6/27/2023 0 Comments Brian k vaughan y the last man![]() ![]() Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra's Eisner Award-winning Vertigo series Y: The Last Man brings to vivid life the age-old speculation: What would really happen to the last man on Earth? Collects Y: The Last Man #1-60 and a sketchbook featuring behind-the-scenes art by Pia Guerra. ![]() ![]() In setting off across the post-male landscape, however, man and monkey are about to learn just how valuable they are-both as a prize and as a target.Ĭollected for the first time in a single, comprehensive omnibus, writer Brian K. Overnight, this anonymous twentysomething becomes the most important person on the planet-the key, it is hoped, to unlocking the secret of the mysterious sex-specific plague.įor Yorick himself, the most important person on the planet is 10,000 miles away-and he will stop at nothing to find her. Vaughan and artist Pia Guerras Eisner Award-winning Vertigo series Y: The Last. For some unknown reason, one young man named Yorick Brown and his pet male monkey, Ampersand, are spared. Collected for the first time in a single, comprehensive omnibus, writer Brian K. The "gendercide," however, is not absolutely complete. With the loss of nearly half the planet's population, the gears of society grind to a halt, and a world of women are left to pick up the pieces and try to keep civilization from collapsing entirely. The comic book favorite talks with THR about bringing his beloved Marvel property. Every man, every boy, every mammal with a Y chromosome everywhere on Earth suddenly collapses and dies. Vaughan on TV’s Comic Book Evolution and Why ‘Y: The Last Man’ Is More Relevant Than Ever. Vaughn's classic 60-issue post-apocalyptic series is now available in this new omnibus. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Jonny Appleseed is a unique, shattering vision of Indigenous life, full of grit, glitter, and dreams. Available in used condition with free US shipping on orders over 10. Jonny's world is a series of breakages, appendages, and linkages-and as he goes through the motions of preparing to return home, he learns how to put together the pieces of his life. Jonny Appleseed is a unique, shattering vision of Indigenous life, full of grit, glitter, and dreams. ![]() The next seven days are like a fevered dream: stories of love, trauma, sex, kinship, ambition, and the heartbreaking recollection of his beloved kokum (grandmother). He is also the author of the Canada Reads 2021-winning novel Jonny Appleseed and the. Self-ordained as an NDN glitter princess, Jonny has one week before he must return to the "rez," and his former life, to attend the funeral of his stepfather. Whitehead is an Oji-nêhiyaw, two-spirit writer, poet and Indigiqueer scholar from Peguis First Nation. Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to make a living. "You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine" is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly compelling novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Myers flashed the cash, all other considerations-like if any of it was legal, for instance-were forgotten. Being poor isn’t one of those things you get used to, even if being poor is all you’ve ever been. Arthur Myers came along with his once-in-a-lifetime deal, my uncle was forty years old and sick of being poor. He never had much money growing up and, by the time Mr. It began with my uncle Farrell wanting to be rich. A lot of people died because of me-including me-but I guess I’m getting ahead of myself and I’d better start from the beginning. Maybe after you hear my story you won’t think I’m much of a hero anyway, since most of my heroics (if you want to call them that) resulted from my being a screwup. Nobody would have, including you, if you had known me before I took the world’s most powerful weapon and let it fall into the hands of a lunatic. I never believed in angels or miracles either, and I sure didn’t think of myself as a hero. ![]() I never thought I would save the world- or die saving it. Whose flute is breathless, bent her head and The silent sister veiled in white and blue ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And once the family returns to its homeland, the daughters unearth difficult truths about their parents' pasts, as Chung indelibly portrays a Korea viciously divided but ever bound to history, myth, and hope. Weaving Korean folklore with a modern narrative of immigration and identity, Forgotten Country is a gripping story of a family struggling to find its way out of. When those beliefs are tested in the wake of their father's terminal diagnosis, so, too, are the girls' rigidly defined family roles. ![]() Hannah's older sister, Janie, a graduate student in mathematics, sees things more simply: Hannah is just an ingrate, disrespectful of family and centuries-old beliefs. Forgotten Country By Catherine Chung 304 pages Riverhead Hardcover Available at: Barnes & Noble IndieBound When a family member goes missing, relatives naturally get worried. According to the elaborate ancestral folklore that Catherine Chung weaves throughout her novel Forgotten Country (Riverhead), college-age daughter Hannah's defection to California is in keeping with an ancient curse-that one daughter per generation must go missing. ![]() But for one Korean-born clan living in suburban Michigan, such an event is understood as an insult to the sacred cultural tradition of family togetherness. Forgotten Country by Catherine Chung - Reading Guide: 9781594486524 - : Books A Booklist Top 10 First Novels of 2012 pick A Bookpage Best Books of 2012 pick A richly emotional portrait of a family that had me spellbound. When a family member goes missing, relatives naturally get worried. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Read the chase elle kennedy![]() ![]() The Chase switches between Summer and Fitzy, two students who attend the same college. ![]() It was funny, I’ll give it that, but with the word ‘crazy’ being used regularly and as a nickname for the main character of this book was basically doomed. It had so many problems and just lacked overall depth throughout the whole book. The Chase was a fake woke feminist attempt. This also includes the series she writes with another author under the name Erin Watt. For some reasons I had high hopes for this book, despite the fact that I have been disappointed by most of this authors work. The Chase by Elle Kennedy was more disappointing than I like to admit. So if my sexy brooding roomie wises up and realizes what he’s missing? I’ve got my hands full dealing with a new school, a sleazy professor, and an uncertain future. I’m not the kind of girl who chases after a man, though, and I’m not about to start. Fitzy has made it clear he’s not interested in me, even though the sparks between us are liable to burn our house down. ![]() It doesn’t help that he’s buddy-buddy with my brother.Īnd that his best friend has a crush on me. His narrow view of me is the first strike against him. I don’t usually go for tattoo-covered, video-gaming, hockey-playing nerd-jocks who think I’m flighty and superficial. And they must be right, because there’s no logical reason why I’m so drawn to Colin Fitzgerald. Trigger Warnings: sexual assault, mentions of a messy family divorce, ableist languageĮveryone says opposites attract. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Fyodor dostoevsky's the idiot![]() ![]() And Nastasya is as striking as the portrait which Ganya showed earlier in General Epanchin's office. She is as bewitchingly beautiful as Rogozhin (a fellow Myshkin met on the morning train) said she was Myshkin immediately understands Rogozhin's sworn devotion to her. ![]() In the midst of the quarreling, Nastasya appears. ![]() Ganya's family is fearful that Ganya will marry Nastasya - a beautiful, but well-known "kept" woman. Myshkin is then introduced to the general's wife and daughters and, afterward, he goes home with Ganya Ivolgin, the general's secretary Myshkin will board with the Ivolgins.Īt Ganya's, Myshkin meets the Ivolgin family and quickly finds himself involved in a family quarrel when he mentions that Ganya has received a portrait of Nastasya Filippovna. He proves himself a master of calligraphy and is hired by General Epanchin, who finds that he is strangely fond of the prince. After spending several years in a Swiss mental institution, where he was treated for epilepsy, Prince Lyov Myshkin returns penniless to Petersburg and visits distant relatives - the Epanchins. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike many biographers who deploy fiction to quietly fill the gaps between facts, Lepore - a history professor at Harvard and a New Yorker staff writer - draws attention to what is missing from the story. Jane wrote the dates of birth and death of her family members in a “Book of Ages” that she stitched herself: “the remains of her remains,” as Lepore puts it. ![]() Jill Lepore’s luminous story of the life of Benjamin Franklin’s sister is stitched together from fragments and scraps, a life’s “remains” - a word with layers, meaning what is left of the physical body as well as a body of work: literature and descendants. The only reason we know anything at all about a Boston woman named Jane Mecom, who died in 1794 of “old age, & a Cold,” as it was reported in the church record, is that she was the beloved little sister of one of the most remarkable men in American history. A name - the satellite, feminine form of John, nickname Jenny - given again and again through the generations. This is a story of many Janes, stretching in time from the Nine Days’ Queen, Lady Jane Grey, to Jane Austen. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments The mystery of the terracotta dog![]() ![]() He is, I think, a good example of how a character’s flaws can be used to make him come alive on the page. He is far from being perfect, but it is exactly his flaws that make him more human and endearing than many other detectives. Combined with the humour, some quite poignant but never sappy scenes and some of the most mouthwatering descriptions of food I have read in any mystery, it makes for great reading.Īnd of course there is Montalbano. While on sick-leave, Montalbano has time to investigate the case and makes some interesting discoveries.Īs with the previous books I read by Camilleri, I found this one to be a good mixture of skilful writing and plotting and great storytelling. ![]() The bodies have been ritualistically surrounded by a life-size terracotta dog, a water jug and a bowl of money. When working on a case, Inspector Montalbano discovers a sealed-off cave and inside it the dessicated bodies of two young people, murdered 50 years before. ![]() Series detective: Inspector Salvo Montalbano Original Italian title: Il cane di terracotta ![]() ![]() He recounted these and other aspects of his life in his artful, charming, and often-evasive memoir, Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter’s Son. Vardaman, openly opposing the Ku Klux Klan in the early 1920s, and leading the Red Cross in Greenville during the monumental flood of 1927. Percy was centrally involved in several key moments in the history of Mississippi and the South, serving as a lieutenant in his father LeRoy’s 1911 senatorial campaign against James K. ![]() Understanding the man, it has seemed, might help us understand the region.īorn into a prominent southern family and educated at Sewanee and Harvard, Will Percy spent most of his life working as a lawyer, poet, and civic leader in Greenville, Mississippi. During his life and since his death in 1942, many people wanting to understand the American South have looked to William Alexander Percy. ![]() ![]() “Rosati sells better there with the bulk items,” claims Don. Rosati’s 2-quart party pails are found in two spots in the frozen food section – stocked with 5-quart tubs of ice cream. ![]() “When I couldn’t get Rosati in, some people had a fit.” (Yep, that’s what he said!) ![]() Rosati’s 10-ounce coconut cup is the go-to refreshing treat of one customer. One of my coworkers bought a WHOLE case of 10-ounce chocolate cups. When asked what are his top selling Rosati flavors, Don states, “Root beer is the best, followed by mango, cherry, and blue raz. Unlike other national brands, Don likes the smooth texture, that Rosati is known for, and the variety of Rosati’s flavors. Traditionally, Rosati Ice is sold seasonally in food stores, but, at Weaver Markets, Rosati Ice 10-ounce cups and 2.5-quart party pails are sold all year long. Rosati delivered 10-ounce cups in twenty flavors and 2.5-quart party pails in five flavors to the store in June. ![]() |