5/13/2023 0 Comments Sin city comic![]() ![]() My film school buddy borrowed my Sin City volumes prior to catching 2005’s Sin City and came back stating that the experience was redundant for him because Rodriguez did too good a job of visually recreating the original source material. Rodriguez certainly deserved praise for his ability to accurately translate the imagery from paper to moving image, but ironically, he created a situation where pre-existing fans didn’t see anything they hadn’t already read. The films, while inspiring many imitators of their own, cannot claim the same credit due to Rodriguez’s painstaking frame-by-frame recreation of Miller’s panels. ![]() ![]() Overall, the books took in at least seven Eisner Awards for their groundbreaking work. The Sin City comics have a clear advantage due to the novelty of the story and art style. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments The eyes of the dragon book review![]() ![]() Most of those who did were long since gone.” People who had to watch the hail beat their crops or the wolves take their lambs, and start over, no matter how many years it happened, did not give up easily. “‘Well, we’ll survive, the Light willing….And if the Light doesn’t will, we’ll still survive.’ That was the way of most Two Rivers people. With the help of a powerful Aes Sedai, Moiraine, who can wield the True Power, things are anything but boring. ![]() I was immediately hooked by The Eye of the World, which follows three young men and their extraordinary female friends on their escape from their hometown with the forces of evil are hot on their trail. I decided this year would be the year that I finally saw what all the fuss was about. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.Įver since I’ve gotten into reading fantasy novels, I’ve seen Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series plastered all over the shelves of Sci-Fi/Fantasy sections. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. ![]() Published by Tor Books on November 15th 1990īuy on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, The Book Depository The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1) by Robert Jordan ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Rough Surrender by Cari Silverwood![]() ![]() ![]() If you'd like to learn more go to www.carisilverwood. When others are writing bad men doing bad things, you may find her writing good men who accidentally on purpose fall into the abyss and come out with their morals twisted in knots. About the Author: Cari Silverwood is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling writer of kinky darkness or sometimes of dark kinkiness, depending on her moods and the amount of time she's spent staring into the night. Warning: This book contains explicit sexual situations, graphic language, and material that some readers may find objectionable: anal play/intercourse, BDSM theme and elements, exhibitionism, spanking, strong violence. Yet their victory will be hollow if they cannot also solve the puzzle of their hearts. Sten and Kaysana unlimber weapons, don goggles, and set a course for the origin of the plague. Yield (Pierced Hearts) (Volume 5)Cari Silverwood, Purism and Language: A Study in. Though he never takes no for an answer, surely it's the plague that makes yes slip from her tongue like melted butter? Or should she blame her own traitorous heart? Hard Country, Hard Men : In the Footsteps of GregoryKieran Kelly. She despises his kind and detests Sten's growing hold on her. With her ship gone, she must rely on Sten, a human clone, a man who has fought all his life to master himself. When airship captain Kaysana meets Sten, the last thing she wants is to have mad rough sex with him while bound by ropes and clamps but fate pencils in their appointment. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments White Hell of Pity by Norah Lofts![]() ![]() ![]() Lofts also published several thrillers under the pseudonym Peter Curtis and the pseudonym Juliet Astley. ![]() Tells the story of the fortunes of a beautiful Elizabethan house in Suffolk in eight episodes, each narratedīy a different character who plays a part in its history. The House at Old Vine, and The House at Sunset) spans 600 years in the history of a house,įrom its beginnings as the home of a medieval wool-merchant to the present day, and Bless This House Occupants lack, although the occupants may leave impressions. Both landscape and houses have a permanency which their Many of her historical romances are set in Suffolk,Įngland and many of them are set around houses. Lofts novels have a strong sense of time and place. Her novels are well known not only for their historicalĪccuracy, but for her vigorous style of storytelling and her sense of history and her capacity to transmit ![]() In the nineteenth century or had English history as backgrounds, though other nations and eras-includingīiblical times-were represented in her writings. She was best known for her historical novels, many of which were set Norah Lofts Norah Robinson Lofts (1904 - 1983) (aka Juliet Astley and Peter Curtis) Norah Lofts was a prolific British author who wrote not only historical romances for over 50 years,īut also nonfiction and biographies. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments 1966 novel by daniel keyes![]() ![]() "Don't feel sorry for me," Keyes wrote as Charlie in Flowers for Algernon. He also continued writing books, including The Fifth Sally, The Minds of Billy Milligan, Unveiling Claudia, and his memoir, Algernon, Charlie, and I: A Writer's Journey. After the success ofFlowers for Algernon, Keyes taught at Ohio University. in 1927, Keyes got his start as the editor of Marvel Science Stories, later writing comics himself and working under Stan Lee. ![]() The story was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film starring Cliff Robertson in 1968.īorn in Brooklyn, N.Y. Keyes won the Hugo Award for the short story in 1960, and a Nebula Award in 1966 for the expanded novel. Charlie becomes a genius, only to lose everything when the process reverses itself. Charlie undergoes an experimental surgery to increase his intelligence, first performed on the mouse Algernon with apparent success. It is narrated by Charlie Gordon, a young man with an IQ of 68 who cannot even spell his own name. ![]() Keyes originally published Flowers for Algernon as a short story in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1959. Daniel Keyes, the author of the popular 1966 novel, Flowers for Algernon, died Sunday at his home in Florida. ![]() ![]() This book is told with raw honesty, it could have done without the bad language smattered throughout, as that made it a bit tough reading for me and I had to persist. When you try to use the complaints procedures, or as in this case grievance or whistleblowing procedures, the system turns against you and tries to paint you as character deficient, or a serial complainer. However, that doesn't detract from the detailed account, which will leave you enlightened and jaded as to what's really going on in bodies such as the NHS, where patient care and excellence seem to be bottom of the list. The book itself is on the long side and could have done with somewhat less words to tell the same story, it also needs editing for a few grammatical errors and misspellings. ![]() It was like deja vu reading so much of it, because of the experiences I have been through myself. ![]() This corruption runs through regulatory bodies, establishments, ombudsmen, the NHS and a wide variety of public bodies and Government departments. This book is one more confirmation of a corrupt system of officialdom within the UK. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Empress cixi book![]() An emperor was entitled to one empress and as many concubines as he wished. Cixi was 16 when she entered the Forbidden City as one of his concubines. In the spring of 1852 as a nationwide selection of imperial consorts was in full swing, a young Manchu girl caught the eye of the new Chinese emperor, Xianfeng. With her latest book, Chung has taken on the last Chinese Empress Dowager Cixi (also spelled Tzu Hsi), a woman that most present day Chinese have been schooled to revile as a cruel and pleasure-loving woman. Not surprisingly, Jung's books are today banned in China. ![]() Wild Swans was followed by the minutely-researched Mao: The Unknown Story (2005) a damning tome that tears to shreds the many myths about the "Great Leader," showing how Mao misused power for his own selfish ends. It opened my own eyes to the revolution that had taken place there, a revolution we in the West knew little about at the time. ![]() But rather than simply publishing revealing documents outright, she does painstaking research to compile the full story about her subjects.Ĭhang's book, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (1992), was a compelling bestseller that described her family's experience (she was born in Sichuan Province in 1952) living under the Communist regime in China. Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China, by Jung Chang (Random House, 415 pages, $35 hardcover, $16.99 Kobo/Kindle) - British writer Jung Chang is a myth-buster, perhaps like a scholar's version of WikiLeaks. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Hermann hesse books![]() ![]() The city of Karlsruhe, Germany, also associates a Hermann Hesse prize. In 1964, people founded the Calwer Hermann-Hesse-Preis, awarded biennially, alternately to a German-language literary journal or to the translator of work of Hesse to a foreign language. Throughout Germany, people named many schools. Young Germans desiring a different and more "natural" way of life at the time of great economic and technological progress in the country, received enthusiastically Peter Camenzind, first great novel of Hesse. In his time, Hesse was a popular and influential author in the German-speaking world worldwide fame only came later. Other best-known works of this poet, novelist, and painter include The Glass Bead Game, which, also known as Magister Ludi, explore a search of an individual for spirituality outside society. ![]() Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Robert t kiyosaki father![]() I love all of these ideas, and I’m glad his presentation of them resonates with so many. He supports learning to cut your taxes, studying accounting, and mastering saving, then teaching all these skills to your children. While his definitions of assets and liabilities might not follow Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, it’s practical: assets put money in your pocket, and liabilities take money out of it. It’s how much money you keep.” You have to keep your spending down as your income goes up and invest the difference in assets, not liabilities. Kiyosaki says: “ It’s not how much money you make. That means saving a high percentage of your earnings and putting the money to work in profitable investments. The book does a great job of showing the reader how meaningful it is to learn how to manage your money. While this is a pretty obvious suggestion, it’s still a significant one. Learn Personal Finance (And Teach It to Your Kids) The ideas might seem a bit shallow and apparent to anyone already engaged in entrepreneurship or investing, but they can be profound if it’s your first exposure to them. ![]() Mainly, he makes some solid fundamental financial suggestions in an easily digestible manner. ![]() I’ll start this Rich Dad, Poor Dad review with what I think Kiyosaki does well. ❗️ Important Note: Do not take this book’s recommendations or any of my opinions on them as investment or tax advice. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So Moraga designed her own degree in feminist writings, aspiring to create a new feminist canon that reflected her own experience as a queer woman of color. At the time, there was no such thing as an academic program in gender, feminist or women’s studies at SFSU. As a lesbian woman of mestiza Chicana, Native and white ancestry, she was searching for a program-or a movement-that she felt spoke to her and her experiences. Moraga began her masters’ program at San Francisco State University in 1977. The foundations of a new, intersectional feminism ![]() This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, first published in 1981, is a landmark of women of color feminist writing that explores, as co-editor Cherríe Moraga puts it, “the complex confluence of identities-race, class, gender and sexuality-systemic to women of color oppression and liberation.” Thirty-five years later, Bridge continues to reflect an evolving definition of feminism that can help us understand the changing economic and social conditions of women of color everywhere.Ĭelebrating the fourth reissue of the book, Moraga presented at a spring 2016 quarterly Artists’ Salon sponsored by the Clayman Institute. She read several passages from the book aloud, recounted the story of the book’s origins, and explored its continuing significance. She also commemorated several of the book’s contributors who have died, including her friend and co-editor, Gloria Anzaldúa. ![]() |
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