![]() She says another issue stands between peace in the world's politics: peace between men and the women they have historically oppressed. Simply put, he asks whether war could be prevented, and if so, how? Woolf responds that the culture has become so dominated by masculinity and competition that at the geopolitical level, the nations in the West are typically too aggressive to avoid war. The question was prompted to her by a letter from an educated man, she tells us. Woolf's three questions are: Can war be prevented in the future? Why has woman's education been so underfunded, historically? And, Why can't women work the same jobs as men? These three questions are the Guineas from the title, and these essays are responses to them. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous ![]() ![]() We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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Cafe con Lychee is the confection of sweetness and sweethearts we all need right now' - Adam Sass, award-winning author of Surrender Your Sons ' A touching and humorously told portrayal of intersections of culture, race, and sexuality, told through the lens of an inviting Romeo and Juliet-esque feud. Stuck in the closet and scared to pursue his own dreams, Gabi sees his family’s shop as his future. Their parents own rival businesses-an Asian American café and a Puerto Rican bakery-and Gabi’s lack of coordination has cost their soccer team too many games to count. ![]() Theo Mori and Gabriel Moreno have always been at odds. A must-read for fans of Casey McQuiston and Julian Winters. Download Cafe Con Lychee by Emery Lee Novel:įrom the author of Meet Cute Diary comes a delectable rom-com that’s brimming with zest and a sprinkle of sweetness. ![]() Book Cafe Con Lychee by Emery Lee is available to download free in pdf epub format. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s great to see lovely pictures of your books, but it’s really fun to see readers holding your book, and loving your book, and sharing their feelings. Seeing Instagram reels and TikTok videos, you get to see the readers a little more. I’ve missed doing events, and I’ve missed seeing readers. There’s so much pressure on a book before it comes out, you feel like it’s make-it-or-break it, and now with BookTok, all these backlist titles are getting love-it makes it feel like books never die. It’s almost like 2017, when everything was fresh and exciting. It’s exciting to launch a new book series and to also have people who are just discovering Caraval. One, it’s been almost two and a half years since I’ve had a book come out, which in publishing is a long time, and two, it feels really special to me whenever people connect with those books, because they came from such a personal place. ![]() And then when I learned about BookTok, I was amazed and so thankful, for a couple reasons. When I started seeing renewed interest in the Caraval series, I didn’t know what was going on at first. ![]() What has that experience been like for you? Though it was originally published in 2017, Caraval has recently been getting lots of love on BookTok. ![]() ![]() ![]() I even noticed a possible reference to Brexit. ![]() You see, we are all in it to triangulate each other. “Men had always said they couldn’t figure her out, but she couldn’t figure herself out, either, and had to look for clues like anyone else.” He strapped himself in as if she had just asked him to bow three times to a god of her choice.” Except she doesn’t t know I am there, also looking at her breasts, biding my time. ![]() She pressed the toggle for me, with the help of Faber, right at the start of this book. She’s the zipper-toggle on the A9 Zip drive I reckon, collecting her own whelks, those with no connection they help us, though, to triangulate by literary GPS, including their own view of her breasts as she drives, as well as she helping us, me, too, with our accretive view of her own bodily attenuation despite the size of her breasts.Īn undercurrent of unemployment in the hitchhiking men she chooses, or missed chances or messed up career paths. There, she was likely to find hitchers who were more organized and purposeful than the ones closer to home, with thermos flasks and little cardboard placards saying ABERDEEN or GLASGOW.” ![]() “She considered going farther, crossing the bridge and trying her luck beyond Inverness. ![]() ![]() ![]() People who can write beautiful prose can’t necessarily speak as eloquently as they write. It is great when they prove to be brimming with wit and charm. I enjoy meeting writers and interacting with writers, but I don’t have any expectations that they will be as interesting as their writing. He simply could not bear to think that they would not live up to his expectations. He would send books with me to be signed by some of his favorite writers, but he refused to meet them. ”One learns to separate the writer from the writing,” Kaplan reflected many years later, “and my meeting with Cheever was sort of my final lesson.” I have a friend, who used to be a premier book collector, but a nasty divorce ended with a court order that he had to sell his books. James Kaplan stopped by to see Cheever and the experience was not what he had hoped it would be. Once the person becomes human, sometime too human, it can color how you see their work. I’m always taking a chance when I decide to read a biography of someone I admire. ![]() A page of good prose seems to me the most serious dialogue that well-informed and intelligent men and women carry on today in their endeavor to make sure that the fires of this planet burn peaceably.” A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle. “For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was ready to consign Michaela Coel’s new tome Misfits: a Personal Manifesto to the same pile, but for one reason: turns out, it is startlingly good. Harvested tweets, transcribed TikToks, collected Instagram natterings: there is nothing that cannot be rendered for consumption. ![]() Our abiding fascination with these gilded people-who are often, gallingly, to be heard referring to themselves as ‘creatives’, a debased designation-may be seen in publishers’ willingness to scrape together every paltry utterance that spills from them. They have a tendency to pop up in saccharine TED Talks, po-faced consultancies, and the guest-staff lists of neophiliac colleges and universities. ![]() These elevated subjects of idolatry can be found in every genre-the Phoebes (Waller-Bridge or Bridgers, take your pick), the Zadies and Sallys (main acts and many pale imitators)-and they all have as their unifying characteristic a giddying youthful cleverness and a zesty magazine-friendly aesthetic that expresses itself in witty don’t-you-wish-they-were-your-friend banter. This anointing takes advantage of the common faith, a faith without proof, that everything exceptional can be taught or made relatable. The vast ugly machinery of celebrity conspires with regularity to anoint a new set of celebrities who, we are told, are the faces of intelligent feelings. ![]() ![]() It’s why we all too often chase the familiar trappings of money, fame, and success that leave us feeling empty even when we do achieve them. We are so profoundly social that when we are incongruent with the group that we do lasting damage to our self-worth, diminish our well-being and never realize our full potential. ![]() From toilet paper shortages to kidneys that get thrown away rather than used for desperately needed organ transplants, from racial segregation to the perceived “electability” of women for political office, from bottled water to “cancel culture,” we routinely copy others, lie about what we believe, cling to tribes, and silence others. A complicated set of illusions driven by conformity bias distorts how we see the world around us. Todd Rose believes that as human beings we continually act against our own best interests out of our brains’ misunderstanding of what we think others believe. ![]() The desire to fit in is one of the most powerful, least understood forces in a society. Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience, behavioral economic, and social psychology research, acclaimed author, former Harvard professor, and think tank founder Todd Rose reveals how so much of our thinking about each other is informed by false assumptions that drive bad decisions that make us dangerously mistrustful as a society and hopelessly unhappy as individuals. ![]() ![]() ![]() In her latest novel Carrie Soto Is Back (out August 30), the final installment in what she calls her “quartet” of books about famous women, Jenkins Reid explores what it means to strive for such accomplishments and accolades-especially in a capitalistic, fame-obsessed world that’s fraught with unchecked wealth and willful ignorance of wrongdoing. Both commercial and complex, Jenkins Reid’s work is, essentially, a walking jackpot for the publishing world and an adaptation-hungry Hollywood. ![]() ![]() With three New York Times bestselling novels- Malibu Rising, Daisy Jones & the Six, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo-as well as both television and film adaptations, respectively, for Daisy Jones and Seven Husbands in the works, Jenkins Reid has the kind of success many creatives only dream of experiencing. For her audience of millions, the bestselling author creates narratives covering the likes of love, loss, and (perhaps most notably) women with an uncanny amount of fame and social capital. Taylor Jenkins Reid knows how to tell a story. ![]() ![]() ![]() My standout read for September though was Wolfsong by TJ Klune, I am now in mourning as, due to the books getting a trad publishing deal, I cannot get ahold of the other books in the series for like SO LONG. I DNF’d How to Kill your Family (skim read) and Beneath the Burning Wave. ![]() I also really enjoyed A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi although it broke my heart a little bit.įollowing this, I read some real disappointments! Glint, Good Girl Complex, Twice Shy. I finally read my first Taylor Jenkins Reed book Carrie Soto is Back which I really enjoyed! I was impressed with the ease I fell into the storytelling and I wasn’t overwhelmed by the amount of tennis talk – it was a lovely treat and I’m excited to read more of TJR’s work. In September, we went on holiday where I devoured several books while lazing in the sun – it was perfect and exactly what I needed as a holiday. So here are some updates from the last few months … Books September I recently joined together with a few others to encourage blogging and general posting so hopefully I’ll get a little more motivated. ![]() It’s been a little while and my brain keeps nudging me to post, then I think of what to say and it goes round and round until it isn’t relevant anymore, that’s just my brain! ![]() |