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Definition of disarray
1 : a lack of order or sequence : confusion, disorder the room was in disarray … the disarray of paper in the In-Out basket … — Jackie Weger
2 : disorderly dress : dishabille
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The room was in disarray.
The company has fallen into complete disarray.
Origin and Etymology of disarray
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First Known Use: 15th century
Definition of disarray
transitive verb
1 : to throw into disorder The discarded magazines and newspapers, the layers of dust and disarrayed rugs … — Gloria Naylor
2 : undress
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he had accidentally disarrayed his brother's CDs, leaving a telltale sign of borrowing without permission
Origin and Etymology of disarray
Middle English disarayen, from Anglo-French desaraier, from des- dis- + arraier to array
First Known Use: 14th century
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Definition of disarray for English Language Learners
: a lack of order : a confused or messy condition
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: a confused or messy condition The room was in complete disarray.
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text: ×Close Product Image 1 of 3 Skelly & Femur See all 3 images Skelly & Femur By Jimmy Pickering Illustrated by: Jimmy Pickering For Ages: 4 - 7 All sorts of things are missing around Skelly Manor. Skelly is missing her buttons. Her dog, Femur, is missing his bone. The ghosts are missing their dishes. Where could they all be? And who took them? The answer will surprise and delight readers of all ages. This gently scary sequel will be a favorite for Halloween and year-round. × Added to Cart List Price $12.99 Your Cart ( items) Cart total Continue Shopping CHECKOUT NOW Choose a format: Hardcover Format: Hardcover Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | 32 pages | ISBN 9781416971436 | August 2009 | Grades P - 2 Add to Cart Buy Simon & Schuster Add to Cart Amazon Barnes & Noble Books-a-Million IndieBound Walmart List Price $12.99 In Stock: Usually ships within 1 business day Browse Related Books Pre-Kindergarten | Kindergarten | 1st Grade | 2nd Grade Age 4 - 8 Children's Fiction > Holidays & Festivals > HalloweenChildren's Fiction > Social Situations > FriendshipChildren's Fiction > Humorous Stories Buy from another retailer Amazon Barnes & Noble Books-a-Million IndieBound Walmart Get a FREE eBook when you join our mailing list. Plus, receive updates on new releases, recommended reads and more from Simon & Schuster. Email Address Free eBook available to NEW subscribers only. Offer redeemable at Simon & Schuster's ebook fulfillment partner.Offer expires in three months, unless otherwise indicated.See full terms and conditions and this month's choices. More Books from this Author Skelly the Skeleton Girl By Jimmy Pickering By Jimmy Pickering Skelly the Skeleton Girl Skelly, a little skeleton girl, finds a bone one day. Who could it belong to? As Skelly searches for the bone's owner, she questions everyone from her skeletal goldfish, to her man-eating plants, to the monster who lives beneath the stairs. Finally, Skelly locates the bone's owner--and makes a new friend. Rising talent Jimmy Pickering has created a mildly spooky and totally original cast of characters who populate Skelly's Tim Burton-esque world. Read more about this book Read more About the Author Jimmy Pickering Jimmy Pickering has illustrated a number of picture books, including Bubble Trouble by Stephen Krensky and Sloop John B: A Pirate's Tale by Alan Jardine. He also creates original art, which he shows at galleries around the globe including CoproNason in Santa Monica, California and Rotofugi in Chicago. He lives on the North Coast of Oregon with his loyal canine companions, Pugsley, Wednesday and Jesse. BECOME A FAN BOOKS

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General Mills spoons up digital fun on cereal boxes
GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. – Here in the Betty Crocker Kitchen, Mark Addicks is cooking up some radical digital recipes for how we look at packaging for cereal, cake mix and yogurt.
Addicks is the chief marketing officer for food giant General Mills, home of Cheerios, the Pillsbury Doughboy, the Jolly Green Giant and fictional home cook Betty Crocker herself. And he has QR codes, apps, augmented reality and all the other things smartphones can do in his digital pantry.
"There's never been a time like this," says Addicks, a 23-year veteran of the company. "Because of the digital technology that resides in people's hands … we can now deliver content that engages and enhances the experience. Before, we had to rely on a 30-second TV ad."
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Addicks is trying to reinvent food packaging, especially cereal, by using digital technology. He's working on concepts that he hopes will be out by the summer and won't reveal much, citing General Mills' rivalry with other food companies, most notably Kellogg's.
But Addicks — who met recently with Google, Facebook, Apple and other Silicon Valley companies — is dishing them together here in the kitchen, where he hopes to update the marketing concept of offering a surprise inside the cereal box. Instead, kids could point a smartphone at the box and "see visual surprises."
He's looking at QR (quick response) codes to do this — those little square boxes that appear now in so many ads and, when scanned with a smartphone's camera, take consumers directly to a website. But he's also looking beyond the code to apps. He's already got apps for Betty Crocker and Yoplait Yogurt and is exploring apps for cereal brands. "You point to a logo and things start to appear," he says. "Maybe some functional content will pop up on a cake-mix box, or you might see entertainment and games coming from a cereal box. What I'm hoping for is pure entertainment."
General Mills sold $14.9 billion worth of food products in fiscal 2011, compared with $12.3 billion for Kellogg's.
General Mills' best-selling product is cereal, and its Big G division (Cheerios, Wheaties, Lucky Charms, Trix) leads the way. Though the company isn't far from Minneapolis, the cereal is actually made at plants across the USA, including in Buffalo, Albuquerque and Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The cereal box itself, Addicks says, is one of the most widely read mediums, with the average consumer checking out his or her cereal box 12 times.
Kellogg used QR codes on recent boxes of its Special K and Krave cereals and offered an augmented-reality promotion on the back of Corn Pops sold in Canada.
General Mills has gotten its feet wet with a smartphone app promotion on its Yoplait Greek yogurt, inviting consumers to find Greek items on the backs of packaging and in posters in cities. General Mills, in turn, made donations to food shelters.
The company also tested augmented reality on a box of Honey Nut Cheerios, instructing consumers to turn their camera phone onto the box to see a video of a world of honey.
Kevin Lane Keller, a professor of marketing at Dartmouth College, says established companies need to adapt to social media and digital technology but "can't lose sight of the main purpose" — selling products.
Catherine Roe, head of consumer packaged goods for Google, said that in its meetings with General Mills, they "talked a lot about video and how consumer eyeballs have shifted so dramatically from TV."
General Mills has YouTube channels for Betty Crocker, Pillsbury and other brands. Roe wants the company to view itself as a publisher, not an advertiser. "We see them as a Food Network or Epicurious," she says. "They have … really strong content that they produce. They are really progressive in this space."
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Kuwaiti shares index rises after weeks of losses
The Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) ended eight weeks of successive losses during which it hit a new five-year low to close the week on Wednesday, November 22, up slightly on the back of positive official statements.
The KSE index closed at 1,351.7 points, up 0.65 percent on the week, but still down 6.2 percent on the final trading day of 1999 and a massive 52.3 percent below its all-time record in November 1997.
Brokers attributed the index rise to Commerce and Industry Ministry Abdel Wahab al-Wazzan who was reported as saying early in the week that the government will indirectly inject funds into the sagging bourse.
Wazzan said that a number of government funds and portfolios were considering buying stocks on the KSE, but warned that its trading will purely be on commercial basis.
The bourse increased more than 16 points in the first three days of the Saturday-Wednesday week, but a parliamentary grilling of Housing Minister Adel al-Sebeih on Monday partially offset the market gains.
Last week, the index dropped to 1,340.2 points, its lowest level since November 1995 on the back of depressed investor confidence.
During October, the market dropped 4.5 percent and market capitalization decreased 2.3 percent from 21.3 billion to just 20.8 billion dollars.
The value of average trading increased slighty to $9 million this week, but still remained well below the $30 million throughout August.
Some 87 companies are listed on the KSE, the second largest bourse in the Arab world after the NCFEI in Saudi Arabia.— (AFP)
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UPDATE 2-Chesapeake Energy cuts share sale amount to 25 mln
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Dec 8 (Reuters) - Chesapeake Energy Corp (CHK.N: Cotización), seeking to calm investors fears about liquidity and share dilution, will reduce the number of shares it planned to issue to pay for assets, businesses or securities of other companies.
On Friday, shares of the U.S. natural gas company fell to their lowest level in at least five years, still reeling from an announcement the previous week that the company may issue 50 million shares, which prompted investor worries about liquidity and share dilution.
On Sunday, the company, which believes it has ample financial liquidity, said it will reduce the number of shares it may issue to 25 million.
The company will also end distribution agency agreements it has with three securities firms.
Last month, the company said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it has signed distribution agency agreements and may sell up to $1 billion of common shares through Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley and UBS.
The company said its intention had been to create financial flexibility for an uncertain economic and commodity market environment over the next few quarters, but in hindsight realized it made a mistake.
Chesapeake Energy, which plans to build up to $4 billion in additional cash resources over the next two years, on Sunday also cut its capital expenditure plans for 2009 and 2010 amid turbulent financial markets and increased uncertainty about the U.S. economy and natural gas and oil markets.
The cut in capital expenditure is aimed at achieving a cash neutral budget that does not depend on future asset sales, the company said. Continuación...


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Fans of Celebrity Big Brother will no doubt remember bunny boiler housemate Jasmine Lennard, who frequently told anyone who'd listen that she was, and still is, in love with her ex, Simon Cowell…
However, as we reported recently the bisexual model was rumoured to have been secretly dating The Wanted's Max George – who was himself supposed to be in a relationship with TOWIE star Lucy Mecklenburgh – but while she's confirmed that she was indeed seeing Max, she reckons he was something of a disappointment.
Speaking to The Sun, she claimed that although Max regularly boasts that he's a "great s**g", he has "a lot to learn".
She remarked, "I keep reading about what a stud Max is and how he is God's gift to women, but he was like a rabbit.
"There wasn't a lot of technique and the whole thing was over very fast. I'd kicked him out of the room within 15 minutes.
"In the end I felt I would have had more fun in bed with Lucy than him."
Of Max, the paper adds that Jasmine claimed he "turned her off completely" by wearing Mr Men boxers, and that he referred to Jasmine as "it" while talking about her with his mates .
And on the subject of Max being in a relationship with Lucy, Jasmine said, "He kept telling me, 'I have no baggage'.
"He acted as if he was 100 per cent single. Lucy didn't even figure.
"I said to him, 'Aren't you seeing this girl from Essex?'. He insisted, 'No, I don't know her'.
"I tried to push him a bit and said, 'She has a banging body'. But he just shrugged, 'She's all-right looking'.
"That was his only comment on her.
"Then one of his bodyguards did an impression of her and Max started laughing. It wasn't very nice."
She added, "He was wearing Mr Men boxers and that was a major turn-off.
"They said Mr Perfect which he definitely wasn't.
"I couldn't take him seriously, he was like a jumped-up little boy. At the end I was like, 'What happened?' It was very rushed.
"He's got a lot to learn. I just wanted it to be over as quickly as possible.
"I have to have a mental connection with someone for the sex to be satisfying."
And finally, Jasmine remarked, "Afterwards he said to me, 'That's room service'. I was horrified and said, 'What do you want? A tip?'
"He wanted to see me later but I took the phone in my room off the hook.
"I think he found it strange that I genuinely didn't care if I saw him again or not. I guess he's used to girls who worship him."
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3 colonies at my house and 2 at another site are all broodless...tons of Bees there. I was in them 10 days ago and all had brood, only one had swarm cells (7) which were 6 on one frame ,1 on a seperate frame. I took the 6 and made a split, that queen was spotted. The other colonies are 4-5 level hives with 2 deeps and 2-3 supers. Could all the rain cause this? All have plenty of pollen and honey, but not bound up yet.I hate to waste money buying 3-5 queen only to find out the Big Mommas were hiding.Suggestions..
Brian,a little bit off topic, but...is there anyplace where I can reference what and when Western Washington flows are? I'm a first year guy and this is one area where I'm really clueless.


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Just about everybody wants schools to reveal more about themselves. The Federal Government wants them to publish details on class sizes, performance in standardised tests, teacher credentials and student drop-out rates. The State Government has them providing annual reports to parents while omitting comparisons between schools. Parents want to know how their schools are doing, although what they want to know varies enormously. And teachers? Well, teachers want no comparative information published at all.
There is plenty of information parents could get, were they allowed. Schools of all persuasions now have information on individual students' performance on standardised tests in years 3, 5, 10 and 12. They use that information to see whether students have improved or declined, compared with peers throughout their schooling. When the results are aggregated, schools can measure how well different teachers performed in raising their students' academic performance, or not, against the state average. Schooling systems - public and private - also use these figures to make a broad assessment of how individual schools are performing compared with others within the system. But none of this aggregated information is made public.
It is in Britain. In 1994 the British Government started publishing annual league tables showing how well each school did in standardised tests. Educationists criticised them, saying that a school's ranking reflected the wealth of the parents - that being the greatest single predictor of a child's academic performance at school - and whether or not the school was selective. The tables did nothing to show what impact the school had had on the children, they said. The criticism led to changes. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland dropped the tables while England worked on providing "value-added" tables. These tables, published for the first time last month, use the aggregated data showing the changes in a child's academic performance over time - the data that Australian schools have but do not publish.
The tables are still imperfect. They show but one aspect of schooling - academic performance in tests - while ignoring so much else. They do not measure how schools fare in teaching responsibility, respect, honesty, tolerance, equality, freedom and compassion, which are the values parents nominated as most important in the recent government-funded Values Education Report. They do not measure the sense of community a school fosters, nor the amenity the school grounds may provide, nor the quality of the canteen, nor the learning achieved through sport, nor the leadership skills a school develops. And while a good ranking can boost morale, a poor one can deflate.
But they are still worth pursuing. Such "value-added" tables could highlight the better schools as models for others while pointing out those that need improvement. They would broaden the debate about the quality of schools beyond good grounds and high fees. They would be another avenue of public accountability for schools, school systems and governments. And they would be one more piece of information parents could use in their choice of the school most suited to their child.
When the Australian of the Year is announced on Sunday, it will not in all probability be Steve Irwin. The crocodile hunter, zoo owner, TV star, crikey-croaker and baby-dangler is one of the eight finalists for the award, nominated by his home state of Queensland. That nomination shows why the award cannot be taken too seriously, and why the wrong choice can be embarrassing.
The award is more egalitarian than it once was. The dames and knights and barons and cardinals from the 1970s have been usurped by doctors, scientists and sportspeople. But it is still not democratic. Sure, the masses get to nominate candidates, but it is the Federal Government that decides the result. Sponsors - this year the Commonwealth Bank and the Federal Government are major sponsors - help decide the state and territory winners, and the final winner is picked by a council appointed by cabinet and answering to the prime minister. Anti-globalisation activists need not apply.
The written criteria say the Australian of the Year should show excellence in his or her field, make a significant contribution to the community and nation, and be an inspirational role model. Account is taken, among others things, of the sacrifices made, the voluntary nature of the contribution and how much the person has put back into his or her field.
Given this, it is difficult to see why professional sportspeople bob up so often. But they do. Medicine and science are the other big contributors to the winner's list, which shows the dual nature of the award. Is it a popularity contest? If so, some form of direct vote is required, which is plainly impracticable. Or is it a means of honouring somebody who has made a genuine contribution to the country? If so, it has gone a little too readily to cricket captains, with Allan Border and Mark Taylor being rewarded mainly for playing a sport well.
This year's candidates include author Mem Fox, child protection activist Bernadette McMenamin, Aboriginal activist Pat Miller and business and community worker Michael Kent. All would be good choices. But on history, you would have to back either Judith Whitworth or Fiona Wood from medicine, or Steve Waugh to follow his two predecessors. A lot of breaths will be held if the winner is announced as "Steve ...".
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The Death on the High Seas Act of 1920 is an archaic law that was passed in the post-Titanic era. It certainly never anticipated the possibility of airliners crashing into the sea or giant oceangoing oil platforms, but those conveyances are covered under the current law, and this is what they say about compensation to the victims of negligence or even criminal behavior on the high seas: If someone is killed and does not leave a wife or children, the sum total of the compensation his family may recover from BP and their ilk is the cost of his funeral.
For Michelle and her two little boys, it is a bit more generous. She may recover Gordon's future wages, adjusted downward against future inflation, minus anticipated income taxes, less whatever Gordon would have spent on himself. BP and Transocean lawyers and bean-counters may be able to write a check for this whittled-down amount and, you may be sure, not one penny more -- and walk away.
But there is a movement afoot to change this 90-year-old law and make it comparable to laws that would apply if this tragedy had happened on land. The changes would allow for the recovery of non-pecuniary damages such as the loss of care, comfort, and consortium.


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To grow the new ear, researchers created a titanium wire frame modeled after the human ear. They filled in the wire frame with collagen taken from cows. In the future, human replacement ears may use collagen taken from the patient, Thomas Cervantes, one of the researchers and a surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, told the BBC. The researchers then seeded their scaffold with cartilage cells taken from sheep. …The team created an adult-size ear and implanted it onto a rat. The point of the implantation is to check that the ear doesn't lose its shape after implantation and healing.
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By: Belinda Matte and Seamus Muldoon
This is the product of a series of conversations between Belinda and Seamus, over an extended period of months and years. The idea that highly educated business executives and professionals may have developed a sensitivity to the interests of women, not only in terms of equal opportunity, but also in terms of referencing women in sexual terms, even when dealing with business issues, seems a pretense.
Moreover, it seems that,
at the time of this actually being written, the world is preoccupied with erectile
function. World leaders may be seen on the tele singing the praises of Viagra. On the
internet, Viagra is currency, a veritable business opportunity, with chat room loiterers
pimping for pharmacists (for a commission, of course).
Then, two of Belindas male
cats developed urinary problems and must be treated regularly. Other friends are
experiencing dysfunction and talking about their own use of Viagra and other medicaments.
The world seems to have become focused, as the primary issue of the planet, upon the male
penis. Hopefully, that is merely appearance and not substance.
All of this raises the point that, to an intelligent woman, it would appear that men, at their strongest and most effective point of their careers, are still self identifying by reference to their penises.
Women would, in the main,
be very appreciative of penises in the context of sexual pleasure. But it is not left in
the bedroom. Its mystical influence permeates every male activity. ENOUGH! Women do not
have penis envy! With a vagina, a woman can have all the penises she wants. Men should be
a bit more conscious of the very obvious fact that, with their power shafts, they are
constantly preoccupied with obtaining access to a vagina. Does that indicate where the
real power lies? Without a vagina to make their penises capable of their greatest pleasure
giving experiences, all the damn things are good for is to pee through and to play with,
mere toys.
If we unearth the very first architectural construct of the first hominid that can be counted as homo erectus (the very name proves the point, doesnt it?), it will have greater vertical characteristics than any other. Its perspective, its aspect, its focus all expressed verticality as soon as the principles of engineering needed to make something vertical were learned. Gods lived on mountains. And those, all male of course, that did not live on mountains went there to say whatever it was that the men who wrote the stories of what the gods said say they said. Pharaohs built obelisks to themselves to commemorate whatever it was they were commemorating. Greeks and Romans continued the style. Pylons, plinths, columns, Eiffel Towers, Washington Monuments, Seattle Space Needles and Canadian National Towers are but few examples of the male preoccupation with things phallic. Men must remain forever in touch with their eternal inner spear. Everything they use implies penile utility, whether a knife, and arrow, a gun barrel, a fishing pole, a barbershop pole or a baseball bat. Romans and Nazis saluted with a phallic salute. Our day cannot start without our national symbol being run up a flagpole. The Israelites make the symbol of the male covenant with their community a shaving from their childrens penises. As women have no penises, they can never enter into that covenant with the Almighty.
Obviously, there is nothing wrong with phallic things. It is the psychic preoccupation with them as authority insignia that is false, illusory, funny, and, sometimes, violent and sick. It is the insistence that God is male, that male is the embodiment of authority (Ephesians 5:20-24 wives submit to husbands who are head of the family) whether competent or incompetent, that a more competent woman must (yes, must) submit to a fool if the fool is male. Only men could write something so foolish certainly not a God.
One could speculate that the Ephesians mandate just noted was prefigured in the Genesis myth that woman was created/manufactured out of spare parts from a man (a rib, no less) (Genesis 2:21-23).
Creationism and evolution are not inconsistent concepts. There need not be slaughter among creationists and evolutionists for the preservation of any fundamental imperatives, for the reason that there most certainly was a first moment (that may have lasted a long time), followed by the developmental process. The early Israelite males who wrote the Old Testament, The Boys, engaged in typical male-God delusion. God made a man! That establishes the eternal line of authority! I am a man. I may be a fucking idiot, but you, woman, must obey me in all things, for the Lord, God, who made me in HIS own image, ordained that I am the head of all civilizations, the ultimate temporal arbiter of what God wants you to do.
The Garden of Eden story is real in the sense that the whole earth is/was a garden, and it is true that we have been evicting ourselves from its beauty throughout history. Our male geniuses have been throwing beer cans and fried chicken buckets on the ground since long before Colonel Sanders, polluting everything they can reach, consuming natural beauty far more than necessary to sustain life or progress.
But it would be inconsistent with the imperatives of male insecurity for these maximum leaders to step up and accept responsibility for their blight. The expulsion from Eden the growing wanton destruction of natural beauty and function couldnt possibly be the product of male stupidity. Women made us do it! And the man said, the woman whom Thou gavest to me, she gave me of the tree and I did eat. (Genesis 3:12). Adam had been told not to eat that fruit. But when he ate it with culpable foreknowledge, why it had to be the womans fault, right? A realistically responsible reading of Genesis reveals that, according to male scripture, Eve and a snake (forerunner of the legal profession?) rationalized access to secular knowledge (fruit of the forbidden tree), and then Eve, that woman, convinced Adam to eat it. They then both became aware of things secular, of cynicism, which, of course, lead to the discovery of the beer can and the fried chicken bucket with which they littered the Garden of Eden and were expelled from the realms of eternal natural beauty. (Genesis 3:2-7) According to male scripture, God, of course, was not fooled, and rightly blamed the woman for their downfall. Thereupon curses were laid forever upon all womanhood as punishment for causing Man to screw up the Garden of Eden. The bitch had to get her comeuppance in these premises or man might seem to have made a mistake something politically incorrect from that day to this. And so, God punishes Adam for harkening to thy wife (Genesis 3:17). Woman is now the acknowledged cause of all mans future problems. Because of her, man must thereafter and forever live upon cursed ground, eat in sorrow, earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, endure thorns and thistles (the national flower of Scotland) (Genesis 3: 18-19). And the woman gets the ultimate sentence she will menstruate and give birth in pain and agony, and horror of horrors her husband shall rule over her (Genesis 3:16).
There is also the matter of who or what to believe as the recounting of atrocities against women is dealt with in the Book of Judges. The stories of gang rape of individual women and of hundreds of women at a time end up in Judges as a mere rationalization of Gods will. The gang rape of the Levites Concubine in Judges is a manifestation not of horror, but of a perceived need for a king in Israel to make such conduct unlawful and punishable. The woman, who is of course nameless, merely serves as a stage prop, to be gang raped to prove the value of some God-endorsed regent. The gang rape of six hundred virgins is, of course, acceptable as the fulfillment of Gods desire to see that the Tribe of Benjamin does not become extinct as the result of being anathematized, socially outcast. Raping women, as The Boys have written it in Judges, is but the means through which the divine will of the Almighty is fulfilled. Yeah right!
So insecure about the incredulity of such absurd rationalizations are later male apologists for The Boys, that some scholars later suggest that, since these stories are omitted from the Septuagint (later Greek language edition of Judges), such unlikely events are depicted in the Hebrew Masoretic text because some damn woman must have written that! Well, I can tell you that if a woman had written that it would not have had any spin control to describe gang rape as an instrument of fulfillment of Gods plan for the Tribe of Benjamin. So those scholars are obvious idiots of the first order. But they do represent a school of bible writing and apologetics that has sought to exonerate all sorts of obvious evil when it was performed by someone they wish to promote.
The patriarchs of ancient Israel
were Abraham, Isaac (his son) and Jacob (Isaacs son), a thief of the first order, making
his hungry brother Esau foreswear his birthright for a bowl of stew (some brother).
(Genesis 24:30-34) But for this shining example of brotherly opportunism, Esau would have
received the right of succession to Isaacs primacy, for Esau was the elder son. Abraham
and Isaac had the delightful trick of pretending their wives were their sisters when they
came into a new land, so that the locals, desiring sex with these women, could have them
at will without their husbands having to stand up and get involved in any defense of their
wives. (Genesis 12:11-15; Genesis 26:7-11). Cant you just hear those cowards explaining
this gambit to their women? And who knows, baby? If youre really good, maybe some of em
will buy dinner. Great lot, those! And at each instance, of course, God shows up to bless
them, making all this cowardly ill treatment of the women nearest and dearest to them just
fine and dandy. Some moral leadership, what! And, of course, their big deal King David was
a slave to his penis also. Even the ascendancy of David to become the son-in-law to King
Saul was based upon penis fixation. To get to marry Sauls daughter, Michal, David had to
bring to Saul the foreskins of two hundred Philistines, freshly slaughtered. (First Samuel
18:25-27) Second Samuel recounts with glee the trail of slaughter that was inaugurated by
Davids ascendancy to the throne of Israel, all of which, of course, was for the
glorification of God. In the midst of this bloodbath, David becomes a Peeping Tom,
watching Bath-sheba take baths from his palace roof. He gets the hots for her, checks her
out and, finding that she is married, sleeps with her anyway, and, liking the great sex,
arranges the death of her husband Uriah. (Second Samuel 11:2-17) And this sexist scoundrel
is of the House of Jesse, a direct lineal antecedent of Jesus Christ.
Bill Clinton would have been a complete fool ever to go anywhere without his trusty bible. It is a field guide to sexual adventure.
And so the epidemic gyno-sadism of the society in which The Boys lived becomes either a rationalization of Gods intent (stupid beyond any possibility of belief), or a slander sneaked into the Bible by some fucking feminist asshole. People, who think that President Clinton was without moral compunction and who were amazed that such a person could become a national political leader, can now understand better why he was seen every Sunday coming out of church with a bible in his hand! It was his instruction manual!
So literarily incompetent is this product of male generated scripture, that one is prompted to ask whether woman must tolerate male authority because man is head of the family just as Christ is head of the church (Ephesians, supra), or whether womans subordination to any idiot with a penis is the product of ultimate punishment for causing mans downfall from Paradise (Genesis, supra). Which of these two mutually exclusive reasons for woman being subordinate to man is the real reason? The men who wrote the scriptures werent even smart enough to get the stories straight. A woman would have thought of that. So what are we dealing with? It is a male cadre seeking to perpetuate the then current social norms of male chauvinist bullshit by ascribing a mandate of male supremacy to God. And here we are thousands of years later pretending to actually believe so transparent a lie. Are we nuts?
For a woman, one of the things that amuses most is the absurd assumption that humanity, created in the image of God, means (as written in the bible by The Boys) that God is some representation of masculinity, of which men are the earthly manifestation.
Every woman who has seen men naked knows that there is nothing of Godliness about almost all of them. The very suggestion that God is male diminishes God absolutely. It does so not only in the sense of a ridiculous appearance of limited physicality, but also in the higher sense of God being gender dependent. There is nothing anywhere written or known or believed about God that suggests that any aspect of Gods personae or powers could be limited by gender dependence. For example, if God is male, .. Need we say more? When one thinks of the quality of male leadership in the world to date, Godliness is hardly what springs to mind. Male leadership has sponsored not only world wars, wanton destruction of people and resources, rapine and slavery, but also the insane insistence upon the exclusion of females from fulfillment of fundamental offices and their relegation to sex slavery on commercial levels of vast proportions. Male dominated societies require women to go about totally covered up with cumbersome clothing; sell daughters into prostitution; destroy female fetuses for the simple reason that they are female; burn living women upon pyres for male funeral customs and for simple manipulative purposes among families; cause women to have no status above common property, like cattle or lawn chairs.
Is there anything so insecure as a man, so in need of constant adulation and confirmation that obvious weaknesses arent really there? Compared to what women have to tolerate in male dominated societies, how would a man fare under similar constraints?
The obvious question is,
why do or should we put up with such nonsense? Why did American women go begging for an
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if they would only assert cohesive group militancy? Burning clothing and holding tea
parties is hardly militancy. The answer is that they have been taught that they are
inferior since they first drew breath. Their personae have been castrated throughout their
formative years by the agendas of our basic institutions. Men are not in charge through
the action of merit, but rather by dint of womens default. And they have, in the final
analysis, so trivialized their every office, be it head of state or the priesthood, that
it couldnt be much worse no matter who or what succeeded them at being in charge.
Part of the reason for the sarcastic humor is the delight taken in comparing male behavior to that of their supposed role model, God/Jesus. A very entertaining recent musical composition asks Would Jesus wear a Rolex on His television show? It was about televangelists. If you take that theme and add a bit of Jeff Foxworthy, you might come up with the following logical construct:
You pick your nose while you are driving in rush hour.
You frequently and in public reach down and manipulate your genitalia for reassurance.
You whine about your lousy sex life at home.
You regularly refer to women in the context of the size of their breasts (a/k/a hooters, boobs, jugs, melons etc), and fall apart if a woman responds to your bad taste by asking to see what it is that you bring to the table.
You truly believe that your penis, your car, your wristwatch and your mens cologne are adequate substitutes for integrity and sensitivity.
You comb your hair in a ridiculous and convoluted manner to cover up a bald spot.
You believe that a woman enjoys being
close to you when you smell like stale cigar smoke or have just farted.
You think that you are entitled to have sex because you bought dinner.
You consider yourself to be an Olympic lover because you always finish first.
You think that sitting on the side of the bed and picking stuff out of your toes is foreplay.
You refer to intelligent, competent females as gals or girls.
You honestly believe that women who
are not your mother will find you truly dazzling.
You have at least five disgusting
synonyms for the word vagina.
You think that your discomfort due to alcohol abuse deserves compassion, but not a womans discomfort at the time of her menstrual period, and yours occurs once a week.
You refer to God as He.
Nowhere in scripture can you find a passage describing the conduct of Jesus Christ as being base, crude, demeaning of women, arrogant, intolerant, narcissistic, cruel, corrupt. What are we missing here? Where is the created in His image evidence?
Men have, by their delusional assumption of godlike status, inspired some pretty stupid jokes. In one such story, Jesus is thought by a supposed scholar to have been an Irishman because he lived with his mother until he was 32 years old and died asking for a drink. In another Jesus is claimed to have been Jewish because his mother thought he was God. The interesting thing about humor is that it has to be a reflection of truth to be funny.
There are substantial negative consequences that flow from peckercentrcity. If every qualitative inquiry is infected with the need to yield a result that confirms male supremacy, false results, damaging, injurious results, not improvements or benefits will flow. When the following situations are considered, it is readily apparent that the ability and willingness to accept equality between the genders could only improve the result.
With the advent of employee staff reductions accounting for significant merger-resulting efficiencies, more and more men are finding that their wives/significant others are making more than they are and are having to carry the financial load for the family, sometimes for extended periods of time, until the male obtains a new earnings capability. The same happens when a male becomes injured or ill for substantial periods of time. As it presently stands, the fact that a woman is the breadwinner contributes as much to the breakup of families/relationships as any economic trauma. If a man can understand that a woman expects to fill that role, derives self-esteem from pulling the laboring oar, and that the ability to accept help from a woman does not demean a man, a more balanced and durable relationship results. Frequently the earliest sign of strain is erectile dysfunction that results totally from male inability to be mature about equality issues when they count most. Women have the right to make a contribution to any situation. It would not be resented in a relationship based upon merit rather than attitude and insecurity.
When marriages end up in divorce court, economic issues consume the resources, financial and emotional, that on the merits should go to strengthening the future quality of the lives of the parties. Men protest having to pay money for women to get out and learn how to earn their own livelihoods. Well, if they accepted more equably the right of a woman to go out and have a professional life just as men do, married or not, the need for this fight (in which only lawyers profit) would be reduced to almost nothing. What we have now is the abuse of custody rights issues that are not about the kids at all, but about money. Mommy can have custody as soon as the dollars get sorted out. Mommy isnt an unfit parent once the dollars get sorted out. Men actually argue that wives should not have custody because the kids will experience Mommy having relationships with other men. As if they wouldnt have the same experience in the custody of a male parent. And when women catch up on the issues of equal access to education, their ability to produce more than adequate incomes will catch up as well. All this foolishness is the product of male fears about women refusing to be subservient, about keeping women from being equally as productive as men and then insisting later that they should be on their own and without financial assistance when families break up. Women are entitled to respect on economic and professional issues, and that respect will cure many other problems that now consume critical emotional and financial resources at the worst possible moments.
Crimes against women can never be reduced to their indispensable minimum until men are educated in the direction away from the mandate of Ephesians. Women are not the property of men, to be directed about willy-nilly and disposed of at will. A comparison of the sociology of third world countries against sociology of countries where women are emancipated reveals without question that violence against women increases as their position vis-à-vis equal rights worsens.
Everyone will have a better sexual relationship when the participants are doing it for and with each other instead of to each other. Making love is mutual. Fucking someone is not. Women have no moral or other duty to please men sexually when men are not pleasing them. Sexual intimacy is not a right produced by dinner or marriage vows. In that mode it is sexual exploitation. Spontaneous, mutual intimacy is so much better than sex as a duty that only someone who believes they are the only person whose gratification is worthy could fail to recognize its obvious superiority.
Men will live longer and happier lives when leadership and productivity responsibilities are willingly shared.
Men will be relieved of terrible anxiety when they recognize and accept that pretense and posturing about invincibility are well known to women as just that, pretense and posturing without basis in fact. Women do not need more than a few days or weeks with a man to know the identity and value of his strengths and weaknesses. To pretend otherwise is ludicrous and destructive. Wouldnt it be nice to just be who we really are and succeed in spite of it?
For most of the women and men of this world, this article is a total waste of time. Extremist third world religions and cultures will keep their women in bondage for many generations to come. No third world woman can benefit from any awakening or liberating sentiment while she remains in her part of the world or in her culture. In many cultures it is an honor to kill a woman seeking to escape her enslavement, for to do so besmirches her family escutcheon.
Even in the west, even in America and in Western Europe, women remain bound to a low caste in which they are excluded and subordinated by conservative religious factions. The mainstream churches of the west are still tied to Ephesians and to the sentence passed (supposedly) in the Garden of Eden.
But these are the ones who have a chance at liberation. These women can assume command of their lives without torment of soul, for condemning them for their independence is itself the sin against Christ. Christ would be the last person on earth to deny women their personhood. What the disciples did in his name regarding the status and treatment of women after his ascension to heaven cannot be reconciled with statements or actions attributed to him.
It is our belief that, if there is to be remediation, it will be generational, through a blend of education and militancy. It will begin with the manner in which mothers teach their male children about women. We believe that mothers really do not teach their male children about women at all. They leave it to father to discuss sex with little peckerwood when he is of suitable age (usually long after he has learned about fucking from the smut that circulates throughout the secondary school system). Of course, there is the mechanical sex ed class that blends in a little public health and epidemiology, and the old military recruit mandatory films about sexually transmitted diseases, rife with pictures of infected genitalia to scare hell out of the recruits.
We believe this inattention to training about how women are to be perceived and treated is probably the single most critical lacuna in any remediation program extant. Mothers are simply surrendering this opportunity to the genderists, a terrible mistake. So long as women are perceived as objects into which one sticks his penis, and young men remain motivated toward and about women primarily for sex, it would be ridiculous to expect any change in attitudes and behavior, no matter how many social messages and programs are out there.
Women must, however, still deal with the young and mature men who roam the planet without ever having had the benefit of training in gender sensitivity. This is where militancy comes in. Women must learn to be insistent about how men are allowed to treat them. For so long as women continue to bat the eyes in adulation and smile at every little ponce with a credit card and a job, men will be invited to treat them as stupid little vehicles for the transportation of vaginas. No woman should (but most will) permit a man to dictate her role in life and in relationships. Surrender of identity, dignity, self-respect, in exchange for a roof over her head and food on the table, the mommy track, needs to be changed to a relationship of mutuality. We are learning that surrender is no longer rewarded with loyalty and respect anyway. In the USA, 50 % of marriages now end in divorce. There are to many younger women out there flaunting their sexuality before your husbands for you to expect that wedding vows are anything more than theater in most instances. And these dalliances are just as regular among the churchgoers as they are among the unchurched. We have all seen too many instances of moralistic preachments from men who get caught with their penises in women to whom they are not married. Expectations of commitment because a woman has surrendered her self-esteem are simply stupid. A man cannot be permitted to believe that he is the head of any family simply because he is a man.
As we learned from the many legislative successes that turned out to be failures in application, some things cannot and will not be remedied by government fiat. Genderism will not diminish because a bunch of elected adulterers adopt legislation favoring womens rights.
As for the message of this article that is addressed to men, we suggest the following. Instead of conducting an advertising campaign promoting a slogan What would Jesus do? in any given situation, maybe you might take the time to examine just how Jesus really conducted himself while he was on earth. Jesus never demeaned any woman. Jesus never preached that men were of greater value than women. Jesus never advocated that women be limited to their physiological roles as receptors of sperm, bearers of children and housekeepers. Jesus never spoke of limiting women regarding their professional advancement or their education. There is no Jesus-source theology that exonerates or supports any genderist behavior or doctrine or social policy or law. The social practices in Jesus time regarding women were not endorsed by Jesus as a rational or a righteous doctrine, to be carried into the future. And so, the answer to the question, What would Jesus do?, as it applies to the treatment of women, is that Jesus would not ever have conducted himself as a male chauvinist pig.
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We applaud the innovations pioneered by the American College of Chest Physicians evidence-based clinical practice guidelines on antithrombotic therapy and prevention of thrombosis (February 2012). However, we are concerned about the resulting recommendations regarding cancer-associated thrombosis, a significant contributor to the public health burden of VTE and an area of particular interest to us.
Regarding prevention of VTE in nonsurgical patients,1 the panel suggested that outpatients with solid tumors with additional risk factors for VTE should receive prophylactic-dose low-molecular-weight heparin or low-dose unfractionated heparin (recommendation 4.2.2). Additional risk factors cited by the panel include hormonal therapy and angiogenesis inhibitors. In our opinion, this recommendation (even as a grade 2B) does not reflect an appropriate interpretation of the results of recent studies on cancer thromboprophylaxis and risk assessment. If these recommendations were to be followed, tens of thousands of women with breast cancer or men with prostate cancer on hormonal therapy for extended periods would receive low-molecular-weight heparin or low-dose unfractionated heparin. The rate of VTE in these patients, however, is much lower than other cancer subgroups, and there are no studies showing a benefit of thromboprophylaxis.2 Similarly, the linkage between antiangiogenic agents, such as bevacizumab, and VTE has not been consistently demonstrated in pooled analyses.3 (Although thalidomide- and lenalidomide-based regimens are associated with VTE, these are used primarily in myeloma and not solid tumors.) Recommendation 4.2.2 further fails to cite important risk factors, such as site of cancer, and a risk assessment model for chemotherapy-associated VTE that has been externally validated in multiple studies; both are the basis for recent and ongoing prophylaxis studies.4
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Wrecked - that is what this book felt like to me, a wreck. Putting it lightly, I am definitely mincing words here when I say I couldn't find a thing about this book that I enjoyed.
I'll keep my musings short. BEWARE SPOILERS!
Right from the beginning I found Wrecked to have a somber tone and then a few more pages more and it was just downright depressing. There is so much talk of death or suicide, then there is a bunch of death, and then a bunch of pretty much everyone blaming the afore mentioned deaths on the main character, Miranda. Made it hard to stomach and left me with no desire to carry on by the time I reached 100 pages. Then we throw in this connection between the 'Betwixt man" Christian and Miranda - and I just didn't see anything special there to really intrigue and draw me in.
I could say more but I'm not going to turn this into a bash fest just because it wasn't my cup of tea. So for those of you still curious, here is a review of someone who enjoyed it - maybe I'm just the oddball statistic.
A review by Journey Through Pages - 4 Stars - http://journeythroughpages.blogspot.com/2012/04/arc-book-review-wrecked-by-anna-...
Wrecked by Anna Davies has such an interesting premise: what would happen if a young man who lived in the sea saved a young girl he wasn't supposed to save from dying and then had to right his wrong? What would he do if he fell in love with her instead? There is so much potential here, but the story turned out vastly different from what I expected.
After reading the description of this book, I went into it expecting a sweeping paranormal romance – which it is not. There are definitely paranormal elements here, with the sea witch and Christian, but there is also a lot of working through the grief of losing friends. The first part of the book really focuses on the accident, Miranda's guilt and grief, and the way she is treated afterwards. It isn't until almost halfway through the story that she formally meets Christian, although we have had a short chapter or two showing how Christian has angered the sea witch, Sephie, with his rescue of Miranda. Overall, though, there are very few supernatural/paranormal elements in this book – Christian comes from the sea, but it really seems more like a side note than an element paramount to the story.
Another element that was unexpected was how hateful I found many of the characters. Miranda has survived a boating accident, but she is blamed by everyone for it. Even the teachers at her exclusive school treat her like a pariah afterwards. I would expect that the families of the victims might treat her this way, but teachers? The guidance counselor? I think it would have been more realistic that Miranda was reading some of this blame and anger into other people's actions; that her guilt would have made her think she was being talked about when she really wasn't. Miranda ends up with support from no one except her younger brother Teddy, but his character is never fleshed out enough for us to really feel connected to him. Her grandmother Eleanor is written as someone who is totally clueless about reality – appearances are everything and if you just try to act "normal" everything will get better faster. There really aren't any characters here to sympathize with or feel an emotional attachment to.
Unfortunately, this lack of attachment extends to the lead characters as well. Miranda is so depressed and empty through most of the story that it is hard to connect with her. And while Christian is a nice guy, he is not developed enough to make him swoon-worthy. Their romance is of the "I've seen you so I must love you" variety rather than two characters really getting to know each other and building things slowly, so I never really felt like I was invested in their relationship. It does not help matters that Davies' style leans more towards "telling" than "experiencing." This is most apparent in the epilogue – we are literally told by the author how Miranda is feeling, rather than learning about it from her.
Speaking of the ending, I've seen other reviewers who really hate it. It's not terrible and is probably appropriate to the story, but it left me unsatisfied. What should have been emotional felt empty.
I know all of this sounds so negative, but I think if a reader approached this story differently than I did they may find more of a connection to it. If it is looked at as the story of a girl working through her grief after a terrible tragedy, it stands up a little better than as a paranormal romance. But when the paranormal elements start building later in the book, it tends to fall apart.
Wrecked is a shaky début from author Anna Davies. With a premise that shows so much potential but ultimately falls short in execution, this is not a terrible book – but it is not great either. The strongest section of the book has more to do with the lead character working through her grief than with paranormal elements, so for readers who connect with that type of book Wrecked may strike a stronger chord than for those of us looking for a paranormal romantic read.
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Quick & Dirty: This book has an interesting premise but fails to deliver it in a satisfying manner, relying heavily on exposition to get the mood across while slowing down the story.
Opening Sentence: In many ways Whym Island is like any of the hundreds of tiny islands dotting the South Carolina coast.
The Review:
I'm going to start out by saying that this book has one of the worst synopses ever. I read it and was totally uninterested in this book, mainly because it doesn't sell itself. When I started reading there was so much more they could've worked with and chose not to. Maybe it's because the book's so short or it could be because the story seems so simple they thought putting hints in the synopsis was a bad idea. Whatever the reason, I have a feeling a lot of readers are going to pass this story up because of everything the back copy doesn't say.
Soul-stealing sea witch, Atlantis-like sunken world, hidden secrets of Whym Island. All those things are interesting and exciting, while the back copy emphasizes the fact that some of Miranda's friends died and Christian is a dreamboat. While all the death Miranda's experienced in her life, her grief definitely dominates her character, but that's not the entire story.
When Miranda's boat loses its navigation system just as a storm rolls in, they can't get around the island to dock. Lightening strikes the boat and jumping becomes their only plan. When her boyfriend Fletch forces her overboard, Miranda and her friends are drowning. Until an arm wraps around her and drags her to the surface, and a body shushes her as he pulls her towards shore. Miranda survives with a massive cut, but four of her friends die and Fletch is in a coma. A coma Miranda knows in her heart he won't be coming out of. She can't remember the boy who saved her life, but she can remember his shimmering skin and the way his arms made her feel safe.
Christian, the boy who saves Miranda, has some pretty massive problems of his own. A betwixtman, neither merman or human, saved Miranda on the day of his Surfacing — the night he turned eighteen, a right of passage where he finally became a man — and now has to deal with the consequences. The sea witch Sephie, who the inhabitants of Up Above think of as a local legend, is all too real Down Below. The sea witch is furious Christian lost one of her souls and makes a deal. He can live as long as Miranda's soul is where it belongs within the week — meaning, as long as Christian kills her. Otherwise she'll take his soul in her place.
We're torn between Miranda who's living with survivor's guilt, wondering why she's the one who got to live while Fletch is stuck living on a tube, and Christian who doesn't want to take back the life he saved. The worlds of Up Above, In Between and Down Below begin clashing as Miranda and Christian find themselves together again.
As I said, the back copy put this book is a disadvantage from the get go because I started the book uninterested. When I start a book with the predisposition it'll be bleh, I have to wonder how it affects my impression of the overall book. Wrecked didn't blow me out of the water by any means, I wasn't a huge fan of the writing style, which relied heavily on info-dumping to develop the backstory and character relationships. What I was a fan of was the mixture of mythological creatures and an underwater world — Atlantis has always been a favorite myth of mine. The writing and style of this book is really what knocked it down to a two rating, but the story was much more interesting than I originally expected it to be. If you like the current mermaid trend that's been replacing vampires in YA novels these days, you might like Wrecked. It's not the best example of a mermaid romance I've read this summer, but it's short and easy to read.
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"There was a storm. And she was trapped, and I knew it was wrong, but I thought…I thought it would be all right if I saved her," Christian said in a small voice. The truth was, he hadn't been thinking at all in the moment that he'd set the girl free, all he knew was that if he hadn't done something, he wouldn't have been able to live with himself.
Sephie laughed, the noise sounding like a hiss and a bark. "Well, that's where our miscommunication lies. Because it wasn't all right that you saved her. I wanted her soul. I wanted all their souls. But I'm letting you off easy," she said, not letting go of her grip on his arm.
"Thank you," Christian said.
"I need her soul. I'll collect the rest in my own time, but he soul is on you. You have one week."
FTC Advisory: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers provided me with a copy of Wrecked. No goody bags, sponsorships, "material connections," or bribes were exchanged for my review.
So, this book and I are not friends. I'm going to try and be as tactful as possible here, but it's hard. I pretty much hated this book with every bone in my body. There were many, many technical issues, but aside from that, I also hated the characters and the story. It's hard to write a review when you have no kind words for the book at all. But I will do the best that I can.
Let's start with the writing. It was all telling. Well, mostly. It felt like a summary of events rather than a story. Not only was the writing really amateurish, but there were consistency issues. And they were really bad ones. And I hope to god they are fixed before this book goes to print. Christian saw Coral's yacht twice. For the first time. I won't quote it because it's an arc and can still be fixed, but you cannot see the same boat for the first time, twice. Christian also showed his brother the same book of matches for the first time, twice. The first time Valentine shrinks back, afraid of the fire. The second time Christian whips them out and tries to explain what he is going to do. It's just lazy writing. And bad editing. I haven't seen plot holes that large in ages.
The characters and character motivations were just ridiculous and made no sense. First of all, Miranda. Grow a backbone and stand up for yourself, girl. Every other character except Christian was out-of-control mean to her. And I get why they are upset. She was driving in a boat accident that killed four people. But the key word here is 'accident'. She didn't mean it and yet these people are blaming her and bullying her for something she had no control over. And some of the things they say and do to her get pretty revolting. No one seems to remember she lost 4 friends and her boyfriend is in a coma, dying. She also got injured. But they hate on her and ostracize her and her grandmother continues to put her through it by forcing her to go to school and visit Fletch in the hospital. Fletch's parents are horrible individuals. I know your son is in a coma, but you don't treat people this way. What is wrong with you? And I guess that's my point. The characters' actions are completely unrealistic. Real people with beating hearts would not act this way.
And then there was the love story. Or rather, the puke story. Seriously. Call me mean if you want, but these two were nauseating. This time I will quote. Because some of this dialogue is utterly ridiculous. And I know it's not coming out before editing.
Miranda: "You could have left. If I was swimming, and I saw a boat on fire, I don't think I'd save anyone," Miranda admitted. Wait. What? She'd leave people dying on a fiery boat and swim away? WTF is this?
And then there is this scene. It's so corny. I mean...REALLY corny.
"Happy birthday," Miranda said. It was so weird, the way their conversations constantly jumped all over the map. It was like when the radio played on the boat. Sometimes, there'd be crystal clear reception, only to be interrupted by static. Then, seconds later, clear reception again.
"Thanks," Christian smiled.
"Did you get everything you wanted?" Miranda leaned in toward him, aware that she was acting supremely out of character. But that was okay. She didn't want to act like herself anymore. "Or did you want this?" she asked, heart pounding against her chest as she kissed him. First of all, the writing is terrible. Second of all, GROSS. That is nauseating. For real.
Deep thoughts with Miranda: He's just a friend. It's not a big deal, she reminded herself. She glanced over. Christian's jaw was set, and he was staring straight ahead, as if he were frightened. Who was she kidding? Of course he wasn't just a friend. They'd kissed. Her heart sped up whenever she saw him. She knew his collar bones sloped slightly before ending in his surprisingly sharp shoulder blades, concealed under just the right layer of muscle. And yet... Hold the phone. You know how his collar bone slopes? And that his shoulder blades are sharp? Listen. I've been with Dan for 7 years and I don't even pay attention to his shoulder blades and collar bones. Ridiculous. And the writing? Kill me now.
At one point I laughed out loud because Miranda ordered a medium pizza in a bar and didn't tell the waitress what toppings she wanted on it. That might be some vital information that was missing there. She could bring you a medium pizza with anchovies, after all.
I've got one more for you. This is some brilliant description. *Hint: sarcasm*
Coral led Miranda to the living quarters of the ship. In contrast to the deck, which had seemed so expansive, the actual living quarters were cozy. The furniture was heavy, dark wood and blue velvet coverings, and Miranda felt like she'd taken a step back in time. None of the surroundings matched Coral's whimsical, bohemian personality. The room felt stuffy, and Miranda found herself having a difficult time catching her breath. Did you notice it? Answer this question. How can a room be cozy AND stuffy at the same time? Hint: it can't.
Truthfully, that's only the beginning. But why even bother? You can clearly see all that is wrong by reading those quotes. And I'm not even going to bother to remark on the creepy instalove. Or the slut-shaming that happened in the opening pages. Just...make up your own mind. But I wouldn't recommend reading this one to my worst enemy. Lazy writing gets an automatic one star from me. Sorry. This book was terrible.
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