![]() “I wrote this book not for tabloid reporters who are looking for clicks,” she said of some of the headlines her book has created. In the book, excerpts from which have been leaked to the press in recent days, Couric writes about her struggles working in network television, her friendship with disgraced former co-anchor Matt Lauer and a controversial decision to selectively edit an interview with the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “So, I was surprised, but not that surprised.” “It’s clearly not representative of my book, and I think it probably says a lot about the media environment we’re in and the tenor of the times we’re in,” she said during an interview with USA Today. Veteran journalist Katie Couric criticized recent media coverage of her memoir, in which she is open about her personal and professional struggles as a journalist.Ĭouric called the way outlets have covered the contents of her book “strange,” saying there has been a “willful misinterpretation of what I wrote,” by some of the journalists who have written or broadcasted about her memoir. ![]()
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To be clear, I’m not really into self-help books, so I don’t have one of those catchy three-step plans for changing the world. These women want to change things but don’t know where to begin. ![]() ![]() This is a book for women who know shit is fucked up. ![]() This is a book for women who expect to be taken seriously and for men who take grown women seriously. This is a book by a grown-ass woman written for other grown-ass women. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t generally read contemporary books, but I’m trying to read more books outside my comfort zone and this one seemed like a good idea. I struggled for a while with this book to really get into it. Wow … There’s a lot I can say about this book, and not all of them good. ![]() ![]() Please do not read if these will bother you. This entire review contains talk of extreme homophobia and talk of hate crimes towards queer people. 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While in the middle of arguing for the right to go to prom with his boyfriend, Luis gets hit on the head and get knocked back into 1985– literally. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Civil Disobedience or Resistance to Civil Government is an essay by Thoreau in which he argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Part memoir, part personal quest, the book is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, where Thoreau hoped to gain a more objective understanding of society through personal introspection. Thoreau compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development. 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With revenge on her mind, Tina spends the next four years surviving the streets on her own, working as a master thief with the Goondas, Sangui City’s local gang. ![]() Greyhill’s private study, she knows he pulled the trigger. ![]() ![]() But there’s a dark secret lurking behind the family’s immense fortune, and when Tina discovers her mother shot dead in Mr. Trading the peril of their besieged village for the busy metropolis of Sangui, they can barely believe their luck when Tina’s mother finds work as a maid for the Greyhills, one of the city’s most illustrious families. Tina and her mother first arrived in Kenya as refugees from Congo desperately searching for a better life. In the shadows of Sangui City, there lives a girl who does not exist. Where I Got It: I borrowed the hardcover from the library Putnam’s Sons Books For Young Readers|401 pages Book: City Of Saints & Thieves by Natalie Anderson ![]() ![]() For while Mas was building a life on the edge of the American dream, he has kept powerful secrets: about three friends long ago, about two lives entwined, and about what really happened when the bomb fell on Hiroshima in August 1945.Ī spellbinding mystery played out from war torn Japan to the rich tidewaters of L.A. By the end of the summer, Joji will be dead and Mas’s own life will be in danger. It begins when a stranger comes around, asking questions about a nurseryman who once lived in Hiroshima, a man known as Joji Haneda. And now bachi the spirit of retribution is knocking on his door. For Mas, a life of sin is catching up to him. And his livelihood is falling into the hands of the men he once hired by the day. But while Mas keeps lawns neatly trimmed, his own life has gone to seed. ![]() In the foothills of Pasadena, Mas Arai is just another Japanese American gardener, his lawnmower blades clean and sharp, his truck carefully tuned. ![]() ![]() ![]() Poetry as song, originating in lyric, preoccupies the book’s opening poem “Threshold”. Balancing memory and silence with erudition, Vuong’s poetry resists being so easily pinned down. ![]() But pointing to the biography alongside Vuong’s stellar rise – from the first literate person in his family to a lauded, prize-winning poet – risks detracting from the book’s literary and political elements. Vuong’s intimate lyrical voice, his precise, stark imagery and engagement with gay sexuality construct a familiar story of loss, as well as the immigrant’s precarious transnational identity. Complex figures, displaced by war, haunt the book: an absent, tormented father and a beloved mother. ![]() Several poems resurrect violence from before the poet’s birth, in particular the end of the Vietnam war with the fall of Saigon in 1975. Glimpses of it appear throughout his Forward prize-nominated debut collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds: Vuong was born near Saigon in 1988 and at the age of two, after a year in a refugee camp, he emigrated to Hartford, Connecticut with six members of his family. I t is tempting to read Ocean Vuong’s poetry with his life story in mind. ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() His decision to hold true to his destiny is one that will cost him dearly, and one that threatens to tear apart the entire Navoran Empire - but which might just end up saving an entire people. But against his will, Gabriel finds himself caught up in the power struggles of a corrupt Empire, endangering all that he loves. Derived from a deep sense of guilt and strange mysterious visions Gabriel knows that he is destined to become a healer, with the power to decipher dreams, no matter what his overbearing family argues. Haunted by a terrible childhood secret Gabriel spurns family tradition and duties as the eldest son, to pursue a life of helping others. His life is now marked out for greatness by powers beyond his understanding.He's never wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and become a wealthy, sea-faring merchant, celebrated by all in the ancient empire of Navora - but cold and distant to his family. In doing so, he forever binds himself and his fate to them. ![]() Too frightened to answer her pleas for help, the child runs away, taking with him the sacred bone carving of the Shinili people. ![]() Terrified, a young Navaron child watches helplessly from his hiding place as a young Shinili woman is brutally beaten and abused by a group of drunken Navaron men. ![]() ![]() ![]() See also: FStv PirateTV Website, & Pirate TV Archive: PirateTVSeattle. Pirate TV also broadcasts on Free Speech TV: Details listed in FStv Schedule. ![]() morning 12-1am PST or streaming live on Seattle Community Media. Watch Pirate Television in King County channel 29/77 Mondays 8-9pm, Thurs. 1-2pm, & Sat. Thanks to Seattle Town Hall and University Bookstore He clarifies the arguments against sugar, corrects misconceptions about its relationship to weight and provides perspective for making informed decisions about it. ![]() He explains what research has shown about our addiction to sweets. Sugar is not only responsible for obesity. Key Takeaway 1: An increase in sugar consumption is to blame for the rise of most chronic diseases in societies that consume a Western diet. In The Case Against Sugar, science writer Gary Taubes (Why We Get Fat) delves into America’s history with sugar. To simply say cut down on sugar is as bad as saying, stop smoking, because both can cause disease. Diabetes is more prevalent today than ever before and obesity is at epidemic proportions, especially amongst children. Decades ago scientists were paid thousands of dollars to mislead the public into believing that fat should be avoided, when in fact, sugar causes a multitude of health problems and behavioral issues. ![]() Recent revelations exposed the sugar industry’s backroom cover-up of the harmful effects of this pervasive ingredient. ![]() |