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I’ve edited my first post to reflect how I feel about these replies (yours also resonated with me because of your mentioning intimacy of sex; cognitive dissonance as a lesbian helps me personally but I see where you’re coming from and I feel you on that), but I just wanted to specifically address here you said

> I want to be proud of my partners occupation and there’s no framing way sex work could be a topic of conversation at my family Xmas party

I mean. Yeah. I feel you on that. I do volunteer work in my community with my local homeless population 3 days a week (I’m able to commit so much time because I’m a sex worker and I only work two days a week) and I tell my extended family and my sweetie’s family that’s my “real” job. But I do that for free while sex work pays my bills and helps me get out of my serious medical bill debt. A lot of sex workers are proud of what we do. And we should be because we are all awesome and strong and brave. I can work two days a week, support myself, maintain a long term autoimmune illness that prevents me from maintaining a “normal”/vanilla job, and it helps me meet dope ass women from all over who want to remove the stigma from what we do. But I know my sweetie is proud of me because I make money and am able to use the rest of my time to dedicate to what I love and believe in (my volunteer work, my education to become a translator, the love I give to my pets). My mother (who is the only family member who knows what I do) won’t brag to her friends about it, but she will tell them about my other accomplishments outside of work. She also appreciates that because of the money I make I’m able to help make sure my grandmother gets the hospice care she needs but would not be able to afford otherwise.

Sex work is a very low barrier job for people who don’t have options or are limited in their choices for employment because of education limits, health limitations, caregiver obligations, or other reasons. You should be proud of what sex workers do because we are, at our core, strong and brave and weird and cool fucking people. We don’t need you to be proud of us but if you were, we’d really appreciate your support. I really recommend reading the Justice Hustlers books for a fictionalized but fantastic account that normalizes sex work and touches on a lot of our normal lives, as well as getting in touch with your local SWOP (Sex Workers Outreach Project) events to learn more about sex workers and who we are.

Also, feel free to PM me if you have more questions (same for anyone reading this! as long as you’re respectful, I want to answer questions and help clear up the stigma that keeps us in the shadows).

Thank you for replying to my question. I appreciate you and I really look forward to hearing from you if you have any more input.

ETA: Hey, thanks for downvoting me whoever you are! Please PM me with your dissonance or reply to me here and show yourself. By all means. I won’t judge you if you’re honest about how you feel, but I do judge you for being a coward, you fuck. @ u/Phyllotreta hmu if you have questions. I trust that you would actually respond.

I can’t speak for every woman on the planet but I had a somewhat similar situation when I broke my back a few months before I was supposed to start my MBA. Major financial worries about delaying, GMAT, etc.

Initially I think you just need to be there to listen. Gently remind her it took you two attempts to pass the bar. My biggest comfort is the daily act of spooning with my husband every night where he rubs my back. Not like a massage but gently running his hands over my back with no expectation of sex.

If money is a concern, then look where you can be generous. Some of the best gifts are the ones we think are too expensive or we think are unnecessary for ourselves.

Somethings she would probably really appreciate: a day at a spa, like a Korean day spa where you can soak all day, get some treatments, journal etc. In the Seattle area there is one called The Olympus Day Spa that is amazing, in case you happen to randomly live there. Most major cities have places like that.

Lacking that, a long massage, at least 90 minutes where she can really relax. Bonus if she can get a facial. Reflexology and foot rubs are always winners for most women I know. Either pick her up and drop her off or pay for an Uber/Lyft so she doesn’t have to drive. Then, movies and chill.

If you can afford it, take a long weekend and go somewhere really chill. The opposite of Vegas. Her nervous system needs a reset. Think hot springs if you live any near those. Snow. Cabin. No wifi or cell service. Hot springs. That would be idea.

Other things: one of the things that sounds so ridiculous but really bites about financial issues is not being able to afford the makeup and things that make you feel beautiful. If your confidence is shot from something like failing the boards, then not having the money to replace your makeup stocks or get your hair done feels rotten. I hardly wear makeup, but what I do wear is not cheap. If she gets her makeup from Sephora or Nordstrom, a gift card there would be nice.


Also, it would be natural to jump into studying again, but see if you can encourage her to take a break. Let her brain rest. Let her nervous system reset.


I struggled with cognitive function and have experimented a bit with smart drugs. I really, really like nicotine. Not tobacco. I don’t smoke, but I use the lozenges sparingly when I really need to focus. More about it here. I got the lowest dose possible on Amazon.

Also, I’ve had great luck with GABA for anxiety.

I also really like Brain Power line from Bulletproof.

I know lots of people who love Qualia. Gave me awful headaches but I have friends that love it.

Experiment with these long before it’s test taking time. But they can really help with focus and calming.


It’s late and speaking of running out of brain power....I am. But one last thought. A good book with nothing to do with anything related to nursing wouldn’t go amiss if she likes to read.

Two suggestions. For something smart and witty but not dark or deep, every person I have ever recommend the Parasol Protectorate to has loved it.

And Outlander. The main female character is nurse and there are a lot of great medical story lines in there. It’s a huge series and easy to get lost in.

It’s lovely of you to think of how you can support her. Good work.

> Lenny Henry who did the Ansansi boys

Ooh, I liked that! I think Lenny Henry is a talented actor and narrator. I liked his Othello, too.

Haha, Scott Brick is one of my pet peeves (nothing against the guy; I just don't like his reading). (William Dufris's reading bugs me even more, but I am guessing that might be the kind of reading you like?)

I am not familiar with John Lee or Frank Muller; I will check them out when I am not running out of time.

You'd probably hate the ones I like;-)

I'll give links where you can play samples of them if you are curious.

One of my favourites is Richard Mitchley, who is bilingual English/Welsh and is a brilliant and expressive reader, for example in Susan Cooper's The Grey King (sample here: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Grey-King-Audiobook/B002V1O2U0 )

David Tennant of Doctor Who fame (believe it or not); I love his expressiveness and intelligence and range. One unusual story is Stephen Wakelam's "Waiting for the Boatman": https://www.amazon.com/Waiting-Boatman-BBC-Radio-dramatisation/dp/B009P4CPH8/

Anton Lesser (who apparently is in Game of Thrones and Endeavor, among many other things, not that every role gives him a chance to shine) is a really brilliant actor and reader; you can listen to the beginning of his narrated live cast version of the first Falco book here (I do not know this website; they just had by far the best quality audio of it and played the beginning, although it's also on audible with bad sound quality and a really gross part of the book in the sample, so I went with the better quality and better chosen sample): https://www.audiobooks.com/book/stream/41457

Sam Dastor (who is hard to find but also great nuance, intelligence, and emotion) -- I discovered him in an old production of Asimov's Caves of Steel but the sound quality is pretty bad, and some of the actors are downright goofy. Still love Dastor as R Daneel Olivaw, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z_GJrRDxwo

Finty Williams (daughter of Judi Dench and Michael Williams) is a fine actress and reader, and has audiobooks of everything from plays to popular books like MR Carey The Girl with all the Gifts: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Girl-with-All-the-Gifts-Audiobook/B00JFF4WMS

Speaking of whom, Michael Williams was an actor who did a lot of radio plays and was really very good (although I did find him annoying in a show he did with wife Dench, I think it was called A Fine Romance) -- but I can't find anything with him at the moment.

I love Glenda Jackson's acting and gorgeous voice; she can act just about anything. She recently did a full cast production of "Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola" which I thought was superb when I heard it on radio but haven't been able to find even a sample of anywhere.

I'm a teacher (do you know this already? I enter like every single book contest hoping for books.) in a low-income, urban public school. My students have free reading Fridays, but as my students say, "Miss Dubs, you got a lot of white girl books in here! Where's the black girl books?!" Too true, Takiesha, too true. So I have been ordering, borrowing, begging for, and stealing ghetto books for my students. They are SO SO SO grateful, and they ASK for silent reading days! They even CHECK OUT MY BOOKS like a library! It's AMAZING that these kids went from being non-readers to readers with the right books. =)

Any of the books on my teacher wish list are fair game. Dark is a good choice because it's a boy novel, and I'm really low on books for my male students.

EDIT: I never gave you my favorite book quote! I just got "Slam!" by Walter Dean Meyers for my students, so I'll just give you a quote out of there! "What was I going to say that he didn't know? Watch your back? Don't fall into no cracks? He didn't talk like he was dealing crack. Anyway, crack was the wrong road and anybody that lived in the hood knew where that was at, you don't have to teach fish to deal with water."

Thong on Fire: An Urban Erotic Tale by Noire

"Last seen during a short walk-on (or rather, incall) in Thug-a-Licious, Saucy Robinson returns with a vengeance in Noire's latest Harlem street tale, with Noire's most sophisticated plot to date. Born in Harlem to a black ex-G.I. father and a junkie Korean prostitute mother, Saucy (named Seung Cee by her mother and Sarita by her father) ends up in her uncle Swag's care by age eight, after her mother pimps her out to various men and her lesbian lover. Saucy's upstairs neighbor is a black girl named Tai, and the two are on-again, off-again frenemies for the rest of the book. Saucy, a total hottie, ends up attached to various drug dealers and working at a strip joint, the G-Spot. She breaks into doing rap videos, and ordinary-looking Tai, who is working for super-rapper Freedom Moore, hooks them up. Free wants Saucy to act straight, and if she can, her happiness might be assured. Beyond the sex, what drives the book is Saucy's vivid, trash-talking unreliability—except perhaps in describing her own pleasure."

An added bonus is the sub-Master P 16-bit CG cover of a woman's thong-clad booty.

There's definitely an allure and a market for it. Read Lauren Blakely's series that starts with "Big Rock" to see how someone does it well. I don't think she's the only one who does it, either. (Here's one other that I know of off the top of my head... disclaimer: she's a friend, but her book's gotten fantastic reviews.)

It isn't about marketing to a male audience, either. Female readers love getting into the guy's heads, and even polls of readers of genres who focus on female POV suggest as much - they want more of the content to be from the hero's POV and would be all over books that are exclusively written that way.

I enjoyed Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series, another light-weight summer read - the quality of story varies between the books but they're fun and mostly enjoyable. Bonus werewolves and vampires, because... why not?

Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann
National Book Award Winner 2009: It's an interesting story that weaves multiple plots together, and even tells the stories through multiple POVs. The plots are all brought together by a tightrope walking feat between the Twin Towers.

On my summer reading list, I have:

• Player Piano
  
  
• Lolita (re-reading. Nabokov's use of language is sublime)
  
  
• The Swerve: How The World Became Modern
  
  
• The Conquest of the Incas
  
  
• Let The Great World Spin
  
  
• Theodore Rex
  
  
  I'm currently half way through The Conquest of the Incas. If anyone has interest in the Spanish invasion of Mesoamerica, I highly recommend it. It's a very vivid account of the political games Pizarro and his generals played to take over the Inca empire and solidify their grip in the New World.

American Skin by Don Degrazia

American Skin: A Novel https://www.amazon.com/dp/0684862220/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_hAHmxbB22J6A9

It's about being a young skinhead in Chicago. It's kinda fucked up, but a very good, and easy read.

Also anything by Aaron Cometbus

DOUBLE DUCE https://www.amazon.com/dp/086719586X/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_7CHmxb6Q25WF6

Double Deuce is my favorite, but it's about being punk in the 80s/90s in California's Bay Area.

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AJ Wiseman 2018/11/1 Breaking Bard: Serenade (Chronicles of Rithmarck Book 1) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HD3CJ13

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C. Wintertide 2018/11/1 Neverfall: Mark of the Hero (A Gamelit Lit RPG Series) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H8RKR9R

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demi 2018/11/1 World Of Legends Online: Volume 1 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K49L5CM

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Kimiko Petaway 2018/11/1 How To Tame Your Dragon Volume III: A LitRPG Harem Adventure https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K4V5WDH

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L.E. Carter 2018/11/1 Sorcerer's Quest: A LitRPG Adventure https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JNDXLCG

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Cobyboy and Tithi Luadthong 2018/11/2 The FPS Deity: A Fantasy LitRPG Series- First Contact (Book 1) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K565VC7

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Dakota Krout 2018/11/2 Dungeon Desolation (The Divine Dungeon Book 4) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HYVJKRP

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Riley Morrison 2018/11/2 Visaria Online: Odyssey: A litRPG Fantasy Adventure Book 3 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JN734XQ

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Java Springs 2018/11/3 Gacha System- Dungeon Core Spawner: Chronicles of a Transmigrated Summoner (Gachapon System Book 1) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K5YN4BF

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M. A. Carlson 2018/11/3 World Tree Online: The Duchess of Hammers: 2nd Dive Begins https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K18B1XR

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A. J. Chaudhury 2018/11/4 The Goat King's Wives Online https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K6G56FR

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A.P. Gore and Patricia Jones 2018/11/4 Cursemancer: BlackFlame Online Book 1 (LitRpg Adventure) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JQ2XBP2

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Anna Eluvae 2018/11/4 Claiming His Legacy: Part I https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K6XTC2W

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FRIDA D'MENTO 2018/11/4 SUPERF***ED https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K6XQYBB

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Matthew Powell 2018/11/4 The Three Recruits: The Ascendant Book 1 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K6TTJ9W

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Nick Cole 2018/11/4 Pop Kult Warlord (Soda Pop Soldier Book 2) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K6SRSLW

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Robert Bevan and Joan Reginaldo 2018/11/4 6d6 (Caverns and Creatures) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K6WFHZW

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Stuart Grosse 2018/11/4 Lewd Dungeon: Book 9 - Falling to Darkness https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K6TKCHW

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Natalie Hunter 2018/11/6 The Queen's Revenge (Magic & Melodrama Book 2) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K8L4YYF

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Stuart Grosse 2018/11/7 Rules-Free VRMMO Life: Omnibus IV (Volumes 13-16) (VRMMO Life Omnibus Book 4) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KB6NSW3

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Valery Starsky and Valeria Kornosenko 2018/11/7 Transformation LitRPG https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JR4S88K

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Jan Stryvant 2018/11/8 Red Skies (The Valens Legacy Book 11) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KC2BKHY

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Stuart Grosse 2018/11/8 Into the Black: Book XVI: Moving Forward https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KC5HZBT

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Stuart Grosse 2018/11/8 Into the Black: Omnibus IV: Books 13-16 (Into the Black Omnibus Book 4) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KC7PN15

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Stuart Grosse 2018/11/8 Rules-Free VRMMO Life: Volume XVII - Malcanthet https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KBXBJ5V

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Derek Rhys 2018/11/9 HereAfter: Dragons Rising https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KD43BS6

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K.T. Hanna 2018/11/9 Fragments (Somnia Online Book 3) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KCZ7HN3

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Rebecca Jensen 2018/11/9 The Excisionists: Book 1 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KDJRJQG

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William D. Arand 2018/11/9 Super Sales on Super Heroes Omnibus Edition: Rise and Fall (Books 1-3) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KDKCSLL

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Harmon Cooper 2018/11/14 Apotheosis Boom (The Feedback Loop Book 8) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K7QVXSB

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A. J. Galelyn 2018/11/15 For A Few Minutes More: A Book of Cerulea (Sam's Song 2) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K4V8HB9

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Crissy Moss 2018/11/16 Steel Soul: Yevelia Book 1 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JY63F42

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Nick Ryder 2018/11/16 Hero's Dungeon 2: A Superhero Dungeon Core Novel https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JMQVYMZ

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Avril Sabine and Storm Petersen 2018/11/18 Guardians Of The Round Table 3: Singed Feathers https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GQ2V1YQ

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William Dickey 2018/11/18 The Otherist: The Ice Lands (Book 2) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KDKGBN9

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Vasily Mahanenko and Eugenia Dmitrieva 2018/11/19 A Song of Shadow (The Bard from Barliona Book #2) LitRPG series https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GX1C6X1

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Antony W.F. Chow 2018/11/20 CHRONICLES of a PC Gamer Stuck Inside an RPG: Book Two: Successor https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KDJXF4K

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D. L. Harrison 2018/11/20 Island Kingdoms' War: Evolution Online III (A LitRPG) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HFH3722

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A.T. Gilbert 2018/11/22 Fate of Camlan: A LitRPG Adventure (Camlan Realm Book 4) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JDX2TCT

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Dean Henegar 2018/11/23 Limitless Lands Book 2: Conquest (A LitRPG Adventure) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K1DX253

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Nicholas Knight 2018/11/25 Kaiju for Dummies: A LitRPG Kaiju Thriller (Kaiju Wars Offline Book 2) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KDCFVLQ

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Terry W. Ervin II 2018/11/26 Guild: A LitRPG Novella (Monsters, Maces and Magic Book 3) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JQB93MP

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James Hunter and eden Hudson 2018/11/27 Civil War: A litRPG Adventure (The Rogue Dungeon Book 2) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K56G2T9

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ilo man 2018/11/29 Goblin Goblin: XdCeX Online - Discretion Guaranteed (Wanton Witch Book 3) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K6VR5RY

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Angel Ramon 2018/11/30 Angel’s Nightmare Adventure: Ultimate Nightmare Set (A GameLit Survivor Horror Series) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KBGJC6S

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Edward Brody and Matias Trabold 2018/11/30 Eden's Gate: The Omen: A LitRPG Adventure https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JGF91JP

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Have you read and Ursula K Le Guin? try The Dispossessed or The Left Hand of Darkness

Kell Link writes wonderfully strange surrealist short stories. Her collections Magic for Beginners and Stranger Things Happen
can be downloaded for free from her website.

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace guaranteed to make you think.

The Keep by Jennifer Egan is a post-modern update of gothic haunted castle story.

100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Green Girl by Kate Zambreno is a coming of age story, but not YA Fiction. smart and beautifully written. some people have a problem getting past the unlikable main character, but I love this book. amazon lets you read the first couple pages.

Kafka - the Metamorphosis

Okay so my guilty pleasure is reading books like Hood Rat and Thugs Cry Nicki's new songs sound like a chapter right out of these books. Basically drugs and porn.

I remember someone read Anaconda without any music playing and I thought "Damn. This is a Hood Rat novel"

Let me go in depth into what I meant:


I don't care about Zeb Vance. Well, I do hope that he's taught about in Asheville schools, but I don't care about his legacy. He is not so important to the current city of Asheville that his name must adorn the downtown obelisk. But that's exactly my point. We don't have a statue of him downtown. We have an obelisk, that, asides from a plaque, does not carry any kind of Vance memento on it. It is a simple stone structure.

I don't see any reason to tear that down. Like you noted, Vance's legacy is already much forgotten. Why tear down the monument, when it can be edited? To most Ashevillians, the monument is more a place marker than a reminder of slavery. THAT BEING SAID, Vance's legacy is one of oppression. I don't see any reason for the monument to have to be related to Vance anymore, but there can still be information around it about the man.


In fact, if the monument was taken down, I expect there would be an plaque or something talking about the former monument. Luckily, we don't have to take it down in order to change its meaning. If you're interested in how the meaning of a particular era or structure can be changed very quickly, I recommend reading Confederate post-war revisionism, or this book.



edit: You're right my analogy about the building wasn't great. I guess what I'm trying to say is that an obelisk is more like a building than a statue. It carries no meaning that can't be repurposed. To me, it's more of a tool than a memorial. Cleopatra's Needle for example, may have been constructed using slave labor, and may have been used a tool of propaganda during Egypt's rule. But now, it sits in Central Park, a beautiful structure and nothing more. In short, obelisks, have no race, class, gender, or borders (unlike a statue, or at least, less like a statue). It's like having a fountain, and then destroying it because it honored a racist. There's no need! Just rename it, and everyone will still enjoy it.

Hard to say just what is pre-collapse and what is post-collapse; in a sense it would all be "during collapse." I can also see societal collapse as a cyclical thing that gets better-worse-better-different, as opposed to a long downward slope. But that's not really relevant.

A few books that might interest you:

Kim Stanley Robinson, The Gold Coast. This is part of a really interesting trilogy: each book is set in the same place and time, but each in a very different timeline. This one is the "suburban sprawl gone mad" timeline, the other two are "post collapse" and "ecotopia" scenarios.

Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower

Thomas Disch, 334

Fredrick Pohl's The Years of the City might fit the bill, although it might be a little more optimistic than you are looking for.

I also think William Gibson's first 3 novels (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive) as well as his early short stories (collected in Burning Chrome) fit pretty well into the scenario and feel you are looking for.

I'm imagining one really mean chicken pecking out the elephant's eyes and then herding it off a cliff.

I'd come off writing my first novel, which was a complicated Urban Fantasy with four POVs called Archive of Fire. I wanted to write an epic fantasy that was fun and pretty traditional. I wanted a single POV, something simpler, and I challenged myself to upend most tropes. (For instance, Draken gets a magic sword but he has no idea how to use a sword, he has a very unusual bodyguard, that sort of thing.) I wrote the first one but the publisher wanted a trilogy so I had to extend the story. It worked out all right.

Draken is biracial (in his secondary world) so it was important to us to show that. Beyond that they were designed to show they're action stories, I believe. My favorite is the ENEMY cover.

Green Day's American Idiot

Goals, hm. I think when I started it might have been sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll. Now I'd like to be able to put my kids through college. Ah, how things change. Self-expression is a weird gig because I feel driven to write but completely insecure about what I have to say.

My favorite review isn't really a review but it's when my son read EXILE and came down every morning and discussed it with me. My second favorite... and I'm not sure where this one is... had something to do with distracting someone while a loved one was in the hospital. I do tend to read them but I don't respond and so far they haven't affected my writing much. THE SILVER SCAR has the potential to be controversial so we'll see if my attitude sticks.


Thanks for asking!

This one skews more towards women, but Gail Cariger's Parasol Protectorate series is phenomenal. I also love Steven Harper's The Doomsday Vault. And I just read A Study in Silks--it was really well promoted at NYCC last year.

Since I have no idea what kind of books you like I made a short little list of books I generally recommend to people for any reason. All linked to amazon so look for a review or synopsis there.

Let the Great World Spin

The Great War for Civilization

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

Oil!

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

Theodore Rex

Lincoln:A Novel

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Let the great world spin by colum mcCann (one of my favorite books)

also "motherless brooklyn" by jonathon lethem
and "Lucia, Lucia" By adriana trigiani

There's a couple like you in Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin. You should check it out.

Olive Kittridge -Strout

A Visit from the Goon Squad -Egan

The Imperfectionists -Rachman

Let the Great World Spin -McCann

>I'm an African American woman that loves EVERYTHING sci-fi.

Please tell me that you've already read Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist.

Let The Great World Spin - Colum McCann

The Walking People - Mary Beth Keane

Recently Finished:

Colum McCann's Let The Great World Spin

Before that City of Thieves by David Benioff

Currently reading:

You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers

Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand

Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann

Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann.

Bunch of different intertwining stories of the people of New York City, centering around Philippe Petit's tightrope walk of the Twin Towers in the 70's.

"Let the Great World Spin". http://www.amazon.com/Let-Great-World-Spin-Novel/dp/0812973992

Highly recommend this fiction book on elevators

https://www.amazon.com/Intuitionist-Novel-Colson-Whitehead/dp/0385493002

I had the [link] (http://www.amazon.com/AMERICAN-SKIN-Don-De-Grazia/dp/0684862220) ready to go.

American Skin

Here is the link to Buckyball, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01A3CBZ3A

The Intuitionist.
Not sure if this book addressed this, but awesome read nonetheless.