![]() ![]() If you haven’t read the books yet, I’ll warn you now, there will be spoilers. Once a week, I’ll cover a chapter or two, depending on how much I have to say. Talk about why I love them, talk about problems I had with them, talk about things the books made me think about, talk about why, in a nutshell, they’re so freaking important to me. Thus I wanted to take some time to really examine these books, slowly and carefully, and to talk about them here on Bibliotropic. And yet, the world remains one I frequently want to revisit. They’re filled with people I should want to avoid, and typically would want to avoid. They’re now comfort reads for me, and given the content, they really shouldn’t be. ![]() It’s also no exaggeration to say that these books changed how I see life and some of how I interact with the world around me. Then I read them for a second time, and it’s no exaggeration to say the impact changed drastically. I could not understand what some of my friends saw in them. I couldn’t see what people saw in them, I thought they were too Darkedy McDarkDark, and some of the characters just came across as utterly ridiculous in their behaviour. ![]() It’s not an exaggeration to say that these books really impacted me. ![]()
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![]() ![]() While she freely admits that hers is an unusual situation, she stresses it is also a best-case scenario others face many more difficulties in their daily lives, such as the lack of available transportation. In different states and in several different jobs, she attempts three times to live for one month at minimum wage, giving up her middle-class comforts to experience the overlooked hardships of a large sector of America. ![]() ![]() Rather than simply listen to other people's accounts, Ehrenreich herself assumes the role of a minimum-wage worker. Spurred on by recent welfare reforms and the growing phenomenon of the working poor in the United States, Ehrenreich poses a hypothetical question of daily concern to many Americans: how difficult is it to live on a minimum-wage job? For the lower class, what does it take to match the income one earns to the expenses one must pay? She argues that their spirit and dignity are chipped away by a culture that allows unjust and unlivable working conditions, which results in their becoming a de facto, or actual without being official, servant class. When one is charged a little bit at a time until the expense grows beyond expectations, that is called being "nickel and dimed." In 2001's Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, essayist and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich applies this notion to minimum-wage workers. ![]() Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The beginning felt a little jerky but once the flow started, I was really enjoying it. I got this free from Amazon, as a free book, super pleased. I read this for my Gothic square in Halloween Bingo. This book finishes at 93%.Ī thick gray wall of fog hovered over the damp stones of Hanbury Street, carrying the stink of old blood and rotting entrails. Darcie (not a usual female name in nineteenth century England) & the hero's attraction never seemed real to me & multiple depictions of the hero's grey eyes do not a character make. But after that things started to plateau and then go downhill. So.seduced by the incredible cover, I was entranced and intrigued by the first chapter & the horrible position the destitute Darcie was in. I'll discuss on my blog in a few days why readers should be glad Goodreads has set this standard. Dark Gothic is a theme not a series - otherwise all Victoria Holt's books would be a series. A series on Goodreads should have a character, setting or an overarching storyline in common - & that doesn't seem to be the case here. These six books keep being made into a series and I don't think this is a series by Goodreads standards. My reasons for reading this novel were not my usual reasons. ![]() |