This Wednesday, the cafe is talking about time, narrative and soulmates

Not so recently, I got to read the unmaking of june farrow and I am bringing you my opinions about the plotting!

Grab a drink and let’s chat!

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Sources

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Eliza Bentley,Narrative Manipulations of Time Travel: Character Knowledge and Temporal Disruption in Fiction and Film. (2021)

Leslie Barri, Mandy Morgan. Soulmates, compatibility and intimacy: Allied discursive resources in the struggle for relationship satisfaction in the new millennium.Soulmates, compatibility and intimacy: Allied discursive resources in the struggle for relationship satisfaction in the new millennium - ScienceDirect(April, 2011)

Steve Paulson.Why Are We So Interested In Time travel?,Why Are We So Interested In Time Travel? | To The Best Of Our Knowledge. (February, 2018)

Vicky Stein, Alisa Harvey.Time travel: Is it possible?https://www.space.com/21675-time-travel.html. (February, 2024)

Cornelius Holtorf. On The Possibility Of Time Travel,On the Possibility of Time Travel (2010)

Bruce Sterling, Britannica.Science FictionScience fiction - Origins, Genre, Authors | Britannica. (January 2025)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_travel_works_of_fiction

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-time-travel-possible/

https://www.bossybookworm.com/post/review-of-the-unmaking-of-june-farrow-by-adrienne-young#:~:text=The%20story%20shifts%20between%20events,how%20timelines%20may%20have%20combined.

Bell hooks. “All about Love”.

.https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a30964854/outlander-season-6-release-date-amazon/

https://prowritingaid.com/metafiction#article-head3

This Sunday, the cafe is talking about history unraveled and also second chance romances.

Not so recently, I got to read the summer we fell by Eliabeth O'Roark, an angsty second chance romance following a troubled pop star and surfer. Let's revisit it!

Grab a drink and let’s chat!

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This Wednesday, the cafe is talking about Dating Dr Dil, a romance novel by Nisha Sharma.

Not so recently, I got to read and review the book and I wanted to touch on some elements that were amiss, maybe.

Grab a drink and let’s chat!

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Sources

Relations Between the Generations in Immigrant Families, Nancy Foner1 and Joanna Dreby2 (April 26, 2011)

https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-soc-081309-150030

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This Wednesday, the cafe is serving another "why do we like it" episode. I have been reminiscing about the wattpad, messy bun petite heroine as she makes a come back in romance.

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Welcome to the Cafe. This week we are talking about filthy rich characters in romance while reviewing recent books.

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This week we explore themes in justice dramas-- mainly in Vigilante, a kdrama webtoon adaptation released last november. We explore characters, punishment, and the Vigilante identity.

The history of Utilitarianism: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/utilitarianism-history/#JohStuMil

The utilitarian approach to ethics: https://www.scu.edu/ethics/ethics-resources/ethical-decision-making/calculating-consequences-the-utilitarian-approach/

Act and Rule Utilitarianism (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy) https://iep.utm.edu/util-a-r/#SH1a

The Moral permissibility of punishment (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy): https://iep.utm.edu/m-p-puni/

So You’re Sorry? The role of remorse in Criminal law https://jaapl.org/content/jaapl/42/1/39.full.pdf

Vigilantism is an Identity https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1322325276

Why do we punish? The Case of Retributive Justice https://commons.allard.ubc.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1348&context=fac_pubs

The politics of vigilantism https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0010414020957692

Unmasking cyber vigilantism https://www.mtroyal.ca/AboutMountRoyal/MediaRoom/Stories/2023/12/unmasking-cyber-vigilantism.htm

Books:

Utilitarianism, John Stuart Mills (Chapter 1-2)

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