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Hawkeye collection
"Anchor points" (issues #13-16 and Generations: Hawkeye & Hawkeye #1)
Seems to be a teen woman? Hard to tell.
Armed with bow, sarcasm and cell phone
Therez a storyline that seems to b an incel group where the leader has hypnotic powahs lol
I can't keep up lol


Like Totally,
Inannawhimsey
 
What if Our World is Their Heaven?
The Final Conversations of Phillip K. Dick
edited by Gwen Lee and Doris Elaine Sauter
Foreword by Tim Powers

Two friends of PKD transcriptions of taped PKD conversations. With all the ums and stutters and interruptions included...

Total rapp sessions. To a Dickophile like me (and who doesn't like a little Dick?), this is yummy ambrosia.

Kipple Essence,
Inannawhimsey
 
The Wicked and The Divine: The Faust Act (2015). Clayton Cowles as Letterer, Matthew Wilson as Colourist, Jamie McKelvie as Artist and Kieron Gillen as Writer
Winner of the British Comic Awards "Best Comic"

From the back cover
"Every 90 years 12 g_ds return as young people. They are loved. They are hated. In 2 years, they are all dead. It's happening now. It's happening again."

Reminds me of Warren Ellis and Neil Gaiman schtuff

Cisly Trans,
Inannawhimsey
 
Does the final report bounce off the indeterminate baffles (wallis)? As Eire be a baffling and alien being ... akin to psyche?

Un found essence of thought construction ...
 
I don't read manga often
(I still have trouble differentiating between the characters...similar 2 how I still have trouble differentiating between characters in b & w american films...)

Junji Ito does horror.
Bizarre, unsettling, absurd stuff.
I remember coming into him first through a LJ acquaintance; introduced to his short story "The Enigma of Amigari Fault", which was Twilight Zony bizarre and got my attention.

From there I went to Uzumaki, which is more of a trilogy of novels aboot these bizarre events that infect a whole town.

Now in library I discovered more short stories. This collection is called "Shiver". I happen 2 prefer ss over novels.

The stories vary between "cursed items" to "bizarre houses" to sheer trypophobia to strange ray bradburyesque, when he did stories with bite (like the Small Assassin).

Such ideas!

Joyfully Enervated,
Inannawhimsey
 
I packed about four books (2 paper, 2 epubs) along on my vacation. Three were new to me, one was an old favorite. The old favorite won. I spent most of my reading time on the trip reading Dracula by Bram Stoker. A fan of vampire stories since a very young age (Marvel Comics' seventies series Tomb of Dracula is the earliest I remember), I first read this seminal work at the age of 12 or 13 and have picked it up again from time to time since. It's been a decade or more since I last read this classic and I delighted in discovering some of the finer points of the story that had kind of slipped from, or not registered with, my memories of past reads. If your experience of the story and characters is largely based on the various movie and TV adaptations, the novel may be a bit surprising. There are some key bits of the novel that are often left out of adaptations and there are some elements that have become common in adaptations that do not, in fact, come from the novel (e.g. Mina Murray/Harker as somehow the reincarnation or image of Dracula's lost love). Not quite finished but coming into the final stretch, a chase across Europe as Dracula flees England pursued by a band of protagonists who have become the prototype for monster hunters in many subsequent works of fiction.
 
I read the novel "educated" by Tara Westover over the Christmas holiday.

Educated

I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, though at times, it was hard to read.
It is a memoir of a child brought up by fundamentalist mormons, no formal schooling, who went on to formal education.

I think there are some here who would enjoy reading it. Interesting analysis on religion.
 
Pinga said:
I read the novel "educated" by Tara Westover over the Christmas holiday.

Educated

I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, though at times, it was hard to read.
It is a memoir of a child brought up by fundamentalist mormons, no formal schooling, who went on to formal education.

I think there are some here who would enjoy reading it. Interesting analysis on religion.
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Yes, definitely worth a read. I had it from the library in the summer.
 
Pinga said:
I read the novel "educated" by Tara Westover over the Christmas holiday.

Educated

I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, though at times, it was hard to read.
It is a memoir of a child brought up by fundamentalist mormons, no formal schooling, who went on to formal education.

I think there are some here who would enjoy reading it. Interesting analysis on religion.
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Bill Gates raved about it on his blog a few weeks ago. Apparently, Westover was a Gates Scholar and he didn't even know until he read the book.

Educated is even better than you’ve heard | Bill Gates
 
Reading Bob Woodward's novel Fear ... must be a novum bust as Trump says it is all lies?

I like where he got the title. Imagine if you are caught in a situation you should say all you can to defend yourselves against others that have alternate altruisms ... makes images in the great reflective mirror that is said to be really strange (a slur on the existence of an organic deposition of the thinker).

Some abstract projection would be required to form such an image in the night's Skye ... sort of like "?" forming the right half of an image of a heart with the left half being absent! The bloody thing drips ...
 
I am in position 186 of the hold list for 11 copies of this book at the library. Am thinking it's gonna be awhile.
 
BetteTheRed said:
I am in position 186 of the hold list for 11 copies of this book at the library. Am thinking it's gonna be awhile.
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I think your library needs more copies :nerd:. A hold:copy ration of 16:1 seems awfully high to this former librarian.

The automated library system I used to manage came with a report that printed off items with a hold:copy ratio higher than a certain level (forget what we set it to, now). I think you could even roll them over into orders in the acquisitions module.
 
@Pinga, "Educated".

Sorry, I didn't quote, and then Luce slipped in there with his Fear recommendation, which I do not want to read, because if the mere sound of his voice can make me twitch, I suspect I'd be rather tortured at the end of an entire book...
 
I read 3 fun fictional novels this break. The Mermaid Chair, Crazy rick Asians and Look Alive 25-which is the latest Stephanie Plum book.
 
Tabitha said:
Crazy rick Asians
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I've been eyeing the movie now that it's up on Netflix. It's been getting a lot of buzz for being a rare major release with an all-East Asian main cast. And singer Kina Grannis, of whom I am a huge fanboy, appears in it singing "I Can't Help Falling In Love" (Kina is half-Japanese, so sort of fits in).
 
It was a book club reading, @BetteTheRed , so I can't give it away quite yet. Need to go through it and make some notes, so will read again prior to our gathering.
 
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