![]() ![]() Moderators Elina Yang ’23, Jennifer Finkelstein ’23, Ana Casey ’22 and Janessa Vargas ’22, all active in campus groups including Exonians Against Sexual Assault (EASA) and Feminist Union (Fem Club), asked Hirsch and Khan questions based on those generated by students after reading the book, which was widely distributed on campus. Hirsch and Shamus Khan, authors of Sexual Citizens: Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus, joined four student moderators for the panel discussion on April 4, which kicked off Exeter’s recognition of April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month. A pair of scholars addressed members of the upper and senior classes in the Assembly Hall earlier this week to discuss their eye-opening work on the complex dynamics at play when it comes to sex and sexual assault on U.S. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Eleanor is also very worried about the start of school. Children will no doubt relate to her gentle handling of a sad situation. Sternberg takes Eleanor through this grieving process with great care and detail. Who will put ice on her arm when she gets hurt? Who will take her for pizza? Everything seems tainted without Bibi, and Eleanor’s new babysitter just isn’t Bibi! Bibi leaves her right at the start of the summer vacation, and the summer without her looms ahead for Eleanor. Eleanor is eight and right on the cusp of third grade. Her beloved babysitter, Bibi, has to leave her and go to care for her ailing father who lives far away. ![]() The attention grabbing title, Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie, piqued my curiosity and I just had to find out more about this book – and boy am I glad I did. I walked past it several times at my local bookstore until I finally had to buy it. I was very intrigued by the cover and title of this book. ![]() ![]() The corpses of animals were also a common sight no matter if a dog, cat or horse, the city had no organized groups to collect them. Those in poor neighborhoods lived with trash-lined streets and suffered from infestations of rats and flies. Cholera, typhus and other potentially fatal diseases were just a fact of life. The city’s water supply was also deadly, as sewage that spilled into the Chicago river was teeming with unhealthy bacteria. Chicago residents weren’t fazed, and some even had the task of collecting severed heads and limbs found along the tracks.įire was another common killer, with wooden shanty homes often going up in flames, killing dozens daily. ![]() Are you ready for a thrilling story of national pride, high society and murder? Before we dive in, let’s take a look at life in Chicago circa 1890.Īs the nineteenth century drew to a close, Chicago, an American city on the shores of Lake Michigan in Illinois, was a city rife with vice and violence.ĭeath along the city’s many railroad crossings were commonplace two people on average were crushed under the wheels of trains daily. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Does 'TLC Forever' Premiere on Lifetime? 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"., a numerical trait established early on by some random math hacker." Surely we're not calling Leonardo of Pisa ("Fibonacci"), the medieval mathematician about whom fairly little is known, a "random math hacker" are we? Incorrect and otherwise cringe-worthy snippets like this abound. I checked the written text to make sure that these were not themselves quotes, but were in fact the author's own words. Someone who knows that the emphasis does not always belong on the last noun phrase of the sentence.īelow are two quotes from this book. ![]() Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Mike Chamberlain? No, The Innovators by Walter Isaacson is a fantastic contribution in this space, though it focuses more on the hardware. Has Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution turned you off from other books in this genre? ![]() ![]() ![]() By emphasising the importance of fostering and recognizing our species’ symbiotic relationship with its natural world through practices of daily life, the Anthroposcenic landscapes of Ursula K. Intricate portrayals of humanity’s interdependence within its planetary environment-and illustrations of the damage that our daily lives inflict upon the natural world-have long been apparent in the Science Fiction genre. Instead, new conceptualizations which foreground the role of humanity within its environment must take precedence. ![]() Our anthropocentric fantasies of dominion over the natural world have proven harmful not only to the biosphere we inhabit, but to the continued existence of our own species. ![]() In the Anthropocene epoch, the utopian prospect which has structured civilizational development throughout recorded history is extinguished almost entirely. ![]() ![]() ![]() Both contain trace elements of the quasi-futuristic postmodernism often attributed to Japanese urban life, and both invest some portion of their explorations to puzzling out just what this means for Japanese culture. ![]() Both are award-winning writers in their home country, with sizable bodies of work published in Japan that have been reaching foreign eyes more frequently in the last decade or so. Whether it is the coolly poetic fantasia of Haruki Murakami, or the sharp, disturbing character studies of Ryu Murakami, both have developed an international reputation for being among the best in contemporary Japanese fiction.ĭespite some clear stylistic differences, there are certainly some parallels between the two. ![]() While Japan offers the global culture a number of stylish and critically celebrated creatives - from animators to artists to architects - in the world of authors there’s little doubt that the name Murakami has in recent years developed its own cache. ![]() ![]() But the Secret Service may have other ideas. Traveling into the heart of Nazi Germany, Maisie encounters unexpected dangers-and finds herself questioning whether it’s time to return to the work she loved. ![]() Her nemesis-the man she holds responsible for her husband’s death-has learned of her journey, and is also desperate for her help. ![]() The British government is not alone in its interest in Maisie’s travel plans. Because the man’s wife is bedridden and his daughter has been killed in an accident, the Secret Service wants Maisie-who bears a striking resemblance to the daughter-to retrieve the man from Dachau, on the outskirts of Munich. The German government has agreed to release a British subject from prison, but only if he is handed over to a family member. On a fine yet chilly morning, as she walks towards Fitzroy Square-a place of many memories-she is intercepted by Brian Huntley and Robert MacFarlane of the Secret Service. ![]() ![]() It’s early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. Working with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission, Maisie Dobbs is sent to Hitler’s Germany in this thrilling tale of danger and intrigue-the twelfth novel in Jacqueline Winspear’s New York Times bestselling “series that seems to get better with each entry” ( Wall Street Journal). ![]() ![]() Fern and Will meet and have a charged 24 hours in Toronto, and make a promise to meet up a year later - a promise that Will breaks. Just on a personal level, that's where I wanted to be."Īside from the freshwater vibes, the novel also shares another quality with its predecessor: Time jumps. "I wanted to give myself some comfort and I think that's why I went back to the lake for this book. She wrote her second novel after her younger son was born and, battling insomnia, was longing for an escape. "I didn't set out to be 'the lake person,'" Fortune said. Rather than far-flung and tiny Barry's Bay, though, "Meet Me at the Lake" takes place in Muskoka, which is a bit closer.įortune said she recognizes her novels have a pattern - but it was unintentional, mostly. ![]() Like "Every Summer After," the action unfolds at a lakeside town outside of Toronto. Her next novel, "Meet Me at the Lake," will come out on May 2, 2023. The novel was one of the undeniable books of the summer (and if you haven't read it, get started at TODAY).Īnd fans of Sam and Percy's love story won't have to wait long for another lakeside romance from Fortune, who previously worked as the executive editor of Refinery29 Canada. ![]() ![]() If you were on the beach, or by the pool, or at a bookstore, or at a library, or really anywhere this summer there's a good chance you encountered the cover of " Every Summer After" by Carley Fortune. ![]() |