Rode Hard, Put Up Wet (Rough Riders #2)
Book
Workin up a hot, sticky sweat is pure pleasure with a hard-ridin cowboy or two. Struggling stock...
Raptor
Tabletop Game
Mamma Raptor has escaped from her run and laid her eggs in the park. A team of scientists must...
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Forbidden Island
Tabletop Game
Forbidden Island is a visually stunning cooperative board game. Instead of winning by competing with...
Veiled Planet (Hidden World Trilogy #1)
Book
She comes from a spacefaring race. His culture is bound to the earth. Is conflict inevitable or can...
Science Fiction Romantic Elements
ClareR (5686 KP) rated Hello Beautiful in Books
May 9, 2023
There are most certainly echoes of Little Women, but if you’ve never read it, it won’t make much difference to your enjoyment. You might want to try Little Women at some point though!
William Waters grows up in a very dysfunctional family, and is drawn into the Padavano family when he marries Julia - it’s a family he comes to love.
With themes of mental illness, family loyalties, love in all of its forms and loss, it’s a big read for only around 400 pages. The story just sped by, and I was bereft when I turned the last page.
I loved the world of William Waters and the Padavano sisters.
Highly recommended.
Shooter Assist
Sports and Education
App
This app was created by a US Army Soldier who served on his company's Sniper team in Afghanistan as...
Draw Your Weapons
Book
A single book might not change the world. But this utterly original meditation on art and war might...
philosophy social sciences
Obscura Camera
Photo & Video and Entertainment
App
There's always a better camera than the one you have with you. And that's Obscura. Designed with...
The Endless Shimmering by And So I Watch You From Afar
Album Watch
Instinct. We all know what it is, but are hard pressed to acknowledge just how it guides us....
rock
Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy in Books
Nov 16, 2017
Coates is one of the first to show up to discuss all three contemporary themes: the man, the community, national identity. He critiques respectability politics. He writes about mass incarceration. He writes about Michelle Obama and Chicago's South Side. He writes about how Barack Obama was exceptional, in many senses, and about the paradoxical limits of the first black president's power to address race and racism. He writes about the qualitative difference between white economic prospects and black economic prospects, thanks to discriminatory policies promulgated by the government even during progressive times, and about how, in his view, reparations would be the only way to redress the problem.
An air of resignation begins to bleed into Coates' writing even before his last essay, coming into the final years of the Obama administration. It is an eloquent eulogy to the struggles that African Americans are facing and increasingly fearing today.