nap’ ![]() ![]() ![]() What made it even better were the men that surrounded her and their unique traits that either soothed her, brought out her sinful side, her playfulness, or incited her desires. I couldn’t have loved Samantha more for all of her racing thoughts that made for several LOL moments. Trilina captured all the awkwardness in jumping into a menage-capade on what goes where and who does what and what happens when, especially when it involves an overthinker. This absolutely perfect, holiday-why choose romance, had me laughing so hard in between my face completely flaming up over the wonderful nakkey times that it was total toss up over which aspect I enjoyed more. ![]() One moment I was laughing at Samantha’s antics and word vomit and the very next I was fanning myself over the super steamy dirtiness of Sam with her four men. ![]() Tangled in Tinsel was the perfect blend of hilarity mixed with dirty naked times. Review Rating: 5 Gold Stars Review/Synopsis: Genre/Tropes: Holiday/Romantic Comedy/Reverse Harem Romance ![]() ![]() ![]() Why You’ll Love It: Look, we all know everyone’s basically dying to go back to Holly Black’s and dangerous world of Faerie. ![]() Release Date: January 3 from Little Brown Books for Young Readers Here are our picks for the best fantasy books coming this January. But it also means…a truly intimidating amount of great new releases are about to arrive in a bookseller near you.įrom new releases from familiar bestselling authors to highly anticipated sequels and buzzy debuts, this month is giving us a little bit of everything to kick off the new year. This isn’t a bad thing, per se, because it means a truly intimidating amount of great new releases are about to arrive in a bookseller near you. (Sorry if you did not use your holiday break to cut down on your TBR pile because it’s about to get a lot bigger over the next few months. It’s a new year, which means a deluge of new fantasy books is heading our way. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I find it incredible that after facing so much adversity at home and having to run away at 16, Winterson still fought her way to a place at Oxford where she published her first novel at 23 and is now featured in the Oxford English Department’s induction lecture. Since this book is semi-autobiographical, it is impossible not to mention the author and how inspiring she is. This book is like a more recent version of Jane Eyre where Jane does not choose St John or Mr Rochester, but she chooses herself which is such an important lesson. It teaches the importance of self-love whilst addressing the dilemma of needing a caring mother that is devoted to you and loves you no matter what. It is exactly the right coming of age story that is both realistic and fantastical at the same time. I was completely gripped from the moment I started reading it and there is hardly ever a book-led conversation that I am involved in where I do not talk about this book. I love the way in which Winterson uses stories and fantasy to show her main character’s struggle not just to be accepted by her mother but also to accept and love herself. Then, as she grows older, she becomes an outsider in her own home as a result of her sexuality. The story starts at school, where her religious upbringing separates her from other people. It is a beautiful coming of age story of a girl who feels like an outsider wherever she goes. This book became my favourite book as soon as I read it. ![]() Review by Sahar (English Language and Literature) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Crip Theory puts forward readings of the Sharon Kowalski story, the performance art of Bob Flanagan, and the journals of Gary Fisher, as well as critiques of the domesticated queerness and disability marketed by the Millennium March, or Bravo TV's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as "normal" or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze thoroughly the ways in which these interdisciplinary fields inform each other.ĭrawing on feminist theory, African American and Latino/a cultural theories, composition studies, film and television studies, and theories of globalization and counter-globalization, Robert McRuer articulates the central concerns of crip theory and considers how such a critical perspective might impact cultural and historical inquiry in the humanities. A bold and contemporary discourse of the intersection of disability studies and queer studiesĬrip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. ![]() |