![]() ![]() At least the original cover stood out from the crowd. But I like it much better than the “random girl on the cover” syndrome we have been exposed to with the most recent cover redesign.īoy, did I hate these. I’m not the biggest fan anymore (what can I say? Tastes change). ![]() I loved Delirium‘s original cover, especially on the hardback because removing the dust jacket gives you more cover detail of the woman’s face. The Delirium trilogy has been redesigned three times now. ![]() I was not happy when Stephanie Perkins’s Anna and the French Kiss companion books were redesigned, I hate the new covers for The Winner’s Curse trilogy by Marie Rutkoski, and redesigning the covers of the Ruby Red trilogy by Kerstin Gier is a downright sin. We’ve all come to expect that the trilogies we love might possibly get new covers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() With this remarkable third collection, Smith establishes herself among the best poets of her generation. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by her own father, where celebrities and pop stars walk among us, and where the poet herself loses her father, one of the engineers who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. The Princeton creative writing professor and poet reflects on the. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like “love” and “illness” now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. Smith’s third book, explores the cosmos through words. With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It infuses us with despair and the knowledge of what it feels like to suffer loss in the face of abject poverty, and the weight of it is crushing. All of their desires are shattered, however, on one blistering night when an act of violence destroys every hope they ever had.īrothers is one of those books that opens our hearts with scalpel-sharp precision and makes us bleed. She has no intention of staying still and putting down roots where they currently live though, and instead fosters dreams that will take her far away from home. But Michael, on the other hand, is “twitterpated,” and is head over heels in love with his classmate Aisha. He has aspirations of working in the music biz and wants to build a future in the world of hip hop. But their mama pretty much raised them that way, sometimes working three jobs to ensure they had every opportunity to succeed despite their Trinidad roots and the discrimination and racism they all seemed to incessantly experience. ![]() They were intelligent, resourceful boys with big dreams for their futures. Siblings Michael and Francis seemed to have the whole world in front of them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mary Rodgers was born in 1931, the year that Rodgers and Hart’s musical “America’s Sweetheart” opened on Broadway. ![]() ![]() Mary Rodgers created joy in her work and in her life. Though Richard Rodgers created incredible musical beauty-dozens of the most wonderful songs in the American Songbook-we learned a decade ago, when new biographies came out, that he lived under a dark cloud, which rained on everybody around him. “Freaky Friday,” in its lessons about generosity and mutual understanding, was deeply reassuring. Playfulness, intelligence, and empathy characterized her work, especially the books. Rodgers wrote for Bernstein’s Young People’s Concert series, which taught so many of us about classical music she composed two terrific, eerie songs (“ Girl Land” and “ William’s Doll”) on the album “Free to Be You and Me,” which everybody in those days knew by heart she wrote the lyrics to the “Captain Kangaroo” theme and she wrote the music for that whimsical staple of high-school theatricals “Once Upon a Mattress,” the musical riff on “The Princess and Pea” (which, when it débuted on Broadway, launched the career of Carol Burnett). If you were one of those smitten kids, as I was, you might be a bigger Mary Rodgers fan than you even realized. ![]() ![]() ![]() An Ass-Kicking Christmas: On the third day of Mynyddog's Midwinter feast, the Company and the Teulu fall to squabbling about the Champion's portion of the roast, end up in a mead-fuelled brawl, and nearly burn down Dyn Eidin.Alliterative Family: The brothers Cynan, Cynri, and Cynran Mac Clydno, who are theoretically Scottish, enjoy a matching set of Welsh names.All First-Person Narrators Write Like Novelists: Tagalong Chronicler Aneirin will compose the Great Song that celebrates the Company's triumph (or tragic demise.) If they’d wanted a novel, apparently Prosper the shieldbearer could have done just as well. ![]() The Shining Company contains examples of: ![]() It was traditionally attributed to the bard Aneirin, a supposed eyewitness. The Shining Company is based on the Welsh elegiac poem Y Gododdin, commemorating the fallen of the Battle of Catraeth circa 600 CE. Under the growing threat of the Saxon kings of Deira and Bernicia, King Mynyddog of the Gododdin summons the second sons of the North and West to form a new Three Hundred. It was her last completed novel before her death and later won the 2010 Phoenix Award.Ī hundred years after Artos and his Company of three hundred cavalry united Britain’s forces against the invading Saxons, the Britons have fractured once more into the petty kingdoms of the Old North. The Shining Company is a Young Adult Historical Fiction novel by Rosemary Sutcliff published in 1990. ![]() ![]() ![]() That is, I was expecting more Fables than The Walking Dead, and for me the first volume of Lemire’s Sweet Tooth leaned more toward The Walking Dead. ![]() 1: Out of the Deep Woods and - you in the know probably saw this coming - it seems to me there’s quite the divide between Sweet Tooth the comic and the tone of the trailer, at least, for the Sweet Tooth TV show. Now, I haven’t actually started watching Netflix’s Sweet Tooth yet, but I did finish reading Sweet Tooth Vol. The pastel-tinged fantastical of the Sweet Tooth trailer wasn’t quite up my alley, but the comics series seems to have been popular and I’m always happy to support Jeff Lemire’s work. ![]() ![]() Also because, with Mandalorian, Bosch, Titans, and Doom Patrol all on hiatus and not scheduled to reappear for at least a month at earliest, I’m looking for a streaming show to watch. Obviously I’m taking the opportunity of a lull in my comics pull list to check out Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth because of the TV show premiering on Netflix. ![]() ![]() They are who they are and an apology for their actions would mean they'd have to apologize for their identities, which one shouldn't have to do in a loving relationship. At the moment Jenny utters this line, neither her or Oliver are owed an apology because their words and actions were completely consistent with who they were when they first met. We also know each other's intentions and hearts so well that the forgiveness is already assumed. ![]() We simply don't do things to each other that require apologies. But as an adult, I realize that I've never really exchanged serious apologies with the people I love most in the world. When I was a teen, I used to think the line that quickly became a tagline for this book "love means never having to say your sorry" was an extremely silly, misguided line. I've read the book, I've watched the film, Segal tells us she's gonna die with the first line, yet I still got all teary and weepy when it happened. It was so short and incredibly enjoyable. I wanted to give this a re-read in adulthood to see if it'd be worth keeping and actually decided to listen to the audiobook which is read by Segal and has backing music from the film. ![]() ![]() ![]() I inherited a bunch of Segal books from my grandmother when I was a teen and quickly fell in love with a few of them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black (1989)īlack Looks: Race and Representation (1992) Writingsįeminist Theory from Margin to Center (1984) ![]() ![]() Today we honor bell hooks, her work, and what she stood for. She will always be remembered as a scholar and activist that gave Black women a voice and called it out when not. She gave so many people the language and the ability to challenge oppression, patriarchal system through her work. Her writings focused on the intersectionality of race, gender, and capitalism. She explored the perceptions of Black women and black women writers and the development of feminist identities. Her work examined the connections between race, gender, and class. “It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term ‘feminism’, to focus on the fact that to be ‘feminist’ in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.” – “Ain’t I a Woman,” by bell hooksīell hooks (Gloria Jean Watkins) was an American scholar, Black feminist, author, and social activist, and African American woman born Septemand died December 15, 2021. ![]() ![]() As the young couple falls back in love, a question hangs in the air: Can he really set aside his wife and marry the queen? When Amy is found dead, Elizabeth and Dudley are suddenly plunged into a struggle for survival. Her faithful advisors warn her that she will survive only if she marries a strong prince to govern the rebellious country, but the one man Elizabeth desires is her childhood friend, the ambitious Robert Dudley. She has inherited a bankrupt country where treason is rampant and foreign war a certainty. ![]() She is Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, and she knows Elizabeth’s ambitious leap to the throne will draw her husband back to the center of the glamorous Tudor court, where he was born to be.Įlizabeth’s excited triumph is short-lived. The Virgin's Lover book by Philippa Gregory ReadingRewards: Earn 2x points on all Children's Books Romance Books > Romantic Historical Books ISBN: 043935806X ISBN13: 9780439358064 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5 in the Harry Potter Series) by Philippa Gregory See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 4.19 - 5. ![]() After years of waiting, Princess Elizabeth accedes to the throne of England. In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen, yet one woman hears the tidings with utter dread. A stunning new unabridged recording, available on audio download A sumptuous historical novel set in the court of Elizabeth I, from Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Philippa Gregory, the author of The Other Boleyn Girl. From number-one New York Times best-selling author and “queen of royal fiction” ( USA Today ) comes a riveting and scandalous love triangle between a young woman on the brink of greatness, a young man whose ambition far exceeds his means, and the wife who cannot forgive them. ![]() ![]() ![]() From ABSOLUTE CARNAGE to “Venom Island,” Donny Cates continues his sensational shake-up of the symbiotic mythos! With the serial killer Cletus Kasady on the warpath, Eddie Brock must protect his son, Dylan, at all costs! But Venom and Carnage aren’t the only two symbiotes around. With the serial killer Cletus Kasady on the warpath, Eddie Brock must protect his son, Dylan, at all costs But Venom and Carnage arent the only two symbiotes. 2: The Abyss Genre: Graphic Novels Illustrator: Ryan Stegman, Iban Coello Label: Marvel Comics Contributors: Ryan Stegman (. ![]() As more of Venom’s twisted offspring make their presence known, Carnage strikes - and all hell breaks loose! As if things weren’t bad enough, it turns out there’s much more to Dylan than Eddie, Carnage or even the alternate-reality Reed Richards known as the Maker understand - and once they learn the truth, nothing will ever be the same! Then, in the aftermath of Carnage’s assault, Eddie finds himself back on the ominous Island of Bones - where every living thing is out to get him! Venom will be tested like never before!Ĭollects Venom (2018) #16-25. ![]() From ABSOLUTE CARNAGE to “Venom Island,” Donny Cates continues his sensational shake-up of the symbiotic mythos! With the serial killer Cletus Kasady on the warpath, Eddie Brock must protect his son, Dylan, at all costs! But Venom and Carnage aren’t the only two symbiotes around. ![]() |