Satan's Tears by Alex Niño6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() 4 as part of the online Philippine International Comics Festival (PICOF) and has been hailed as a landmark return of the iconic drawing pen of Alex Niño. “Alandal,” the first of a two-part graphic novel, debuted last Sept. Philip Ignacio, with lettering by Lorraine Mare Garcia Barte, and illustrated by Alex Niño, under the imprint of Komiket Inc., this landscape-format graphic novel is all about the adventures of the young Sabina, her coming of age into her identity and an eventual date with destiny, as she trains under her father, the former conquistador who’s been exiled by the Spanish colonial forces. The Spanish military commander Sevellano Rodriguez is running, trying to reach his escape galleon as cannonballs explode around him and the collective wrath of the Kingdom of Sulu, Moro soldiers and the sultan’s agents give chase. A conquistador is fleeing the chaos of a naval battle in Jolo. The final book of comic book illustration legend Alex Niño is a historical epic that starts with a bang. ![]()
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The Barbarous Coast by Ross Macdonald6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() The Archer Files, a collection of Macdonald’s Lew Archer short stories, is also back in print, with new material collected by Macdonald’s biographer, Tom Nolan. Also this fall, Arcade Publishing has released the previously unpublished decade-long romantic correspondence between Macdonald and the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Eudora Welty under the title Meanwhile There Are Letters. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, Philip Roth, and John Cheever. The decidedly highbrow and prestigious Library of America is leading the way, having recently published the first of a projected three hardcover volumes anthologizing Macdonald’s Lew Archer books, thus setting his work alongside not only the usual suspects, Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, but also on the shelf with such literary heavyweights as F. This longtime Santa Barbara resident, known to his friends and family by his birth name, Kenneth Millar, is the subject of an unprecedented posthumous revival that looks set to position him as the most significant figure in the highly influential genre of hard-boiled detective fiction. ![]() On the eve of what would have been his 100th birthday, the great detective novelist Ross Macdonald is poised to enter into his greatest period of renown since the 1970s, when his books were international best-sellers and he was on the cover of Newsweek magazine. ![]() PUBLISHED IMAGE: This portrait of Kenneth Millar (a k a Ross Macdonald) was taken by his publisher, Alfred A. ![]() A cross country christmas courtney walsh6/12/2023 ![]() I don’t know why! But I knew this year I wanted to. Back to these holiday romances! Last year, I didn’t partake in all the holiday books for some reason. But, regardless, I need to kick my holiday rear into gear or it’ll be the new year before I’ve had a chance to even decorate.īut anyhoo. With our Carolina weather, we don’t typically get a white Christmas or a white anything during the winter, but that’s something I’ve always associated with Christmastime! And we’ve been traveling a bit, so our normal routine is a bit off. And, actually, when I went to get the mail one day earlier this week, I thought to myself, it finally looks like autumn in our front yard. I can’t believe it’s ‘tis the season time already! Cold weather, holiday cheer, Christmas flicks! This is my faaavorite season, but for some reason this year, I’m still not quite there yet. ![]() Holiday Romances To Snuggle Up With This Season ![]() ![]() It tells the story of Clare and Aidan, who are heading to two different colleges and must decide if they want to break up or stay together. ![]() Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between ❀ Realistic Story This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. ❃ I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Smith, author of The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, explores the difficult choices that arise when life and love lead in different directions. The question is, will it be goodbye for now or goodbye forever?Ĭharming, bittersweet, and full of wisdom and heart, this irresistible novel from Jennifer E. But as the clock winds down and morning approaches, so does their inevitable goodbye. The night leads them to family and friends, familiar landmarks and unexpected places, hard truths and surprising revelations. ![]() Over the course of twelve hours, they retrace the steps of their relationship, trying to find something in their past that might help them decide what their future should be. On the night before they leave for college, Clare and Aidan have only one thing left to do: figure out whether they should stay together or break up. ![]() Neurodiversity judy singer6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Many autistic people-especially those who have intact language and no learning difficulties such that they can self-advocate-have adopted the neurodiversity framework, coining the term “neurotypical” to describe the majority brain and seeing autism as an example of diversity in the set of all possible diverse brains, none of which is “normal” and all of which are simply different. And while the neurodiversity movement acknowledges that parents or autistic people may choose to try different interventions for specific symptoms that may be causing suffering, it challenges the default assumption that autism itself is a disease or disorder that needs to be eradicated, prevented, treated or cured. The notion of neurodiversity is very compatible with the civil rights plea for minorities to be accorded dignity and acceptance, and not to be pathologized. Neurodiversity is related to the more familiar concept of biodiversity, and both are respectful ways of thinking about our planet and our communities. ![]() The term “neurodiversity” gained popular currency in recent years but was first used by Judy Singer, an Australian social scientist, herself autistic, and first appeared in print in the Atlantic in 1998. It is dividing the autism community, but it doesn’t have to. At the annual meeting of the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) in Montreal, Canada in May, one topic widely debated was the concept of neurodiversity. ![]() The Rape of the Masters by Roger Kimball6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Now, the audacity of a paid-up secular academic talking without irony about "souls" in 1987 was perhaps the first thing that made people nervous about the book. Bloom himself described the book as a "meditation on the state of our souls." For all its loose-bagginess, The Closing of the American Mind is a book written with commanding passion, urgency, and conviction. Nevertheless, if parts of the book are reminiscent of the academic lecture hall, the overall effect is nothing short of electric. It sometimes grabs readers by the lapels and gives them a shake at other times it assumes a dry, professorial tone as it delineates the genealogy of freedom, discriminates among diverse meanings of equality, or parses a choice passage from Plato, Locke, Rousseau, Tocqueville, or Nietzsche. ![]() ![]() It is a rich and promiscuous stew that Allan Bloom served up, part polemic, part exhortation, part exercise in cultural-intellectual history. The book is also – let me acknowledge this at once – a curious literary artifact. What is it? In the simplest sense, it is a pedagogical autobiography, written by a fiftyish academic philosopher who was also a dedicated teacher and whose experience of university life from the late 1960s through the mid-1980s had left him disabused, mournful, and alarmed. This is no ordinary matter we are discussing, Glaucon, but the right conduct of life. ![]() Letters to earth mark twain6/11/2023 ![]() This book consists of eleven letters he writes back to archangels Gabriel and Michael with his thoughts on humanity, Judeo-Christian scripture and morality. ![]() In the book Satan, who still resides with the rest of the heavenly hosts, takes a trip to Earth. Nearing the end of Mark Twain's life, he wrote a series of humorous essays on Judeo-Christian theology, including and Letters from Earth, which were posthumously published. Letters from the Earth an exuberantly eclectic collection. There are comments on James Fenimore Cooper, English architecture, and the civilization of the French, as well as proposals for a simplified alphabet and a parody of books on etiquette. In this collection, he presents himself as the Father of History, reviewing and interpreting events from the garden of Eden through the Fall and the Flood, translating the papers of Adam and his descendants down through the generations. His voice is as vigorous and blistering as ever, capable of surprising truth and provoking laughter in the most unlikely places. This is vintage Twain-sharp, witty, imaginative, wildly funny. ![]() ![]() Virtually none of the material in Letters from the Earth was published in Twain’s lifetime and the manuscript was only approved by his executors in 1962. “The most impressive contribution to books by Mark Twain since The Mysterious Stranger of 1916.The attitude is that of Swift, the intellectual contempt is that of Voltaire, and the imagination is that of one of the great masters of American writing.”-New York Times Book Review ![]() The trespasser tana french review6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() She has won numerous awards for her writing, including the Edgar Award, the Anthony Award, and the LA Times Book Prize. Her characters are complex and flawed, and her books explore themes of justice, morality, and guilt.įrench has also written several plays, including The Lying Kind, which was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. She has also written several standalone novels, including The Witch Elm and The Searcher.įrench’s writing style has been praised for its lyrical prose and rich descriptions. Her works have been translated into more than 30 languages and have become bestsellers in the UK, Ireland, and the US.įrench’s debut novel, In the Woods, won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and was adapted into a miniseries for BBC One in 2019.įrench’s novels are often set in Dublin and focus on psychological crime mysteries.Įach novel is part of a series that follows the same detectives, but with a different protagonist. Tana French is an Irish novelist and playwright known for her critically acclaimed crime fiction novels. If you’re looking to take a dive into her literary world but don’t know where to start, worry not – this article will provide all the answers! About Tana French ![]() ![]() ![]() How Many Novels Has Tana French Published? ![]() John le carre smiley trilogy6/11/2023 ![]() The conclusion to the Karla Trilogy (preceded by Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and The Honourable Schoolboy all three books were collected in an omnibus as The Quest for Karla in 1982), Smiley's People is the swan song of the unassuming "fat spy" George Smiley - a retired highly-placed official of the "Circus" (MI6, Britain's foreign intelligence service) - who is reluctantly taken out of mothballs by the sneering and supercilious Circus administrators (Oliver Lacon and Lauder Strickland) when a high-ranking Soviet defector is found murdered in Hampstead Heath, London. ![]() ![]() Uvula_fr_b4From Sunday, 25 November to Wednesday, 5 December, I read John le Carré's Smiley's People (NY: Bantam Books, 1979 ISBN: -6 388 pps.), which is the third book in the Karla Trilogy, following Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974) and The Honourable Schoolboy (1977). ![]() The man who was thursday6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Ravichol’s use of dynamite to attack the judiciary came in the wake of the Bourgeois reign of Terror and vicious massacre of the Communards following the Paris Commune’s destruction in 1871. By 1908 the anarchist movement had been heavily vilified due to various individualist ‘outrages’. During the late Nineteenth Century anarchism had emerged as a distinct militant strand of socialism, a distinction underlined by the exclusion of anarchists from the Second International. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday not only draws upon the historic stigmatisation of anarchists but also self-consciously explores and develops the caricature. ![]() |