![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The next morning, she woke on a cold hospital gurney to be photographed naked, her anus swabbed and metal instruments prodded into her vagina.Ī year later, Chanel – known by the pseudonym 'Emily Doe' during the trial – found herself in the same courtroom as Turner, who was sentenced to a pitiful six months in prison for his assault. That night, she made a last-minute decision to join her sister at a fraternity party located just 10 minutes from her home. The aftermath of which involved, first an anonymous testimony, then excruciating double-standards in the way the press reported it, followed by a powerful victim impact statement and eventually the revelation of her real identity.įor those that don't know it already: at around midnight of 17 January 2015, Chanel was discovered by two students at Stanford University, being sexually assaulted by 19-year-old Brock Turner as she lay unconscious on the pine-needle-strewn ground behind some bins.Īt the time, Miller was a 22-year-old recent graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and living in Palo Alto with her parents. But for 27-year-old Miller, the time is ripe for bundling herself in words of affection.įor four years, she's lived in the wake of a heavily-publicised sexual assault. It’s a rare thing to hear someone - more specifically, a woman - eulogise their own body. ‘I love the shape of my belly button,’ declares Chanel Miller. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() He’s also an artist who paints at night and hides his work in the light of day, which Chloe knows because she spies on him occasionally. Redford ‘Red’ Morgan is a handyman with tattoos, a motorcycle, and more sex appeal than ten-thousand Hollywood heartthrobs. What Chloe needs is a teacher, and she knows just the man for the job. Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage.īut it’s not easy being bad, even when you’ve written step-by-step guidelines on how to do it correctly.Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex.After almost-but not quite-dying, she’s come up with six directives to help her “Get a Life”, and she’s already completed the first: finally moving out of her glamourous family’s mansion. Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. ![]() ![]() However, this basically means that the mirrorworld and the inkworld are the same thing, so you’re totally right. We’re probably going to get more content that might link those two worlds together, but I am terribly bad at keeping updated, so I rely on all the other ink- / mirrorworld tumblrs out there ^^ It does feature entirely different characters (so far) and themes.īut! Funke has revealed that the inkworld and the mirrorworld are technically the same world, just that the inkworld is a ~500 years younger version of it. The author, Cornelia Funke, also has the Reckless series though, and the setting of that series is called the mirrorworld (at least in English and German). The Inkworld of course features the characters of the trilogy! ![]() ![]() The setting for the actual Inkheart book (the fictional inside Inkheart) is called the Inkworld, at least in English and German. ![]() ![]() What they're saying: "It's pretty obvious why AI was better.
![]() ![]() Her writing made me think of a photographer who could both go wide and capture a panoramic view and then zoom in for a close up and not lose anything in this process. The tension in Naomi’s home, school, and community is palpable throughout the story and increases slowly as we’re led into the heartbreaking climax.Īshley masterfully balances the big picture and the smallest details. The fuse lit in that opening scene coils through the narrative, gaining in intensity as the story leads back to the explosion and then its aftermath. The novel opens with the explosion, and then flashes back to show how the characters’ live intersect before the event. ![]() One of the things I appreciate most was the slow burn of the narrative. ![]() I want to pull it apart and study it because it’s that good. Rodriguez: As soon as I finished Ashley’s novel, I wanted to reread it as a writer. And sometimes all it takes is an explosion.Īshley Hope Pérez takes the facts of the 1937 New London school explosion-the worst school disaster in American history-as a backdrop for a riveting novel about segregation, love, family, and the forces that destroy people.Ĭindy L. But there are some forces even the most determined color lines cannot resist. Naomi Smith and Wash Fullerton know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. ![]() DESCRIPTION OF THE BOOK: “This is East Texas, and there’s lines. ![]() ![]() The water was filthy, siphoned from a nearby river which was full of excrement and rotting carcasses of animals. Every morning prisoners were taken outside for five minutes to have a quick refreshing shower, however the water that was given was unclean and contaminated. As there were too many people in a cell, ‘it stank of wounds and sweats’. Fellow outlines the prison as claustrophobic due to a large number of prisoners being locked up together in a small cell. The prison of Bang Kwang was horrific and unpleasant. The representation of the prison and the guards have challenged my values and attitudes as the punishments was overboard and inhumane. ![]() In this autobiographical account, Fellow outlines the squalid condition of the prison and the atrocious and unpleasant behavior of the guards. ![]() ![]() During Fellows time in Bangkok, he was convicted of heroin trafficking between Australia and Thailand and was sentenced to prison called Bang Kwang for twelve years. ![]() An autobiography account The Damage Done, written by Warren Fellows, illustrates his time of imprisonment in Bangkok. How have representation of people and/or places confirmed or challenged your values and attitudes? Refer to at least one written text studied in class. ![]() ![]() ![]() It seems like they've only known each other for a few weeks before he asks her to marry him, and they never went on dates or really seemed to interact beforehand. I would have adored this book completely, save for two quibbles: 1, I didn't buy the romance between Andrew and Stashe. ![]() The whole story is a wonderful mix of woodsy magic and old timey village life, with thoughtful and determined main characters I liked as people. Andrew has a way of thinking about reality as a mere option that I really enjoy. This is a lovely book, and I absolutely love the way the village, Melstone House, and magic are described. Andrew tries to beat back the fairies' slow invasion with the (sometimes inadvertent) help of his fellow villagers. As he grows used to his new responsibilities, he remembers more and more of what his grandfather taught him about magic, and he starts noticing encroachment on his magical lands. On the death of his grandfather, Andrew leaves his professorship to run the family home.and the accompanying magical estate. ![]() ![]() There are a lot of Buchanan family members and friends to introduce to Evina, which detracts from the ostensibly central mystery of who wants Evina dead. As a widow who is still a virgin, Evina is a cliché, and her falling in love with Conran is predictable. A cheerful jack-of-all-trades, Conran knows enough healing arts to keep up the charade and treat Evina’s father. She needs Rory Buchanan to heal her ill father, so she hits him over the head and drags him unconscious all the way back home-not realizing she actually has Rory’s brother Conran in tow. When headstrong Lady Evina Maclean needs something, she takes action regardless of the consequences. ![]() ![]() Sands’s seventh Highland Brides historical (after The Highlander’s Promise) is only satisfying in the context of the series. ![]() ![]() ![]() He discusses, too, whether our fears could be getting in the way of conserving biodiversity, and responding to the threat of climate change. ![]() Ken Thompson puts forward a fascinating array of narratives to explore what he sees as the crucial question – why only a minority of introduced species succeed, and why so few of them go on to cause trouble. ![]() This is a timely, instructive and controversial book that delivers unexpected answers. Where Do Camels Belong: The story and science of invasive species Paperback Januby Ken Thompson (Author) 91 ratings See all formats and editions Paperback from 10.32 4 Used from 10.32 There is a newer edition of this item: Where Do Camels Belong 15.54 (91) Only 10 left in stock - order soon. We have all heard the horror stories of invasives, from Japanese knotweed that puts fear into the heart of gardeners to brown tree snakes that have taken over the island of Guam.īut do we need to fear invaders? And indeed, can we control them, and do we choose the right targets? and especially of responding to the threat of climate change. This is a classic example of the contradictions of 'native' and 'invasive' species, a hot issue right now, as the flip-side of biodiversity. They evolved in North America, retain their greatest diversity in South America, and the only remaining wild dromedaries are in Australia. Where do camels belong? In the Arab world may seem the obvious answer, but they are relative newcomers there. ![]() ![]() ![]() There's one scene in particular where she is upset because she thinks that a boy she likes is more interested in her friend, and she wants him to be interested in her. She seems to feel things a lot more intensely than others do and it shows. She knows it, and so do the people around her. Julie is a very complex character, she's innocent, in a way, but there's something different about her. Both Julie and Maya are very smart, Julie has skipped a few grades in school, so she is a bit younger than her classmates, and this shows through in her personality and the way that she interacts with them. Their mother has passed away, and their father is distant, more focused on his work than he is on them. The story explores the lives of Julie and Maya, two very bright, if somewhat troubled girls. That being said, it is slightly predictable at times, which is why it didn't get the full five stars from me. It is dark, and twisty, full of pain, sorrow, searching, experimenting, and madness. This book holds up very well, and is very well written. This review was first posted on Melissa's Midnight Musings on September 24 2012. ![]() |