![]() ![]() The idea of all-powerful gods and goddesses who were in charge of specific parts of the world enthralled me, the prospect of magical powers and fantastic beasts thrilled me, and the promise of immortality and ultimate power enticed me. Whether it's adapted fairy tales, re-written classic literature, updated fables, or modern Greek mythology retellings, I'm a sucker for re-reading tales I've already been told in new and exciting ways.Įver since I started studying Greek mythology in grade school, I've been fascinated by the world of Mount Olympus and beyond. Believe it or not, some of my favorite kinds of books are the ones that pull from stories I already know. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Only briefly do we meet the first, a farmer whose land and livelihood are ruined by drought. Sharing this tale with the bird are three curiously engaging women. That “struggle” is left to the imagination of the reader, as is much of the storyline, throughout which obfuscation, minimalism, and a creative timeline are mixed with some beautifully honed prose. It’s unclear what the military hopes to do with the bird, but perhaps the heron’s preternatural powers might give them an edge in their struggle. Its apparent magic becomes the subject of a deadly hunt by soldiers involved in a local uprising. The heron is incorporeal, made of water, though it can be netted and caged. The chapters are very loosely tied to a mythical bird whose appearance reverses a devastating drought in an unidentified rural land. Robbie Arnott is a prize-winning Tasmanian writer who has created in The Rain Heron a phantasmagoric tale in five parts. ![]() ![]() Building on this speech, Misfits immerses readers in her deeply personal vision through powerful allegory and anecdotes - from her East London upbringing to her discovery of theatre and love for storytelling. But in the end, the person most impacted was Coel herself. ![]() Michaela Coel's MacTaggart Lecture touched a lot of people with her striking revelations about race, class and gender. ***A BEST AUTUMN READ in Vogue, Vulture, Time Magazine, Observer, Entertainment Weekly, Bustle and LitHub * **įrom the brilliant mind of the creator and star of I May Destroy You and Chewing Gum comes a passionate declaration against fitting in. A gifted writer' Sunday Times | ' A remarkable talent' Guardian | 'A perfect truth-teller of our time' ELLE | 'Leaps off the page' Observer | 'Comic and devastating' New York Times | ' A magnificent thinker' gal-dem | 'A must-read' Metro | 'Your self-help bible' Sunday Times ![]() ' Razor-sharp and as funny as I May Destroy You. THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - A SUNDAY TIMES FILM & TV BOOK OF THE YEAR ![]() ![]() WOW! This book was so much deeper and more intense than I ever expected it to be. Over the years, they will drift apart, come together, fight, make up, and break up-and ultimately, realize how inextricably they are a part of each other. We meet them once a year on their shared birthday as they grow and change: as Eric figures out who he is and how he fits into the world, and as Morgan makes the difficult choice to live as her true self. Two kids, Morgan and Eric, are bonded for life after being born on the same day at the same time. May 27 (the day this is being posted) is my birthday!!! Since I had an ARC of BIRTHDAY by Meredith Russo, I thought it would be great to post my full review of it on my real birthday! Thanks to Raincoast Books for sending me the ARC (and thanks to all of you for the birthday wishes!)!īoyhood meets The Sun Is Also a Star in this unconventional love story about two teens bonded for life when they are born on the same day at the same time by award-winning author Meredith Russo! Welcome back to Reading, Reading, Reading! ![]() ![]() ![]() Living "the life"īeing a Youtube-star, Cameron shares a lot, which might not be easy all the time. Today, his channel has over 900 videos, which brought him as many as 20 million views. From there, they cycled back to the UK in six days. Their ambitious endeavor earned him more than a million views and things started to turn around for Cameron. When he and a friend decided to buy the cheapest plane tickets in Europe, they ended up in the south of France. But it was at the end of 2019 when Cameron hit the big numbers. In March 2016 Cameron joined Youtube to share his story about his career. ![]() We get a unique insight into the life of a professional cyclist, rather than seeing them only at their peak moments. As a rider for the Saint Piran professional cycling team, he started documenting his training, his races, and eventually his life. The life of a pro cyclistĬameron is a British professional cyclist, who wanted to show the audience a bit more than the normal one-day race we usually get to see. At 23 years old, Cameron Jeffers is successfully documenting his life as an elite cyclist on Youtube. It was his goal to make a connection between viewers and athletes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her membership in the Communist Party led to Ronald Reagan's request in 1969 to have her barred from teaching at any university in the State of California. Her research interests are in feminism, African American studies, critical theory, Marxism, popular music, social consciousness, and the philosophy and history of punishment and prisons. ![]() She is a retired professor with the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is the former director of the university's Feminist Studies department. Prisoner rights have been among her continuing interests she is the founder of Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. She emerged as a nationally prominent activist and radical in the 1960s, as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement despite never being an official member of the party. Angela Yvonne Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author. ![]() ![]() For a killer is loose who’s woven such an intricate web of evil that no one is above suspicion, no one is beyond harm, and no one will see death coming until it has them cornered, helpless, and alone.įor 300-some pages, Gardner (The Perfect Husband) keeps readers spellbound not just by her plot but by the beautifully realized character of Massachusetts police sniper Bobby Dodge. What brings them together is a moment of violence-but what connects them is a passion far deeper and much more dangerous. ![]() ![]() and filled with an unquenchable rage for vengeance. Now he walks the streets a free man, invisible, anonymous. a madman survived solitary confinement in a maximum security prison where he’d done hard time for the most sadistic of crimes. and for the series of unexplained illnesses that have sent her own young son repeatedly to the hospital.Īlone. Her father-in-law, the powerful Judge Gagnon, blames Catherine for his son’s death. Twenty-five years ago, she was buried underground during a month-long nightmare of abduction and abuse. that’s where the nightmare began for cool, beautiful, and dangerously sexy Catherine Rose Gagnon. The man’s finger tightens on the trigger and Dodge has only a split second to react. Just across the street, in wealthy Back Bay, Boston, an armed man has barricaded himself with his wife and child. ![]() ![]() Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, a Soviet agency approaches Simon, a publisher in New York City, with a controversial proposition to publish the memoirs of his old friend, Frank Weeks. ![]() His betrayal rippled throughout the State Department, prompting frantic searches for moles and forcing the resignation of Simon, Frank’s former college roommate and best friend. ![]() Weeks’s defection in the early 50s shook Washington to its core-he had been a beloved member of the OSS and then the CIA, one of the bright young men who’d come out of the war ready to take an early lead in the new American century. ![]() Former CIA agent Frank Weeks, the most notorious of the defectors to the Soviet Union, is about to publish his memoirs, and what he reveals will send shockwaves through the West. With the launch of Sputnik, the Soviet Union’s international prestige is at an all-time high. From the bestselling author of Leaving Berlin and The Good German comes a thrilling and richly imagined novel focused on three weeks in the lives of a select group of defected American spies in Moscow during the height of the Cold War.Moscow, 1961. ![]() ![]() They released 8 paperback singles that fully collect the series, and later, announced a Full Color Collection of the series. Kodansha later picked up the series for print and they are the current license holder of Parasyte's manga. Both the Tokyopop and Del Rey printings are out of print. Del Rey later picked up the license and began printing the singles of the series after Tokyopop's release. The first English publisher to release Parasyte in the was Tokyopop. It’s one I highly recommend, especially if you are a sci-fi or body horror fan, but what’s the best way to collect the series? There are multiple different ways you can collect Parasyte with English translation. It's a sci-fi horror classic that has withstood the test of time, and it's without a shadow of a doubt, one of my favorite body horror manga to release so far. It's a series that was released over 30 years ago and is still highly influential and loved to this day. ![]() Parasyte by Hitoshi Iwaaki has some of the most compelling designs I've ever seen, but it also has some of the most effective body horror I've witnessed in manga. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her suspicions dissolve when she finds and saves the life of Roiben, a faerie knight, by pulling an iron-tipped arrow from his chest. However, she fails to find them and, begins to suspect that they were simply figments of her imagination. Once at her grandmother's house, Kaye begins to look for her old "imaginary" friends she had during her childhood, faeries named Lutie-Loo, Spike, and Gristle. After her mother's boyfriend and guitarist, Lloyd, attempts to stab her mother under the enchantment of Nephamael (a knight of the Unseelie Court) her mother takes her back to Kaye's grandmother's house in New Jersey to stay. The book begins in Philadelphia, at a gig her mother's band Stepping Razor is playing in a seedy bar in Philadelphia. Tithe follows the story of sixteen-year-old American, Kaye Fierch, a young nomad who tours the country with her mother's rock band. Tithe was one of five finalists for the annual Mythopoeic Fantasy Award in children's literature. The novel is set on the Jersey Shore and Black calls it "suburban fantasy, as opposed to urban fantasy". Sequels- Valiant (2005) and Ironside (2007)-completed a trilogy that is sometimes called Modern Tale of Faerie, the subtitle of volume two. It was published in 2002 by Simon & Schuster, who recommended it for "ages 12 up". Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale is a young-adult fantasy novel written by Holly Black. ![]() |