![]() ![]() (I personally don't care for music-enhanced dramas in audiobooks) Content: The audio intro says this book is based on the graphic novel based on the screenplay by the Wachowski Brothers. ![]() This is a dramatization, and the narrator does "voices in character", but there is no music except at the title introduction of each of the two audio segments. ![]() Narrator has a British accent, as appropriate for the context of the book, and was easily understood by this American listener. ![]() Visceral Vindictive Vicarious Vicissitudes?Īudio: Excellent. Based on the screenplay written by the Wachowski Sisters. Novelization by Steve Moore, based on the graphic novel illustrated by David Lloyd and published by Vertigo/DC Comics. But it is Evey who, with V as her enigmatic guide, sets out on the painful path of deception and self-discovery, deconstruction and re-creation, vindication and vengeance. While those in power take steps to neutralize the threat, police pursue the mystery of V, unaware of the terrible truth that awaits them. Beguiling and dangerous, V ignites the fuse of revolution when he urges his fellow citizens to shed the blanket of tyranny and oppression that they have permitted themselves to be cloaked in. This is the setting for the parable of Evey, a young woman saved from death by a masked man calling himself V. Imagine a Britain stripped of democracy, a world of the not-too-distant future in which freedom has been surrendered willingly to a totalitarian regime which rose to power by exploiting the people's worst fears and most damning weaknesses. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Queering Your Craft is a fantastic introduction to witchcraft for queer people who feel called to the path. After enjoying Cassandra Snow’s Queering the Tarot ( here’s my review), I was eager to see what she wrote next. One of the newest books in the “witchcraft 101” world is Cassandra Snow’s Queering Your Craft: Witchcraft From the Margins, released earlier this month. I wish I’d had books like these as a baby pagan! ![]() I’m thankful to see so many of the new books in this category are less problematic than “the classics,” and many go beyond the basics and include brief overviews of a lot of the different aspects of magickal practice, like Tarot, astrology, herbalism, crystals, and kitchen witchery. Lately I’ve been reading a lot of “witchcraft 101” books, to update the reading list for my coven’s new members. ![]() ![]() I can’t wait to listen to it again! Kushner is the author of three novels in the Riverside world: Swordspoint, The Privilege of the Sword, and The Fall of the Kings, all of them in audio thanks to the wonderful Neil Gaiman Presents. And the performances were a pure delight. It was thrilling, fun, and had so much to think about regarding gender roles in society. ![]() If I was going to pick an audiobook that I listened to last year as my favorite listen, regardless of when it came out, I’m pretty sure my choice would be Ellen Kushner’s The Privilege of the Sword ( Review). ![]() ![]() Yet just beneath the surface lies something far more positive: the story of three generations of women, and the importance of a grandmother giving her granddaughter what her daughter is unable to provide - love, and the desire for life. 'At first glance this novel depicts a troubled mother-daughter relationship set in the the Soviet-ruled Baltics between 19. Will she and her daughter be able to return to Riga when political change begins to stir? ![]() Banished to a village in the Latvian countryside, her sense of isolation increases. She is deprived first of her professional future, then of her identity and finally of her relationship with her daughter. ![]() The central character in the story tries to follow her calling as a doctor. This novel considers the effects of Soviet rule on a single individual. The literary bestseller that took the Baltics by storm now published for the first time in English. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The more he learns, the more the hard truth is revealed: The Blinds is no sleepy hideaway. Cooper has his own secrets to protect, so when his new deputy starts digging, he needs to keep one step ahead of her-and the mysterious outsiders who threaten to tear the whole place down. What’s clear to them is that if they leave, they will end up dead.įor eight years, Sheriff Calvin Cooper has kept an uneasy peace-but after a suicide and a murder in quick succession, the town’s residents revolt. Welcome to The Blinds, a dusty town in rural Texas populated by misfits who don’t know if they’ve perpetrated a crime or just witnessed one. ![]() Imagine a place populated by criminals-people plucked from their lives, with their memories altered, who’ve been granted new identities and a second chance. From the Edgar Award-nominated author of Shovel Ready, a blistering new thriller that Dennis Lehane calls “propulsive and meaningful”įor fans of Cormac McCarthy, Jim Thompson, the Coen Brothers, and Lost ![]() ![]() Now published in a new translation by celebrated Rulfo scholar Douglas J. Although initially published to a quiet reception, it was soon recognized as a major novel that has served as a touchstone text for writers including Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Sergio Pitol. Rulfo’s only novel is an uncannily beautiful story of love and the everlasting echoes of the dead. ![]() There emerges the tragic tale of Pedro Páramo himself, and the town whose every corner holds the taint of his rotten soul. Built on the tyranny of the Páramo family, its barren and broken-down streets echo with the voices of tormented spirits that share the secrets and traumas of the past. ![]() ![]() Juan Preciado swears to his dying mother that he will find the father he has never met-Pedro Páramo-but when he reaches the ghost town of Comala, he finds it haunted by memories and hallucinations. A masterpiece of the surreal that foreshadowed and influenced the rise of “magical realism” in Latin America, Pedro Páramo is the otherworldly tale of one man’s quest for his lost father. ![]() ![]() ![]() 20+ Brilliant Books Featuring Unforgettable Deaf or Hard of Hearing Characters for Deaf Awareness Week.Celebrate King Charles III and his Coronation with these Majestic Children's Books.New imprint, Pineapple Lane, launches with seven Ukrainian picture books.Sally Anne Garland and The Art of the Every Day. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() Jassy was filmed as Jassy (1947) starring Margaret Lockwood and Dennis Price. Several of her novels were turned into films. Her approach suggests an interest in the social reformism that became a feature of British post-war society. Norah Lofts' work set in East Anglia in the 1930s and 1940s shows great concern with the very poor in society and their inability to change their conditions. Her creation of this fictitious area of England is reminiscent of Thomas Hardy's creation of "Wessex" and her use of recurring characters such that the protagonist of one novel appears as a secondary character in others is even more reminiscent of William Faulkner's work set in "Yoknapatawpha County," Mississippi. ![]() Most of her historical novels fall into two general categories: biographical novels about queens, among them Anne Boleyn, Isabella I of Castile, and Catherine of Aragon and novels set in East Anglia centered around the fictitious town of Baildon (patterned largely on Bury St. However, the murders still show characteristic Norah Lofts elements. Norah Lofts chose to release her murder-mystery novels under the pen name Peter Curtis because she did not want the readers of her historic fiction to pick up a murder-mystery novel and expect classic Norah Lofts historical fiction. ![]() She also wrote under the pen names Peter Curtis and Juliet Astley. Lofts was born in Shipdham, Norfolk in England and died in 1983 in Bury St Edmunds. ![]() ![]() Please note Ruthless Queen contains explicit language, bullying, violence, and flashbacks of abuse/trauma. ![]() It is advised to listen to them in order. It is book two of the Ruthless Royals duet. Ruthless Queen is a full-length high school bully reverse harem romance. So while I may be the new Queen of Ravenwood, the Kings still own me, body and soul.Īnd I’m not quite sure I’m ready to hand over my crown. The only problem is, I promised them everything I had in return for their help. Now, I have four ruthless guys willing to risk everything for me. I’m not the same meek, little girl that got taken advantage of. Their names still send shivers down my spine, for more than one reason.īack then, they didn’t expect me to fight back.Īfter making a pact with them, they help me get revenge on the one man who wronged me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This rare and beautiful book is bound to appeal to both the innocent young and the most sophisticated seniors. With Johnson and Fancher's atmospheric, large-scale paintings bursting off the pages, Dr. Here is a wonderful way for parents to talk with children about their feelings. ![]() Using a spectrum of vibrant colors and a menagerie of animals, this unique book does for the range of human moods and emotions what Oh, the Places You'll Go! does for the human life cycle. However, color preference is a learned behavior. Seuss saw his original text about feelings and moods as part of the "first book ever to be based on beautiful illustrations and sensational color." The quest for an artist finally ended-after the manuscript languished for more than two decades-at the paint brushes of husband-and-wife team Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher whose stunning, expressive paintings reveal such striking images as a bright red horse kicking its heels, a cool and quiet green fish, a sad and lonely purple dinosaur, and an angrily howling black wolf. My Many Colored Days, published in 1996, reflects conversations within child psychology at the time. Seuss wrote in 1973, was a letter outlining his hopes of finding "a great color artist who will not be dominated by me." The late Dr. ![]() |