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Hypothesis: The curse works by driving the kin into a rage due to the application of extreme pain. Removal of higher brain functions should alleviate the curse. Others are to remove sexist language; for example a scene where Bond visits a nightclub in Harlem, and a reference to the “audience panting and grunting like pigs at the trough” has been changed to “Bond could sense the electric tension in the room”. In the new edition of the 1964 Miss Marple novel A Caribbean Mystery, the amateur detective’s musing that a hotel worker smiling at her has “such lovely white teeth” has been removed, the newspaper added.

The book is laid out in the form of diary entries which Micheal has been tasked to record by his therapist Angela as a way to get down his thought’s and try to deal with his grief over the loss of his wife. I have to admit, because of this start, stop, slightly all over the place way of recording his memories, it did take me a little while to get into the rhythm and flow of this story. At one point I almost put this aside as a DNF. However, the premise of the book really did intrigue me so I persisted on as I was still really intrigued where it was going. Careers education had greatly improved and as a result of one enterprise initiative, many girls had started their own small businesses with the help of the school. Dahl’s publisher, Puffin, hired sensitivity readers to rewrite substantial parts of the author’s text to make sure the books “can continue to be enjoyed by all today”; however, it will also continue to print the original editions. I went on a journey with Micheal though this book. I experienced his grief and anger and his decline as he becomes solely fixated on the murder of a politician. To read how Micheal rationalises his thought process and how he squares away with himself that was he is doing is morally right was actually terrifying.Whether you're a romance lover, a werewolf enthusiast, a fantasy fanatic, or just looking for something fun to do, there's always a story for you to read and enjoy on Readict. And we're adding new books every day. Result: Without their higher brain functions the subject gave themselves completely over to the curse and became completely feral. They were incapable of reasoning and could not be calmed by any method. Subject terminated.

In other cases, such as the NSA report on the USS Liberty incident (right), the report may be sanitized to remove all sensitive data, so that the report may be released to the general public. Hypothesis: The curse is a mental compulsion. Sufficient distraction should alleviate the influence. Redaction Toolkit, Guidelines for the Editing of Exempt Information from Documents Prior to Release

Method: Target was subject to 6 months of intense mental enchantments. They were systematically stripped of their rationality, logical thinking and reasoning by carefully stripping away their sense of self and the memories they had accrued over their lifetime. Effectively reducing them to the mental state of a child. Sensitivity readers are a comparatively recent phenomenon in publishing that have gained widespread attention in the past two years. They vet both new publications and older works for potentially offensive language and descriptions, and aim to improve diversity in the publishing industry – though some are paid extremely low wages. The moment that Hudson Harlow looked into the hazel eyes of Amanda Stevens, his wolf started to howl MATE! Why in the world would the Moon Goddess mate him to a human? But Hudson started to notice that this was no longer the girl that he tormented in High School. She'd changed. Kill Redacted is a brilliant novel and one that is certain to prove controversial, not least because the unnamed Prime Minister that Michael is determined to kill is clearly meant to be Tony Blair. No date is given for the events in the book, but the explosion on the tube that kills Michael’s wife could well be the 7Th July bombings. Equally, Michael’s logic that the PM’s policies have provoked terror is exactly the criticism levelled at Blair. Indeed, Baroness Manningham-Buller, the former Director General of MI5, stated at the Iraq Inquiry that the invasion of that country had “substantially” increased the threat to the UK.

I wish you would // disappear / is what you say / when you stay / silent” is Baer’s riposte. Perhaps erasure poetry is always inherently a political act, perhaps it is always inherently a violent act Jennifer S Cheng In response to criticism, Dahl’s publisher Puffin UK said it would release the original versions as well as the new edited texts to cater for modern sensitivities. Readers will therefore be given the option to choose between the two versions. Archived copy" (PDF). www.politechbot.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 July 2006 . Retrieved 14 January 2022. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link) As I have already stated, this book is raw and there are a lot of emotions flying about. I felt that I had a real emotional connection with the plot however I could not connect to any of the person. I felt like all of them irritated me in some way and there wasn't a person in the book that I could connect with.

at no point did i read thinking the point was for me to like michael - on the contrary, it's an exploration of grief and anger on this person; this specific person. it feels to me like people who complain about not connecting to the main character would have liked this story from the perspective of someone kinder, better, more 'relatable,' so they can make abstraction of the character completely and experience the narrative in first person. In The Book of Redacted Paintings, the narrative arc follows a boy in search of his father's painting, but it is unclear whether the painting exists or not. The book, a poetry collection, is also populated by a series of paintings. Some are real, incomplete, and/or missing, while most are redacted from reality. The withdrawn paintings concept is the emotional arc of the book, a combination of wishing one could paint the pieces he/she/they envision and the feeling of something torn out of a person due to a traumatic upbringing. A sort of erasure ekphrasis, to foresee artwork that was never painted.

now that i've repeated the words 'literary crime' a thousand times and sounded as sarcastic as i possibly could, let's wrap this up. Michael is at times rigid and authoritarian, at others extremely open to new ideas and learning, particularly in furtherance of his planned assassination. There is bleak humour as we see the odd places this takes him, and the unlikely allies he enlists. Beneath it all is an insistent rise in the tension as he closes in on his target. Michael is both articulate and evasive as he outlines how his attitudes to discipline and punishment have been shaped during his time as a teacher and an earlier brief career in the police. There's paranoia in his day to day life now, and even when talking with the therapist he has an answer for everything, and can find no way of relating to his daughter which was the saddest part of the story. When the family should be pulling together, he's pulling it apart. I personally felt like the ending came a little abruptly and I’m still left with so many questions which in some books works fine but for me I really felt like with this particular book I needed the answers to what happens next and how things conclude.Don’t be fooled by the terrorist theme in the summary, this is all about the character of Michael and his many faults and sometimes psychopathic behaviours, these revealed as he increasingly tells us his inner truths. He writes a lot of this diary to his therapist, so withholds some information in these parts, which is contained in his personal section of the diary. There is a great dynamic between the therapist and Michael, this working relationship appears to come on in stilted spurts and bounds, although it doesn’t come across as truly authentic, there is a solid contrast between the characters, but we see some similar flaws in each of their character unfurl. He sounds like the perfect mate, right? Raine thought so too, but there's just one problem: He doesn't want her. In the end, this reminded me of Andy Weir's "The Martian" in terms of character-building, attention to (most) detail(s), and excitement. It's more of a 'Young Adult' view of a revenge-killing story, but set in the real world with adult themes. He never delves too deeply into them, but provides just enough tidbits and details to wet the appetite. In his poignant and devastating debut collection, Arthur Kayzakian skillfully excavates personal memory and family history to reclaim a missing heirloom. Through poems ranging in documentary, to visual, to lyrical, Kayzakian confronts how the grief of war and displacement are compounded by the loss of stolen familial objects, beloved items that served as a reminder of the life before. Where the harms of war are intensified by new harms, these poems push against historical erasure to establish a new narrative. Kayzakian stirs with poetic prowess while achieving generational reclamation." Cruelty and ignorance are targets too for Raymond Antrobus, poet-advocate for the D/deaf community. Antrobus made a powerful statement against the ignorance he perceived in Ted Hughes’s poem Deaf School when he included it, fully redacted, in his ( Ted Hughes award-winning) collection The Perseverance.