5/24/2023 0 Comments Eses fatales by Sonia Manzano Vela![]() ![]() ![]() Manzano also became a proficient short fiction writer, having obtained the 1989 Ecuadorian Feminist Short-Story Contest. Other poetry books published by Manzano include Patente de corza (1997), Último regreso a Edén (2007) and Espalda mordida por el humo (2014). She then published Casi siempre las tardes (1974), La gota en el cráneo (1976), La semana que no tiene jueves (1978), El ave que todo lo atropella (1980), Caja musical con bailarina incluida (1984), Carcoma con forma de paloma (1986) and Full de reinas (1991), which achieved commercial success. Her first poetry book was El nudo y el trino, printed in 1972. She started her literary career when some of her poems appeared in the anthology Generación Huracanada (1970), which was also the name of a literary group of which Manzano was part. Sonia Manzano Vela (born Guayaquil, 27 February 1947) is an Ecuadorian writer and poet. Joaquín Gallegos Lara National Fiction Prize (1999) ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments The lover by marguerite duras![]() He strikes up a conversation with the girl she accepts a ride back to town in his chauffeured limousine.Ĭompelled by the circumstances of her upbringing, this girl, the daughter of a bankrupt, manic depressive widow, is newly awakened to the impending and all-too-real task of making her way alone in the world. ![]() ![]() She attracts the attention of a 27-year-old son of a Chinese business magnate, a young man of wealth and heir to a fortune. In 1929, a 15-year-old nameless girl is traveling by ferry across the Mekong Delta, returning from a holiday at her family home in the town of Sa Đéc to her boarding school in Saigon. Set against the backdrop of French Indochina, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricacies of a clandestine romance between a pubescent girl from a financially strapped French family and an older, wealthy Chinese- Vietnamese man. It was adapted to film in 1992 as The Lover. It has been translated into 43 languages and was awarded the 1984 Prix Goncourt. ![]() The Lover (French: L'Amant) is an autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras, published in 1984 by Les Éditions de Minuit. ![]() ![]() If you're looking to streamline a home office for the New Year, take a look at my California Closets Collection for workspace ideas. For those who enjoy warm beverages, my warm beverage assortment gift box is sure to be a big hit - also at my shop on Amazon. I also partnered with Canopy for my new line of Martha Stewart CBD wellness supplements. My puffy down vest is so popular - I call it "the new sweater" - you can find it on Amazon. And go to Target for my cheerful winter bedding options. Visit my Collection for home decor, kitchen gadgets, and table setting pieces. I also have lots of wonderful holiday items at Macy’s. This year, I am so excited to share lots of great holiday decorations on Amazon, Wayfair, and Williams Sonoma - wreaths, trees and garlands. ![]() ![]() And, you can shop my collections for great ideas - items for decorating, cooking, baking, working from home, and more. Favorite holiday traditions such as neighborhood parties and long-distance trips to see family and friends may be on hold this year, but you can still get that special someone on your list a meaningful and useful gift. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Icons by margaret stohl![]() ![]() But the four teens are more alike than they might think, and the timing of their meeting isn't a coincidence. While Ro and fellow hostage Tima rage against their captors, Dol finds herself drawn to Lucas, the Ambassador's privileged son. When Dol and her best friend, Ro, are captured and taken to the Embassy, off the coast of the sprawling metropolis once known as the City of Angels, they find only more questions. Hiding from the one truth she can't avoid. Since then, Dol has lived a simple life in the countryside-safe from the shadow of the Icon and its terrifying power. ![]() The day Earth lost a war it didn't know it was fighting. Your heart beats only with their permission.Įverything changed on The Day. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Pink by Lili Wilkinson![]() Three themes frame my analysis of lesbian music heterotopias. Based on a series of semi-structured interviews and music elicitation with ten lesbians (aged between 27 and 34) in the United Kingdom and New Zealand, the findings show how imagined spaces created by music play a significant role in the performance of lesbian sexual identities, coming out, and feelings of belonging. In particular Foucault’s concept ‘heterotopia’ is utilised to argue that music can subvert hegemonic sexualised spaces and create temporary utopic imagined spaces for lesbians. Feminist, post-structuralist and queer theories and methodologies provide the framework for this research. ![]() It is argued that music creates safe spaces for a small group of lesbians during their coming out process. This thesis examines the mutually constitutive relationship between lesbians, music, place and space. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Pretty little liars books in order![]() ![]() Blood Is Thicker Than Water.If You're Really Family, That Is (Spencer).You're Not Really Paranoid If He's Really After You (Emily).One Big Happy Hastings Family (Spencer).Wilden sort of pushes it off, and begins the search hours after the girls had shared their story. In the end, Spencer, Emily, Aria, and Hanna find Ian's body in the woods behind Spencer's house, but when they return with the police, the body is missing. Emily tries to date Isaac without him finding out about her orientation, though "A" keeps interfering. Aria moves in with Meredith and Byron to avoid Xavier as his true intentions will jeopardize Aria and Ella's relationship. Eventually, Hanna's father forbids her from talking to anyone except Kate. Hanna and Lucas break up after Hanna tells everyone that Kate has herpes at a party to sabotage her. Emily can't stop thinking about her new boyfriend, Isaac.Īt a party at a hotel opening, Hanna and Kate continue to fight over the title of "Queen Bee". ![]() After being neglected by her family and feeling like an outsider, Spencer comes to believe that she is adopted. This puts her at risk of hurting her mother again and further damaging their newly repaired relationship. Aria has feelings for a man, Xavier, who she met at an art show however, he ends up meeting and dating her mother through an online match site. She now has trouble with her stepsister Kate Randall. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Carl's Christmas by Alexandra Day![]() The committee vote Tuesday came despite the impassioned pleas of families carrying pictures of children killed by fentanyl poisoning. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, in rejecting another bill, SB 44, the latest iteration of Alexandra’s Law. That distinction - that the committee was not creating a new law or new penalties - was stressed by committee member Sen. ![]() Marie Alvarado-Gill, D-Jackson, would expand an existing law, adding fentanyl to a list of less harmful drugs that cannot be possessed while having a firearm. ![]() On Tuesday, April 25, the Senate Public Safety Committee blinked slightly by approving SB 226, which would make it a felony to possess fentanyl with a loaded, operable firearm. The graveyard for such legislation has been the Senate and Assembly public safety committees, which have repeatedly rejected bills that would result in more incarceration of fentanyl dealers. In 2021, fentanyl killed 5,722 people in California, many of whom thought they were taking prescription medications or other drugs. ![]() See: Legislative effort to curtail trafficking fentanyl through social media stallsįor years now, law enforcement, prosecutors and families of fentanyl victims have pleaded for harsher penalties for dealers of the synthetic opioid, which is 100 times stronger than morphine and 50 times stronger than heroin. The message from Sacramento has been clear: powerful state lawmakers have no appetite for a return to the War on Drugs, even as a way to combat the deadly fentanyl epidemic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Joelle Charbonneau writes with guts and nerve but also great compassion and heart. “ The Testing is a chilling and devious dystopian thriller that all fans of The Hunger Games will simply devour. To survive, Cia must choose: love without truth or life without trust. But on the eve of her departure, her father’s advice hints at a darker side to her upcoming studies – trust no one.īut surely she can trust Tomas, her handsome childhood friend who offers an alliance? Tomas, who seems to care more about her with the passing of every grueling (and deadly) day of the Testing. But to enter this elite group, candidates must first pass The Testing-their one chance at a college education and a rewarding career.Ĭia Vale is honored to be chosen as a Testing candidate eager to prove her worthiness as a University student and future leader of the United Commonwealth. The future belongs to the next generation’s chosen few who must rebuild it. ![]() The Seven Stages War left much of the planet a charred wasteland. Isn’t that what they say?īut how close is too close when they may be one in the same? 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Nobody wants to listen to a show-off who believes their talent or ‘genius’ (the Rocket’s word) will carry them through without the need for humility or hard work. What is the moral of ‘The Remarkable Rocket’? That self-importance and narcissism make for a lonely life, both for the narcissist and for their art. Many fairy tales have a moral, since they are aimed at children and children’s literature (Lewis Carroll aside) tends to have a moral message. Similarly, the Rocket’s insistence on having an audience – whether for his sparkling conversation or his final explosion – raises the possibility that, in ‘The Remarkable Rocket’, Wilde is making a comment on art and his relationship with its audience. ![]() Both of these utterances are made by the Rocket. Indeed, this story contains several of Wilde’s most-quoted witticisms, including ‘I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying’ and ‘hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do’. ![]() |