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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...about 15 minutes to reach Qana, having steered his ambulance around the numerous bomb craters in the road. As usual, the ambulance's lights were on full-beam, the internal light also was on, the revolving blue light was flashing on the roof and the Red Cross flag was lit up. Shaalan wanted everyone to know he was there...
...simple strategy: Go where the boys are. Sure, that led me into many settings where inebriants flowed, but my reasoning was strictly practical. Men ruled the world, as anyone could see, so the trick was to do as they did. No girlie major like art history or French lit for me. I started in chemistry and then proceeded up the gender gradient to physics, finally achieving in Classical Mechanics the exalted status of only girl in the class...
...stomach. He flopped to the floor vomiting his lungs out, his face gradually turning purple.") On the last page, he corrals the villain, a gorgeous blond he'd been in love with. and plugs her with a .45. Then comes one of the most pungent windups in pulp lit...
...Chick-lit begs belittlement because it doesn’t present itself as pure literature. Two-thirds of the cover of McCafferty’s newest book, “Charmed Thirds,” shows the hind-quarters of the book’s twenty-something Columbia University protagonist, Jessica Darling, who appears to be lounging in a sparsely decorated room with all of the trappings of college life. At first glance, the book looks like an unusually thick extension to YM magazine...
...Kaavyagate” made the world think that chick-lit could offer no new insights, that the experiences of contemporary young women, reflected in literature, were mass-produced and cliché. “Charmed Thirds,” on the other hand, shows us the genre at its best; it’s literature full of life, unique voices, and unforgettable characters...