![]() ![]() Like peanut butter and jelly, nuts and bolts, rhyme and reason. These adaptations are sure to enchant devotees of comics and those who like a fresh and distinctive approach to fairy tales." - School Library Journal, "A quirky and vibrant mix of visually reinterpreted fairy tales compiled by the editor of the Eisner-nominated Nursery Rhyme Comics (2011)." - Kirkus Reviews, Jon Scieszka on Fairy Tale Comics Fairy tales and comics! This was meant to be. Sweet and sour, rhythm and blues, kit and kaboodle., "A quirky and vibrant mix of visually reinterpreted fairy tales compiled by the editor of the Eisner-nominated Nursery Rhyme Comics (2011)." - Kirkus Reviews "Nineteen cartoonists re-envision the world of "once upon a time" in this collection of 17 fairy tales. ![]() There is something in Fairy Tale Comics for every kid. I was enchanted by Gilbert Hernandez's fresh retelling of Hansel and Gretel, thrilled by Luke Pearson's The Boy Who Drew Cats, and tickled by Charise Mericle Harper's The Small Tooth Dog. The result is a collection of absolutely powerful, funny, and pleasing fairy tales. Editor/writer/artist Chris Duffy has assembled a wonderfully diverse group of fairy tales - from classic Grimm and Perrault to non-European gems - and challenged the coolest bunch of graphic storytelling artists to bring them to life. ![]() Fairy tales and comics! This was meant to be. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Kathe Koja's writing probably isn't for everyone the reviews seem pretty split on Goodreads. I could go on and on about this prose but I'll leave it at what I've written. Brief, staccato, BAM: there's the picture-full and complete. For instance ".the flat was full of drizzly day." 7 words that draw a perfect scene. Beautiful, honest and evocative words that my brain immediately transferred to a visual-like a direct injection. There were short, staccato-like descriptions that.stabbed at my heart. I'm a bit irritated with myself because the few clips I made of the audio that highlighted the prose apparently did not save. This must not have been an easy performance due to the style of the aforementioned prose-especially in the second half of the book because it's a stream-of-consciousness narrative. Koja's prose, and Joshua Saxon the narrator brought it home with flare. What happened to these items when they were thrust inside? You'll have to read this to find out! ![]() They stuck different things into the hole, (getting uncomfortable yet?), including bugs, a mouse, and then a hand. This is the story of Nakota and Nicholas who one day found a black hole, named it the funhole, and changed their lives forever. It may not be as big as some, Stephen King's say, but there are joys to be found in smaller congregations. I've only recently joined the church of Koja. THE CIPHER! I don't even know what to say. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But a mysterious man whisked them away to safety. TimeRiders – Maddy, Liam, and Sal should have died. What is the plot of the TimeRiders stories?įor more information about the books in the TimeRiders series by Alex Scarrow, you’ll find below the official synopsis for all the books: How to read the TimeRiders Books in Order? Now, these three teenagers must travel in time to fix history broken by time travel, encountering various historical events and contending with their own personal struggles and conflicts, including romantic relationships and the temptations of altering history for personal gain. ![]() They are tasked with policing the timeline and preventing rogue time travelers, known as Time Bandits, from changing history for their own gain. They are plucked from these different moments in history just before their deaths and brought to the 21st century to become TimeRiders. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Liam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Time needs some fixing… What is the TimeRiders series about?Ī teen science fiction series written by Alex Scarrow (brother of Simon Scarrow), TimeRiders is about the adventures of a team of Time-traveling teenagers. Affiliate disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases from Amazon. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was normal-enough-looking, Clary thought, for Pandemonium. It looked like a wooden beam, pointed at one end. “Aw, come on.” The kid hoisted the thing up over his head. Fifteen-year-old Clary Fray, standing in line with her best friend, Simon, leaned forward along with everyone else, hoping for some excitement. ![]() The bouncers were fierce and would come down instantly on anyone who looked like they were going to start trouble. It was a long wait to get into the all-ages club, especially on a Sunday, and not much generally happened in line. The fifty or so teenagers in line outside the Pandemonium Club leaned forward to eavesdrop. He stared down at the boy in the red zip-up jacket and shook his shaved head. “You’ve got to be kidding me,” the bouncer said, folding his arms across his massive chest. ![]() ![]() Meacham sets Lincoln’s development against the growing crisis of the slave states’ determination to maintain and expand the scope of slavery, a fight culminating in Lincoln’s election and the Civil War. ![]() The author also traces Lincoln’s evolution from bookish farm boy to trial lawyer to politician, a progression aided by the rise of the new Republican Party, whose views largely matched his own. Allusions to some of them cropped up in famous speeches later in his career. At the time, writes the author, Lincoln was “far more attracted to reading, thinking, and talking than he was to farming, rail-splitting, and hunting.” Meacham astutely examines the contents of some of those books we know he read, showing their influence on his thinking. As a young boy, the future president would memorize and repeat the sermons of local pastors, and he read voraciously even though, other than the Bible, not many books were readily available on the frontier. Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Meacham follows Lincoln from his rural Kentucky roots to his assassination in 1865, paying close attention to the many influences on his ideas and values. A deeply researched look at Lincoln’s moral evolution on the issue of slavery. ![]() ![]() This series introduced a kid’s book that was cute, but ever so slightly twisted and in this issue reality melds with the book. This issue gets the storybook element perfect, though. Whether or not that’s my fault for putting too much into the narrative I’m still trying to wrestle with. I was hoping for a bit more of a compelling reason for Ben’s descent into madness too, but instead, we see it’s yet another means to an end for Joker. ![]() It’s still a great work, but I saw a few of the story beats coming, which is a surprise since the first two issues had me shocked and on the edge of my seat every step of the way. ![]() Maybe that’s because it’s more interesting to see a man’s descent into madness than it is to see them fully mad and not quite loving it. I say this because this final issue doesn’t quite meet the same level of visual delights, gripping drama, and absorbing narrative as the first two issues. This is a pretty good finish to an otherwise perfect masterpiece. ![]() Now with a family gone and a job pretty much destroyed, what else is there to do but go all-in with the Joker’s plans? Witness a visual feast as the creators show us what it is like to go truly mad. Ben Arnell is the main character of Joker: Killer Smile, and has slowly gone mad after trying to treat the Joker. Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino are doing some of the finest work on Joker over at DC Black Label, but sadly it comes to an end this week. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I mean, after reading some 1 and 2-star reviews for the book I was so bloody terrified I briefly considered giving up on this installment together and moving on to Noddy's adventures. I fully expected to hate this one with a vengeance and/or DNF the fish out of it. and what Stark discovers will change Heaven, Earth, and Stark himself forever. But there’s more to the king and his plans for L.A. What king wants seems simple on it face: Chaos. He seemingly came from nowhere with nothing but a taste for mayhem and an army of crazed killers who follow his every command. But what’s even more frightening is the Shoggot gang and their leader, King Bullet, who revels in the city’s collapse. ![]() is gripped by a viral epidemic that has everyone wearing masks and keeping their distance from each other. And the world…well, the world is going to shit. It’s been three months since Stark stopped a death cult and a potential ghost apocalypse, and he’s at loose ends. The incredible finale of the page-turning, high-octane Sandman Slim series filled with an explosive ending and intense kick-ass action from New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1946, he was hired as a staff photographer for Harper’s Bazaar, and it was there that he truly began to develop his signature style. He quickly made a name for himself with his innovative and striking images, which were marked by their minimalist style and clean lines. ![]() He is considered one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century and his work has had a profound influence on the world of fashion, art, and portraiture.Īvedon began his photography career at the age of 22 as an advertising photographer for a department store in New York City. ![]() Richard Avedon was an American photographer and artist born on May 15, 1923, in New York City. It is my understanding that Avedon used daylight for these exposures and a combination of reflectors, flags and diffusers for this series as they were all shot on location. His subjects posses an innocence, or is it complete trust? either way the character that he has drawn from relative strangers only adds to the mystery and firmly cements him as one of the greats. A portrait photographer with a lust for life who could capture something unseen in a person, for someone who was supposedly in love with all things dramatic and energetic, Avedon was able to capture a calmness in his portraits, there is a candid quality to his photographs despite the obvious fact that they were setup. ![]() ![]() He lives in Leeds, England, with his wife and son, and is a British crime writer who has previously published under another name. This review has been updated to note the book's author is using a pseudonym. Alex North is the internationally bestselling author of The Whisper Man and The Shadows. Readers will have a tough time putting down this truly unnerving tale, with its seemingly unexplainable elements and glimpses of broken and dangerous minds. A strange man snooping at the Kennedy house and an attempt to lure Jake away during the night become connected to Beck’s investigation as she and Willis struggle to make a connection to Carter. The sensitive Jake talks to a little girl who isn’t there and fears “the boy under the floor” in their odd new house. ![]() After the sudden death of his wife, Tom Kennedy believes a fresh start will help him and his young son Jake heal. Meanwhile, author Tom Kennedy, still reeling from his wife’s death, seeks a fresh start in Featherbank with his seven-year-old son, Jake. Summary In this dark, suspenseful thriller, Alex North weaves a multi-generational tale of a father and son caught in the crosshairs of an investigation to catch a serial killer preying on a small town. Beck brings in Willis to assist, specifically because he’s the only person Carter will talk to. as incarcerated serial child killer Frank Carter (aka the Whisper Man), who was apprehended 20 years earlier by Det. Neil may have been lured from his home by someone who whispered at his window at night, the same m.o. THE WHISPER MAN by Alex North RELEASE DATE: Aug. Amanda Beck heads the search for six-year-old Neil Spencer, who has gone missing from the English village of Featherbank. In the pseudonymous North’s superb thriller, a police procedural with supernatural overtones, Det. ![]() ![]() They had been examining the Jakobshavn Glacier on the west coast of Greenland because global warming was causing its ice to disappear at an alarming rate. ![]() Max realized that the fiery redhead could be talking about the earth or their current predicament. ![]() “We don’t have much time, Max!” shouted her friend and colleague, the twelve-year-old geoscientist (and certified genius) Siobhan. The ice rapidly melting beneath Max’s feet created snaking rivulets of turquoise blue water that widened into streams that sliced through the ice and made gaping holes that ended up as gushing waterfalls. Wishing some angry crew of mysterious mercenaries wasn’t chasing after her and Siobhan. Wishing she could somehow run faster, that her bulging backpack wasn’t slowing her down. ![]() Max Einstein raced across the slick surface of the glacier wishing she had worn something warmer than her flapping trench coat. ![]() |