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author: Paul Morand
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average rating: 3.33
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]]> <![CDATA[How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation]]> 35707049 An all-star collection of essays about activism and hope, edited by bestselling YA author Maureen Johnson.

Now, more than ever, young people are motivated to make a difference in a world they're bound to inherit. They're ready to stand up and be heard - but with much to shout about, where they do they begin? What can I do? How can I help?

How I Resist is the response, and a way to start the conversation. To show readers that they are not helpless, and that anyone can be the change. A collection of essays, songs, illustrations, and interviews about activism and hope, How I Resist features an all-star group of contributors, including John Paul Brammer, Libba Bray, Lauren Duca, Modern Family's Jesse Tyler Ferguson and his husband Justin Mikita, Alex Gino, Hebh Jamal, Malinda Lo, Dylan Marron, Hamilton star Javier Muñoz, Rosie O'Donnell, Junauda Petrus, Jodi Picoult, Jason Reynolds, Karuna Riazi, Maya Rupert, Dana Schwartz, Dan Sinker, Ali Stroker, Jonny Sun (aka @jonnysun), Sabaa Tahir, Shaina Taub, Daniel Watts, Jennifer Weiner, Jacqueline Woodson, and more, all edited and compiled by New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson.

In How I Resist, readers will find hope and support through voices that are at turns personal, funny, irreverent, and instructive. Not just for a young adult audience, this incredibly impactful collection will appeal to readers of all ages who are feeling adrift and looking for guidance.

How I Resist is the kind of book people will be discussing for years to come and a staple on bookshelves for generations.

]]> 224 Maureen Johnson 1250168368 Ioana 0 3.85 2018 How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation
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]]> <![CDATA[The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure]]> 13592074 The Feminist Porn Book brings together for the first time writings by feminists in the adult industry and research by feminist porn scholars. This book investigates not only how feminists understand pornography, but also how feminists do porn—that is, direct, act in, produce, and consume one of the world's most lucrative and growing industries. With original contributions by Susie Bright, Candida Royalle, Betty Dodson, Nina Hartley, Buck Angel, and more, The Feminist Porn Book updates the debates of the porn wars of the 1980s, which sharply divided the women's movement, and identifies pornography as a form of expression and labor in which women and other minorities produce power and pleasure.

Tristan Taormino is an award-winning author, columnist, editor, sex educator, and feminist pornographer. She is the author of seven books including The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women and Opening Up. She runs the adult film production company Smart Ass Productions and is an exclusive director for Vivid Entertainment.

Celine Parreñas Shimizu is an associate professor of film and performance studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and founding editor of Camera Obscura. She is the author of Straitjacket Sexualities and the 2009 Cultural Studies Book Award winning, The Hypersexuality of Race.

Mireille Miller-Young is assistant professor of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her forthcoming book, A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women, Sex Work, and Pornography (Duke University Press) examines African American women’s sex work in the porn industry.]]> 432 Tristan Taormino 155861818X Ioana 0 to-read 3.98 2012 The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure
author: Tristan Taormino
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average rating: 3.98
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]]> <![CDATA[Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic]]> 34322584
Presented here are thirty stories—edited and with an introduction by Tobi Hill-Meyer—that offer revolutionary erotic fantasies by trans people, about trans people, and for trans people at the crossroads of history, biology, anxiety, and love.]]> 320 Tobi Hill-Meyer 0990452875 Ioana 0 to-read 4.00 2017 Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
author: Tobi Hill-Meyer
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average rating: 4.00
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]]> The Philosopher and the Wolf 5590168 ]]> 256 Mark Rowlands 1605980331 Ioana 0 to-read 4.17 2008 The Philosopher and the Wolf
author: Mark Rowlands
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average rating: 4.17
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]]> The Emerald Light in the Air 20575419 These stories, all published in The New Yorker over the last fifteen years, make it clear that Antrim is one of America's most important writers. His work has been praised by his significant contemporaries, including Jonathan Franzen, Thomas Pynchon, Jeffrey Eugenides, and George Saunders, who described The Verificationist as "one of the most pleasure-giving, funny, perverse, complicated, addictive novels of the last twenty years." And here is Antrim's best book the story collection that reveals him as a master of the form.]]> 176 Donald Antrim 0374280932 Ioana 0 to-read 3.70 2014 The Emerald Light in the Air
author: Donald Antrim
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]]> Station Eleven 20170404 An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.

Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end.

Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed.]]> 333 Emily St. John Mandel 0385353308 Ioana 0 4.05 2014 Station Eleven
author: Emily St. John Mandel
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]]> The Road 6288
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.

The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,� are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.]]> 241 Cormac McCarthy 0307265439 Ioana 0 3.99 2006 The Road
author: Cormac McCarthy
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average rating: 3.99
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]]> Styrofoam 6793347
In this tour de force of applied poetics, Reilly casts a "clear dome over the fake snowstorm" of human spirit, and sings the body plastic. If polymers have a destiny, as the ultimate Ideal Material, Reilly be their phenomenologist, synthesizing domains out of "the multiplicity of foam and foam¹s conditions," spirit¹s antithesis to the human comedy, and animal tragedy, of extinction. Can we avoid such an Inferno, say "goodnight styrene," without examining the broken dust of our lingo, the abhorrent force of plasticity? Can poetry be more than Paradise with a plastic garden at the end of it? Let Reilly be our guide through this Purgatory of partial objects, let lux arise from a sea of foam. A solvent book for unabsolvable times.
- Jonathan Skinner

"A vast Sargasso sea of plastic fragments the size of a continent has been discovered in the Pacific Ocean. How do we go about living in what Evelyn Reilly defines as 'our infinite plasticity prosperity plentitude' and still have room for poetry? STYROFOAM might just show us how to do this. It's a wonderful, mad, challenging itinerary"
- John Ashbery.]]> 136 Evelyn Reilly 1931824320 Ioana 4 4.20 2009 Styrofoam
author: Evelyn Reilly
name: Ioana
average rating: 4.20
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[A Brief History of Seven Killings]]> 20893314
Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters—assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts�A Brief History of Seven Killings is the fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time and its bloody aftermath, from the streets and slums of Kingston in the 70s, to the crack wars in 80s New York, to a radically altered Jamaica in the 90s. Brilliantly inventive and stunningly ambitious, this novel is a revealing modern epic that will secure Marlon James� place among the great literary talents of his generation.]]> 688 Marlon James 159448600X Ioana 5 3.91 2014 A Brief History of Seven Killings
author: Marlon James
name: Ioana
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2014
rating: 5
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]]> NW 13537891 NW is a quietly devastating novel of encounters, mercurial and vital, like the city itself.]]> 296 Zadie Smith 0241144140 Ioana 2 3.49 2012 NW
author: Zadie Smith
name: Ioana
average rating: 3.49
book published: 2012
rating: 2
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]]> The Keep 86655
Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results. And as the full horror of their predicament unfolds, a prisoner, in jail for an unnamed crime, recounts an unforgettable story that seamlessly brings the crimes of the past and present into piercing relation.]]> 240 Jennifer Egan 1400043921 Ioana 2 3.47 2006 The Keep
author: Jennifer Egan
name: Ioana
average rating: 3.47
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rating: 2
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]]> Lanark 161037 560 Alasdair Gray 184195120X Ioana 3 4.12 1981 Lanark
author: Alasdair Gray
name: Ioana
average rating: 4.12
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rating: 3
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]]> The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 517188 150 Muriel Spark 0060931736 Ioana 3 3.73 1961 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
author: Muriel Spark
name: Ioana
average rating: 3.73
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Manuscris găsit într-un buzunar şi alte povestiri]]> 7881913
"Intr-o antologie a celor mai valoroase douazeci de povestiri latino-americane ar trebui selectate cinci sau sase de Cortazar... Calitatea sa fundamentala este fantezia, abilitatea de a introduce o realitate subreala sau suprareala pe care cititorul o accepta, gratie talentului autorului, ca lucrul cel mai firesc de pe lume; apoi aceasta neintrecuta prelucrare suprarealista a cotidianului, umorul insolitului � umor in care licareste o ironie blanda �, maiestria in manuirea elementului surpriza si nesfarsita bucurie de a povesti, de a inventa istorii." (Francisco J. Uriz)

"In universul cortazarian, realitatea banala incepe sa se destrame pe nesimtite si sa cedeze unor presiuni ascunse, care o imping spre miraculos, dar fara sa o arunce brusc in el, ci mentinand-o intr-un fel de interstitiu, tensionat si descumpanitor teritoriu in care realul si fantasticul se suprapun fara a se integra" (Mario Varga Llosa)

Cuprins: Casa ocupata � Circe � Portile Paradisului � Scrisori de la mama � Funigei � Continuitatea parcurilor � Fluviul � Menadele � O floare galbena � Dupa ospat � Poveste cu fundal de apa � Axolot � Noaptea, cu fata spre cer � Insula la amiaza � Sfirsitul jocului � Manuscris gasit intr-un buzunar � Sticla in mare � Sfirsit de etapa � Satarsa � Scoala, in timpul noptii � La vreme nepotrivita � Cosmaruri � Jurnal pentru o poveste � Nopti prin misterele Europei � Despre exterminarea crocodililor din Auvergne � Geografii � Sfirsitul lumii sfirsitului]]> 400 Julio Cortázar Ioana 5 4.20 2003 Manuscris găsit într-un buzunar şi alte povestiri
author: Julio Cortázar
name: Ioana
average rating: 4.20
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]]> <![CDATA[Etta and Otto and Russell and James]]> 23249706 I've gone. I've never seen the water, so I've gone there. I will try to remember to come back.

Etta's greatest unfulfilled wish, living in the rolling farmland of Saskatchewan, is to see the sea. And so, at the age of eighty-two she gets up very early one morning, takes a rifle, some chocolate, and her best boots, and begins walking the 2,000 miles to water.

Meanwhile her husband Otto waits patiently at home, left only with his memories. Their neighbour Russell remembers too, but differently - and he still loves Etta as much as he did more than fifty years ago, before she married Otto.]]> 277 Emma Hooper 0241003326 Ioana 5 3.65 2015 Etta and Otto and Russell and James
author: Emma Hooper
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average rating: 3.65
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]]> <![CDATA[The Black Riders and Other Lines]]> 2134411 100 Stephen Crane 189317302X Ioana 4 4.19 1895 The Black Riders and Other Lines
author: Stephen Crane
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average rating: 4.19
book published: 1895
rating: 4
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]]> Friday, or, The Other Island 52905 Friday, winner of the 1967 Grand Prix du Roman of the Académie Française, is a sly, enchanting retelling of the legend of Robinson Crusoe by the man the New Yorker calls "France's best and probably best-known writer." Cast away on a tropical island, Michel Tournier's god-fearing Crusoe sets out to tame it, to remake it in the image of the civilization he has left behind. Alone and against incredible odds, he almost succeeds. Then a mulatto named Friday appears and teaches Robinson that there are, after all, better things in life than civilization.

]]> 240 Michel Tournier 0801855926 Ioana 4 3.83 1967 Friday, or, The Other Island
author: Michel Tournier
name: Ioana
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1967
rating: 4
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]]> Compunere cu paralele inegale 15999473 ("Observator Cultural," no. 640, 07.09.2012)

Iata o poveste de dragoste sau, mai precis, niste povesti de dragoste. Trebuia oare adaugata inca una, intr-un moment cind rafturile librariilor si bibliotecilor sint deja prea aglomerate cu produsele de gen, cind romanul „cu apa de trandafiri� de la chiosc sau din colectiile populare isi vede audienta serios concurata de foiletoanele ilustrate sau de telenovele? Intrebarea va disparea imediat ce se va vedea cit de putin conventionale sint toate povestile � mai degraba in aqua-forte decit cu apa de trandafiri � si, mai ales, cit de departe de toate acestea se plaseaza intentiile autorului.

La nivelul cel mai superficial, Compunere cu paralele inegale se situeaza in Romania sfirsitului anilor �80, sub un regim dictatorial minat pe ascuns de propriile excese si a carui critica ar fi parut deja redundanta. Simultan, actiunea cartii se desfasoara intr-o antichitate departata, in cadrul idilic al insulei Lesbos. Scurt-circuitele contextelor vor produce fireste scintei cind surescitante, cind exasperante. Partea greceasca este o simpla reluare a romanului lui Longos, Daphnis si Chloe: doi tineri se iubesc, senin si inocent, in ciuda obstacolelor exterioare care tulbura linistea existentei lor pastorale. Gelozia unui rival grobian, incursiunile piratilor sau rapirea pastoritei � nimic nu are pina la urma consecinte grave, gratie protectiei zeului Pan. Cartea n-ar fi decit o simpla traducere din greaca daca autorul din zilele noastre (sa-l numim Craciun, ca sa simplificam lucrurile) n-ar fi decis sa perfectioneze genul pastoral adaugindu-i de la el, cu o subtila doza de umor, descrieri: peisaje, plante si flori care, paradoxal, ne par a fi cele mai autentice pasaje ale acestui arhetip al romanului de dragoste. Nici macar intriga nu a fost probabil imaginata de Longos in secolul al doilea, dar Craciun a stiut sa o retranscrie perfect. Chiar daca are un rol crucial in Compunere cu paralele inegale, povestea antica nu ocupa nici macar o treime din carte. Restul se petrece in zilele noastre, intr-un Occident urban nu prea idilic. Viata cotidiana e ingreunata de raritatea anumitor produse de prima necesitate, de institutii publice dezarticulate si de „descurcatul� unora care stiu cum sa se puna bine cu puterea. Fascinatia exercitata de simbolurile luxului si de obiectele venite din strainatate � magazin nemtesc, parfum frantuzesc, bauturi si tigari americane � tine loc de ideal pentru o populatie care nu mai are de fapt nici unul.

Sa revenim un pic in trecut. Raul provocat de controlul constiintelor si de reprimarea a tot ceea ce nu era aliniat a marcat in Romania o intreaga generatie. A fost cauza exilului lui Paul Goma, al lui Dumitru Tepeneag si al multor altora. Operele lor ne-au uimit pe noi, traitori in tari care nu cunoscusera acest tip de piedici in calea libertatii de expresie. De fapt, fara sa cunoastem rezistenta interioara a unor scriitori ramasi in tara, ale caror opere nu ajungeau pina la noi, aveam totusi constiinta unei disparitati intre scrierile romanesti aparute in traducere la inceputul anilor �70. Camera de alaturi (1971) de Paul Goma ne deschidea brutal ochii asupra unei realitati infatisate fara menajamente si ne facea sa ne inghitim laudele pregatite pentru singura tara din Pactul de la Varsovia care refuzase sa se alature tancurilor rusesti care striveau Primavara de la Praga in timpul verii lui 1968. Prima carte a lui Tepeneag cunoscuta noua apartinea unei alte categorii si avea alta tinuta. Se numea, semnificativ, Exercices d’attente (1972). Asteptind dezghetul, asteptind publicarea cartilor lor la edituri in mod necesar oficiale, intr-o tara care le considera neconforme cu linia oficiala, asteptind, Tepeneag si prietenii sai, exilati sau nu, explorau o lume onirica unde personajele se pierdeau in peripetii absurde si cosmaresti. Refuzul transcrierii realiste a vietii este o veche si profunda traditie romaneasca, de la Caragiale si Urmuz, la inceputul secolului, pina la suprarealismul lui M. Blecher si Gellu Naum, trecind mai ales prin Tzara si Ionesco. Efortul oniric devenea astfel, fara indoiala, mai durabil, chiar daca impactul imediat asupra publicului era mai mic decit cel al unei denuntari explicite.

In acest stadiu se afla literatura romana in momentul aparitiei unei noi generatii de scriitori, nascuti toti in anii �50. Puterea isi daduse intre timp seama ca avangarda istorica romaneasca, intre timp exilata sau redusa la tacere, era admirata de o lume intreaga. S-a hotarit, asadar, recuperarea ei. Astfel, dupa ce se incercase demolarea faimoasei Coloane de la Tirgu-Jiu, se permitea o celebrare a centenarului sculptorului Brancusi. Ceea ce insemna patrunderea unei modernitati care nu se potrivea deloc cu controlul sever al spiritului si al vietii cotidiene � caci, pina la urma, poezia lui Gellu Naum sau pictura lui Brauner sint totusi mai exaltante decit un plan cincina...]]> Gheorghe Crăciun Ioana 5 4.46 1988 Compunere cu paralele inegale
author: Gheorghe Crăciun
name: Ioana
average rating: 4.46
book published: 1988
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]]> <![CDATA[Marea trancaneala. Eseu despre lumea lui Caragiale]]> 17448683 130 Mircea Iorgulescu Ioana 4 4.27 1988 Marea trancaneala. Eseu despre lumea lui Caragiale
author: Mircea Iorgulescu
name: Ioana
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1988
rating: 4
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]]> Tobit 11437415 245 Åžtefan Agopian Ioana 5 3.71 1983 Tobit
author: Åžtefan Agopian
name: Ioana
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1983
rating: 5
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