5/29/2023 0 Comments Storm, Vol. 1 by Greg Pak![]() ![]() Seriously, Pixie is in this book just to say one line, and it doesn't bog the book down AT ALL. Everyone and everything that shows up in this comic serves a purpose to the overarching plot. There's no filler, nothing to drag the plot down, and anyone that bought this book knows enough about Storm to get the general understanding of who she is, and the simple and to the point narration fills in the blanks without bogging us down. Greg Pak captures Ororo perfectly, as well as her place in the world. Other than one character who I found rather grating, and that was point so that we could enjoy the comeuppance for them later, I found NOTHING wrong with this book. GOD!" The problem is, those exact words are exactly what I've been saying since I finished reading this book. I'm trying to think of better words to describe this comic than "Oh. ![]() Should be interesting to see what calls me next." Here's where I belong, every nerve connected with the wind, the clouds, the vapor." "When I was a girl, the sky called me home. I'm a Mutant with the power to control the weather. "When I was just a girl, I called myself Goddess, and I lived in the sky. ![]()
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5/29/2023 0 Comments The Baby Matrix by Laura Carroll![]() ![]() I had this book with me at the doctor’s office a couple days ago. The que stio n is whether this is a problem. In some countries, such as Germany and Japan, the population is shrinking at a rapid rate. The re’s no doubt the birth rate has be en going down. Last has a strong conservative bias and occasionally laces this footnote-fest with sarcasm, but there’s a lot of interesting information here, and it certainly provides food for thought. ![]() He details the efforts, mostly unsuccessful, that have been made to encourage people to have more children and makes suggestions for how to encourage more births. Last blames it on many factors of modern life, including the cost of raising children, women going to college and having careers instead of babies, the decline of marriage and religion and the general belief that having children will take all the fun out of life. Whom should we believe? This book is a slow read, a scholarly compilation of statistics that show the birth rate going down below replacement level in most first-world countries. Other authors tell us the ex act opposite. We’ll have a population of old people with no young ones to support them. Last to tell us that if we don’t start having more children, we’re in trouble. Last, Encounter Books, 2013.Īfter years of hearing that we have too many people on this planet and that we have to decrease our population, here comes Jonathan V. What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disaster by Jonathan V. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments In a dark dark wood review![]() Early in the novel, one guest points out that it feels like there is an audience in the woods and the folks at the party are a stage - which means they’re being watched. Ware had been influenced by the 1996 movie Scream, in which everything would be fine of only someone would close the damn blinds. She claimed that the house where a group gathers for a bachelorette party has huge glass walls. Then Ruth Ware was on for an interview about her new book. I remember laughing because Donald Trump said he was going to run for president, and the radio journalists didn’t take it seriously either. ![]() I was sitting in my car, waiting the last few minutes before I had to go in to work, listening to NPR. I remember exactly when my excitement for In A Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware started. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Discworld guards guards![]() The ramekin is built to withstand extreme heat, such as the flare of a torch used to light the Crème Brûlée - or a blast of fire from a dragon, an occupational hazard for dragon conservationists like Lady Sybil. Her maiden name is quite apt - a Ramekin is a small dish used to prepare and serve desserts like Crème Brûlée. Her hobby has left her with her natural hair singed off and she wears a wig in nearly all circumstances. She also supports The Sunshine Sanctuary for sick, abused or abandoned swamp dragons in the city, which is run by her friend Rosie Devant-Molei. She has a dragon pen outside her house where she breeds and cares for swamp dragons. She was born into the wealthiest family in Ankh-Morpork and resides in the most select part of Ankh, Scoone Avenue. She is known to be able to like almost anyone, and accept anything with great grace. ![]() ![]() She is a large, rather Wagnerian and aristocratic lady, almost as frightening as the swamp dragon that she breeds, yet also a kind-hearted person who tries to show compassion for others. ![]() Lady Sybil Ramkin is first introduced in Guards! Guards!. Lady Sybil Deidre Olgivanna Vimes (née Ramkin), Duchess of Ankh, is a character in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Tokyo dreaming book review![]() Which means upping her newly acquired princess game. At the threat of everything falling apart, Izumi vows to do whatever it takes to help win over the council. And on top of it all, her bodyguard turned boyfriend makes a shocking decision about their relationship. Not ordering to the United States Click here. Expected delivery to the United States in 6-11 business days. The Imperial Household Council refuses to approve the marriage citing concerns about Izumi and her mother's lack of pedigree. Family Funny Books for Kids Share Tokyo Dreaming 3.77 (9,016 ratings by Goodreads) Paperback English By (author) Emiko Jean US12.10 Also available in Hardback US21.99 Free delivery worldwide Available. Her parents' engagement hits a brick wall. A royal wedding is on the horizon! Izumi's life is a Tokyo dream come true. Her parents have even rekindled their college romance and are engaged. Her stinky dog, Tamagotchi, is living with her in Tokyo. ![]() ![]() She has a perfect bodyguard turned boyfriend. ![]() Now, she's overcome conniving cousins, salacious press, and an imperial scandal to finally find a place she belongs. When Japanese-American Izumi Tanaka learned her father was the Crown Prince of Japan, she became a princess overnight. Return to Tokyo for a royal wedding in Emiko Jean's New York Times bestseller Tokyo Dreaming, the sequel to beloved rom-com Tokyo Ever After! ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Coddiwomple by S.E. Harmon![]() The man he’d planned to marry.Ĭameron Foster likes his life as a small-town veterinarian, although his love life hasn’t been quite as successful. It’s what he’d always dreamed of living an unencumbered life away from the small Florida town of Coral Cove and the family responsibilities that had been dumped on him at a young age, following the death of his mother and his father’s descent into alcoholism – and he has no regrets. ![]() I confess that I initially thought Coddiwomple was a made-up word, but it turns out it isn’t! It means “to travel in a purposeful manner towards a vague destination”, and it’s the perfect title for this second chance romance in which a globetrotting photographer comes back to the home town – and the man – he left years before only to discover that life has a way of bringing you back to where you’re supposed to be.įor well over a decade, Journey Sutton – usually known as JJ – has travelled the world, making a name for himself (and a good living) as a wildlife photographer. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments The amazing story of henry sugar![]() ![]() The doctors decide the man could be of great benefit as a teacher of the blind, and return to the circus, only to find the show canceled, when the Man Who Sees Without Using His Eyes has died. The man claimed he had been interested in magic all his life, and managed to study with Yogi Hardawar in India, by which he develops the ability to see through thin objects such a paper or playing cards, and can see around solid objects such as a wooden door if he is allowed a finger or hand around it. Roald Dahl turns his pen to anything, twisting everyday life into powerful, and sometimes terrifying fantasies. When interviewed in more detail by the curious doctors he gave an account which they wrote up. Buy for 17.54 Publishers Summary Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More by Roald Dahl, read by Andrew Scott. The man was part of a circus act and used his ability to make money. This patient, who called himself "The Man Who Sees Without Using His Eyes", had the ability to see even after the doctors had medically sealed the man's eyes shut and bandaged his head. Henry Sugar, an independently wealthy man who enjoys gambling, finds and reads a doctor's report on a strange patient the doctor met while stationed at a hospital in India. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More Hardcover Septemby Roald Dahl (Author), Quentin Blake (Illustrator) 760 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 8.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 52.19 19 Used from 2.19 6 New from 47.05 2 Collectible from 46. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments River Thieves by Michael Crummey![]() ![]() ![]() Readers will get their turn to set eyes on those passages when they crack open the first pages of his fifth book, The Innocents, which hit bookstores in August. “And then I had lost my nerve.”Īt Kanya-Forstner’s encouragement, Crummey sent her the orphaned pages. “I had written a three- or four-page opening to a novel,” he recounted. She has been the lead editor on all of his novels to date and he trusts her implicitly and so issued a confession. That “while” had stretched several years by the time Crummey found himself in his kitchen on the phone to Kanya-Forstner. ![]() “I definitely felt that after Sweetland – I was ready not to be a writer for a while.” “Every time I finish a book I feel like I’m probably never going to write another one,” Crummey said. Thus, the three novels Crummey has produced since River Thieves – The Wreckage, Galore and Sweetland, each also highly acclaimed – have four or five years of space between them. It turns out that he has quite a deep well, but he must be judicious with withdrawals. He has previously described that place as “a world of isolated, tightly knit communities that relied on the fishery and each other for survival.” The effort of rendering it so flawlessly in his debut novel, though, wrung out Crummey and left the novelist wondering whether he had any ink left in him. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Fyodor dostoevsky underground man![]() ![]() ![]() Rational egoism emerged as the dominant social philosophy of the Russian nihilist movement, proposing that we are only rational if we maximise our own self-interest, sharing similarities with utilitarianism, which seeks to maximise utility, such as well-being or happiness for all individuals. ![]() The nihilist characters defined themselves as those who deny everything, representing the negation of all pre-existing ideals. Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons, Chapter 5 “A nihilist is a man who does not bow down before any authority, who does not take any principle on faith, whatever reverence that principle may be enshrined in.” It had previously been synonymous with scepticism, which transformed into moral and political nihilism: In 1862, Ivan Turgenev published one of the most acclaimed Russian novels of the century, Fathers and Sons, where the characters talk about a strange new philosophy called “ nihilism” which became popular with the Russian youth. But before delving into Notes from Underground, we must first observe the historical context in which it was written, in order to better understand Dostoevsky’s warning. Notes from Underground attempts to warn people of several ideas that were gaining ground in the 1860s including: moral and political nihilism, rational egoism, determinism, utilitarianism, utopianism, atheism and what would become communism.Īs we’ll see, many of these themes are alluded to in the novel. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Emma, Vol. 1 by Kaoru Mori![]() ![]() Even better, it was well reviewed and available as an ebook. ![]() A quick Internet search taught me that there was another Emma that I should read, one that was written originally as manga by a Japanese author. I didn’t feel like I’d gotten an authentic manga experience, since I’d read a book originally written for another format entirely and merely adapted to manga. This is how I learned that while Emma is not my favorite Austen novel, I still know it well enough to deeply miss some of the narrative passages that occurred in the original in between the scraps of dialogue.Īfter finishing that book, I was discontent. The text is reduced to the essential bits of dialogue from the original narrative, while the illustrations are tasked with conveying the meaning of all the remaining text. Unfortunately, the Manga Classics edition of Jane Austen’s Emma read as if it were a simplified storyboard of an Emma movie adaptation. The Manga Classics edition of Jane Austen’s Emma. ![]() |