![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Many of the first issues involve the mysterious Agent Graves approaching someone who has been a victim of a terrible wrong. The core concept of 100 Bullets is based on the question of people willing to act on the desire of violent revenge if given the means, opportunity, and a reasonable chance to succeed. Initially presented as a series of self-contained episodic stories, 100 Bullets developed into a sprawling crime saga in which all the characters and events were connected. As is also common in pulp and noir genres, 100 Bullets frequently portrays stylized and graphic violence.ġ00 Bullets is notable for creator Brian Azzarello's realistic use of regional and local accents, as well as the frequent use of slang and oblique, metaphorical language in his characters' dialogue. Consistent with noir convention, most of the characters are deeply flawed. Style īoth the writing and artwork in 100 Bullets exemplifies the noir and pulp genres of popular modern fiction. Written by Brian Azzarello and illustrated by Eduardo Risso, the comic book ran for 100 issues and won the Eisner Award and Harvey Award. 100 Bullets is an American comic book published by DC Comics under its Vertigo imprint. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() OL535201W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.67 Pages 246 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1438203209 Rowling, creator of the Harry Potter series Winner of the Carnegie Medal When orphaned young Maria Merryweather arrives at Moonacre Manor, she feels as if she’s entered Paradise. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:53:34 Boxid IA142208 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Mattituck, N.Y. About The Little White Horse I absolutely adored The Little White Horse.J.K. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first three episodes of The Wife will be available from November 11, with three new episodes added every Thursday. The actress to play Hlomu hasn't been revealed. ![]() The books follow the lives of the eight Zulu brothers, a formidable crime family, through the eyes of the wives they marry. Showmax has commissioned three seasons of 40 episodes each, inspired by Dudu’s books Hlomu the Wife, Zandile the Resolute, and Naledi His Love respectively. The Wife is being produced by Stained Glass, who’ve created Safta-winning shows like eHostela and Ifalakhe, as well as Uzalo, SA’s most-watched soap opera. Book 1 Hlomu the Wife by Dudu Busani-Dube 4.41 3,052 Ratings 255 Reviews published 2020 2 editions Hlomu the Wife is essentially a love story that ta Want to Read Rate it: Book 2 Zandile The Resolute by Dudu Busani-Dube 4. Joining Bonko to play the rest of the Zulu brothers are Kwenzo Ngcobo ( Imbewu ) as Qhawe Sipho Ndlovu ( Isibaya, The Queen ) as Sambulo Safta winner Abdul Khoza ( Isibaya, Kings of Joburg ) as Nqoba Mondli Makhoba ( Umkhokha, Generations, Imbewu ) as Nkosana Safta nominee Thulane Nkululeko Shange ( Is’thunzi, iNumber Number ) as Mqoqi Ishmauel Songo ( Rhythm City, Tsotsi ) as Mpande and Swelihle Luthuli ( eHostela ) as Ntsika. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then there was the loss - and return, and loss again - of Megan, who is both an Epic known as Firefight and the woman David loves. Along with Steelheart’s demise came the discovery that Prof, leader of the Reckoners, is himself an Epic. ![]() Though Steelheart is now dead and David is revered by many who call him “Steelslayer,” he feels empty. His downfall became David’s lifelong dream after David witnessed his father's murder at the hands of the Epic - a confrontation that held the key to Steelheart’s weakness and helped David earn his place among the Reckoners, a group that seeks to overthrow and destroy the Epics. The virtually indestructible Steelheart became the self-styled emperor of Newcago, formerly Chicago, which he transformed into steel with one of his abilities. Months have passed since David, now 19, and the Reckoners brought down the Epic called Steelheart, who, along with many other formerly ordinary humans, received powerful abilities after a red star called Calamity appeared in the sky. ![]() 1 New York Times best-seller “ Steelheart.” " FIREFIGHT: The Reckoners, Book 2," by Brandon Sanderson, Delacorte Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 432 pages (f) (ages 14 and up)ĭavid Charleston and the Reckoners are back for new adventures, and more is revealed about Epics, their origins, their powers and their weaknesses, in “Firefight,” the sequel to Brandon Sanderson’s No. ![]() ![]() Lavishly illustrated with more than 100 vintage perfume ads, it will also regale you with essays on scent appreciation, a glossary of important perfume terms and ingredients, and tips on how to begin your own foray into vintage and contemporary perfume. The book features descriptions of over 300 perfumes, starting with Fougère Royale (1882) and ending with Demeter's Laundromat (2000). In Scent and Subversion: Decoding a Century of Provocative Perfume, Barbara Herman continues her irreverent, poetic, and often humorous analysis of vintage perfumes and perfume ads that she began on her popular blog. By playing with gender conventions, highlighting the ripe smells of the human body, or celebrating queer and louche identities, 20th-century perfume broke free from the assumptions of the prior century, and became a largely unrecognized part of the social and style revolutions of the modern era. Perfume has been - and continues to be - subversive. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Let Scent and Subversion take you for a whiff on the wild side of 20th century perfume. ![]() ![]() The courting has involved the gift of ‘many flowers’ – flowers, of course, are often associated with poetry, as the etymology of the term anthology demonstrates. But unlike Petrarch’s medieval sonnets in the courtly love tradition, the relationship between the man and woman has been consummated in Barrett Browning’s poem. In terms of its form, ‘Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers’ is a Petrarchan or Italian sonnet. And although Barrett Browning’s title sounds as though she is translating poems written by some Portuguese sonneteer, that title Sonnets from the Portuguese was in fact a little in-joke: ‘Portuguese’ was Robert Browning’s affectionate nickname for Elizabeth, so these sonnets are from her and her alone: sonnets from Robert’s beloved ‘Portuguese’. It contains end rhymes and follows iambic pentameter, following a natural rhythmic pattern. The poem follows a traditional rhyme scheme for this type of sonnet: ABBAABBACDCDCD. It contains 14 lines: one octet (eight lines) followed by a sestet (six lines). It’s a little-known fact that the first ever sonnet sequence in English was written by a woman, and throughout history the sonnet sequence has tended to be associated with male poets: Petrarch, Sir Philip Sidney, Shakespeare, George Meredith. The sonnet follows the Italian form as established by Petrarch. ‘Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers’ was first published in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnet sequence, Sonnets from the Portuguese, in 1850, although the poems that make up the sequence were written around five years earlier. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the first dedicated book review I’ve ever written on my website for a reason. As my buddy Mike had alluded to, it truly did read as if the author had been stalking me for the past few decades and documenting my every move. When I first read this book, it absolutely floored me. ![]() If anything, this book is, first and foremost, a how-to guide for any male (especially any male born after 1975) on how to get their needs met, be more personally assertive, gain more confidence and self-esteem, and enjoy greater emotional freedom, fulfillment, and integrity throughout their lives. The answers, it would turn out, were no, no, and no. Was I about to learn how to be an asshole? Was it a pickup book? Was it a morally questionable book from the men’s movement, gone awry? When my friend Mike told me about this book, I thought that the title seemed a little bit ridiculous. It’s like the author has been following us around for the last thirty years and totally has us pegged.“ “You have to check out this book No More Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Someone really needs to make this happen. Which is a very good thing, because if someone would merely get around to undertaking them, the Aubrey-Maturin novels could easily provide material for exquisite television, offering the action and world-building scale of Game of Thrones, the social anthropology (and Anglo-historical appeal) of Downton Abbey, and two central characters reminiscent of (though far more deeply etched than) Rust Cohle and Marty Hart in the first season of True Detective. But the televisual times have since changed immeasurably for the better on this side of the Atlantic, and now it’s easy to envision O’Brian’s books-which The Times Book Review has hailed as “the best historical novels ever written”-being adapted by any number of networks: HBO, obviously, but also AMC, FX, Netflix, USA … the list grows longer by the month. ![]() That was, of course, at a time when it almost went without saying that a project of such scope and pedigree would have to be British. A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life Arthur C. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As with Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, the quintessential English village becomes the stage on which entrenched tradition, class, ignorance, family ties and love play out. But then Hugh is sent to pick up Beatrice from the train station and life, of course, changes. (Never has there been a woman Latin teacher.) Agatha's nephews, meanwhile, have come to spend the summer months, as always, both with dreams of their own: Daniel, the poet, to publish a literary journal in Paris, and Hugh, to graduate from medical studies and marry his surgeon's daughter thus inheriting a lucrative practice. ![]() Agatha Kent, a canny force for progress, is expecting an unusual candidate to be the school's Latin teacher: Beatrice Nash, a young woman of good breeding in search of a position after the death of her father. It's the summer of 1914 and life in the sleepy village of Rye, England is about to take an interesting turn. New York Times-bestselling author Helen Simonson returns with a splendid historical novel full of the same wit, romance and insight into the manners and morals of small-town British life as her beloved Major Pettigrew's Last Stand. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nothing happens there, Marissa Meyer overdoes the descriptiveness even more than usual, and the writing is horrendously basic so basic many "paragraphs" are one word or three words, no exaggeration. It's a mud puddle to plough through at extra slow speed. The second 25% is torture, 1-star in every sense. That it didn't happen saved the book and made it possible for me to forgive a lot of what did happen, although not everything. I'd have absolutely loathed either option, and both would've made this book my first DNF in years. None of which happens! There is no love triangle, thank goodness, and the Alder King stays a bastard till the very end, thank Marissa Meyer. ![]() As I mentioned in my old review, certain things in the sample made me worry about two things: the possibility of a love triangle and the possibility of a redemption for the Erlkönig. It's the part at Adelheid Castle after the Erlking forces Serilda to be his queen, this is no spoiler as it's already in the first book. You could divide the book into four parts, the first 25% is as I described in my old review of the ARC sample (the final published book was purchased by me, so it's not an ARC), and on reread, it still holds up and gets 4 stars. ![]() |