![]() ![]() Lets get to it.īatman Nightwalker by Marie Lu is the second book in a collaborative series that goes by DC Icons. The next couple of weeks will see some amazing book releases, so I’m excited to see how this reading year will go. As my followers, thank you so much for understand and I promise to produce more content going forward. ![]() If the motion strikes me and I feel like reviewing one of the books I don’t initially plan on reviewing, then so be it. While I have read about 11-12 books since my last blog post, I’m only going to review the few books I’ve read this year (2018). Once I did start reading again, I fell behind on book reviews so here’s the deal. For a while I stopped reading and I had nothing to post. I appreciate all of the views I get everyday and the various likes as well. It’s been several months since I’ve posted and I do apologize. Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Book: Batman Nightwalker (DC Icons series) ![]()
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![]() ![]() Things take an inordinate amount of time to get going, leaving the reader stuck with a bunch of unlikeable teenage characters, reading droning passages about drag racing, petty relationship troubles, and heavy drinking and drugging. I was not impressed overall with this story. Unfortunately, someone spikes the kid's beer, and the night becomes a nightmare. A Haitian immigrant who has been cursed by a voodoo priest graduates from a Canadian high school and is rooked into attending a drunken celebration, where some yokels hope to get him loaded enough to take advantage of the wad of cash he carries around in his wallet. ![]() It's a cautionary tale about racism, the ill effects of debauchery, and revenge. But during the paperback horror boom, he had churned out a trio of scary novels for Leisure between 19. He popped up again in 2015 to publish the novel "Skinned Babies," before again vanishing into obscurity. Canadian author Mason Burgess was getting a bit of a reputation as the "Stephen King of Manitoba" in the mid 1980s before disappearing from public life. ![]() ![]() Rather, it was a question of its supporting too much life, too well. ![]() There was no question of the planet's ability to support life. Even the air had a pale green cast to it, so that looking through it one would seem to be staring through lenses cut from purest peridot. The mountains were green until they blended into green froth only at the heights did lichens battle with creeping ice as on most worlds waves warred with the land. Save for a few pockets of rancid blue, the oceans themselves were green from a surfeit of drifting plant life that nearly strangled the waters. ![]() Oh, it was a green so bright it had its own special niche in the spectrum of the impossible, a green pervasive, an everywhere-all-at-once, omnipotent green. From a soil base so rich it all but lived itself, a verdant magma spilled forth to inundate the land. Rather, on its surface life exploded, erupted, multiplied, and thrived beyond imagining. It lay supine in a sea of sibilant jet, a festering emerald in the universe-ocean. ![]() Midworld Alan Dean Foster Del Rey ISBN: 0-3453-5011-1Ĭhapter One World with no name. ![]() ![]() ![]() As intriguingly ambitious as Forde’s idea is, it suffers somewhat in the extensive telling of Lette’s story of danger and flight, where often the peril results from Lette’s impulsive, believable adolescent impetuousness. Le Guin’s Omelas, and other worlds where safety and security are guaranteed at the price of something intrinsically human. ![]() ![]() This dark experiment with raising feral children seems to offer homage to The Giver, Ursula K. ![]() To that end, she has removed dozens of babies from their families and created a nursery where they will be raised without language. Amelia, the current leader of Ark, regards language as something to be controlled and used only by those in power. Now, long after the world-changing global warming event remembered as the Melting, young Letta, wordsmith of the survivors in her part of the world, is caught up in the resistance against the established order of the surviving organized city, Ark. Wordsmith Letta fights for the future right of people to employ language to tell their own truth.įorde continues the post-apocalyptic adventure begun in The List (2017) with a look at the way that struggles for what is right and who wields power collide in a new world order. ![]() ![]() Video Vu – virtual flights around Wimbledon with BBC Sport.BBC R&D: research priorities Fabric initiative Archive Storage HiFi data capture Data manipulation in software Commodity technology Metadata standards & brokering ‘ IP glass-to-glass’: the modern media network New editorial formats and UIs Managing diversity Network service enablers DVBT-2 YouView Hybrid of IP and broadcast networks Flexible spectrum.Audiences, connected to us and to each other Editorial Social Algorithmic. ![]() BBC Online products – increased partnership.Ten Products - doing fewer things better.Future Media & Technology © 1979 Usborne Books written by Kenneth Gatland and David Jefferis.Future Media & Technology Both © 1979 Usborne Books written by Kenneth Gatland and David Jefferis.Beyond Digital – heading towards the horizon Dr Adrian Woolard, Project Director (North Lab), BBC Research & Development BBC R&D at MediaCity:UK. ![]() ![]() ![]() It had me in its clutches from the moment I opened it and started reading the first page! I was thrilled to see the return of one of my favorite heroines, and Maryrose Wood’s talent at writing is always a pleasure to read. I literally could not stop reading this book. Now Morgan has to save Colin, find a great dress, make her junior prom as awesome as possible (despite the fact that Colin has to leave before that night), and–this one’s really impossible–find a female leprechaun! Every night, the fairies dance the night away with her guy–and she can’t even get him to kiss her! Even worse? It’s Morgan’s fault, for stamping him with her half-goddess seal of approval. Colin has been forced to dance with the faeries every night in his dreams, and he’s exhausted from the lack of sleep, as well as incredibly confused by the cryptic messages he finds in his pockets in the mornings. This is not as perfect and wonderful as it at first sounds. ![]() They’ve exchanged the occasional email, but she hasn’t heard from him for awhile when, rather out-of-the-blue, she gets a message saying that he’s coming to America, and they’ll see each other very soon! In this book, Morgan is back to her normal life, an ocean away from the faeries and her newly discovered identity as the half-goddess Morganne in Ireland–and away from Colin, the guy she fell for on her bike tour of the Emerald Isle last summer. How I Found the Perfect Dress is the equally fantastic sequel to Maryrose Wood‘s Why I Let My Hair Grow Out. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is almost 16 hours, of which maybe 2 hours were actual plot development. “Wild Card” was entirely too long for the plot to have been so poorly developed…the actual story would have been okay, if the author put as much effort into plot as she did into the sex scenes. I enjoy romance and even the occasional erotica novel, but the sex scenes in this book went on FOREVER. I cannot believe this book was written in 2008! It reads like a romance novel from 20 or 30 years ago…I couldn’t stand to hear about this guy’s “tight denim jeans encased in leather chaps” one more time. ![]() “I’m a SEAL”, “I loved my SEAL”, “I’m the wife of a SEAL”, “Irish eyes”, “My Irish”, “Special Ops”, “Special Ops”, “Special Ops”. After about 8 hours of listening I could not stand this book! The author used repetition as if she were getting kickbacks for using certain words, e.g. ![]() ![]() ![]() And the answers lie beyond…the Green Door! Featuring friends and foes both old and new as well as multiple Hulk personas, this horror reinvention of a Marvel icon is like no comic book you have ever read before! Collecting IMMORTAL HULK #1-50 and #0, IMMORTAL HULK: THE BEST DEFENSE, DEFENDERS: THE BEST DEFENSE, ABSOLUTE CARNAGE: IMMORTAL HULK, IMMORTAL SHE-HULK #1, KING IN BLACK: IMMORTAL HULK, GAMMA FLIGHT #1-5 and material from AVENGERS (2018) #684 and IMMORTAL HULK: TIME OF MONSTERS.īy Sean Phillips, Arthur Suydam, Robert Kirkman. Something with unspeakable plans for humanity. ![]() Is he man or monster…or is he both? Find out as Al Ewing and Joe Bennett take Bruce Banner to hell and back in the complete, infernal saga of the Immortal Hulk! Every time Bruce dies, he rises again…as the Hulk! And he is being hunted: by the government, by Alpha Flight, by the mysterious Shadow Base, even by the Avengers! But Bruce has even bigger problems. ![]() ![]() And he took this advice to heart, discovering that God wanted him to be a priest instead of an actor, which led him to study for the priesthood in secret during World War II. ![]() ![]() “Every vocation changes our plans, disclosing a new one, and it is astonishing to see how much inner help God gives us,” he once wrote. He was so open to God’s will - a good lesson for readers, me included. It was touching to read how he was late to say Mass one day because he needed to borrow shoes (as he had given his away on the way to church).Įach story reflected a life of holiness, including how many hours John Paul would spend in prayer. He knew God would protect him and love would prevail. I particularly liked anecdotes about how he would bless the communist spies who would follow him as he attended to his pastoral work as a priest in Poland. Inspiring and insightful, John Paul’s words, through speeches and writings, are interwoven with personal remembrances from those who were blessed to meet and know him. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Hidden Bodies, if a character breathes wrong, he goes off on a tangent about all the different ways he’d like to murder them. In You, he has reasons behind his violent acts - albeit, deluded reasons - but he leads the reader to believe he’s acting out of his own perverse conscience. The only words I could use to describe Joe in Hidden Bodies is straight up homicidal. It’s clear he is a very twisted man who does horrible, irredeemable things, yet there are moments that make him seem a little less terrible which keep you fascinated enough to keep reading. In You, Joe has a unique path of development. I was deeply disappointed with the direction of Joe’s character. This is one of my least favorite books I’ve ever read.ĬW: stalking, violence, murder, substance abuse I don’t think it’s possible for me to be more disappointed. A super unnecessary sequel that lost absolutely everything that made You such a hit. I’m sorry, but this book was not good at all. ![]() |