![]() ![]() ![]() These elements - plus cats, always cats - exemplify what is best about Poulin's writing. And since then I've read a few more of his books, finding them okay but not as strong as the first, until I got to Autumn Rounds - which I also loved.īut as fellow Poulin enthusiast Charles-Adam Foster-Simard said in a 2013 blog comment, " Autumn Rounds and Volkswagen Blues examples of where his material (beautiful melancholy, deceptively simple writing, quiet romance, love of books) comes together most successfully." I first read Jacques Poulin way back in my university days, when I was introduced to Volkswagen Blues, which I absolutely loved - and lost, and found again, a story I've told before. Translation is a Love Affair / Jacques Poulin translated from the French by Sheila FischmanĮnglish is not a Magic Language / Jacques Poulin translated from the French by Sheila Fischman ![]()
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![]() ![]() Who else is playing this game, and how far will they go to win?Īnd what of the game’s first promise: Win, win big, lose, you die? Dying in a virtual world doesn’t really mean death in real life - does it?Īs Charlie and his friends try to find a way out of the game, they realize they’ve been manipulated into a bigger web they can’t escape: an AI that learned its cruelty from watching us. Shadowy figures start following them, appearing around corners, attacking them in parking garages. Mysterious packages show up at their homes. ![]() Tasks that seemed harmless at first take on deadly consequences. Complete a mission, however cruel, or the game reveals their secrets and crushes their dreams. Fun even.īut then, the threatening messages start. Slaying a hydra and drawing a bloody pentagram as payment to a Greek god seem harmless at first. When they accomplish a mission, the game rewards them with expensive tech, revenge on high-school tormentors, and cash flowing from ATMs. Through their phone screens and high-tech glasses, the teens’ realities blur with a virtual world of creeping vines, smoldering torches, runes, glyphs, gods, and mythical creatures. With those words, Charlie and his friends enter the God Game, a video game run by underground hackers and controlled by a mysterious AI that believes it’s God. ![]() ![]() Win and ALL YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE.™ Lose, you die! ![]() ![]() Copy from the collection of Kenneth M.Copy from the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.Variorum of Leaves of Grass (1855), documenting the manuscript origins of the first edition of Leaves of Grass and highlighting the differences among copies.Copy from the University of Iowa Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives.Permission to reuse any of the page images should be sought from the owner of the physical volume. Written, and Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman discusses these new ![]() In mind, however, that there have been numerous discoveries since these articles were ![]() Several excellent introductory articles from Walt Whitman: AnĮncyclopedia, edited by J. That work is done Ed Folsom's Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman can serve as an introduction to Whitman as both a writer and a producer of books as Textual histories for the various American editions of Leaves of Grass, but until To present additional printings of Leaves of Grass. ![]() Technically speaking, this is not a distinctĮdition but is a reprinting of the 1881-82 edition with "annexes.") As time allows, we plan The so-called deathbed edition of 1891-92. Editions of Leaves of Grass published in Whitman's lifetime. ![]() ![]() He did not understand how useful those whiskers were to Lord Hugh, both in sport and in the more serious business of getting a living. To Maurice, scissors in hand, alive and earnest to snip, it seemed the most natural thing in the world to shorten the stiff whiskers of Lord Hugh Cecil by a generous inch. ![]() Yet it is difficult for an outsider to see these things from the point of view of both the persons concerned. And if you had a tail, surely it would be solely your own affair that any one should tie a tin can to it would strike you as an unwarrantable impertinence-to say the least. If you have a nice fur coat like a company promoter’s, it is most annoying to be made to swim in it. But round wooden shoes, shaped like bowls, are not comfortable wear, however much it may amuse the onlooker to see you try to walk in them. To have your hair cut is not painful, nor does it hurt to have your whiskers trimmed. ![]() ‘THE TREASURE SEEKERS,’ ‘THE WONDERFUL GARDEN,’ He scrambled out of the cupboard, and the boots and goloshes fell off him like spray off a bather.- P. 24. Produced by Suzanne Shell, David Wilson and the Online *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MAGIC WORLD *** With this eBook or online at Title: The Magic World ![]() Re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withĪlmost no restrictions whatsoever. ![]() The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Magic World, by Edith Nesbit ![]() ![]() ![]() When it was released in 1900, with bright and colourful illustrations by William Wallace Denslow, the book became a publishing triumph and Baum went on to write a further 13 stories set in the Land of Oz. Once having finished, he is said to have framed the pencil stub he had used to write the story, recognizing that it had been involved in creating something great. When he was 40 he decided to turn his hand to writing whimsical children’s fiction, and in the spring of 1898 the story of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz started to take shape. He started a number of different professions and businesses, none of which were particularly successful. Lyman Frank Baum was born in 1856 in New York State, and was a self confessed dreamer. Frank Baum is one such author – when he wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the expressions “munchkin’, “there’s no place like home” and “follow the yellow brick road” amongst many others, all entered the English language. Some authors write with such an imaginative flair that their words and phrases end up in general usage. ![]() “Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In early adulthood, Kane aspires to be like his father, Richard Kane, a successful banker. The novel is constructed of vignettes of the experiences of William (who goes mainly by his last name “Kane”) and Abel Rosnovski, who are both born on April 18, 1906. Kane and Abel remains one of the top-selling books in the world and has entered the canon of British literature. ![]() Taking its name from a famous story about two brothers in the Book of Genesis, the novel is acclaimed for its powerful portrayal of the sentiment that human fates can be entangled in each other regardless of familial or class differences. The first, William Lowell Kane, is a member of the Boston elite known as the Brahmin the second, Abel Rosnovski, leaves a life of severe poverty in Poland for Turkey and eventually New York City. British writer and former conservative politician Jeffrey Archer’s historical fiction Kane and Abel (1979) concerns two men linked only by a common birthday, who follow their ambitions to overcome their difficult pasts. ![]() ![]() As her symptoms worsen, she journeys to Germany, where she receives not only therapy but love and acceptance from the most unlikely of places.įadumo Korn weaves together a sensitive understanding of traditional practices with revelations about their disturbing effects. She enters a world of luxury underpinned by political instability and cruelty in a country gearing for rebellion. Fadumo first travels to the bustling city of Mogadishu and the household of a wealthy uncle, brother of the Somali president. The complications brought on by the circumcision provide the impetus to her search for health and her story. ![]() ![]() Selected as a Kirkus Reviews top pick for book clubs, Fadumo Korn’s story describes her brutal circumcision at age seven and her agonizing path to physical and psychological recovery.Īs a feisty nomad, Fadumo freely roamed the wild steppes of her native Somalia until her mother delivered her into the hands of an excisor to undergo female genital cutting (FGC, also known as female genital mutilation or FGM), to be made a woman in the eyes of her tribe. indispensable testament.” Elfriede Jelinek, 2004 Nobel Laureate in Literature ![]() ![]() ![]() At the advice of Marvel editor Mark Peniccia, Cates left the program after a year to pursue writing his own comics. While interning, Cates stole a Diamond Distributors Gem Award awarded to Astonishing X-Men #1. Cates majored in sequential art, but left the school after being accepted into a Marvel internship program. Cates graduated from Garland High School and attended the Savannah College of Art and Design, where he would meet future artistic collaborators Tradd Moore and Geoff Shaw. Raised in Garland, Texas, Cates states that he was taught to read by his father using comic books. Early life ĭonny Cates was born in Dallas, Texas. ![]() ![]() Donny Cates (born September 14, 1984) is an American comic book writer, artist, and podcaster, known for his work on titles like Venom, Thanos, Doctor Strange, Thor, and Hulk. ![]() ![]() One of Bradbury’s best-known suspense stories is 1950’s “The Whole Town’s Sleeping,” about a woman who is stalked by a serial killer called “the Lonely One.” (The story was reportedly inspired by a cat burglar who terrorized Bradbury’s hometown when the author was a young boy.) First appearing in McCall’s and later repurposed as a chapter of Bradbury’s 1957 novel Dandelion Wine, the story made such an impression on Frederic Dannay, one half of the mystery-writing duo known as Ellery Queen, that he asked Bradbury to write a follow-up for the magazine he edited. From a homicidal infant to a man who gleefully dismembers his own adolescent daughter, here are five Bradbury stories that are not for the faint of heart. ![]() Though Ray Bradbury is most often associated with the gentler frights of Something Wicked This Way Comes and The Halloween Tree, his catalog of nearly 600 short stories includes a few entries that could rattle the most jaded horror fan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Will Seth's mortality lose him the one thing he loves above all others? As Niall seeks to control his new Court, Aislinn attempts to resist the seduction of summer, and Seth searches desperately for the gift of immortality, a delicate balance is threatened, and a terrible plot is revealed. But Aislinn is the Summer Queen and Keenan is her king - and as summer approaches, their chemistry sparks. But will Niall's kindness survive his new responsibility to the most violent of Faerie courts? Meanwhile, Seth and Aislinn attempt to mend their relationship. ![]() After the terrible events of Ink Exchange, the Dark Court has a new ruler. ![]() Title In This Set Fragile Eternity Radiant Shadows Ink Exchange Darkest Mercy Wicked Lovely Description Fragile Eternity Mortal affections and faery rivalries continue to collide in the town of Huntsdale, as New York Times bestselling author Melissa Marr takes urban fantasy to new heights. ![]() |