![]() When these two crash into each other, they crash hard …įrom the author of My Life Next Door – one of GoodReads Top YA Reads of All Time – fall in love all over again with the romance ‘most likely’ to win your heart. I pop the list off the wall, fold it carefully, jam it into my back pocket. Most likely to star in her own reality show. In Huntley Fitzpatricks latest release, seventeen year old Tim Mason is The Boy Most Likely To utterly and completely steal readers hearts. Perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover, Jenny Han and Elle Kennedy’s The Good Girl Complex.Īlice Garrett was The Girl Most Likely To … well, not date her little brother’s baggage-burdened best friend, for starters.įor Tim, it wouldn’t be smart to fall for Alice.įor Alice, nothing could be scarier than falling for Tim.īut Tim has never been known for making the smart choice, and Alice is starting to wonder if the \”smart… choice is always the right one. We came up with our antidote to those stupid yearbook lists: Most likely to be a millionaire by twenty-five. After college she worked in many fields, including as an editor at Harlequin, so she knew from romance. ![]() ![]() She grew up in a small, coastal, Connecticut town much like the Stony Bay of her novels, My Life Next Door, What I Thought Was True, and The Boy Most Likely To. ![]() Addictive, swoonful, good-girl-meets-bad-boy romance. Huntley Fitzpatrick always wanted to be a writer. ![]()
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5/12/2023 0 Comments Inheritance cycle![]() ![]() The elves, for being the supposed perfect race, are riddled with flaws that aren’t meant to be there, I have no idea what Paolini wants me to take as the religion of the world, the dwarves exist for the sake of existing, and the overall message seems to be something along the lines of “evil is evil and good is good, just because Paolini says so.” I feel the same way about her as I do most politicians: pretty speech giver, but completely full of shit. Nasuada is shoved up on a pedestal she doesn’t deserve to be on, because she sucks as a leader. I loathe Eragon, Arya, and Saphira I think they’re pretentious assholes. ![]() Like, you could find essays and various blog posts all over the internet on why The Inheritance Cycle is trite, and despite the fact that I agree with just about every possible reason people have to hate the books, I still love them. And this just makes me so confused, because every time I read anything in the books it pisses me right the hell off. I would go so far as to say that it’s one of my favorite series ever. No series has ever left me so ambivalent. Spoilers and a trigger warning for rape after the jump. So now that it’s out, I might as well get started. The last book of the series recently came out this month-and about time too, as we’ve only been waiting three years for the damn thing-and I have been planning to do a review of the series for a while now. ![]() Yeah, I’ve recently come to conclusion that Inheritance Cycle sucks about as much as the title of this post. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Darth vader comic kieron gillen![]() ![]() As you read the dialogue on the page, you can hear it in James Earl Jones’s sonorous basso profundo, and that’s the essence of what makes Darth Vader one of the best mainstream comics on the market: It builds inventively on the Star Wars mythos while remembering what made it resonant and sexy. His entry to the palace is, of course, a more violent echo of Luke Skywalker’s arrival in Return of the Jedi Vader meeting with Jabba is an exciting new interpolation within a beloved mythology and god damn, that’s a solid threat. He’s beauty and he’s grace, he’ll slash you in the face: this is Darth Vader, distilled and served to Star Wars geeks in a rich and engaging way. Do not make me reconsider my generosity.” Vader stares at Jabba behind his expressionless helmet and intones, “I have only killed two. He wordlessly murders two guards with his lightsaber, demands an audience with Jabba and, once he has it, finds himself berated by the sluglike gangster: “You arrive a day early, kill two of my guards, and expect me to deal with you?” ![]() ![]() The in-continuity series begins with Vader entering Jabba the Hutt’s palace not long after the end of the first Star Wars film. The creative team behind Marvel’s Darth Vader, writer Kieron Gillen and artist Salvador Larroca, more or less had their book figured out from its first scene. Photo: Salvador Larocca and Edgar Delgado/Marvel ![]() ![]() ![]() Peake first made his reputation as a painter and illustrator during the 1930s and 1940s, when he lived in London, and he was commissioned to produce portraits of well-known people. Peake also wrote poetry and literary nonsense in verse form, short stories for adults and children ( Letters from a Lost Uncle, 1948), stage and radio plays, and Mr Pye (1953), a relatively tightly structured novel in which God implicitly mocks the evangelical pretensions and cosy world-view of the eponymous hero. Tolkien, but Peake's surreal fiction was influenced by his early love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson rather than Tolkien's studies of mythology and philology. ![]() They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. ![]() The four works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, the completion of which was prevented by his death. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. Mervyn Laurence Peake (9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968) was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments The lincoln lawyer book order![]() To escape without being burned, he must deploy every tactic, feint, and instinct in his arsenal - this time to save his own life. ![]() Then someone close to him is murdered and Haller discovers that his search for innocence has brought him face-to-face with evil as pure as a flame. And as the evidence stacks up, Haller comes to believe this may be the easiest case of his career. It is a defense attorney's dream, what they call a franchise case. Sometimes it's even about justice. A Beverly Hills playboy arrested for attacking a woman he picked up in a bar chooses Haller to defend him, and Mickey has his first high-paying client in years. ![]() For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence, it's about negotiation and manipulation. Bikers, con artists, drunk drivers, drug dealers-they're all on Mickey Haller's client list. The bestselling legal thriller-and upcoming Netflix series-has charismatic defense attorney Mickey Haller taking on a slam-dunk court case involving a Beverly Hills playboy-but as it spirals into a nightmare, he finds himself in a fight for his life. Mickey Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind. ![]() The Lincoln Lawyer Michael Connelly € 15.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time for this item will be 2 - 3 weeks. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Jason segel and kirsten miller![]() I couldn’t do any of this without a tremendous amount of hard work from Kirsten. We then hand the manuscript back and forth until we have created a funky masterpiece. We essentially create a really detailed outline then Kirsten takes a run at our first draft. Our weird tastes overlap, and we feed off each other in fantastic and unexpected ways. I brought a rough idea of Otherworld to Kirsten, and then she brought a whole world of life, depth, and specificity to it. As we’ve progressed, the dynamic has really evolved. I know scripts, and Kirsten knows books, so it was really a match made in heaven for me. ![]() ![]() The first Nightmares! book was a very particular situation in that we were adapting an existing script. If The Matrix and the Lord of the Rings went to their high school reunion and had a one-night stand, Otherworld would be their illegitimate child. I told her the idea, and our adventure began. I drew up a very rough outline and called Kirsten. That’s sort of where it all began for me. Then I thought, People will never want to leave. I imagined how extraordinary it would be to have that sort of experience in a truly immersive way. I had been a big fan of a game called Myst when I was a kid-it’s a computer environment that you get to wander around, explore, and solve puzzles in. My first thought was: This is going to change everything. The idea for Otherworld came after I first demoed the Oculus Rift at Sundance a few years ago. Describe where the idea for OTHERWORLD came from, and how your writing process works?. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Dr jekyll and mr hyde illustrated![]() “It took on this occasion a double dose to recall me to myself and alas! six hours after, as I sat looking sadly in the fire, the pangs returned, and the drug had to be re-administered.” “and at last, in an hour of moral weakness, I once again compounded and swallowed the transforming draught.” The negative effects of drugs and the associated shame and secrecy. Never having read the book before, the thing I was most struck with was its apparent concern with drug addiction. ![]() You know before reading it that Jekyll and Hyde are the same person, it has entered our language. Other reviews have dwelt on themes of duality etc and others still correctly state that the impact of this book is lessened by how much of its plot is already in the collective consciousness of readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2006, Aaron made a blind submission to DC/Vertigo, who published his first major work, the Vietnam War story The Other Side which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Miniseries, and which Aaron regards as the "second time" he broke into the industry.įollowing this, Vertigo asked him to pitch other ideas, which led to the series Scalped, a creator-owned series set on the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation and published by DC/Vertigo. The story, which was published in Wolverine #175 (June 2002), gave him the opportunity to pitch subsequent ideas to editors. Aaron decided he wanted to write comics as a child, and though his father was skeptical when Aaron informed him of this aspiration, his mother took Aaron to drug stores, where he would purchase books from spinner racks, some of which he still owns today.Īaron's career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine back-up story script. His cousin, Gustav Hasford, who wrote the semi-autobiographical novel The Short-Timers, on which the feature film Full Metal Jacket was based, was a large influence on Aaron. Jason Aaron grew up in a small town in Alabama. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments The Leopard's Tale by Ian Hodder![]() The book - written by the Director of Research at Catalhoyuk - is subtitled, perhaps ironically, “The Leopard’s Tale”, as hardly a trace of a leopard was found among the faunal remains at the site through many seasons of excavation. ![]() What is remarkable about this site is the symbolic art that has been found there: Skulls of wild bulls and parts of other wild animals are plastered on to the walls of the houses, which are also decorated with many paintings of wild animal hunts the human participants of these scenes often wear what look like leopard skins, and illustrations of leopards – usually in pairs - abound throughout the site. ![]() Catalhoyuk is an archaeological site in Anatolia in Turkey, where the remains of a “town” densely occupied from the Neolithic age (about 7500 BCE) though the Chalcolithic (early use of Copper, about 6000 BCE) have been excavated. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These two chapters say in 20 or so pages much of what Smith says in 275 pages, only much more eloquently. I just don't think his book expressed this in the best possible way.Instead, I would recommend chapters 10 and 11 of Abraham Joshua Heschel's "God in Search of Man". I agree with his overall premise that we make a terrible mistake when we allow "worship" of science to replace worship of God - regardless of one's religion. The remaining 15% was made up of discussions on either science or metaphysics which were so technical for their fields that I had no idea what he was even talking about.I believe very strongly that religion matters. I suppose I agreed with about 70% of his arguments, and disagreed with about 15%. ![]() However, he gave me much food for thought - most of it digestible. I grew SO weary of phrases like, "blah blah blah as I demonstrated in chapter three." or "I will discuss blah blah blah in depth when we get to chapter seven, so I will only mention it in brief now." I can't really say I "liked" the book, because of this and other stylistic issues I had trouble getting past. Huston Smith is one of the most recognized experts on religion in the United States, and so I was saddened to find that his writing style annoyed me so much. ![]() |