5/31/2023 0 Comments Valley of the dolls book about![]() ![]() ![]() The characterisation is flaky, and the relationships two-dimensional. It covers the fortunes and friendship, but mainly the drug addiction, of three women: the prim but outrageously beautiful Anne Welles the Judy Garland-inspired vaudeville star Neely O’Hara and the busty airhead Jennifer North. First published in 1966, it has a status in the Virago canon that means many of us will have read it young, as a necessary classic, in that interim phase as a reader where you consume books like air, not stopping to interrogate their quality. T he first thing you notice, rereading Valley of the Dolls is how badly it functions as fiction. ![]()
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![]() In an era when sex education was meager and birth control difficult to obtain, more than 1.5 million babies were given up for adoption. ![]() Drawing on government statistics, sociology, history, medical and legal texts, as well as personal journals and the popular press, she surrounds their stories with descriptions of social mores during the three postwar decades. Narratives from 18 of them appear here, with shorter selections from many others. Oral history featuring the voices of women who gave up their babies for adoption from 1945 to 1973, put into context by the author’s exposition on the mood of the times.įessler (Photography/Rhode Island School of Design), a video-installation artist and adoptee who has created a number of autobiographical works on adoption, recorded some one hundred women. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Riftwar saga book order![]() ![]() ![]() With the Kingdom of the Isles at peace, Prince Arutha can at last look forward to marrying the Princess Anita in the city of Krondor.But the capital in the west harbours many shadows. Discover where the story begins.The world had changed even before I discovered the foreign ship wrecked on the shore below Crydee Castle, but it was the harbinger of the chaos and death that was coming to our door. ![]() In the westernmost province of the Kingdom of the Isles, upon the world of Midkemia, an orphan kitchen boy named Pug was made apprentice to the magician Kulgan.Here starts an adventure that will span lifetimes and worlds. With Tomas he must scour the world – and beyond – to find the one person with enough power to give them a chance. Arutha travels north to confront the Dark Elves, but without help, Pug knows that Arutha’s forces face slaughter. The battle may be over, but war is coming…The Kingdom forces may have won the first conflict but the enemy has a strong grip on Midkemia and invasion now seems inevitable. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments The sword in the stone 1938![]() But White’s retelling of the legend is the pinnacle of Arthurian fantasy. ![]() Start with some basic one-volume version of the story, see a movie or two, follow up with “The Winter King” by Cornwell, if you like history novels with warlords and battles, or “The Mists of Avalon”, if you are into feminist deconstruction of history and literature. I wouldn’t recommend it as a first encounter with Arturian fantasy. There is humour and songs, just as in animated version, but it’s also slow paced, written in very demanding language and very long. They tell the story of king Arthur, from childhood to (spoiler alert) hist death in battle with Mordred. There is also “The Book of Merlyn”, published posthumously, book that I prefer to pretend do not exist. But it’s just 10% of shiny stuff taken from the top of the novel that inspired it – the first part of “The Once and Future King” tetralogy by Terence Hanbury White.Ī tetralogy consist of “The Sword in the Stone”, “The Queen of Air and Darkness”, “The Ill-Made Kinght” and “The Candle in the Wind”. It’s a nice watch, it’s deeper than most Disney movies even. ![]() ![]() Have you seen „The Sword in the Stone”? Nice Disney classic, „n ot much plot but great for little kids.” as an imdb reviewer noticed. ![]() ![]() Bland offers achievable, science-based solutions that can alleviate these common conditions and offers a roadmap for a lifetime of wellness. Outlining the reasons why we suffer chronic diseases from asthma and diabetes to obesity, arthritis and cancer to a host of other ailments, Dr. Bland explains what Functional Medicine is and what it can do for you. While advances in modern science have nearly doubled our lifespans in only four generations, our quality of life has not reached its full potential. Bland explains what Functional Medicine is and what it can do for you. As Bland teaches us, no two people have the identical form of any disease, so with the right personaliz. Bland lays out a road map for good health by helping us understand these processes and the root causes of chronic illness. Worse, only treating symptoms leads us down the path of further illness. Leveraging a lifetime on the cutting edge of research and practice, Dr. Disease Delusion: Conquering the Causes of Chronic Illness for a Healthier, Longer, and Happier Life. ![]() Managing chronic diseases accounts for three quarters of our total healthcare costs, because we're masking these illnesses with pills and temporary treatments, rather than addressing their underlying causes, he argues. ![]() Jeffrey Bland has been on the cutting edge of Functional Medicine, which seeks to pinpoint and prevent the cause of illness, rather than treat its symptoms. ![]() |