![]() ![]() Getting a laugh these days means more to me than a gripping story. A Kiss for a Kiss (2021) Shacking Up Books In Publication Order No Tricks, Just Treats (By:Tijan) (2017) Eye Candy (With: Tijan,Bella Jewel,J. I mean-I think it is a fantasy for some women out there? Anyway, I listened to the whole thing because I needed a light story, and Hunting’s sense of humor is great-I chuckled out loud quite a bit. ![]() well, you really need to like the whole “sports players’ wives” fantasy along with the idea that all the players want to do is stay monogamous and have 1,000 kids. Because first there was Rook, then Bishop…see? Anyhoo: I liked this story because it features old people (ha ha) in their 40s, but. This is the story of Hannah & Jacob, the parents of Kingston & Queenie (btw, it didn’t occur to me until this book that the characters are all named after chess pieces-for what diabolical strategy, we’ll never know.). The constellation of characters revolve around the Seattle Hockey team, and let’s just say things are getting a little in-bred here. ![]() Well, if you’re listening to this one, you probably listened to the volumes that came before it. ![]()
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![]() I’m sure this is merely personal preference, but at times the imagery in these scenes made me squeamish. This brings me to one of my only criticisms of the book. One of my favorite ways that Sykes does this is her introduction to each chapter, poetically written scenes that force you to see Neanderthals as alive, active, and warm, not long-dead fossils found among rubble. She wants you to be able to picture yourself there with them, knapping a tool from flint, hunting horses, or sleeping around the fire, tucked in furs. ![]() She wants to help you shed your idea of them as wholly other and instead see them as capable, thinking people worthy of our admiration. Sykes does not only want to bestow you with facts about Neanderthal migration or tool-making techniques. What sets Kindred apart from its predecessors is that it is told not through the lens of discoveries, names, and numbers, but of emotionally understanding who Neanderthals were. Published in the fall of 2020, Kindred is the latest in a long line of books about Neanderthals, but anyone who has read Kindred knows that it is not like the others. ![]() If a book can be “hot” in the world of paleoanthropology, then Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art is that book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Few Italians have the true virtuoso spirit. He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine. He had a weak point - this Fortunato - although in other regards he was a man to be respected and even feared. I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation. It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunato cause to doubt my good will. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. ![]() I must not only punish but punish with impunity. At length I would be avenged this was a point definitively settled - but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. ![]() ![]() The writer recently announced that he would be leaving the X-Men for the foreseeable future, though he did tease that he would be involved in a weekly X-Menseries sometime next year. However, with writer Gerry Duggan taking over X-Men in the wake of the Hellfire Gala and Vita Ayala writing New Mutants after X of Swords, Hickman has quietly stepped back from the spotlight. "They're inevitable in a lot of ways."Īfter shaking the X-Men to their core with the release of House of X and Powers of X, Jonathan Hickman helmed X-Men and alternating issues of New Mutants. "The big questions and resulting conflicts I was getting at aren't disappearing from the line - those things are baked in," Hickman said. Ultimately, these ideas were either shifted to the side or integrated elsewhere. ![]() ![]() Both teams were heavily featured throughout Hickman's X-Men run, with the Children of the Vault playing a pivotal role in shaping the new X-Men lineup. Amongst these ideas were potential titles for the Imperial Guard and the Children of the Vault. ![]() Hickman also detailed multiple books that Marvel considered adding to the X-Men line at one time or another. RELATED: The X-Men Are Still Hiding Krakoa's Greatest Secrets from the Avengers ![]() ![]() ![]() Between 20 Cates also wrote stories for IDW Publishing, including an entry in Star Trek: Waypoint and a one-shot, Star Trek: Deviations. Satisfied with these stories, Dark Horse gave Cates the green light for later projects like Buzzkill, The Ghost Fleet with Daniel Warren Johnson and The Paybacks. ![]() It was followed up three issues later with Hunter Quaid: The Only Things We Have to Fear… are Nazis and Creepy Monsters. ![]() Co-written by himself and Eliot Rahal, the title of this story was Hunter Quaid: Armageddon Outta Here. Career Ĭates' first comic work was a short story in Dark Horse Presents vol. ![]() After a chance meeting with a Dark Horse Comics staffer at C2E2, Cates was given the opportunity to write short stories for the company. 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. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, Lea is reserved, Gabe has issues, and despite their initial mutual crush, it looks like they are never going to work things out.īut somehow even when nothing is going on, something is happening between them, and everyone can see it. They get the same pop culture references, order the same Chinese food, and hang out in the same places. Lea and Gabe are in the same creative writing class. The creative writing teacher, the delivery guy, the local Starbucks baristas, his best friend, her roommate, and the squirrel in the park all have one thing in common-they believe that Gabe and Lea should get together. The distinctive new crowdsourced publishing imprint Swoon Reads proudly presents its first published novel-an irresistibly sweet romance between two college students told from 14 different viewpoints. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Seanan McGuire also wrote a short story for the book, " Juice Like Wounds " about how Mockery, Moon, and Lundy battled the Wasp Queen and how Mockery died, made available for free on Tor.com. Alas, everything costs at the goblin market, and when her time there is drawing to a close, she makes the kind of bargain that never plays out well. When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles and lies, she thinks she's found her paradise. This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than become a respectable housewife and live up to the expectations of the world around her. It tells the story of Katherine Lundy, one of the teachers in Every Heart a Doorway, and her adventures in the Goblin Market. In An Absent Dream is the fourth novella in the Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire. ![]() ![]() In some of the same communities featured in her bestselling book Factory Man, the unemployed use painkillers both to numb the pain of joblessness and pay their bills, while privileged teens trade pills in cul-de-sacs, and even high school standouts fall prey to prostitution, jail, and death. ![]() ![]() From the introduction of Ox圜ontin in 1996, Macy investigates the powerful forces that led America's doctors and patients to embrace a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm. ![]() From the labs and marketing departments of big pharma to local doctor's offices wealthy suburbs to distressed small communities in Central Appalachia from distant cities to once-idyllic farm towns the spread of opioid addiction follows a tortuous trajectory that illustrates how this crisis has persisted for so long and become so firmly entrenched.īeginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, Macy sets out to answer a grieving mother's question-why her only son died-and comes away with a gripping, unputdownable story of greed and need. In this extraordinary work, Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of a national drama that has unfolded over two decades. ![]() ![]() ![]() I picked up John Piper’s The Supremacy of God in Preaching for Worchihan, but decided to read it myself (its thinness assured me it wouldn’t be too technical for a non-preacher). The sermons I remember from college were much the same.īut shouldn’t all preaching be centered around the Bible? I’m pretty sure lots of the sermon titles began with “How to,” so the sermons essentially consisted of advice. ![]() Growing up, I heard a lot of 3-point sermons where the missing words on the outline all started with the same letter. When I compare the two, I’m disappointed. Over the last couple of years, I’ve been thinking about preaching, about both the hundreds of sermons I’ve heard throughout my life and about what a sermon ought to be. The only thing I remember him saying about Jesus is that He was a carpenter who died on a tree. ![]() It feels like a comic routine, and I’m waiting for him to get to the message, the message of Jesus coming to earth as part of God’s plan to save humanity from an eternity without Him, you know the one, but he never gets there. I’m at church, and the youth pastor is talking about the time he was in a band. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the first book of the series, Minion (2003), Damali is a rising star on a hip hop label with the enigmatic name Warriors of Light. ![]() That’s until she discovers that she’s a Neteru, a vampire slayer, whose destiny is to defend humanity from creatures most still believe to be mythological fiction. The series revolves around Damali Richards, a young black woman whose main goal in life is to succeed as a musical artist. If you like shows like Supernatural, Grimm, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, and Sleepy Hollow, you would probably love the Vampire Huntress Legend series, and if they made a television show out of it, you’d probably be instantly addicted. This extremely well-written paranormal suspense series combines elements of gritty urban fantasy and paranormal romance with outright, edge-of-your-seat, bloody, gory horror. If someone were to ask me what horror by a black female author was most likely to wind up as a television series, I would say without a doubt, L.A. Bank’s Bad Ass Black Vampire Slayer by Sumiko Saulson ![]() Why television needs Damali Richards, L.A. ![]() |