![]() ![]() ![]() Which is why she hires escort Michael Phan. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice - with a professional. It doesn’t help that Stella has Asperger’s and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases - a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old. Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. StoryGraph SynopsisĪ heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there’s not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick. ![]() A fter reading it, I totally understand the hype. I decided to listen to the audiobook through the CloudLibrary app since I’ve been struggling with finishing physical books. I read The Kiss Quotient last month because I was in a romance mood and I’d heard good things about it. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() And anybody with the raw theatrical ability to end a sentence with “I will not be shackled to the failures of your god!” simply cannot be cis. His relationship with Dan Cain and his utter disregard for women beyond the parts of their sum makes him very easy to read as gay-coded. Overall, he has this very black and white, mechanical mindset and his lack of social skills and difficulty with empathy lends easily to a potential autism-coding. I can’t exactly explain why beyond the fact that he’s this tiny man willing to fight god himself (what a mood) and the projection that I reflect onto many of my other favorite characters through the virtue of how I engage with films. But more specifically for the character of Herbert West. Its audacious score and campy spirit, for one. For the past year or so, the 1986 version of Re-Animator has been my favorite horror movie-if not my outright favorite movie-for a lot of reasons. ![]() ![]() ![]() MY FATHER, MY ENEMY-Juliane, illegitimate daughter of Henry I, who tried to assassinate her father. THE PRINCESS NUN-Mary, daughter of Edward I THE WHITE ROSE RENT- Katherine, illegitimate daughter of Richard III (long novella) THE CAPTIVE PRINCESS-Eleanor of Brittany, victim of King John MISTRESS OF THE MAZE-Fair Rosamund, mistress of Henry II MY FAIR LADY- Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III. THE MEDIEVAL BABES series about little-known medieval women: Novella about Francis Lovell based on local folklore. WHITE ROSES, GOLDEN SUNNES-Collection of short stories about Richard III and his familyįEAST OF THE INNOCENTS. ![]() SECRET MARRIAGES (Edward IV, Eleanor Talbot and Elizabeth Woodville) I RICHARD PLANTAGENET the Prequel, Part 1 (new for 2020)Ī Man Who Would Be King (Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham) I Richard Plantagenet parts 1 and 2 (also available as an omnibus) Interests include folklore & anthropology, prehistoric archaeology (neolithic/bronze age Europe ritual,burial & material culture), as well as The Wars of the Roses and the rest of the medieval era. Reedman was born in Canada but has lived in the U.K. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you understand what the term "virtue-signalling" means you probably get the argument made by the book. I essentially agree with the thesis of the book but I found that the points it made were already very clear to me. Most importantly, they show how, by avoiding grandstanding, we can re-build a public square worth participating in. Using the analytic tools of psychology and moral philosophy, they explain what drives us to behave in this way, and what we stand to lose by taking it too far. ![]() The pollution of our most urgent conversations with self-interest damages the very causes they are meant to forward.ĭrawing from work in psychology, economics, and political science, and along with contemporary examples spanning the political spectrum, the authors dive deeply into why and how we grandstand. As politics gets more and more polarized, people on both sides of the spectrum move further and further apart when they let grandstanding get in the way of engaging one another. To philosophers Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke, who have written extensively about moral grandstanding, such one-upmanship is not just annoying, but dangerous. Nowhere is this more evident than in public discourse today, and especially as it plays out across the internet. We want to be seen as taking the moral high ground not just to make a point, or move a debate forward, but to look a certain way-incensed, or compassionate, or committed to a cause. ![]() We vilify those with whom we disagree, and make bolder claims than we could defend. We call people terrible names in conversation or online. ![]() |