![]() It all can tempt you to just call it a day and Netflix and Chill by your own damn self. It's been a hot minute since I've been on a date (by choice), but man, reading all of that definitely takes me back. Someone else mentioned what they hated about dating was all of the stages we oftentimes seem to have to go through in order to finally be in an "official" relationship. Another said what they hate are "two-night stands"-you know, when the first two dates are fabulous, you think something real is transpiring, only to find out that he wasn't all that you thought he was- after he gets some. One person said they hate it when first dates happen at the other person's house. I thought about this when I read an article about some of the things that folks hate the most about dating. While on one hand, they know that it's an effective way to meet new people (or get to know someone better), when there's not an initial connection or the date itself is wack, and this happens more than three times in a row, "weary" doesn't even begin to express how it makes them feel. ![]() ![]() Throughout the years, a good amount of single people have hit me up to talk about the double-edged sword that comes with dating. ![]()
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It's a toss-up for me between this - Karl Wagner's first horror collection - and Ligotti's Songs of a Dead Dreamer for favorite 80s horror collection.* "Sticks" just may be the scariest story I've ever read, with its Lovecraftian cosmic horrors and creepy stick lattices in the woods later made famous in The Blair Witch Project, while the surreal and nightmarish imagery of the King in Yellow-inspired "River of Night's Dreaming" never fails to give me a feeling of both dread and awe, no matter how many times I revisit it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2014, she diverged from her traditional historical settings to publish a series set in Imperial China. ![]() She published her first novel in 2008, English-set Victorian romances, and in 2013, she branched into young adult fantasy. In an article in The New York Times, romance author Sarah MacLean stated Thomas is known for her "lush style," and in USA Today romance author Madeline Hunter said she is "critically acclaimed as one of historical romance's best writers." Ī native of China, Thomas emigrated to the United States at thirteen and learned English reading romance novels. Most best-of-romance lists include one of her titles. She has won multiple awards including the Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Historical Romance for Not Quite a Husband in 2010 and His at Night in 2011. Thomas (born 1975) is an American novelist of young adult fantasy, historical romance, and contemporary romance. Young adult fantasy, Historical romance, Contemporary romance Louisiana State University, University of Texas at Austin ![]() ![]() ![]() Newly orphaned, he considers what it means, in his seventh decade, no longer to be someone’s son. His offer to fix a stranger’s teeth rebuffed, he straightens his own, and ventures into the world with new confidence. He vacuums his apartment twice a day, fails to hoard anything, and contemplates how sex workers and acupuncturists might be getting by during quarantine.Īs the world gradually settles into a new reality, Sedaris too finds himself changed. To cope, he walks for miles through a nearly deserted city, smelling only his own breath. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes.īut then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he’s stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most. ![]() David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” ( Los Angeles Times ) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask-or not-was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. ![]() ![]() ![]() He includes a comical section titled “The 7 Habits of Highly Defective Teens,” which includes some, shall we say, counterproductive practices: put first things last don’t cooperate seek first to talk, then pretend to listen wear yourself out. As a self-acknowledged guinea pig for many of his dad’s theories, Sean Covey is a living example of someone who has taken each of the seven habits to heart: be proactive begin with the end in mind put first things first think win-win seek first to understand, then to be understood synergize and sharpen the saw. along with a few other surprises.” Did he ever! Flip open to any page and become instantly absorbed in real-life stories of teens who have overcome obstacles to succeed, and step-by-step guides to shifting paradigms, building equity in “relationship bank accounts,” creating action plans, and much more. ![]() To keep it fun, Covey writes, he “stuffed it full of cartoons, clever ideas, great quotes, and incredible stories about real teens from all over the world. ![]() Based on his father’s bestselling The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Sean Covey applies the same principles to teens, using a vivacious, entertaining style. ![]() ![]() ![]() Walker, Spiritual and Demonic Magic: From Ficino to Campanella (University Park: Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, trans. Ĭlaire Fanger, ed., Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic (University Park: Penn State Press, 1998). Richard Kieckhefer, Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century 3 ( The MiddleĪges) (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002). Out correspondences and discontinuities between medieval and Renaissance magic.īengt Ankarloo and Stuart Clark, eds., Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, vol. The first part of this course willĮxamine the magical texts and practices of medieval Europe. Practice and assumptions about the operations of magic. But shiftingĪttitudes toward mages are not necessarily correlated with shifting perceptions of magical Tendency for them to be intellectual property claimed by their actual authors. Pseudonymous (with exceptions) from the later fifteenth century onward there is a greater Texts written in Western Europe up to the fifteenth century tend to be anonymous or ![]() Jakob Burckhardt's celebrated but problematic notions of the Renaissance individual areīorne out no more and no less in the realm of magic than in that of art or politics. Kieckhefer: Medieval Magic & Renaissance MagesĮ-mail: 2:00-5:00 p.m., 4 April to 6 June 2003 ![]() |