![]() ![]() ![]() So much violence and madness, I thought it would never stop. For almost half of my life I lived under a dull red sun which bathed the world in crimson light. I saw a mother grab the hair of a boy her son was fighting, pushing his head down to allow her son to kick him in the face the boy’s pink spittle dribbling onto the concrete. I saw a trail, from the gates of my school, where some kid’s nose must have been broken, to the house where he apparently lived following it in my mind like breadcrumbs. I saw myself as a child, dispassionately watching the red pool form in my brother’s cupped hands. As she filled her little containers, my head was similarly filled with memories and moments. Yet I felt as though it wasn’t only mine she was taking, but every drop I had ever seen spilled. It had taken me an hour to work myself up to it, to convince myself to go through with it, to allow this woman to take my blood. I could feel the needle enter my vein painless, but cold and invasive, like running your tongue along chilled glass. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Humanity clings on to survival in the polluted lands beyond the forest, periodically engaging in bouts of internecine fighting for the scarce resources that remain. The same goes for the symmetry of the three 'dark' manga covers for the more intense volume two.FULL IMAGE: How I encountered Nausicaa from anime film through the manga volumes to the boxed hardcovers.Detail B: I was introduced to the Studio Ghibli Nausicaa in the days before subtitles or dubs so following the manga (as much as I could) not. ![]() It is protected by large insects, including the huge Ohmu. Most of the world is covered by the “Sea of Corruption”, a toxic forest of fungal plants which is steadily encroaching on the remaining open land. Although humanity survived, the land surface of the Earth has become heavily polluted and the seas are poisonous. ![]() It utterly destroyed industrial civilisation approximately a millennium after it began to flourish. MORE The story is set in the future 1000 years after the “Seven Days of Fire”, a cataclysm brought on by the excessive industrialisation that mankind has undergone. Summary: The story is set in the future 1000 years after the “Seven Days of Fire”, a cataclysm brought on by the excessive industrialisation that mankind has undergone.Alternative Name:風の谷のナウシカ 바람계곡의 나우시카 Nausicaä aus dem Tal der Winde (German) Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Kaze no Tani no Nausicaä. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Draper has woven characters and events from Tears of a Tiger in an unflinchingly realistic portrayal of poverty and child abuse. In this second book of the Hazelwood High trilogy, Sharon M. In the end he must stand up to his stepfather alone in a blazing confrontation. And Gerald learns, painfully, that young friends can die and old enemies must be faced. Somehow Gerald manages to finds success as a member of the Hazelwood Tigers basketball team, and Angel develops her talents as a dancer, despite the trouble that still haunts them. The one bright light in Gerald's life is his little half sister, Angel, whom he struggles to protect from her father, who is abusing her. Then he loses the loving generosity of a favorite aunt, and a brutal stepfather with a flaming temper and an evil secret makes his life miserable. His substance-addicted mother is taken from him. ![]() But fire is dangerous and powerful, and tragedy strikes. When Gerald was a child he was fascinated by fire. Draper’s award-winning Hazelwood High trilogy. The flame of love burns bright in the second book of Sharon M. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Right now we have a very ineffective police department, and my city is the most violent it’s ever been in its modern history.” “A police department is a living, breathing institution that gets better or worse,” Simon says. Things have changed, he says, and he considers We Own This City a reflection of that. But unlike The Wire’s more balanced, fictionalized perspective, We Own This City is acutely critical of contemporary Baltimore police culture.Ĭharacters like Jimmy McNulty or Kima Greggs can be brutal and rule-breaking, yet The Wire portrays them as effective police officers who make the city safer. Twenty years after making The Wire, showrunners David Simon and George Pelecanos again tackle crime and government in Baltimore, this time in a six-episode HBO miniseries based on a true story. Josh Charles as Daniel Hersl, camera operator Luke Owen, co-creators David Simon and George Pelecanos. ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps in death, Helen Jean can bring the family together and right the wrongs that proliferated like a tumbleweed through the generations. ![]() Abuse, silence and pain scar them, their wounds still festering because they never healed. Though the family views secrecy as a way to maintain normalcy and stow away pain, it’s backfired horribly. Perish is Latoya Watkins debut novel about a black family in Texas grappling with the effects of generational trauma. Through her neglect, she nurtures the very behaviors she feared he would inherit by nature. The story starts decades earlier as a teenaged Helen Jean, in the midst of a botched abortion, hears the voice of God tell her, “Bear it or perish.” Helen Jean keeps her end of the deal, birthing a son she sees as a monster. In this devastating and gut-wrenching debut, Watkins explores the generational trauma and violence endured by a Black Texas family. ![]() Watkins’ approach is as suspenseful as a crime novel, as dramatic as a soap opera, and as familiar as your own family. In LaToya Watkins’ debut novel “Perish,” the family begins untangling the rotted, gnarled roots of their tree. When a family’s matriarch is on her deathbed, they all gather back to Jerusalem, Texas, the hometown where their unresolved trauma began crashing through the generations. “Perish” by LaToya Watkins (Tiny Reparations Books) This image released by Tiny Reparations shows "Perish" by Latoya Watkins. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is just an SF environment to play with, or to react against. Harrison does not seem to take it seriously as a possible future. In this crazy future, humanity will be the same tragicomical mess that it is today, with all the same typical people. Whereas the previous volumes could be read independently from one another, this one embraces both. Loosely connected to the previous books, Empty Space follows three timelines which feature characters from both Light (2002), such as Anna Kearney, and Nova Swing (2006) like Fat Antoyne. ![]() ![]() John Harrison’s magisterial Kefahuchi Tract series. Empty Space is the third and final entry in M. ![]() ![]() The separation of chapters and parts into acts was brilliantly done. Rio put into this work shows, and I bow down to authors who give me jaw dropping moments of foreshadowing that is not too forced or only discovered through taking time with the work and looking into its subject matter. The clues and awe is unlocked after searching through the plays and the artistry to find the revelations and tie-ins to the story. Yeah, you could read this book straight through and enjoy it, but this book is not meant to just be read. I guess with time a person can change especially when it comes to the benefit of a mystery read with bookish besties! Here I am now ready to reread the great works and give them another chance. As a reader who has been strongly opposed to touching any Shakespeare after my distaste when it was forced into my curriculum growing up. My drama and literature teachers would be so proud if they knew how much analyzing I did while reading this. 4.25 “Secrets carry weight, like lead.” Stars ![]() ![]() This is excellent work by one of comics' best new voices!" which as it turns out, will be the project after this one! But one of the great things about exciting new talent is that the creative process often takes on a life of its own and It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth was a project that had to happen, very much to everyone's delight. "This book has served as a creative sanctuary for me from the day it was conceived-an experimental playground that I hope will inspire, disturb, and comfort in equal measure," said Thorogood.Įric Stephenson, Publisher at Image Comics, added: "Zoe's debut graphic novel, The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott, was one of the highlights of 2020, and we were thrilled when she approached us about publishing her next project. ![]() This fresh and thought provoking auto-bio-graphic is an intimate and metanarrative look into the life of a selfish artist who must create for her own survival. ![]() In It’s Lonely At The Centre Of The Earth cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records six months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt to put it back together again in the only way she knows how. It’s Lonely At The Centre Of The Earth, an original graphic novel by up-and-comer Zoe Thorogood ( The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott, Joe Hill’s Rain), will hit shelves from Image Comics this November. ![]() ![]() ”' gripping Cinderella/Arthurian tale with lush Keatsian adjectives” - Margaret Atwood, via Twitter Thrilling and imaginative, ‘The Bees’ is the story of a heroine who changes her destiny and her world. Laline Paull’s chilling yet ultimately triumphant novel creates a luminous world both alien and uncannily familiar. ![]() But Flora cannot help but break the most sacred law of all, meaning her instinct to serve is overshadowed by a desire, as overwhelming as it is forbidden… Then she finds her way into the Queen’s inner sanctum, where she discovers secrets both sublime and ominous.Įnemies roam everywhere, from the fearsome fertility police to the high priestesses who jealously guard the Hive Mind. ![]() And while mutant bees are usually instantly destroyed, Flora is reassigned to feed the newborns, before becoming a forager, collecting pollen on the wing. Yet Flora has talents that are not typical of her kin. Living to accept, obey and serve, she is prepared to sacrifice everything for her beloved holy mother, the Queen. Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize for New Fiction 2015Įnter a whole new world, in this thrilling debut novel set entirely within a beehive.īorn into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive. Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2015 ![]() ![]() ![]() Lewis: The Revenge of the Shadow King (2006) reveals an alternate history of Arthur who was betrayed and murdered by his half-sister Morgan le Fay, who is portrayed as an evil immortal being known as the Black Witch, for possession of a sacred book which had been passed down father-to-son for thousands of years. Donald Barthelme: "The King" (1990), in which Arthurian characters fight in WWII and the atomic bomb has characteristics of the Holy Grail.Barron: The Merlin Saga, about the life of Merlin (1996-2011). Attanasio: The Dragon and the Unicorn (1994), The Eagle and the Sword (1997), The Wolf and the Crown (1998), and The Serpent and the Grail (1999) Mihir Dhawan, Knighthood: Order of Chivalry (2021).Main article: Bibliography of King Arthur ![]()
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