![]() Whether living rent-free in her childhood bedroom while trying to break into comedy (the best free birth control around, she says), or taking the stage at major clubs and joining a hit TV show-and along the way getting married, divorced, and attending excruciating afternoon birthday parties for her parent friends-Jen is completely happy and fulfilled by her decision not to procreate. Jen’s stand-up routine includes lots of jokes about not having kids (and some about masturbation and Johnny Depp), after which complete strangers constantly approach her and ask, “But who will take care of you when you’re old?” (Servants!) Some insist, “You’d be such a great mom!” (Really? You know me so well!) ![]() ![]() Parenthood can be very rewarding, but let’s face it, so are margaritas at the adults-only pool. Some adults take on the added burden of caring for a tiny human being with no language skills or bladder control. ![]() You have to drive and get annual physicals and tip for good service. You have to dress yourself and pay bills and remember to buy birthday gifts. But you know what? It’s hard enough to be an adult. ![]() Summary: “You’ll Change Your Mind.” That’s what everyone says to Jen Kirkman-and countless women like her-when she confesses she doesn’t plan to have children. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Enjoy a humorous look at life in space through the eyes of some colourful characters in this collection of unique sci-fi short stories by South African author, Christina Engela, spanning everything from adventure to suspense to comedy and then. ![]() Tech and how it works is less important to her than the people who live in those times and use it, and their own stories and experiences. Launch into space, the future and beyond Huge space ships, blasters, aliens and a few vampires. ![]() The Quantum Series is sci-fi, but instead of focusing too strongly on tech, Christina focuses more on her characters, creating believable and very realistic people, fleshing them out with her own broad range of experiences and creative interpretation. Life out on the frontier isn't always easy, and there are various things that make living on Deanna a mite more interesting than on more civilized Human colonies. Launch into space, the future and beyond Enjoy another humorous look at life in space in this. Known as a bit of a space oddity, Deanna orbits a star named Ramalama - and has two mad little moons of its own named Ding and Dong. Donnell SJ Singleton, Master Math: Solving Word ProblemsBrita Immergut, The Making of. Buy a cheap copy of Space Sucks Too book by Christina Engela. The Quantum Series by Christina Engela is sci-fi with a dash of fantasy, featuring a host of regular characters including heroes, heroines, villains, aliens, and unusual and often humorous situations mostly set on Deanna, a backwater Terran colony on the fringes of known space - which has something of a reputation, and not always a good one. ![]() ![]() So how do you separate facts from fiction? Obstetrician Jen Gunter, an expert on women's health-and the internet's most popular go-to doc-comes to the rescue with a book that debunks the myths and educates and empowers women. ![]() So many important questions, so much convincing, confusing, contradictory misinformation! In this age of click bait, pseudoscience, and celebrity-endorsed products, it's easy to be overwhelmed-whether it's websites, advice from well-meaning friends, uneducated partners, and even healthcare providers. Will your vagina shrivel up if you go without sex? Should you have a vulvovaginal care regimen? ![]() Does eating sugar cause yeast infections? Does pubic hair have a function? ![]() ![]() ![]() I still want the license plate off the bus that apparently ran me over in the final 20 (or so)% of this book. ![]() That’s about the best summary I can give without releasing a pack of spoilers. Just when it seems there may be some glimmer of hope – after all, Cassie survived to fight another day – it’s revealed that everything she thought she knew is only the very tip of the iceberg. Cassie, Ben, and Ringer leads us further down the rabbit hole and into the dark underbelly of the beast (well, alien rather) to face and fully realize the ultimate endgame of the Others: the extinction of the human infection upon the planet. The 5th wave has been discovered, but it is far more insidious than originally expected. ![]() The human race, what’s left of it anyway, has survived 4 ‘waves’ of destruction. They are quite efficient at creating this outcome. At the heart of this story is an alien race trying to wipe us off the face of the Earth. I will, as always, do my absolute best to avoid spoilers… but with this book there are minor spoilers really built-in as this is very much a continuation of the overall story arc. I hope if you’re reading this that you’ve read or have considered reading The 5th Wave, book #1 in the series. Let me quote X-files for a moment and say, “Trust no one.” I only finished the book a little over a week ago and I still don’t fully grasp that last quarter of the book or so. Let me quote X-files for a moment and say, ![]() ![]() ![]() As editor of the controversial British science fiction magazine New Worlds, from May 1964 until March 1971 and then again from 1976 to 1996, Moorcock fostered the development of the science fiction "New Wave" in the UK and indirectly in the United States. He became editor of Tarzan Adventures in 1956, at the age of sixteen, and later moved on to edit Sexton Blake Library. ![]() Nicholas by Edward Lester Arnold as the first three books which captured his imagination. Moorcock has mentioned The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw and The Constable of St. Michael John Moorcock is an English writer primarily of science fiction and fantasy who has also published a number of literary novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Two months later, on October 22 he was promoted to first lieutenant and helped organize the 10th Connecticut Infantry Regiment. He followed a path that was very similar to his grandfather's military service by enlisting as a private on August 31, 1861. He was one of the first to respond to the call of troops in New Haven at the beginning of the Civil War. During this time he assisted in building the first locomotive built in New Haven. He worked for the railroad in New Haven until the start of the Civil War. as a machinist before moving to New Haven, Conn. He was employed at the Schenectady Locomotive Works and the Rogers Locomotive Works in Paterson, N.J. where he completed his technical education. Greeley trained to be a machinist, first in Manchester, N.H. His grandfather, Joseph Greeley, advanced from the rank of private to Colonel in the New Hampshire Militia during the American Revolution. His father, Seneca, was a cousin of the famous New York Tribune publisher, Horace Greeley. When he was twelve, he had to work on a farm and in a cotton mill to help support his parents. He was born on in Nashua, New Hampshire where he attended common schools. ![]() Greeley & Co.Įdwin Seneca Greeley was Luther Tillotson's primary partner since the beginning of the firm L.G. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Whether you fear the rape of Bill Cosby, or yearn for it, Fight or Feast is the perfect book for you and your entire family. King Greenleaf will balance love and home-life as he battles such great creatures as the manticore and watches entertaining episodes of Madame Secretary on CBS. As the king of Amular and ruler of the realm, Donald faces new challenges more dangerous than ever as the nearby villages of Amular build their armies and prepare for battle to become the one true king of the realm. The epic saga of Donald Greenleaf continues in the sequel to Game of Thorns. ![]() After slaying the Griffin King, Donald Greenleaf was able to bring peace to the kingdom of Amular, but this didn’t bring peace to the nearby lands. Fight or Feast: A Song of Tits and Procrastination Tension is abundant throughout the known world. Or maybe not, perhaps it’s just more nonsense and severed penises. In this eagerly awaited sequel to Game of Thorns, Joshua and Greg Vine have created a work of unsurpassed vision, power and imagination. ![]() ![]() The audience necessarily remained a thing unseen except for a few front rows, where one sourpuss could send me into panic and desperation. Darkness is essential: If light is thrown on the audience, they don't laugh I might as well have told them to sit still and be quiet. I stood onstage, blinded by lights, looking into blackness, which made every place the same. Though my general recall of the period is precise, my memory of specific shows is faint. My decade is the seventies, with several years extending on either side. After the shows, however, I experienced long hours of elation or misery depending on how the show went, because doing comedy alone onstage is the ego's last stand. Enjoyment while performing was rare-enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that comedy cannot afford. ![]() My most persistent memory of stand-up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the mouth speaking the line, the body delivering the gesture, while the mind looks back, observing, analyzing, judging, worrying, and then deciding when and what to say next. ![]() Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four were spent in wild success. I did stand-up comedy for eighteen years. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Tommy is kidnapped by the KKK, Superman leaps into action-with help from Roberta! But Superman is still new to his powers-he hasn't even worked out how to fly yet, so he has to run across town. Superman Smashes The Klan 1 Cover B Variant Kyle Baker Cover By DC Written by Gene Luen Yang Art by Gurihiru Release Date Please Select A Grade Available in Multiple Covers Cover A Regular Gurihiru Cover 8.50 6.80 20 OFF Cover B Variant Kyle Baker Cover 8.50 6. But the Daily Planet offers a reward for information on the KKK, and their top two reporters, Lois Lane and Clark Kent, dig into the story. When the Lee family awakens one night to find a burning cross on their lawn, they consider leaving town. Superman Smashes the Klan Official Trailer DC 4.17M subscribers Subscribe 59K views 2 years ago DCComics DC DCUniverse The year is 1946, and the Lee family has moved from Metropolis'. As the Lees try to adjust to their new lives, an evil is stirring in Metropolis: the Ku Klux Klan. ![]() ![]() While Tommy adjusts to the fast pace of the city, Roberta feels out of place, as she tries and fails to fit in with the neighborhood kids. Lee is greeted warmly in his new position at the Metropolis Health Department, his two kids, Roberta and Tommy, are more excited about being closer to their famous hero, Superman! The year is 1946, and the Lee family has moved from Metropolis' Chinatown to the center of the bustling city. ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, Apollo enjoys his own great love story with his wife Emma and yearns to be a better parent for his infant son Brian. Like a woke Brothers Grimm, his clever new spin on the ages-old changeling myth is a modern fairy tale for the Trump era, taking on fatherhood, parenting, marriage, immigration, race and terrifying loss.Īpollo Kagwa is a New York City rare bookseller whose father left him and his Ugandan mother mysteriously when he was a child years later, he's haunted by nightmares involving his dad. LaValle has merged horror and social consciousness before - The Ballad of Black Tom used Harlem as a setting for retelling a Lovecraft tale. ![]() Yet Victor LaValle magically weaves both into his bewitching masterpiece The Changeling (Spiegel & Grau, 448 pp., **** out of four stars). The troll you’d find in old folklore is of a different ilk than those found in contemporary times - the former lurked in a forest, the latter on the Internet. ![]() |