IGN Comics: Any amusing stories you can relate to the fans about the development of this story? Pak: I was totally fixated on Morbius the Living Vampire for a while, and really, really, really wanted to work him into the story. It's been an insane amount of fun to work on such a long-term project, to have the chance to seed elements over a year ago that are paying off now in such a critical way for our hero. This is an epic tale that began with page one of "Planet Hulk" over a year ago. First off, how did these two projects get started? Were Planet Hulk and World War Hulk pitched as one unit? Greg Pak: What goes up must come down, so from the first day that Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada told me about "Planet Hulk," we knew it would lead to the smashfest that became "World War Hulk." IGN Comics: As you wrote Planet Hulk, and as the Marvel Universe changed during his exile, were there any elements of World War Hulk that changed significantly? Pak: Certain details changed during the course of story development, but the great thing was that we always remained true to the emotional and thematic core of the storyline. IGN Comics: Jumping from a year-long epic Hulk story to something like World War Hulk must be quite the experience.
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It’s okay to wear the scars of experience. There is the reassurance of, “It’s Okay”, in which Haig writes, “It’s okay to be broken. Incorporating a diverse array of sources from across the world, history, science, and his own experiences, Haig writes “this book is as messy as life” and reminds us to slow down and appreciate the beauty and unpredictability of existence. In The Comfort Book, which I discovered while doing a deep dive into his works after I read The New York Times bestselling worldwide phenomenon The Midnight Library, Haig shares a collection of notes, lists, and stories that serve as a gentle reminder that things are not always as dark as they may seem. The English novelist and journalist has been refreshingly and unflinchingly candid about his struggles with anxiety and depression, which saw him at the age of 24 years old almost walking off a cliff in Ibiza. Especially if books bring you comfort like they do me. With Blue Monday – otherwise touted as the gloomiest day of the year – quickly approaching, I highly recommend picking up a copy of Matt Haig’s The Comfort Book. Despite the adage about them never hurting you, words can also make all the difference whether they are the ones you read, the ones you share, or the ones that play in a loop in your head. They can inspire, divide, and offer hope. 93 Bestselling Author Matt Haig Delivers Another Must-Read That Will Leave you Feeling All the Human Feelings Rosie has generous, loving, supportive friends, a miserable job, a disinterested husband, and money in the bank to make her dreams come true. The group even fundraised a portion of the money needed for Rosie to start her own restaurant Rosie just lacks the confidence to ‘go for it.’ So she spends her days at a job she hates, dressed in heels that make her miserable, and returns home every evening to a silent, stoic husband who only pays attention to her on Tuesdays, when they have incredible sex. She’s a brilliant cook, and dreams of opening her own restaurant one day – and her friends and the Just Us League (the women’s empowerment group started in Fix Her Up) never stop reminding her how talented she is. Rosie works as a perfume salesperson at a big box store and she hates it. This one is a mess, with none of the quirky, sexy fun of the previous book. Because of it, I had super high hopes for Love Her or Lose Her, but I should have known better based on my track record with Bailey. Reader, it featured a children’s party planner who liked dressing as a clown (I mean, come on!) and I loved it. I never know how I’m going to feel at the end of one of her novels. That was a pleasant surprise since my relationship with Tessa Bailey is hit or (mostly) miss. I loved Fix Her Up, book one in the Hot and Hammered series. A special mention for the reader, Christopher Hurt, who does an excellent job with his voice work.Ĭontemporary review not based on fond memories! But all works are products of their times, and this one fine story for those who choose to listen. Heinlein's attitudes towards homosexuality would change over the next couple of decades the book's views on that and on drug use are stuck in the 1960's. Could the religion described in the book actually exist? There now is a real Church of All Worlds clearly, their members think so. But the ideas remain, and they're still thought-provoking. We live in the world that this book helped to make it's hard to be shocked by it anymore. Now we've had communes and religions that were formed based on the ideas in this book. In the post-Watergate, post-Pill, post-Sun-Myung-Moon era, it's hard for some folks to see the stunning impact the book had. I don't say this novel was solely responsible for changing the world, but it was part of the spark that began that change. SIASL was written before the sexual revolution began, before cynicism about our government was popular, when mainstream religious thought was considered above criticism. Will you find this book boring? You may if: you expect all science fiction to be about action, aliens, spaceships, violence, and bizarre sex if you don't have the patience to listen to a conversation about ideas if you don't know what the American world-view was like when the book was written. Love and Rockets collects most of the shorter stories from MM to DF.18, 2000īritish editions: There are three '80s British editions of Jaime's stories: HS Hernandez Satyricon, collected L&R vol. All-JaimeĬQ Chester Square, collected L&R vol. All-JaimeįC Flies on the Ceiling, collected L&R vol. 5ĭS The Death of Speedy, collected L&R vol. RW House of Raging Women, collected Love & Rockets vol. Only Jaime stuff is title story + A date with Hopey. MP Las Mujeres Perdidas, collected L&R vol. 2.Ĭollects issues #3, #4 + one story from Bonanza. 1.Ĭollects issues #1, #2 + one story from Bonanza CB Chelo's Burden, collected L&R vol. MM Music for Mechanics collected Love & Rockets vol. LW The Lost Women and Other Stories, all-Jaime digest, 1988 Lo Locas: The Maggie & Hopey Stories, coffee table book, 2004īooks LR Love & Rockets, all-Jaime digest-size book, 1987 MHCS Maggie and Hopey Color Special #1 comic, 1997 WN#n Whoa, Nellie! limited series comic issue n, 1996 Sources: Magazines #n Love & Rockets comic issue n, 1982 - 1996 Jaime Hernandez chronology 1 The Jaime Hernandez ChronologyĬorrections, quibbles, and other correspondence welcome. In Part 2 the war has started and we follow Robbie during the Dunkirk retreat in 1940. It wasn’t at all what I expected from this critically acclaimed novel. But after a while, I started to – dare I say it – get a bit bored with this privileged family and their squabbles taking place in a typical Jane Austen setting. At first, I enjoyed getting to know the characters, getting a peek into their thoughts, seeing situations from different points of view, exploring different interpretations. Whilst rather annoying, she feels 100% authentic and I had no problems imagining her in real life. Especially 13-year old Briony stands out. There is no doubt Ian McEwan is a good writer and his character portrayals are exceedingly well done. We are introduced to the family and their guests and Briony commits the action, which will haunt her for the rest of her life. The first part of the novel takes place at the Tallis family’s mansion in Surrey over a few days during the summer of 1935. Briony’s imagination leads her to create her own narrative, which has life-changing consequences for her sister Cecilia and Robbie, the gardener’s son. The consequences are a lot more serious in Atonement though. Like Catherine in Northanger Abbey, Briony Tallis is a young girl with an overactive imagination. It sets the scene for the first part of the book. Atonement starts with an epigraph, quoting from Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. Suddenly Bren, the maker of dictionaries, must stand in the gap between the species-and negotiate with powers who consider assassination a perfectly acceptable legal recourse. More than half of the atevi see it as evidence of a centuries-long human plot to betray and exterminate the atevi. Half of the human population sees this as their chance to return to power. But when the long-lost Phoenix returns after two centuries of silence, the fragile peace maintained by Bren's predecessors is shattered. It is an unglamorous and steady job: signing off on cargo shipments, perhaps writing a dictionary entry or two. For peace to exist on the planet, the two races must be strictly segregated.īren Cameron is the paidhi, the sole translator between the atevi mainland and the surviving human contingent on the island of Mospheira. Humans and atevi are incompatible: That is the message everyone learned from the War of the Landing, when human refugees from the spaceship Phoenix tried to settle on atevi lands. Anthony) 6-1, 6-2 (3) Aidan Creech/Harris Romero (fourth place) def. Oliver Lee/Noah Thompson (Teutopolis) 7-6(5), 1-6, 10-6, lost to Evan Mossman/Adam Rudibaugh (St. Preston Siner/Evan Pryor (Effingham) 3-6, 6-4, 10-4, def. Paris results - (1) Marcus Mitchell/Robert Wells lost to Ben Street/Isaac Street (Newton) 6-2, 6-1, lost to Eli Rosborough/Aiden Elder (Robinson) 8-5 (2) Hudson David/Drake Bartos (second place) def. 2 doubles team of Hudson David and Drake Bartos took second place. Anthony won with 15 points, followed by Teutopolis with 14, Newton 10, Olney 9, Paris and Robinson 8, and Effingham 1. Anthony and three other teams in the Robinson Doubles Tournament on Saturday.Įffingham St. Paris takes fifth - At Robinson, Ill., the Paris boys tennis team finished behind victorious Effingham St. Jaclyn Campbell/Miley Catt (VR), 6-0, 6-1 Ella King/Izzie Jenkins (S) def. Mary Halter (VR), 6-0, 6-0.ĭoubles - Sarah Francis/Maggie McCammon (S) def. Laney Oakes (VR), 6-0, 6-0 Ally McKinney (S) def. Kenadee Frey (VR), 6-1, 6-0 Paige Chickadaunce (S) def. 1 singles Saturday and her teammates followed suit. * Sullivan 5, Vincennes Rivet 0 - At Sullivan, Hanna Burkhart picked up a victory in No. Sullivan (17-1) hosts Owen Valley on Tueaday. Next - Terre Haute South (12-7) plays Thursday at Brownsburg. This book is for you if… you enjoy young adult fantasy with a lot of bitter-sweet romance, a cute male main character and a strong lead heroine. These authors are just blindly typing smiling away like idiots - plot holes where? I don’t see any plot holes. I feel like I wasted my time.Īlso this review is for the whole never never series but it’s not really a series it’s basically one book that they split into 3 parts for who knows what reason and still managed to be unfinished. Everything was mediocre, the writing, the characters even the plot the only reason I kept reading was because I was waiting for the punch line ok you got me why did they lose their memories? But the entire book is the same thing over and over again idk who I am and then the book ends and there’s no explanation of why any of it even happened? What was the FREAKING point?!?!? Colleen, Tarryn listen- I just wanna talk: □♀️ I feel like I must have missed something but idk what lmao. Ummm? Is this an actual joke? How did I FINISH the book and still have no idea what happened? Why it happened? Like how do you write a mystery book or whatever this book is supposed to be but my point is nothing about this book was that great. I didn't expect the same level of anger and heartbreak as Naila's situation went from not-so-great to down right horrifying. It reminds me of how I felt while reading Little Peach, except I knew going into that one was going to be hard. I'm not sure what I expected from Written in the Stars, but it definitely wasn't what I received. Naila's story of a forced, arranged marriage both shocked and horrified me to the point where I had to put the book down several times. Our lives are lived for the sake of others. But Naila’s vacation turns into a nightmare when she learns that plans have changed-her parents have found her a husband and they want her to marry him, now! Despite her greatest efforts, Naila is aghast to find herself cut off from everything and everyone she once knew. Convinced she has forgotten who she truly is, they travel to Pakistan to visit relatives and explore their roots. When Naila breaks their rule by falling in love with Saif, her parents are livid. And until then, dating-even friendship with a boy-is forbidden. Following their cultural tradition, they will plan an arranged marriage for her. Naila’s conservative immigrant parents have always said the same thing: She may choose what to study, how to wear her hair, and what to be when she grows up-but they will choose her husband. Has Naila’s fate been written in the stars? Or can she still make her own destiny? This heart-wrenching novel explores what it is like to be thrust into an unwanted marriage. |