History will remember them as āØš roommates šāØ THE GHOSTKEEPER, out now: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706474...
Yeah, Iāve taken a lot more formal Russian than my partner, but I always said his grocery store Russian was much better than mine since he did most of the shopping and also looked up specific words for that in advance and then went and used them.
This is part of why the idea of āfluencyā in a second language isnāt necessarily usefulāat one point my Russian was very good for what I needed it for (research, shopping, watching TV), but I still needed a dictionary for Tolstoy because I was never traveling by carriage or wearing 19th clothes.
Hurricane Maria was also a preview of their response to COVID. It sucks that itās rarely discussed on a national level now.
It reminds me of how I know ardent horror fans who have anxiety, and I can read plenty of horror if it doesnāt touch much on my particular CPTSD triggers, and can find it helpful for thinking about my own trauma recovery.
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I reset my Kickstarter password just to back this as fast as possible. And I really hate resetting passwords, which tells you how much I appreciate these writers and their lens on the world.
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One of the most productive comparisons between Nazi Germany and Stalinās USSR is that both fostered these kinds of cultures of denunciation. Itās back again in Russia because of the war. Its resurgence here haunts me and every historian I know.
Yeah, to prove your point even more, I am usually only interested in author blurbs if I also know their taste well because they do a lot of book talk online (like, Sarah Maclean blurbs are useful because I listen to Fated Mates).
A while ago I mentioned on here that I had an accessible piece on 'woke' that does an excellent job with the history and cultural origins - people asked me for the link and then I totally forgot until right now because that's how my brain works. Here you go! (Source: NAACP Legal Defense Fund)
The Power of LanguageHow Woke Went From "Black" to "Bad"By Ishena RobinsonDeputy Editorial Director"We must fight āthe wokeā in our schools. We must fight āthe wokeā in