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Distinguished Critique: "Batman: Year One" Review This Post- Crisis reframing of Batman's origin is definitive and impactful, offering clever insight into the new life of Bruce Wayne and his supporting cast.Spider-view: Avengers: Deathtrap: The Vault (Venom, Part 4) Though not extraordinary, this graphic novel presents some engaging character moments in its study of captive criminals. Distinguished Critique: Superman: The Man of Steel Review Despite an awkward final issue, John Byrne's limited series successfully reintroduces Superman into the post- Crisis world.Distinguished Critique: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Review Frank Miller's famed, dystopian series redefines and revitalizes the Batman, shaping a new world around an old hero.Spider-view: “The Three Faces of Evil” A basic story is constructed upon two strong pillars: powerful connections to recent Spidey history and the impressive work of penciler Mark Bagley.Distinguished Critique: "Batman: A Death in the Family" Review This classic tragedy is constructed upon some coincidence yet serves as a much-needed arc for a spurned Robin who develops as he dies.(Strand)om Stories: Doctor Strange: Strange Tales Review What should be a philosophically fascinating character arc is upended by an overly dramatic narrative which undercuts the tension and transformation.(Strand)om Stories: Warlock by Jim Starlin: The Complete Collection Review (Infinity Prelude, Part 2)
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The meet cute diary5/13/2023 All that drama caused by the universe pulling the lovers apart in ways that the universe never does. All those couples hiding their relationship for no reason. Authors have to jump through a lot of hoops to drum up the kind of drama they’re looking for when their characters are in a socially approved relationship. A lot of the things that are contrived for a straight romance feel more organic for a queer one. It tends to focus more on identity than instalove, putting the focus as much on individual character development as the romantic love story. I’m rapidly revising my “I don’t like romance” stance to “I don’t like straight romance.” Queer romance is just better. Meet Cute Diary is that, and it comes recommended by lots of authors I love-Becky Albertalli, Kacen Callender, Mason Deaver, and Aiden Thomas-so I decided that I’d give it a shot even though it ran the risk of being too romcomy for my taste. Earlier this year I made some lists of great LGBTQ+ pride reads, and I realized that despite my efforts I haven’t done a great job of reading books by and about trans and nonbinary people.
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Hp lovecraft the cats of ulthar5/13/2023 Edgar Allan Poe – The Pit and the Pendulum.Edgar Allan Poe – The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.Edgar Allan Poe – The Mystery of Marie Rogêt.Edgar Allan Poe – The Murders in the Rue Morgue.Edgar Allan Poe – The Masque of the Red Death.Edgar Allan Poe – The Man That Was Used Up.Edgar Allan Poe – The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.Edgar Allan Poe – The Island Of The Fay.Edgar Allan Poe – The Imp Of The Perverse.Edgar Allan Poe – The Fall of the House of Usher.Edgar Allan Poe – The Facts in the Case of M.Edgar Allan Poe – The Duke De L’Omelette.Edgar Allan Poe – The Domain Of Arnheim. Edgar Allan Poe – The Divine Right of Kings.Edgar Allan Poe – The Devil In the Belfry.Edgar Allan Poe – The Conversation Of Eiros And Charmion.Edgar Allan Poe – The Colloquy Of Monos And Una.Edgar Allan Poe – The Cask of Amontillado.Edgar Allan Poe – Sonnet – To My Mother.Edgar Allan Poe – Some Words With A Mummy.Edgar Allan Poe – Oh, Tempora! Oh, Mores!.Edgar Allan Poe – Never Bet the Devil Your Head.Edgar Allan Poe – Morning on the Wissahiccon.Edgar Allan Poe – Epigram for Wall Street.Edgar Allan Poe – A Tale of the Ragged Mountains.Edgar Allan Poe – A Succession of Sundays.Edgar Allan Poe – A Descent Into the Maelström.The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe Menu Toggle.
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Beyond Lucky by Sarah Aronson5/13/2023 He becomes the best player ever and is able to block of the shots and even hes friend Mac. He gets a call from hes coach talking about hes on the team and hes luck changes. When suddenly he buys packs of soccer trading cards and a Wayne Timcoe card is in one of those packs and hes luck changes. So when tryouts comes in Ari doesn't make team so he's mad he doesn't make it. So when trouts are coming up Ari is committed to trying out so he can play with he's best friend Mac. Mac is the best player on the team, he helps Ari with he's game when he needs to. He wants to be able to play with his best friend Mac. This book is about this guy name Ari Fish, he is a goalie who wants to player starter for his team. **** spoil alert****** This card of Wayne Timcoe is a worth of a lot of money and everyone wants it. Will this kind lucky was the lucky charm and not just any a lucky charm a Wayne Timcoe trading card. You ever thought you were lucky because you found a dollar or something special.
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Only a few days away from Christmas, Amanda was accidentally locked in the tower when the guards were in a hurry to go home to their families. In 1941, her first assignment as a nun was to care for the inmates in Westin Hills hospital, including the infamous tower (where the most insane patients were locked up). She may be the same person as Sister Mary.Īt age 18, Amanda Krueger decided to become a nun, choosing "Mary Helena" as her name in Christ. She is the mother of Freddy Krueger, the paternal grandmother of Margaret Burroughs, and also the mother-in-law of Loretta Krueger, and was played by Nan Martin in the third film and Beatrice Boepple in the fifth. Nan Martin (3) Beatrica Boepple (5) Source Images of Amanda Krueger (Some) content on this page is retrieved from A Nightmare on Elm Street wiki.Īmanda Krueger is a fictional character in the Nightmare on Elm Street series of movies.
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The first edition (1871) was illustrated by the pre-Raphaelite artist Thomas Hughes, whose romantic and highly individualistic drawings are reproduced in the Everyman edition. Written by the man who mentored Lewis Carroll and encouraged him to submit Alice for publication, At the Back of the North Wind is today a forgotten classic. Publication date 1919 Publisher Philadelphia : D. Children for over a hundred years have been enchanted and moved by the story of Nanny the crossing sweeper, her lame friend Jim, and above all Diamond, the poor coachman's son, whose life is transformed by a brief glimpse of a beautiful country "at the back of the north wind". At the back of the North Wind by MacDonald, George, 1824-1905 Smith, Jessie Willcox, 1863-1935, ill. Read more but the trick was to disguise it, to entertain the reader as well as instruct, leaving them to draw a moral if they pleased, or else simply to enjoy the fantasy. "A fairy tale is not al allegory," he once remarked. While owing a debt to Hans Andersen, Dickens and Kingsley, MacDonald created a distinctive imaginary world existing in parallel with the grim social realities of mid-19th-century England. At the Back of the North Wind, the first to be published, became a Victorian favourite and marked something of a milestone in children's fiction. But these were fairy tales with a difference. With 13 children of his own clamouring for bedtime stories it isn't surprising that author George MacDonald discovered he had a gift for composing fairy tales. Num Pages: 328 pages, 75 b&w illustrations. Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics. Description for At the Back of the North Wind Hardcover.
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Billy by Laura Roybal5/12/2023 While most children avoid the horror of being kidnapped, nearly everyone goes through a period when they ponder their real selves, and this book speaks to that confusion. Roybal has written a sensitive novel about the problems teenagers can have trying to satisfy multiple identities. When Bobby commits suicide a few months before graduation, Billy travels back to the town he called home and begins the painful process of stitching the two halves of his life together. He deals with his sense of displacement by writing imaginary and real letters to his friend Bobby back in New Mexico, who has a special understanding of what it’s like to belong to two families due to his array of stepparents and stepsiblings. Billy returns to his old life in the Midwest, but, of course, you can never really go home again. Five years later, everything changes again when he gets picked up by the police, who run his fingerprints and discover Billy has been reported missing for years. A boy on the cusp of adulthood confronts his split childhood and finds a sense of balance between his two families, his two cultures and his two languages.īilly’s life changed drastically when his biological father kidnapped him from his adoptive family at the age of ten and whisked him away to New Mexico to live a life of rodeos, pickup trucks and rifles.
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Murderbot diaries network effect5/12/2023 I loved being reunited with my favorite comfort character! ➽ Murderbot is now living on Preservation as one of the few security agents and still trying to figure out where it fits in with its humans. I am actually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are.” “Just remember you’re not alone here.” I never know what to say to that. Review: Murderbot Diaries #1 – #4 by Martha Wells □ I’m OBSESSED with this novella series. ❤ Check out my review for the rest of the series ❤ When Murderbot’s human associates (not friends, never friends) are captured and another not-friend from its past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action. I’m usually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are. Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.
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It is a book of sense and common sense, not only about magick, but about religion and one of the most critical issues of today: how to achieve the much needed and wholesome relationship with our Earth. PublishDate T05:00:00+01:00 publishDateText mediaType eBook shortDescriptionĬunningham's classic introduction to Wicca is about how to live life magically, spiritually, and wholly attuned with nature. He passed from this life on March 28, 1993, after a long illness. Scott's books reflect a broad range of interests within the New Age sphere, where he was very highly regarded. He was the author of more than fifty books covering both fiction and non-fiction subject matter sixteen of his titles are published by Llewellyn Publications.
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Out of the Ashes by Lorraine Carey5/12/2023 This poem was later made into a short film that is now on YouTube Thank you to everyone for their contribution. I have found these poems extremely resonant, and I hope you will too. Other ways of thinking about, or seeing, what is happening in this present time. Nonetheless, in reading these poems, I find reflections on, and insight into, my own experiences. I am aware, as many people are, that for people and places in the world, the challenges are huge and sometimes extremely harrowing, compared to my own. Though of course everyone’s individual experience of this situation is unique. These poems were written during Lockdown and the Coronavirus pandemic, at a time when it seemed the whole country, and in fact the whole world was going through the same crisis. They read alongside poets who submitted to Ledbury Poetry Festival’s online call out. The event featured a fascinating selection of Lockdown inspired poems, including poets commissioned by LPF, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sarala Estruch, Suzannah Evans, Elaine Beckett and Kim Moore. On Sunday 5 July 2020 there was a Poetry of the Lockdown event as part of Ledbury Poetry Festival Online. Thank you to everyone who has submitted Lockdown poems. |