![]() The monster in the basement is alive and well in Dávila’s “Oscar,” but it’s the details of the pharmacies and doctors that make this story resonate with modern readers, eliciting fears of madness that cannot be conquered by contemporary medicine. He had been shouting for hours, howling, ranting, breaking everything within reach in the cellar, furiously shaking the padlocked iron door, throwing the furniture against it. ![]() ![]() One of the medicines he took, which calmed him down quite a bit, had run out at the pharmacy, and the doctor had substituted another that had little effect on him. On that day, the sixth of August, Oscar had been unbearable since sunrise. Dávila, whose stories feel both timeless and timely, accomplishes this distress by blending well-known horror tropes with real-world details. ![]() The Houseguest by Amparo Dávila, translated by Audrey Harris & Matthew Gleeson, is a collection of stories so haunting and so tinged with the surreal that it reminds the reader of the pleasure of being scared. ![]()
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![]() Told in a voice that brims with wit, rage, tenderness, and fierce yearning, The House of Impossible Beauties is a tragic story of love, family, and the dynamism of the human spirit. ![]() All are ambitious, resilient and determined to control their own fates, even as they hurtle toward devastating consequences. ![]() The Xtravaganzas must learn to navigate sex work, addiction and persistent abuse, leaning on each other as bulwarks against a world that resists them. ![]() Into the house come Venus, a whip-smart trans girl who dreams of finding a rich man to take care of her Juanito, a quiet boy who loves fabrics and design and Daniel, a butch queen who accidentally saves Venus' life. When she falls in love with Hector, a beautiful young man who dreams of becoming a professional dancer, the two decide to form the House of Xtravaganza, the first-ever all-Latino house in the ballroom circuit. Burned by her traumatic past, Angel is new to the drag world, and has a yearning to help create a family for those without. It's 1980 in New York City, and nowhere is the city's glamour and energy better reflected than in the burgeoning Harlem ballroom scene, where seventeen-year-old Angel first comes into her own. A gritty and gorgeous debut inspired by the real House of Xtravaganza made famous by the seminal documentary Paris Is Burning. ![]() ![]() ![]() And the grand prize Miles gets for that is…īut what begins as a long boring day of in-school suspension is interrupted by a little bzzz in his mind. Oh! Except, just yesterday, he used his spidey superpowers to save the world (no biggie) from an evil mastermind called The Warden. He has unexpectedly become totally obsessed with poetry and can never seem to do much more than babble around his crush. ![]() Miles Morales is still just your average teenager. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes the high-flying sequel to his groundbreaking young adult novel Miles Morales: Spider-Man about the adventures of the unassuming, everyday kid who just so happens to be Spider-Man. ![]() ![]() ![]() Definite major trigger warning for suicidal thoughts and nihilism. From Mara’s perspective and from Retribution we learned a lot about him, but his thought processes and pessimism and mental illness in this book were so apparent that it was almost painful to read at times. Noah’s inner turmoil is so shocking to read about, though. Where was book 2 Noah Shaw with the sass and declarations of love and a will to live? It’s just so strange to see him suddenly suffering because it's SUCH a random downgrade from where he was in earlier books? A lighthearted break from his constant clouded thoughts. ![]() Noah’s perspective could be so bland and so inundated with pessimism that it was a hassle after a while. Mara is such an interesting, morally ambiguous character. And if it is, it definitely wasn’t meant for Noah. I just can’t get over my feeling that I don’t think this continuation is necessary. From subway rides to top floor apartments to just the busy atmosphere, it was everything I wanted it to be. And there were things I liked about it like the setting in New York City. i majorly hyped myself up for this because it was revisiting characters i havent seen since i was 16 and redelving into their world and conflicts. Honestly just love yourself and pretend that mara dyer was a duology. Major TW: suicide, depression, self-harm (seriously, do NOT read this book if suicide attempts & discussion thereof makes you uncomfortable) ![]() ![]() The story continues in audiobook two, Shadow of Night, and concludes with The Book of Life. Harkness has created a universe to rival those of Anne Rice, Diana Gabaldon, and Elizabeth Kostova, and she adds a scholar’s depth to this riveting tale of magic and suspense. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. A Discovery of Witches Audiobook Deborah Harkness Download. It follows the history of science professor Diana Bishop. It was the debut novel of the author and is the introduction to the All Souls Series. In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford’s Bodleian Library. A Discovery of Witches is a historical fantasy, romance, vampire, witchcraft, alchemy, and contemporary fantasy book written by Deborah Harkness. ![]() ![]() Now ’ hot show that’s like Twilight meets Outlander ( Thrillist) streaming on Sundance Now and Shudder and coming to television this April on AMC and BBC America.ĭeborah Harkness’ sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, has brought her into the spotlight and galvanized fans around the world. ![]() Audiobook one of the New York Times best-selling All Souls Trilogy – “a wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with all the magic of Harry Potter and Twilight’ ( People). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The result is both a riveting story and a moving tribute to the power of art in the face of the senseless brutality of history.Īs you can see, unlike Dark and 1899, Tyll likely won’t allow for mysteries and sci-fi elements, but this rather will be a more or less normal period drama, unless the creators put a twist on it.Īs of January 2023, Netflix’s Tyll has no cast members, but we should probably expect to see some familiar faces from Dark and 1899.Īs stated above, it’s disputed whether Tyll is even in development let alone active development anymore.Īs a result, the production status for Tyll is unclear. As a juggler and a jester, Tyll forges his own path through a world devastated by the Thirty Years’ War, evading witch-hunters, escaping a collapsed mine outside a besieged city, and entertaining the exiled King and Queen of Bohemia along the way. After Tyll flees with the baker’s daughter, he falls in with a traveling performer who teaches him his trade. Tyll is a scrawny boy growing up in a quiet village until his father, a miller with a forbidden interest in alchemy and magic, is found out by the church. The series is an adaptation of Daniel Kehlmann’s 2017 novel of the same name. ![]() ![]() It will take us back to the time of the Thirty Years’ War, in which Tyll encounters the stories of smallfolk and important people while fleeing with the baker’s daughter Nele. ![]() ![]() ![]() When they combined their efforts, the Eloise we know emerged. ![]() Hilary Knight was a young illustrator just getting started in books and theater posters in New York when a mutual friend introduced him to Thompson, whose “Eloise” character had become a staple of her song-and-patter nightclub act in the early 1950s. She was also a behind-the-scenes force for years as a voice coach (for Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra, among others) and vocal music arranger in Hollywood. ![]() Thompson (1909–1998) was a musician, singer, and comedian, most widely remembered for her brassy, bossy turn as a magazine editor in the film Funny Face (“ Think Pink!”). Collection of Hilary Knight/©Kay ThompsonĮloise, the children’s literature star-she of the Plaza, Paris, and Moscow-was born of Kay Thompson, not otherwise an author. ![]() ![]() ![]() I would guess that a cautious scholar like Pytheas would have a pretty good idea, from unrecorded travellers’ yarns, what he was going to find!Īnd so I feel justified in letting Harald Sigurdson anticipate Naddodd by a mere fifty-two years. For instance, we don’t really know when the early Mediterranean travellers first ‘discovered’ Britain – though recorded history tells us that the Greek astronomer Pytheas came here in the fourth century BC. Here I should halt a moment to say that recorded history tells us that Iceland was discovered by one Naddodd in AD 867, and Greenland in AD 985, by Eric Röde who was flying from Norway to escape a charge of manslaughter.īut I have a theory that recorded history, especially of the early voyages, often lags behind actual history. In this book he is a prosperous farmer, with a family of his own, who sails out from Norway on a voyage of revenge and, almost by accident, reaches Iceland and later the southern tip of Greenland, before setting off again, in Long Snake, to even stranger places … ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, in Viking’s Sunset, Harald is a mature man and the date is AD 815. In Viking’s Dawn, he was a lad of fifteen, voyaging in the longship Nameless to the Hebrides in The Road to Miklagard, he and the giant Grummoch made the long journey down to Constantinople (now known as Istanbul) to join the Palace Guard there. This is the third and last book about Harald Sigurdson. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The connection between beliefs and methods is strong I feel as if few scientists would argue against that. Futhermore, these a priori assumptions guide scientists in choosing which variables to measure, which theories to test, which statistical methods to employ, and more. I believe many scientists have recognized the confirmation bias that exists in their specific field of research it is no secret that scientists’ pre-existing views about the field they study do guide their collection of data and interpretation of their results. The intent of The Mismeasure of Man was to demonstrate how these prejudiced and racist scientists’ pre-existing beliefs prevented them from conducting impartial studies and justly interpreting results, and I believe he did just that. I would like to start off by saying I give author Stephen Jay Gould major props for calling out the work of some of the most highly regarded, yet prejudiced and racist scientists, of our time, as so few have done before him. ![]() ![]() ![]() So how did carbon come into being?Ĭlouds of hydrogen and helium gas eventually condensed into the first stars. In the first seconds after the Big Bang, protons and neutrons came into being, but the universe was expanding so fast that the only three elements formed were hydrogen, helium and lithium. We take carbon for granted, but it is miraculous that it exists. ![]() Among more than a hundred different chemical elements, only carbon has the atomic structure, with six electrons surrounding a nucleus with six protons, necessary to serve as the basis for such complex organisms. If the element carbon did not exist, scientists believe the universe would be sterile, no life anywhere. Image: Michael StröckĬarbon is necessary for all life. Carbon is a versatile element and appears in nature as spheres, tubes, sheets and other configurations. ![]() |
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