![]() ![]() ![]() Even so, this is a passage that caused me some uncomfortable self-reflection as well. Richard can perhaps wriggle off the hook. Perhaps he had sounded surprised, now that he thought of it, but it was the same surprise he would express if a similar discovery were made in England or anywhere else in the world. It was wrong of Okeoma to assume that he was one of those Englishmen who did not give the African the benefit of an equal intelligence. It was the look in Okeoma’s eyes that worried him the most: a disdainful distrust that made him think of reading somewhere that the African and the European would always be irreconcilable. When Richard later mulls over the conversation, he decides that Okeoma is wrong to think him condescending: It’s typical of this fine novel that the scenario isn’t entirely black and white. ![]() But hasn’t he here just revealed himself to have the condescension and arrogance of the British colonial mindset? Has he been thinking of these people as somehow lesser than himself? Later, he will long to be accepted as a Biafran. Richard, who has been eating hot pepper soup, can feel himself burning up both literally and metaphorically. And when Richard says “what?”, he goes on: “You sound surprised as if you ever imagined these people capable of such things.” ![]()
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![]() The tale was based on a real world incident involving John Prichard (1877–1934), a Gloucester tailor commissioned to make a suit for the new mayor. Potter visited a museum to refine her illustrations of eighteenth century dress. The tale was finished by Christmas 1901, and given as a Christmas present to ten-year-old Freda Moore, the daughter of her former governess. In the summer of 1901, Potter was working on The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, but took time to develop a tale about a poor tailor she heard in the Gloucestershire home of her cousin Caroline Hutton probably in 1897. For years, Potter declared that of all her books it was her personal favourite. ![]() The story is about a tailor whose work on a waistcoat is finished by the grateful mice he rescues from his cat and was based on a real world incident involving a tailor and his assistants. ![]() ![]() The Tailor of Gloucester is a Christmas children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, privately printed by the author in 1902, and published in a trade edition by Frederick Warne & Co. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() Koral's only choice is to do what no one in the world has ever dared: cheat her way into the Glory Race.īut every step of the way is unpredictable as Koral races against contenders who have trained for this their whole lives and who have no intention of letting a low-caste girl steal their glory. When the last maristag of the year escapes and Koral has no new maristag to sell, her family's financial situation takes a turn for the worse and they can't afford medicine for her chronically ill little sister. The winning contender receives gold and glory. In an oceanic world swarming with vicious beasts, the Landers-the ruling elite, have indentured Koral's family to provide the maristags for the Glory Race, a deadly chariot tournament reserved for the upper class. ![]() They have to, or else their family will starve. Sixteen-year-old Koral and her older brother Emrik risk their lives each day to capture the monstrous maristags that live in the black seas around their island. ![]() Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and These Violent Delights, this South Asian-inspired fantasy is a gripping debut about the power of the elite, the price of glory, and one girl's chance to change it all. She grew up battling the monsters that live in the black seas, but it couldn't prepare her to face the cunning cruelty of the ruling elite. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His characters have personalities and depth, and if most of them aren’t very nice people, well, that’s appropriate to the dystopian hellholes they inhabit. He can also vividly ground the reader in the viscerality of a character’s experience, the physical sensations and emotions, and make even vastly unlikable people sympathetic and compelling. Peter can write a paragraph about a spaceship course-correcting on a high-g burn that would make Herman Melville wring his hands in envy. But he’s also a poet-a damned fine writer on a sentence level, who can make you feel the blank Lovecraftian indifference of the sea floor or of interplanetary space with the same ease facility with which he can pen an absolutely breathtaking passage of description. ![]() His work is rigorous, unsentimental, and full of the sort of brilliant little moments of synthesis that make a nerd’s brain light up like a pinball machine. Peter is crown royalty among writers of science fiction’s most difficult subgenre-that generally referred to as “hard” science fiction. ![]() With that classic opening line-spoken in the voice of Siri Keeton, first-person narrator-Peter Watts does not so much invite as abduct the reader into the experience of a Human being in the wrong place, at the wrong time, about to discover just how wrong the universe can really be. ![]() ![]() Exploring how these and other common political myths function, she breaks down how they are employed to subvert calls for equality from historically disenfranchised groups. In 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump declared: "I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct." Reeling from his victory, Democrats blamed the corrosive effect of "identity politics." When banned from Twitter for inciting violence, Trump and his supporters claimed that the measure was an assault on "free speech." In We Need New Stories, Nesrine Malik explains that all of these arguments are political myths-variations on the lie that American values are under assault. The Myth of a Political Correctness Crisis. ![]() ![]() Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages -218) Contents ![]() ![]() The rules are the same, the layout is the same, the name is just different. ![]() Noughts and Crosses is simply the British counterpart to Tic Tac Toe. Noughts and Crosses is the exact same thing as Tic Tac Toe. ![]() What is the difference between Noughts and Crosses and Tic Tac Toe? ![]() While the game might seem simple, playing Tic Tac Toe can benefit your brain! Playing a few rounds can help strengthen your ability to think strategically and plan ahead. What do you learn from playing Tic Tac Toe? Since there are five squares in each row and column, putting your X’s three adjacent spots will give you two possible winning moves, leaving your opponent in a trap. It’s best to control the center when playing on the bigger board. The rules are the same, except now you’ll be looking to get four in a row. Keep your eyes open for those winning spots so you can block them before they get three in a row. Most players go for the middle space whenever they can, but don't ignore the corners! You can use the corners to set up multiple winning moves at once, leaving your opponent no way to block your win. TIC TAC TOE TIPS & TRICKS Control the corners If things are still too easy, take it up a notch by switching to hard mode! You can play against a computer, or with a friend on the same computer. ![]() Try your skills getting four in a row on the 5x5 grid for an extra challenge. Your goal is to get three in a row before your opponent does. On your turn, click anywhere on the grid to place an X in that square. ![]() ![]() ![]() The collection's contents are also reprinted in Carter's Burning Your Boats. The tales vary greatly in length, with the novelette "The Bloody Chamber" being "more than twice the length of any of the other stories, and more than thirty times the length of the shortest. The collection contains ten stories: "The Bloody Chamber", "The Courtship of Mr Lyon", "The Tiger's Bride", "Puss-in-Boots", "The Erl-King", "The Snow Child", "The Lady of the House of Love", "The Werewolf", "The Company of Wolves" and "Wolf-Alice". My intention was not to do 'versions' or, as the American edition of the book said, horribly, 'adult' fairy tales, but to extract the latent content from the traditional stories. The stories share a theme of being closely based upon fairytales or folk tales. ![]() ![]() It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1979 by Gollancz and won the Cheltenham Festival Literary Prize. The Bloody Chamber (or The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories) is a collection of short fiction by English writer Angela Carter. ![]() ![]() ![]() That fantasy is not harmless-our embrace of dominance means subordinating people who don’t look like us, which creates an incentive for White men to remain clueless. White guys need the unearned advantages to keep alive the fantasy that we deserve to be on top. A White supremacist, patriarchal, and capitalist society props up White guys not because we’re superior but precisely because we’re not. I’m not special, but I live in a culture that designates people who look like me as the standard. My quip wasn’t the result of a lack of self-confidence I was simply suggesting that an honest self-assessment helps one do useful work. Rather than being satisfied with being competent-a hard enough standard to meet-professors too often puff themselves up, a weakness to which White guys are especially vulnerable. But most of us aren’t big thinkers, and original ideas are rare. In universities, the coin of the realm is being a big thinker with original ideas. That comment came in conversations with students about inflated faculty egos, partly as a caution to myself. When I taught at the University of Texas at Austin, I routinely joked that “the secret to my success is that I’m mediocre, and I know it.” A review of Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo ![]() ![]() ![]() I devoured All The Tides of Fate! I read it in a couple of sitting, one Sunday afternoon, completely engrossed in the story. As she tries to balance her loyalty to her people, her crew, and the desires of her heart, Amora will soon discover that the power to rule might destroy her. To save herself and Visidia, Amora embarks on a desperate quest for a mythical artifact that could fix everything but it comes at a terrible cost. No one can know the truth about the boy who holds the missing half of her soul. No one can know that she s lost her magic. No one can know about the curse in her bloodline. Now, with the islands in turmoil and the people questioning her authority, Amora cannot allow anyone to see her weaknesses. Through blood and sacrifice, Amora Montara has conquered a rebellion and taken her rightful place as queen of Visidia. The thrilling sequel to instant New York Times bestseller All the Stars and Teeth, called captivating by Tomi Adeyemi, Vicious and alluring by Hafsah Faizal, and phenomenal by Adrienne Young. Publication: 2nd February 2021 – Titan Books ![]() |