![]() ![]() But what's with all the robot X-Men, and how does Wolverine's old pal Maverick fit in? Plus: The Hand's Hellbride seeks revenge on Wolverine and Solem! But with Earth reeling from the revelations of A.X.E., a risky play by Logan may be the planet's last, best hope! Collecting WOLVERINE (2020) #20-25. But when Wade Wilson uncovers a dangerous plot that could mean doom for the mutants' safe haven, it's going to take a titanic team-up to quell the threat! As the two head deeper into danger and find themselves outnumbered and surrounded, Wolverine and Deadpool must make peace in a last-ditch effort to save mutant lives. ![]() The best there is - and the worst partner possible! Deadpool was the king of Staten Island, and now he wants to be an honorary citizen of Krakoa. ![]()
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![]() ![]() On his release from prison in 1897 he lived in obscurity in Europe, and died in Paris in 1900. Smithers), a long poem describing the horrors Wilde faced in prison, was. In 1895 he was found guilty of gross indecency, and he was imprisoned in Reading Gaol from 1895 to 1897. The poem narrates the execution of Wooldridge. During the 1890s, Wilde faced three criminal and civil trials involving his relationship with the poet Lord Alfred Douglas. Wilde spent mid-1897 with Robert Ross in Berneval-le-Grand, where he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife, Laura Ellen. In spite of efforts towards prison reform by Major Nelson, the Governor who had. During his imprisonment, a hanging took place.Ĭharles Thomas Wooldridge had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. Some is realistic, some is romantic: some poetry, some propaganda (1962:654). Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895. “The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile either in Berneval-le-Grand or in Dieppe, France, after his release from Reading Gaol in 1897. Although I like to think of this poem as more of a story but that is just my persepective. The poem is titled “The Ballad of Reading Gaol.” And boy is it a long poem. This week I have picked number 16 from the top 100 Irish poems list. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The stakes are high, secrets are everywhere, and not everyone wants Dalí to complete the negotiations. Thoughts: The sequel to Dalí, this continues the adventures of the titular Dalí Tamareia, a third-gender ambassador-turned-spy, who is pulled from the field and returned to their former life as an ambassador when they are specifically requested for a delicate negotiation. Queer rep: The MC is genderfluid and bi/pansexual a number of secondary characters are genderfluid, intersex, or gay/bi/lesbian In this volume, Kyoshi’s identity as the Avatar has been revealed and confirmed, and she’s struggling to live up to the role: how can she be the world’s most respected figure, the mediator between humanity and the spirit world, with her past as a bandit and the repercussions of the way she was named Avatar? I liked how this didn’t only continue to develop Kyoshi’s mythology but also gave us a look at some of her previous incarnations and explored how delicate a balance it is the Avatars are tasked with keeping between the mortal and spirit worlds, and between the Four Nations. Thoughts: Set in the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender, this is the second of two novels telling the story of Kyoshi, the longest-lived Avatar in history and one with a conflicting mythology. ![]() Queer rep: The MC is bi, f/f relationship, several secondary queer characters All titles are linked to their Goodreads page. Bite-sized reviews of the LGBTQ books I’ve read in the past week. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Read Kevin Wetmore’s ‘Halloween Returns’ Contest Winning Story “Ben Tramer’s Not Going to Homecoming!”ĭownload the ‘Halloween Returns: A Fan Fiction Anthology’ Now for Free!įive Reasons Drunks Will Always Survive Horror Storiesīloody Good Writing Volume 2: Does Sex Sell? Slenderman Video: Author Lee McGeorge Explores the Home of Slenderman!įear the Future: 10 Great Post-Apocalyptic Horror Novels Ranking Every Stephen King Novel, From Worst to First! Here are 10 Classic Scary Stories to Read for Free!ĥ Horror Authors You Have to Read and Follow in 2016! Is Stephen King Really the Greatest Horror Contributor of All Time? Jonathan Maberry, Ramsey Campbell and 16 Other Amazing Horror Authors Tell Us What Books Terrify Them! Interview: Jack Ketchum Talks Horror Roots and New Book ‘The Secret Life of Souls’ĥ Horror Novels That Deserve a Video Game Adaptation When in Paris, Revisit Gaston Leroux’s Timeless Masterpiece ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ Thrift Store Finds: Save the Last Dance for Me ![]() ![]() But then he is reminded that if you win you get 1,000,000 dollars! He could rebuild the city! He gives u the stage fright and the sickness of love struck from one of the competitors and Wins!!! I loved this book! Hope you can read it. He doesn't know how he will ever get through it and thinks that he should not enter in the contest. The weekend of the big contest a hurricane hits New Jersey and tares apart the city where he lives. ![]() He finally starts something he loves to do! He tries out for the funniest kid in New Jersey and wins it! He gets placed in the funnest kid in the world contest. He comes into this stage were he is always sad. This book has him being a very funny boy living in New Jersey. He only is paralyzed from the waist down.I asked myself through the novel, "Was he lucky? Or did he have bad luck?". ![]() ![]() His mom, his dad, and his sister all died. This book was about a boy ,named Jamie Grimm, who was saved in a fire. This book was very funny! Judging by the title you could probably imagine it would be. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Smart’s storytelling is comprehensive, often to the point of being verbose, and the pace sometimes suffers as a result. In a world where power is as much about birthright and natural talent as it is about clever strategy, deception, and betrayal, these two witches soon learn that there is much they have yet to learn about their society, their kin, and their own selves. Despite their differing motivations and instant antagonism upon meeting, their end goal is the same in order to achieve it, they decide to form an alliance. ![]() Historical tensions position these two witches as enemies, both possessing plans to remove the current doyenne. Iraya Adair is an 18-year-old Obeah witch and the rightful heir to the Aiycan throne, newly free after 10 years of imprisonment. Jazmyne Cariot is a 17-year-old witch of the Alumbrar order and next in line to rule as doyenne of her island of Aiyca, though she has yet to inherit her magical powers. A Jamaican-inspired fantasy about a matriarchy maintained by magic and marred by manipulation. ![]() ![]() It’s taken them a while but DC have gotten the message! Gotham Academy joins the new Batgirl series as a title very deliberately marketed at the tween girl demo. When the New 52 launched three and a bit years ago, one of the biggest complaints was the lack of variety in the lineup - it seemed like DC was catering solely for thirtysomething white males who only wanted to see violence and women dressed in as little clothing as possible. 1, the acclaimed new series from co-writers Becky Cloonan (DEMO) and Brendan Fletcher (BATGIRL) and artist Karl Kerschl (TEEN TITANS: YEAR ONE)! ![]() Then there’s the ghost haunting the campus…the secret society conducting bizarre rituals…and Bruce Wayne, the weirdo billionaire who funds the Academy - and may know the secret to Olive’s big mystery.įind out in GOTHAM ACADEMY VOL. Problem: Maps is kid sister of Kyle, Olive’s ex. Olive’s supposed to show new student Maps Mizoguchi the ropes. After a mysterious incident over summer break, she’s back at school with a bad case of amnesia, an even worse attitude… and an unexplained fear of bats. ![]() But Olive Silverlock isn’t like other students. Okay, so Gotham Academy isn’t like other schools. Only the best and brightest students may enter its halls, study in its classrooms, explore its secret passages, summon its terrifying spirits… Welcome to Gotham Academy, the most prestigious school in Gotham City. A new teen drama set in the shadow of Batman and the craziness of Gotham City! ![]() ![]() ![]() Life's Lottery, his most mainstream novel, consists of multiple choice fragments which enable readers to choose the hero's fate and take him into horror, crime and sf storylines or into mundane reality. ![]() His pseudonymous novels, as Jack Yeovil, play elegant games with genre cliche-perhaps the best of these is the sword-and-sorcery novel Drachenfels which takes the prescribed formulae of the games company to whose bible it was written and make them over entirely into a Kim Newman novel. In horror novels such as Bad Dreams and Jago, reality turns out to be endlessly subverted by the powerfully malign. He is complexly and irreverently referential the Dracula sequence-Anno Dracula, The Bloody Red Baron and Dracula,Cha Cha Cha-not only portrays an alternate world in which the Count conquers Victorian Britain for a while, is the mastermind behind Germany's air aces in World War One and survives into a jetset 1950s of paparazzi and La Dolce Vita, but does so with endless throwaway references that range from Kipling to James Bond, from Edgar Allen Poe to Patricia Highsmith. ![]() ![]() Note: This author also writes under the pseudonym of Jack Yeovil.Īn expert on horror and sci-fi cinema (his books of film criticism include Nightmare Movies and Millennium Movies), Kim Newman's novels draw promiscuously on the tropes of horror, sci-fi and fantasy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This isn’t just a tale of vikings and farmers, though. It starts in classic saga style with a viking called Orm settling on land in England, largely by means of slaughtering the land’s former occupants, following King Alfred’s victory over the Danes. Anderson was fascinated by the lays and sagas of his Scandinavian heritage, and The Broken Sword is saturated in this tradition. ![]() Most of his output was science fiction, but he also published a number of fantasy and historical novels, including The Broken Sword, which contains historical elements along with the predominant fantasy. ![]() His wife Karen co-authored a number of his later works, and their daughter Astrid is married to science fiction author Greg Bear. He gained a physics degree from the University of Minnesota, but worked as a freelance writer for the rest of his life. No, not that one – this is The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson.Īnderson was born in 1926 in Pennsylvania, of Scandinavian descent, and grew up in Texas, Denmark and Minnesota. I’m writing this time about an epic fantasy novel first published in 1954, featuring a desperate quest, a great war between the forces of light and dark, and a legendary broken sword reforged. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, a generations-long conflict with rival Zemya intensifies as internal rebels rescue criminals and pilfer supplies. Mutilated and stripped of her abilities, she’s been training eagles at a monastery alongside Serik, her irreverent, magic-barren friend/love interest, ever since. Wielding the powers of darkness and starfire, Enebish was part of an elite corps drawing its strength from elemental forces until she allegedly massacred innocents. ![]() In Thorley’s ( An Affair of Poisons, 2019) immersive sophomore effort, the Ashkar Empire is imperiled, and 18-year-old Enebish, eponymous Night Spinner and sympathetic narrator, isn’t sure where she stands. A disgraced warrior fights to restore her sense of self amid war and intrigue in this tightly wound, laser-focused epic. ![]() |