![]() ![]() Thanks to my fiance and Geek Girl Brunch, I'm getting more into it. I admit, I'm not the hugest comic book fan. ![]() ![]() Marvel, The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen proves that not only do strong female protagonists belong in comics, they ve always been there." With vintage art, publication details, a decade-by-decade survey of industry trends and women s roles in comics, and spotlights on iconic favorites like Wonder Woman and Ms. This spectacular sisterhood includes costumed crimebusters like Miss Fury, super-spies like Tiffany Sinn, sci-fi pioneers like Gale Allen, and even kid troublemakers like Little Lulu. Think comic books can t feature strong female protagonists? Think again! In The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen you ll meet the most fascinating exemplars of the powerful, compelling, entertaining, and heroic female characters who ve populated comic books from the very beginning. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He set exactly the right tone and pace and he was also able to bring the other characters, including Lila, to life. ![]() In this case, the voice in my ear was Zach Via, who got everything right. Having the character’s voice in your ear seems appropriate and brings a level of intimacy and involvement that you might not get from the text alone. A story told directly to the reader by the main character, “The Life We Bury” is a natural choice for an audiobook. “The Life We Bury” is a rare thing: a thoughtful, well-written novel, with a main character who has some depth, wrapped around a satisfying mystery, that delivers an emotional punch as well as moments of tense drama. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a really fun book to read – Sally was one of my favorites of her characters. Judy Blume writes all of these fantasies out, too – as though they are happening. Sally also has violent revenge fantasies, where she meets Hitler face to face. Sally can’t stop thinking about Lila, and making up alternate endings for Lila. Sally’s family is Jewish, and they had relatives back in Poland who were killed by the Nazis – and Sally is haunted by one of those relatives – Lila, who died in a concentration camp. It may be seen as an “escape” – but look at what Judy Blume was eventually able to do with such childiish “daydreaming”. She “makes up stories” – which is really just another word for “daydreaming” – but it’s how Sally negotiates life. ![]() (Also, there are hints of adult unhappiness on the fringes of this book – Sally absorbs her parents troubles, etc.) But Sally has this whole secret LIFE going on – to combat her anxiety. ![]() Freedman and her family move to Miami Beach – Sally is in the 5th grade, I believe, and she’s worried about making friends. The book takes place in the late 1940s – after WWII – Sally J. ![]() In the author’s note at the end of this book, Blume reveals that this is her most autobiographical book. ![]() ![]() And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of Alethkar was too narrow in scope. ![]() Nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified. ![]() The #1 New York Times bestseller, Oathbringer is the third volume of Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive fantasy epic where humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance.ĭalinar Kholin’s Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when the man shows up on her doorstep, he is nothing like she expected - he is a young, handsome heir to a dukedom who suddenly threatens everything she holds dear.Ĭonstantine Sinclair arrives on the Langley doorstep in a desperate bid to save the woman who raised him, the duchess of Birchwood.only to discover that the venerable doctor he expected is a bold and lovely charlatan. ![]() She corresponds with people all over the world, including an old army colonel. New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Sophie Jordan continues her best-selling Rogue Files series with this captivating romance that will thrill her many fans.ĭespite being surrounded by her happily wed sisters, Nora Langley prefers botany to ballrooms and would rather spend a lifetime in her laboratory than consider affairs of the heart. An expert herbalist, Nora has been masquerading as her late physician father for years, dispensing invaluable medical advice. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kipling described Kim as “nakedly picaresque and plotless” and, in fact, the book was written as by one possessed. This arrangement may not have been planned. ![]() ![]() Like a symphony in three movements, its 15 chapters seemingly divide, about equally, to mark a journey from discipleship to discipline to deliverance. In an extraordinary landscape and by a unique narrative, Kim’s astonishingly original characters carry the reader from one magical scene to another. “I know of no other English novel that so celebrates the human urban scene.” Angus Wilson. “.Kim is great by any standards that ever obtained in any age of English literature.” Nirad C Chaudhuri. Kim has never been out of print, and there are numerous editions available today, including annotated editions from Penguin and Oxford University Press. For Kipling’s own comments on Kim, see Something of Myself, Chapter 5. ![]() The first book edition by Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1 October 1901 the First English Edition, by Macmillan & Co., London, 17 October 1901 a Second American Edition followed in the same year American Quarto Edition, 1912 Canadian School Edition, 1936 Sun Dial Press Edition, 1939 and the Modern Library Edition, 1950. The book was serialised in America, in McClure’s Magazine, December 1900 to October 1901 in England, in Cassell’s Magazine, January to November 1901. Kipling started work on Kim in 1892 but published in 1901. ![]() ![]() ![]() She writes under different pen names, such as: Ruth Wind and Barbara O’Neal.īarbara fell in love with the secret language of spoons and restaurants when she was just sixteen years old. Proof / Alias / Exposed / Double-Cross / Pursued / Justice (By:Justine Davis,Debra Webb,Katherine Garbera,Catherine Mann,Meredith Fletcher)īeneath the Surface (By:Meredith Fletcher)Īuthor Barbara was born in the year 1959. The Starfish Sisters (As: Barbara O'Neal) This Place of Wonder (As: Barbara O'Neal) Write My Name Across the Sky (As: Barbara O'Neal) The Lost Girls of Devon (As: Barbara O'Neal) When We Believed in Mermaids (As: Barbara O'Neal) The Art of Inheriting Secrets (As: Barbara O'Neal) The Secret of Everything (As: Barbara O'Neal) The Lost Recipe for Happiness (As: Barbara O'Neal) Madame Mirabou's School of Love / The Scent of Hours ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jo also has to come to terms with her new neighbours, including the farmer Rob Starr, who wears expensive boots and erects fences where none seem needed and Granny Narrung, an Aboriginal Elder who Jo initially dismisses for her old-fashioned and uptight Christian ways. ![]() This is practically a miracle as far as Jo is concerned. Twoboy, however, is dreadlocked, devastatingly handsome, heterosexual and apparently single. Jo is reluctant to get embroiled in what promises to be a messy fight. Twoboy and his brother are down from Brisbane to initiate a land claim which stirs up a hornet’s nest of conflicting interests in the area. Jo’s life is already complicated by her artistic and moody teenage daughter and becomes more so with the arrival in town of an outsider, Twoboy. She sees this as her own way of reclaiming Bundjalung country and the process of returning her land to health is deeply satisfying. The protagonist, Jo Breen, is an Aboriginal woman who uses her divorce settlement and the money she earns mowing grass at the Mullumbimby cemetery to buy a block of farmland. Mullumbimy is Melissa Lucashenko’s fifth novel and is, as the name suggests, set in northern New South Wales. ![]() ![]() She can transform her own body, including healing it of wounds and diseases, and she can turn into anything she's seen (or tasted). He started his own breeding program centuries ago, and now he has "colonies" of minions and descendants all over the world.Īnyanwu is a shapeshifter. This makes him immortal and practically unkillable - his current body can be killed, but he'll just take over the killer's body. He has the power of body transference whenever his host body dies (or when he wills it), he can move his consciousness to a new body, killing the former owner in the process. Sinister" is Doro, born thousands of years ago among the ancient Nubians. Which sounds an awful lot like the plot of a lot of X-Men stories, doesn't it?īutler's "Mr. But Wild Seed is basically about two people born with superhuman powers (including immortality) being born centuries ago, discovering each other, and then trying to guide other "gifted" beings (most of them being their descendants) along very different paths, down through the generations. ![]() ![]() There are no epic super-powered battles, and the word "mutant" is never used (nor any other four-colored neologisms for superbeings). If you've ever wondered what the X-Men written by Octavia Butler would look like, this is that book. ![]() ![]() Together they weave a pattern of destiny unimaginable to mortals. Anyanwu is a shapeshifter who can absorb bullets and heal with a kiss and savage anyone who threatens her. Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflexor design. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Normal cells are identically normal malignant cells become unhappily malignant in unique ways." The yoking of scientific expertise to narrative talent is rare enough, but the literary echoes of The Emperor of All Maladies suggest a desire to go further even than fine, accessible explanation. "The cells look bloated and grotesque, with a dilated nucleus and a thin rim of cytoplasm, the sign of a cell whose very soul has been co-opted to divide and to keep dividing with pathological, monomaniacal purpose." In this small but typical moment, Mukherjee manages to convey not only a forensically precise picture of what he sees, but a shiver, too, of what he feels. Unlike their discarded host, these cells are "immortal". The leukaemia cells he is examining came from a woman who has been dead for 30 years. And what he gazes at is one of the more sinister mysteries of human – or anti-human – life. ![]() But then he describes himself in the simplest of scientific poses, looking into a microscope. In lesser hands, such a passage would leave non-specialist readers bewildered and bored. ![]() T hree quarters of the way through his "biography" of cancer, the New York-based oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee pauses to set the scene in his laboratory, a beehive of esoteric activity and impenetrable jargon. ![]() |