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Unlocking the World: Education in an Ethic of Hospitality

Claudia W. Ruitenberg

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"Unlocking the World "proposes hospitality as a guiding ethic for education. Based on the work of...

Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2379 KP) rated It Takes Two to Mango in Books

Feb 15, 2023 (Updated Feb 15, 2023)

Plum’s Reset Gets Off to a Rocky Start

Plum Lockhart has lost her job at a travel magazine, so she reluctantly takes a job arranging vacation rentals at a resort in the Caribbean. However, her new co-worker is a jerk, and she struggls to get her first booking. When she does, tragedy strikes when one of the guests is found dead by the pool. Did Plum make the right decision by moving?

When this book begins, Plum is extremely unlikable, so much so that I almost put the book down about 30 pages in. Even when she arrives on the island, she doesn’t give up her ego and entitled attitude. The other characters we meet started pulling me in, both the ones I liked and the ones I didn’t. When the murder kicks in, I really got into the story, which had some good twists. I loved the resort setting. The expected character growth was good as well. I’m actually surprised based on my initial reaction, but I am planning to continue the series. If the setting appeals to you, consider starting this series. Just be prepared for how obnoxious Plum is at the beginning.

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S/He: Sex & Gender in Hispanic Cultures

Debra D. Andrist

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Hierarchies and disparities based on sex and gender have characterised nearly all hominid societies...

Ross (3284 KP) rated The Change 2: New York: The Queen of Coney Island in Books

Nov 2, 2020

The Change 2: New York: The Queen of Coney Island

Guy Adams | 2017 | Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult (YA)

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Very odd

The second book adds no real substance to what exactly happened in "The Change", I think I am just going to have to accept that "things changed".
In the first New York book, we meet Grace, who is trying to reunite with her brother, an inmate of Rikers before The Change. Trying to get safe passage up the Hudson river, she has to ask the Queen of Coney Island for a boat and permission. On the way to do so, she meets up with God (as you do), and enters the former Coney Island amusement park. It is populated with odd people and creatures, some of whom are real, some of whom are formerly real and brought back to life due to the change, others are physical embodiments of ideas and film characters.
Grace and God are given a seemingly simple task to achieve before being given safe passage, but it inevitably turns out to be a very difficult and dangerous one.
The book has a very different feel to the first, London-based one, with a very odd Alice in Wonderland feel to it, with crazy characters helping the one seemingly normal one to her goal.
The one thing that is consistent with the London book is the feeling of wanting more at the end. This time the character had a goal and (spoiler alert) she didn't achieve it by the end of the book.