![]() ![]() ![]() As their emotional intimacy erodes, Ray and Bron isolate from each other and attempt to repair their broken family ties - Ray with her overworked, resentful single-mother sister and Bron with her religious teenage sister who doesn’t fully grasp the complexities of gender identity. Their playdates are little oases of wildness, joy, and ease in all three of their lives, which ping-pong between familial tensions and deep-seeded personal stumbling blocks. An exhilarating and tender debut graphic novel that is an ode to the love and connection shared among three women and the child they all adore.Ģ022 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize WINNERĢ022 Lambda Literary Award WINNER, LGBTQ ComicsĢ021 National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoreeīron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray’s niece, six-year-old Nessie. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Unfortunately, they’re the ones in charge of pouring out the kibble. Meanwhile, the humans around him have lost the plot. The Art of Racing in the Rain is one of the most unique books I have ever read. Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver. And everything he says and does makes sense, at least in dog logic. The Art of Racing in the Rain Pdf Summary. Enzo’s phrasing, thanks to Costner, is an easy-on-the-ears drawl the texture of his voice is pleasingly rough, like a bit of fur that’s been slightly ruffled by the removal of a bothersome burdock. The generally charming Seyfried is saddled with a bum role that mostly requires her to suffer beatifically, and Donovan and Baker, both marvelously subtle actors, are badly suited to playing monsters-in-law.īut Costner as Enzo? Now that’s a stroke of genius. ![]() For a guy with a job that almost no one on the planet has, Denny is shockingly dull, and Ventimiglia fails to vest him with even an iota of personality. But the big problem with The Art of Racing in the Rain–directed by Simon Curtis, whose last movie was the surprise delight Goodbye Christopher Robin–is that it’s nearly impossible to care about any of the humans. Animal lovers should know that nothing terrible happens to Enzo, though there are two close calls they’re conveniently willed into being by some highly unbelievable negligence on the part of Denny and Eve, who otherwise seem completely devoted to Enzo. But, as Enzo the dog tells audiences, If the driver has the courage to create his own conditions, then the rain is simply rain. ![]() ![]() It could all be so winsome and adorable–but it isn’t. ![]() ![]() ![]() Leeds is a man for hire, and he charges large sums of money to solve special cases through the combined efforts of his aspects. It's still an excellent read, as most things from Sanderson seem to be, but it was just missing the little something that would have taken this book to the next level. This is a reasonably short read, especially by Sanderson's standards, and in the end I think the ideas Sanderson is playing with are just too big for a novella length story to do justice. This time we get Legion, a novella length story about a schizophrenic man named Stephen Leeds who can summon hallucinations, or aspects, with very specific skillsets - languages, military tactics, theology, interrogation, etc. Along the way, Sanderson touches on a formidable assortment of complex questions: the nature of time, the mysteries of the human mind, the potential uses of technology, and the volatile connection between politics and faith. ![]() ![]() The action ranges from the familiar environs of America to the ancient, divided city of Jerusalem. As the story begins, Leeds and his "aspects" are drawn into the search for the missing Balubal Razon, inventor of a camera whose astonishing properties could alter our understanding of human history and change the very structure of society. Stephen Leeds, AKA "Legion," is a man whose unique mental condition allows him to generate a multitude of personae: hallucinatory entities with a wide variety of personal characteristics and a vast array of highly specialized skills. ![]() ![]() ![]() Opening with the 1930 London Conference, Symonds shows how any limitations on naval warfare would become irrelevant before the decade was up, as Europe erupted into conflict once more and its navies were brought to bear against each other. World War II at Sea represents his crowning achievement: a complete narrative of the naval war and all of its belligerents, on all of the world's oceans and seas, between 19. Symonds has established himself as one of the finest naval historians at work today. ![]() Description: Author of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly), and Operation Neptune, (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature), Craig L. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Adkins have thoroughly researched their material, as corresponding notes and fascinating nineteenth century definitions of otherwise regular words are found throughout. This is not only a treasure trove of detail and delight for the Austen aficionado, but rather it can also be used by those interested in understanding the context and grander picture of a history that focuses on the late eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Indeed, the subjects of superstition, breeding, filth, pleasure, and fashion are all delved into-not to mention the multitude of other cultural terms and themes that they bring back to life. The Adkins have taken quite an undertaking in sifting through all of the research pertinent and available to the period, and they don’t shortcut some of the less-covered topics. Spanning the period of Jane Austen’s birth in 1775 to her untimely death in 1817, the brilliant husband and wife Adkins-duo take on the social history of Georgian England, with the beginning years of the Regency period thrown into the mix as well. ![]() ![]() ![]() One film that it reminded me of is "Master and Commander" because of the similar scenes of the British navy and the theme of the struggle of science and progress in the face of war and politics with intelligence and perseverance winning out in the end. It is wonderfully written and produced and contains much light humor as well, making it truly entertaining. It sounds dreadfully boring if you read the plot summary, but it isn't. If you enjoy intelligent movies, then you should definitely seek this film out. ![]() Here is a film that has virtually no 'action' other than a few cannons fired and a lashing or two during the parts at sea, but is filled with the sort of tension and drama that keeps the viewer constantly involved. The vast majority of films that are produced thesedays feature heros who triumph based on who is a bigger bad ass or has got the biggest guns or bombs. ![]() All great stories deal with conflict and overcoming difficulties. ![]() ![]() Either way, her life is forfeit-it always has been, as she has been forever touched by Life and Death. And his seductive touch ignites a passion she’s never allowed herself to feel and cannot feel for him. Born shrouded in the veil of the Primals, a Maiden as the Fates promised, Seraphena Mierel’s future has never been hers. ![]() Armentrout returns with book one of the all-new, compelling Flesh and Fire seriesset in the beloved Blood and Ash world. Until him. Until the Primal of Death’s unexpected words and deeds chase away the darkness gathering inside her. A SHADOW IN THE EMBER 1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. A specter never fully formed yet drenched in blood. If she fails, she dooms her kingdom to a slow demise at the hands of the Rot. Make the Primal of Death fall in love, become his weakness, and then…end him. However, Sera’s real destiny is the most closely guarded secret in all of Lasania-she’s not the well protected Maiden but an assassin with one mission-one target. ![]() ![]() But nothing is ever as simple as it seems, especially not when emotions get involved. She is trained as an assassin with one goal: make the God of Death fall in love with you and kill him. Chosen before birth to uphold the desperate deal her ancestor struck to save his people, Sera must leave behind her life and offer herself to the Primal of Death as his Consort. A Shadow in the Ember follows the story of Sera, a maiden chosen by the Gods to be the consort of the God of Death. ![]() ![]() ![]() All things, no matter how piously regarded, up to and including the US civil rights movement, are there to be punctured by Beatty’s fierce and fizzing wit. Nothing is sacred in The Sellout, in which the book’s narrator (surname Me) decides to reinstate segregated schools and reluctantly takes on a slave in his home district of Dickens, Los Angeles. It is certainly a book in which one gasps frequently – amid deeply uncomfortable laughter and, at times, tears. ![]() ![]() It would be like, ‘Really? Still?’ I guess they thought the book wouldn’t sell.” He won’t be drawn, but the implication is that he suspects publishers may have found the material too harsh, too unconventional, too unfamiliar – and, conceivably, beneath all that, in some undefinable way too black. I was like, ‘Why? What’s all that about?’ I would be uncomfortable guessing. The morning after the night before, the New York-based, Los Angeles-born writer is slightly dazed, somewhat short of sleep and good-naturedly overcoming his reluctance to talk about his work. “It’s weird for me,” says Beatty, who is 54. ![]() ![]() ![]() My mother was a beautiful woman, and a beautiful wolf too. They'll always be a little too big, and they still are three years later. I'd stare up at her and think about all the lies she's told me. "Having brown eyes is lovely, people want brown eyes like yours, Rae." "Don't worry, I'm sure your breasts will come, you're just a late bloomer," she'd say. "Don't worry, you'll grow into your ears," my mother would tell me, pushing my dull, knotted brown hair over them. ![]() All of the girls my age were beautiful, and I was the ugly duckling. I mean, werewolves are supposed to be beautiful right? Flawless skin, vibrant hair, lushes lips, soothing voice, perfect body, a list of traits that surrounded me, yet traits I didn't have. Me, a sixteen-year-old werewolf at the time, was depressed because of my physical appearance. The thought brought me to tears while I sat in my bathtub, only in the tub so no one could hear me. It is a stupid thing to believe-that I am too ugly for a Mate-but the thought grasped onto me for years. In my young mind, I believed no guy would want me because at the time I didn't possess such traits. Maybe it was for dumb reasons like, my face is full of pimples, or my legs are too fat, or my hair is dry and not as soft and shiny as hers. ![]() When I was younger, I convinced myself that I would never have a Mate. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her wry acceptance of life’s folly remain her strongest weapon against tyranny and bad taste.” “Her poems offer a restorative wit as playful as it is steely and as humble as it is wise. ![]() Map offers Szymborska’s devoted readers a welcome return to her “ironic elegance” ( The New Yorker). Of the approximately two hundred fifty poems included here, nearly forty are newly translated thirteen represent the entirety of the poet’s last Polish collection, Enough, never before published in English. ?Edited by her longtime, award-winning translator, Clare Cavanagh, Map traces Szymborska’s work until her death in 2012. “If you want the world in a nutshell,” a Polish critic remarked, “try Szymborska.” But the world held in these lapidary poems is larger than the one we thought we knew. Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska draws us in with her unexpected, unassuming humor. One of Europe’s greatest poets is also its wisest, wittiest, and most accessible. ![]() ![]() There’s no better place for those unfamiliar with her work to begin.” “Vast, intimate, and charged with the warmth of a life fully imagined to the end. is the best of the Western mind-free, restless, questioning.” - New York Times Book Review ![]() |