7/6/2023 0 Comments Maya motayne books![]() To Prince Alfehr magic is an escape, but one that comes with a price. But when she gets caught by a powerful mobster, she's forced into an impossible mission: steal a legendary treasure from Castallan's royal palace or be stripped of her magic forever. As a talented faceshifter, it's been years since Finn has seen her own face, and that's exactly how she likes it. ![]() To Finnian Voy, magic is two things: a knife to hold under the throat of anyone who crosses her, and a disguise she shrugs on as easily as others pull on cloaks. ![]() Fates collide and darkness is unleashed in this lush, own-voices Latin-inspired fantasy, perfect for fans of Tomi Adeyemi, Leigh Bardugo and V. ![]()
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7/6/2023 0 Comments Who fears death hbo![]() ![]() Martin and Lombardo executive produce with Angela Mancuso. Hinds is co-executive producer while Okorafor will serve as consultant. She must go on a journey from self-reproach to love, but to do so she’ll have to overcome untold obstacles-defeating her hated sorcerer father and becoming the instrument of prophetic deliverance for a land of oppressed people, all the while fighting to master the terrifying powers growing inside her. Who Fears Death tells the coming of age tale of Onyesowu in post-apocalyptic North Africa where her story makes her an outcast. It was Okorafor who in July tweeted that her book is being optioned by HBO for a series produced by Martin. ![]() Who Fears Death, which will be written by Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, is based on the sci-fi fantasy novel by Nnedi Okorafo. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Invincible by robert kirkman![]() With Rudy’s consciousness being transferred into his new clone body in episode 7, Ross Marquand took over vocal duties for Rudy, so we don't know if Quinto will be back. In the first season, Robot was the artificial host body of Rudy Conners, an individual whose genetic defects initially meant he was unable to live outside of his saline tank. Zachary Quinto voiced Robot in season 1, but it’s unclear if he'll return. Kevin Michael Richardson as Monster Girl/the Mauler Twins.Grey Griffin as Shrinking Rae and Amanda (Monster Girl's human form).Khary Payton as Markus Grimshaw/Black Samson.Ross Marquand as Rudy Conners, Kursk and Bi-Plane.Jason Mantzoukas as Rex Sloan/Rex Splode.Gillian Jacobs as Samantha Eve Wilkins/Atom Eve. ![]() ![]() We expect these actors to return for Invincible season 2: Expect familiar faces to return in Invincible season 2. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rochester, and the two women who survived them, Bertha and Lucy, who are now undead immortals residing in Los Angeles in 1967 when Dracula and Rochester make a shocking return in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.Ĭombining elements of historical and gothic fiction with a modern perspective, in a tale of love and betrayal and coercion, Reluctant Immortals is the lyrical and harrowing journey of two women from classic literature as they bravely claim their own destiny in a man's world. Reluctant Immortals is a historical horror novel that looks at two men of classic literature, Dracula and Mr. A tale of rural brutality and brotherly love, it reads like something whispered in a bar late at night by a one-eyed man with interesting tattoos and a worrying number of scars. ![]() Rochester's attic-bound wife in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre-as they band together to combat the toxic men bent on destroying their lives, set against the backdrop of the Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury, 1967. 2023 Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Superior Achievement in a Novelįor fans of Mexican Gothic, from three-time Bram Stoker Award–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a novel inspired by the untold stories of forgotten women in classic literature-from Lucy Westnera, a victim of Stoker's Dracula, and Bertha Mason, Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() People, including children, are kidnapped and held prisoner two men go on a hunger strike. The mention that an elephant's partner was killed as punishment. Animals attack: a giant serpent, a pit of poisonous snakes, a swarm of bees. Some injuries that require magical healing including a broken hand and foot, bloody wounds from swords, and madness. Many skirmishes where mythological creatures get skewered by poleaxes, hit with arrows, blinded, killed in explosions, and more and then turn to dust. Heads chopped off - three of them for boring the emperor, and one brother cuts off another brother's head after he becomes trapped and crushed, all so they can't be implicated in a crime (the ghost of the headless brother is a minor character). ![]() ![]() Arena fighting with exotic, tortured animals, cars, and an assortment of weapons causes injuries. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Palahniuk adjustment day![]() “I had no idea it would get as bad as it is at this point,” he says. Seeing a potential story, he began meeting these figures upon his return to the US, although Palahniuk admits he didn’t predict how relevant the subject would become. ![]() The inspiration for this book stemmed from reading American ‘alt-right’ websites while in Madrid six years ago. Cacophony Society, the prank group that inspired Fight Club’s Project Mayhem, hold their annual Santa-themed rally. ![]() He explains, “It’s about exploring your fears more than anything.” He’s attended support groups for terminal illness and sex addiction, partaken in anarchistic societies and visited cults – subjects that will be familiar to his readers. ![]() Originally a journalist, Palahniuk employs unusual depths of research and lived experience to bring his books to life. It would be a kind of pornography that would leave them exhausted by showing them exactly what they might like to see in the world.” ‘I had no idea it would get as bad as it is’ He explains, “I just wanted to write a cathartic book, a book that the darkest fantasies of a lot of people…so that maybe people would have a sense of release by the end. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Myriam gurba![]() ![]() Mean is full of wordplay as language slips and slides through short sections, mostly narrative, but also frequently poetic, including a shaped poem and several lists. ![]() Language becomes the artful manner through which Gurba can articulate her experience while connecting it to the abuse that others have suffered. ![]() On the other hand, Mean, as Gurba describes below, makes demands on its readers, refusing them any simple accounting of the damages done to her while also challenging readers to contend with her complex, sharp, and even witty approach to talking about some of the most devastating experiences our culture creates for women, queer women, and queer women of color. On one hand, Gurba generously offers us a stark recounting of her own (and others') sexual abuse and trauma in a racist, misogynistic culture, telling deeply personal stories so we might better understand the dynamics of sexual predation in our culture. Her powerful memoir, Mean, published in 2017, reads like the queerest of gifts. For us, Gurba was an obvious choice to interview. In the following interview, guest editors Jonathan Alexander and Timothy Oleksiak sat down with writer Myriam Gurba to talk about queer generosity. ![]() ![]() ![]() This means that it’s not exactly a fast read, but that’s not because the writing style is difficult to read it’s just dense with facts. Brown is clearly a historian, and this book is packed with footnotes (well, endnotes) and historical context. ![]() Immodest Acts is nowhere near as salacious as the title would have you believe. ![]() I ended up with Immodest Acts, which is probably a book I wouldn’t have chosen to be top of my reading pile, but I was delighted to get a chance to read, after it’s been languishing on my shelves for years! Anna M calls it “Reading Roulette”! This one has selected by numbering my unread shelves and having my roommate randomly choose a number, and then doing the same with some of the books on that shelf. Finally, I have finished school and caught up on my review copies! Which means that I have been able to select completely random things to read next. ![]() I always had a stack of school books and review books I had to get through first. Between being an English major (recently graduated!) and a book blogger, it has been years now since I’ve been able to just pick a book to read because I was in the mood for it. ![]() ![]() I felt confident that he would at long last tell me who I had descended from. Hot weather made me bold, while it melted the older ones, like Grandpapa. ![]() ![]() “Your father is not a respectable man, Brienna.” ![]() He blinked down at my expectant face, frowning as if I had asked him to pluck the moon from the sky. Because of that, I believed he was ashamed of me-the illegitimate child of his beloved, dead daughter.īut on that sweltering day, he was trapped in the coach with me, and I had voiced a question he must answer. He was a proper man, a good yet very private man. My grandfather sat on the opposite bench, his eyes heavy from the heat until my inquiry startled him. Not only was it the hottest day of summer, an afternoon for bloated clouds and short tempers, it was the day I decided to ask the question that had haunted me ever since I had been placed in the orphanage. I was ten years old when my grandfather first took me to Magnalia. ![]() I, of course, happen to be all three of those things. It wasn’t designed for girls who were lacking, for girls who were illegitimate daughters, and certainly not for girls who defied kings. Magnalia House was the sort of establishment where only wealthy, talented girls mastered their passion. Province of Angelique, Kingdom of Valenia ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Trig by Robert Newton Peck![]() ![]() ![]() He broadens his heart to make room even for Baptists. He wrestles with grammar in the schoolhouse. Rob keeps the pig, names her, and gives her his devotion… All that Robert done was what any farmer would do for another’ but is persuaded. His father at first demurs ‘We thank you, Brother Tanner,’ said Papa, ‘but it’s not the Shaker Way to take frills for being neighborly. ![]() The grateful farmer brings him a gift a newborn pig. The boy is mauled by Apron, the neighbor’s ailing cow whom he helps, alone, to give birth. In the daily round of his thirteenth year, as the seasons turn and the farm is tended, the boy whose time is the only yesterday of Calvin Coolidge, whose people are the Plain People living without ‘frills’ in the Shaker Way becomes a man. Out of a rare American tradition, sweet as hay, grounded in the gentle austerities of the Book of Shaker, and in the Universal countryman’s acceptance of birth, death, and the hard work of wresting a life from the land comes this haunting novel of a Vermont farm boyhood. ![]() |