![]() ![]() The observation of something that feels deliciously wrong, or that you’re not supposed to be seeing, lies at the heart of voyeurism. In other words, the more illicit the liaison, the sexier it was to watch. This saucy imagery was at its most popular when the ‘butler’ caught a romp taking place between people of different classes the lord and the maid, or the lady and the stable boy. The concept of ‘ What the Butler Saw’ was hugely popular in Victorian Britain: a series of salacious tales and images based on male servants spying through keyholes, in hope of catching members of the family or staff having sex. “Why are so many of us turned on simply by watching other people taking sexual pleasure ,while we remain beyond the scope of their caress? Why do we enjoy reading and writing about people watching other people having sex? Over to Kay, sharing her insight on why voyeurism is so popular. It’s great to welcome back Kay Jaybee, chatting about her newly re-released physiological erotic ménage, novel, The Voyeur. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Here are things I’ve heard (or maybe at times, even said myself) on group rides: “I need to drop 15 lb. And I’m not just talking about getting a lighter bike – the very definition of diminishing returns – I’m talking about the agonizing pursuit of a smaller waistline in the name of performance. (Remember Tyler Hamilton’s suggestion to chase sleeping pills with lots of fizzy water after a ride to keep from snacking before dinner?)īut what doesn’t make sense is that club racers, many of whom I race with, seem to share this same obsession. That’s why for pros, figuring out how to train and keep weight off seems to be as important a skill as moving up in the bunch. This focus on weight makes sense: when the road goes up, the draft’s effect is limited and unwanted pounds act as anchors, dragging you to the back of the bunch, and then out the back. Thomas’s book is filled with such anecdotes, all of which drive home the point that to be competitive as a pro, you wage a constant battle of the bulge. The pros dream of the day when they can retire and do the same. Longingly, the riders stare at the club riders tucking into their carb-heavy meals after a day of riding. ![]() After a hard day doing interval training, riding up and down a volcano, he and his teammates spin back to the hotel, passing by tourists having pizza and beer on a patio. ![]() In one memorable scene in Gerraint Thomas’s book, The World According to G, he describes training on Tenerife with his Sky teammates. ![]() ![]() ![]() Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound Is a World is an invitation to "cut a hole in the sky / to world inside." Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder their sadness and pain without giving up on the future. This book is what we've been waiting for." ![]() ![]() "By way of an expansive poetic grace, Belcourt merges a soft beauty with the hardness of colonization to shape a love song that dances Indigenous bodies back into being. "i am one of those hopeless romantics who wants every blowjob to be transformative." Billy-Ray Belcourt's debut poetry collection, This Wound Is a World, is "a prayer against breaking," writes trans Anishinaabe and Métis poet Gwen Benaway. The new edition of a prize-winning memoir-in-poems, a meditation on life as a queer Indigenous man-available for the first time in the United States ![]() ![]() ![]() His first book, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, was published in 2007 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and became a national bestseller. From 1992 to 1996 he wrote for the New York Times. See this thread for more information.Īlex Ross has been the music critic of The New Yorker since 1996. Ross has received a Letter of Distinction from the American Music Center, fe Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. It won a National Book Critics Circle Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and the Royal Philharmonic Society Creative Communication Award appeared on the New York Times's list of the ten best books of year and was a finalist for the Pulitzer and the Samuel Johnson prizes. ![]() Alex Ross has been the music critic of The New Yorker since 1996. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. ![]() ![]() Rereading Betsy-Tacy, I was struck by the history contained in the thin volume. Whether going to school for the first time or riding a feather above their homes, the girls discover the world. From everyday life to extraordinary fantasy, the duo is inseparable. Set in Deep Valley, Minnesota (Mankato, Minnesota, the author's town) in 1898, the girls' adventures abound. The original works were illustrated brilliantly by Lois Lenski.Īt the start, we meet five-year-old Betsy and her new friend, Tacy. In 1940 Maud Hart Lovelace published her first novel Betsy-Tacy of the future series. When Nancy informed us that the Betsy-Tacy series was going out of print, you should have heard the divas groan! I'm sad to say, we have our first OOPS! entry. ![]() If we all rant and copy and repost the blogs as we are able, maybe we'll tug the ears of the publishers. We will make it our aim at readergirlz to draw your attention to books that are sadly going out of print (OOP). ![]() ![]() Thank you to reviewer, blogger, and all-around book brainiac Little Willow for alerting me to this issue and getting me the permission to repost this piece from Lorie Ann Grover (I wanted to the same thing with Little Willow’s name that she did with Lori Anne’s-you know, where you click on it and it links to her website? But I am an idiot, and I don’t know how.)Īnyway, as a huge Betsy-Tacy fan, I had to spread the word: ![]() ![]() ![]() Now a mainstream practice and embraced by the medical and scientific community for how affirmations can significantly improve one’s psychological and physical state, Yogananda was one of the first to bring this ancient Eastern spiritual practice to America and the West. “Scientific Healing Affirmations” was far ahead of its time in showing how effective and useful positive affirmations can be in one’s daily life. Most famous for his 1946 memoir, “Autobiography of a Yogi”, Yogananda wrote extensively on spirituality, religion, and history, as well as practical guides on yoga, meditation, and positive thinking. His speaking tours and published works were incredibly successful in bringing yoga and meditation to a new audience and Yogananda is often called the “Father of Yoga in the West”. ![]() Born in India in 1893, Yogananda came to the United States in 1920 to spread the teachings of yoga and Indian spirituality to the West. ![]() “Scientific Healing Affirmations” is the guide to positive, concentrated thought by renowned Indian yogi and guru Paramahansa Yogananda. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From the New York Times bestselling author of On Mystic Lake comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and. Told with her trademark visceral storytelling and illuminating prose, Kristin Hannah reveals why she is one of the most beloved writers of our day. FULL audiobook english Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah. How do you hold yourself together when your world has fallen apart.įly Away is the story of three women who have lost their way and need each other-plus a miracle-to transform their lives.Īn emotionally-complex, heartwrenching novel about love, family, motherhood, loss, and redemption, Fly Away reminds us that where there is life, there is hope and where there is love, there is forgiveness. Now, five years later, in Fly Away, Kristin Hannah returns to the world of these unforgettable characters and asks the question. They laughed with Tully and cried with Kate and anguished over Tully's fractured relationship with her mother. Across the world, women embraced the story of Tully and Kate's enduring friendship. Kristin Hannah's Firefly Lane became a touchstone novel in women's lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() There is a lot of intervention and new tales form some of the major characters across the Shadowhunter series spectrum.Įach novella will have its own summary and reflective review along with the introductory comic images. Each short story is introduced with a quote from the story as well as a wonderful comic book illustration by Cassandra Jean that give a bit of insight to the story before reading.ĭISCLAIMER: I would HIGHLY recommend reading all the other major novels in the series (with the exclusion of The Bane Chronicles) before reading these short stories. Through these novellas we get to see the road Simon takes to become a Shadowhunter and to gain his memories back, meeting some of our other favorite characters as guest speakers in the academy along the way. These stories are connected by Simon Lewis, who was once human, became a vampire, and is now a mundane again having lost his memories in the events of City of Heavenly Fire. ![]() Tales From the Shadowhunter Academy consists of ten short stories or novellas written by Cassandra Clare and various co-authors. ![]() ![]() But when little things start to go wrong for Bee and her team, she begins to wonder if her co-lead isn't above sabotage. ![]() Their work on BLINK is an improvement though, as Levi doesn't immediately bail on the project. Her excitement is short-lived when she discovers she'll be co-leading the project with engineer Levi Ward, her grad school nemesis, whose cold, cutting behavior and outspoken inability to work with her on an assignment have stuck with her. The invitation to the team is enough to get Bee out of the funk she's been in since she discovered her fiance cheating and her engagement fell apart. ![]() ![]() A neuroscientist is forced to work with her academic nemesis on a career-changing project in this STEM-celebratory contemporary romance.īee Königswasser is over-the-moon excited when she's asked to lead BLINK, a joint project between NASA and the National Institutes of Health designed to build better technology for astronauts. ![]() ![]() O’Connor as the Yellow Card Man, George MacKay as Bill Turcotte, Daniel Webber as Lee Harvey Oswald, Leon Rippy as Harry Dunning, T. ![]() Jake is willing to live in the past in order to solve perhaps the greatest mystery of the 20th century – who killed JFK, and could it have been stopped? As Jake tries to rewrite history, he discovers that the past does not want to be changed and will do anything to stop him.Ĭast: James Franco as Jake Epping, Chris Cooper as Al Templeton, Cherry Jones as Marguerite Oswald, Sarah Gadon as Sadie Dunhill, Lucy Fry as Marina Oswald, Kevin J. Would you journey down the “rabbit hole”? This eight–part event series follows Jake Epping (James Franco), an ordinary high school teacher, who is presented with the unthinkable mission of traveling back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Imagine having the power to change history. ![]() ![]() Abrams, Stephen King, James Franco, Bridget Carpenter Genre: Drama Network: Hulu Premiere Date: Executive Producers: J.J. ![]() |