![]() We do so via close-readings of three of Tony's encounters in the novel: with himself, with an able-bodied, non-Native interlocutor who interrogates his cultural and bodymind alterity, and with his grandmother. We argue that Orange (Cheyenne and Arapaho) explores how the disabled Native bodymind is always under the surveillance of the present colonial eye. ![]() Abstract: At the start of Tommy Orange's There There, Cheyenne child Tony Loneman peers into his television screen and considers a playground taunt: "Why's your face look like that?" Confronted with his reflection, he discovers the "Drome"-the way fetal alcohol syndrome has contoured his body, "the way history lands on a face." The novel ends with another question from Tony: "Grandma, what are we?" With these pillared concerns-the "why" of nonnormative embodiment and the "what" of cultural identity-There There invites us to consider the ways that Indigeneity and disability are constitutive of one another. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Serena's ambitions are unformed, and her ideology is largely borrowed (from a Cambridge history professor with whom she had an affair, and the Times' editorials), yet not too far into her dreary secretarial tenure, via a flirtation with a colleague named Max, she is invited to join a new, higher-level program.Ĭode-named Sweet Tooth, the project will surreptitiously fund English writers who appear to have the right sort of sympathies. Anyone who has seen the recent film version of "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" will have the right images to draw on - dim lighting, mustard-colored jackets, rooms full of smoke - as McEwan's heroine, Serena Frome, takes a lowly post in MI5's shabby offices shortly after graduating from Cambridge. McEwan's new novel, "Sweet Tooth," takes place against a vivid 1970s England unraveling with strikes and fuel shortages, in the murky corridors of the British intelligence agency MI5. And whether in fictions set in the last century ("Atonement," "On Chesil Beach") or contemporary morality tales ("Saturday," "Solar"), McEwan's characters are never far away from the possibility of violence and the threat of deceit. What could be a better match - Ian McEwan and a spy story? The English writer is a thinking person's best-seller, whose intelligent, tightly plotted novels, narrated in careful prose, address the pressing social and political issues of our days. ![]() ![]() Like Trigger Mortis, the sequel to Goldfinger, which seemed to be a book of car descriptions. There aren’t many books by Horowitz that I haven’t enjoyed - if I’d finished them, I’m sure I’d have given Trigger Mortis and Moonflower Murders bad reviews too - but, for whatever reason, whenever he ties his Bond story to an Ian Fleming novel, the results are always disappointing (maybe because Fleming was a crap writer, he’s bringing Horowitz down to his level?). But once back in the Russians’ hands, will Bond remain mentally sound enough to accomplish his mission or will his KGB brainwashing overpower him?Īnthony Horowitz’s third and final Bond novel, With a Mind to Kill, is unfortunately pretty bad. ![]() ![]() To infiltrate and uncover the secret diabolical plans of a new Soviet outfit called Stalnaya Ruka, James Bond must pretend to assassinate M and turn traitor. ![]() ![]() ![]() I had expected an English Millie in an English school be it a rather special school. Get past that there is a lot of okay here. I found that it was possible to get to like this, but that my initial reaction was to want to run away. * Me not being from the USA, I saw this because of the 1998 series, I had the first few episodes on DVD and that made me read the novels and watch this. Several saw it as kids or saw it because their kids watched it. Several have read the novels as part of their schoolwork, moving onto the feature from that. They tend to be very positive, rating it a lot. I note that most IMDb comments for this at May 2008 are from the USA. This feature is the first, followed by the three television series, a 20 year production span. This links with my other comments, etc, re the four ITV works inspired by Jill Murphy's Worst Witch novels. ![]() ![]() Translated by Pevear and Volokhonsky, it beings with a short introduction by Dostoyevsky scholar Malcolm V. A very sturdy and attractive hardcover, I randomly picked this up from the library and it looks like no one’s cracked it open since they acquired it. ![]() the father’s death is “fishy”, where it is “dark” or “gloomy” in other translations).Įveryman’s Library: I missed this one in my intro post. The translation is… fine, though I’ve had to read some sentences multiple times, and some word choices strike me as off (e.g. ![]() It’s also a bit light on extra material: no character list, an introduction focusing on the biographical and historical context, some further reading (I want to know who actually uses this section) and that’s it. Literally, it’s a flimsy paper back and I don’t know how well it’ll stand up to being carried around for the next two months. Penguin Classics: Translated and introduced by David McDuff, this is a pretty bare-bones edition. I touched on this in the announcement post, but now that I’m reading alternately from three editions, I can provide a little more guidance, especially the one I was sleeping on: I’m more used to Dostoyevsky novels having one main character whose main characteristic is being depressedīut before you can choose a brother, you have to choose an edition to read. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, the book didn’t exactly age well, but luckily, I’m a sucker for old horror and just managed to stick it out long enough to type up this review.Īs mentioned, the book revolves around little Rhoda Penmark, the world’s most polite little girl: with blonde pigtails and matching blue eyes, she is the image of a perfect childhood, but underneath all that lies the heart of an ice cold killer. ![]() Though The Bad Seed, like many great works, didn’t get famous until his death a month after its release, it forced a whole new generation of parents to look at their kids cross-eyed whenever they seemed just a little too polite. With psychological crusades and atom bomb fears fed in nightly news bits to houses across the country, it was no surprise that author William March used the former to create one of the most feared little girls in the country: Rhoda Penmark. Alfred Hitchcock was the darling of the horror world with his psycho-sexual twists and anything not done by him came in the form of giant ants or giant blobs or giant tomatoes. ![]() The fifties were a weird time for horror. ![]() ![]() Where Hulk dabbles in weird science gone wrong, Venom is more set in Lovecraftian-style horror. Much like the Immortal Hulk, Venom takes a horror approach to an established character. Luckily, Donny Cates' take on Venom is a welcome departure from the Flash Thompson-era symbiote web-slinger that establishes its premise and expands into a story I'll be following the whole way through. Sometimes a single arc collection can be an interesting concept, but not yet fully fleshed out and that can lead to some person dissatisfaction. I find it is just enough of a taste of the series to get invested in following an ongoing. ![]() ![]() It's been a real pleasure to catch up with the Marvel Universe in these 10-12 issue collections. ![]() ![]() ![]() They will need to come together-and work apart-in ways that will test every ounce of resolve. But what? Though a student of magic, he struggles to cast even the simplest spell. Still, he and his friends swallow their fear and set out to battle an ancient evil whose powers none of them can imagine. The whispers begin quietly yet soon turn into a shout: The Nethergrim has returned!Įdmund’s brother is one of the missing, and Edmund knows he must do something to save his life. Then something worse: children disappear. First animals disappear, their only remains a pile of bones licked clean. ![]() Yet now something dark has crept over the village. To this day, songs are sung and festivals held in the heroes' honor. The next great fantasy epic is here! For fans of Ranger's Apprentice and The Chronicles of Narnia.Įveryone in Moorvale believes the legend: The brave knight Tristan and the famed wizard Vithric, in an epic battle decades ago, had defeated the evil Nethergrim and his minions. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ― Hannah Arendt, quote from The Origins of Totalitarianism But far beyond the boundaries within which race-thinking and class-thinking have developed into obligatory patterns of thought, free public opinion has adopted them to such an extent that not only intellectuals but great masses of people will no longer accept a presentation of past or present facts that is not in agreement with either of these views.” The appeal of both to large masses was so strong that they were able to enlist state support and establish themselves as official national doctrines. Few ideologies have won enough prominence to survive the hard competitive struggle of persuasion, and only two have come out on top and essentially defeated all others: the ideology which interprets history as an economic struggle of classes, and the other that interprets history as a natural fight of races. “For an ideology differs from a simple opinion in that it claims to possess either the key to history, or the solution for all the "riddles of the universe," or the intimate knowledge of the hidden universal laws which are supposed to rule nature and man. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her husband had died of cancer several years ago and before that they lost their only child, a son, when he was 18. She likes things neat and orderly, and it keeps her busy. ![]() She cleans the aquarium at the end of the day. Goodness.Īnyway, the story is about an old woman named Tova who works at an aquarium in Puget Sound. Well, my friends, just because I love octopuses doesn’t mean I know of every single octopus thing out there. You might be wondering why I didn’t already own it. This was also my official summer beach read which made it even more spectacular. ![]() So when my sister loaned me her copy of Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt, I had to read it right away. If you know me, you know I love octopuses. ![]() |