![]() ![]() ![]() As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door-ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort-a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one. ![]() We very nearly did, didn't we?" Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. "We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. Soon to be a major motion picture "Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell! No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled! O Bunny you are sooo genius!" -Margaret Atwood, via Twitter "A wild, audacious and ultimately unforgettable novel." - Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times "Awad is a stone-cold genius." -Ann Bauer, The Washington Post The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel from the acclaimed author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Cibopaths can get impressions from what they eat on the history of where their food came from. Well, you won’t find it in there, so put it down and get back to reading this. What is that? you ask, scrambling for your medical dictionary. But Chu isn’t just your everyday cop (who is in the world of comics?) but is, in fact, Cibopathic. ![]() Detective Tony Chu is on the case, staking out such organisations with his partner. Chicken is, predictably, banned, but there is a flourishing black market for it. But what would have happened in a world where avian flu was actually an international disaster? The comic Chew is here to tell you.Ģ3 million Americans have died of bird flu. ![]() And a pandemic-well, everyone gets into a frenzy about those, like last year’s swine flu, which threatened to take on Spanish flu proportions but essentially had a lesser fatality rate (though any fatality rate is terrible) than the normal flu. See the Icelandic volcano, spurting out ash and stranding travellers all over Europe. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the second part, we are going to zoom out and ponder to what extent his oscillation between written and virtual content might be illustrative for the theme of this conference “from manuscript to e-book”, taking into account that this perspective comes from Eco, who is an outspoken defender of the printed paper. In the first one, wandering between the author’s literary and scientific works, we will try to figure out where and how this expedient manifests in Eco, understand the function and the reasons for which it is used so often – whether for auctoritas or otherwise –, and its repercussions on the rest of the text. Accordingly, our paper will be divided into two parts. Still, in his latest novel, Numero zero, as previously in Il pendolo di Foucault, there is no trace of this recurrent trope and, instead, the action seems to be triggered by the search of a supposedly hidden floppy disk and, respectively, by the discovery of a digital archive. ![]() Out of his six novels, four are built around the discovery of some sort of manuscript. It is well known that the Italian writer is rather keen on the device of the found manuscript. ![]() ![]() ![]() We also encourage discussion about developments in the book world and we have a flair system. We love original content and self-posts! Thoughts, discussion questions, epiphanies and interesting links about authors and their work. 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Thread!. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Butler Did It: In Colonel Haki's mystery novel (implied to be bad) that he shares with Latimer, he reveals that he played this trope completely straight.Boisterous Bruiser: Colonel Haki, the Turkish Secret Police officer, as part of Obfuscating Stupidity.Black-and-Gray Morality: Besides Latimer, who is a decent guy, and some of his informants who are likewise, some of the characters who want revenge on Dimitrios are almost as bad as he is.As Latimer researches Dimitrios' past, he begins to be drawn into a world of dark conspiracies.Īdapted into the 1944 film The Mask of Dimitrios starring Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet. ![]() Through the course of his extremely shady life, Dimitrios went from a petty crook, to a pimp, to a particularly unethical spy, to finally a member of an international syndicate engaged in drug-trafficking and other crime. It tells of British mystery writer Charles Latimer going on vacation to Turkey and learning about Dimitrios, a notorious criminal, whose corpse has just been found. A classic spy novel by Eric Ambler of the "stale beer" type. Originally published in Britain in 1939 as "The Mask of Dimitrios". ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From health care policy and environmental justice to the ongoing legacy of segregation, McGhee places urgent topics in a new framework, supported by research and illustrated by stories of Black and white Americans from across the country.ĪLSO IN BOOKPAGE: Read our review of the print version of The Sum of Us. Listeners can hear the despair in her voice as she describes the atrocities of white plantation owners and the devastation caused by predatory housing lenders, as well as her hopefulness when she introduces listeners to coalitions succeeding in confronting voter suppression. The Sum of Us, by our guest today, Heather McGhee, seeks to do a full accounting of the. Public services have been decimated, millions of. McGhee, who narrates the audiobook, brings the same thoughtfulness to her reading as to her writing. She has written for Harvard Business Review, Time, USA Today. The Sum of Us (2021) is a searing analysis of how white supremacy has devastated the American middle class. But to write The Sum of Us (11 hours), Heather McGhee traveled across the country-from coastal Washington and rural Kentucky to an evangelical church in Chicago and a Nissan plant in Mississippi-to understand the roots of white America’s zero-sum attitude toward racial equity and how this mistaken belief system damages everyone. ![]() ![]() A wide-ranging examination of racial inequity in America, written by the former head of a progressive think tank, might not be the most obvious audiobook choice for your next road trip. ![]() ![]() The Springsteen classics abounded on Wednesday. Right now, after two runs of “Springsteen on Broadway," and downtime due to COVID-19, it's time to rock. ![]() “That's why you have to make the most of right now.”īruce Springsteen: Band announce 33-date US arena tour At 73, it's a lot of goodbyes,” Springsteen said. “It brings a clarity of thought and a purpose that you might have not previously experienced. “His passing would leave me as the last surviving member of my first band, so it's kind of like standing on the tracks with the hot light of an oncoming train bearing down on you,” Springsteen said. ![]() Springsteen performed a poignant solo acoustic “Last Man Standing” from the band's 2020 album, “Letter to You.” He introduced it with the story of the 2018 death of George Theiss, the Boss' bandmate in the Castiles of Freehold. Mortality, and its motivational properties, were a central theme in the opening show of the band's 2023 world tour Wednesday at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida. Watch Video: Bruce Springsteen pays his voice a compliment, releases new songīruce Springsteen and the E Street Band rocked like their lives depended on it. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this world, princesses serve dragons - some willingly, some not so much - usually until they are rescued by a brave knight who comes to free them from “captivity”. So Cimorene runs away and finds herself a large dragon, Kazul, who just so happens to need a princess of her own. ![]() In Dealing with Dragons, we meet Cimorene, a princess who doesn’t want the typical Happily Ever After with a handsome prince, fine gowns, and a kingdom to be pampered in. Each book is quite different, and that’s not necessarily a good thing.įirst things first: If we were only talking about book #1, Dealing with Dragons, my enthusiasm would be much higher. Wrede encompasses four novels set in one world - and be warned ahead of time: Your enjoyment of this series is by no means guaranteed just because you liked the first book. ![]() The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. ![]() ![]() Often, there are further subsets of three within each list of three larger categories (such as scholars from the three Faiths or three different types of sorcerers). "Ramadan" repeatedly employs the Rule of Three, and as three is a magic number, the story takes on an enchanted quality. The caliph's home is a Palace of Wisdom, a Palace of Pleasure, and a Place of Wonders. The third page is dedicated to supernatural marvels, such as different kinds of sorcerers, talking animals, and mechanical autonoma. The next page describes the palace's beautiful women and boys skilled in lovemaking. The opening page is dedicated to the great thinkers of the city, listing geographers, geomancers, mathematicians, cadis, and spiritual leaders from the three primary Abrahamic faiths. ![]() The art, writing, and lettering all combine to evoke the narrative and artistic styles of the Abbasid Caliphate when the historical Harun al Raschid ruled Baghdad. ![]() ![]() Craig Russell, Tom Klein, and Karen Berger won several Eisners including Gaiman's fourth consecutive award for Best Writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Plus, hear how Gratz and Schoonover researched the plot, uniforms, characters, and settings how they incorporated real history into a fantastical superhero story and what it’s like creating a brand new adventure for Marvel’s most iconic hero! Tune in to hear Alan Gratz share a fascinating look into the true history behind the Ghost Army, a real WWII Army unit featured in the book, and watch Brent Schoonover give a live drawing demonstration of Captain America. Join #1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Gratz and comic artist Brent Schoonover for an epic virtual event celebrating the release of Captain America: The Ghost Army, their all-new superhero graphic novel from Marvel and Graphix! Dive into the trenches of WWII with Marvel’s First Avenger, Steve Rogers, and his best friend, Bucky Barnes, as they battle an enemy like none they’ve ever seen: a battalion of phantoms threatening the Allies at every turn, then disappearing without a trace into the night. ![]() |