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Battle royale de koushun takami5/26/2023 ![]() After graduating from Osaka University with a degree in literature, he dropped out of Nihon University's liberal arts correspondence program. ![]() Koushun Takami was born in 1969 in Amagasaki near Osaka and grew up in Kagawa Prefecture of Shikoku, where he currently resides. Battle Royale is a contemporary Japanese pulp classic now available for the first time in English. Koushun Takami's brutal, high-octane thriller is told in breathless. A group of high school students are taken to small isolated island and forced to fight each other until only one remains alive! If they break the rules a special collar blows their heads off. Made into a controversial hit movie of the same name, Battle Royale is already a contemporary Japanese pulp classic, now available for the first time in the English language. Criticized as violent exploitation when first published in Japan-where it then proceeded to become a runaway bestseller- Battle Royale is a Lord of the Fliesfor the 21st century, a potent allegory of what it means to be young and (barely) alive in a dog-eat-dog world. Koushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller is based on an irresistible premise: a class of junior high school students is taken to a deserted island where, as part of a ruthless authoritarian program, they are provided arms and forced to kill one another until only one survivor is left standing. In an alternative future Japan, junior high students are forced to fight to the death! L to R (Western Style). ![]()
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Wundersmith jessica townsend5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Winner Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction, Cybils Award 2018 Winner Younger Fiction, Waterstones Children's Book Prize (UK) 2018 ![]() Winner Best Children's Fiction, Aurealis Awards 2017 Winner Nielsen Booksellers' Choice Award, Australian Booksellers Association Awards 2018 Winner Children's Category, Indie Book Awards 2018 Winner Book of the Year, Indie Book Awards 2018 Winner The Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year, Australian Winner Book of the Year for Younger Children, Australian Book Industry Winner Book of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards 2018 Winner QBD Children's Book of the Year 2018 ![]() Praise for Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow: Morrigan's adventures continue in Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow ![]() Can Morrigan prove that she deserves to be in the Society - or will an unexpected new enemy ruin her new life? Now that Morrigan and her best friend Hawthorne are proud scholars in the elite Wundrous Society, she is sure that she's found a place to belong at last, but life is far from perfect. But will her unique talent be a blessing or another curse? She has also discovered that she has a strange and magical ability. Morrigan Crow has escaped her deadly fate and found a new home in the fantastical city of Nevermoor. Return to the magical world of Nevermoor in the second book of the New York Times bestselling series, a treat for all fans of magic and Wunder. ![]()
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Nadia shammas squire5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() She’s brilliant, she has an excellent fashion sense, and she’s so above it all that it’s surprising when she actually cares about something. Nadia: I, unfortunately, love vicious and beautiful women, which means I adore Emma Frost and Mystique. It’s funny that the X-Men have been with me way before I ever started reading comics!ĪIPT: And while on the topic of your X-Men fandom, could you share your all-time favorite X-Character and what you love about them? I still remember watching The Last Stand in theaters, and then also later going to a Blockbuster Video that was playing it in-store and pretending to browse just so I could watch it again. ![]() Nadia: I was a big fan of X-Men: The Animated Series as a kid, as well as the original film trilogy. What more can you share about your history with the X-Men as a fan? ![]() ![]() AIPT: Welcome to X-Men Monday, Nadia! When X-Force Annual #1 was first announced, you mentioned the X-Men have been a part of your life since you were 6 years old. ![]()
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Forestfall by lyndall clipstone5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() And for those of us who made it to the end, the final section is devastatingly good. ![]() Blixen's time in Africa shaped her as a writer, and we found this fascinatingly revealed on the page. Our discussion was nuanced in its recognition of Blixen's vantage point as a privileged Western woman, but also the transformation in her thinking (on humanity) from living alongside another culture so closely and respectfully for all those years. While a beautiful record of a time and place, the colonial lens was sometimes hard to bear in a contemporary context. However, the writing is also copiously dense, so we found this to be an epic read. Blixen writes the country, its colours, people, sensations, smells, sounds, animals, and seasons with electric detail. by Lyndall Clipstone First published September 27th 2022 Sort by title original date published date published avg rating num ratings format Format Paperback Hardcover Mass Market Paperback Kindle Edition Nook ebook Library Binding Audiobook Audio CD Audio Cassette Audible Audio CD-ROM MP3 CD Board book Leather Bound Unbound Spiral-bound Unknown. This memoir of Blixen's 18 years in Kenya, running a coffee plantation at the outbreak of the First World War, is a stunning evocation of place. Last month at Matilda Bookshop we discussed the iconic classic, Out of Africa, by Karen Blixen. ![]()
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Skybound by Aleksandr Voinov5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() It’s great until just before then end, when all of a sudden it’s – the end, ka-boom, when it feels like we are just getting to the middle of the story. This is one of those novellas that desperately needs to be a full-length novel ( drink). But Kyle is in the middle of this whole “find the shape shifter mission”, and not only is he uncertain of what he’ll do when his mission is complete, but he’s also not sure who the shape-shifter is. He finds himself drawn to the pilot, Grimm, who encourages him to think of himself as more than someone who can’t use their legs, and who flirts with him non-stop. ![]() Kyle figures that the spy must be on a ship that is just about to go off-planet and he manages to get a ride on the ship. The money would allow Kyle to get top quality cyber ware to replace the prosthesis. Kyle is asked by the local bigwigs to track down a shape-shifting alien spy. ![]() He uses prosthesis, but they are awkward and painful because he can’t afford good medical treatment. Incursion is about an ex-soldier, Kyle Juenger, who has lost the use of both his legs in an interstellar war. Do not do this while operating heavy machinery. Here’s your drinking game for today: take a shot every time I complain that this book is too short. This is a hard sci-fi, m/m romance featuring a hero with a disability. Incursion is an odd book – brilliant in some ways, off-putting in others. Publication Info: Riptide Publishing July 2012 ![]()
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Savage Hunger by Lisa Renee Jones5/26/2023 ![]() He stirs my desires, a dark, delicious, and dangerous man destined to hurt me and leave me. I still love him and I fear he will save me just to leave me bleeding one last time. I have every reason to hate him, but I can’t. Savage who I haven't heard from in years. ![]() Now, I’m engaged to another man, a brutal man I’m trapped into marrying, when to my shock, Savage returns home. Lord help me, I’ve never stopped loving him. No one knows that more than me, Candace Marks, the woman he left bleeding from the heart. He can make you laugh and then rip your heart out. Rick Savage, but they call him Savage and for a reason. The first book in a new savagely intense trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones. ![]() ![]() Purchase at Amazon | Apple | Google Play | Kobo Published by Julie Patra Publishing on December 17, 2019 This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received a complimentary copy of the book from the author in exchange for an honest review. ![]()
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My policeman book hardcover5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() The two lovers must share him, until one of them breaks and three lives are destroyed. Unfolding through the dual narratives of Marion and Patrick, both writing about the man at t But in an age when those of 'minority status' were condemned by society and the law, it is safer for this policeman to marry his teacher. ![]() ![]() Patrick, a curator at the Brighton Museum, is also besotted with his policeman, and opens Tom's eyes to a world previously unknown to him. Unable to acknowledge the signs that something is amiss, she plunges into marriage, sure that her love is enough for both of them. But Tom has another life, another equally overpowering claim on his affections. Through Marions and Patricks dual narratives, their painful, tragic story is revealed: a tale of wasted years, misguided love and thwarted hope, at a time. And when he comes home from National Service to be a policeman, Marion, a newly qualified teacher, is determined to win him. An exquisitely told, tragic tale of thwarted love. From the moment Marion first lays eyes on Tom - her best friend's big brother, broad, blond, blue-eyed - she is smitten. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Farther south than she has ever been, she nevertheless finds allies, friends, and even love in the slave quarter of Oak Grove, a cotton plantation where her skill with needle and thread soon becomes highly prized. Punished for her escape by being sold off to her master's brother in Edisto Island, South Carolina, Joanna grieves over the loss of her son and resolves to run again, to reunite with him someday in the free North. Just as Joanna could not have foreseen that, generations later, her quilt would become the subject of so much speculation and wonder, Sylvia and her friends never could have imagined the events Joanna witnessed in her lifetime. Now it falls to Sylvia - drawing upon Gerda's diary and Joanna's quilt - to connect Joanna's past to present-day Elm Creek Manor. Hans and Anneke Bergstrom, along with maiden aunt Gerda, raised the boy as their own, and the secret of his identity died with their generation. Though Joanna's freedom proved short-lived - she was forcibly returned by slave catchers to Josiah Chester's plantation in Virginia - she left the Bergstrom family a most precious gift, her son. That quilter was Joanna, a fugitive slave who traveled by the Underground Railroad to reach safe haven in 1859 at Elm Creek Farm. Master Quilter Sylvia Bergstrom Compson treasures an antique quilt called by three names - Birds in the Air, after its pattern the Runaway Quilt, after the woman who sewed it and the Elm Creek Quilt, after the place to which its maker longed to return. ![]()
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Super powereds year 25/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Dysfunction leads to heartbreak and alienation, strange new allies & enemies and catastrophic galactic war. Take a sip and get wasted.Ģ/ A bitter, driven Billy Bane and his dysfunctional, thrown-together family of adventurers pinball their way through spatial anomalies and galactic raiders to find the long-forgotten planet Earth, in order to take down the sadistic celestial being called The Creator who supposedly resides there. Michael Moreci (Roche Limit, Wonder Woman, Black Star Renegades) and Hayden Sherman (The Few, Cold War, John Carter: The End) have thrown Philip K. But when a new prophet comes calling, Billy is summoned to save the galaxy he’s at least partially responsible for destroying. All he wants is to waste away in the darkest corner of space with his best pal Dust, a supercharged Fuq bot. Read by GraphicAudio, Graphic Audio, Full Cast,ġ/ Billy Bane is a prophet who got it all wrong, and the galaxy has been burning ever since. Written by Michael Moreci & Hayden Sherman ![]()
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Disney Cruella by Hachi Ishie5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This leads me to the pacing, which in the first chapter I felt was fairly well done, however because the book is set at different points during Estella/Cruella’s years before she becomes a designer, I felt like too much was being crammed into these short scenes. ![]() It seemed as though this character was being built up to be a major player and then he kind of just disappeared, and then Emilia was introduced. Horace and Jasper were well developed throughout, but I thought the one character in the leather jacket, who is mentioned by Jasper in a later chapter would be more prominent than they were. I actually liked that the book didn’t age her down because it was directed at a middle grade audience. The manga has 3 chapters in total, each covering a part of Cruella’s life, mainly focusing on her between ages 18-21. ![]() I’d like to start off by saying the manga is not an adaptation of the film. I also loved the artwork for each chapter. I liked the way the panels were laid out, and how the characters were introduced. I bought this manga for my niece (she’s 9), because I wanted to find an age appropriate manga for her to read and she is a HUGE Disney fan.Ĭruella: Black, White, and Red by Hachi Ishie has lovely illustrations, which gave off a mix of the 80s and 90s manga styles. ![]() |