![]() ![]() Psychological violence as well as physical violence is a way of demoralizing one’s peers in the world of Trinity, and the Vigils are masters of this kind of dehumanization. While physical violence is transpiring on the field, a different kind of violence is happening up in the stands as two members of the Vigils, Archie and Obie, plot what assignments they will give out in the coming weeks. He is so thoroughly beaten at the end that he drags himself to a bathroom stall and vomits. The first pages of the book describe the violence of Jerry Renault’s first football tryout. ![]() Throughout the novel, Cormier shows how the young male students at Trinity use violence as a means of attaining power over one another, and even over their teachers. Cormier ultimately suggests that the environment of Trinity High, in its embrace of the negative aspects of masculinity, creates a constant struggle for power and control-between both its students and its teachers-that often leads to violence. Once Jerry rattles the foundations of their school, the student body’s collective desire “for blood” comes to a head. ![]() As the boys of Trinity haltingly and shakily approach manhood, their everyday interactions with one another become tinged with violence. The insecurity, uncertainty, and volatility of late boyhood-even more concentrated within the setting of an all-boys’ high school-is fertile ground for Robert Cormier’s tale of coercion, tradition, and the dangers of individualism. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I received this free eARC from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review. The Flight & Glory series is best enjoyed in order.īook #5 The Reality of Everything Read more They're flying through dangerous territory-and one wrong move could make them crash and burn. Now Paisley must decide just how much to risk for a guy who makes her heart pound a little too hard. Except that Paisley is the commanding general's daughter, and her boyfriend is Jagger's biggest rival. He's wickedly hot, reckless, and perfect for a girl looking to live life to the fullest. Jagger is enrolled in the country's toughest flight school. And it almost does, until Jagger Bateman pulls her from the ocean and breathes more than air into her lungs-he sets her soul on fire. She may share her sister's heart condition, but nothing will stop her from completing her Bucket List, even if it kills her. Since her sister's death, twenty-year-old Paisley Donovan has been treated like delicate glass by her parents. ![]() ![]() Repeatedly eating carbohydrates causes chronically high insulin levels and the steady accumulation of fat.įung stresses the importance of fasting to lower insulin levels enough to begin using body fat for energy. Insulin is more importantly a fat storage hormone that blocks the burning of fat and causes excess sugar to be turned into fat through lipogenesis. 2 With all food consumption, especially carbohydrates, insulin is secreted to drive blood sugar into cells. 1 Fung is a nephrologist by training and runs the Intensive Dietary Management Program at the University of Toronto.įung formulated a new understanding of obesity by developing the argument that obesity is a hormonal illness of excess insulin. He is famous for postulating that with complex problems, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions is usually correct. ![]() William of Ockham (1287-1347) was an English friar and philosopher. ![]() ![]() Jason Fung, MD uses Ockham’s razor to si mplify the management of type 2 diabetes. Publication Information: Vancouver, Canada, Greystone Books, 2018, 296 pp., $22.95 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Get it from Bookshop or from your local indie bookstore via Indiebound. There’s action, violence, political intrigue, vampires/gods/primals/shapeshifters, horrifying snake-filled zombies, and an Amarantha-esque queen to keep the action moving. The six-book series (four are presently out) builds in sexual content, and in the third book, readers finally get a scene that has been set up since book one. The series' female protagonist, Poppy, is introduced at the start of the series as “The Maiden” but becomes anything but by the final of book one. It’s as if “Under the Mountain Rhys” morphed into a Vlad-the-Impaler type vampire/god with a dark sense of humor and fetish for women wielding swords, but also extremely compassionate - fiction men are wild like that. He’s twisted in the most deliciously depraved ways. If you’re looking for a male love interest that rivals Rhysand in debauchery, then enter Hawke. From Blood and Ash (FBAA) is one of the top recommended series to overcome your ACOTAR hangover - and for good reason. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He has always been in the place between the here and now and the what could be. He'd remake them to his own ends, and if he was lucky enough, Scott lives with his husband in a leafy Sacramento, California suburb, in a cute yellow house with a pair of pink flamingoes in the front yard. If there weren't gay characters in his favorite genres, he would reimagine them, filling them with a diverse universe of characters. When Scott came out at 23, he decided he wanted to create the kinds of stories he couldn't find at the bookstore. But as he read the golden age classics and more modern works too, he started to wonder where all the queer people were. He started reading science fiction and fantasy at the tender age of nine, encouraged by his mother. ![]() Scott lives with his husband in a leafy Sacramento, California suburb, in a cute yellow house with a pair of pink flamingoes in the front yard. ![]() ![]() ![]() but this one has very limited crossover appeal into the world of the adult reader. Now, i have never read any of those lemony snicket or pseudonymous bosch books, but i gather the tone and the device are similar? and judging by the continued success of those books, i guess the kids go nuts for it. ![]() sign me up, even though i am so much taller than all the other readers of this series! despite my aversion to twins, and my not reading much middle grade, i thought i would enjoy this, because - puzzles! and chapters with names like Other Things Happen In An Exciting Manner!and an intrusive aggressive narrator who berates the reader throughout the story and gives questions at the end of every chapter such as What were the names of Abigail and John, the Templeton twins? and Explain, in fifty words or less, why you believe the story will actually get started, and why it will be wonderful. I read this because i came across an excerpt that made it sound really fun. ![]() ![]() She would eventually become its editor-in-chief and take internships at papers like the Washington Post. She then attended the nearby Howard University for the express purpose of working on the university newspaper. ![]() Thanks to her parents’ decision to migrate, Wilkerson grew up in multicultural, integrated Washington, D.C., where she discovered a passion for journalism in high school. Wilkerson’s mother grew up in Rome, Georgia, and Wilkerson tells part of her migration story in The Warmth of Other Suns. Her father was from Petersburg, Virginia and served in World War II as one of the Tuskegee Airman (a prominent cohort of Black pilots). Isabel Wilkerson identifies as “a Southerner once removed” because her parents both participated in the Great Migration. Part Five: More North and West Than South. ![]() Part Four: The Fullness of the Migration.Part Three: The Appointed Time of Their Coming. ![]() Part Two: Robert Joseph Pershing Foster.Part One: The Great Migration, 1915–1970. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now Teru, who has spent most of his life denying his attraction to men, and Rei, who vowed long ago never to love again, must reconcile their feelings with their careers - and with their carefully constructed ideas of themselves. With Teru's voice and looks, and Rei's money and songwriting skills, both of their dreams seem about to come true - but a forbidden kiss and a late-night confession threaten to tear it all apart. ![]() Help comes in the form of Rei, a brilliant composer whose performing career was ended by an accident that left him scarred, injured, and in chronic pain. ![]() When a mysterious business card offers help, he's willing to take it however it comes. He may look the part, but he doesn't sound it, and tension among his bandmates has him worried about his future. Teru came to Tokyo with dreams of making it big in the glam-metal visual kei scene, but three years later, all he has to show for it is a head of hot pink hair and some skill with an eyeliner pencil. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even though they have confidence in their spy skills, this time the targets are tougher (and hotter), and the stakes for Cammie's heart-and her beloved school-are higher than ever. Soon, Cammie and her friends are crawling through walls and surveilling the school to learn the truth about Blackthorne and clear Cammie's name. ![]() Then she's blamed for a security breach that leaves the school's top secret status at risk. She and her friends learn that their school is going to play host to some mysterious guests-code name: Blackthorne. Novels by Ally Carter: Dont Judge a Girl by Her Cover, Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy, Heist Society, Id Tell You I Love You by Books LLC 4.47 avg. Like, will her ex-boyfriend even remember she exists? And how much trouble is she really in after what happened last semester? And most of all, why is her mother acting so strangely? Despite Cammie's best intentions to be a normal student, danger seems to follow her. Cammie may have a genius I.Q., but there are still a lot of things she doesn't know. But that's easier said than done when you're a CIA legacy and go to the premier school in the world. Then she is blamed for a security breach. ![]() After staking out, obtaining, and then being forced to give up her first boyfriend, Josh, all Cammie Morgan wants is a peaceful semester. Ally Carter is the New York Times best-selling author of Id Tell You I Love You, But Then Id Have to Kill You and it sequel, Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy. She and her friends learned that their school is going to play host to some mysterious guests code name: Blackthorne. ![]() ![]() ![]() Part 3 argues for the warranted nature of theistic belief and then of specifically Christian belief. Plantinga must then argue that Christian beliefs are aimed at truth and that Christians are not cognitively dysfunctional. Part 2 clarifies the question he is pursuing by more clearly defining warrant and noting that his main objection he is answering is the “Freud-Marx” complaint. Freud’s complaint is that Christian belief functions properly, but is not aimed toward truth, while Marx’s complaint is that Christians are cognitively dysfunctional. Plantinga shows his mastery of the self-referentially incoherent argument. Part 1 clears the ground against those who say we cannot predicate about God, following in Kant’s footsteps. The main argument of the book is then that, if Christianity is true, then it is more likely than not warranted, in which case we can truly know the things of the gospel. If a belief is true, whenever enough warrant is added to that true belief, it becomes knowledge. By warrant, he means something similar to rationality, but a bit different. ![]() In Warranted Christian Belief, Plantinga argues that belief in the main tenets of Christianity is warranted. ![]() Even more important than that, though, is his defense of Christian belief. Many attribute to his influence the fact that many philosophers now find it intellectually defensible to believe in God (see, e.g., Mascord’s work). Alvin Plantinga is well-known as one of the most important Christian philosophers of our day. ![]() |