![]() ![]() Critics confront asexual people with accusations of following a fad, hiding homosexuality, or making excuses for romantic failures. When an asexual person comes out, alarming reactions regularly follow loved ones fear that an asexual person is sick, or psychologically warped, or suffering from abuse. But that’s where asexual people are left out-they don’t find other people sexually attractive, and if and when they say so, they are very rarely treated as though that’s okay. Most people believe that “everyone” wants sex, that “everyone” understands what it means to be attracted to other people, and that “everyone” wants to date and mate. They aren’t sexually attracted to anyone, and they consider it a sexual orientation-like gay, straight, or bisexual.Īsexuality is the invisible orientation. What if you weren’t sexually attracted to anyone?Ī growing number of people are identifying as asexual. ![]() ![]() The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() You’ve got to be sh***ing me but in a good wayĭon’t worry about hating the main characters because I gather that this is the gist of it. But there are far worse things lurking in the desert ahead…some of them just beneath the skin. ![]() ![]() Pursued by a mysterious stranger who knows far more about Nell’s worsening condition than they let on, the siblings race to find a way to help Nell and escape the desert before they’re met with a violent, bloody end. As their journey through the desolate American Southwest reveals the grotesque change happening within his sister, one thing becomes clear to Jonah: It’s not only Nell in there anymore. Now, in the wake of Jonah’s divorce, they embark on a cross-country road trip back to their hometown of Albuquerque, hoping to mend their broken relationship along the way.īut when a strange accident befalls Nell at an abandoned industrial site somewhere in the Nevada desert, she begins experiencing ghastly visions and exhibiting terrifying, otherworldly symptoms. Siblings Jonah and Nell Talbot used to be inseparable, but ever since Jonah suddenly blew town 12 years ago, they couldn’t be more distant. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The divine comedy paintings![]() ![]() Taking their own widely differing cultural and religious backgrounds as a point of departure, the artists will examine individual thematic sequences of the Divine Comedy. A large number of the works will be conceived specifically for the MMK interior and premiered by the show. ![]() On three floors, one each devoted to heaven, hell and purgatory, works in a variety of media will be presented: paintings, photographs, sculptures, videos, installations and performances. His work forms the foundation for the exhibition developed by curator Simon Njami in cooperation with the MMK and to be presented subsequently at four further venues worldwide. ![]() In this early fourteenth-century epic, which combines central notions of Christianity with religious concepts of antiquity, the Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) explores theological, philosophical and moral issues which have lost nothing of their social and political topicality to this day. In “The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists ”, the MMK serves as a stage for Dante’s Divine Commedy on 4,500 square metres of exhibition space. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments A murder at the vicarage![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But it soon seems like they could not have done it and did in fact confess to protect each other. Initially two obvious suspects emerge, the Colonel’s wife, Anne, and her lover, local artist Lawrence Redding, and they even go as far as confessing to the crime. There is indeed a murder at the vicarage in St Mary Mead of Colonel Protheroe the unpopular local squire who lives at the Old Hall. I think the plot of this book is quite familiar to readers, with the title summing it up in a matter of words. Later this month JJ, Moira and Brad will be discussing this novel at JJ’s blog The Invisible Event, so I thought I best to get it re-read beforehand. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “And honoured – the shortlist was just full of amazing books. The author said she was “really, really thrilled” to win. Previous winner Lisa McInerney, who was one of this year’s judges, said that Blakemore “takes limited historical detail and, with what seems like effortless grace and imagination, crafts a breathing, complex world full of wrenchingly human characters, and tells us their stories in language that bears endless rereading, so clever and unexpected and pleasurable it is”. The Manningtree Witches beat shortlisted novels including little scratch by Rebecca Watson and The Liar’s Dictionary by Eley Williams to take the £10,000 award, which is run by the National Centre for Writing. And something about having a story from history that already had a beginning, middle and end, was quite liberating in that sense.” But coming at it from poetry, I had a decent sense in writing of aesthetics and a cinematic, graphic way of composing scenes in my mind. “I didn’t really have the intention of writing and completing a novel, it started as play. In The Manningtree Witches, Blakemore captures the shame of poverty and social neglect unforgettably, and the alluring threat of women left alone together, in a novel which vividly immerses the reader in the world of those who history has tried to render mute.' -Megan Nolan, author of Acts of Desperation. I was messing around with prose, just to have something to write, and the story just really sort of jumped out at me,” Blakemore said. The process of the writing began when I was in a fallow period of writing poetry. ![]() “My dad lives in Manningtree so it was an area I knew quite well. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Glass sword series![]() ![]() ![]() Will she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost of rebellion? Or have treachery and betrayal hardened her forever? But Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat. Pursued by Maven, now a vindictive king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red-and-Silver fighters to join in the struggle against her oppressors. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from Maven, the prince-the friend-who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind. Mare Barrow's blood is red-the color of common folk-but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. Martin's Game of Thrones series, Glass Sword is the high-stakes follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestselling Red Queen. Book 2 in the thrilling #1 New York Times bestselling series! ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Little white lies the book![]() ![]() With that information and a photograph of her mother’s debutante group, Sawyer enters a world that brings new and unfamiliar activities into her life. All her life she’s only been told three things about him: her mother only slept with him once, he hated fish, and he wasn’t looking for a scandal. ![]() She’s determined to find out who her father is. But she has another reason for wanting to enter the world her mother grew up in. ![]() The college money will mean the world to Sawyer as it will enable her to attend college. In “Little White Lies,” protagonist Sawyer Taft goes from fixing cars and taking care of her mother to living with her grandmother and participating in nine months of preparation to be a debutante - in return for half a million dollars. Former debutante Jennifer Lynn Barnes shares with readers the trials and tribulations of what goes into being a society deb and living the life of the rich and famous. ![]() ![]() ![]() "The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. The post-flu world: The green shoots of recovery Alternate histories Anti-science, science Healthcare for all? War and peace Melancholy muse - part 8. Science redeemed: Aenigmoplasma influenzae Beware the barnyard The human factor - part 7. Post mortem: The hunt for patient zero Counting the dead - part 6. The survival instinct: Chalking doors with crosses The placebo effect Good Samaritans - part 5. Manhu, or What is it?: Disease eleven The doctors' dilemma The wrath of God - part 4. Anatomy of a pandemic: Ripples on a pond Like a thief in the night - part 3. The unwalled city: Coughs and sneezes The monads of Leibniz - part 2. Introduction: The elephant in the room - part 1. Includes bibliographical resources (pages 298-317) and index. Publisher: New York : Public Affairs, 2017.Ĭontent descriptions Bibliography, etc.Physical Description: viii, 332 pages : illustrations, 1 map 24 cm print. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Santa Viking by Sandra Hill![]() ![]() pero lo que no se puede imaginar es que acaba de dejar sin defensas a su corazón y que muy pronto sucumbirá a la dulce picadura del amor.Įl capitán es tal y como un guerrero vikingo debe ser –alto, violento, rubio, y con curvas en los lugares exactos- pero. Lo que menos necesita Eirik es una esposa, pero en cuanto se entera de que el niño es el hijo de su más odiado enemigo acepta. ![]() La única solución que ve a su problema es encontrar a un hombre con el cabello oscuro y los mismos ojos azules que el bastardo de Steven, casarse con él y que éste reclame al niño como suyo, y lo acaba de encontrar en el apuesto y rudo Eirik de Ravenshire. Ahora, Eadyth es una próspera apicultora, pero Steven ha vuelto a su vida amenazando con separarla de su hijo. Lo único bueno que le quedó a Eadyth de esa horrible experiencia fue su hijo John y unas inmensas ganas de salir adelante para que a éste no le faltara de nada. ![]() Conocida como la Joya Plateada de Northumbria -por el exquisito e inigualable color de su cabello- la joven y testaruda Lady Eadyth sucumbió a los encantos de Steven de Gravely, que la sedujo, poseyó y abandonó en un tiempo récord. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Stick and Poke by E.M. Lindsey![]() ![]() While Wyatt eventually cleared his name, he knew he would never work again as a teacher in his small town. When his husband was involved in a sex scandal with a student, he tried to place blame on Wyatt. Wyatt Adley has come to Fairfield more recently, arriving from Canada after the collapse of his marriage. There he has a found family that has embraced him and given him a community of love and support. It left Mat in a dark place for a while, but he has found a new home and a new life in Fairfield, Colorado, working as a tattoo artist at Irons and Works. His family and his wife abandoned him, unable to handle the challenges Mat now faces or the changes required in his life. The traumatic brain injury Mat suffered left him with an inability to read and occasional difficulty communicating. ![]() Mat Harlow was married and on his way to becoming a doctor when his life got turned upside down by someone texting while driving. ![]() |