6/28/2023 0 Comments All tomorrows ramjet![]() ![]() Grazers are descended from Titans (the elephant-people). Their cities are super tightly clustered, but have no lighting. They moved to the surface, became nocturnal, and evolved long antenna-like fingers, ears on their faces, and echolocation, giving them basically radar dishes for heads. Info describing the species is in the link to the author's art, but I'll give an abridged version for those who don't feel like checking it out.Ĭlickers are descended from Blind Folk (the eyeless cave dwellers). If you've read the book or watched all of Alt Shift X's video, then you will likely be familiar with the species these fan-made post-humans are descended from. A sort of 'alternate history', where more post-human species created by the Qu survived to achieve sentience, and my speculation on what they could've been like." This is, to quote the artist, "a tribute to Nemo Ramjet's novel All Tomorrows. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Until they spend a magical night together and then it all comes crashing down. But there was so much more to her, and he wanted her. ![]() Will had been infatuated with Emory, the nerd, the girl with big glasses, and clothes that hide her body, she tried her utmost not to be seen. I'm only one of her problems.Ģ.5 Stars Nightfall by Penelope Douglas Emory lived a life of pain and abuse, to protect her aging Grandmother. ![]() I just didn't expect one of my enemies to come to me. I can sit in this house with no internet, television, liquor, or girls, but I'll come out of here with something far more frightening to my enemies. Their only mistake is believing anything I do is an accident. I learned a long time ago that being treated like an animal gives you permission to act like one. ![]() Popular actually wanted a piece of that quiet, little nerd he loved to torture so much, but.he could also be warm. He might've enjoyed backing me into corners in high school when no one was looking, so they wouldn't catch on that Mr. Not that the last time was entirely his fault. There was no way his grandfather was going to risk him humiliating the family again. Reckless, wild, and someone who was never bound by a single rule other than to do exactly what he wanted. Emory: Will Grayson has always been an animal. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Poet ovid the art of love![]() ![]() Ovid himself attributes his exile to carmen et error, "a poem and a mistake", but his discretion in discussing the causes has resulted in much speculation among scholars. He enjoyed enormous popularity, but in one of the mysteries of literary history he was sent by Augustus into exile in a remote province on the Black Sea, where he remained until his death. ![]() He was the first major Roman poet to begin his career during the reign of Augustus, and the Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. Ovid is traditionally ranked alongside Virgil and Horace, his older contemporaries, as one of the three canonic poets of Latin literature. ![]() The Metamorphoses remains one of the most important sources of classical mythology. His poetry was much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and greatly influenced Western art and literature. Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BCE – CE 17/18), known as Ovid (/ˈɒvɪd/) in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet best known for the Metamorphoses, a 15-book continuous mythological narrative written in the meter of epic, and for collections of love poetry in elegiac couplets, especially the Amores ("Love Affairs") and Ars Amatoria ("Art of Love"). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Realistic, credible bad guys create essential story complications, personalize conflict, add immediacy to a story line, and force the protagonist to evolve.From mischief-makers to villains to arch nemeses, Bullies, Bastards & Bitches shows you how to create nuanced bad guys who are indispensable to the stories in which they appear. Get to Know Your Character's Sinister SideA truly memorable antagonist is not a one-dimensional super villain bent on world domination for no particular reason. ![]() ![]() ![]() Marsha is dyslexic and did not learn to read until she taught herself at age nine with Oliver Twist - a long novel that took her a year to complete. In 2008, Marsha was bestowed with the Order of Princess Olha by the Ukrainian President, in recognition of her children's book Enough which described the great Ukrainian famine that claimed millions of lives in the 1930s. Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch has received many honours for her books, including the Ontario Library Association Silver Birch Award twice, the Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, and the SCBWI Crystal Kite Award. ![]() Download the Discussion Guide for Underground Soldier.Download the Making Bombs for Hitler discussion guide.Learn more about Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Dear Canada books. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes![]() ![]() It seems that he has crashed his car and killed two people. Ostensibly the plot is about picking apart what really happened to George. May We Be Forgiven sometimes reads like a brilliant miniseries. The author of This Book Will Save Your Life, a novel about a wealthy trader with nothing left to live for, and The End of Alice, a dark retelling of Lolita, Homes has turned to television in recent years, writing for The L Word and developing an HBO series, The Hamptons. You want to run away but you find yourself compelled to look at the reflection. ![]() Her writing exerts a push-pull that feels like being in a hall of mirrors. She excels in portraying the minutiae of a dysfunctional family (is there any other kind?), creating characters who are both repellent and magnetic. The responsible older brother's "help" now takes on a sexual dimension.ĪM Homes is a masterful dissector of modern American life. After years of acquiescence to his younger sibling, Harry's kiss with Jane, his hand still inside the turkey carcass, is an act of self-assertion and betrayal that might have gone unnoticed, except for the fact that two months later George goes into meltdown and Jane turns to Harry for help. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Wendig wanderers![]() ![]() ![]() Simultaneously, a government-built, wickedly terrifying AI called Black Swan tells its minders that a disgraced scientist named Benji Ray might be the key to solving the mystery illness. The setup is vividly cinematic: After a comet passes near Earth, a sleeping sickness takes hold, causing victims to start wandering in the same direction, barring those who spontaneously, um, explode. While it’s not advertised as an entry in Wendig’s horrifying Future Proof universe that includes Zer0es (2015) and Invasive (2016), it’s the spiritual next step in the author’s deconstruction of not only our culture, but the awful things that we-humanity-are capable of delivering with our current technology and terrible will. This was kind of inevitable: Wendig ( Vultures, 2019, etc.) wrestles with a magnum opus that grapples with culture, science, faith, and our collective anxiety while delivering an epic equal to Steven King’s The Stand (1978). ![]() What if the only way to save humanity was to lose almost everyone? ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Mike tyson undisputed truth 2013![]() ![]() Professional boxing, gambling and the mob were all in bed together. You could ask anyone in any bar, anywhere in the word, who the champ was and get the correct answer. I was 12-years-old and cannot emphasize enough what it meant to be heavyweight champion of the world at that time. Mike Tyson is the heavyweight champ of my time, becoming the youngest ever in 1986. Tyson’s story, like the man himself, is complicated and morally challenging, relentlessly honest, and surprisingly sensitive. It challenges the reader to really understand what made Tyson one of the greatest fighters of all time, an animal, a convicted rapist, a husband, father, actor, addict, sexual assault survivor, and all the hundreds of other things he has been in his life. In fact, the book is less about Tyson and more about whoever is reading the book. ![]() Undisputed Truth is not a difficult book, but I was truly unprepared for the 600-page exercise in mental gymnastics it took to unpack the whole of Mike Tyson. With help from Larry Sloman, a veteran New York writer who already had famous books from working with Howard Stern, Bob Dylan, and Anthony Kiedis, Tyson’s life of magnificent horror is exposed for all to see, genital warts and all. The narrative is distinctly Tyson’s voice, as is the choice of words. I spent last week reading Undisputed Truth (2013), the Mike Tyson autobiography. We take a look back to 2013 to Undisputed Truth, the Mike Tyson autobiography, trying to figure out whether there’s a man behind the monster. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments The kite runner full book![]() ![]() OL5781992W Page_number_confidence 91.01 Pages 358 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200727182443 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1588 Scandate 20200713132414 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780747594888 Tts_version 4. The novel is set in Kabul, Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion in 1978, and depicts life in a nation that is in the process of being ravaged and destroyed. Urn:lcp:kiterunner0000hoss_c6q2:lcpdf:f073aff2-bada-4a09-9638-5acaf1d3f9da The extraordinary story of an unlikely friendship between a wealthy Afghan boy, named Amir, and Hassan, the son of his father’s servant. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:08:19 Boxid IA1886607 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Anno dracula daikaiju![]() ![]() ![]() Anno Dracula: Seven Days in Mayhem (Graphic novel) – It is 1895, Count Dracula is Prince Regent and undisputed ruler of the British Empire, his power is supreme and unchecked.Anno Dracula is a rich and panoramic tale, combining horror, politics, mystery, and romance to create a unique and compelling alternate history. Peppered with familiar characters from Victorian history and fiction, the novel follows vampire Geneviève Dieudonné and Charles Beauregard of the Diogenes Club as they strive to solve the mystery of the Ripper murders. Anno Dracula – It is 1888 and Queen Victoria has remarried, taking as her new consort Vlad Tepes, the Wallachian Prince infamously known as Count Dracula.That said the story in the Anno Dracula series diverges from this novel midway through chapter 21. You can start with Dracula, the original novel by Bram Stoker. The series also features a lot of fictional figures for the amateur of metafictions. The series focused on members of the mysterious Diogenes Club which represents the crown in matters that cannot be made public, and mostly two of its members, vampire Geneviève Dieudonné and Charles Beauregard. This alternate history brings Count Dracula from Bram Stoker’s novel in Great Britain where nobody stopped him. Written by British writer Kim Newman, Anno Dracula is a historical/fantasy series in which vampires are common and increasingly dominant in society. What if vampires rule the world? What is Anno Dracula about? Affiliate disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases from Amazon. ![]() |