![]() The book chronicles the year that Delisle and his family spent in Israel while his wife worked for Doctors Without Borders. The simple visual storytelling is what makes his reportage so impressive. The visual effect is lovely.ĭelisle’s lines are simple, his page layouts straightforward. Delisle uses this technique to bring the reader’s attention to specific details or to indicate loud noises. He uses two hues for most panels-black and then a second hue at varying saturations-but sometimes throws in splashes of other colours. I haven’t looked at any of Delisle’s work before and I have to say that the art is amazing. My French is a bit rusty, so I picked up a copy of the English version, Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City, translated by Helge Dascher. Included on the list for Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Cartoonist is Guy Delisle for his graphic work Chroniques de Jerusalem. The final nominee list for the Joe Shuster Awards won’t be announced for at least another week, but in the meantime longlists for the five Joe Shuster Awards (down from seven in 2011) have been posted. ![]()
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![]() ![]() To make money and provide an outlet for her warrior persona, she participates in ring fights.Ĭhapter 1 begins with one such fight, and Lore is shocked when Castor, a friend from the House of Achilles who disappeared seven years ago, shows up to challenge her. She has spent the intervening seven years since the last hunt living with an older man named Gil, who recently died, and her friend Miles. After the brutal murder of her family at the last Agon’s end, Lore is the last of the Perseide (children of Perseus) bloodline. Lore takes place in modern-day New York City, the location of this cycle’s Agon-a hunt that takes place every seven years in which descendants of Greek heroes try to kill the gods and ascend as immortals. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each chapter alternates in narration from the perspectives of descendants of Effia and Esi as the stories move through the passage of time from the 18th Century to the present day. Effia marries a British slave trader and leads a life of comfort in the Cape Coast Castle (an old British slave fort where enslaved Africans were held in an underground dungeon) while Esi is captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the same castle, and sold into slavery in America. Homegoing is composed of many linked short stories that follow the lineage of two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, born in different villages in Ghana during the 18th century. ![]() I will say, it took me longer than normal to finish this book though, because of the content on slave experience, and the fact that it spans 200 years- I took my time with it and am so glad I did. After putting this book down, I instantly thought about all of the ways I could incorporate the novel or even excerpts of it into a college classroom. I can’t fully express how much I enjoyed Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. ![]() ![]() The implication being she was startled by a powerful male. Shar-La comes from a world ruled by women. This nine page spectacular is overflowing with gender stereotypes that Superboy and Clark are forced to contend with after Superboy insults a a space traveling woman who loses control of her ship as a result of seeing the flying teen of steel. ![]() It was published in Superboy #78, cover dated January 1960 and putting it on the stands in the fall or early winter of 1959. ![]() Case in point is this little gem titled “Claire Kent, Alias Super Sister” from writer Otto Binder and artist John Sikela, as overseen by the inimitable Mort Weisinger. Sometimes reading an old comic just makes you wonder what the writer, artist and editor were thinking about from the idea phase all the way through to completion. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, after the book had been tossed around the internet a bit and thoroughly mocked and disparaged and raged at by nearly everyone who touched it, we all thought we’d heard the last of it. ![]() And this is supposed to be a book for teenagers about racial tolerance. ![]() Note: potentially triggering imagery in the Inverarity post, because one of the major marketing tools for this book were a number of videos portraying a blonde, blue-eyed white woman wearing blackface and talking about how “they” (black people) are trying to kill her. If you’ve managed to make it to August 2012 without ever hearing the title Revealing Eden: Save the Pearls! before this, or the resultant backlash against Victoria Foyt’s “thoroughly non-racist book” because of the heaps and heaps of racism it contains (and misogyny, but that’s another post), here are a few blog posts about it: from Foz Meadows, from NK Jemisin, from Inverarity, from acrackedmoon. This recent situation just has me seething. ![]() ![]() The truth, however, is that Zoe Louise lived in Zoe`s house a century ago, and her ghost has returned to solve a terrible mystery. But in changing the past, must she also change the present? If she saves her friend` s life, will she lose Zoe Louise forever?Zoe`s grandparents think that Zoe Louise is Zoe`s imaginary friend. To do so, she must travel back 100 years in time and somehow alter the past. ![]() Time is running out for Zoe` s best friend - and Zoe is the only one who can help her. Time is running out for Zoe` s frightening ways. ![]() And although Zoe Louise never grows up, she is changing in dreadful, frightening ways. From that day on - living in the same house, separated by a staircase and a century - Zoe and Zoe Louise have been an important and permanent part of each other` s lives. The first time Zoe met Zoe Louise, Zoe was four years old. ![]() ![]() ![]() She found another man and together they made a little blond beauty they dressed in red velvet and paraded up and down the aisle at St. Split Lip was long gone, unable to bear the work Boneless required. ![]() She was scared of the tub, so to bathe her Split Lip covered the couch with a tarp and caught the runoff in a bucket. Mrs. Leo and I stood outside the window on cinder blocks, watching. ![]() She looked like a newborn colt, appendages folded in as she lay on the velour couch protected by guardrails. We were young, ignorant of mercy, and called her Boneless or Balled-Up Gumby for the way her limbs were twisted and useless. The first great act of love I ever witnessed was Split Lip bathing his handicapped daughter. Online Feature: “Isabelle” by George Saunders ![]() ![]() ![]() That was how Maud learned that good things can come from tragedy. ![]() This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home.Įver since her darling father’s untimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has lived in the family’s spacious apartment in downtown Gothenburg rent-free, thanks to a minor clause in a hastily negotiated contract. ![]() Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and…no qualms about a little murder. An elderly lady is faced with a difficult dilemma An elderly lady seeks peace at Christmas time An elderly lady has accommodation problems Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781641290111 ![]() ![]() ![]() But the greatest impact on Charlotte’s life is made by a mere bud on the family tree: a misunderstood soul who will one day be known as the Lost Prince. LaLa knows only that these children, and the four who swiftly follow, need her steadfast loyalty and unconditional affection. Neither Charlotte-LaLa, as her charges dub her-nor anyone else can predict that eldest sons David and Bertie will each one day be king. ![]() So begins the unforgettable story of Charlotte Bill, who would care for a generation of royals as their parents never could. She is excited, exhausted-and about to meet royalty. April, 1897: A young nanny arrives at Sandringham, ancestral estate of the Duke and Duchess of York. Based on a seldom-told true story, this novel is perfect for everyone who is fascinated by Britain’s royal family-a behind the scenes look into the nurseries of little princes and the foibles of big princes. ![]() ![]() The reality- selling herself to survive- is a dehumanizing grind that pushes her further away from real love, towards a fascination with pure physical pleasure. A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, but the glittering life she hoped for was a fantasy. ![]() “Love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer…” so says Maria, a young Brazilian girl convinced from an early age that she will never find true love. Also, this book won Ex Libris Award in 2004. The author’s book has sold around 140 million copies and translated into 72 languages. Initially, the book was published in Portuguese and was translated into English by Margaret Jull Costa. The book ELEVEN MINUTES by Paulo Coelho is published in 2003 by Harper Collins. ![]() Let’s dive in! ELEVEN MINUTES by PAULO COELHO About the book Finally, I am here with the review of the book that kicked my reading slump. Hey folks! Welcome back to the reader’s corner. ![]() |