![]() ![]() When I heard this decision, I hardened my cheeks and the little muscles behind my eyes. But the mediator found our he-said she-said narrative inconclusive. ![]() She suggested the matter be pursued at the school with a mediator. My irrational request would later fog the clear act and help spare him from expulsion and conviction and shame.Ī few weeks later, too late for physical evidence to still exist, I went to the campus’s sexual assault counselor. Because I desperately wanted to think I had wanted this, to feel that everything was fine. I should have screamed.Īfterward I asked him if he wanted to stay. I remember hearing the sound of the button from my shorts hitting the floor and feeling as still as soft dead wood. A half-minute later, I said an awkward “Bye!” to the other boy, who was sitting on my bed. When the movie ended, the thin boy left with the freckled girl. Classes hadn’t yet begun, and we were wandering from dining hall to orientation activity to campus-safety lecture without certainty or friends or direction. On my second night at school, I had invited a girl and two boys I had met, all of us new freshmen, to watch “The Breakfast Club” in my dorm room. ![]() But I’d already told them what really made me decide to leave: I had been raped. I told them I was cold in Colorado, even in April. ![]() WHEN I was packing to leave college in the spring of my freshman year, shoving jeans and T-shirts and mittens into my suitcase and crying, I spoke with my parents on the phone. ![]()
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![]() Readers who loved Open Water, A Little Life or Luster will adore this razor-sharp book about the aftermath of trauma that somehow manages to brim with warmth, laughter, and hope. Will she find a way to repair what matters most to her?Ī debut from a stunning talent, Post-Traumatic is a new kind of survivor narrative, featuring a complex heroine who is blazingly, indelibly alive. ![]() ![]() But after a family reunion prompts Vivian to take a bold step, she finds herself alone in new and terrifying ways, without even Jane to confide in, and she starts to unravel. She lives in a constant state of hypervigilant awareness that makes even a simple train ride a heart-pounding drama.įor years, Vivian has self-medicated with a mix of dating, dieting, dark humour and smoking weed with her best friend, Jane. Privately, Vivian contends with the memories and after-effects of her bad childhood, compounded by the everyday stresses of being a Black, Latinx woman living in a white society. To the outside observer, Vivian is a success story - a dedicated lawyer who advocates for mentally ill patients at a psychiatric hospital. Reading Post-Traumatic feels like an illicit thrill.' Dawnie Walton, author of The Final Revival of Opal & NevĬan Vivian find happiness after what has been done to her? ![]() 'Vivian is one of the most fascinating characters I've read in contemporary fiction: self-aware and lost, cutting and wounded, resilient and vulnerable - all those misfit bits that add up to the whole of a real human being. ![]() ![]() Along with subsequent computing, it helped turn “people into consumers whose habits could be tracked and whose spending could be calculated, and even predicted.” It also wreaked political “havoc, splitting the electorate into so many atoms,” and it contributed to newer forms of alienated labor. ![]() UNIVAC, the Universal Automatic Computer, was first revealed to the public in 1951. ![]() Lepore’s survey of our post-WWII years addresses computing developments, polling, and political polarization. This failure of ours is what is most alarming about these years. The rest of this section provides little hope that the outpacing she writes of is narrowing. ![]() ![]() “Hiroshima marked the beginning of a new and differently unstable political era, in which technological change wildly outpaced the human capacity for moral reckoning.” We find these words near the beginning of “The Machine (1946-2016),” the last part (some 270 pages) of Jill Lepore’s lengthy and highly-praised These Truths: A History of the United States. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gou Tanabe's impeccably illustrated take on At the Mountains of Madness stands out above the rest. ![]() There have been a glut of Lovecraft adaptations recently. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness By Gou Tanabe They are perfect for the season, and each deserves to be part of your Halloween countdown. Some are new, some are old, ranging from classic ghost stories to slow-burning head trip mysteries, but one thing unites them all. Rather than creating another generic list populated by the abovementioned mainstays, I've curated titles below that are a little more unsung. ![]() However, more than any other medium, it seems to be a taller task to wade through the decades of material to find quality comics that will line your nightmares. Sure, if you're a longtime comic book fan or a casual reader, you know the regular hits by now – Sandman, Hellboy, The Walking Dead, Locke & Key, and so on. The medium has a rich history of genre fare, but unfortunately, it remains untapped for most. Some of us turn to literature, looking to scratch those more obscure Stephen King novels off the list, or to get lost in a brand new page-turner. Many of us turn to movies, planning nightly schedules to revisit classics or discover hidden gems. Every Fall, as the days become shorter and the weather dips colder, our appetite as horror fans grows insatiable. ![]() ![]() Join the Rogers Public Library and other patrons in celebrating the Oceans of Possibilities! You can click here to register for the event or go to our Rogers Public Library website and click on the Reading Challenge image on the front page. This is also a great month to start thinking about reading a good book because sign-ups are now open for our Summer Reading Program. So, choose your favorite book series or use our resources to find something new, and make sure that you get caught reading by your friends, family, and maybe even strangers here at the library! The one we at the Rogers Public Library love to celebrate is National Get Caught Reading Month. ![]() It’s simultaneously National Egg Month, National Photography Month, National Water Safety Month, and even National Skin Cancer Awareness Month. The month of May is celebrated in many different ways by many different people. ![]() Did you know that there are many different meanings to each month here in the United States? You’ve probably heard of National Women’s History Month and National Poetry Month, but have you heard of National Egg Month? ![]() ![]() Thus, a significant number of Jews did engage in minor forms of agriculture, though usually as secondary occupations. Many Jewish arendarzy (leaseholders) received a plot of land for personal use as one of the conditions of their lease. Few Jews made their living directly from actual farming, largely because Jews were legally forbidden to own land. From the mid-seventeenth century Jews increasingly shifted this activity toward the mass production of vodka. ![]() Some Jews also played a key role in grain export. Jews were also deeply involved in marketing agricultural produce, either as merchants or as leaseholders of taverns where grain was sold to peasants in the form of alcohol. ![]() ![]() Cattle market, Orla, Poland, 1920s–1930s. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was even with difficulty that I stopped it from following me through the streets. I alone fed it, and it followed me all around the house. I named the cat Pluto, and it was the pet I liked best. The cat was a beautiful animal, of unusually large size, and entirely black. ![]() We had birds, some goldfish, a fine dog, and a cat. ![]() Quickly she got for us several pets of the most likeable kind. You will understand the joy I felt to find that my wife shared with me my love for animals. There is something in the love of these animals which speaks directly to the heart of the man who has learned from experience how uncertain and changeable is the love of other men. When I was a child, I had a natural goodness of soul which led me to love animals - all kinds of animals, but especially those animals we call pets, animals which have learned to live with men and share their homes with them. Tomorrow I die, and today I want to tell the world what happened and thus perhaps free my soul from the horrible weight which lies upon it.īut listen! Listen, and you shall hear how I have been destroyed. The story was originally adapted and recorded by the U.S. We present the short story "The Black Cat," by Edgar Allen Poe. ![]() ![]() ![]() This one's for you." -Kathi Appelt, author of the Newbery Honor-winning The Underneath ![]() "Readers, librarians, and all those books that have drawn a challenge have a brand new hero. Let kids know that they can make a difference in their schools, communities, and lives! Amy Anne and her lieutenants wage a battle for the books that will make you laugh and pump your fists as they start a secret banned books locker library, make up ridiculous reasons to ban every single book in the library to make a point, and take a stand against censorship.īan This Book is a stirring defense against censorship that's perfect for middle grade readers. Amy Anne is shy and soft-spoken, but don't mess with her when it comes to her favorite book in the whole world. ![]() Konigsburg is challenged by a well-meaning parent and taken off the shelves of her school library. In Ban This Book by Alan Gratz, a fourth grader fights back when From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. You're Never Too Young to Fight Censorship! ![]() ![]() ![]() No Fixed Address – Pioneering Aboriginal rock n reggae band open up about their history and songs with biographer Donald Robertson. Inside and Outside the Wall – Contemporary Chinese artist Guo Jian joined the People’s Liberation Army in his youth, was a student witness fired on at Tiananmen Square, and was later expelled from the country due to his art. He discusses his life and work with author and Sinologist Linda Jaivin. Songwriting: Muse or Machination? – Murray Cook (Warumpi Band, Mixed Relations) speaks with Jim Moginie (Midnight Oil), Amanda Brown (The Go-Betweens, REM) and Reg Mombassa (Mental As Anything, Dog Trumpet) about the lines between theft, influence and originality in music. Pomegranates and Figs in Afghanistan – Author Zaheda Ghani reflects on war, family, tradition and displacement with Zarlasht Sawari. ![]() ![]() Highlightsīad Art Mother – Author Edwina Preston and poets Magdalena Ball and Gillian Swain discuss writing, motherhood and independence. Talks and panels about books, writing, politics and ideas will be accompanied by spoken word and music performances across three locations on-site at the Addison Road Community Centre in Marrickville.Īll ticket proceeds go to Addi Road Food Relief. 2023 marks the third birthday for one of the most innovative literary and storytelling events in Australia ![]() ![]() ![]() Told as a first person narrative, this tale betrays the nationalism, racism, and sexism of that fictional narrator, permanently marked by his times and traumatic heritage. ![]() ![]() Red Sorghum is at least a work of historical fiction. For someone who might not be at least superficially familiar with the appalling conditions of these two wars of attrition fought upon a countryside already devastated by poverty and organized crime, it might appear that this book contains far too much gratuitous horror.īut for someone like Mo Yan, who was born and raised in Shandong Province (completely taken over by Japan), it might constitute family memory and cultural history. This brutal invasion occurred coincidentally within the 23 years of the Chinese Civil War (1927~1950). For about eight years (1937~1945), northeastern China was occupied by Japan. ![]() |