6/28/2023 0 Comments Ito junji shiverLife now revolves around a strange factory of unknown origin, and even weirder are the all-consuming sirens that emanate from it each night. Alas, when he returns he finds that the once lively-though rural-village has turned into a ghost town. In the wake of a strange phone call from his parents and an ominous apparition at his window, Kyochi decides it's time for a family reunion. Turning his hand to folk horror, Ito crafts another bleak homecoming in Village of the Siren. The devastating reason for that will soon be revealed, but in the meantime, his arrival coincides with a trend of young women seeking out "crossroads fortunes." Soon the bodies of school girls who ask strangers for their fortunes begin to turn up brutally murdered but who is to blame? How does it connect with Ryusuke's pass? This wonderfully chilly mystery is one of the most memorable of Ito's tales and introduces one of his scariest creations. The teen boy is moving back to his hometown after years away, but the simple notion of it haunts him. The first-and throughline-story from his Lovesickness collection is a great example of just that. Ito often writes of love and how it can curse us.
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6/27/2023 0 Comments Kate by Mario SorrentiThis book, which celebrates the dawn of two legendary careers, and the start of the highly influential aesthetic of 1990s fashion photography, is a must-have for Kate Moss's fans, for fashion devotees, and for lovers of traditional portraiture and fashion photography. It includes tipped-on images on the book and clamshell box's covers, plus an introductory essay by Sorrenti, which puts the work in its uniquely personal context. Sumptuously reproduced in tritone and presented in a cloth-covered clamshell box, Kate is a stunning photographic portfolio of one of contemporary culture's most iconic figures. Seen by Calvin Klein, the photographs gave life to the famous Obsession campaign, which launched Moss to international superstardom. This gorgeously produced book features intimate, never-before-published portraits of a young and undiscovered Kate Moss, taken in the early 1990s by her then-boyfriend, Italian photographer Mario Sorrenti. In 1993, one of the most stylish couples of all time, model Kate Moss and photographer Mario Sorrenti, created one of the most iconic fragrance campaigns of all time for Calvin. Intimate, never-before-published photographs taken just before Kate Moss's rise to fame, in one elegant volume 6/27/2023 0 Comments Mark twain in the holy landNazareth is forlorn about that ford of Jordan where the hosts of Israel entered the Promised Land with songs of rejoicing, one finds only a squalid camp of fantastic Bedouins of the desert Jericho the accursed, likes a moldering ruin, today, even as Joshua’s miracle left it more than three thousand years ago Bethlehem and Bethany, in their poverty and their humiliation, have nothing about them now to remind one that they once knew the high honor of the Saviour’s presence the hallowed spot where the shepherds watched their flocks by night, and where the angels sang Peace on earth, good will to men, is untenanted by any living creature, and unblessed by any feature that is pleasant to the eye. Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies. It is a hopeless, dreary, heart-broken land. The valleys are unsightly deserts fringed with a feeble vegetation that has an expression about it of being sorrowful and despondent. The hills are barren, they are dull of color, they are unpicturesque in shape. Of all the lands there are for dismal scenery, I think Palestine must be the prince. Excerpts from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain: Lewis: indeed it is with the genre of fantasy with its reliance on archetypal images, that Clarke’s imagination in part belongs (Lewis in fact greatly admired Clarke’s Childhood’s End). For science fiction work comparable to Clarke’s one has to look to Wells’s The Time Machine or to the planetary romances which in our terms are fantasy of C. The images in Brian Aldiss’s Hothouse are brilliant, novel, fascinating: but they do not work beyond the experience of the text itself. Clarke among writers of science fiction it is the way he can create images that go on resonating through the mind, like struck bells. If a package seems to be taking long, you should contact your local customs agencies to determine whether or not they have the item as they will have more information than I am able to provide. Also, packages have taken up to three months to be received. The tracking number, more often than not, will only tell you when the item is received into the US postal system. There is no insurance option for this shipping class. Craig Russell from the illustrated novella The Sandman: The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman and Yoshitaka Amano. International buyers should also note the following limitations of the First Class International Postage, it is a bargain shipping method. Sandman: The Dream Hunters vol 2 is a four issue mini-series is adapted by P. 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All variants are new and unread unless otherwise stated. 6/26/2023 0 Comments People we meet in vacationAnd, even when they live in different states, have different partners, and experience the unpredictable weirdness of life, they have one constant: their yearly trip together. They are the ultimate human balance, and, despite Alex’s straitlaced ways and Poppy’s fun-loving attitude, they’re always there for each other. We’ve got slow burns and almost moments - this novel has got it all and is all the better for it.Īlex and Poppy have been friends since college. In Henry’s new novel, People We Meet on Vacation, we’ve got friends-to-lovers. And, if you are indeed a fan of romance-novel tropes (much like me), then you’ve come to the right place. Henry has made a name for herself in taking typical romance-novel tropes and adding modern twists. It was aptly titled Beach Read and depicted an opposites-attract tale of two vastly different writers who, while living next to each other in their respective beach houses and trying to beat writer’s block, find they have more in common than they think. Last year, New York Times best-selling author Emily Henry delivered perhaps one of the most devourable beach reads in recent memory. Titus Crow, paranormal Sherlock Holmes, and his Watson Henri de Marigny figure out the existence of the burrow horrors the Cthonians and their blasphemous god Shudde M’ell. Not necessarily ‘the ghouls are stealing the wifi’ normal but the Mythos being a regular part of the world, not something that drives you insane. I also think of it as the normalization of the Mythos. So actual Lovecraft works like The Dunwich Horror count. That is basically defined as ‘humans can win’. Lumley is allegedly controversial because he fully embraced the Lovecraft Lite style. He was writing before the Mythos went mainstream so he kept the fire going. But I have seen his short stories in different anthologies. I couldn’t find any of his books until digital publishing brought them back. I’m honestly not sure Lumley is obscure or not as far as Mythos writers are concerned. Now, I finally have read The Burrowers Beneath by Brian Lumley. A long time back, possibly when life was still crawling out of the ocean and the Elder Things still thought Shogoths were a good alternative to bulldozers, I first saw the entry in the Call of Cthulhu RPG entry for Cthonians and Shudde M’ell. 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The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Stella Grant likes to be in control-even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. until I couldn’t have it.”Īuthors: Rachael Lippincott, Mikki Daughtry (contributor), and Tobias Iaconis (contributor)Ĭlick here to watch movie trailer that comes out MaSynopsisĬan you love someone you can never touch? I never understood the importance of touch, his touch. “We need that touch from the one we love, almost as much as we need air to breathe. 6/25/2023 0 Comments Daniel deronda bookI love all other George Eliot, but I not only find Daniel a moralising goody-goody, I can’t forgive him for turning against his mother to gang up with the male orthodoxy. Becky Sharp pitted against that cavalcade of entitled mediocrity!ĭaniel Deronda. Reading it again, I found it breathtaking in its originality, its wit, its range, its sociopolitical grasp. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray – I couldn’t get on with an author who kept intruding to remind me that the characters were all his puppets. Is that why I jump straight into the dialogue and don’t waste time on the scenery? Also that concise, energy-charged prose of Jane Austen. A book that possibly influenced me was Elaine Dundy’s 1958 novel The Dud Avocado. I became obsessed with tapping out the various rhythms of their speech. I “wrote” my first novel while accidentally rediscovering that form of playing that involves talking to pretend people. I never had a conscious ambition to be a writer. The book that made me want to be a writer Seven decades on, and we’re still behaving like Nazis to farm animals. As a schoolteacher in 1965, I read Ruth Harrison’s Animal Machines, which exposed the horrors of intensive farming. |