![]() ![]() This conflict is surrounded by other large and small dramas in the town of Shirley Falls: a teenage pregnancy, a UFO sighting, a missing child, and the trials of Fat Bev, the community's enormous (and enormously funny and compassionate) peacemaker and amateur medical consultant. Amy withdraws, too, and mother and daughter eat, sleep, and even work side by side but remain at a vast, seemingly unbridgeable distance from each other. In a fury, she lashes out at her daughter's beauty and then retreats into outraged silence. When discovered, this emotional and physical trespass brings disgrace to Amy's mother, Isabelle, and intensifies the shame she feels about her own past. Amy Goodrow, a shy high school student in a small mill town, falls in love with her math teacher, and together they cross the line between understandable fantasy and disturbing reality. ![]() With compassion, humor, and striking insight, Amy and Isabelle explores the secrets of sexuality that jeopardize the love between a mother and her daughter. ![]()
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![]() Sound a bit familiar? While I should hope so because he and Rosaline are far more similar than they are different. ![]() Because she feels real.īenvolio is a strong, wise, patient, mild-mannered, handsome, witty young man. Which is why I care so much more for her than I ever did Juliet. Unlike Juliet, Rosaline is given depth, character, we as readers get to know her, understand her and her relationships with those her around her. But she does have Capulet blood, though she'd readily relinquish the name. Technically, if following her father's house, she is House of Tirmino. She is not engrossed in the endless drama that is her Capulet family. I liked her nearly from the moment she was introduced. Rosaline is an intelligent, reasonable, caring, beautiful, witty young woman. Beautifully written, well-paced and engaging, this book is a delightful gem. ![]() Romeo's and Juliet's much more sensible, and more entertaining, cousins. This is the story of Benvolio and Rosaline. Fortunately, for me I am not stuck with that wretched pair and their wantonness again. ![]() ![]() Honestly, even thinking of their story now just annoys me to no end. Perhaps it is because I read it in high school, or I was not a fan of Shakespearean language at the time, or perhaps it was because I found the so called "great love story" of Romeo and Juliet utterly ridiculous and eye-rolling. Let me start by saying I do not like Romeo and Juliet, I detest it really. In fair Verona, enemies still walk the streets. ![]() ![]() We was written about 1923, and though it is not about Russia and has no direct connection with contemporary politics-it is a fantasy dealing with the twenty-sixth century A.D.-it was refused publication on the ground that it was ideologically undesirable. Zamyatin, who died in Paris in 1937, was a Russian novelist and critic who published a number of books both before and after the Revolution. Looking it up in Gleb Struve’s 25 Years of Soviet Russian Literature, I find its history to have been this: ![]() Several years after hearing of its existence, I have at last got my hands on a copy of Zamyatin’s We, which is one of the literary curiosities of this book-burning age. This material remains under copyright in some jurisdictions, including the United States, and is reproduced here with the kind permission of the Orwell Estate. Home / Orwell / Essays and other works / Freedom and Happiness (Review of ‘We’ by Yevgeny Zamyatin) Freedom and Happiness (Review of ‘We’ by Yevgeny Zamyatin) ![]() ![]() The first part in Tracy Anne Warren's bestselling 'Trap' Trilogy of Regency romances. ![]() As for Adrian, his marriage of convenience has just got very. But keeping up the pretence with a man as divine as the Duke will take all of Violet's skills. But when Jeannette refuses to go through with the ceremony mere minutes before it is to begin, soft-spoken Violet finds herself walking down the aisle and taking vows in her sister's place in order to avoid a scandal. Problem is, he's set to marry Violet's vivacious, more socially polished twin sister, Jeannette. Violet Brantford has always longed for the passionate embrace of Adrian Winter, the wealthy Duke of Raeburn. ![]() ![]() Description for The Husband Trap: A Rouge Regency Romance Paperback. ![]() ![]() ![]() He rejected Kant’s morality of intentions by stating that the value of any action lay in the unintentional, especially those motives that are below the surface of the conscious mind. Nietzsche viewed most ethical ideas as attempts by people to protect themselves against dynamic and powerful individuals. He called Utilitarianism the “morality of the herd.” He urged people to make their own moral choices rather than to unthinkingly accept the values of the majority. Nietzsche was extremely critical of most traditional ethics. He did so because he believed that human life had no moral purpose except for the meaning that human beings gave it. ![]() ![]() He rejected the view that people are ultimately accountable only to God. Nietzsche attacked traditional ethical theories, especially those rooted in religion. ![]() |