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. Subscribe to Receive our Articles and Exercises via Email You will improve your English in only 5 minutes per day, guaranteed! 21 Responses to “100 Exquisite Adjectives” Rebecca Fantastic list! A List of Books | 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. Mr. Man, is this book fun — especially for any book nerd who isn’t in denial about living in the modern age.
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. 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. New Series based on Percy Jackson: The Heroes of Olympus is currently comprised of 3 books: Artemis Fowl Series by Eoin Colfer: A boy genius is a criminal mastermind and the greatest recent enemy of fairies worldwide. 18. is the companion novel to the series. Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer: A girl discovers a boy in her class is a vampire and it's love at first smell... er sight. 23. Septimus Heap Series by Angie Sage: A boy soldier finds out he has magical abilities and is considered by one and all to be one of most magical beings around as the 7th son of a 7th son. 30. Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins: , and 5. . 56.
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 A young boy is given the job to retain the Community’s memories and to advise them using that knowledge, but he doesn’t like what he sees when he knows the past. Books of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau A city of light amidst the darkness begins to go black and survival means finding a way out by going through the unknown. Uglies Quartet by Scott Westerfeld Selection Trilogy by Kiera Cass UPDATE: Novellas added to series: The Prince , The Guard
Well, At Least There Was Good Stuff to Read: The Books of the Decade | Books 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. To be clear: there were plenty of bad books over the course of the decade, as well.