5/13/2023 0 Comments The Bloody Red Baron by Kim NewmanI think, and as much as I enjoy the settings authors come up with, scenarios and certain aspects of novels tend to be incredibly similar. I agree that more often than not, the vampire as the romantic bad boy is more popular than anything else these days, but I don’t think that the vampire has to return to being a cold-blooded killer in order to rejuvenate the genre or rather the audience’s love for the creature. The post questioned whether the vampire had to return to being a psychopath, a killer as the genre currently features more of the vampire bad boy in a romantic setting and everything the creature was has been lost. Recently, I found my way to a blog and a post about the vampires in the supernatural and fantasy genre (I did comment on the post, but I cannot for the life of me find it again).
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The book is a plea for understanding and acceptance for those of us who are, in Temple Grandin's words, "Different, not less." I definitely recommend this diagnosis memoir to any newly diagnosed adult Aspie (or individuals who suspect they may have Asperger's syndrome but have yet to seek a formal diagnosis). As the title suggests, Michelle's narratives give the reader a genuine sense of what it feels like to be an adult with Asperger's syndrome from a first person perspective, what it looks and feels like to try and navigate a neurotypical social world with an autistic brain. All of my closest friends today come from that core of fellow ASD adults I met in the support group meetings that I really clicked with, and I'm happy Michelle made a similar discovery. Likewise, finding an adult Aspie support group was a watershed moment for Michelle and one that I can relate to strongly as well. It took getting my diagnosis to finally understand the social mechanics of mutual misunderstandings as to why such things happen. Until I was diagnosed, I would have people in my life whom I felt were good friends, only to somehow manage to alienate and loose these friends, seemingly without warning. As an adult-diagnosed (age 39) Aspie myself, I found Michelle's workplace struggle narratives particularly compelling, as I myself have had similar experiences in my career, too. These 12 issues deliver a cast of characters who are both larger than life yet more flawed than your average Justice Leaguer. There's a reason this series coined the term "widescreen action." Hitch's art is truly cinematic in scope and detail. There's really only one place to turn to familiarize yourself with this more militant, post-modern super-team - the original Authority series by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch. There's no Justice League movie on the immediate horizon, but we will see the Authority make their live-action debut in the DCU. It showcases Superman at his best and most inspirational.īuy All-Star Superman here. But Gunn has been adamant that Legacy is very much the tonal opposite of Man of Steel and the overall grimness of the current DCEU. We doubt Legacy is actually drawing much on the plot of All-Star, as there's little chance we're going to see the new Superman face his imminent death in his very first movie. Gunn has pointed to All-Star Superman as a major source of inspiration for Superman: Legacy and the DCU as a whole. Though, naturally, Lex Luthor has his own ideas on the matter. That causes him to embark on his own version of the 12 Labors of Hercules and work to ensure that the world will remain safe and protected after he's gone. All-Star Superman is a standalone series set in a world where Superman confronts his mortality after literally flying too close to the sun. 5/13/2023 0 Comments A headful of ghostsAs she recalls those long ago events that took place when she was just eight years old, secrets and painful memories that clash with what was broadcast on television begin to surface-and a mind-bending tale of psychological horror is unleashed, raising vexing questions about memory and reality, science and religion, and the very nature of evil. When events in the Barrett household explode in tragedy, the show and the shocking incidents it captures become the stuff of urban legend.įifteen years later, a bestselling writer interviews Marjorie’s younger sister, Merry. With John, Marjorie’s father, out of work for more than a year and the medical bills looming, the family agrees to be filmed, and soon find themselves the unwitting stars of The Possession, a hit reality television show. He also contacts a production company that is eager to document the Barretts’ plight. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism he believes the vulnerable teenager is the victim of demonic possession. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. To her parents’ despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie’s descent into madness. A Head Full of Ghosts is a film directed by Scott Cooper with Margaret Qualley. The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. Headful of Ghosts Brunswick, Maryland Follow Out of the grooves of 60s and 70s vinyl comes a wave of ghosts living in the now. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Countess Dracula by Guy Adamsand they've found just the man for the job in Guy Adams." -Starburst Magazine "Guy Adams clearly knows his Hammer. This time it's the turn of Countess Dracula. But just how far is the Queen of Hollywood prepared to go to stay beautiful forever?Review"Hammer have been reinventing themselves as a publisher of original fiction and novels inspired by their back catalogue of movie classics. Can she?A chance accident reveals the solution. If she loses her looks she’ll lose everything, but even a woman as powerful as Elizabeth Sasdy can’t fight nature. Not only has the advent of talkies meant torturous sessions with a vocal coach to try and remove Sasdy’s Hungarian accent but she’s starting to spot the first few grey hairs, and the lines on her face get deeper every day. The whole world loves movie icons Frank Nayland and Elizabeth Sasdy, lapping up each new picture and following their romantic life story both on and off the screen. You can do anything in Hollywood and be forgiven, anything except grow old.It’s the 1930s and cinema stands at the dawn of a new age, the silent era is all but dead, talkies are here and Technicolor is on its way. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Clara rinker john sandfordLouis mob, the Mexican druglord, and the combined, sometimes warring, forces of U.S. For Rinker is as unpredictable as ever, and between her, her old bosses in the St. The FBI and DEA draft Davenport to help track her down, and with his fiancée deep in wedding preparations, he’s really just as happy to go, but he has no idea what he’s getting into. Now retired and living in Mexico, she nearly dies herself when a sniper kills her boyfriend, the son of a local druglord, and while the boy’s father vows vengeance, Rinker knows something he doesn’t: The boy wasn’t the target-she was-and now she is going to have to disappear to find the killer herself. Years ago, Lucas Davenport almost died at the hands of Clara Rinker, a pleasant, soft-spoken, low-key Southerner, and the best hitwoman in the business. From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author! 5/13/2023 0 Comments Huckleberry finn audiobookYou feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft."Īs Huck learns about love, responsibility, and morality, the trip becomes a metaphoric voyage through his own soul, culminating in the glorious moment when he decides to "go to hell" rather than return Jim to slavery. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. The two bind themselves to one another, becoming intimate friends and agreeing "there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Huckleberry Finn, rebel against school and church, casual inheritor of gold treasure, rafter of the Mississippi, and savior of Jim the runaway slave, is the archetypal American maverick.įleeing the respectable society that wants to "sivilize" him, Huck Finn shoves off with Jim on a rhapsodic raft journey down the Mississippi River. 5/12/2023 0 Comments With teeth kristen arnett reviewAs Samson grows from feral toddler to surly teenager, Sammie's life begins to deteriorate into a mess of unruly behaviour, and her struggle to create a picture-perfect queer family unravels. Uncertain in her own feelings about motherhood, she tries her best - driving, cleaning, cooking, prodding him to finish projects for school - while growing increasingly resentful of Monika, her confident but absent wife. Working from home in the close quarters of their Florida house, she lives with one wary eye peeled on Samson, a sullen, unknowable boy who resists her every attempt to bond with him. If she's being honest, Sammie Lucas is scared of her son. Kristen Arnett lets her characters have the run of the place, and it's delicious fun to watch them do, say, and think things they'll regret' Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here 'With Teeth is a wonderfully sticky novel about motherhood, partnership, sex and love. 5/12/2023 0 Comments The uplift war by david brinAt stake is the existence of Terran society and Earth, and the fate of the entire Five Galaxies. The various uplifted inhabitants of Garth must battle their overlords or face ultimate extinction. But the greatest mystery of all remains unsolved: who uplifted humankind?Īs galactic armadas clash in quest of the ancient fleet of the Progenitors, a brutal alien race seizes the dying planet of Garth. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without being "uplifted" by a patron race. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War-a New York Times bestseller-together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. 5/12/2023 0 Comments After Midnight by Irmgard KeunRevolutionary at the time for its treatment of sexual harassment, abortion, single motherhood, and the “New Woman,” Gilgi remains a perceptive and beautifully constructed novel about one woman’s path to maturity. But then she falls in love with Martin, a charming drifter, and leaves her job for domestic bliss-which turns out not to be all that blissful– and Gilgi finds herself pregnant and facing a number of moral dilemmas. Gilgi is a secretary in a hosiery firm, but she doesn’t intend to stay there for long: she’s disciplined and ambitious, taking language classes, saving up money to go abroad, and carefully avoiding both the pawing of her boss and any other prolonged romantic entanglements. The story of a young woman trying to establish her independence in a society being overtaken by fascism, Gilgi was not only a brave story, but revolutionary in its depiction of women’s issues, at the same time that it was, simply, an absorbing and stirring tale of a dauntless spirit. Irmgard Keun’s first novel Gilgi was an overnight sensation upon its initial publication in Germany, selling thousands of copies, inspiring numerous imitators, and making Keun a household name-a reputation that was only heightened when, a few years later, the nervy Keun sued the Gestapo for blocking her royalties. The stirring, never-before-translated story of a single, pregnant, and wickedly nervy young secretary making her way through a Germany succumbing to the Nazis. |