![]() Review 2: (spoiler) Completely lame ending. I know I'm going to pick up these books again and read them a second time. I however don't recommend it if you're highly religious (In Chri. I highly recommend this series to anyone that enjoys a good fight. As this book came to the end it became more intense and exciting and the excitement didn't stop till the last few pages. ![]() ![]() This entire series ruined my life for a good week and a half, and I'm totally fine with it. I thought there were more deaths in this book than the others. The ending wasn't all "happily ever after" per say, and that didn't bother me at all. There's a huge battle, constant fighting, war, romance, and most importantly plot twists. Becca wrote an epilogue as well and while reading it I started to realize that I prefer these books over my all time favorite, Harry Potter. ![]() Review 1: I thought this book was a great way to tie up the series. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Only this time, Logan has been seemingly tasked with protecting an endangered Xavier throughout time. The inciting event in X Lives of Wolverine #1 is very much in the vein of Days of Future Past, Age of Ultron, or any of the myriad Wolverine time travel stories that have been written over the years. This one reads like a decompressed storyline from the usual X-Force ongoing, complete with that book’s same creative team, writer Benjamin Percy and artist Joshua Cassara. If this first issue is any indication, it’s going to be the latter. ![]() ![]() Though grand in evocative concept and iconography, however, it remains to be seen if this new Wolverine-centric series will set a brand new course for the X-line, or just be a self-contained time travel romp centered around the X-Men’s safest (at least sales-wise) character. With this structure, one is immediately reminded of the grand genesis of Hickman’s run with House of X/Powers of X. This is a weekly series consisting of two alternating titles that are telling one big story. ![]() As part of this next era’s opening salvo, comes the twin series X Lives/X Deaths of Wolverine, beginning this week with X Lives of Wolverine #1. With the revelatory wrap-up of writer Jonathan Hickman’s run earlier this month in Inferno #4, the line seems to be adjusting accordingly, moving into a next era that so far looks a lot like the previous era but just more. By Benjamin Morin - It’s a time of change for the X-line. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her book, Sweetening the Pill, is about how women got hooked on hormonal birth control. However, there are a growing number of women looking for non-hormonal alternatives for preventing pregnancy. Holly Grigg-Spall is a British born, Los Angeles based writer. ![]() ![]() When the Pill was released, it was thought that women would not submit to taking a medication each day when they were not sick. Sweetening the Pill is exactly the thing needed to energize and mobilize this important women's health conversation." Laura Eldridge, author of In Our Control: The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women Millions of healthy women take a powerful medication every day from their mid-teens to menopause - the Pill - but few know how this drug works or the potential side effects.Ĭontrary to cultural myth, the birth-control pill impacts on every organ and function of the body, and yet most women do not even think of it as a drug.ĭepression, anxiety, paranoia, rage, panic attacks - just a few of the effects of the Pill on half of the over 80% of women who pop these tablets during their lifetimes. Read the book and get inspired, get angry, and most importantly get information. "Holly Grigg-Spall is fearless, and her courageous advocacy on behalf of women whose stories are too often silenced is a model for others trying to make positive change through health activism. /rebates/2f97817809960732fSweetening-Pill-Got-Hooked-Hormonal-17809960712fplp&. : Sweetening the Pill: or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control (9781780996073) by Holly Grigg-Spall and a great selection of similar New. ![]() ![]() This collection also includes Gaiman’s original proposal for The Sandman characters and stories, some early artwork and character sketches, and the original script and sketches for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, the only comic book to ever win the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction. The first twenty issues also correspond to the first three previously-published trade paperbacks: Preludes & Nocturnes, The Doll’s House, and Dream Country. Summary: The first volume of the Absolute Sandman compilations includes the first twenty issues of the Sandman comics, enlarged and re-colored, in a beautiful (if huge and heavy) faux-leather-bound tome, complete with built-in silk ribbon for page-marking. Length: 612 pages (and too heavy to hold!) 1 by Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith, Mike Dringenberg, Chris Bachalo, Michael Zulli, Kelley Jones, Charles Vess, Colleen Doran, Malcolm Jones III, Steve Parkhouse, Daniel Vonzo, Zylonol, Steve Oliff, Todd Klein, John Costanza, Dave McKean (2006 – collection 1988-1990 – original comics) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout the play, Medea is jealousy incarnate. Medea is a striking example of how emotions run amok cause havok in society, and spoke especially loudly to the ancient Greeks. They ruled their world with reason, and understood that emotions must be kept in check at all times. This was the way of life for them: compromise and the middle-ground in thoughts, actions, and beliefs. A concept they clung to religiously was a "happy mean:" moderation, homeostasis, balance. The ancient Greeks were fascinated with the human's place in the universe and the perfect civilization. Its message relates to human nature and transcends any one time period. The Greek play Medea is a tragic commentary warning against the horrors of excess in emotion. ![]() The wisest sage says, "All things in moderation." This was the backbone of Greek civilization and philosopy as well: "Nothing in excess." Eurypedes, to illustrate this point, wrote a play in which a woman's rampaging jealousy destroys her and her loved ones. In revenge, she kills their two children, her husband's mistress and, finally, the husband. Medea is the Greek play about a woman driven insane by her husband's infidelity. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was the second of the Italian-Irish pairing of Joe and Florence or “Flossie” dePaola’s eventual four children. Strega Nona, along with a newer dePaola book, “Jack,” will rotate throughout the city’s parks during the summer.ĭePaola’s own story began in 1934 at the Meriden Hospital. In addition to events at the library and city hall, the Kiwanis has placed a Strega Nona “StoryWalk” - a series of large-format panels of the full children’s book in English and Spanish - for those walking through the Meriden Green park in the city’s center. His group has joined the city’s mayor’s office, historical society, city council and public library in Tomie dePaola-related events this month. “We were really raised to have pride in knowing he was from the same place that we are,” said Meriden Kiwanis president Brian Cofrancesco. ![]() The stamp officially launched last week at the Currier Art Museum in Manchester, New Hampshire, but its release provides an opportunity here in Connecticut for his hometown of Meriden to once again honor one of its very favorite sons. ![]() ![]() ![]() If it weren't for the weird Mennonite food, I would like very much to be her friend."-Cynthia Kaplan, author of Why I'm Like This and Leave the Building Quickly, "This book is not just beautiful and intelligent, but also painfully - even wincingly - funny. Janzen has a gift for following her elegant prose with the perfect snarky aside. Because simply put, this is the most delightful memoir I've read in ages."-Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love "This is an intelligent, funny, wonderfully written memoir. I have a list already of about fourteen friends who need to read this book. It is rare that I literally laugh out loud while I'm reading, but Rhoda Janzen's voice - singular, deadpan, sharp-witted and honest - slayed me, with audible results. ![]() "This book is not just beautiful and intelligent, but also painfully - even wincingly - funny. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He believes that it’s important to understand both the potential benefits and risks of mindfulness meditation with respect to trauma. Over the course of his career, he has developed trauma-sensitive mindfulness training. David Treleaven has been studying the intersection of trauma and mindfulness meditation since 2006. Researchers have found that some trauma survivors experience flashbacks, overwhelm, dysregulated emotions, and/or dissociation when practicing mindfulness meditation. One important population to consider is trauma survivors. Depending on a person’s history, some people may experience adverse responses to mindfulness (i.e., increased anxiety, hypervigilance, dissociation). As with any technique, a person-centered approach is necessary. While mindfulness meditation practice may be supportive for one person, it may not be for another. Mindfulness meditation is widely recognized as an effective mental training technique for a variety of mental disorders (i.e., depression, anxiety, and addiction). ![]() ![]() ![]() They need the missing half of Gabriel’s amulet-an ancient artifact with the power to render its bearer invincible in battle.īut the amulet’s guardian-the reclusive and awesomely powerful witch Ledger - has her own agenda. Scattered and demoralized, constantly pursued by the Council’s Hunters, only a bold new strategy can save the rebels from total defeat. The Alliance of Free Witches has been all but destroyed. Half Lost by Sally Green is out now, published by Penguin, £7.99.Ī stunning, magical world. ![]() ![]() I was kindly sent Half Lost by Penguin Random House in exchange for an honest review :) I don't know about you guys, but I am super excited for this last book, and can't wait to see how the story ends. a Q&A with the amazing author of the Half Bad trilogy, Sally Green! I interviewed Sally for the first time in November 2014 (which you can check out here) just after the publication of the first book in the trilogy, Half Bad, so I think it's perfectly fitting that I interview Sally again on the very date of the publication of the last book in the trilogy: Half Lost. Hello readers, and happy Thursday! I have an incredibly exciting blog post for you today. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though it’s his first novel, Thayil is no stranger to the written word (and it shows). ![]() In 2004, he moved back to India and began writing Narcopolis. He continued this pattern as an adult: spending twelve years working as a journalist in Hong Kong, another ten or so years in Bombay, and in 1998 returning to New York to earn his MFA. But it’s about much more than that as well.īorn, like our narrator, in Kerala to a Christian family, Thayil split his time growing up between Hong Kong, Bombay, and New York City. “Bombay,” the book begins, “which obliterated its own history by changing its name and surgically altering its face, is the hero or heroin of this story.” As the title suggests, the book is about drugs and about place. Jeet Thayil’s debut novel, the deftly and aptly titled Narcopolis is-like the polis in which it takes place-part cacophony, part symphony: a whirlwind of drugs, sex, violence, loves, lives, deaths, and more than anything, stories. Narcopolis By Jeet Thayil The Penguin Press Hardcover : 304 pages English Release Date: April 12, 2012 ![]() |