![]() ![]() His parents are dead, Darry is forced to work two jobs to support the brothers, Soda has dropped out of school, and the greasers are looked upon as "white trash." He explains that the gang warfare is actually warfare between the economic classes. His feelings of powerlessness and vulnerability lead him to conclude that life is not fair. He could be attacked solely because of the way he is dressed he feels like an outsider in his own town. For example, Ponyboy knows that he is not safe walking the streets in his own neighborhood. ![]() This loss of control inevitably leads to the feeling that life isn't fair. Parents, teachers, and other authority figures are always telling them how to live their lives. Someone who always feels like an outsider may conclude that life is unfair.Īdolescence is a time when teenagers may consider themselves to be adults, but in reality teens are still under the control of others. Looking at life as an outsider and feeling as though one is being treated as an outsider is a matter of perspective or point of view. As the title suggests, The Outsiders is a theme in itself. ![]()
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![]() It’s a murder mystery at its heart, but there’s so much more to it than that. ![]() The Bottoms was gritty, emotional, and totally fucking bleak. Together with his younger sister, Harry sets out to discover who the real killer is, and to do so they will search for a truth that resides far deeper than any river or skin color.Ĭorey: Well, this is long overdue, Holly!! The first Lansdale book we’ve reviewed together!!! Even though he’s someone neither of us has read a lot of (YET!!), the books we have read are ones we’d recommend (read: SCREAM ABOUT FROM THE ROOFTOPS) to anyone who would listen. When a second body turns up, this time of a white woman, there is little Harry can do from stopping his Klan neighbors from lynching an innocent black man. ![]() ![]() When a young Harry Collins and his little sister stumble across the body of a black woman who has been savagely mutilated and left to die in the bottoms of the Sabine River, their small town is instantly charged with tension. Synopsis: It’s 1933 in East Texas and the Depression lingers in the air like a slow moving storm. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “In my 33 years in the market, things do seem probably more positive now than they’ve seemed at any time in that whole period,” said Jeffrey Atherton, an investment manager at Man GLG, a subsidiary of hedge fund giant Man Group. The indexes have outpaced the United States’ S&P 500 and Europe’s Stoxx 600 benchmark indexes, which have both risen 8% in that time. (N225), which tracks Japan’s blue-chip companies, has leapt nearly 17%. So far this year, the benchmark Topix has jumped almost 14%, and the Nikkei 225 The country’s major stock indexes are trading at highs not seen since 1990, when its infamous asset bubble of the late 1980s was just deflating. Japan’s stock market has waited more than three decades for its moment in the sun. ![]() ![]() ![]() A space-mission with a few women would have been a good premise for a story (see the cover-story for that first issue of 'Universe' I mentioned in a post a while back) but akin to something like a woman accompanying Shackleton to the Pole. ![]() The humans are there as a backdrop for the Mesklinites and have to be as schematic as they are to fit the word-count. If it had been the point of the book, a space-mission with fewer than 40% female crew would have been a different story and, concomitantly, much longer if added to the voyage to Mesklin. and (spoiler alert) given that the aliens are just amorphous blobs that live inside the body of a human host, it wouldn't be that expensive to make. ![]() I think 'Needle' would be an interesting book to make a film from. There are female characters in “Iceworld”, and also in “Needle”, but those are set on Earth (with the aliens visiting us), where a complete absence of female characters would be a bit glaring. Show More writing, "group of scientists" largely meant "group of male scientists". ![]() ![]() ![]() In Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City, a Columbus statue that has stood in the middle of the major throughway since 1877 was removed in October 2020 purportedly for restoration, though the timing also coincided with an explicit call from local activists to remove it. While he is an Italian American icon in the States and Europe, Columbus is also memorialized, and targeted, throughout Latin America for his act of so-called discovery on behalf of the Spanish crown. Other statues of Columbus have been permanently removed by order of local governments or in some cases taken to a secure location out of preemptive fear that the statues might face public attack. ![]() At least ten statues in honor of the millenarian navigator were toppled, beheaded, or otherwise vandalized in acts of protest across the United States. The year 2020 was a rough one for Christopher Columbus. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And Maria laughed again till the tip of her nose nearly met the tip of her chin and till her minute body nearly shook itself asunder because she knew that Mooney meant well though, of course, she had the notions of a common woman. Then Ginger Mooney lifted her mug of tea and proposed Maria's health while all the other women clattered with their mugs on the table, and said she was sorry she hadn't a sup of porter to drink it in. ![]() Lizzie Fleming said Maria was sure to get the ring and, though Fleming had said that for so many Hallow Eves, Maria had to laugh and say she didn't want any ring or man either and when she laughed her grey-green eyes sparkled with disappointed shyness and the tip of her nose nearly met the tip of her chin. There was a great deal of laughing and joking during the meal. Maria superintended the distribution of the barmbrack and saw that every woman got her four slices. They settled down before their huge mugs which the cook and the dummy filled up with hot tea, already mixed with milk and sugar in huge tin cans. In a few minutes the women began to come in by twos and threes, wiping their steaming hands in their petticoats and pulling down the sleeves of their blouses over their red steaming arms. When the cook told her everything was ready she went into the women's room and began to pull the big bell. ![]() ![]() 'A manifesto for the internet age.'-The A.V. Provocative, timely and utterly persuasive, it shows us how to preserve our inner lives and bring about change in a world that needs this more than ever. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humanity's role in the environment, and arrive at a more meaningful understanding of happiness and fulfilment.įar from a simple anti-technology screed, or a pointless back-to-nature meditation, How to Do Nothing is an action plan for thinking beyond capitalist narratives of efficiency and value. Odell sees our attention as the most precious - and overdrawn - resource we have. So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to slowing down. ![]() But in a world where our value is determined by our data productivity, doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. ![]() ![]() Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. Title: HOW TO DO NOTHING : Resisting the Attention EconomyĪ galvanising critique of the forces vying for our attention - and our personal information - that redefines what we think of as productivity and reveals what we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Warbreaker, Siri asked Hoid where he learned his style of story telling. His particular style of storytelling in which he manipulates sand or smoke to illustrate his stories, as in Warbreaker and The Way of Kings, does not originate from White Sand, but from another unpublished story, The Liar of Partinel. Hoid's motives are unknown, and most of his actions occur behind the scenes. Brandon has confirmed that all of these appearances are the same individual, but that he worldhops between planets. In some, he is named outright and makes references to other events and places in the cosmere, while in others he is seen only deep in disguise, almost unrecognizable. He is very skilled with disguises, and the overtness of his involvement varies from book to book. ![]() He was originally human, but has changed enough that when asked, Brandon only says "It's complicated." Hoid is not a Shard, nor is he a Herald, but something else entirely. Hoid was involved in the events taking place before any of the cosmere's published books begin, and is the second oldest character seen so far. Among the original Vessels, Hoid is often known as Cephandrius, which is one of his earliest aliases. The dragon Frost once asked him in a letter if he is no longer hiding behind the name of his old master, likely referring to the name Hoid. Hoid is not his original name before telling Kaladin the story of the Wandersail, he claims he stole the name from someone he should have loved. Hoid is a recurring character in the cosmere, originally from Yolen. ![]() ![]() ![]() Parker, The New York Times Book Review Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye. The New Yorker Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious. The New York Times wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered. ![]() The New York Times Review Quotes Raymond Chandler is a master. Erle Stanley Gardner Raymond Chandler has given us a detective who is hard-boiled enough to be convincing. Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude. A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin worth a small fortune-the elements dont quite add up until Marlowe discovers evidence of murder, rape, blackmail, and the worst kind of human exploitation. Book Synopsis The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the quintessential urban private eye ( Los Angeles Times ), Philip Marlowe - Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In February 2014, my short story “CLASSIC” was published online at Paragraph Line, “a journal of absurdist and outsider fiction, culture blogging, and cough syrup abuse instructional videos,”as described by founding editor/author/madman Jon Konrath.4 (Rooster Republic Press – December 2013) My short story “The Riverbed: Rated Z” was published in Tall Tales with Short Cocks Vol.Last but not least, author/blogger/crazyman Frank Edler invited me to breakdown the music video for Ratt’s 80’s rock anthem “Round and Round” on the his blog-Books, Beer and BLOGshit.Here is the interview in its entirety transposed to my blog on Goodreads: -with-douglas-hackle I was invited to be a featured author for the “Ask the Author” Q&A segment on the Bizarro Fiction Facebook group.Nikki Howard interviewed me for her book review blog, now doing business as Horror After Dark:.If you follow me on Facebook, most of this will be old hat, but who knows? Maybe there’s an item or two you missed. So, without giving too much concern to form or good manners, I’m just going to dump a bunch of links and news here, all writing-related stuff that’s transpired since that time. As such, this post is one of those time-to-update-my-sadly-neglected-blog type posts. ![]() Damn, I haven’t posted anything here since October 2013, which was a month after Clown Tear Junkies was published. ![]() |