5/11/2023 0 Comments Sledgehammer 44 by Mike Mignola![]() ![]() Phil Hester and Mike Huddleston’s The Coffin by Oni Press ( click here for my review) does a much better job with the same material. I’ve seen this plot device many times, but I can forgive that. Nazis trying to steal and hopefully duplicate an apparatus to strap to its soldiers to give them an advantage against their enemies. ![]() There’s also some elements taken directly from the Rocketeer movie. Original right? You would think that, but you’d be wrong. The suit seems to be powered by a man’s soul or his life essence if you prefer. Code named Sledgehammer, is a one man army with a devastating arsenal, but not completely invincible. This story’s about how the Americans have harnessed a special suit of armour, mystical in nature and maybe some science as well, to use as a war tool against the Nazis. With elements like ancient powers & the occult, we’re used to seeing this kind of material. Just read Hellboy or B.P.R.D., it’s all there. Mike Mignola sure loves his WW2 settings. Illustrated by Jason Latour (Noche Roja, Untold Tales of Punisher Max). ![]() Written by Mike Mignola (Hellboy in Hell) & John Arcudi (The Creep, A God Somewhere). Will the Sledgehammer end up in Hitler’s clutches or will he rise up against tyranny and save the day? ![]() Trapped & cornered in a village barn, a group of American WW2 soldiers and a very large empty armour (which was previously an active war machine) make their final stand against a small Nazi army. ![]()
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5/11/2023 0 Comments Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett![]() Below is the order in which Terry Pratchett’s novels have been released in: Terry Pratchett was a very prolific novelist and his books are enjoyed by readers of all ages worldwide. Many consider Pratchett to be the funniest writer of the last few decades. ![]() He has also written several children’s novels and other standalone novels. He has been focused on his Discworld series since 1983 with nearly 40 books in the series. Pratchett had his first short story published when he was 15 and had been writing ever since. “AT LAST SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.” ![]() “Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night.” In true Terry Pratchett style, he had tweets posted on his Twitter immediately following his death. He died after a chest infection, as well as complications from the Alzheimers. Pratchett battled Alzheimer’s disease for years after announcing it online in 2007. ![]() Terry Pratchett sadly passed away on March 12th, 2015. Terry Pratchett was an English author who is best known for his Discworld comic fantasy series. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments The sheltering sky novel![]() ![]() Port believes he is a traveller and not a tourist but they seek out hotels and restaurants wherever they visit, no one place satisfies them for long enough. ![]() Port and Kit Moresby, an American couple whose marriage hangs by a lifeless, sexless thread travel across North Africa chasing a vision of adventure that doesn’t truly exist. The novel serves as the most bleak and telling warning of the notion of romantic travel. This desire of his to break free from the entrapment of modern society spurred him on to travel across the Algerian Sahara and those experiences inspired him to write with the clarity which makes this story so compelling. A novel quite unlike any I have read before dark, tragic and deeply evocative of an age of travel and adventure long since passed.īowles was a man who immersed himself in the land and culture of North Africa, he wrote the book in 1948 as he travelled across Morocco and Algeria fuelled by hashish and the discovery of new paths and escapes from his homeland America and Europe’s intelligentsia. In the list of great twentieth century debut novels The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles (1910-1999) must surely find its place amongst the very best. Review of Paul Bowles classic debut novel… ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When the new girl is invited to join her high school’s most popular clique, she can’t believe her luck-and she can’t believe their secret, either.When Becca transfers to a high school in an elite San Francisco suburb, she’s worried she’s not going to fit in. █████████████████████████████████████████████████Īn IndieBound Bestseller“Squad is a fast-paced and feminist horror story for every girl who’s ever felt like prey, and asks how far a girl should go to hunt the hunters.”-Laura Ruby, author of National Book Award Finalist Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All“Squad is a story fitted with the sharpest teeth that chomps down on the patriarchy, and I adored it with my entire vicious heart."-Chloe Gong, author of New York Times–bestselling These Violent DelightsPretty Little Liars meets Teen Wolf in this sharply funny, and patriarchy-smashing graphic novel from author Maggie Tokuda-Hall and artist Lisa Sterle. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Sonea both distrusts the Guild for their apparent lack of compassion for the poor dwells and fears their reprisal for her accidental injury of Lord Fergun. Lords Dannyl and Rothen lead the search into the slums, worried that Sonea's increasingly uncontrolled magic will harm her and those around her. Although young gang members gather to throw rocks at them, the magicians are protected by a magical shield-until Sonea, a young dwell, hurls a rock through their barrier and injures the magician Lord Fergun.įearing a rogue magician, the Guild begins searching for Sonea. ![]() Each winter in Imardin, the capital city of Kyralia, the streets are purged of the "dwells", the city's poor under-class, by magicians who drive away the inhabitants of the city's slums. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments The dutch house ann patchett![]() And for readers who consider unabashedly beachy romance novels top-tier choices for summer? The latest releases from genre legends Elin Hilderbrand and Emily Henry will definitely satisfy. Rachel Heng's The Great Reclamation and Jasmin Iolani Hakes's Hula are absorbing family epics with deep historical ties pop culture enthusiasts will fall for the second chances presented to fictional early-2000s icons in The Daydreams and Once More With Feeling. It can be a lighthearted distraction from daily life or a nail-biting thriller: Whatever the specifics, if you don't want to go back in the water until you've reached the last page, you have a quality beach read on your hands.Īny of the best new books arriving from now until August have a can't-put-down quality that make them packing essentials for your summer adventures. Whether you're cracking one open at a private beach resort or a lounge chair at your local pool, the best beach reads are ones that feels like stepping into an absorbing, alternate reality for a few hundred pages. Readers who start summer with a straw tote full of new books know the truth. ![]() ![]() ![]() There's a common misconception that beach reads always involve sun, sand, and string-bikini-thin plots. ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Road Back to You Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile forge a unique approach-a practical, comprehensive way of accessing Enneagram wisdom and exploring its connections with Christian spirituality for a deeper knowledge of ourselves, compassion for others, and love for God. The Enneagram is an ancient personality typing system with an uncanny accuracy in describing how human beings are wired, both positively and negatively. Do you want help figuring out who you are and why you're stuck in the same ruts? What you don't know about yourself can hurt you and your relationships-and even keep you in the shallows with God. Ignorance is bliss-except in self-awareness. Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist ![]() ![]() While his love is sent to a convent, Arnās sentence is commuted to forced commitment to the cause of the Crusades, where he becomes a notable soldier and eventually a high ranking commander of the Knights Templar and both friend and enemy to the charismatic Saladin.Arnās Story continues in the next two books: The Knight Templar and Kingdom at the End of the Road. Seduced by one sister, he falls in love with the other and ends up sleeping with them both - a mortal sin in the medieval church. On his journeys Arn falls foul of various fighting groups, but is also delighted with the women he encounters. He is sent from the sheltered walls of the convent to experience something of real life. ![]() From the start he shows the natural skill and aptitude of a born fighter, yet despite his strength he is innocent in the ways of the world. ![]() ![]() When the boy inexplicably recovers after falling from the parapet of his ancestral home, his mother finds herself beholden to a promise made in a moment of prayer. The epic story of one manās fight for his love, his God and his CountryThe Road to Jerusalem - Book 1 in the Crusades Trilogy.Arn Magnusson, born into an arsitocratic Swedish family, is raised in an old monastry because of an old promise made by his mother. Book Summary Born in 1150 to a noble family in the Kingdom of Western Gtaland, young Arn Magnusson is marked early on by a miraculous and fateful event. ![]() ![]() True fans won’t let Winter travel alone on this amazing journey. That’s what Winter thinks.Ī heartwarming, heart-burning, passionate, sexual, comical, and completely original adventure is about to happen in real time-raw, shocking, soulful, and shameless. ![]() Hell is the same as any hood and certainly the Brooklyn hood she grew up in. Will she blow Winter’s head off? Can Winter dodge the bullets? Or will at least one bullet blast Winter into another world? Either way Winter is fearless. ![]() Simone, Winter’s young business partner and friend, is locked and loaded and Winter is her target. But Winter is not the only one with revenge on her mind. She’s eager to pay back her enemies, rebuild her father’s empire, reset his crown, and ultimately to snatch Midnight back into her life no matter which bitch had him while she was locked up. Still stunning, still pretty, still bold, still loves her father more than any man in the world, still got her hustle and high fashion flow. ![]() The long-anticipated sequel to Sister Souljah’s million copy New York Times bestseller The Coldest Winter Ever. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments 1984 george orwell essay![]() 1 on Amazon’s best-seller list this week, after Kellyanne Conway, an adviser to President Trump, described demonstrable falsehoods told by the White House press secretary Sean Spicer - regarding the size of inaugural crowds - as “alternative facts.” It was a phrase chillingly reminiscent, for many readers, of the Ministry of Truth’s efforts in “1984” at “reality control.” To Big Brother and the Party, Orwell wrote, “the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. A world in which the government insists that reality is not “something objective, external, existing in its own right” - but rather, “whatever the Party holds to be truth is truth.” (Hey, Alexa, what’s up?) A world of endless war, where fear and hate are drummed up against foreigners, and movies show boatloads of refugees dying at sea. A world in which Big Brother (or maybe the National Security Agency) is always listening in, and high-tech devices can eavesdrop in people’s homes. The dystopia described in George Orwell’s nearly 70-year-old novel “1984” suddenly feels all too familiar. ![]() |