In the hands of a lesser writer, such a collection would be ripe for treacly sentimentality. Writing out of the English Christmas story tradition, which often features ghosts (as in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, which is but one of many Christmas stories he wrote), the stories in Christmas Days are seasonal without being tied into any particular religious orthodoxy. “I like cooking, but I prefer writing,” says Winterson. Interesting as the recipes are – and I do plan on giving Kamila Shamsie’s Turkey Biryani a try – the twelve stories collected in Christmas Days are the book’s great strength. The last step in the mince pie recipe – “Store in an old tin you have no use for but can’t bear to throw out” – made me laugh out loud, reminding me of the tins of cookies my grandmother would bring out at every opportunity. Strict measurements are largely eschewed, and the tone is wickedly funny. The recipes themselves are casual and personal, akin to having Winterson walk you through the process in her kitchen. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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Journalist Angela Chen creates her path to understanding her own asexuality with the perspectives of a diverse group of asexual people. Through a blend of reporting, cultural criticism, and memoir, Ace addresses the misconceptions around the “A” of LGBTQIA and invites everyone to rethink pleasure and intimacy. What exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through life not experiencing it? What does asexuality reveal about gender roles, about romance and consent, and the pressures of society? This accessible examination of asexuality shows that the issues that aces face-confusion around sexual activity, the intersection of sexuality and identity, navigating different needs in relationships-are the same conflicts that nearly all of us will experience. An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that’s obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity. Between learning the reins of horse riding, dealing with her Air Force pilot mom being stationed thousands of miles from home, and keeping it together in front of (gasp!) Horse Boys, Wills learns that becoming a part of the #HorseGirl world isn't easy. But Amara-the Queen of the #HorseGirls-and her posse aren't going to let the certifiably dork-tagious Wills trot her way into their club so easily. Wills is a seventh grader who's head-over-hoof for horses, and beyond excited when she gets the chance to start training at the prestigious Oakwood Riding Academy. Very original, and a great pleasure to read."-Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Beautifully portrays both the pleasures and risks of riding horses and also of being a teen. Synopsis: Mean Girls meets Black Beauty in Horse Girl by celebrated author Carrie Seim-a funny and tender middle-grade novel about finding your forever herd. In other words, if there’s money involved, you don’t get involved in this business. But the more you need, of course, the less money you need. The whole situation comes from absolutely nothing. But if it’s an LBO, not only do you not have to bring it, you don’t have to see it, you don’t know where you’re going to get it, nobody knows where they got it from. If you don’t got it in cash, you need to bring it by Thursday. But to buy a shoe-shine store, if it costs $3,000, you need $3,000. You need more money to open a shoe-shine shop than you do to buy a $2 billion company, let’s be honest about it. ROSS JOHNSON, president, RJR Nabisco This business, on a legitimate basis, is a fraud. ADOLPHUS GREEN, founder, Nabisco Some genius invented the Oreo. BARBARIANS AT THE GATE The Fall of RJR Nabisco Bryan Burrough AND John Helyar HarperBusiness Essentials To my wife, Marla Dorfman Burrough, and to my parents, John and Mary Burrough of Temple, Texas-JBB To my wife, Betsy Morris, and to my parents, Richard and Margaret Helyar of Brattleboro, Vermont-JSH The officer of every corporation should feel in his heart-in his very soul-that he is responsible, not merely to make dividends for the stockholders of his company, but to enhance the general prosperity and the moral sentiment of the United States. The book won the Society for American Archaeology's 2010 Book Award. He shows how the domesticated horse and the invention of the wheel mobilized the steppe herding societies in the Eurasian Steppe, and combined with the introduction of bronze technology and new social structures of patron-client relationships gave an advantage to the Indo-European societies. Anthony, in which the author describes his "revised Kurgan theory." He explores the origins and spread of the Indo-European languages from the Pontic–Caspian steppe throughout Western Europe, Central Asia, and South Asia. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World is a 2007 book by the anthropologist David W. I studied opera in college (I'm a coloratura - the really loud, high-pitched sopranos.) and then went to law school. By high school, I'd made some friends and gotten involved in various "gifted and talented" performing arts programs. I had a really hard time making friends, so I spent a lot of time reading and writing then. My family moved to Miami when I was in middle school. Zeiser, told my mother, "Alexandra marches to her own drummer." I don't think that was supposed to be a compliment. When the other kids were on Book 20, I was on Book 1! My teacher, Mrs. But I compensated for this early proficiency by absolutely refusing to read the programmed readers required by the school system - workbooks where you read the story, then answered the questions. And when I was eight, I got my first rejection letter from Highlights Magazine. When I was five, my mom said I should be an author. This probably influenced my interest in witches. I grew up on a street called Salem Court. Love Jacaranda is out in the world! Hope you'll check out this fun wish-fulfillment romance! “Childcare is not easy and Emira kills it – she’s good at it. “There’s no way it’s going to work unless someone is at home, taking care of the child.” There’s also an expectation that women will be cut out for it. On both sides of this divide, working women are making choices about childcare in a world designed by men, she continues. The people Reid nannied for, like Alix, were rich – “all of them … If you ask them, they probably wouldn’t say that, but if you own a home in New York and can afford to hire a nanny, then you either have extreme income, or extreme wealth – or both.” A lot of Americans will often say: 'Well we’re all human, we all have the same experience,' when we don’t Growing up in a fairly wealthy family with parents who valued education, she’s conscious of her “very privileged place”, but when she started at college, she made her living from childcare, doing children’s birthday parties at an art studio and – just like Emira – working as a nanny: “That was my income for about six years.” Reid says she finds it funny when readers think they can hear her in Emira, explaining that if anything she has “more of a background like Alix”. Born in Los Angeles in 1987, Reid was raised in Tucson, Arizona, before moving to New York City to study acting at Marymount Manhattan College, followed by creative writing at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. So, the first weekend after my 13 th birthday, I begged my parents to take me to the library so that I could get my adult library card. At times I’ve been so desperate that I’ve even read the Sweet Valley High and Babysitters Club books, but my heart was firmly with horror. I have devoured every Point Horror book available, as well as plenty of Christopher Pike and the Nightmares series. I’ve read all of the books held in the children’s section of my local library, some of them more than once. I am a geek, and although I have friends, I love nothing more than to read. I am thirteen years old, wearing ugly glasses and probably uglier leggings. I’ll be looking at the recurring themes, the tricks he likes to use, the way he develops character and the way that his craft has evolved in the 44 years since Carrie was first published. I will be reading all of Stephen King’s books in order of publication (with the exception of The Dark Tower series which I will read together, at the end of this adventure) and writing a review of each. Why of all the things I can do can I not change - While whispered conversations ebbed and flowed around them, he focused on the image of his older brother’s face and tried unsuccessfully to imagine the person that could beat Declan up. I didn’t come out soon enough, I’m sorry, I’m sorry. The image behind his eyes was the bloody tire iron beside his father’s head. He knelt and put his head down on his arms. For a moment, disoriented, he had to hold in his breath. As he lowered the kneeler, he smelled the sharp, antiseptic smell of hospital on his brother. Noah slid into the pew, sitting at the very end, and Ronan slid in beside him. And a little money.” “And your face.” Declan just inhaled in response, slow and careful. There was very little worse than Ronan in Henrietta, and what worse there was was too busy racing around in a little white Mitsubishi to burgle the remaining Lynches. And if anyone was going to get beaten up, it wouldn’t be the Lynch brothers. No one got burgled, and if they did, they didn’t get beaten up. Pretty early on, maybe in that phone call, I know we talked about the photos, and the charming appendices, and-ulp!-maybe changing the title, as supremely great as it was. I remember we talked on the phone for the first time late in 2014-it was probably just a stream of compliments from me! Every so often, you included a photo, and these always made me smile even after I should have gotten used to them, each one caught me off guard. It was pretty cold when I read it, two winters ago-the book made me want to put on shorts. I was hooked by the characters, and was happy to go wherever the story took them, from Paul’s development of something called the Pneumatic Turbo Skull Punch, which the Department of Defense wants to use to relieve battlefield head trauma, to the funny and fraught relationship each of them has with their parents. I grasped more or less immediately that this was a voice I wanted to keep hearing. Ed Park: I'm excited for the world to read The Portable Veblen, which I fell in love with on the very first page. |