5/13/2023 0 Comments 100 bullets azzarello![]() ![]() Dizzy Cordova, the first "beneficiary" (that we see - the series implies that there have been several in the past), is in a bad place, coming to terms with life after the murders of her baby son and gang-leader husband. ![]() ![]() More importantly, it brought together a little-known American writer called Brian Azzarello and an equally little-known Argentinian artist called Eduardo Risso.ġ00 Bullets begins in deceptively episodic fashion, each issue following a recipient of a briefcase from the ominously-named Agent Graves. This mini-series took a little-known DC Universe character and tossed him into a dark and bloody caper involving Al Capone’s money. Even as publishers such as Vertigo, Wildstorm and Image Comics explored the darker alleyways of the medium, it wasn’t until 1998’s 4-part mini-series Jonny Double that the stage was set for a definitive comic noir series. Even the earlier ventures, until Frank Miller’s unapologetically hard-boiled Sin City, tended to the caricature rather than the grim realism that spilled from Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler’s fiction. Hard-boiled noir was not a genre explored with any seriousness in the 90's. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This time the trouble arrives when a legendary hundred-year-old mansion materializes next door and the Ornofree alligators declare war to save their swamp from bulldozers. ![]() The town's bad boy, Pete Riley, may only be a kid, but he's up to his eyeballs in big trouble, and this time he isn't the cause. Īlligators, witches and a spooky mansion aren't your average neighbors unless you live at the edge of the Ornofree swamp in the backwater town of Hadleyville. ![]() Things only get worse when Pete's guardian aunt and several of her. Alligators, witches and a spooky mansion aren't your average neighbors unless you live at the edge of the Ornofree swamp in the backwater town of Hadleyville. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Incarnate by jodi meadows![]() Jodi Meadows expertly weaves soul-deep romance, fantasy, and danger into an extraordinary tale of new life. Not only did I read the words, but my eyes saw the world that was built, and my soul heard the music being. It wasn’t just a book filled with words, instead it was a tool for a wonderful sensory adventure. My imagination was fueled by the wonderful images that Meadows wrote about. But can he love someone who may live only once, and will Ana’s enemies-human and creature alike-let them be together? Ana needs to uncover the mistake that gave her someone else’s life, but will her quest threaten the peace of Heart and destroy the promise of reincarnation for all? 24 Likes, TikTok video from Jodi Meadows (unicornwarlord): 'Replying to hannasandvig with actual physical evidence '. Jodi Meadows’ Incarnate quickly had me crossing that line. When he stands up for her, their relationship blooms. Sam believes Ana’s new soul is good and worthwhile. INCARNATE by Jodi Meadows - Book Trailer harperteen 27.2K subscribers Subscribe 159 21K views 11 years ago What if everyone you knew could live forever. When dragons and sylph attack the city, is Ana to blame? ![]() To escape her seclusion and learn whether she’ll be reincarnated, Ana travels to the city of Heart, but its citizens are afraid of what her presence means. When Ana was born, another soul vanished, and no one knows why.Įven Ana’s own mother thinks she’s a nosoul, an omen of worse things to come, and has kept her away from society. ![]() ![]() For thousands of years in Range, a million souls have been reincarnated over and over, keeping their memories and experiences from previous lifetimes. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The half made world![]() His is a world overrun with dueling ideologies. There is a way to interpret much of what goes on here as a kind of parable about American expansionism and manifest destiny. We understand as much about his world as its inhabitants do. It’s an intriguing premise around which Gilman builds great mystique simply by explaining little to none of it. Gilman’s story is set in a curious world that is still undergoing its own creation in its westernmost boundaries, while war rages among human and non-human factions in the pioneer civilization pushing against those boundaries. But Felix Gilman demonstrated most ably that there was life in those old pistons yet with his third novel, The Half-Made World. Steampunk was a genre that was already well and truly overexposed by 2010. Share book reviews and ratings with Thomas, and even join a book club on Goodreads. Book cover artwork is copyrighted by its respective artist and/or publisher. ![]() ![]() All reviews and site design © by Thomas M. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Brain vaughan's pride of baghdad![]() ![]() Hernichon masterfully recreates post-war Baghdad in all its shorn grandeur. What makes this novel all the more special is the beauty of the artwork itself. Vaughn has made these animals semi-anthropomorphic (not to the degree of the characters’ human dimensions and animal faces in Spiegelman’s Maus, but only in that they can talk to each other and other animals) and given each a backstory and role to play in the book’s sad but all too inevitable conclusion. OVERVIEWīased very loosely on events surrounding the bombing of the Baghdad Zoo by American forces in 2003, the story follows four lions that hop the crumbling walls of their shattered enclosure and seek freedom in the burning remains of the city. This text has been in my regular classroom rotation for years and has remained relevant and powerful due to its universal motifs of war, family, loss, and (dare I say it) skewed perception of what it means to be proud. ![]() ![]() Vaughan’s and Niko Henrichon’s 2006 masterpiece Pride of Baghdad combines fact and fiction in a way that not only creates an impactful and poignant story, but also makes serious and complex themes accessible to just about any reader. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Cara hunter no way out![]() ![]() “A tense exploration of manipulation and betrayal. William Harper, a retired–and slightly demented–academic? The woman can’t speak, there are no missing persons reports, and the old man who owns the house claims he knows nothing. ![]() IN THE DARK is actually the second book in the series, but don’t let that deter you-IN THE DARK can very easily be a stand-alone read.Ī young woman and her toddler child are found ‘by chance’ by a construction crew working on home renovations when a crumbling shared wall is breached. They are starved, dehydrated, clinging to life and vastly unknown. How did this woman and her child find themselves locked in the basement of Dr. by storm, introducing DI Adam Fawley and her dark police procedural mysteries. In her debut thriller, CLOSE TO HOME (2017), Cara Hunter took the U.K. Impressive police procedural meets psychological thriller in this deeply unsettling tale of a shocking secrets, IN THE DARK is head-spinning and riveting. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Looking for Alaska by John Green![]() ![]() Today’s TV landscape features shows like HBO’s Gen Z hit Euphoria, Netflix’s controversial 13 Reasons Why and candid Sex Education, and major-network sitcoms and dramas that present diverse depictions of family and teen life. ( Many, including Green himself, have wrestled with the way in which he deals with this trope in his books.) But everything looks different in the light of 2019’s political landscape and evolving social norms, and so the novel Looking for Alaska - originally told entirely through Miles’ eyes - can feel dated, at the very least for its fixation with what some have deemed an early version of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. ![]() In 2005, the book was a revelation for its clear-eyed depiction of teen angst and love, and a generation of readers grew up smitten with the inscrutable Alaska, infatuated Miles and feisty Chip. But beneath the surface, Green’s story has gotten a facelift for our present moment. ![]() ![]() ![]() Published editions, quite properly and understandably, tend to order the sections to allow the book to flow, grouping sections which have things in common. Part of the point of making this box of disquiet is to restore some disorder to the text. “The Book of Disquiet” was never finished, and its sections were not in any particular order (though some are dated) different editions of the book select different sections and edit them into various orders. “The Book of Disquiet” is centred around the heteronym Bernardo Soares. He wrote using what he called “heteronyms”, invented characters whose thoughts and lives he set down. After he died, a trunk of writings was found in his room. ![]() ![]() Others can write better, and truer, things about Fernando Pessoa than I can, but the salient facts for these purposes are that Pessoa (1888-1935) was a Portuguese writer who published very little during his lifetime. Fernando Pessoa and “The Book of Disquiet” ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The campaigns of napoleon chandler![]() ![]() ![]() To be sure, every operation Napoleon conducted contained unique improvisatory features. Napoleon disavowed any suggestion that he worked from formula ("Je n'ai jamais eu un plan d'opérations"), but military historian David Chandler demonstrates this was at best only a half-truth. The Campaigns of Napoleon is an exhaustive analysis and critique of Napoleon's art of war as he himself developed and perfected it in the major military campaigns of his career. The Napoleonic Wars were nothing if not complex - an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of moves and intentions, which by themselves went a long way towards baffling and dazing his conventionally-minded opponents into that state of disconcerting moral disequilibrium which so often resulted in their catastrophic defeat." ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Punish the Sinners by John Saul![]() ![]() So based on the first third of the book I would only give this book 2 1/2 stars. While it's not a total train wreck, it basically becomes a very mediocre small town soap opera. The characters never seem to fully develop, with most of the teen girls being interchangeable, and our lead character seeming like a different person from chapter to chapter, and sometimes from page to page. ![]() With the exception of one very shocking and wonderfully tasteless revelation and sex scene, the book is almost boring and repetitious. I say inconsistent because his motivations and feelings really don't flow from chapter to chapter, but instead seem to jump randomly to fit the story. The rest of the novel is one character's inconsistent struggle with his faith. There are shocking moments, and some very grizzly violence towards the end of the novel, but none of that really picks up until 3/4 of the way through. So picked up a used copy of Punish the Sinners. ![]() I have kind of been on a John Saul kick as of late, and decided to give one of his older novels a try. ![]() |