The magic system is fun and I was quite dazzled at first – giving me strong vibes from The Belles and Four Dead Queens. I liked Amora, I thought she was the right combination of strong, spunky, and determined … her headstrong, inability to listen did become a bit grating as she continued to speak down to everyone, but I guess she is a queen so that is to be expected? Were there interesting side characters? For the most part. Let’s Talk Maybe It’s Me, Maybe It’s You:ĭid it have a likeable, strong heroine? Yes. But somewhere in the middle I really stalled out and it took me well over a week to finish this 300-odd page book. Like I said, the beginning had me hooked with the unique, glittering magical system, the excellent display of inclusivity, intriguing premise, and just the promise of some fun, pirate-y adventures. I’ll start out by mentioning this because after sitting on this review for over a week I still cannot decide if it was outside influences preventing me from fully sinking my teeth into the story or if the story itself bored me a little and I never wanted to sit down and … sink my teeth into it. For whatever reason – the world right now, me, the book itself … the world right now, I really struggled to finish All The Stars And Teeth, after the beginning really captivated me.
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The following is excerpted from Jeff VanderMeer’s Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded): The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction and first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter- sign up here.īears figured prominently in our own household when my stepdaughter was growing up, invoked through the trickster aspect of our relationship. 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Hell no, we are dropped into the action and it is freakin’ legit.ĭefiance is a story that is told in dual perspectives. You see there is not a 50 page introduction of the world Redwine has built, how it works with a this is going on because of X and which is why Z is the way that it is. If you don’t like hitting the ground running or being dauntless with your reading choices, chances are you will probably not be into Defiance. A Place for Everything rewards us with a fresh take on our quest to stockpile knowledge. With abundant inquisitiveness and wry humor, historian Judith Flanders traces the triumph of alphabetical order and offers a compendium of Western knowledge, from A to Z.įascinating. And yet, while the order of the alphabet now rules - libraries, phone books, reference books, even the order of entry for the teams at the Olympic Games - it has remained curiously invisible. 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Most led two professional lives, one working in comics and the other outside of the medium.Īfter discussing his book, we turn to the subject of his life long passion, comic books. Ken Quattro (Author of Invisible Men) Discover new books on Goodreads See if your friends have read any of Ken Quattros books Join Goodreads Ken Quattro’s Followers (3) Ken Quattro edit data Combine Editions Ken Quattro’s books Average rating: 4. We learn how some of these artists denied their heritage, while others embraced it. "One thing they shared was for too long they lingered, out of mine and out of sight of their light-skinned peers, evading the scrutiny of historians and the eyes that looked past them, to everyone who saw only their skin color and then saw nothing more. Researched over two decades using original source materials, including official documents, contemporaneous newspaper articles and comics, Ken examines the lives of black men who worked in comic art shops during the Golden Age of Comics. Ken discusses his recent published work Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books. In honor of Black History Month, Creator Talks is joined by Ken Quattro, long-time comic book reader, collector and writer of history. Hear the riveting stories of Black artists who drew-mostly covertly behind the scenes-superhero, horror, and romance comics in the early years of the. It is a testament to Dostoevsky’s genius that despite knowing who committed the murder and the motivations behind it, the stakes are still high enough to keep the reader interested. 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