5/13/2023 0 Comments Defy series by sara b larsonLet's just overlook the fact that there are fucking rape farm/breeding houses for a moment, because there are bigger problems at play here. I am so fucking sick of heroines who spend their supposedly ass-kicking selves sobbing and crying and fucking feeeeeeeeeeling things and checking out her fellow half-naked soldiers wondering things like, my god, how did I not notice how fucking HOT his body looks when he's dripping with sweat! It's a fucking reverse harem! I am just so bloody tired of so-called bad-ass heroines who do fucking nothing to prove that they're capable. Blood flows overwhelmingly to the penis instead of the brain.
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Bad Vampires by Karl LarewAlso, there were many jokes that fell flat and made no sense to me. Quite a bit of it was very choppy and some parts of the story had lines that seemed to be put in as an afterthought. Discovering their love for each other, they can only hope that they will have time to explore it as one confrontation after another becomes more and more dangerous.īad Vampires was really hard for me to enjoy. She goes from being a regular person to being someone who seems to have one adventure after another. Though they chase him out of the building, the threat is not gone, and Lance is now protecting Carol twenty-four hours a day. A bad vampire, Elmer, is after her, intending to drink her blood and kill her.Ĭarol assumes Lance is certifiable with all of his nonsense talk about someone wanting to kill her until Elmer actually shows up. Lance Blodgett knows it looks bad, but he really is there to save Carol from the real threat. Terrified, she threatens to call the cops if he doesn’t leave. Carol Binghamton is minding her own business when some weirdo climbs into her window. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Curious george gets a medaland the Nine Monkeys in the British and American editions) was the result, and it marked the debut of a mischievous monkey named Curious George.Īfter Raffy and the Nine Monkeys was published, the Reys decided that Curious George deserved a book of his own, so they began work on a manuscript that featured the lovable and exceedingly curious little monkey. It was there that Hans published his first children’s book, after a French publisher saw his newspaper cartoons of a giraffe and asked him to expand upon them. Hans and Margret were married in Brazil on August 16, 1935, and they moved to Paris after falling in love with the city during their European honeymoon. Margret convinced Hans to leave the family business, and soon they were working together on a variety of projects. They were reunited in 1935 in Rio de Janeiro, where Hans was selling bathtubs as part of a family business and Margret was escaping the political climate in Germany. The two met briefly when Margret was a young girl, before she left Hamburg to study art. Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein (who would be known to most of the world as Margret Rey) was also born in Hamburg on May 16, 1906. He grew up there near the world-famous Hagenbeck Zoo, and developed a lifelong love for animals and drawing. Hans Augusto Rey was born on September 16, 1898, in Hamburg, Germany. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Circe genreAnd of course Odysseus and his crew, returning home from Troy via Circe’s island. Circe encompasses some of most famous myths in Western literature: the punishment of Prometheus the Minotaur Jason, Medea and the Golden Fleece. Ultimately, however, the real threats to Circe’s happiness come not from the gods, but from her own guilt and fears. In exile, she develops her arts, becoming more powerful until she can protect her island and those she loves even from the wrath of Athena. When she discovers a power that the other gods fear- witchcraft-she is banished to a remote island. Shunned by her divine family from birth, Circe is an outsider with a mortal’s voice. Miller’s novel tells the story of Circe, daughter of the sun-god Helios. But it is much more than a simple retelling. While the first, The Song of Achilles, focuses on the Iliad, the second turns its attention to stories told through the Odyssey. Madeline Miller returns to the Homeric epics for the inspiration for her second novel, Circe. I didn't worry in spite of the potential of Joss Whedon steering the course of an X-book, but because of it. However, at the time I was very pessimistic about comics. Any list of my favorite TV programs will inevitably include Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly. The announcement that Joss Whedon was writing Astonishing X-Men didn't appeal to me at first. days right before "Mutant Massacre." But between the movies, the abundant monthlies and minis, and the cartoons for me the X-men in general - and Wolverine in particular - were by that time the comic book version of that pop song you love the first time you hear it, and the second, and the third, and the five hundredth, but eventually it gets played every hour and you think next time you pass by someone who's humming it you're going to punch him in the throat. Some of my most potent comic book memories involve the Chris Claremont/John Romita, Jr. I felt like all my doorways back into the X-mythology were shut, and honestly I didn't care all that much. Dozens of spin-off solo and team X-titles lived and died in the time it took me to leave comics and return. Since then I stopped reading comics, eventually revived my interest in them, and in the interim there was too much X-stuff to wrap my head around. I tuned out of the X-people a long time ago. By Joss Whedon, John Cassaday, and Laura Martin, et al.Ĭollects Astonishing X-Men #s 1-24 and Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men #1 Not for the faint of heart, this book runs on pressure-cooker suspense, graphically described bloodshed, and dark acts of brutality.This riveting character study adds a new dimension to the oeuvre by fleshing out established characters and plot lines., "If the comic book writer Robert Kirkman were a superhero, his name might be the Midas Touch." -The New York Times, This book stands alone and is a compelling read for fans of the series or just fans of zombies. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Bryan stevenson innocence projectIn 1988, a lawyer named Bryan Stevenson proved that McMillian’s case had been mishandled and worked to appeal his conviction and death sentence. His sentence was a shock to the rest of the community, who wondered how something so cruel and unfair happened. McMillian had no prior criminal history and was a 45-year-old-self employed logger who had worked for many people throughout the community. Once it did, it only lasted a day and a half before he was sent back to death row. McMillian was held in death row for 15 tortuous months before his trial even began. There were dozens of black people who could testify to his innocence but the jury ignored them. During the time of the murder, McMillian was with his family 11 miles away from the murder site. In 1986, Walter McMillian, a black man, was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a young white women. It is devastating that thousands of people have lost a huge part of their life if not forced to end their life due to a mistake from the so-called “justice system”. Not only this, 1 in 25 people waiting on Death Row are innocent. In that time, over 18,250 years were served by those wrongfully convicted. Since 1989, there have been 2,095 exonerations of innocent inmates in the United States. It is hard to imagine that today, thousands of innocent people in the United States are placed in jail or prison for a crime that they did not commit. 5/12/2023 0 Comments The Suicide's Grave by James HoggWith the conviction of the Elect, he gives in to every whim of the coercive fiend no matter how wicked the crime. Together, they spend many a day discussing all facets of doctrine and scripture, stretching the definition of Christianity to its most dangerous extreme, until the young Wringham can no longer resist the charms and flattery of his only friend. The day of his so-called 'election' to grace, he meets a strange individual that seems to reflect his image and beliefs in every manner, who goes by no other name than Gil-Martin. Despite a propensity towards jealousy, malice, and backstabbing, young Robert soon finds himself initiated into his adopted father's sect, convinced of his predestined salvation and inability to do wrong. Young and gifted Robert, second son of George Colwan, Laird of Dalcastle, virtually disowned on suspicions of parentage and thus denied the name of his father, is taken in and raised by the fundamentalist leader Reverend Wringham. The idea that Germany was the prime mover has enjoyed a brilliant, if chequered career ever since. The victorious allies stuck the blame on Germany at the Versailles Peace Conference, in the "war guilt clause". Who, or what, was to blame? What role do we attribute to underlying trends such as militarism, the arms race and imperialist rivalry? How important was the system of alliances that divided Europe into two armed camps? Then there is the question of which power or powers carry the greatest responsibility for the coming of war. While there is broad agreement about the consequences of the war, the causes have always been contentious. It brought down four European empires and weakened the colonial powers that ended on the winning side, Britain and France it spawned communism and fascism, and changed relations between Europeans and non-Europeans, town and country, governments and peoples, men and women. The war was one of history's great turning points, the beginning of what Eric Hobsbawm dubbed the "short 20th century" (which ended in 1989). Sixty-five million men served in the conflict, 9 million of them died and 20 million were wounded. This set in train the July Crisis, the moves and counter-moves that would lead to general European war, the "great black tornado", as Theodore Roosevelt called it. A rchduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated on 28 July 1914 in Sarajevo. The secondary characters were not as intriguing or engaging, and I would have liked to see a bit more development in regard to them. Dahiya is a well written protagonist, with plenty of emotional drive, charisma, and complex feelings. The beginning of each chapter listed the location and its modern-day equivalent, which was an excellent way to visualize Dahiya's travels. Set in the seventh century, this was an excellent work of historical fiction. But when tragedy strikes, Dahiya must take a stand on her own, attempting to gain the respect of her fellow tribesman as well as their foreign allies. With their enemies multiplying, Dahiya and her father realize they must join forces with the Greeks to drive out this threat. But the Arabic invaders are increasing in numbers and threatening the native tribes. Dahiya is used to riding with her father and his men across the African deserts for raids. |