![]() Updated on January 31st, 2023, by Christine Mendoza: With the release of the highly anticipated Netflix series, Junji Ito Manic: Japanese Takes Of The Macabre, fans new and old have been itching for more horrific Ito content to get their hands on. For any new horror fans that may not know where to start, here are a few of Junji Ito's scariest manga to witness first-hand how Ito ingeniously blurs the line between true horror and paralyzing beauty. His distinct art style and aesthetic are easily recognizable at a glance. ![]() Ito's works are well-known among many manga fans. RELATED: Hideo Kojima & Junji Ito Collaboration: Ito Stories Worthy Of A Horror Game Adaptation (& Some To Stay Away From) Horror manga artist Junji Ito is a master of utilizing his beautiful artwork in unique ways that send chills through readers' spines after every flip of a page. Unlike the medium of film or television, manga can't rely on loud sounds or jump scares to get the best of their audience. ![]() However, every once in a while it's nice to take a break and delve into horror to get a fill of spooks and scares. ![]() The world of manga is often a beautiful place, filled with fantasy, escapism, and endless possibilities. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() įull of romance, tea and cake, The Seafront Tea Rooms is a heart-warming tale about the strength found in true friendship. ![]() But what none of them expect is for their journey to surprise them with discoveries of a different kind. Together with another regular, Seraphine, a culture-shocked French au pair with a passion for pastry-making, they travel around the country discovering quaint hideaways and hidden gems. The Seafront Tearoom From the author of The Vintage Teacup Club The first rule of afternoon tea: never rush. She knows she's found something special in the Seafront Tea Rooms but is it a secret she should share? Kathryn, a single mother whose only sanctuary is the 'Seafront', convinces Charlie to keep the place out of her article by agreeing to join her on her search. Charismatic journalist Charlotte is on a mission to scope out Britains best tea rooms. The Seafront Tea Rooms is a peaceful hideaway, away from the bustle of the seaside, and in this quiet place a group of women find exactly what they've been searching for.Ĭharismatic journalist Charlotte is on a mission to scope out Britain's best tea rooms. The Seafront Tea Rooms is a peaceful hideaway, away from the bustle of the seaside, and in this quiet place a group of women find exactly what theyve been searching for. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments The big rich by bryan burrough![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bryan Burrough is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair and the author of three previous books. Seamlessly charting their collective rise and fall, The Big Rich is a hugely entertaining account that only a writer with Burrough's abilities-and Texas upbringing-could have written. Seamlessly charting their collective rise and fall, The Big Rich is a hugely entertaining account that only a writer with Burroughs abilities-and Texas upbringing-could have written. Hunt, Clint Murchison, and Sid Richardson, all swaggering Texas oil tycoons who owned sprawling ranches and mingled with presidents and Hollywood stars. Weaving together the multigenerational sagas of the industry's four wealthiest families, Burrough brings to life the men known in their day as the Big Four: Roy Cullen, H. Phenomenal reviews and sales greeted the hardcover publication of The Big Rich, New York Times bestselling author Bryan Burrough's spellbinding chronicle of Texas oil. “What's not to enjoy about a book full of monstrous egos, unimaginable sums of money, and the punishment of greed and shortsightedness? ” - The Economist “This is a portrait of capitalism as white-knuckle risk taking, yielding fruitful discoveries for the fathers, but only sterile speculation for the sons-a story that resonates with today's economic upheaval.” - Publishers Weekly “Full of schadenfreude and speculation-and solid, timely history too.” -Kirkus Reviews ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Someone to care by mary balogh![]() It’s been three years since Someone to Love, 1. ![]() The couple focus is on Viola Kingsley and Marcel Lamarr, Marquess of Dorchester. Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Slightly Married, Slightly Wicked, Slightly Tempted, Slightly Scandalous, Slightly Dangerous, A Summer to Remember, Simply Unforgettable, Simply Love, Simply Magic, The Proposal, The Arrangement, Only Enchanting, Only a Promise, Only a Kiss, Only Beloved, Someone to Love, Someone to Hold, Someone to Wed, Someone to Trust, Someone to Remember, Someone to Honor, Someone Perfect, Someone to Cherishįourth in the Westcott historical romance series and revolving around the extended Westcott family in Regency England. It is part of the Westcott #4 series and is a historical romance in a Kindle edition that was published by Berkley on and has 396 pages. ![]() This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. ![]() I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() ![]() If being cut off from the mafia business was what he wanted, then why is it so painfully lonely in paradise?ĭesperate to be the supportive husband Domenico needs, Seth buries his rage, his violent urges, and the anger that simmers inside of him. What’s missing is the man he shares it with, the man he fell in love with. ![]() Endless leisure time filled with cocktails, a kitchen stocked with anything he wishes for, and a private pool in the sunshine. Or has it been there all along, and he just hasn’t noticed? But when a guest arrives to help retrieve a stolen transport of guns, something sinister sneaks into his home, something more dangerous than his enemies. ![]() Inside, where even the shadows don’t reach, something is rotting, and the perfect facade can only hold the stench for so long.ĭomenico promised his husband that he would keep him safe, keep him away from the bloodshed and the brutal world of cartel violence. “We are two halves of the same rotten apple.”ĭeep in the Amazonian jungle, there is a mansion with a rose garden and a hen house where juicy tomatoes are the perfect shade of red, and marble countertops glisten. ![]() This series needs to be listened to in order. ![]() ![]() "Baxter creates a near pitch-perfect evocation of Team TARDIS. ![]() "Baxter has created almost the perfect Doctor Who novel: it stays true to the era in which it is set it's understandable for an intelligent child but not dumbed down for adults it feels like something we could have seen on TV, even though the production designer would have had a heart attack and-most importantly-it never feels cliched or corny.It works as good Doctor Who. ![]() "Baxter nails one of the basic elements of any book like this one, capturing the voices of his three main characters with such precision that Troughton is almost audible in the Doctor's lines."- The A.V. "A master of the genre tackles the Time Lord with great results."- Sci-Fi Bulletin TimeVaultīaxter creates a near pitch-perfect evocation of Team TARDIS takes full advantage of the limitless scale and budget afforded by the reader s imagination. ![]() Clubīaxter has created almost the perfect Doctor Who novel: it stays true to the era in which it is set it s understandable for an intelligent child but not dumbed down for adults it feels like something we could have seen on TV, even though the production designer would have had a heart attack and most importantly it never feels cliched or corny It works as good Doctor Who and as a solid science-fiction tale. ![]() Sci-Fi Bulletinīaxter nails one of the basic elements of any book like this one, capturing the voices of his three main characters with such precision that Troughton is almost audible in the Doctor s lines. A master of the genre tackles the Time Lord with great results. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Book review the water dancer![]() ![]() Coates may be a fine essayist, but fiction really is not his forte. Narrated by an ever-more pretentious-sounding Hiram (“And now, peering into the pigeonhole of my mind”), the novel attempts to blend a Toni Morrison-inspired saga of plantation hardship with the supernatural atmospherics of Stephen King. (Try as he might, he cannot conduct the women up north.) And that is more or less the plot.įor all Coates’s diligent archival research into contemporary slave records, one never feels that he has got particularly close to the horrors of slavery in pre-Civil War America. In antebellum Virginia meanwhile Hiram leaves behind the two “Tasked” people he loves the most: his surrogate mother Thena and his childhood sweetheart Sophia. ![]() New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENTīased on the real-life abolitionist Harriet Tubman, Moses uses her own conductive gifts for the benefit of the enslaved and introduces Hiram to the “Underground Railroad” - the network of trails and safe houses used by runaway slaves. ![]() ![]() Though the book is dense in research, it is never pompous it could serve as a model for how serious musicological study can be generously shared with interested parties who don't happen to be in the same profession." -Santa Fe New Mexican, "hanks to Broyles' book, we're a little bit closer to understanding Beethoven's lasting impression on American culture." 'e", " serves as an intellectual, hyper-informed but genial tour guide to a potentially sprawling subject. Like Beethoven'e(tm)s person and music, it is varied and interesting and suggests many possibilities for future research." 'e"Music Reference Services Quarterly, " serves as an intellectual, hyper-informed but genial tour guide to a potentially sprawling subject. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hanks to Broyles' book, we're a little bit closer to understanding Beethoven's lasting impression on American culture., "his book is as much cultural history as musicology, and this makes it useful across disciplines. ![]() ![]() ![]() And back on the road, he discovers a battle-scarred America: people weary, storefronts empty or festooned with Help Wanted signs, walls painted with graffiti reflecting the contradictory messages of our time: Eat the Rich. ![]() Newly orphaned, he considers what it means, in his seventh decade, no longer to be someone’s son. His offer to fix a stranger’s teeth rebuffed, he straightens his own, and ventures into the world with new confidence. ![]() He vacuums his apartment twice a day, fails to hoard anything, and contemplates how sex workers and acupuncturists might be getting by during quarantine.Īs the world gradually settles into a new reality, Sedaris too finds himself changed. To cope, he walks for miles through a nearly deserted city, smelling only his own breath. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes.īut then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he’s stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most. That’s his gift’ Los Angeles Timesīack when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask-or not-was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. ‘It’s hard to think of a better living practitioner of hilarious honesty than David Sedaris’ The Times ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Jenna rainey watercolour![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Set your DPI (dots per inch) at a minimum of 300 DPI if the final product will be for PRINT, and 72 DPI if it will be used for the WEB.There are so many amazing FREE resources online that can help you figure out what you need to know, you just got to look for it. Don’t be afraid to just GOOGLE whatever you’re trying to learn.The difference between RGB and CMYK colour codes (and which should be used when).Why you should consider colour theory while creating your artwork.What kind of questions you should be asking yourself while thinking about creating a collection of work.How many DPI you should be working with for different scenarios/uses (and what the DPI even is).How Photoshop can help you save time and energy when creating patterns and designs.SOO many awesome tips, tricks and shortcuts to save yourself time!Ĭheck out the video below, and then scroll down for my key takeaways and a list of all the resources we mentioned! In this interview Jenna Rainey gives us a whole step-by-step process on how she scans, edits AND digitizes her watercolour artwork. How To Scan & Edit Your Watercolour Artwork with Jenna Rainey ![]() |