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![]() ![]() Performed by Scott McCormick, David Cui Cui, Yasmin Tuazon, James Konicek, Henry W. A post-apocalyptic plot, filled with chilling twists.Īdapted from the novel and produced with a full cast of actors, immersive sound effects and cinematic music The dying man is taking no chances, and has also enlisted the Marcus family, a renegade clan of four brothers and a sister who don't care who they kill as long as they get paid. ![]() In the nightmare world of 12,090 A.D., finding Mayerling before he reaches the spaceport in the Clayborn States and gets off the planet will be hard enough, but D has more than just Mayerling to worry about. Though humans speak well of Mayerling, the price on his head is too high for D to ignore and he sets out to save her before she can be turned into an undead creature of the night. The vampire hunter known only as D has been hired by a wealthy, dying man to find his daughter, who was kidnapped by the powerful vampire Lord Mayerling. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Prisoner had me hooked from their very first meeting with her head in a book checking out the goods. “Gritty, raw, sexy, intense, and powerfully intriguing” – The Sassy Bookista I loved it!” ~ USA Today bestselling author Kristen Callihan “Dark, sexy, and intense, Prisoner is an emotional ride that does not let go until the end. I loved every second of it!” ~ New York Times bestselling author Katie Reus ![]() He might make you come so hard, you can’t think.Īnd you might crave him more than your next breath. He might even pull you into a forest and hold a hand over your mouth so you can’t call for the cops. At night I can’t stop thinking about him in his cell.īut that’s the thing about an animal in a cage-you never know when he’ll bite. I shiver when he gets too close, with only the cuffs and the bars and the guards holding him back. ![]() He tells me secrets in his stories, and it’s getting harder to hide mine. Then he shows up in the prison writing class I have to teach, and he blows me away with his honesty. So I hide behind my prim glasses and my book like I always do, because I have secrets too. He’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. He seethes with raw power the first time I see him-pure menace and rippling muscles in shackles. ![]() ![]() none of the female characters had any personality now that I think about it, the male characters weren't much better either, tbh (J's parents and Chanelle got the closest, but Blue and Melissa were just boring props to J's story) the use of Spanish in the novel wasn't obnoxious (I hate it when authors or TV shows use a line in Spanish and then repeat the exact same line in English, instead of letting the context show its meaning here, the author did the latter) for YA lit, it's pretty up-to-date on trans* politics - which could be a good or bad thing, depending on how you feel about the asterisk ![]() the story got a little tiresome, especially with a lack of realistic and likeable characters the main character is a self-absorbed jerk with no capacity for self-reflection and unfortunately goes through absolutely no development in that respect ![]() ![]() the homophobia and misogyny was relentless and went more or less unaddressed ("omg, don't call me a lesbian, ANYTHING but a lesbian, gross" "a bunch of guys are sexually exploiting a 14-year-old girl in the other room? I don't care about that stupid bitch" "how dare you compare it to rape when I start making out with my non-consenting best friend while she's sleeping" "I was only attracted to you because I must have known you were secretly a man inside" etc.) ![]() ![]() ![]() Profusely illustrated with more than 800 rare and unique images from around the world-including book and magazine covers, interior illustrations, movie posters, comic books, promotional items, tie-ins, and previously unpublished artwork commissioned especially for this book-this handsome volume charts the history of escapist horror and the individuals who created it. ![]() Many respected authors and artists worked for the pulp and paperback markets, while films made for the low budget or youth markets are now rightly regarded as classics as they continue to inspire the movies and television we watch today. So often associated with cheapness and low quality, pulp fiction and filmmaking have influenced the way we live for more than a century. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Someone would come along and say, ‘Sir, the Archbishop of Canterbury would very much like to meet you.’” “It would be done very nicely,” Vickers continued. ![]() ![]() “It would be very worrying if you were talking to the queen and saw the handbag move from one hand to the other,” royal historian Hugo Vickers told People. Queen Elizabeth would switch her handbag or clutch from one hand to the other to signal that she was ready for a conversation to end. Ladies are known to use their clutch to give subtle signals to staff - such as a desire to leave an event, or a need to escape an awkward conversation. There is more that meets the eye when it comes to royal clutch use. Here are 10 rules of the royal dress code. The royal dress code spans from expected to strange, but most of it derives from decades of royal tradition. Some royals are rebellious in their fashion choices, while others stick strictly to the code. But royal women have to work within a royal dress code that prevents them from dressing - or expects them to dress - in a certain way. Kate Middleton, Princess Diana and Queen Elizabeth II have all been recognized for their impressive fashion sense. ![]() ![]() In “Yeti Lovemaking,” a woman who goes home with the man who is actually a yeti does not spend the rest of the story recovering from the shock, or running in fear, or marveling that she lives in a world where yetis are real. The odd or uncanny is so real as to be unremarkable. Ma’s dream-like worlds are so dreamlike because they don’t interrogate their status as such. It is truly a Bliss Montage-a film term Ma credits to film historian Jeanine Basinger in the acknowledgments-a joy ride through many different worlds. ![]() The premise of every story shimmers a bit oddly, an oil slick in a parking lot that distorts the picture, just a little bit, but beautifully. A man can unzip his human suit and reveal himself to be a yeti, maybe even give you a pamphlet on yeti lovemaking (“difficult and painful at first, but easy once you’ve done it more than thirty times”). ![]() A drug can make you invisible, but has fallout in your social circle. A woman lives in a house with her 100 ex-boyfriends. The world seems as legible as it is in reality, but with one or two things slightly askance. Ling Ma’s new short story collection, Bliss Montage, out last week, has the uncanny quality of a dream. ![]() ![]() Or Holy Histrionics, Batman, I’d rather have listened to an opera… He divides his time between his homes in Los Angeles and Scotland. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. In his secret identity, Morrison is a "counterculture" spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. ![]() In addition to expanding the DC Universe through titles ranging from the Eisner Award-winning SEVEN SOLDIERS and ALL-STAR SUPERMAN to the reality-shattering epic of FINAL CRISIS, he has also reinvented the worlds of the Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN AND ROBIN and BATMAN, INCORPORATED and the Man of Steel in The New 52 ACTION COMICS. ![]() ![]() Since then he has written such best-selling series as JLA, BATMAN and New X-Men, as well as such creator-owned works as THE INVISIBLES, SEAGUY, THE FILTH, WE3 and JOE THE BARBARIAN. Grant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning his American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL. ![]() ![]() The monotonous tumbling of locks and the shadow of the cell block have replaced the grand ceremonial of flesh and blood. All that came to a sudden end in the second half of the 18th century. Care was taken that no one should be unaware of it. From the stake to the scaffold, from the pillory to the gibbet, physical suffering was produced with elaborate theatricality as an example Bodies were branded, amputated, wrenched apart. This was translated by Leonard Mayhew.Ĭorporal punishment used to be carried out in a businesslike fashion. Michel Foucault, on the Role of Prisons By ROGER-POL DROITįollowing are excerpts from an interview with Michel Foucault, French philosopher, psychiatrist and historian, and author of "The Order of Things" and "Madness and Civilization." It first appeared in the Paris newspaper Le Monde, preceded by a commentary by the interviewer Roger-Pol Droit. ![]() ![]() I pictured an entire single-story building (the common area) between the two wings, both of which are two stories. The author plays fast and loose with the setting. And the order of the thefts matters, as Poirot suspects a chain of cause and effect. While Celia stole some of the items on the list Hubbard compiles for Poirot, she didn’t steal all of them. ![]() I love the layers in “Hickory.” Characters’ actions sometimes come from multiple people pulling their strings. ![]() Amusingly (and central to the plot), young and dim pharmacist Celia wants to get the attention of young psychologist Colin, so she pretends to be a kleptomaniac.īut - as Poirot, reliable Inspector Sharpe and some of the residents notice – Celia is not clever enough to come up with this scheme on her own. “Hickory” shows the positive and negative ways different personalities rub against each other, from deadly conflicts to sweet romances. ![]() It’s impressive how Christie writes Akibombo’s speech in stunted fashion yet he’s totally understandable. ![]() I find his efforts to speak English entertaining. It’s difficult to keep up with what’s PC nowadays, so it’s possible African student Akibombo is not well-regarded anymore. Also published as: “Hickory Dickory Dock” ![]() |