![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is called: The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning.ĭisturbing, for sure, but curiously poetic, perhaps.Īfter reading a review of the book, I’m not sure I’d categorize it as art, or event gentle, but cleaning before you kick the bucket with the bucket you’re soon to kick is pretty accurate. Or perhaps, in my case at work, we have too much stuff that isn’t bolted to the ground behind barred holding cells.Ĭoincidentally, my library sent me a book suggestion at precisely the same time I was fretfully reckoning inventory. ![]() In the end, most of those absent cannot be categorized as truly AWOL-more like absent without the official paying attention to her spreadsheet. Instead, there are a couple of weeks of high anxiety, raised eyebrows, and countless vexed but ludicrous searches that include scouring closets, lifting stacks of paper, and requesting people empty their pockets. The snag is that my goods to groupify are not errant children, and the gap left in their absence does not allow me to tenderheartedly sigh and roll my eyes with slight amusement that a bottle, a case, or a barrel of whiskey has wandered off and is likely still up in its bedroom, wholly caught up in a drossy bit of literary drivel. ![]()
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![]() It’s certainly not exhaustive and shouldn’t even be! Pride month can be a good time for readers to add more books to their shelves (□ even though the support for these books should not be confined to a single month) so go ahead and check out these eleven south asian books featuring LGBT+ main characters. This list is just a pea in the samosa of excellent queer titles that have already released and won the hearts of many. Recent decades have seen some modern classics in the name of Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai, Yaraana: an anthology edited by Hoshang Merchant, Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie, and Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu and have essentially paved a way for the newest queer books. The oldest pieces go back a long way and even during the Independence struggles -despite the uproar and an obscenity trial- Lihaaf by Ismat Chughtai, an Urdu short story in 1942 explored a begum and her lady servant’s desire for each other. There’s a long way to go in terms of systemic changes but queer literature has and will always continue to exist with pride. But a change is slowly coming with India decriminalising same-sex relationships and Bangladesh legally recognising hijras as a third, separate gender. ![]() Show details Customers who bought this item also bought Special offers and product promotions 5 Instant Discount up to INR 250 on HSBC Cashback Card Credit Card Transactions. ![]() It’s pride month! □ Sexual diversity has always been a part of the south asian culture even if most of the countries that make up this region are still following the restrictive laws set up during the British colonial era. 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This is thanks in part to the recent re-release of Hearn's series in gorgeous new covers, but also because the prequel series, The Tale of Shikanoko, set three hundred years before Otori, begins in March 2016. Though it's been a beloved Australian classic for the better part of two decades, I'm only now experiencing Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori for the first time. It's the kind of fantasy unconcerned with frenetic plotting and frequent action, preferring to channel its energy into developing compelling characters, multifaceted politics and a sprawling world inspired by the real feudal Japan. Fourteen years since its initial publication, Across the Nightingale Floor is a calm, measured book. ![]() ![]() "I've taken the name Luna." Her eyes fixed on mine. Wouldn't want to wake the parental units upstairs. I burst into laughter, then clapped a hand over my mouth to smother the sound. It did go well with the red dress, though. 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This second offering in the Wrexford/Sloane series does not fall short. ![]() Penrose dispenses a great mix of mystery, death and romance in a Regency setting with unerring intent. ![]() A strong historical mystery, Andrea Penrose‘s Murder at Half Moon Gate leads us through the fog-filled streets of London on a merry chase. ![]() ![]() ![]() Blending story and fable, poetry, artwork, and song, Always Coming Home is this legendary writer’s fictional ethnography of the Kesh, a people of the far future living in a post-apocalyptic Napa Valley. Le Guin embarked on one of her most detailed, impressive literary projects, a novel that took more than five years to complete. This new edition includes an introduction by Shruti Swamy, author of A House is a Body. Le Guin’s magnificent work of imagination, a visionary, genre-crossing story about a future utopian community on the Northern California coast, hailed as “masterly” ( Newsweek), “hypnotic” ( People) and “ most consistently lyric and luminous book” ( New York Times). Reissued for a new generation of readers, Ursula K. Always Coming Home is a study in what a complete and utter rejection of capitalism and patriarchy might look like-for society and for the art of storytelling."- The Millions ![]() ![]() ![]() Later, Marley takes advantage of Ebenezer’s innate timidity to make him the silent, acquiescent partner in devious enterprises. ![]() Although the same age as Ebenezer, he is duplicitous and wily and soon snares the newcomer into his debt. The boys, all of them, have secrets: “Secrets are their refuge and their currency and their stock in trade.” Secrets, Marley learns early, can be powerful. Marley and Scrooge meet when Ebenezer is enrolled at Professor Drabb’s Academy for Boys, a wretched place where boys, virtually abandoned by their families, teach and discipline one another, cook paltry meals, and cower under Drabb’s abuse. The tight-fisted Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghost of Jacob Marley come vividly to life in an assured reimagining of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol by novelist Clinch ( Belzoni Dreams of Egypt, 2014, etc.), who brilliantly captures the wit and irony of Dickens’ prose as he unfurls a tale of greed, cruelty, and passion. Intrigue and betrayal infest the shadowy underworld of Dickensian London. ![]() ![]() Born an ethnic Serb in the village of Smiljan, Vojna Krajina, in the territory of today's Croatia, he was a subject of the Nikola Tesla was a genius polymath, inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer. Tesla's patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current (AC) electric power systems, including the polyphase power distribution systems and the AC motor, with which he helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution. He is frequently cited as one of the most important contributors to the birth of commercial electricity, a man who "shed light over the face of Earth," and is best known for his many revolutionary developments in the field of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ![]() Nikola Tesla was a genius polymath, inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These animators (I am talking to you, Mo Willems and John Rocco) who write picture books have a special gift of pacing. I would never deprive a reader that exquisite pleasure of reading a book and guffawing at the twists and turns it takes. I sure as heck wasn’t giving away the ending to this book. I promise you that kids are going to want to read it over and over, ” I laughed. After I commented on the book, she said, “I’ve read a lot about this book, but I have not had time to read it yet.” The bookseller at my local store was frantically restocking after the grand opening weekend and was making room to face out Jon Klassen’s wickedly funny I Want My Hat Back. ![]() ![]() ![]() Get help with access Institutional accessĪccess to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. ![]() He concludes his introductory survey of the evidence thus: Bostrom argues that, while this future is far from inevitable, superintelligence is a threat worth taking seriously. Superintelligence could emerge very suddenly-once machines reach a human intellectual level, they may take over the design of future AI, and technology will then advance at an ever-increasing pace. I.1 Bostrom's superintelligenceīostrom explores the possible future emergence of an artificial superintelligence: a machine (or other AI) with an ability to perform general cognitive tasks that ‘is smart in the sense that an average human being is smart compared to a beetle or a worm’ (p. ![]() ![]() This review concentrates on what philosophers-and particularly moral philosophers-might learn. Anyone interested in the future of humanity will learn much from these books. Both, though written by philosophers, are aimed primarily at a non-philosophical audience both provide state-of-the-art surveys of a wide range of academic and non-academic literatures each deals with a potentially urgent threat to contemporary lifestyles and values and each canvasses possible responses to that threat. These two fascinating books have much in common. ![]() |