![]() The first novel examines a possessiveness which resorts to control and violence, the second focuses on a vengeful response to the loss of a loved one, and the third outlines some of the damage which can be caused by over-dependence on a beloved. The trilogy, comprised of Dance Upon The Air (2001), Heaven and Earth (2001), and Face the Fire (2002), explores various aberrations which arise from love, or what purports to be love. Nora Roberts' Three Sisters trilogy advocates for such an approach inasmuch as it depicts a variety of ways in which love can become destructive and suggests the need to evaluate and assess experiences of love in order to be certain that it will indeed be beneficial. ![]() Stanley's words in Hannah More's Coelebs in Search of a Wife (1808), through which he expressed a legalistic caution about love: “love itself requires some regulations to direct its exertion some law to guide its motions some rule to prevent its aberrations some guard to hinder that which is vigorous from becoming eccentric” (332). In the title of this chapter I refer back to Mr. ![]()
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![]() Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health, by Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie, Knopf Canada, 323 pages, $32.Saturday Night Live episodes to quotes from Miss Marple - as well as the authors' brio in using their own bodies as test subjects. It's a fascinating and frightening read leavened by frequent references to pop culture - everything from Over nine chapters, Smith, a biologist and executive director of Environmental Defence, and Lourie, an environmental consultant, examine how the very chemicals that relieve us of bad smells, unsightly stains, sticky foods, invasive weeds and flammability - not to mention brittle toys - threaten our own and our children's health. Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health, written by Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie. And it's these invisible additives that leave the toy box stewing in a distinctly modern dilemma: A growing body of evidence links the chemicals to "de-masculinizing" effects in infant boys, according to That vinyl plaything owes its pliability to chemicals called phthalates. ![]() Plunge your hands into a well-stocked toy box and no doubt your fingers will alight upon an example of modern chemistry's ingenuity: the soft, rubbery toy that bounces back after being squeezed, pummelled or chewed on. ![]() ![]() ![]() This story of a young woman who actually consumes anyone attracted to her provides a strange glimpse into a truly profound depth of loneliness. Along the way she discovers%E2%80%94often under gruesome circumstances%E2%80%94that she is not the only one of her kind, but she is, in a very real way, destined to be alone. Hopeful that she might find acceptance and answers, Maren embarks on a cross-country journey in search of her dad. ![]() The other thing Maren's mother left her is her birth certificate, which includes the name of the father she's never known. Maren's 16th birthday seems too good to be true%E2%80%94and sure enough, she awakens the morning after a near-perfect celebration with her mother to find an envelope of cash and a note from her mom: "I love you but I can't do this anymore." Ever since Maren literally devoured her babysitter when she was a little girl, her family has been on the run%E2%80%94Maren doesn't let people get too close to her, but when they do, they're liable to get eaten. DeAngelis (Mary Modern), who coincidentally went vegan shortly before starting work on this novel, serves up a cannibal story that successfully blends metaphor with the macabre. ![]() |