“Sad, sexy, and reeking of jazz, the story had its arm around my waist. “I felt that the book was actually holding me,” writes Jones. It’s like he’s discovered a new language - something about himself that he can finally name. But then he lands on James Baldwin’s Another Country, and he revels in its unapologetic descriptions of queer desire and romantic love between men. At first, he casts about without much success, dipping into and then casually rejecting Toni Morrison’s murky sentences in Tar Baby and being turned off by Alice Walker’s overly detailed descriptions of the female body in The Color Purple. While his single mother is away at work during the day, Jones spends his time at home alone alternating between covetously spying on the sweaty white boys playing in the street outside his apartment window, and slowly making his way through his mother’s old paperback books. Thus the text itself becomes the scar, if scars were to be understood as evidence that a battle has been fought and won.Īcclaimed queer black poet Saeed Jones begins his memoir How We Fight for Our Lives as a 12-year-old boy facing down a hot Texas summer. That their suffering would have no choice but to absorb into their bodies without a scar to show the world. The best of these memoirs move us by daring to be profoundly specific, providing a necessary consolation to readers who might have believed until then that they were alone in the dark. THE QUEER COMING-OF-AGE MEMOIR is a weapon against erasure.
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One, a thriving artist with a home and family in an affluent suburb. It’s an account of two men from vastly different circumstances, who gave each other the gift of healing. The title illustrates the unique meaning of this memoir. The artist opting, after a year of greetings and countless tips, to welcome a virtual stranger into his heart, home and family, transforming his life, is nothing short of divine intervention. The artist giving the same African-American StreetWise vendor a two-dollar bill when this man stood in front of the coffee house isn’t a coincidence. The other is as though everything is a miracle.Īn upper middle-class suburban artist stopping at the same Starbucks each morning, en route to his Chicago studio isn’t a coincidence. There are only two ways to live your life. K.L.įor Mark Jacobson: simply the best Dad my favorite person of all time. Artistic license has been taken in other areas for continuity purposes.įor Ed: This is dedicated to the man I choose to call Father. Artistic license has been taken by the author, so any errors are mine exclusively. Stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means-electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other-except for brief quotation in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the author.Īlthough this is a memoir, many names have been changed for privacy purposes, and it’s an account of one individual’s personal viewpoint and memory of events that happened many years ago. These findings revealed a lot about human conduct. These years were the time of many discoveries in the area of neuroscience and biology. In the 1970s, evolutionary scientists began thinking of ways of applying Darwin's theory of life in explaining human behaviours and the brain. The theory clarified many questions people had at the time about all living organisms. In 1859, less than two centuries ago, Charles Darwin came up with a scientific idea of how humans came to be, the theory of evolution. Neuroscience and evolution are both relatively new terms. Sapolsky truly challenged the stereotype of Science books being dull and dreary! Sapolsky managed to make the books interesting by sprinkling the writing with humour and organizing the information. Behave is, undoubtedly, a very scientific book that contains comprehensive details and neuroscience technicalities. At home she is a wife to Preston and mommy to Eden, Autumn, and Sage. Since becoming a Christian, she has been compelled to use her speaking and teaching gifts to share the light of the gospel of God as authentically as she can. Jackie Hill Perry is an author, poet, Bible teacher, and artist. As it turns out, God being "holier than thou" is actually the best news in the world, and it's the key to trusting Him. And that's exactly what makes Him trustworthy. In these pages, we will see that God is not like us. In Holier Than Thou, Jackie walks us through Scripture, shaking the dust off of "holy" as we've come to know it and revealing it for what it really is. Like He is just another person who, as Eve assumed in the Garden all those years ago, might hold out on us.īestselling author Jackie Hill Perry, in her much anticipated follow-up to Gay Girl, Good God, helps us find the reason we don't trust God- we misunderstand His holiness. Like He doesn't actually want what is best for us. We say we trust Him with our mouths, but often not with our lives. If God cant sin, then He cant sin against you. The investigation of God’s holiness draws us to him it does not. A well-versed spoken-word and hip-hop artist, Hill Perry intertwines well-defined theology with a poetic exploration of God’s holiness in Holier Than Thou. Holier Than Thou Books Religion / Christian Living / Spiritual Growth Buy now Details If God is holy, then He cant sin. Bestselling author Jackie Hill Perry writes Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him with moving depth. Why is it so hard to trust God sometimes? Holier Than Thou (2021) by Jackie Hill Perry Likewise, Inc. Most important, he explains why creativity needs to be cultivated and is necessary for the future of our country, if not the world. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced 'ME-high CHICK-sent-me-high-ee) is a professor and former chairman of the Department of English at the University of Chicago. He discusses such ideas as why creative individuals are often seen as selfish and arrogant, and why the "e tortured genius"e is largely a myth. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has drawn attention to the social context out of which creativity and innovation emerge. All emphasise how the community in which a person operates affects creative and inno-vative outcomes. Drawing on nearly one hundred interviews with exceptional people, from biologists and physicists, to politicians and business leaders, to poets and artists, as well as his thirty years of research on the subject, Csikszentmihalyi uses his famous flow theory to explore the creative process. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Teresa Amabile, Michael West and Claudia Sacramento. Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (The leading researcher into flow states.Newsweek) reveals what leads to these momentsbe it the excitement of the artist at the easel or the scientist in the labso that this knowledge can be used to enrich people's lives. Library Journal (starred review)The classic study of the creative process from the bestselling author ofFlow.Creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. Although the benefits of this study to scholars are obvious, this thought-provoking mixture of scholarly and colloquial will enlighten inquisitive general readers, too. Jaouad is writing about a process, a back-and-forth. There is no self-pity in this telling and few of the expected pieties. "Here is the key to Between Two Kingdoms -Jaouad's disarming honesty. Between Two Kingdoms is a profound chronicle of survivorship and a fierce, tender, and inspiring exploration of what it means to begin again. Along the way, she learned about how we move forward when life is interrupted-by heartbreak, loss, disaster,1 or illness-and how we survive the constant transitions that are essential to the human experience. To begin to live again, Jaouad embarked on a 15,000-mile road trip across the country to meet some of the strangers-teachers and artists, a teenage cancer patient, and a death row inmate-who had written to her during her time in the hospital. But as she would soon learn, a cure is not where the work of healing ends it's where it begins. When she finally walked out of the cancer ward four years later-after countless rounds of chemo, a clinical trial, and a bone marrow transplant-she was, according to the doctors, cured. Then, a few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, Suleika Jaouad was given a diagnosis: leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. It started with an itch, up and down her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. I loved the build-up between Jas and Devon as they explored their feelings for each other and nagivated their career paths. Laura Brown does a great job pulling her readers in and keeping them hooked until the last page. But maybe it’s possible to have the best of both worlds: keep the one relationship I can’t live without and indulge in an attraction I can’t deny. Friend (With Benefits) Zone was a fantastic read, complete with well-developed characters and edge-of-your-seat tension. And the more time we spend together in close quarters, the harder it’ll be to resist the spark of attraction I’ve always felt. I know Devon would do anything for me, but I’m afraid what I want to happen will ruin our friendship forever. We’ve had about a million sleepovers since we met in the kindergarten Deaf program, but this time it’s different because I can’t stop thinking about his hard body covering mine, every single night. When my best friend Devon shows up at my door and uses his stubborn charm (emphasis on stubborn) to get me to move in with him, I give in. After dealing with the constant manhandling that comes with being a cocktail waitress at a dive bar and surviving a date from hell, I see an eviction notice slapped on the door of my sketchy basement apartment. I’m ridiculously attracted to my best friend. FRIEND (WITH BENEFITS) ZONE, a new adult contemporary romance As she struggles to sow the seeds of her freedom, love for the God of the Dead grows-a love that is both captivating and forbidden. The bet does more than expose Persephone's failure as a goddess, however. But nothing has ever intrigued him as much as the goddess offering him a bargain he can't resist.Īfter her encounter with Hades, Persephone finds herself in a contract with the God of the Dead, and his terms are impossible: Persephone must create life in the Underworld or lose her freedom forever. Hades, God of the Dead, has built a gambling empire in the mortal world and his favorite bets are rumored to be impossible. All of that changes when she sits down in a forbidden nightclub to play a hand of cards with a hypnotic and mysterious stranger. After moving to New Athens, she hoped to lead an unassuming life disguised as a mortal journalist. Since she was a little girl, flowers have only shriveled at her touch. Persephone is the Goddess of Spring in title only. On another level it is also a tale of an amicable reconciliation process which happens between a father meeting his daughter after many years. On an elementary level it explores cultural differences between French and American people. "I want to go home" is a light film which provides a multiplicity of meanings for its viewers. Through this quirky work, Resnais has advocated popular culture as in today's world Mickey Mouse, Snoopy, Charlie Brown and Garfield are as relevant/necessary and useful for everybody as Flaubert, Stendhal and Sartre. Not only will this film charm die-hard francophiles like Paul Auster, Johnny Depp, William Fiedkin, Jim Jarmusch, Hal Hartley and John Malkovich but also fans of comic strips as it is not so often that one comes across a feature film in which there is a happy marriage of cartoons and film. Watching his films can be likened to a concentrated reading of a "stream of consciousness" oeuvre. For the last five decades, he has remained a highly intelligent intellectual cinéaste who has excelled in making difficult films about memories. It is so hard to believe that this comic film was made by Resnais. It is a fairly honest portrayal of why French have all the respect for Americans. "I want to go home" shows why French fascinate Americans so much. Before shooting "I want to go home", if Resnais had thought of keeping somebody in mind, it is quite possible that he must have had ruminated about both American and French public. Even though he’s part of the group, he’s still distinctly separate from them. At issue is a sequence from the half-hour cartoon where Charlie Brown and his friends sit down for their version of Thanksgiving dinner, featuring toast, popcorn and jelly beans in place of turkey, mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce.ĭuring the meal, though, one friend seems left out in the cold: Franklin, the only main Black character in Peanuts, is seated in a beach chair by himself on one side of the table. In recent years, though, the 1973 animated special - written by Peanuts creator, Charles Schulz - has been accompanied by a side of controversy. Just as A Charlie Brown Christmas has been a seasonal pop culture gift for 55 years and counting, it’s hard to imagine a Thanksgiving weekend without at least one helping of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. |