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This week I'm reading Intelligence Reframed:Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century and Deadly Persuasion. Neither are light reading! Finally finished Can't Buy My Love, and I'm not quite sure how I feel about it. Although I agreed with many of her conclusions, the book is written from a blatant feministic perspective, which doesn't suit my tendency to search for a middle ground. I felt like many of her analyses of specific ... ... but I'm trying to make up for lost time! Just finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows this morning, still reading Can't Buy My Love, although I'm making good progress with it, and I'm about 8 or 9 chapters into Little Women. Not sure yet if I'm going to keep going with reading three ... I'm still on Can't Buy My Love, but I'm also working on Little Women and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. We'll see how long it takes me to finish all three! ... King forces the reader to feel sympathy towards the dog at the very end of the novel. What an incredible book!
Up next: Can't Buy My Love, which I'm still working my way through, and probably Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince in honor of the upcoming movie. ... the books that just came in on interlibrary loan in addition to Cujo. The only problem is going to be deciding between Can't Buy My Love, an interesting look at the psychological effects of advertisement from a feminist's perspective and Dead Poets Society, which happens to be one of my ... ... for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration by Elizabeth Alexander
And on the bargain racks:
Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel by Jean Kilbourne
Two for the Road: Our Love Affair With American Food by Jane and Michael Ster ... ... books on Mt. TBR like it. Deadly Persuasion (for som reason, the TS for this one say Can't Buy My Love and Can't Buy My Love, both which sound like they'd fit well with your book. ... Non Fiction (no particular oder)
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Deadly Persuasion by Jean Kilbourne
Worst reads - Fiction (worst first)
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Wars by Timothy Findley
(I ... 93. Deadly Persuasion by Jean Kilbourne. An extremely powerful book - a look at advertising (mainly American) and its negative affect on modern life. I will never look at an ad quite the same way. We are all being manipulated, at our peril. ... Oh--you should have waited...they have a new one coming out in October. I already ordered mine."
Have you read Can't Buy My Love? I recommend it highly. ... recent exploits in the tabloids. For those of you who may be interested in this or similar topics, I highly recommend Can't Buy My Love by Jean Kilbourne. She takes a look at how advertising is designed to psychologically manipulate the female psyche, and it is absolutely fascinating. You ... ... Fiction standby.) If you're up for something unusual, I highly reccommend The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola. Changes by Ama Ata Aidoo was also a great read.
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