![]() ![]() Yet it wasn’t long before vitamins spread from labs of scientists into the realm of food marketers and began to take on a life of their own. In Vitamania, award-winning journalist Catherine Price offers a lucid and lively journey through our cherished yet misguided beliefs about vitamins, and reveals a straightforward, blessedly anxiety-free path to enjoyable eating and good health.When vitamins were discovered a mere century ago, they changed the destiny of the human species by preventing and curing many terrifying diseases. ![]() By focusing on vitamins at the expense of everything else, we’ve become blind to the bigger picture: despite our belief that vitamins are an absolute good-and the more of them, the better-vitamins are actually small and surprisingly mysterious pieces of a much larger nutritional puzzle. What’s more, what we think we know is harming both our personal nutrition and our national health. If you need vitamins to survive (you do), you should read this book." Scientific American ("Food Matters") ![]()
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![]() ![]() A Scandal in Battersea (October 2017, ISBN 978-0756408732), featuring Sherlock Holmes and based on the Pied Piper of Hamelin.A Study in Sable (June 2016, ISBN 978-0756408725), featuring Sherlock Holmes and based on The Twa Sisters.Steadfast (June 2013, ISBN 978-0756408015), based on the Steadfast Tin Soldier.Home From the Sea (June 2012, ISBN 978-0756407278), based on East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Tam Lin, and The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry. ![]() ![]() Unnatural Issue (June 2011, ISBN 978-0756405755), based on Donkeyskin or similar tale.Reserved for the Cat (October 2007, ISBN 978-0-7564-0362-1), based on Puss in Boots.The Wizard of London (October 2005, ISBN 0-7564-0174-7), based on The Snow Queen.The Gates of Sleep (2002, ISBN 0-7564-0101-1), based on Sleeping Beauty.The Fire Rose (1995, ISBN 0-X), based on Beauty and the Beast.Each book in the series is loosely based on a fairy tale. Each elemental master has power over elementals, as well. The series largely focuses on Elemental Masters, people who have magical control over air, water, fire, or earth. Elemental Masters is a fantasy series by American writer Mercedes Lackey, taking place on an alternate Earth where magic exists. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was subsequently published as a collection in Japan in June 2014, with the final story, "Whispering Woman", having been previously published in Shinkan (シンカン) rather than Nemuki+. It began serialization in the first issue of the revived Nemuki+ (ネムキプラス) magazine on April 13, 2013. Ma no Kakera (魔の断片, also titled Shard of Evil or Fragments of Horror), is a series of short stories by Junji Ito. Ranging from the terrifying to the comedic, from the erotic to the loathsome, these stories showcase Junji Ito's long-awaited return to the world of horror. A funeral where the dead are definitely not laid to rest. A dissection class with a most unusual subject. An old wooden mansion that turns on its inhabitants. ![]() ![]() A new collection of delightfully macabre tales from a master of horror manga. ![]() ![]() ![]() The things she explains are actually old, they’ve been around almost thirty years and originate with sex researchers, and they just haven’t made it into the mainstream discourse yet (largely because, as she puts it: “ugh, patriarchy.”) I’m suspicious of anyone claiming to have “discovered” a new system that will solve everyone’s problems with “one weird trick they don’t want you to know about,” but Dr. I finished it going “omg, I need to get a copy of this for everyone I know.” I’m not that rich, so I’m reviewing it instead and telling you to check it out. I’ve read a lot of books on sexuality, but Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski, published in 2015, actually legit has surprising new stuff in it that I hadn’t heard about before. ![]() I think framing the question the old way was limiting the books I could meaningfully review. (I’ve decided to transform the “Is This Feminist?” series into a series of Feminist Friday Reviews. ![]() ![]() ![]() Haunted and haunting, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir about a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. The 'I' it seems doesn't exist until we are able to say, 'I am no longer yours.'" We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. "We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. ![]() "People don't just happen," writes Saeed Jones. ![]() One of the best books of the year as selected by The New York Times The Washington Post NPR Time The New Yorker O, The Oprah Magazine Harper's Bazaar Elle BuzzFeed Goodreads and many more. From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives-winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award-is a "moving, bracingly honest memoir" (The New York Times Book Review) written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power. ![]() ![]() Hawthorne is also remembered for helping to establish the short story as a respected form of literature and as a proponent of instilling morals and lessons into his writing. Though a work of fiction, “Young Goodman Brown” is widely considered to be one of the most effective literary works to address the hysteria surrounding the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Brown is unable to forgive the possibility of evil in his loved ones and as a result spends the rest of his life in desperate loneliness and gloom. At the end of the story, it is not clear whether Brown’s experience was nightmare or reality, but the results are nonetheless the same. ![]() ![]() Brown’s illusions about the goodness of his society are crushed when he discovers that many of his fellow townspeople, including religious leaders and his wife, are attending a Black Mass. “Young Goodman Brown” tells the tale of a young Puritan man drawn into a covenant with the Devil. ![]() ![]() The tale first appeared in the April issue of New England Magazine and was later included in Hawthorne’s popular short story collection, Mosses from an Old Manse, in 1846. “Young Goodman Brown,” written in 1835 by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is known for being one of literature’s most gripping portrayals of seventeenth-century Puritan society. ![]() ![]() Part cultural study, part literary analysis, Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked fed that fire and lived up to my expectations. ![]() My fascination with fairy tales knows no bounds. Full of fascinating history, generous wit, and intelligent analysis, Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked proves that the story of one young girl's trip through the woods continues to be one of our most compelling modern myths. In Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked, Red appears as seductress, hapless victim, riot grrrrl, femme fatale, and even she-wolf, as Orenstein shows how through centuries of different guises, the story has served as a barometer of social and sexual mores pertaining to women. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked, Catherine Orenstein reveals for the first time the intricate sexual politics, moral ambiguities, and philosophical underpinnings of Red Riding Hood's epic journey to her grandmother's house, and how, from the nursery on, fairy tales influence our view of the world.īeginning with its first publication as a cautionary tale on the perils of seduction, written in reaction to the licentiousness of the court of Louis XIV, Orenstein traces the many lives the tale has lived since then, from its appearance in modern advertisements for cosmetics and automobiles, the inspiration it brought to poets such as Anne Sexton, and its starring role in pornographic films. ![]() ![]() ![]() With each breath he recounted the things he was grateful for. Logan focused his attention on his breath, as he did first thing every morning. Making it appear to be moving very quickly without actually moving at all. Rose and fell as if they were taking deep breaths. The breeze through his open window brought the room to life. Logan loved the start of a new day, when the air was thick with possibilities (and, in his case, with the smell of chocolate,Ĭaramel, nougat, and spun sugar). Gotten rid of the lollypop-shaped bed last month when he turned twelve-it had become uncomfortable not being able to bend You might think that if your bedroom were inside a candy factory, your bed would be shaped like a lollypop. He rolled over so his nose nearly touched the air vent. The sweet smell of cotton candy wafting into his room Logan didn't have to open his eyes to know that morning had arrived. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “My mortgage is 100 percent paid by me writing and publishing books … but I don’t get to sit around and wait to feel inspired. “I fear homelessness more than one probably should fear it, and homelessness is a terrible situation,” the 43-year-old said during a recent phone interview. Having spent some of her formative years homeless in Concord in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay area, McGuire, who now lives north of Seattle with her four cats, said that though she’s fortunate enough to make a living doing what she loves, she doesn’t take it for granted. She has a slew of projects that will be published this year, including the 15th book in her October Daye series, “When Sorrows Come,” out in September through Penguin Random House, and her latest, “Across the Green Grass Fields,” the sixth entry in her Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning Wayward Children series, which was published by Tor in January. Author Seanan McGuire hasn’t let the pandemic slow down her writing. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a parallel flashback, we see that Guillaume’s girlfriend is actually named Nora and had an abusive husband before she met our hero. He attends her funeral, only to realize that the woman in the casket is not his girlfriend. ![]() Soon after, he is informed by the police that Judith has been found murdered in an apartment in Ivry. As he begins to retrace her steps with the help of his friend and colleague Daco, he finds that Judith might have had a daughter named Alice. When Guillaume gets home, he notices all her things gone and is unable to get in touch with her. She accepts but then, under the pretext of work, rushes off. Soon after, we see young Inès bury Sonia’s phone in her garden.īack in the present, Guillaume attends his mother’s funeral and proposes to his girlfriend Judith soon after. Guillaume then goes to his neighbor’s house, where he finds Inès, Sonia’s younger sister, staring at the corpse of her older sibling floating in the swimming pool. The two reach a cliffside where the bald man lets off multiple rounds, and Fred falls into the water. ![]() In a flashback, we see Fred wrestling with a bald man, who chases him with a gun. The show opens with Guillaume thinking about the night his brother Fred and ex-girlfriend Sonia were killed. ![]() |