"Besides the breakup part of it, the actual coming to terms with that part of who I am was fairly easy." Still, she wasn't nervous to talk about it. Jacobson, 34, first dated a woman when she was 32 - and it was the end of that relationship that sparked her journey across the country. "I didn't know what the book was going to be, but I'm such a workaholic that in order for me to take a vacation, I had to make it a project."Īnd she felt like she had a relatable-yet-specific point-of-view to offer as a queer woman who came to that realization later in life. "I knew I was going to write it," she says. Healing from a heartbreak can already a seemingly Herculean feat, and documenting the whole thing is something Jacobson said she felt she had to do. I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff is a collection of confessional essays, anecdotes and personal drawings from the cross-country road trip Jacobson took after a devastating breakup. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title I Might Regret This Subtitle Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff Author Abbi Jacobson
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Stainless Longganisa Stainless Longganisa is a 2005 semi-autobiography by Bob Ong, and his fifth published work. One might even call them urban culture lore. Says University of the Philippines literary professor, Philippines Free Press literary editor, and award-winning poet Paolo Manalo about Bob Ong's work: "The materials he used in his books are those familiar to this generation of Filipinos. The popularity ofABNKKBSNPLAko in particular is attributed to an element of nostalgia. success of Bob Ong's book among Filipinos has been attributed to its conversational tone which uses humor to point out various absurdities inherent to Filipino culture. The title is meant to be read phonetically as "Aba, nakakabasa na pala ako?!", which can be roughly translated as "Wow, I can read now?!" The novel details what are supposedly childhood memories of the author, from his earliest days as a student until his first few years at work. ABNKKBSNPLAko?! ABNKKBSNPLAko?! is a 2001 novel by Filipino author Bob Ong - his first and most popular work. I am definitely going to be reading it again. I read it twice because I liked it and it was a really good book. You shouldn’t make fun of someone because they are allergic to something and you should take their allergies seriously because if you put something near them then they could have a really bad reaction. Scout’s Thoughts: This was a cute book that reminds us that everyone is different. She’s severely allergic to anything with fur!Ĭan Maggie outsmart her allergies and find the perfect pet? With illustrations by Michelle Mee Nutter, Megan Wagner Lloyd uses inspiration from her own experiences with allergies to tell a heartfelt story of family, friendship, and finding a place to belong. Maggie loves animals and thinks a new puppy to call her own is the answer, but when she goes to select one on her birthday, she breaks out in hives and rashes. Her parents are preoccupied with getting ready for a new baby, and her younger brothers are twins and always in their own world. Publisher’s Book Description: A coming-of-age middle-grade graphic novel featuring a girl with severe allergies who just wants to find the perfect pet!Īt home, Maggie is the odd one out. However, the ending is a trifle too far-fetched, too unrealistic for my own personal tastes it rather turned the story into a standard Harlequin Romance type of tale and lessened my reading pleasure to an extent. And really, until the very end of the book, I was completely engrossed in Fiona's story, and as emotionally connected and satisfied as I usually am when reading the Dear Canada series. Some of the diary entries are simply heartbreaking, with the Macgreggor family first almost losing Fiona's twin sister to the Spanish Flu, and then actually losing one of the older daughters to the disease. Fiona is personable, a talented and observant budding writer, although also somewhat opinionated and mischievous (and quite aware of and honest about both her strengths and weaknesses, her laudable character traits, as well as her faults). With young Fiona Macgregor, author Jean Little has created a likable and winsome main narrator. If I Die Before I Wake: The Flu Epidemic Diary of Fiona Macgregor, Toronto, Ontario, 1918 is an enjoyable and emotionally engaging contribution to the Dear Canada series, although I would not call it a personal favourite. A magnificent read that will inspire and also greatly pull at your heartstrings. Mungo will need all his wits and inner strength to survive and find love and hope in this hyper-vigilant world of tough masculinity, sectarian violence and rampant alcoholism.įull of both hope and foreboding, like Shuggie Bain the writing in Young Mungo is exquisite, however I think this is a far finer novel, the characters are more humane, with even the most unlikable characters fully realised with many shades of light and grey. He is a boy who feels the harsh edges of life a bit too much. He is loved by many and despised by just as many as being weak. Into this brutal world we meet young Mungo, a charming, quietly spoken boy beset with a nervous tic. 'Young Mungo seals it: Douglas Stuart is a genius.' The Washington Post From the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain, Young Mungo is both a vivid portrayal of working-class life and the deeply moving story of the dangerous first love of two young men. She leaves the children and vanishes for weeks at a time on alcoholic benders. Douglas Stuart, whose new novel is Young Mungo. Their father is long dead and their mother- whom they call ‘Mo-Maw’, is both charming and calculating. He lives with his beloved older sister Jodie, who is bright and loving and desperate to escape the estates and his bruising older brother Hamish – known as ‘Ha-Ha’, who is the leader of one of the wild Protestant gangs who rob and menace young Catholics. Mungo grows up in a dangerous Glaswegian neighbourhood rife with sectarian violence between the “Prodders” and the “Fenians”. Be awed by the beauty and intensity of Young Mungo, Douglas Stuart’s powerful new novel that follows his debut novel Shuggie Bain – winner of the Booker Prize for Fiction in 2020. She turns her chosen form into a showcase for her critical dexterity, investigating everything from Saturday Night Live, LinkedIn, and BBQ Becky to sexual violence, infant mortality, and Trump rallies.Ĭollected in an indispensable volume that speaks to the everywoman and the erudite alike, these unforgettable essays never fail to be "painfully honest and gloriously affirming" and hold "a mirror to your soul and to that of America" (Dorothy Roberts). This "transgressive, provocative, and brilliant" (Roxane Gay) collection cements McMillan Cottom's position as a public thinker capable of shedding new light on what the "personal essay" can do. Tressie McMillan Cottom (tressiemcphd) is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science, the author of Thick: And Other. Thick "transforms narrative moments into analyses of whiteness, black misogyny, and status-signaling as means of survival for black women" ( Los Angeles Review of Books) with "writing that is as deft as it is amusing" (Darnell L. In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom-award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed-is unapologetically "thick" deemed "thick where I should have been thin, more where I should have been less," McMillan Cottom refuses to shy away from blending the personal with the political, from bringing her full self and voice to the fore of her analytical work. But independent popular rule in Athens-the focus of this class-lasted for less than two centuries, during which the city, after playing a leading role in the liberation of Greece from foreign control (The Persian Wars, 490–479 BC), grew into an Empire that imposed democracy on its subjects-some willing and others not-as a means of enriching and empowering itself. It is natural, after nearly two-and-a-half centuries, to think of our democracy as unshakeable and eternal. Course Description: America's founders, when establishing our political institutions, took elements from those of ancient Athens and Rome, which pioneered representative government in various (and changing) forms. Syllabus and Reading Schedule for The Rise and Fall of Popular Rule-Athens (Integrated Humanities Program, History Module, Fall 2018, UVM). As the team pursues the art theft a darker, twisted crime becomes evident requiring intense probing. Infused with faith that sustains and gives hope, the characters learn to overcome their past and go forth forgiven.In Still Life the main thread dances around the photographic art show from which a main piece has been swapped out and in its place another piece depicting a posed model who appears to have been dead when the picture was taken. Pettrey takes the reader into the world that makes up the lives of these men and women of valor.The friendship, sense of humor, and romantic entanglements show they are human and how they cope with the grimness that is their daily world. Utilizing a cozy group of co-workers who probe until they find the culprits in the horrific criminal cases to which they have been assigned. The author, Dani Pettrey, has woven a multi-layered suspense story set in the Baltimore, Maryland area. Conrad draws parallels between London ("the greatest town on earth") and Africa as places of darkness. The novella's setting provides the frame for Marlow's story of his fascination for the prolific ivory trader Kurtz. Marlow is given a text by Kurtz, an ivory trader working on a trading station far up the river, who has "gone native" and is the object of Marlow's expedition.Ĭentral to Conrad's work is the idea that there is little difference between "civilised people" and "savages." Heart of Darkness implicitly comments on imperialism and racism. Although Conrad does not name the river on which most of the narrative takes place, at the time of writing the Congo Free State, the location of the large and economically important Congo River, was a private colony of Belgium's King Leopold II. The novel is widely regarded as a critique of European colonial rule in Africa, whilst also examining the themes of power dynamics and morality. Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad in which the sailor Charles Marlow tells his listeners the story of his assignment as steamer captain for a Belgian company in the African interior. Heart of Darkness was first published as a three-part serial story in Blackwood's Magazine. With every year that passes, this masterpiece becomes more entrenched into this medium’s pantheon of the greatest stories ever told. Bruce Wayne has revealed plans to add buildings and new businesses to Gotham City. This now-classic graphic novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling creative team of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo is not just fantastic jumping-on point for any new reader, but one of the great Batman stories ever told. Batman: The Court of Owls is a graphic novel by Scott Snyder. If the dark legends are true, his masters are more powerful predators than the Batman could ever imagine. Until now.Ī brutal assassin is sinking his razor-sharp talons into the city’s best and brightest, as well as its most dangerous and deadly. The Dark Knight dismissed the stories as rumors and old wives’ tales. As the Caped Crusader begins to unravel this deadly mystery, he discovers a conspiracy going back to his youth and beyond to the origins of the city he's sworn to protect.īatman has heard tales of Gotham City’s Court of Owls: that the members of this powerful cabal are the true rulers of Gotham. The reader will experience the story from Batman’s viewpoint on pages 108-117.Īfter a series of brutal murders rocks Gotham City, Batman begins to realize that perhaps these crimes go far deeper than appearances suggest. The Court of Owls is a violent cabal of some of Gotham Citys oldest and wealthiest families who use murder and money to wield political influence throughout history. |