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Meles Meles _arlos_u — "That's what Christmas is all about Charlie Brown" A lesson we all could use to remember

Apparel Lovers apparel_and_lovers — Laugh out loud funny. A great read for short attention span - as it's a collection of short stories. If you like David Sedaris, but more real and less weird...

Juliana Franco _uliana_ranco_ina — Cute, light and funny.

Md Abdullah hamjaiu3613 — Started reading this book this morning and it is now 2:45 AM and I have just finished reading it. I loved it.

Katerina Brodaric brod00559b68 — HOT AND HOLY Jennifer Cognard-Black Review of Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics By Dagmar Herzog Basic Books There is a new sexual revolution in the United States, one initiated and perpetuated by none other than the religious right. An evangelical sexual revolution? Surely that’s a contradiction in terms. Yet historian Dagmar Herzog exposes precisely how the religious right has co-opted popular discourse on Viagra, Internet porn, female orgasm, adultery, HIV and STDs to revise its abstinence only, anti-abortion, homophobic, sexist and racist proclamations on sex and sexuality into a sizzling and seductive self-help package worthy of Sex and the City. To begin with, the religious right has coined a provocative new term: the “soulgasm.” Since the mid-1970s, evangelical sex writers have promised that as long as readers engage in heterosexual, married sex, they can expect incredible God-given orgasms. And while there is some debate about the appropriateness of oral sex or vibrators, marriage therapists Melissa and Louis McBurney deem doggie-style sex and mutual masturbation just fine, while pastor Charlie Shedd touts anal sex as a healthy part of marital bliss. The Christian sex industry coaches husbands to become wild men of a passionate God, while wives are urged to clad themselves in black lingerie and be available for Christian quickies. Herzog points out that these bits of amorous advice are mired in cognitive contradictions. Husbands should be sexual stallions yet buy books such as Every Man’s Battle to curb their extramarital fantasies. Wives pray for their own orgasmic ecstasy and yet are told to have sex even when they don’t want to. As Herzog writes of authors of evangelical self-help books, “They rail against porn even as they perpetuate porn.” It’s these contradictions that reveal the religious right’s actual agenda: to keep its constituents sexually anxious and to limit sex to the Christian bedroom. Homosexuals are “insecure heterosexual wannabes.” Singles should buy bikini briefs that read “I’m saving it!” Even teenagers who fooled around before finding God are encouraged to become members of True Love Waits and take a “secondary virginity” pledge. Over the past 15 years, these insidious strictures have come to impact the entire American populace— as well as those living in developing countries. Herzog details how evangelicals have successfully co-opted feminist discourse on reproductive rights—particularly the right to say no—for the 50 percent of American high schools that have adopted abstinence-driven sex-ed courses, which, not incidentally, often provide inaccurate information on condom failure rates. In turn, this misinformation is promulgated to the wider world. NGOs fighting the global AIDS epidemic are hamstrung by George W. Bush’s “Abstinence-Be Faithful” requirements, and health organizations have sued the U.S. government for its insistence that condoms encourage sin rather than save lives. Sex in Crisis is a must-read for any parent wishing to influence a school system’s sex-education curriculum, any advocate for the reduction of HIV infections and any feminist who wants to influence the national conversation on sexual orientation, sexual practices and self-determined sexual consent. --- JENNIFER COGNARD-BLACK is a professor of English and coordinator of the Women, Gender and Sexuality Program at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. She is coeditor of Kindred Hands: Letters on Writing by British and American Women Authors, 1865–1925 (University of Iowa Press, 2006).

Keisha Solomon webdzynr — It's easy when writing about the future to make predictions that in the end, don't pan out. Sci-Fi writers are a brave bunch, especially the old school ones like Bradbury, who put dates to most of his stories. And sitting here, in 2009, and reading a story where men conquer Mars in 1978...well it is a bit funny. And some of the technology of the "future" is a bit antiquated. The one thing that takes me out of Bradbury more than anything, his is insistence to call them "rockets" instead of "space ships." What's not easy to do, is to gaze into the future and accurately depict how man and society will behave in the "world of tomorrow." Bradbury is shockingly accurate in this arena. Sure, he may call the vehicles "rockets" and depict Mars as a haven where little green men roam...but he also writes about the isolating effect of technology. The laziness of parents who use digital nannies to raise their children. The gulf between rich and poor when it comes to exploring the stars. In the eyes of a modern reader, it may seem that Bradbury makes a lot of errors in his depiction of the future--but from where I sit, Bradbury gets more right than he gets wrong. He certainly gets all the "big" things correct. These stories all have a "light" or "breezy" tone to them, but do not be deceived. Bradbury can be darker than anything churned out by today's modern horror writers. His view of man and his future is both romantic/idealistic AND very depressing. THE ILLUSTRATED MAN isn't as good as Bradbury's MARTIAN CHRONICLES, but it is still a damn fine anthology of wonder and terror. An excellent window to the past AND a fantastic view of our possible future(s). Bradbury is amazing.