5/24/2023 0 Comments Hissers by Ryan C. Thomas![]() When we found out it was about a giant killer mosquito it just seemed to ridiculous to take serious as a horror novel, then the part about his past and neighbor kind of felt like his attempt to keep it in the adult horror category, but the ending was pure sci-fi. It is equal parts detective/mystery as it is horror and then the ending is just pure sci-fi. The horror aspects of the book are so rediculous that the only way they can really be taken serious would be in a YA novel, which is kind of what it feels like while reading except for a few bits of nastier stuff that make sure it stays in the adult category. The problem is that it blends genres in a way that don't really work. It has good characters and as always with Ryan C. With this one I decided to just do a quick cut and past review of my final thoughts that I posted in a group read that I did and make it a spoilers only review but after seeing that it only has 3 other reviews (two from others in my group that read it with me) I have decided to write out a longer spoiler free review that will give people a better idea of what they are getting into if there is anyone out there reading reviews to decide if they want to purchase this book. ![]() So, I like to write a review and then read other reviews. ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Werewolf by Night by Gerry Conway![]() ![]() Zombies were around in What If., and they appear to be coming back for Multiverse of Madness, too.Īccording to TheWrap, "Marvel Studios’ search for a Latino lead for its as-yet-untitled Halloween special has ended, with Golden Globe winning Mexican actor Gael García Bernal set to lead the cast of werewolf-focused show that will air on Disney+, TheWrap has exclusively learned."īernal is an exceptional talent, and he is going to take the lead in the special. Thanks to Blade, we know that vampires are on the way, and this Halloween special is bringing werewolves into the equation, as well. ![]() Still, he remains fully aware of most of his transformations and controls his powerful werewolf body to fight evildoers," the site summarized. In the comics, Russell comes from a long lineage cursed with lycanthropy. Stan Lee baptized the comic book series, and Roy and Jean Thomas defined the plot for the first issue, making Russell a rare superhero created by five different people. ![]() "The first Werewolf by Night, Jack Russell, was introduced in 1972’s Marvel Spotlight #2 and was created by Gerry Conway and Mike Ploog from an idea by Roy Thomas. Not familiar with the character? Well, the folks at Collider have you covered! Fans of the horror genre, rejoice, because the MCU is finally giving us something to really sink our teeth into! Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Moon Knight are both steps in the right direction, and we are excited to learn that a Halloween special for Werewolf by Night is getting underway. ![]() ![]() In fact, both of them seem to be leaving everything to the last minute.Įventually, James reaches the church but in wellies. On the morning of the wedding, Helen is clearly nervous, while James is off tending some cattle. Tristan also mislays the ring which eventually ends up inside a dog. ![]() Needless to say, James winds up drinking a yard of ale and ends up spending the night in the barn. The boys head to the pub, with Mrs Hall giving everyone strict instructions to keep an eye on James and also the wedding ring, which Tristan is meant to be guarding. It's the eve on James and Helen's wedding day. Rachel adds: "Yes, they do get married, but like any TV wedding, there are bumps along the way… the wedding dress is beautiful! Our costume designer is brilliant and we wanted something that felt and looked right." Nicholas tells us: "I can't say much but it’s everything you would hope it would be - romantic, touching, but also funny because there are little mishaps and teething issues on the day… I’m really excited for people to see it." ![]() ![]() However, we know for sure that James and Helen get married in All Creatures Great and Small season 3. It was touch and go, especially when Helen almost married another man. The opening two series of All Creatures have been about whether James and Helen would get together or not. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When circumstances force Silver to set out on her own, she becomes a storyteller as well.Winterson's writing is beautiful, often magical, and the interwoven plots are both quiet and compelling. Pew claims that both visited his lighthouse, and their meetings with Babel Dark both opened possibilities and created conflicts within him. Among the "real" persons who inhabit the stories are Robert Louis Stevenson and Charles Darwin. The two of them bond over Pew's wonderful stories of his ancestors and of Babel Dark, minister and son of a town founder who led a mysterious double life. There have always been Pews keeping this lighthouse, he tells her, and Pew plans for Silver to take over when he passes on. When an accident leaves Silver orphaned, the only person willing to take her in is Pew, the blind, elderly lighthouse keeper. I rarely reread books, but I think I'll be returning to 'Lighthousekeeping.'Outcast from the Scottish town of Salts after becoming pregnant out of wedlock, a woman and her daughter Silver move into an unstable house cut into the side of the rocky coast. ![]() Still, I decided to give this little book a chance, and I'm vert glad that I did. It leaned towards magical realism, a genre I'm not fond of, and I gave up on it. ![]() I tried to read one of Janette Winterson's books several years ago but gave up on it. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Shadows by Robin Todd![]() These and several other Disney films were made using British funds frozen during World War II. This was the second film Disney made in the United Kingdom, the first being Treasure Island (1950). Production began in April 1951 at Denham Film Studios in London. Īnnakin says the entire film was storyboarded in advance by Carmen Dillon and Guy Green, so as to ensure Walt Disney to keep creative control, adding "quite often I had to bite my tongue or be prepared to quit." However Annakin soon earned Disney's respect and the two men went on to make several films together. ![]() Arthur Rank Films, to whom he was under contract, to make the movie. He wanted to use colour, use a more historically accurate script than in most previous Robin Hood films, and to shoot on location in Nottingham Forest. The idea to make the film was Walt Disney's. ![]() Leonard Charles Newcombe as a Page Boy to Maid Marian.Clement McCallin as The Earl of Huntingdon.Louise Hampton as Tyb, aged nurse of Maid Marian.Anthony Eustrel as the Archbishop of Canterbury. ![]() Martita Hunt as Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.Peter Finch as the Sheriff of Nottingham. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments The perfect wife by lynsay sands![]() She hopes her groom is partial to cherriesįor that's what Avelyn fears she will resemble at their wedding feast: too round, too red, in the scarlet gown she barely fits into. Carrying her readers back to Medieval England centuries before the contemporary romantic affairs of her popular Argeneau vampire family Lynsay Sands will enchant fans of Julia Quinn and Sabrina Jeffries with this classic tale rich in humor and passion. Fear not, though, for true love will always prevail in New York Times and USA Today bestseller Lynsay Sands s wicked historical romance romps. You can t help but fall in love with Lynsay Sands!Ī most-willing beauty wants to be The Perfect Wife with everything that entails to her brave and handsome new groom, but an outrageous series of mishaps seems to get in their way. ![]() Carrying her readers back to Medieval England-centuries before the contemporary romantic affairs of her popular Argeneau vampire family-Lynsay Sands will enchant fans of Julia Quinn and Sabrina Jeffries with this classic tale rich in humor and passion. Fear not, though, for true love will always prevail in New York Times and USA Today bestseller Lynsay Sands's wicked historical romance romps. ![]() "You can't help but fall in love with Lynsay Sands!"-Christina DoddĪ most-willing beauty wants to be The Perfect Wife-with everything that entails-to her brave and handsome new groom, but an outrageous series of mishaps seems to get in their way. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Incognito, Vol. 2 by Ed Brubaker![]() ![]() As President of Legendary Television, Pepper signed Brubaker into a development deal there in 2019 and, along with EVP Development King, put Criminal in development at the indie studio, which is expected to get EP credit on the Amazon Studios’ version as a result.Īmazon MGM Studios Distribution To Launch At LA Screenings Nick Pepper, Amazon Studios’ Head of US SVOD TV Development and Series – Wholly Owned, and his lieutenant Matt King, Head of Tentpole, Genre and Universe Development of Wholly Owned Content, are believed to have championed bringing in Criminal for development. A rep for Amazon Studios declined comment. I hear a writers room for the potential series is up and running. EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios is finalizing deals for Criminal, a TV adaptation of Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips’ bestselling crime comic book series, sources tell Deadline.ĭetails are scarce, but the project - written by Brubaker, who serves as executive producer and showrunner - is described as an interlocking universe of crime stories based on his award-winning comics. ![]() ![]() ![]() As stated in his autobiography, Schirra decided to name the spacecraft he flew Sigma 7, which he said symbolized engineering excellence. However, Schirra was assigned the next flight, the fifth Mercury mission, called Mercury-Atlas 8. ![]() "I don't think anyone knew how angry I was," Schirra wrote in his autobiography, " Schirra's Space (opens in new tab)" (Naval Institute Press, 2000). The agency's choice upset Schirra, especially because he remained in the backup position for Carpenter. But NASA selected Scott Carpenter, a fellow member of the Mercury Seven. ![]() When Deke Slayton, a World War II veteran pilot and member of the Mercury Seven, was pulled from the Mercury-Atlas 7 flight due to a heart condition, Schirra thought he would be assigned instead, since he was Slayton's backup. Schirra's assignment was to examine the life-support systems of the spacecraft and test out the spacesuits, according to NASA. Each astronaut in the Mercury program was assigned a specific responsibility to help develop the system that would be used in space. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Decolonizing methodologies![]() ![]() Looking through the eyes of the colonized, cautionary tales are told from an indigenous perspective, tales designed not just to voice the voiceless but to prevent the dying - of people, of culture, of ecosystems. "This book is a counter-story to Western ideas about the benefits of the pursuit of knowledge. This book sets a standard for emancipatory research, brilliantly demonstrating that 'when indigenous peoples become the researchers and not merely the researched, the activity of research is transformed.' ![]() Now in its second edition, this book critically examines the bases of Western research, while also suggesting literature which validates one's frustrations in dealing with western methodologies, all of which position the indigenous as 'Other.' The author explores the intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth.' Concepts such as 'discovery' and 'claiming' are discussed, explicitly in terms of how the west has consistently incorporated the indigenous world within its own web. ![]() Here, an indigenous researcher issues a clarion call for the decolonization of research methods in an attempt to reclaim control over indigenous ways of knowing and being. ![]() To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism the ways in which scientific research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory for many of the world's colonized peoples. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Beyond black mantel![]() “There was always a slight aura of otherworldliness about her, as she saw and felt things us ordinary mortals missed, but when she perceived the need for confrontation she would fearlessly go into battle.” “Emails from Hilary were sprinkled with bon mots and jokes as she observed the world with relish and pounced on the lazy or absurd and nailed cruelty and prejudice,” he added. “Her wit, stylistic daring, creative ambition and phenomenal historical insight mark her out as one of the greatest novelists of our time.” “However, the universe is not limited by what I can imagine,” she said.īill Hamilton, who was Mantel’s agent throughout her career, said it had been “the greatest privilege” to work with the writer. When asked by the Financial Times earlier this month whether she believed in an afterlife, Mantel said she did, but that she could not imagine how it might work. ![]() ![]() HarperCollins confirmed she had died on Thursday “suddenly yet peacefully”, surrounded by close family and friends. ![]() The conclusion to her groundbreaking Wolf Hall trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, was published in 2020 to huge critical acclaim, became an instant Sunday Times bestseller and was longlisted for the Booker prize. ![]() |