pickSomeone had thought to spoof classic art, and it's pretty funny! This is one of my favorites, and it also shows a weird publishing error where there are faint printings of another page at the top...
pickHaving read this so shortly after Our Kids: The America Dream in Crisis was a #Powerful combination. If you aren't screwed by the opportunity gap in childhood, you're pretty likely to be screwed by the bottom-line mentality of the corporate world.
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4th bingo on my January #BookSpinBingo board @TheAromaofBooks
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Next from the towering TBR pile...
so-soI love a memoir, and the memoir bits were great. Thoughtful reflection on what it's like to grow up gay in a working-class community in a small French town, and the things lost along the way to becoming a Parisian writer/ academic.
But for me, a little bit of Sartre, Foucault and Merleau-Ponty quoting goes a Long Way.
There's no doubt that we can include Madness and Civilization in that part of our library that includes books that "call to us,” as Patrick Chamoiseau puts it, books that make up a "library of feelings" and help us to overcome the effects of domination within our own selves.
To use an insult is to cite the past. It only has meaning because it has been used by so many earlier speakers: a dizzying word that rises from the depths of time immemorial, as one of Genet's verses puts it.
Yet, for those at whom it is aimed, it also represents a projection into the future: the dreadful presentiment that such words, and the violence they carry, will accompany you for the rest of your days.
Or there was the time when, after I had made mention of Simone de Beauvoir, this same ultra-Catholic professor, an extremely powerful presence in the philosophy department, interrupted me and curtly interjected: "You seem to be unaware that Mademoiselle de Beauvoir treated her own mother disrespectfully.".... "Mademoiselle"! I laughed for months each time I thought of this way of referring to her.
pickQuietly mysterious, this exploration of the Cleveland upper class and the young adults trying to find their way was interesting, scathing, and quite sad. I didn‘t know what to expect going in but it gave nods to the House of Mirth and The Awakening and made me think just like they did. I will look for more from this author, this was her debut in 2012. #BookspinBingo @TheAromaofBooks
