![]() ![]() ![]() But I absolutely loved every single page in The Edge of the Abyss and I think it was a wonderful ending to a fantastic duology! I read The Abyss Surrounds Us back in December 2015, so the wait for a sequel has been long and hard indeed. I honestly could not have asked for anything better and the wait was absolutely worth it. ![]() ![]() This book was everything I wanted it to be and then some. Thank you to Flux Publishing and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for review! All opinions are my own. Will Cas embrace the murky morals that life as a pirate brings or perish in the dark waters of the NeoPacific?" But how can she take up arms against creatures she used to care for and protect? As a Reckoner trainer, Cas might be the only one who can stop them. Other Reckoners illegally sold to pirates have escaped their captors and are taking the NeoPacific by storm, attacking ships at random and ruining the ocean ecosystem. But Cas has even bigger problems when she discovers that Bao is not the only monster swimming free. It’s being forced to work with Swift, the pirate girl who broke her heart. The days as a pirate trainee are long and grueling, but it’s not the physical pain that Cas dreads most. From Goodreads: "Three weeks have passed since Cassandra Leung pledged her allegiance to the ruthless pirate-queen Santa Elena and set free Bao, the sea monster Reckoner she’d been forced to train. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In some instances, he has referenced the song Let's Fighting Love (from the South Park episode Good Times With Weapons) by using the phrase and replacing "Fighting" with another word of his choice, such as: "Let's Flying Pan-ing Love" and "Let's Englanding Love". On his blog and update logs from archived versions of Kitayume, Himaruya mentions that he's a fan of both South Park and Happy Tree Friends.Estonia's character design is based on his appearance, although probably not his hair and eye colors.In the earlier days of the Kitayume site (2003-2007), he used the name Kazuyoshi Himaruya (日丸屋 和良 Himaruya Kazuyoshi), which most notably appears in the credits of the Gakuen Hetalia demo.Advance! Kitakou Broadcasting Club Pure(2004-2006).Live-A-Live (fancomic of the 1993 SNES game, 2004).Advance! Kitakou Broadcasting Club(2003-?).Chibi-san Date(2009-, serialized in Comic Birz).Axis Powers Hetalia/Hetalia: Axis Powers (Series: 2006-present). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I can't articulate effectively just how much I feel about this, but I can say that I invested in it, and it also invested in me. They were both so well developed throughout the entirety of this, and I found myself so invested in this world, this posh world of absinthe and cocaine and whiskey. The plot was so rich, and the characters so complex. ![]() At one point, I was so upset that I went for a run to cool off. It inspired me to write and it had me screaming and throwing tantrums because it made me feel. There's a kind of suspended reality, but there's also the sense that this could be happening right now. There's no way everyone could've loved this so much." But I was wrong, because this made me feel more than any other story has before. ![]() I had heard about this before and thought, "200k+ words? No way. Y&B was written despite busy schedules and featured a one of a kind plot and nearly 600 pages of pure gold. And that restores my love for stories and the written word because here is someone who is doing this with no obligation to finish and no tangible reward. To think that someone wrote this not for monetary gain, but to tell a story, is amazing to me. But this one? Perfection, save for the occasional grammatical error here and there. In all honesty, there are some terribly written fanfics out there. There's a huge stigma that fanfiction isn't literature, and I agree to some degree. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Revolutionary, captivating and utterly persuasive, The Better Half will make you see women, men and the survival of our species anew. And he calls for a long-overdue reconsideration of our one-size-fits-all view of the body and medicine - a view that still frames women through the lens of men. Why? And why are we taught the opposite?ĭrawing on his wide-ranging experience and cutting-edge research as a medic, geneticist and specialist in rare diseases, Dr Sharon Moalem reveals how the answer lies in our genetics: the female's double XX chromosomes offer a powerful survival advantage. ![]() These are the facts they are simply stronger than men at every stage of life. They live longer, and even see the world in a wider variety of colours. They do better at surviving epidemics and famines. 'A powerful antidote to the myth of a "weaker sex"' Gina Rippon, author of The Gendered Brainįrom birth, genetic females are better at fighting viruses, infections and cancer. An award-winning physician and scientist makes the game-changing case that genetic females are stronger than males at every stage of life ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Captured by Beverly Jenkins![]() ![]() I normally delight in how weird his horror can get, but these I just found a little perplexing. The first two stories of the collection especially missed the mark for me. I will continue to sing the praises of his longer works, but I’m increasingly finding his shorts to be hit-or-miss. My eagerness to read this collection notwithstanding, I’m starting to think that the novelty of Ito’s art and story ideas is starting to wear off a bit for me. I saw there was a new collection coming out, and that’s pretty much all that was needed to get me to commit to picking it up. I didn’t know much about the stories collected in this book going in. ![]() Most of them are one-shot stories, with the exception of trio that focus around a strange haunted house attraction that pops up in abandoned buildings near the outskirts of towns, charging outrageous prices but promising to scare you out of your wits. Smashed is the newest English translation collection of short horror stories by manga artist Junji Ito, bringing together 13 chilling tales. ![]() ![]() ![]() This will develop your child’s vocabulary of colours and everyday objects.Ģ. “Look we found a red jumper”, “The bottle is blue”. Label each object and colour as you find something new e.g. ![]() As you come across each coloured crayon in the story go on a treasure hunt with your child around your home to find objects that match this colour. What can Duncan do to make his crayons feel better and get them back to doing what they do best? Here are my top The Day The Crayons Quit activities you can do with your child to help support his/her speech & language development:ġ. This book is the perfect opportunity to support your child’s knowledge of colours. Duncan loves to colour, but when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: His crayons have quit! Purple Crayon is annoyed with Duncan for colouring outside the lines, Pink Crayon wants to be used to draw dinosaurs and monsters and White Crayon feels invisible. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Paul celan poems in english![]() Recurrent and unfounded charges of plagiarism deepened his anxiety, and his last decade was marked by recurrent institutionalizations. ![]() A survivor whose parents were both murdered in the early 1940s, Celan remained haunted by their deaths, and by the specter of fascism and antisemitism, for the rest of his life. ) For the first time, readers without knowledge of German have access to all the important poetry and prose of an author whom many consider to be the preeminent voice of 20th-century literature.Ĭelan’s fame began early, with the publication of “Todesfuge”, a hypnotic and incantatory vision of the Nazi camps. (His previous translations include Celan’s later poems, Breathturn into Timestead, and the poet’s major theoretical statement, The Meridian. His publication of the prose volume Microliths They Are, Little Stones (Contra Mundum) and the early poetry, collected as Memory Rose into Threshold Speech (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), concludes Joris’s work of bringing all of Celan’s literary work into English. ![]() This year also commemorates a half-century of Celan translations by poet, essayist, and anthologist Pierre Joris. ![]() ![]() 2020 MARKS THE 100th anniversary of the birth of Paul Celan, and the 50th anniversary of his death. ![]() 6/5/2023 0 Comments Mooncakes book![]() ![]() The framework of a family celebration is effective and satisfying here, and listeners will enjoy curling up with their parents, learning about or re-experiencing some of the holiday traditions, hearing the funny and comforting stories, and perhaps even drifting off to sleep. Each briefly told tale is a sparkling jewel that contains a valuable lesson about trust, generosity or willpower. Tonight the girl is allowed to stay up late and listen to her parents tell the tales of characters who inhabit the moon, including a wise and protective woman named Chang-E, a selfish woodcutter known as Wu-Gang, and the kind and sharing Jade Rabbit. Warm and appealing watercolor-and-gouache illustrations show a young girl’s family together as they light and hang lanterns, watch the glowing moon in the night sky, drink steaming tea and eat delicious mooncakes. The Chinese Moon Festival is a time to celebrate family, and this year is no exception. “Tonight the moon shines like a polished pearl, round and fat.” ![]() ![]() Shanghai’s lesser known histories reveal his childhood to be even more Ballardian than we might think. Yet being born in Shanghai only partially explains Ballard’s curious upbringing. Though privileged and protected, according to Ballard’s own autobiography ( Miracles of Life) and his hyper-realized memoir ( Empire of the Sun, which repeatedly switches from memoir to fiction) he was left largely to his own devices to explore the city. He was a child of ex-patriate English parents, living a lifestyle Ballard described as “American” in a mock-Tudor house, and attended the ultra-British Cathedral School on Kiukiang Road (Jiujiang Lu). Ballard nailed it all in multiple science fiction novels, such as The Drowned World (1962) and Atrocity Exhibition (1970).īallard was born a Shanghailander in 1930, in the now bulldozed Shanghai General Hospital, on the banks of Suzhou Creek. The urban high-rise nightmare the encroachment of AI on middle class job security the growth of McMansions and gated communities floodplains destroying villages raging conflagrations devastating California and Australia vaccines that might save you but screw up your DNA (or so some say). ![]() JG (James Graham) Ballard died in 2009, but has never ceased being relevant. ![]() 6/5/2023 0 Comments Hard boiled wonderland![]() ![]() I have become a total fan of Murakami this year - took me long enough to be introduced to him but, since then, I have soaked myself in his (translated) literature. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. 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