![]() ![]() I found it both refreshing and uplifting. I don’t even think she even has any form of social media! I also love her overall positive outlook on life. She isn’t into all the drama of being famous. Throughout this book we really get a sense of who Amy is as a person. ![]() Before reading this book, I honestly knew NOTHING about her. Honestly, I think the woman could talk about anything and keep me interested. While scrolling through Hoopla, I came across Yes Please and I decided that I needed some Amy Poehler in my life.Īmy has something special that I like to call the “gift of entertainment.” Only Amy Poehler could talk about her uneventful childhood and have me wanting more. I had been reading back-to-back historical fiction novels, so I needed to mix things up a bit. ![]() This was a bit of an impulse read for me. Powered by Amy’s charming and hilarious, biting yet wise voice, Yes Please is a book full of words to live by. In Amy Poehler’s highly anticipated first book, Yes Please, she offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship and parenthood and real life advice (some useful, some not so much), like when to be funny and when to be serious. ![]()
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![]() ![]() As Levine shows, surveillance wasn't something that suddenly appeared on the Internet it was woven into the fabric of the technology.īut this isn't just a story about the NSA or other domestic programs run by the government. This idea - using computers to spy on people and groups perceived as a threat, both at home and abroad - drove ARPA to develop the Internet in the 1960s and continues to be at the heart of the modern Internet we all know and use today. In this fascinating book, investigative reporter Yasha Levine uncovers the secret origins of the Internet, tracing it back to a Pentagon counterinsurgency surveillance project.Ī visionary intelligence officer, William Godel, realized that the key to winning the war in Vietnam was not outgunning the enemy but using new information technology to understand their motives and anticipate their movements. ![]() The Internet is the most effective weapon the government has ever built. ![]() ![]() She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher, and of the small apartment that, when she was nineteen, became the home in which she transformed herself. In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. Longlisted for The Orwell Prize for Political WritingĪn electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent, from the author of Orwell's Roses ![]() ![]() Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography ![]() ![]() ![]() Many of the local families experience poverty and domestic violence.Įsperanza focuses on finding a best friend of her own, as she’s unsatisfied with her little sister, Nenny. ![]() Their house is crowded up against apartment buildings, and the residents of the neighborhood are loud and bustling. The family shares one bedroom, and there is no yard like Esperanza hoped. When the family finally moves into a house (instead of an apartment), it is nothing like what any of them hoped or dreamed. She uses writing to help her process her feelings and experiences. She navigates the shame of being poor at her Catholic school, feeling suffocated by sharing a tiny space with her parents and siblings, and the difficulties of developing sexual awareness and losing the innocence of childhood. She is growing up in a small house in urban Chicago, surrounded by other children of mostly Mexican American families. In this collection of vignettes, Esperanza charts her transition from child to young woman. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dreiser married Sara White in 1898, but his extramarital affairs led them to permanently separate some 14 years later. Huxley, John Tyndall, and Herbert Spencer, and came to adopt a naturalistic worldview: humans are helpless and wholly subject to the influences of their environment. ![]() During these young adult years, he read T. After studying for a year at Indiana University, Dreiser became a reporter and moved to the East Coast. In this period, Dreiser also developed a profound desire for material wealth, something that would serve as inspiration for his works. This led Dreiser to associate his father’s lack of productivity with religion. His father was a millworker who struggled to find employment and a strict adherent to Roman Catholicism. Theodore Dreiser was born to a large, poor family in the American Midwest. ![]() ![]() But when the boy chooses the winning numbers for a lottery ticket, the two set off from Reykjavik along Iceland’s Ring Road on a journey of discovery.Īlong the way, they encounter black sand beaches, cucumber farms, lava fields, flocks of sheep, an Estonian choir, a falconer, a hitchhiker, and both of her exes desperate for another chance. ![]() Instead, her best friend’s four-year-old deaf-mute son is unexpectedly left in her care. After a day of being dumped-twice-and accidentally killing a goose, she yearns to escape from the chaos of her life. zany, surprising, full of twists and turns” (Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle and Something Blue).Ī translator of Icelandic, the unnamed young woman who narrates Butterflies in November is perhaps more at home in the world of language than the actual world. A novel of love, friendship, and self-reinvention: “I can’t remember the last time I was so enchanted. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She also collected knife rests and she was member of The Knife Rest Collectors Club.ĭoreen Hornsblow died from cancer on 30 August 2001, at 64 years of age. In 1985, she was the founding chair of the Hertford Association of National Trust Members, and named its life president. in London, England, and accounts clerk at Consumers' Association in Hertford, England. except love.ĭoreen was an accounts clerk at Associated Newspapers Ltd. In 1991, she wrote a book in two parts about the Barclay twins and their great love, and in 1995, she wrote the Ties of Passion Trilogy about the Brodey family, that have money, looks, style, everything. Her first works are stand-alone novels, but in 1990s, she decided to create her first series. Her novels were principally set in Great Britain or in exotic places like Canary Islands or Greece. ![]() She started writing after attending an evening class and sold her first novel to Mills & Boon in 1977, she published her novels under the pseudonym Sally Wentworth. The family lived in Braughing, England.ĭoreen began her publishing career at a Fleet Street newspaper in London, where she thrived in the hectic atmosphere. She married Donald Alfred Hornsblow, with whom she has a son Keith, in 1968. Doreen was born on 1936 or 1937 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK. ![]() ![]() ![]() Completely reset text, making it more attracive and pleasanter to read.Heavily revised notes link her fiction to her extensive reading, her other writings and major events and issues of the day.Up to date bibliography includes all the latest critical writing on Wollstonecraft.The new introduction incorporates the latest scholarship over the past quarter-century since the previous edition and considers the social formation of Wollstonecraft as a Revolutionary feminist, her literary-political career, and a critical account of her two novels.Her pioneering views on women's rights inform her two novels, and their autobiographical influence makes them of great literary and historical interest. Wollstonecraft is best known for Vindication of the Rights of Woman. ![]() Strongly autobiographical, Mary and The Wrongs of Woman powerfully complement Wollstonecraft's non-fictional writing, inspired by the French Revolution and the social upheavals that followed. ![]() ![]() Pauline Pepe, a 19-year-old who lived in New York's Little Italy, survived the fire. ![]() It was their only way to escape the flames - doors were locked to prevent theft, the building's single fire escape collapsed, and after several trips to rescue workers, the elevator broke down. Scores of workers jumped from the eighth and ninth floors of the 10-story building to their deaths. Most of the people who perished in the fire were Jewish or Italian-American women - and several of the victims had been in the U.S. Twenty-two of the fire's victims were laid to rest at Mount Richmond, and the Hebrew Free Burial Association still uses the cemetery to inter Jews who cannot pay for their burial. On a recent morning, a small group of men and women met to recite the Jewish mourner's prayer for Triangle workers buried in the Mount Richmond Cemetery on Staten Island. On the 100th anniversary of the tragedy, people around the country are remembering the victims, and the labor legacy they inspired. ![]() The deaths of 146 garment workers in New York City - most of them young, immigrant women - led to legislative reforms on a national level and spurred the growth of organized labor. The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire on March 25, 1911, remains one of the greatest workplace tragedies in American history. On March 25, 1911, the New York City building caught fire, and 146 workers lost their lives in one the country's worst workplace tragedies. Young Laborers: Most of the garment workers in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory were young, immigrant women. ![]() ![]() This novel is one of predestined heroism and a boy determined to curate his life experiences in preparation for his final act. John narrates the twists and turns of their relationship, from the Little League baseball game during which Owen’s foul ball kills John’s mother to Owen’s death, a divinely crafted occurrence that Owen adamantly believes he has foreseen. He grows up in Gravesend, New Hampshire, with his best buddy John Wheelwright, whose family comes from old money. The titular character, Owen, is an intelligent, small-statured, shrill-voiced, 11-year-old son of a quarryman. The fictional story is deep, poignant, complexly germane and truly captivating. (Trust me, though, you must read it!) For now, let’s talk about “A Prayer for Owen Meany,” Irving’s all-time best-selling novel. I promise to give a review of “Garp” as soon as I replace my lost copy, which met its fate in a puddle of water. ![]() ![]() My interest in John Irving’s writing began after I read his award-winning “The World According to Garp” in high school. ![]() |