![]() Sure, you can read Obsession without reading the Lux series, but I highly advise against it. This is a stand alone novel that is an adult spin-off of the Lux Series You do not need to read a Lux book to read Obsession and vice versa. In Goodreads, the first part of the blurb starts like this: I need to address something before I start this review. But are the aliens and the government the biggest threats to Serena’s life… or is it Hunter? Soon he’s doing the unthinkable-breaking the rules he’s lived by, going against the government to keep Serena safe. Hunter stirs Serena’s temper and her lust despite their differences. Who would? But then she witnesses her friend’s murder at the hands of what can only be an alien, thrusting her into a world that will kill to protect their secret. Serena Cross didn’t believe her best friend when she claimed to have seen the son of a powerful senator turn into something… unnatural. ![]() That is, until he’s saddled with something he’s never had to do before: protect a human from his mortal enemy. ![]() ![]() And the Department of Defense has him firmly in their grasp, which usually doesn’t chafe too badly because he gets to kill bad guys. Goodreads page This review is spoiler-free. Genre: new adult, paranormal/supernatural, romance ![]()
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![]() ![]() Sarah Weinman's superb book called "The Real Lolita" has just made conversations about the novel even more complicated. And for those of us who admire Nabokov's dazzling literary gifts, any celebration of the novel's artistry also must acknowledge the corruption that artistry brings to life. If you want to ignite discussion in an American high school or college classroom these days, try assigning "Lolita." In this age of trigger warnings and the #MeToo movement, it's hard for students to get past those first lines and the moral questions they raise. ![]() He's also a middle-aged sexual predator fantasizing about defiling the 12-year-old Dolores Hayes, aka Lolita. ![]() Humbert of course is not only the most charmingly unreliable narrator ever to slither his way through the pages of a novel. Lolita, the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap at three on the teeth - Lolita. (Reading) Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins, my sin, my soul. Here's Nabokov's narrator, Humbert Humbert, speaking in Paragraph 1 about the object of his desire. But Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 masterpiece "Lolita" has no problem making that claim stick. ![]() MAUREEN CORRIGAN, BYLINE: Few novels can claim to offend readers in their very first lines. Our book critic Maureen Corrigan recommends a new book called "The Real Lolita" that sheds light on the novel's disturbing influences. Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Lolita" is a staple of the American Library Association's Banned or Challenged Books (ph) list. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, in New York, a Category 5-plus superstorm pushes through the narrows between Staten Island and Brooklyn, devastating waterside areas from Long Island to Manhattan. ![]() Vast pumping systems keep the water out of most of Holland, but the residents of Bangladesh and the Nile Delta enjoy no such protection. Displaced victims of North Africa's drought establish a new colony on Greenland's southern tip, one of the few inhabitable areas not already crowded with environmental refugees. On the edge of Greenland, rivers ten times the size of the Amazon are gushing off the ice sheet into the north Atlantic. Picture yourself a few decades from now, in a world in which average temperatures are three degrees higher than they are now. An eye-opening and vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist, by the highly acclaimed author of 'High Tide'. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The narrator says that he suffers from "nervousness" that forces "excessive sharpness of the senses". Nevertheless, these extremely detailed actions ironically confirm his insanity instead his sanity. He uses evidence of the methodical precision with which he did this murder. Rather than being concerned about his crimes or the consequences of his actions, the narrator is obsessed with proving his sanity. ![]() The narrative develops as the unnamed narrator reveals his crimes to the readers. But the guilt breaks him inside and he finally confesses his crime to the officers at the scene.Īs in many Poe's other main characters, the narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" is unreliable. He manages to come up with a plan and one night ends up killing a man. He is obsessively worried about it and decides to kill the man to close his eye forever. He is hypersensitive to sounds and images and is very bothered by the old man's ugly eye. He is aware of his craziness and crazy thoughts, yet he justifies them as healthy because he can still strategize and think smartly. The unnamed narrator is the central character of this short story. ![]() ![]() after a video emerged of a white police officer killing a black man named George Floyd. In May 2020, protests erupted all over the U.S. Meticulously researched and deeply humane, Free Speech demonstrates how much we have gained from this principle-and how much we stand to lose without it. Yet the desire to restrict speech, too, is a constant, and he explores how even its champions can be led down this path when the rise of new and contrarian voices challenge power and privilege of all stripes. Wells and modern-day digital activists-Mchangama reveals how the free exchange of ideas underlies all intellectual achievement and has enabled the advancement of both freedom and equality worldwide. Through captivating stories of free speech’s many defenders-from the ancient Athenian orator Demosthenes and the ninth-century freethinker al-Rāzī, to the anti-lynching crusader Ida B. ![]() ![]() In Free Speech, Jacob Mchangama traces the riveting legal, political, and cultural history of this idea. Today, in democracies and authoritarian states around the world, it is on the retreat. ![]() But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Hailed as the “first freedom,” free speech is the bedrock of democracy. A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today ![]() |