![]() ![]() ![]() Genre: Modernism/Stream-of-consciousness.This is an attempt to represent the multiple, overlapping, differently focused, and expressed layers of consciousness that James Joyce foresaw when he decided to center all of the action in his novel ‘Ulysses’ (1922) on a single day. The action in each of the two longer sections, “The Window” and “The Lighthouse,” unfolds over a single day. ‘To the Lighthouse’ is a very meticulous body of work. Similar to ‘To the Lighthouse,’ the focus of consciousness in them swings from one character to the next, from their current impressions of the outside world to their inner lives, associations, and memories. Dalloway’ (1925) had previously put to the test what readers thought fiction to be like. In her two earlier books, ‘Jacob’s Room’ (1922) and ‘Mrs. Virginia Woolf published her fifth book, ‘To the Lighthouse,’ in 1927. ![]()
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![]() That all changes when Roy gets falsely accused of rape and sentenced to 12 years in prison. They seemed to have it all: good careers, a decent house, and a lot of love for one another (although their marriage wasn’t perfect). Roy and Celestial are newlyweds living in Atlanta. Our daughter Jenn recommended that we read this deeply moving story about how one incident of injustice reshapes the lives of a black couple in the South and eventually dooms their relationship. Although it’s fictional, the story is about the question at the heart of the anxiety Melinda and I saw that day: how do you rebuild your life after prison? I couldn’t help but think about that conversation when I was reading An American Marriage by Tayari Jones. Another mentioned that it felt like he was a car about to be dropped into the middle of a racetrack where the other cars are already going 200 miles per hour. One man told us he was scared to re-enter society after so many years behind bars. ![]() Although most were looking forward to leaving prison behind, some were clearly anxious about it. The most memorable part was the discussion we had with some of the inmates about transitioning back into society. I’d never been to a prison before, and it was an eye-opening experience. ![]() ![]() A couple years ago, Melinda and I visited a state prison in Georgia as part of our foundation’s work on U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Together with an unexpected corporeal figura, an old identity remains. These are hybrids: not quite the same as they were before, but not completely different either. They can never stop reshaping women and men into other animals, plants, stars, or springs. Their truly favourite occupation, however, is the transformation of human beings into non-human, or, at least non-anthropomorphic creatures. Bending people’s will, directing their agency and manufacturing events are, for them, an incessant activity. They love, suffer, get angry, and take revenge. They are over-occupied and worried for all human affairs: they help, advise, punish, and reward. The gods live in a beautiful town, a celestial Rome. Finally, Phaeton, the unwary child of another god, the Sun, almost reduced the universe to ashes. Later, a divine collective decision brought it back into being. The world emerged from a rough, undifferentiated mass, thanks to a god and a “better nature.” Jupiter destroyed it, in anger. Ovid’s Metamorphoses is a story of new bodies. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kids need some depth, some meat to the stories and characters they can believe in and root for. Just because you are writing to a YA audience does not mean you have to get into pop culture to portray your meanings. I did enjoy the action in the book, they were on a break-neck pace throughout the entire book.What i find disturbing is that this is yet another book that is dumbed down. It seems that so many books are vying for either ultra-action or shock the pants off your readers, and this book attempted to do both. The premises for this book really grabbed my attention, so I dove in.I won't say that I was disappointed, but I will say that I found the book very lacking. I dove into this book like so many others with the hope that "this will be the one." I'm going through a bit of a rut with my reading material lately, and I'm desperately trying to find that book that will zing up my reading life. ![]() |