22 Books You Should Read Now, Based On Your Childhood Favorites. What Should I Read Next? Book recommendations from readers like you. History - A Nerd’s Guide to Reading. An Interactive Guide to NPR's List of Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books. The Staff Recommends: Past Selections. 101 Books To Read This Summer Instead of '50 Shades of Grey'. 100 Exquisite Adjectives. By Mark Nichol Adjectives — descriptive words that modify nouns — often come under fire for their cluttering quality, but often it’s quality, not quantity, that is the issue.
Plenty of tired adjectives are available to spoil a good sentence, but when you find just the right word for the job, enrichment ensues. Practice precision when you select words. Here’s a list of adjectives: Subscribe to Receive our Articles and Exercises via Email You will improve your English in only 5 minutes per day, guaranteed! You Fade by Kathryn Dixon. 623 of the Best Books ever Written. UT College of Liberal Arts. We polled some of our WGS Affilliate Faculty to find out what readings they would like beginning Women's and Gender Studies MA students to know about.
We've linked to the articles below. To purchase the books below check out Book Woman, Texas' only remaining feminist book store; Monkey Wrench Books, an all volunteer, collectively-run radical bookstore; or Resistencia, a local bookstore rooted in the Chicano movement and supporting racial justice. Top Six Authors: Author: Patricia Hill Collins Article: "Reflections on the Outsider Within. " Recommended by: Gloria González-López, Sociology Book: Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment.
Recommended by: Gloria González-López, Sociology; Christine Williams, Sociology; Sharmila Rudrappa, Sociology; and Kamala Visweswaran, Anthropology Author: Chandra Mohanty Article: "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses. " Book: Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. 10 Essential Books for Book Nerds. What makes a book nerd?
Reading a lot of books — and liking to talk about said books — is a major requirement, of course, but there’s often something a little more nebulous involved: book nerds are the kinds of people who get a little thrill when walking into a bookstore, who press volumes into their friends’ hands with serious promises of life changing moments, who are fascinated by following the many tangled threads through authors and literature, happily wandering wherever they might lead. Robin Sloan’s recently published Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore is a book for such people — if you can’t already tell from the title. If you count yourself among them (or are looking for a gift for the same), we’ve put together a list of books you might want to consider taking a look at. Click through to read through our list of essential books for book nerds — and since you’re probably not a true book nerd if you’re satisfying with ten, add your own picks to our list in the comments!
Mr. 56 Books to Read if You Love Harry Potter. By First Mate Keira If you haven't yet read the Harry Potter Series you should.
All 7 books are out. This is their order: These are the companion books to Harry Potter: Get the Complete Harry Potter 8-Film Collection You should check out these trilogies and series. Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan: A boy with ADD and dyslexia finds out his handicaps are in fact signs of his powers. . 6. 74 Books to Read if You Love the Hunger Games. If you haven't read the Hunger Games you really should!
They're pretty awesome. Check them out: If you're already a fan of the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins... You should add these books to your to be read pile! (The recommendations are in no particular order.) Matched Trilogy by Ally Condie In a world where Officials pick your perfect mate, what happens when you’ve two choices? Maze Runner Trilogy by James Dashner A boy wakes up in a Glade with other boys knowing only his name, not how he got there, or how to escape the enclosed walls. Giver Quartet by Lois Lowry. Well, At Least There Was Good Stuff to Read: The Books of the Decade.
Anybody remember how anxious and thrilled we were in those last months of the 20th century?
When we weren't at war and we had a budget surplus and it looked like Al Gore would be president? The prospect of a 21st century filled with new technologies, new art and literature loomed large and bright. But now, as we look back at what was decidedly a shitty decade for an incredible variety of people in an equally incredible variety of ways (evictions/invasions/bombings/etc), it's surprisingly hard to be pessimistic about the books that assessed, satirized, dramatized and distracted us from the events of the past 10 years. Goethe said that the decline of a nation's literature is the precursor to that nation's fall, and with this look back at the books that defined the decade, we'd like to tell Goethe to suck it. Almost in spite of ourselves, we're still writing, translating, publishing and even occasionally buying good books in this country.
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