The book’s subtitle isAn Ambiguous Utopia, and that makes more sense the further along Shevek goes, as we’re seeing not a Perfect Society arrayed against an Imperfect one, but two societies that both have their flaws. Personally, I’ve long stopped believing that any human society can be ...
Perhaps it starts with book-based essays and college papers: with the constant call to analyze, quantify, and measure what we’re reading. This is, to some extent, unavoidable. But it doesn’t end there: the social media world encourages us not to do things for their own sake, but rath...
All women took his measure and often made a play. According to his sister, it was basic biology. He had the kind of power and resources that appealed to fertile women looking for a mate to provide for her young. And that was what Sorcha ought to expect if he was indeed the father ...
versions of ourselves. In one version, Nora is an Olympic swimmer. In another, she is a glaciologist. The novel reveals in a beautiful way that the potential we all have within us is impossible to measure, and that we have the possibility to be happy in many different versions of life....
t stop hovering over her, her father is consumed by his job as president of Mayhaven, where she works as a summer camp counselor and things are not as rosy as they seem, and her neurodivergent little brother is struggling to live with a measure of independence not everyone is ready for....
In this paper we show the potential of Goodreads reader ratings to identify the impact of books beyond academia. As a unique altmetric data source, Goodreads can allow scholarly authors from the social sciences and humanities to measure the wider impact of their books....
Example #2:Artistically as writers, we need to spend time reading great works and even not such great works to see what doesn’t measure up. We read to “feel” when a writer’s pacing reflects what is actually happening in the story. We read to “hear” how the words fall on the ...
A world of anxiety and angst – wrapped in feelings of wondering when the bombs will drop, or when the other shoe will fall. And although I’d like to point fingers here and maybe even call a few not-so-pretty names, my daughter sits beside me as I write this, an ear to measure ...
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With the illuminating rays of the creative Leo Sun conjoined with Mercury retrograde (9:58 pm), we may be privy to a greater measure of mental clarity at this time, which could result in some kind of turning point, with respect to our thinking or understanding, especially in relation to ...