6/30/2023 0 Comments Gypsy Girl by Kathryn James![]() ![]() ![]() The Guardian Online * The Guardian Online * Sammy-Jo is a likable heroine and the author has set her story so that the reader gains an appreciation of the culture of the travelling people and how times have changed for them in recent decades. I would recommend the book to girls, aged 9-14. ![]() I give this book five stars out of five, mainly for the humour and teenage sarcasm of our heroine, Sammy-Jo. All you need is love, friendship and a brave spirit. It also makes you realise that you don't even need a permanent home. This book shows you that travelling people are not so different from other people. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Platos apology![]() ![]() ![]() From me you will hear the whole truth, though not, by Zeus, gentlemen, expressed in embroidered and stylized phrases like theirs, but things spoken at random and expressed in the first words that come to mind, for I put my trust in the justice of what I say, and let none of you expect anything else. ![]() If they mean that, I would agree that I am an orator, but not after their manner, for indeed, as I say, practically nothing they said was true. That they were not ashamed to be immediately proved wrong by the facts, when I show myself not to be an accomplished speaker at all, that I thought was most shameless on their part-unless indeed they call an accomplished speaker the man who speaks the truth. Of the many lies they told, one in particular surprised me, namely that you should be careful not to be deceived by an accomplished speaker like me. And yet, hardly anything of what they said is true. I do not know, men of Athens, how my accusers affected you as for me, I was almost carried away in spite of myself, so persuasively did they speak. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Pornland by Gail Dines![]() ![]() To differentiate their products in a glutted market, producers have created profitable niche products-like teen sex, torture porn, and gonzo-in order to entice a generation of desensitized users. As porn culture has become absorbed into pop culture, a new wave of entrepreneurs are creating porn that is even more hard-core, violent, sexist, and racist. ![]() ![]() But, as Dines shows, today's porn is strikingly different from yesterday's Playboy. Astonishingly, the average age of first viewing porn is now 11.5 years for boys, and with the advent of the Internet, it's no surprise that young people are consuming more porn than ever. In Pornland -the culmination of her life's work-Dines takes an unflinching look at porn and its affect on our lives. ![]() Students and educators describe her work as "life changing." She attends industry conferences, interviews producers and performers, and speaks to hundreds of men and women each year about their experience with porn. Professor Gail Dines has written about and researched the porn industry for over two decades. ![]() ![]() ![]() Your kind is almost unheard of outside of the realm of Irish legend and folklore.” A connection that could still hold some truth to it in ancestry if the reddish tints of her hair were a clue. “Lydia Martin, is it not? You are an exceptionally rare treat. there are more pressing matters to attend liked this for a starter.you’ve been kept in the dark for far too long.don’t laugh when i tell you, all right? promise?. ![]() they thought you’d be better off not knowing.there’s something i should have told you a long time ago.it’s safer if you never know the truth.when was the last time someone held you?.you don’t have to hide this any longer.i won’t judge you, no matter what you say.you should have told me from the start. |