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![]() ![]() There are many other different characters that the reader is introduced to, including Richard, the white man who has come to Biafra to write about its history. Ugwu, the poor child of a family that live in a village is given the opportunity to live with Odenigbo and Olanna and quickly becomes a part of their family and a son-figure to them. She Is the lover of Odenigbo and to be quite frank, most of the novel is woven around her challenging life with him and her desire to marry and have children. Olanna, is the beautiful London-educated daughter of a rich Biafran businessman and can almost be pictured due to her beauty which is mentioned several times throughout the book. He feels strongly about black equality and rights, but also teaches. The protagonists include Odenigbo ‘the master’ who is a lecturer and an intellect. Their lives are lavish and exciting and all at once, you feel involved in their lives too. The book is complicated and difficult to get into at first, but you begin to feel at ease in the world of the wealthy people of Biafra soon after the first opening chapters. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In contrast to a common story arc in which acquaintances develop a romantic relationship, Ava's and Jules's relationship is moving from romance into friendship. Reviewer Lee Mandelo wrote that Finna's protagonists are unique in that their romantic relationship has already ended. This is comparable to real-life examples in which minimum wage retail workers are mistreated by managers asking for the impossible. Ava and Jules are sent on a dangerous quest and offered gift cards in return. The novella criticizes the absurdities of capitalism and big box retail work. Ava quits her job and takes the FINNA in search of Jules. As they fight off dangerous drones, Ava escorts Nouresh back to her world Jules stays behind. ![]() They meet Captain Nouresh, an alternate-universe version of Mrs. ![]() Nouri has been killed by parasitic plants the FINNA directs them to a “suitable replacement”. They travel through numerous parallel universes. Ava and Jules are sent to fetch her using a tracking device called a FINNA. A customer's grandmother, Ursula Nouri, wanders inside. One day at work, a wormhole opens in the store. It was followed by a sequel, Defekt, in 2021.Īva works at LitenVärld, a big box retail store, with her ex Jules. It was nominated for the 2021 Hugo Award for Best Novella, the 2021 Locus Award for Best Novella, and the 2021 Nebula Award for Best Novella. It has been praised for its inclusion of queer characters and its criticism of capitalism and retail work. Finna is a 2020 LGBT fantasy novella by Nino Cipri. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I returned to Shanghai from Berlin and was quarantined at home,” said Liu Shuwei an audacious young Chinese photographer best known for his portraits and nudes, who turned to Instagram during his weekslong confinement in February. ![]() Against the mandatory confinement imposed from Argentina to Zimbabwe, these photographers have taken to the platform with newfound vigor, plunging their imagery into the swim of the social feed. With museums and galleries largely shuttered around the world because of the coronavirus pandemic, Instagram has filled up these last weeks with “quarantine content”: snapshots of cramped apartments, pets surprised by their owners’ sudden ubiquity, uncannily deserted street scenes and cautious supermarket shoppers in beekeeping suits.īut sprinkled among Instagram’s more than 1 billion users, you’ll also find some of the world’s greatest fine art photographers - some shooting on iPhones or Android handsets, some relying on digital cameras and uploading manually. Here’s the bad news: You can only shoot from your apartment. ![]() Here’s the good news: You now have a sharper camera in your pocket than professional photographers could dream of 30 years ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() Missing shifters, a dying population, and pack wars are all causing their sanctuary to crumble around them, and Skye is trapped in the middle of it all. Skye thought she was finally safe, but as her bond with Remy strengthens, the shifter world starts to break apart at the seams. ![]() He wants her, and after one moment that shouldn't have been possible, he knows he’ll never be able to let her go. The last thing he needs or wants is Skye Markham and the dangers she brings with her adding to the stress on his pack, but his wolf has a different opinion. Hunted by her former Alpha and his soldiers, she’s determined to create a life even though she knows they will come for her.Īs the next alpha in line, Remy Holt has spent years guarding the Blackwater pack and his family from those who seek to seize control and destroy them. After refusing the laws of her sadistic pack, Skye Markham barely escapes with her life, seeking sanctuary with the feared Blackwater pack. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, she thoughtfully-and humorously-offers critical inquiry into why digital spaces have the power to inflict our physical senses offline, without portraying the Internet as this nightmarish entity living under our beds. In nine new essays from her debut collection, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, Tolentino doesn’t altogether pour out confessionals strictly damning the Internet, nor does she pinpoint where the future of our screen worlds are going. ![]() Years later, Tolentino now writes for The New Yorker while her previous employers include Jezebel and The Hairpin. Savoring her own autonomy to craft her own identity online however she’d like, she began using trailblazing website-hosting platforms like Expage and Angelfire to write about her early encounters with Beanie Baby webpages. Raised in Houston, Texas, Tolentino grew up finding solace in the surge of digital spaces taking over every teen and preteen’s life in the early 2000s. Before Jia Tolentino was born, her parents moved from the Philippines to Canada and then from Canada to the USA. And before the Internet, there was real life. Before there was Facebook, there was MySpace. ![]() ![]() Constantly comparing your salary, clothes or car to others’ will leave you envious and in a state of perpetual displeasure with what you have. Though comparing helps us make decisions, it can also make us miserable. ![]() For example, some savvy restaurants will deliberately overprice the most expensive item on their menu, so customers will then feel the second most expensive item is relatively cheaper and wind up ordering it. The same tendency to compare applies to prices of products, and many marketers take advantage of this by introducing expensive “decoy products” that make other things seem cheaper by comparison. ![]() ![]() Congratulations! Just don’t tell your friend why you’ve invited them out. Since you won this easy contest and other comparisons are harder to make, you will probably be seen as the cutest person at the club. Instead of going to the trouble of comparing lots of different-looking people, they can clearly see that you are preferable to your friend. What’s more, we tend to do this in the laziest way possible: by using the easiest comparisons around.īy showing up at a bar with a slightly less attractive version of yourself, you’re giving your potential dating partners an easy comparison. Our minds are fundamentally wired to look for comparisons. ![]() This will greatly increase your chances of success. Are you single? Here’s a surprising tip on how to attract potential dating partners at a club: bring along a friend who looks similar to you, only is slightly less attractive. ![]() ![]() ![]() Only this time, I was certain that if I fell, he wouldn’t be willing to catch me. Otherwise, I’d find myself falling in love with him all over again. Now that he was back in town, in constant connection with me, I had to keep reminding myself daily of why I ended things with him in the first place. ![]() A man who swore he’d never speak to me again. ![]() For the next few months, I’d be forced to cater to a man whose heart I’d broken all those years ago. He was staying in the only hotel in our small town. He went off to California to leave all of his past behind-including me.įive years later, he was back in town for the next few months taking care of some family business. It wasn’t until a scandal broke out that I was forced to end things with Aiden. I was there when his career took off, and I was almost certain I’d always be a part of his life. ![]() I knew him inside and out, and he knew every single piece of me. We’d grown up as neighbors in small town Wisconsin. I’d been in love with Aiden Walters since I was a little girl. We’d g Hollywood's biggest star first belonged to me.īreaking up with your high school sweetheart was one thing.īreaking up with Hollywood’s favorite actor? That was a different situation. Breaking up with Hollywood’s favorite actor? That was a different situation. Breaking up with your high school sweetheart was one thing. Hollywood's biggest star first belonged to me. ![]() ![]() ![]() I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again." And when they wake up in the summer, Kitty, they dress themselves all in green, and dance about - whenever the wind blows - oh, that's very pretty!" cried Alice, dropping the ball of worsted to clap her hands. "Do you hear the snow against the window-panes, Kitty? How nice and soft it sounds! Just as if some one was kissing the window all over outside.For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hour (and bearing it pretty well, considering) so you see that it couldn't have had any hand in the mischief. One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it: - it was the black kitten's fault entirely. ![]() The jaws that bite and claws that scratch. 2 Chapter 2: The Garden of Live FlowersĬhapter 1: Looking-Glass house 'Twas brillig and the slithy toves,Īnd the mome raths outgrabe. ![]() ![]() ![]() *Times Best Historical Novels of July 2022 Pick*įrance is mired in a losing war against England. 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