![]() ![]() ![]() I'm putting this one at the bottom of the list purely because it hasn't stuck with me it's one of the few Stephen King novellas that didn't really leave a mark. The Breathing Method (from Different Seasons)Ī man in a strange story-telling club tells the grim tale of a woman learning a new technique for giving birth. Some of the stories towards the end of this list are among my all-time favourites of his.įrom time-swallowing monster to nightmarish, life-or-death competitions, here are all of King's novellas - ranked from worst to best (or, in other words, from good to ridiculously good). I sometimes think King's at his best when he's writing either very short, or very long novels. ![]() Sprinkled throughout the horror master's glorious 50-year career, nestled alongside his series, short story roundups and 400,000+ word epics, King has published a number of successful four-story novella collections.Īnd as a troublingly obsessed Stephen King fan, let me tell you this: they're well worth checking out. 13 of the best Stephen King short stories you've never read ![]()
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![]() ![]() A part of me is a little insulted, but a bigger part wants to help people understand. Rawr!Ī question I get a lot is how I have a D/s relationship with children. This works well, because my Daddy is a sadist. Because on top of being a babygirl, I’m also a masochist (which means I like pain). I’m more of a whips and chains girl, myself. I know many people who are into that kind of thing, but I’m not one of them. Being Daddy means that while yes, he’s the Dominant and in charge, he’s more nurturing and less strict.įor those of you imagining that it’s all pink bows, lollipops, and cartoons, think again. No age play for us! Being babygirl means allowing my vulnerable side to show through. First of all, I don’t think I’m a little girl, and second of all, he doesn’t want me to be a little girl. Ok, ok, I know, some people have an ick factor about that. ![]() I’m a submissive woman and the love of my life (because boyfriend sounds wrong) is a Dominant man. 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Sometimes it refers to activities or sets of activities that cut across organisational units. ![]() Sometimes it is a synonym for activities. ![]() Michael Porter (see article) said:The literature on re-engineering employs the term processes. The method was popularly referred to as business process re-engineering (BPR), and was based on an examination of the way information technology was affecting business processes. ![]() The idea of re-engineering was first propounded in an article in Harvard Business Review in July–August 1990 by Michael Hammer (see article), then a professor of computer science at MIT. ![]() ![]() ![]() After graduating from Yale University with a degree in American Studies, she moved to New York City, where she worked as a cheesemonger and book editor. With a love like this, nothing else matters.Īnica Mrose Rissi grew up on an island off the coast of Maine, where her penchant for telling and collecting stories began. Because Jo doesn’t see how good Aiden is for Betts. Destined to become an us.īetts has only ever kept one secret from her best friend, Jo, but suddenly there’s a long list of things she won’t tell her, things Jo wouldn’t understand. Betts already knows the two of them are infinite. When Betts meets Aiden at the candy store where she works, their connection is like a sugar rush to the heart. ![]() ![]() Sidi – A beautiful, yet somewhat egotistical village girl who is wooed by both Baroka and Lakunle.she was also the village belle. Lakunle – The progressive and absurdly arrogant Westernised teacher. At 62 years of age, he has already sired 63 children.He is also the son. A crafty individual, he is the Lion referred to in the title. It is divided into three parts morning, noon, and night.īaroka – The Balè or viceroyal chieftain of Ilujinle, a Yoruba village in the realm of the Ibadan clan's kingdom. The play takes place over the span of a day (Sunday). Soyinka emphasises the theme of the corrupted African culture through the play, as well as how the youth should embrace the original African culture. The transcript of the play was first published in 1962 by Oxford University Press. Lakunle is portrayed as the civilized antithesis of Baroka and unilaterally attempts to modernize his community and change its social conventions for no reason other than the fact that he can. ![]() ![]() ![]() It chronicles how Baroka, the lion, fights with the modern Lakunle over the right to marry Sidi, the titular Jewel. The Lion and the Jewel is a play by Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka that was first performed in 1959. ![]() ![]() Philadelphia was built between the Delaware River and Schuylkill River in the west. This chapter discusses the need for a massive water supply in order for any settlement to thrive. 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"Our Missing Hearts" would be a perfect book club selection, lending itself to questions from how to teach our children to create a better world when we have failed to do so and how we can confront injustice in our own communities.īefore you dismiss the book as too close to the America you might know, remember this: Ng is writing. The New York Times bestseller, a deeply heart-wrenching novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child. ![]() The way she writes about motherhood – about what you know and don’t know about your children, and their expressions “part them and part the person they loved most” – has you nodding along knowingly and gaining insight into your own feelings as a parent. Ng’s paragraphs are built with sentences so lovely and lyrical you likely will find yourself marking passages in every chapter to share with others. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What Doctorow and Wang really want readers to come away with, however, is an appreciation and awareness of labor practices in the wider world, the politics that shape them and the activism that can change them. Warning: this post contains spoilers for In Real LifeĪimed more or less at a young adult audience, it's about a lot of things - being a young woman in 2014, being a woman gamer, MMOs, online friendships, acceptance and internet culture. ![]() It's about a 16-year-old named Anda and her adventures as part of a woman-only clan in a popular MMO (called "Coursegold Online") based not-so-subtly on World of Warcraft. In Real Life ( IRL) is a new graphic novel from Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang. ![]() ![]() I have only one thing to say about this book: WOW! 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When it informs Earth of its discovery, every species of the Five Galaxies set off in pursuit of it to extract the fleet position. ![]() ![]() ![]() From its voyage on the edge of our galaxy, the Streaker, spaceship composed almost exclusively of Neo-Dolphins, discovered an abandoned fleet of vessels, each of them as big as a moon. ![]() ![]() ![]() With down-to-earth wit, Michael chronicles the unusual ventures that took him to nearly every continent, from eBay to Paris auction house and into the lives of celebrities and poseurs. ![]() Millions of dollars worth of Birkins later, Michael had become one of eBay's most successful entrepreneurs-and a Robin Hood to thousands of desperate rich women. But soon the resourceful Michael discovered the truth about the waiting list and figured out the secret to getting Herm s to part with one of these precious bags. 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