I was actually a bit embarrassed in parts of it. This is a very adult book with adult situations. Yes, there were some slow parts, but overall it was a great listen. I listened to it over the course of 2.5 days, and it was really a good listen. Yes, it really had me hooked after the first 10-15 mins. Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting? That is what happened for me, I just got lost in the story. The sign of a good performance is that you totally get lost in the story and you don't have to figure out the characters or who is talking. What about David Stifel’s performance did you like? I'm not one of those people that listen to a story and try to guess what will happen next, I just go with the flow and for the most part, it works for me. Yes, some parts were definitely predictable, but other parts. Well, it kept me guessing the entire time. Half way through, I started thinking of the store as the typical evil corporation. It's part thriller, part mystery, and part paranormal. Where does The Store rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
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– Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope, 2003 On feminism: Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, reveling in our differences this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community. – Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope, 2003ĭominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination. – Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations, 1994 On community: The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others. The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. – Communion: The Search for Female Love, 2002īut many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin. The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. It wasn’t as emotional as I thought it would’ve been, but it had moments I couldn’t help but cry while reading them! Unable to stand by the sidelines and watch their shared loved ones in pain, Julie is torn between spilling the truth about her calls with Sam and risking their connection and losing him forever. However, keeping her otherworldly calls with Sam a secret isn’t easy, especially when Julie witnesses the suffering Sam’s family is going through. But hearing Sam’s voice makes her fall for him all over again, and with each call it becomes harder to let him go. In a miraculous turn of events, Julie’s been given a second chance at goodbye. 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The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. But her childhood nemesis won't set her free without a service. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. The result is a heart-pounding epic science fantasy.īrought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants. Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth, first in The Locked Tomb Trilogy, unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. 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More than five hundred years after Machiavelli wrote The Prince, his landmark treatise on the pragmatic application of power remains a pivot point for debates on political thought. Even in the midst of hatred and violence, however, Katie finds reason to hope. Her arrival tips the precarious balance, and the feud erupts anew. She arrives in Hope Springs, Wyoming Territory, a town sharply divided between the Americans who have settled there, with their deep hatred of the Irish, and the Irish immigrants who have come searching for a place to call home. Now a woman grown, Katie has left Ireland for America and the promise of earning money enough to return home again and plead for her family’s forgiveness. “An engaging and heart-warming story.” -Julianne Donaldson, bestselling author of Edenbrooke Though she was only a child during the darkest days of Ireland’s Great Famine, Katie Macauley feels responsible for the loss of her family’s land and the death of her sister. 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