![]() ![]() ![]() This story may be categorised as science fiction but in reality it is a deep exploration into the psyche of a man who up to the age of 32 has been a moron (using the delightful parlance of the day), but is then given the opportunity to massively improve his intelligence by participating in experimental surgery. Charly is one of those characters that never really left me so I was delighted to be reminded of the book when it was mentioned in Matt Haig’s book ‘How to Stop Time’ and was even more pleased to find that this modern classic from the late fifties has recently been issued as a audiobook. (Cliff Robertson won a well-deserved Oscar playing the title role). ![]() My first encounter with the story of Charly Gordon was many years ago when I watched the film ‘Charly’ probably in the mid-seventies. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In the jungle of weeds stood a rusted swing set, gilded in moonlight. ![]() There was a cactus garden in the center of the patio, which featured a built-inīarbecue. The backyard was vaguely familiar like so many yards out of my Southern CaliforniaĬhildhood. Rob’s own favorite mystery writer was Michael Nava. GAAAHHH!! They don't make them like this anymore. GAAAAAAHHHHH!!! “Okay, baby?” Josh put some voodoo when writing this series. Josh is married and lives in Southern California.įind other Josh Lanyon titles at Follow Josh on Twitter, Facebook, and Goodreads. Josh is an Eppie Award winner, a four-time Lambda Literary Award finalist (twice for Gay Mystery), an Edgar nominee and the first ever recipient of the Goodreads Favorite M/M Author Lifetime Achievement award. The Adrien English Series was awarded All Time Favorite Male Male Couple in the 2nd Annual contest held by the 20,000+ Goodreads M/M Group. In 2016 Fatal Shadows placed #5 in Japan’s annual Boy Love novel list (the first and only title by a foreign author to place). Stranger on the Shore (Harper Collins Italia) was the first M/M title to be published in print. ![]() The FBI thriller Fair Game was the first male/male title to be published by Harlequin Mondadori, the largest romance publisher in Italy. Her work has been translated into eleven languages. ![]() Josh Lanyon is the author of over sixty titles of classic Male/Male fiction featuring twisty mystery, kickass adventure and unapologetic man-on-man romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a motherly nightmare so disturbing it accidentally kicked off the so-called “elevated” horror movement, and seemed certain to go down as Aster’s definitive stance on mother-kid dynamics. More recently, Ari Aster busted onto the indie filmmaking scene with 2018’s “Hereditary”: a head-spinning Toni Collette triumph about reckless driving, generational grief, and Pagan cults. ![]() But he’d whipped up something just as insidiously spectacular with Leopoldine Konstantin for his earlier “Notorious”: a 1945 spy thriller set against the wreckage of World War II and centered around the duplicitous relationship between an aristocratic mother and son (Claude Rains). Alfred Hitchcock used the real crimes of serial killer Ed Gein and added a profoundly morbid murder of a mother at a motel to brilliantly realize Norma and Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) for his exquisite “Psycho” in 1960, of course. Consider mother-centric horror as its own subgenre, and you’ll notice there’s a tendency among filmmakers to take more than one stab at the thorny subject matter. ![]() So if you’re looking for something to do this Mother’s Day - with or without your own maternal figure in tow - why not cue up a matriarchal tale of terror and sort through some of that trauma in style?Īuteurs have been hashing out their mommy issues on the big screen for decades with varying degrees of success. Movies offer an excellent excuse to ruminate on your deepest fears, and they’re certainly cheaper than therapy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Archived from the original on October 15, 2013. "Comics you should own – Doom Patrol #19-63". ![]() Archived from the original on May 11, 2007. Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999. Archived from the original on March 8, 2012. Since leaving the comics industry, he has worked extensively in computer game illustration especially for Ubisoft. ![]() He illustrated Jamie Delano's Ghostdancing limited series, the final story arc of Peter Milligan's Shade, the Changing Man, and Hunter: The Age of Magic with Dylan Horrocks. Back at DC, Case inked Marc Hempel's pencils on the Sandman story " The Kindly Ones" and penciled a few pages in Hempel's style. In 1992, he drew several issues of Darkhold: Pages from the Book of Sins for Marvel. He moved to DC Comics and pencilled the majority of issues of Grant Morrison's run on Doom Patrol beginning with issue #19 (Feb. Case's first credited published comic book story appeared in Marvel Comics' Strange Tales vol. Career Īfter receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design, Richard Case worked as an assistant to comics artist Walt Simonson in 1985. He is not to be confused with the similarly-named Richard Case, a comics artist who worked for the Iger Studio and Fiction House in the 1940s. Richard Case (born 1964) is an American comics artist best known for his work for DC Comics especially the Vertigo imprint. ![]() ![]() ![]() The result? You’ll shy away from pursuits that could lead to financial success – be it learning about investment strategies or pursuing an MBA – even though you may want to do these things. ![]() The more you hear this message, the more likely it becomes that your subconscious – and therefore you – will conclude that you can’t make money. Your parents, for instance, might have told you that nobody in the family has ever been good at bringing in the bucks. These messages are lodged in your subconscious mind. Here’s the truth: What we believe about ourselves is largely based on the messages with which we’ve been bombarded since we were very young. If you feel that you’re an undiscovered genius lost in the daily grind of a dead-end job, you need to ask yourself, “What’s holding me back?” Most likely it’s you – or, more specifically, your negative beliefs about yourself. ![]() ![]() Basing this book in Paris while Child, an American, is studying culinary arts at Le Cordon Bleu, befriends a neighbor- Tabitha- who is also an American, and a terrible cook. The author takes artistic liberties with Child. This is a work of fiction even though Julia Child is a character. ![]() Tellingly, the first line of the book is: “ Julia Child had a mayonnaise problem.” There is a double murder to solve and a killer at large, but it’s within the context of a light-hearted friendship between Tabitha (our protagonist) and Julia Child (the not-yet-famous chef). I would probably classify this book as a ‘cozy mystery.’ (Even though there is a bloody knife and skulls and crossbones on the front…) ![]() “I suppose if one could count having a father for an investigator and reading mystery novels as the groundwork for real-life detection experience, I was as prepared as anyone.” ![]() Mastering the Art of French Murder (An American in Paris #1) ![]() ![]() ![]() Our usual take on ‘ Gulamgiri’ is that it rips open the mask of Brahmanical tyranny, both in terms of manufacturing of history and using that to justify a number of cold blooded, well-planned and structured injustices meted out to Dalits (shudras and atishudras). ![]() What does the book attempt to do? It aims to bring us the basic polemics of Phule’s ‘ Gulamgiri’ in visual form. ![]() Having said this, the book stops short of being the single most important signpost in the sub-genre of Indian graphic novel because Srividya Natarajan’s wordplay and her choice of scenario to distill Phule’s thought is not able to match the minimalist starkness of Aparajita Ninan’s luminous drawings. It is needless to say that this work must be in your bookshelves and that you should buy more than one personal copy and gift to others. At 128 pages, ‘A Gardener in the Wasteland’ attempts a very ambitious sweep to pull off a graphic rendition of Jyotiba Phule’s ‘Gulamgiri’ (1873) and nearly pulls it off. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "The Divergent author builds out this new world-one reminiscent of Star Wars, with its discussions of 'the current' and 'currentgifts'-while still presenting the stark brutality of the circumstances both protagonists find themselves in."-Entertainment Weekly Readers will be anxiously awaiting the sequel."-Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) (starred review) Roth fans will cheer this new novel with its power to absorb the reader. ★ "Roth skillfully weaves the careful world-building and intricate web of characters that distinguished Divergent, with settings that are rich with color, ripe for a cinematographer. Readers will eagerly await a second installment."-Publishers Weekly "Roth's worldbuilding is commendable each nation is distinct, interacting with the current in ways that give insight into her characters' motivations. Roth's fans will be happily on board for the forthcoming sequel."-Booklist ![]() "Roth offers a richly imagined, often-brutal world of political intrigue and adventure, with a slow-burning romance at its core. "Roth fans will rejoice at this new outing that focuses on themes familiar from her Divergent series: identity, individual versus social responsibilities, and ethical quandaries."-Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books "Brimming with plot twists and highly likely to please Roth's fans."-Kirkus Reviews ![]() ![]() ![]() Suddenly You was originally published in 2001, and it’s easy to understand why it’s such a firm favourite with many. Kleypas’ backlist, Someone to Watch Over Me, uses one of the worst narrators I’ve ever heard, but that’s another story!) ![]() (I’m not so pleased that Tantor’s next foray into Ms. ![]() I was really pleased to see that some of Lisa Kleypas’ older, previously un-recorded/out of print titles are making their way into audio format, and even moreso when Suddenly You popped up at Audible with Beverley A. ![]() ![]() ![]() The four Gareth children, from 13-year old Alex down to 9-year-old Naomi, feel a bit like they’ve been dropped into Oz.Īctually, they’re in Ireland. “Bring it to the car.” She turned and, like a great black eagle, swept out of the door. “Well, as it’s here we must take it home, I suppose,” said Great-aunt Dymphna. ![]() “Mummy didn’t know what we’d need,” Penny explained, “so she said we’d have to bring everything.” “Clutter, clutter! I could never abide clutter. Great-aunt Dymphna had turned her attention to the luggage. Naomi was so scared that, though tears went on rolling down her cheeks, she did not make any more noise. The children gazed at their great-aunt, so startled by her appearance that the polite greetings they would have made vanished from their minds. And on her feet, in spite of its being a fine warm evening, were rubber boots. Under the cape she wore a shapeless long black dress. On her head she wore a man’s tweed hat beneath which straggled wispy white hair. Then her nose stuck out of her thin wrinkled old face like a very hooked beak. ![]() This was partly because she wore a black cape, which seemed to flap behind her when she moved. The first impression of Great-aunt Dymphna was that she was more like an enormous bird than a great-aunt. The Magic Summer, by Noel Streatfeild, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone ![]() |