5/13/2023 0 Comments Abruption by Riley Mackenzie![]() ![]() I honestly don’t know how to feel, I keep telling myself everything happens for a reason but it’s not making me feel any better. I delivered my SONshine natural no medicine on December 15 pounds and 16 ounces ( onyx Mitchell). The doctor told me it was a placental abruption. When I arrived I was given a ultrasound and my whole world turned upside down when the doctor told me he had no heartbeat ❤️□. I had to be transported to the hospital in the ambulance. TikTok video from _bcuzimquesha "December 14 the worst day of my life, was the last day I felt my SONshine move, I woke up with heavy back and stomach pains and couldn’t move. I would do anything to have my baby back □ #placentalabruptionawareness #foryoupage #sonshine□□ #infantlossģ.3K Likes, 86 Comments. ![]() December 14 the worst day of my life, was the last day I felt my SONshine move, I woke up with heavy back and stomach pains and couldn’t move. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments A southerners reckoning![]() ![]() ![]() Want to listen to an audio-only version of this lecture? Listen now on Soundcloud. The content and opinions expressed in these presentations are solely those of the speaker and not necessarily of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture. He graduated from Washington and Lee University and holds a PhD from the Ohio State University. He has published numerous books, articles, and videos on military history, including the award-winning West Point History of the Civil War. He is the Chamberlain Fellow at Hamilton College as well as a New America Fellow. Army for thirty-six years, retiring as a brigadier general. Ty Seidule is Professor Emeritus of History at West Point where he taught for two decades. From a soldier, a scholar, and a southerner, Ty Seidule believes that American history demands a reckoning. From a soldier, a scholar, and a southerner, Ty Seidule believes that American history demands a reckoning. Now, as a retired brigadier general and Professor Emeritus of History at West Point, Ty’s view has radically changed. Army, every part of his life reinforced the Lost Cause myth: that Lee was the greatest man who ever lived, and that the Confederates were underdogs who lost the Civil War with honor. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy. In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. On May 5, 2021, Ty Seidule showcased why some of this country’s oldest wounds have never healed. Lee and Me: A Southerners Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Breathe sarah crossan summary![]() ![]() Naomi and Ely are like a younger Will & Grace, full of witty banter and extremely close, and of course, totally co-dependent and wrong for each other. The main conflict, of course, is that Naomi still harbors a childhood crush on Ely - she's certain that they were destined for one another, and the fact that Ely has been openly and proudly gay for the last few years hasn't put a dent in her affections. ![]() The aftermath is awkward all around for everyone in the building. The past year has been rocky for them, as Naomi's father destroyed their family with an illicit affair with one of Ely's lesbian moms. Naomi and Ely are best friends who have grown up across the hall from each other in a chic New York high-rise apartment building. ![]() I picked it up because I had love, love, loved Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist written by the same authors. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The chalk man book review![]() ![]() Part of the novel’s poignancy is that Shy himself doesn’t talk much (clue’s in the name). They include his long-suffering mum and stepfather a painfully kind counselor called Jenny his mate Benny, with whom he wants to start a label, Atomic Bass Recordings and Amanda, a live-in staff member who “sits in her dungarees with her mug of tea and hears whatever the boys want to tell her.” ![]() Porter moves nimbly between the voices of Shy’s universe as they replay in his memory. Though the novel’s time frame is just a few hours of one night, it’s a night of “a shattered flicker-drag of these sense-jumbled memories” and one in which “the solid world dissolves then coheres like broken sleep, and he shambles into it, remembering.” In other words, the night’s as big as Shy’s life. ![]() The book’s true setting, however, is the sprawling, shifting terrain of Shy’s mind. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Alastair reynolds eversion review![]() Which is how Miguel finds himself on a one-way mission with his own destructive mandate: to eliminate a passing ship, before it can bring unwanted attention down on them.Īnd she knows far more about Miguel than she’s letting on. The slightest hint of human activity could draw the wolves to their home, to destroy everything … utterly. But how does it compare to the rest? Read on to find out!įleeing the ‘wolves’ – the xenocidal alien machines known as Inhibitors – he has protected his family and community from attack for forty years, sheltering in the caves of an airless, battered world. Intended to be suitable as both a standalone novel and as a sequel, Inhibitor Phase is the latest entry in his revered Revelation Space sequence. ![]() It’s the return of a familiar face this week, as I get to grips with one of Alastair Reynolds’ newest novels. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Coming out as dalit book![]() As she began to understand the inequities of the caste system, she also had to deal with the crushing guilt of denying her history and the struggles of her grandparents and the many Dalit reformers who fought for equal rights. She talks about the tremendous feeling of empowerment she experienced when she finally stood up for herself and her community and shrugged off the fake upper-caste identity she’d had to construct for herself. ![]() In Coming Out as Dalit, Dutt recounts the exhausting burden of living with the secret and how she was terrified of being found out. For Yashica Dutt, a journalist living in New York, this was the moment to stop living a lie, and admit to something that she had hidden from friends and colleagues for over a decade-that she was Dalit. ![]() Dalit student Rohith Vemula’s tragic suicide in January 2016 started many charged conversations around caste-based discrimination in universities in India. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Regency Buck by Georgette Heyer![]() ![]() Here’s a brief description from the back of the book:Īfter their father’s death, Miss Judith Taverner and her brother Peregrine travel to London to meet their guardian, Lord Worth, expecting an elderly gentleman. ![]() The story is set in the Regency era (hence the title) and follows the heroine Judith as she experiences life in London for the first time under the protection of her guardian, Lord Worth. ![]() It’s a fun romantic story with moments that make you laugh out loud. ![]() Heyer wrote many books – some of them I like a lot and there are some that I don’t care for – but Regency Buck is definitely my favorite. One big difference though is that while Austen tackled some complex themes in her novels, Heyer’s novels are purely for fun. In case you’ve never heard of Heyer, she was an author in the early 1900s and her books are comparable in some ways with Jane Austen’s. The book is Regency Buck by Georgette Heyer. Everyone needs a fun fiction book in their life every so often. I haven’t finished my book of the month yet (I’ll blame it on February being a shorter month) so today I thought I’d review a fiction book just for fun. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The promise damon galgut amazon![]() ![]() This purposeful ignorance underpins Galgut’s narrative choices in the novel. “A lot of white South Africans just don’t care to ask, or aren’t interested enough to ask.” ![]() I mean, so close that sometimes these are people who’ve worked for your family for years,” he says. “The white South African psyche is not very perceptive about Black citizens that are really, really close to hand. ![]() Per Galgut, the central focus of The Promise is “the white South African psyche,” or the mentality used to justify the subjugation of Black South Africans for more than three centuries, which can be seen in the dynamic between the Swarts family and Salome. ![]() “But it was always heartening to me that people knew this was going to be a process, not just a flip of the switch.” “You cannot transform the economic situation that apartheid bequeathed to us overnight,” he says. The overall bribery rate reported by people using public services was 18% in 2019, up from 7% in 2015.ĭespite the rampant corruption and a “sense of exhaustion,” Galgut sees glimmers of hope. According to Transparency International’s Global Corruption Barometer, 64% of 1,840 citizens surveyed in 2018 thought corruption had increased in the previous 12 months. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments My cousin rachel novel![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It points out that My Cousin Rachel could arguably be du Maurier’s most feminist novel, and honestly I hadn’t thought about it that way before now. I have the 2003 Virago paperback edition and it contains a wonderful introduction by Sally Beauman (that is rife with spoilers, like this review), which I’m very glad I re-read as well. I initially read it after being equally stunned by Rebecca, and while this has some common elements (most notably the isolated Cornwall setting into which a vulnerable woman enters) it is very much its own beast and deserves to be lauded just as much as the most famous of du Maurier’s books. ![]() Simply put, My Cousin Rachel is a masterpiece in narrative structure and characterisation, and possibly one of the best books I’ve ever read (a bold claim, I know). I wish I’d read it all in one go back in May, but regardless I am very glad that I chose to read it again. Then a week or so ago I remembered and picked it up again, and tore through the rest of it. At some point I put it aside, and I left it for so long, I’m not sure why, that I literally forgot I was reading it. I first read this in 2014, which seems like a lifetime ago, and decided to re-read it earlier this year when I was fed up with everything I had on my bookshelves. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Philosophy and computer science are really on a collision course.” - Brian Christian He talks to Kravitz about how he managed to combine his love for both computer science and creative writing in his current career. ![]() Christian is also director of technology at McSweeney’s Publishing and scientific communicator in residence at Simon’s Institute for the Theory of Computing.He believes this group is evolving into a new interdisciplinary field. The Alignment Problem features insights from hundreds of interviews Christian did with those he calls “first responders” to the ethical and scientific concerns surrounding the issue.Listen to the full podcast to hear about this and more - including Christian’s book club experience with Elon Musk and why he chose to double major in philosophy and computer science. As AI takes on a variety of tasks, from medical diagnostics to parole sentencing decisions, machine learning researchers are expressing concern over the problem. The alignment problem can be caused by a range of reasons - such as data bias, or datasets used incorrectly and out of context. Making Machines More Human: Best-Selling Author Brian Christian on the Alignment Problem – Ep. ![]() |