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Add The Liszts to our list of Kyo Maclear books with punning titles that are references to famous people, gorgeously illustrated books by a couple of my favorite illustrators, Isabelle Arsenault (Virginia Wolf, about the author Virginia Woolf and her sister, Vanessa Bell) and Julia, Child with Julie Morsand (you guessed it!). ![]() ![]() ![]() The third novel, That Hideous Strength, develops the theme of nihilistic science threatening traditional human values, embodied in Arthurian legend.Ĭlive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic and lay theologian. The story can be seen as an account of what might have happened if the terrestrial Adam had defeated the serpent and avoided the Fall of Man, with Ransom intervening in the novel to "ransom" the new Adam and Eve from the deceptions of the enemy. ![]() The second novel, Perelandra, depicts a new Garden of Eden on the planet Venus, a new Adam and Eve, and a new "serpent figure" to tempt Eve. Lewis's main character Elwin Ransom is based in part on Tolkien, a fact to which Tolkien alludes in his letters. Lewis Date: Catalog ID: 253 Publisher: Pan Books Price: Pages. The first book, Out of the Silent Planet, was apparently written following a conversation with his friend J.R.R. Publication: Voyage to Venus (Perelandra)Publication Record 87800 Author: C. ![]() The "Space Trilogy" dealt with what Lewis saw as the dehumanizing trends in contemporary science fiction. See: Perelandra (Voyage to Venus) Perelandra (Voyage to Venus) (1943) This. This carefully crafted ebook: "THE SPACE TRILOGY – Complete Collection: Out of the Silent Planet + Perelandra (Voyage to Venus) + That Hideous Strength" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. ![]() ![]() Accolades include NBC’s Pride 50 list of influential change-makers in the LGBTQ community, HuffPo’s Culture Shifters, and Business Insider’s Doers. They also have revered interviews on podcasts like Glennon Doyle’s We Can Do Hard Things and The Man Enough Podcast. we live in a world that constantly shames us for the ways we have come to survive, for our coping strategies, for the ways we have been bruised. On screen, they will next appear in the Netflix feature film ABSOLUTE DOMINION and can also be seen in the Netflix docu-series Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, HBO’s late-night sketch series Random Acts of Flyness and the documentary The Trans List. We are as complex as all of the things that have been done to us. They are the author of Beyond the Gender Binary (2020) which has been described as a “clarion call for a new approach to gender in the 21st century” and the poetry books Femme in Public (2017) and Your Wound / My Garden (2021). Transfeminine writer, performer, and public speaker Alok Vaid-Menon uses these pages to meditate on anti-trans violence and imagine a world that celebrates femininity instead of forcing people to destroy that part of themselves in order to survive. They headlined the New York Comedy Festival in 2021, recently headlined the Just for Laughs Festival in Vancouver in May 2022, and will have a sold-out run at the Soho Theatre in London in July 2022. ![]() ![]() ![]() ALOK (they/them) is an internationally acclaimed writer, comedian, poet, and public speaker whose work explores themes of trauma, belonging, and the human condition. ![]() ![]() ![]() Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past. ![]() Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell Hardcover, 320 pages purchase Not surprisingly, in the wake of the MeToo movement, there has been a spate of new novels exploring the long term damage. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher.Ģ017. ![]() Exploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet naïve teenage girl and her magnetic and manipulative teacher, a brilliant, all-consuming read that marks the explosive debut of an extraordinary new writer.Ģ000. ![]() ![]() ![]() The characters are universally terrible people and not overly developed, but the focus of this one is on the action and the creature hunting them. And despite being published 36 years ago and reeking of 80’s sexism and misogyny, I had a lot of fun with this one. I picked this one up because I read comparisons to John Carpenter’s The Thing, which is my absolute favorite film. With no way to call for help or escape, they have to figure out what is hunting them and how to kill it. Soon, the six drug smugglers find that they are not alone and are being hunted by something, not human. ![]() Also, the rig isn’t decked out like an oil drilling equipment but scientific research equipment instead. They find the platform deserted with only piles of clothes as evidence of the former inhabitants. Initially published in 1983, Slimer is the story of six drug smugglers stranded on an oil rig after their boat sinks. BOOK REVIEW: Matt Reviews SLIMER by Harry Adam Knight and CHOP SHOP by Andrew Post ![]() ![]() There was a sizable white Russian population in Shanghai who had escaped the Bolshevik Revolution. Given Gong’s story takes place earlier, it also intersects with pivotal events in Chinese history. Though Fists of Fury is set in the next decade, it shares many of the same themes as These Violent Delights: foreign colonizers imposing their will on the Chinese in China, and the impact on the national psyche. ![]() Chen Zhen returns to 1930’s Shanghai from abroad, and immediately goes to fight the Japanese martial arts school that killed his master. Her badassery makes her more like Chen Zhen, Bruce Lee’s character in Fists of Fury. She’s tough and clever, so unlike her insipid Capulet namesake. Had the story taken place then, the comparison to Shakespeare’s work might be warranted. Before she left Shanghai, the two had shared a forbidden teenage romance. ![]() Her Romeo is Roma Montagov, son of the White Flowers’ leader. With underlying themes of immigration and colonization, it’s more akin to West Side Story.ĭaughter of the head of the Scarlet Gang, Juliet Cai, has just returned to Roaring ‘20s Shanghai after a betrayal four years prior sent her to the New York. Instead of rival merchant families, the story revolves around two warring criminal enterprises: the Chinese Scarlet Gang, and the Russian White Flowers. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() A young girl, Mina, has wandered into the forest, basket in hand, in search of mushrooms what she has discovered is a group of young men, aspiring Bolsheviks, full of anti-tsarist fury and a passion for change. What lies beneath the journey of members of the Mendel family from Latvia to Liverpool over a century ago is unclear or, at least, determined by multiple overlapping factors. Her characters are, as ever, mobile not only in a geographical sense, but in the way that their desires and motivations shift and adapt, influenced by memories of the past and intimations of the future. ![]() Linda Grant’s ninth novel continues her exploration of how chance, contingency and unintended consequences intersect with history’s larger movements how personal narratives are shaped not merely by what we think of as inescapable forces and events, but by moments of randomness and whimsy. Like seeds on the wind, some will make it to fertile ground and others will find themselves in inhospitable terrain, or buffeted here and there by unpredictable currents, some destructive, some surprisingly helpful. A grain merchant’s family uproot themselves from their life in Riga and are scattered. ![]() ![]() ![]() 11-18) ' The cover is terribly wrongagainbut Kontis return to the Woodcutter family is still mightily entertaining. Alethea is a student of science fiction greats Andre Norton and Orson Scott Card. HERO by Alethea Kontis 'Whether Kontis tells the tales of other Woodcutter children or not, readers will await her next with joyful anticipation. Our critic Alethea Kontis recommends three. ![]() AGES: 12 up AUTHOR: Alethea Kontis is the author of two picture books and many short stories, as well as 'Enchanted', the acclaimed previous book about Saturday and her sisters. These 3 Fantasy Novels Will Help You Be The Hero Of Your Own Story J Sometimes books can be a literal escape, not just a figurative one. Is Saturday powerful enough to kill the mountain witch who holds her captive and save the world from sure destruction? And, as she wonders grumpily, "Did romance have to be part of the adventure?" As in 'Enchanted', readers will revel in the fragments of fairy tales that embellish this action-packed story of adventure and, yes, romance. ![]() With her sword in tow, Saturday sets sail on a pirate ship, only to find herself kidnapped and whisked off to the top of the world. The story revolves around a young woman named. ![]() The book is a blend of various genres, including fantasy, adventure, and romance. Rough-and-tumble Saturday Woodcutter thinks she's the only one of her sisters without any magic?until the day she accidentally conjures an ocean in the backyard. /rebates/2fHero-Alethea-Kontis2fbook2f24554612&. 'Hero' is a novel written by Alethea Kontis, published in 2013. ![]() |