5/13/2023 0 Comments Books by michael moss![]() ![]() For instance, in response to recent dieting trends, food manufacturers have simply turned junk food into junk diets, filling grocery stores with “diet” foods that are hardly distinguishable from the products that got us into trouble in the first place. Moss goes on to show how the processed food industry-including major companies like Nestlé, Mars, and Kellogg’s-has tried not only to evade this troubling discovery about the addictiveness of food but to actually exploit it. Our bodies are hardwired for sweets, so food giants have developed fifty-six types of sugar to add to their products, creating in us the expectation that everything should be cloying we’ve evolved to prefer fast, convenient meals, hence our modern-day preference for ready-to-eat foods. ![]() Original book introduction: Moss uses the latest research on addiction to uncover what the scientific and medical communities-as well as food manufacturers-already know: that food, in some cases, is even more addictive than alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Get the Summary of Michael Moss's Hooked in 20 minutes. ![]()
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5/12/2023 0 Comments Manhunt gretchen felker martin![]() ![]() ![]() Being transwomen and manhunters (people who hunt feral humans and harvest their adrenal glands and gonads for estrogen production), Beth and Fran are in constant danger, and when a hunting trip goes horribly wrong, the pair end up relying on a loner named Robbie who reluctantly agrees to help them get back home. In between the cis men becoming slavering beasts and the cis women leading the fractured pockets of society exists the liminal (and precarious) space where transgender and non-binary people live, where taking testosterone or running out of androgen blockers and estrogen are now a death sentence.īeth and Fran are women living in this space who are not only trying to avoid being murdered by the rampaging beasts roaming the country, but by the TERF (trans exclusionary radical feminist) led Legion who enjoy hunting, dismembering, and lynching transgender men as well. Any woman who actually manages to survive being raped by the creatures and ends up impregnated can look forward to a shorter pregnancy, with the trade-off being a feral baby eating itself out of the womb. rex and turned into predatory, humanoid monsters whose only drives are to mate and feed. It’s been five years since T-Day five years since those who produce high enough amounts of testosterone (mostly cis men) were infected with a virus known as t. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Stolen lucy![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘I wait for you to say you remember – every single moment when we walked together in this land when you showed me the beauty in it and the beauty in you, the beauty in me. Did Gem recover psychologically from her ordeal and escape the clutches of her Stockholm Syndrome, if even that is what it was? And whatever happened to Ty after he sacrificed his freedom in order to save his kidnap victim? We always wanted to know what came after. When we found out that Lucy Christopher was publishing Release a companion novel ten years later, we were beyond excited. It was a book that completely broke us emotionally, where we experienced such problematic emotional reactions to the story of Gem and Ty. Incredibly beautifully written and compelling, it tells the story of sixteen years old Gemma Toombs who was kidnapped and held by her stalker, Tyler McFarlane, in a remote desert in Australia. Stolen by Lucy Christopher is one of our all-time favourite psychological suspense thrillers. But it was always more complicated, wasn’t it?’ ‘To everyone else, we only had one story: you, the evil kidnapper, and me, the helpless victim. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Less andrew greer![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Which trip/country did you enjoy reading about the most in this novel? What about the least?.In what ways did the trip give Less clarity on his past relationships, aging and the publishing community? While he tried to leave his problems behind, you can’t outrun them.Why did he have to leave the country instead of just declining?.Did you agree with it? If you were in Less’ situation,would you have done it too? Why or why not? Let’s discuss Less’ choice to bypass the wedding invite by going on this huge trip.What did you think about the character of Less? Did it change as the book went on?.What did you think of this story choice? Were you surprised it was Freddy or did you realize it early on? The story is told from a third-person ‘unknown’ narrator.But through the different countries, we lean more about Less and why he might be a romantic after all. Instead of simply declining his ex’s wedding invitation, Arthur Less instead goes on an around-the-world-in-eighty-days adventure that will take Less to Mexico, Italy, Germany, Morocco, India and Japan. ![]() ![]() SISTER SOULJAH: After The Coldest Winter Ever, I didn't expect to write another Winter Santiaga story anytime soon. ![]() Did you ever expect to write her again or was Winter’s story done, in your mind, after The Coldest Winter Ever ? SCOTT NEUMYER: It has been 20 years since Winter Santiaga had her own book. Shondaland recently spoke with Sister Souljah to discuss the long road to Winter Santiaga’s return, a possible The Coldest Winter Ever movie adaptation, activism, and so much more. Now, more than twenty years after introducing Winter Santiaga to fans, the brash protagonist is finally back in the author’s follow-up novel, Life After Death. ![]() ![]() Winter Santiaga’s story would go on to become a New York Times bestseller, selling well over a million copies, garnering fans worldwide, and reigniting the “street lit” genre (though Sister Souljah has rejected the label). However, it would be her 1999 debut novel, The Coldest Winter Ever, that would turn Sister Souljah into a literary superstar. The multi-hyphenate artist also became a member of legendary Hip-Hop group Public Enemy, released her own album, 360 Degrees of Power, and published her memoir, No Disrespect, in 1994. Before graduating from Rutgers University with a double major in American History and African Studies, the Bronx, New York native had traveled the world as an outspoken writer and leader. ![]() ![]() ![]() This essay will chart, in the presence of the strong interconnectedness between politics and literature in Turkey, the political and literary positions of some prominent fiction writers who accessed the parliament. Such an intersection of literature and politics is not alien to Turkey, a country where the involvement of (wo)men of letters in sociopolitical transformation processes is an intellectual custom and imaginative writing is a privileged sign of intellectuality. wrote novels at a certain point in their lives. 1 There have been a considerable number of writers who seek public office and politicians who write novels and short stories Mario Vargas Llosa have run for presidency of Peru, André Malraux served as Minister of Culture of Général de Gaulle and plenty of politicians like Jimmy Carter, Winston Churchill etc. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story of the book keeps becoming more and more interesting as the story proceeds. The cat we are talking about is one of the hunters of the clan. And they have changed the name of this clan into the Firepaw later. The ThunderClan is basically a group of the feral cats. And this cat is not an ordinary cat and it leaves the human owners to make them join the ThunderClan. Talking about the story of the book the book tells us about a domestic cat. ![]() Into the Wild (Warriors) is also a part of a series and the name of this awesome and amazing series is Warriors. And the book we are talking about is not only a very good fiction book but a very good and a very different fantasy as well as a children’s literature book as well. There is a ton of books and there is a ton of genres but the most liked and the widely read genre across all around the globe is fiction genre. Looking for one very good fiction and fantasy book? If yes then you are in the right place and you are having one very good book in front of you to read and enjoy. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Bach the learned musician![]() Joshua Bell is more of a soloist, but he first played violin with an orchestra when he was only 14 years old. Here are some that play in orchestras now or did in the past. Not all well-known classical musicians focus on orchestral performance. When learning about orchestral music, you may wonder about famous musicians. ![]() Consider some of the top examples of orchestral music throughout history. ![]() There are dozens of popular orchestral works out there, and it can be hard to narrow your listening list. On the other hand, works by Holst or Stravinsky call for more players. Early works by Bach and Mozart use smaller orchestras. More specific characteristics differ based on the composer. Meanwhile, a concerto will feature one soloist with the orchestra acting as accompaniment. ![]() Many works are symphonies, so they tend to feature the orchestra equally. The characteristics of orchestral music can vary between pieces. They'll typically use a baton to keep the beat and show other musical aspects, such as dynamics. Some earlier works use smaller orchestras, such as strings and only a few wind players.Ī conductor often stands in front of the orchestra and guides them. ![]() Those sections may have sub-sections, such as violins, violas, cellos, and double basses in the string section. The standard orchestra many people think of contains a few sections: The definition of orchestral music is a type of music where many musicians play together. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Chaos agent by lee winter![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps the only reason to be optimistic is that the government may finally decide to use some of the windfall of Capital Gains Tax from these sales to put in the measures that will help everybody have access to an affordable and safe home. “The impact is far reaching and, as is usually the case, the people who suffer the most from this will be the poorest, those already with the fewest choices. “Once hundreds of thousands of homes disappear to the owner-occupier market, choice will be more limited and rents will almost certainly rise. ![]() Many younger people enjoy the flexibility of letting and can move from job to job and city to city with relative ease. “Rental homes, despite all of the negative press, provide valuable, temporary accommodation for millions of people who don’t want the long-term commitment of owning. He adds: “Many tenants currently happily living in their home will be forced to move out, even if, in the end, another landlord buys it. ![]() ![]() From the time of the ancient Germanic tribes, women were revered by the Northern peoples as being holy, imbued with magical power, and with a special ability to prophecy, a reverence which endured in Scandinavia until the advent of Christianity. Many of the most important cult practices of the pagan Norse religion occurred in the housewife's domain, where the woman of the house would act as priestess or gyðja (Steffensen, 191). Since Norse magic was so intrinsically a woman's art, throughout this paper I will deal with magic as practiced by women, using the feminine pronoun, but it should be remembered that men as well as women practiced the art as recorded in the sagas. ![]() In the Norse literature, men as well as women appear wielding the arts of magic, however, it is explicitly stated in several places that by doing so these men were taking on a female art so thoroughly that it endangered their reputation and manhood ( Ynglingasaga, ch. The Norse practitioners of the various arts of magic were highly respected professionals whose services were valued by their communities (Jochens, Old Norse Magic and Gender, 307 Ellis-Davidson, 37). ![]() Women and Magic in the Sagas: Seiðr and Spá I. Introduction ![]() |