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![]() ![]() He introduces readers to people who tried to "transition" but found themselves no better off. He reveals a grim contrast between the media's sunny depiction and the often sad realities of gender-identity struggles. Anderson offers a balanced approach to the policy issues, a nuanced vision of human embodiment, and a sober and honest survey of the human costs of getting human nature wrong. Drawing on the best insights from biology, psychology, and philosophy, Ryan T. When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment provides thoughtful answers to all of these questions. In the space of a year, it's gone from something that most Americans had never heard of to a cause claiming the mantle of civil rights."reassign" sex? Is sex something "assigned" in the first place? What's the loving response to a friend or child experiencing a gender-identity conflict? What should our law say on these issues? The transgender movement has hit breakneck speed. ![]() ![]() ![]() A final battle is coming in which she will be torn between friends, unable to save them all. The Shiphearts offer strength that she might use to protect those she loves, but it’s a power that corrupts. But it seems unlikely that she and her friends will have time to earn a nun’s habit before war is on their doorstep.Įven a warrior like Nona cannot hope to turn the tide of war. Nona Grey faces the final challenges that must be overcome if she is to become a full sister in the order of her choice. Everywhere, the emperor’s armies are in retreat. ![]() The ice is advancing, The Corridor narrowing, and The Empire is under siege from the Scithrowl in the east and the Durns in the west. It is expected to be published in April 2019. Holy Sister is the third novel a searing conclusion of the Book of the Ancestor trilogy by Mark Lawrence. April 2019 (expected) Chronology Previous ![]() ![]() ![]() Finalist, Soaring Eagle Award (Kids 12-18 voting, Wyoming Library System) in its 16th printing.Ībout the Author: Sherwood Smith has published over forty books, one of which was an Anne Lindbergh Honor Book she’s twice been a finalist for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award and once a Nebula finalist. Nominated for ALA/YASLA Best Books for Young Adults, on the ALA/YASLA Quick Pick List for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, and named one of NY Public Library Best Books for Teens, 1998 list. ![]() ![]() Toughest of all is courtship, when the one who catches her heart is an enemy. Afterward, Meliara faces a tougher challenge: the battlefield is no longer mud and steel, but palaces, the weapons manners and fans. When Meliara is caught by the enemy commander, the elegant Marquis of Shevraeth, it’s escape or die. Sherwood Smith’s most popular young adult fantasy begins with Meliara and her brother vowing to free Remalna from an evil king. ![]() ![]() And while I don’t want to spoil things, I will warn that if you have problems with people in porn or the sex industry, then you should steer clear. My Review:Ĥ.5 stars - OK, wow, this book went in places I wasn’t anticipating at all. ![]() I had accepted things would have to stay the way they were-until the day I found a clue that led me straight to her.Īnd that was when our love story really began. If anything, it allowed us to open up even more in ways we may not have otherwise.Įden was funny, intelligent, gorgeous-everything I’d ever wanted in a woman. Anonymity had no effect on our unstoppable chemistry, though. ![]() Her real name was Eden, I’d soon come to find out.įrom the first time we connected online, I found myself transfixed.Īt first, we knew nothing about each other’s real identities…and she was adamant that we keep things that way. Logging in at night and talking to her was my escape-my sanctuary. I was “ScreenGod” and she was “Montana,” but of course, those weren’t our actual names, just the virtual cloaks we hid behind. Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2019 AtoZ Reading Challenge, Lenoreo's 2019 Beat the Backlist Challenge, Lenoreo's COYER Winter 2018įind it: Goodreads ✩ Amazon ✩ B&N ✩ Google ✩ Kobo ✩ iBooks ✩ IndieBoundįrom New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward, comes a new, sexy standalone novel. If you buy the book using that link, I will receive a small commission from the sale. ![]() ![]() This post contains affiliate links you can use to purchase the book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power The remarkable questions here concern the facts that our lives are rendered as behavioral data in the first place that ignorance is a condition of this ubiquitous rendition that decision rights vanish before one even knows that there is a decision to make that there are consequences to this diminishment of rights that we can neither see nor foretell that there is no exit, no voice, and no loyalty, only helplessness, resignation, and psychic numbing and that encryption is the only positive action left to discuss when we sit around the dinner table and casually ponder how to hide from the forces that hide from us.” It ignores the key point that the essence of the exploitation here is the rendering of our lives as behavioral data for the sake of others’ improved control of us. That critique is a feat of misdirection that would use a pricing mechanism to institutionalize and therefore legitimate the extraction of human behavior for manufacturing and sale. It is obscene to suppose that this harm can be reduced to the obvious fact that users receive no fee for the raw material they supply. ![]() Now it is human nature that is scraped, torn, and taken for another century’s market project. “Industrial capitalism transformed nature’s raw materials into commodities, and surveillance capitalism lays its claims to the stuff of human nature for a new commodity invention. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, I questioned whether he actually really did love me. I wasn’t ready to lift the veil of my delusion… The addictive chemistry started to dissipate and I started to see him for what he was… are you ready for it? He was a … human!!!īut this revelation didn’t come to me then. Sure, they were looking out for me, but, hey, they didn’t know him like I did.Īnd then it happened. When my ex and I were together, he had my undivided attention, and when we were apart, I had this uncontrollable yearning for his enchanting presence, his magnetic touch, and his captivating voice.Īnd you know no one could say anything wrong about my beloved, back when he wasn’t my ex. Yes, I admit I was addicted to my fantasy. I dreamed about him when I was asleep and when I was awake. I called my ex “the man of my dreams” and he really was. I swear every joke he ever told was the funniest thing I’d heard. I was fixated on the illusion of falling in love with my ideal soulmate, the one who would make me whole. I would chuckle sarcastically thinking, how is it that I don’t drink, yet I actually wondered whether I was drunk the entire relationship! I would tell you how he manipulated me, abused me, and broke my heart in a billion and a half pieces. What I do know is that I still love my ex, and instead of focusing on how it ended or why, the “what ifs” of our relationships, and the conundrum of who’s to blame, I’m choosing to stop demonizing the one person I idolized the most. ![]() ![]() ![]() Primrose Ainsworth is the youngest daughter and often forgotten. ![]() Lady Alexandra is known for getting into scrapes, but when she walks into a mystery, she must use all her wits to make it through her season! Sixteen Scandals by Sophia Jordan Sarah MacLean is a well known Regency era romance novelist, and this is her first book about three friends embarking upon their debut social season in Regency London. We’ve compiled a list of romance and YA books like Bridgerton that will keep you swooning until season two makes its debut on Netflix! The Season by Sarah MacLean Whether you’ve read the books or watched the Netflix adaptation, please know that there are plenty more books set in the Regency era that will inspire and delight Bridgerton fans. Dear gentle readers, perhaps you’ve fallen for the Bridgerton siblings as of late, and are pining for more romance series or books like Bridgerton. ![]() ![]() Ideas evolve (Darwin) through interaction (Smith). This, he argues, is the root of the existence of and expansion of cultural and collective knowledge. That is, the human propensity to exchange goods also leads to exchange of ideas. Combining, as he says Adam Smith and Charles Darwin, Ridley argues that what makes the human species unique and able to prosper so well is the sex of ideas. What makes Rational Optimist somewhat unique is Ridley’s basic argument for why humans are able to succeed: where the technology, wealth, and ingenuity comes from. Technology, wealth, ingenuity have and will continue to help us find ways to deal with problems and (and the new problems that arise from those solutions). But what about….Ridley probably discusses it and has an answer. Essentially: forget the day-to-day news cycle, look at the big historical picture and the data, and human life in general has been getting better and better and there’s every reason to think it will continue to do so. There are few surprises for those who have read Ridley or similar books. ![]() ![]() I enjoy Ridley’s work, and this fits in well. This has been on my to-read list for a long time (originally it came out in 2010). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Destination Unknown, Bill Konigsberg returns to a time he knew well as a teenager to tell a story of identity, connection, community, and survival. Scholastic, 18. have between them will be tested, strained, pushed, and pulled - but it will also be a lifeline in a time of death, a bond that will determine the course of their futures. ![]() or does Micah bring more to the relationship that it first seems? As their lives become more and more entangled in the AIDS epidemic that’s laying waste to their community, and the AIDS activism that will ultimately bring a strong voice to their demands, whatever Micah and C.J. isn't just out - he’s complete out there, and Micah can't help but be both attracted to and afraid of someone who travels so loudly and proudly through the night.Ī connection occurs. So begins Destination Unknown - it's 1987 in New York City, and Micah is at a dance club, trying to pretend he's more out and outgoing than he really is. In Destination Unknown, Bill Konigsberg returns to a time he knew well as a teenager to tell a story of identity, connection, community, and survival. From Stonewall Award winner Bill Konigsberg, a remarkable, funny, sexy, heartbreaking story of two teen boys finding each other in New York City at the height of the AIDS epidemic. ![]() |