![]() I think the author was intending to be sexy and edgy, but the product is just down right creepy. Lassar's justified his abuse to his gymnasts. Erik's rationalization that this session would help Brie become a better gymnast was way too reminiscent of how Dr. The yoga session ends with the coach leading his athlete into sex. The most disturbing scene unfolds when Erik prescribes yoga as a means for Brie to gain better trust in her body. Erik clearly sees her as a "girl", (as he constantly reminds her) and his other love interests as woman, yet he continues to engage in sexual activity with her. ![]() The creepiness begins early in the plot as the 30 year coach initiates a conversation about sex with his 20 year old athlete. He is constantly telling her he is trying to control her, messing with her head and treating her like garbage in front of other people. He is clearly in a position of power with the immature student/gymnast and his actions are pretty creepy. IMO Erik crosses the line from alpha male to sexual abuser. Lassar of being found guilty of sexually abusing hundreds of gymnasts. The plot of this book is fairly disturbing, especially considering the recent events of Dr. ![]() Brie is immature, indignant and lacks respect for the authority of her coach. The Summer Games Out of Bounds A young olympic gymnast and a coach come to together to train for the final weeks leading up to the Olympics. ![]()
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![]() I remembered him as a happy-go-lucky guy who seems so at ease in the company of women. In case you don’t know, Stephen is Clayton’s younger brother. I’ve had a glimpse of him before because he also appeared in Whitney, My Love. With so many title associated with his name, you’ll probably know how many ladies, wishing to marry a man with a title, have thrown their selves at him. STEPHEN DAVID ELLIOTT WESTMORELAND. Earl of Westmoreland, Earl of Langford, Baron of Ellingwood, Fifth Viscount Hargrove, Viscount Ashbourne. ![]() All she truly knows is that she is falling in love with a handsome English earl, and that the life unfolding before her seems full of wondrous possibilities… Review Sheridan awakens in Westmoreland’s mansion with no memory of who she is the only hint of her past is the puzzling fact that everyone calls her Miss Lancaster. And just as Sheridan is about to speak, she steps into the path of a cargo net loaded with crates! Standing on the pier, Stephen Westmoreland, the Earl of Langford, assumes the young woman coming toward him is Charise Lancaster - and informs her of his inadvertent role in a fatal accident involving Lord Burleton the night before. When her charge elopes with a stranger, Sheridan wonders how she will ever explain it to Charise’s intended, Lord Burleton. ![]() A teacher in a school for wealthy young ladies, Sheridan, Bromleigh is hired to accompany one of her students, heiress Charise Lancaster, to England to meet her fiancé. ![]() ![]() With new terms thrown at her - asexual aromantic - Georgia is more uncertain about her feelings than ever. But when her romance plan wreaks havoc amongst her friends Georgia ends up in her own comedy of errors and she starts to question why love seems so easy for other people but not for her. ![]() As she starts university with her best friends Pip and Jason in a whole new town far from home Georgia's ready to find romance and with her outgoing roommate on her side and a place in the Shakespeare Society her 'teenage dream' is in sight. ![]() What did that mean? Georgia has never been in love never kissed anyone never even had a crush - but as a fanfic-obsessed romantic she's sure she'll find her person one day. No boys no girls not a single person I had ever met. WINNER OF THE YA BOOK PRIZE 2021 The fourth novel from the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman author of Solitaire and the graphic novel series Heartstopper - soon to be a major Netflix series. ![]() ![]() ![]() That down over the face of a beetling cliff poureth its dusky stream even so with deep groaning spake he amid the Argives, saying:“My friends, leaders and rulers of the Argives, great Zeus, son of Cronos, hath ensnared me in grievous blindness of heart, cruel god! seeing that of old he promised me, and bowed his head thereto, So they sat in the place of gathering, sore troubled, and Agamemnon stood up weeping even as a fountain of dark water Went this way and that, bidding the clear-voiced heralds summon every man by name to the place of gathering, but not to shout aloud and himself he toiled amid the foremost. ![]() The North Wind and the West Wind that blow from Thrace, coming suddenly, and forthwith the dark wave reareth itself in crests and casteth much tangle out along the sea even so were the hearts of the Achaeans rent within their breasts.īut the son of Atreus, stricken to the heart with sore grief, Even as two winds stir up the teeming deep, ![]() Thus kept the Trojans watch, but the Achaeans were holden of wondrous Panic, the handmaid of numbing fear and with grief intolerable were all the noblest stricken. ![]() ![]() and a book that will stick with you for a long time." "Propulsive and deranged, Tender Is the Flesh is a weird and quick read that strays far enough from our current reality to be utterly engrossing. An unrelentingly dark and disquieting look at the way societies conform to committing atrocities.” “It is a testament to Bazterrica’s skill that such a bleak book can also be a page-turner. "A ruthlessly clever, Orwellian satire of our dog-eat-dog, er, man-eat-man modern world." ![]() “Taut and thought-provoking.a chilling and alarmingly prophetic book.this is an urgent cautionary tale.timely, crucial.” "The novel is horrific, yes, but fascinatingly provocative (and Orwellian) in the way it exposes the lengths society will go to deform language and avoid moral truths." “From the first words of the Argentine novelist Agustina Bazterrica’s second novel, Tender Is the Flesh, the reader is already the livestock in the line, reeling, primordially aware that this book is a butcher’s block, and nothing that happens next is going to be pretty.” WINNER OF ARGENTINA’S CLARÍN NOVELA PRIZE 2017 ![]() PRAISE FOR TENDER IS THE FLESH BY AGUSTINA BAZTERRICA ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This immersive, inspiring, and witty page-turner captures the terrifying lows and breathtaking highs of a woman's journey from timidity to confidence, cancer to healing, and regret to joy, as she breaks the mental and physical chains that once prevented her from living out her dreams. But when an unexpected cancer diagnosis forced her to confront her deepest fears, the mountains of Japan became the setting for an even more transformative journey from pain and fear to a new life fueled by hope, confidence, and strength. After more than forty years of living safe and scared, California attorney and mystery author Susan Spann decided to break free by climbing one hundred of Japan's most famous mountains, inspired by a classic list of hyakumeizan peaks. ![]() The inspiring memoir of a middle-aged woman who challenged herself to climb one hundred Japanese mountains in a single year, even after an aggressive cancer threatened to derail her dream. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In New Crobuzon life is hell even before the monsters which serve as the central antagonists arrive there. In Perdido Street Station this great city is front and center, and it’s an unrivaled destination in the history of fantastic literary metropolises. When I finally got around to the first volume in the trilogy, I realized almost immediately upon beginning it why I should’ve read them in order: because, no matter how far they get away from it geographically, the heart of these books has always been the port city of New Crobuzon, a kind of magically-poisoned Victorian London. Not that it’s necessary to read the books in order, but clearly it helps. I read The Scar several years before tackling Perdido Street Station, and although I enjoyed it immensely, I always felt I was missing something essential about the series by starting with the second volume. ![]() ![]() Norris to move out of the Parsonage and into a house nearby. Fanny serves as a companion to Lady Bertram, and stays at home with her reclusive aunt when the rest of the family leaves to socialize. ![]() Only her cousin Edmund goes out of his way to make Fanny feel comfortable, establishing an intense bond between them.Īs Fanny grows older, she begins to feel more used to the lifestyle at Mansfield. Norris is downright tyrannical and verbally abusive in how she treats her niece. In Fanny’s early years at Mansfield, her relations generally neglect her, and Mrs. She is homesick and misses her brother William, with whom she is extremely close. When Fanny first arrives at Mansfield, she is uncomfortable because of her lack of proper manners and exposure to luxury and wealth. ![]() Norris contrive to take in Fanny, who is her eldest daughter.Īt Mansfield, Fanny grows up with her four cousins: Tom, Edmund, Maria, and Julia. Together they have too many children to care for, so Lady Bertram, Sir Thomas, and Fanny’s other aunt Mrs. ![]() Price, Fanny’s mother and Lady Bertram’s sister, is of a lower class and struggles financially due to her poorly chosen marriage to naval officer Mr. As a child, Fanny is sent to live with her aunt, Lady Bertram, and her uncle, Sir Thomas, at their country estate, Mansfield Park. Mansfield Park tells the story of protagonist Fanny Price as she navigates her adolescence and young adulthood. ![]() ![]() Teo, Jade semidios and son of the goddess Quetzal, thinks the whole thing is a raw deal. The winner, the Sunbearer, renews the sun stones in each temple with the blood of the loser, who is sacrificed in Sol’s image. ![]() To keep Sol’s protections active, and to hold the Obsidians at bay, those known as semidioses, the children of the Gold and Jade gods, take part in the Sunbearer Trials. ![]() Long ago, the sun god, Sol, sacrificed themself to save humans from the treacherous Obsidian gods, binding them into constellations to keep them from bringing chaos to the world. And Teo’s world needs a lot of change in order to be more just.įor The Sunbearer Trials (and its presumed sequel-be warned, the novel ends on a cliffhanger!), Thomas creates a secondary fantasy world that’s technologically similar to ours, but in which gods, demigods, and mortal humans openly walk together. Sometimes, so-called “good trouble” (as the legendary Representative John Lewis termed it) is an absolutely necessary part of changing unjust systems. And it takes him a long time in the story to realize that sometimes, a little trouble is needed. In the case of Teo in The Sunbearer Trials, the newest YA fantasy from author Aiden Thomas, he only believes that he’s a troublemaker. ![]() But such protagonists don’t always see themselves as strong. It takes a strong person, and a strong protagonist, to speak up for what they believe, even when what they choose isn’t popular. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites' The Times In these six incisive essays, Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives. Photographs have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. ![]() Photographs are everywhere, and the 'insatiability of the photographing eye' has profoundly altered our relationship with the world. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. ![]() |