![]() ![]() Watch it, and tell me I’m wrong, I dare you.), my thoughts on Harley, other characters, and the comic as a whole might be different than that of fans of The Animated Series show.įor the past few years, I have seen Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy popping up across social media as examples of a canon sapphic relationship between two big characters in DC comics-one of these characters even big enough to warrant her own, aforementioned film. ![]() Considering that I have viewed much of Harley Quinn’s comic, television, and film history from afar until recently (after watching Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn, which I felt was one of the best bisexually-focused films I have ever seen. ![]()
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In the beauty of the lilies6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() The first section, set mainly in Paterson, New Jersey, is centered on Clarence Wilmot, a minister in his forties who abruptly loses his faith one very hot afternoon shortly before a dinner party. ![]() In charting the fortunes of an American family through some 80 years, the author showed how dreams, habits and predilections are handed down generation to generation, parent to child, even as he created a kaleidoscopic portrait of this country from its nervous entry into the 20th century to its stumbling approach to the millennium." Part I Updike’s stunning and much underestimated 1996 epic, ‘In the Beauty of the Lilies,’ tackled an even wider swath of history. In her appraisal of Updike's work New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani wrote: "Mr. a book that forces us to reassess the American Dream.” Summary īeginning in 1910 and ending in 1990, the novel covers four generations of the Wilmot family, tying its fortunes to both the decline of the Christian faith and the rise of Hollywood in twentieth century America. In The New York Times, critic Michiko Kakutani called the work “dazzling. It takes its title from a line of the abolitionist song " The Battle Hymn of the Republic." The novel received the 1997 Ambassador Book Award for Fiction. In the Beauty of the Lilies is a 1996 novel by John Updike. ![]() ![]() Taran has a series of adventures wherein he helps protect the land of Prydain from various threats, chief among them the evil Arawn, whose forces include an undead army known as the Cauldron-Born. Taran, who dreams of being a great hero, is named "Assistant Pig-Keeper" and tasked with helping to care for and protect Hen Wen, a white oracular pig magically empowered with clairvoyance. The series follows the protagonist Taran, a youth of unknown parentage living on a farm with an old enchanter named Dallben and a farmer named Coll. ![]() The setting is based on Wales and inhabited by creatures and characters inspired by Welsh mythology and folklore. ![]() The five novels take place in Prydain, a fictional country ruled by a High King who oversees several minor kingdoms. The Black Cauldron earned a 1966 Newbery Honor, and The High King won the 1969 Newbery Medal. The series includes: The Book of Three (1964), The Black Cauldron (1965), The Castle of Llyr (1966), Taran Wanderer (1967), and The High King (1968). The Chronicles of Prydain is a pentalogy of children's high fantasy Bildungsroman novels written by American author Lloyd Alexander and published by Henry Holt and Company. ![]() Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book ![]() The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() So that when the virus attacks again, the bacteria remembers it and uses a little guide RNA and a pair of "scissors" (an enzyme that acts as a pair of scissors) and cuts up the invading virus. Whenever viruses attack certain bacteria, those bacteria do something very clever: They take a mugshot and they put it in their own genetic material of the bacteria. On how the gene editing technology CRISPR mimics what the immune system does to bacteria And so this part of the 21st century, I think, will be a biotech revolution, a life sciences revolution. And now with Jennifer Doudna and the things that she and her colleagues have invented, we found ways to rewrite that genome. And in the beginning of this century, in 2000 or so, we sequenced the entire human genome. Now we've come to another particle, a fundamental particle of our existence, which is the gene. This part of the 21st century, I think, will be a biotech revolution, a life sciences revolution in which we'll be able to rewrite the code of life. ![]() ![]() On the reread, I discovered what an absolute joy this book is. Luckily, Homer's got plenty of both.Ĭonfession: I read this book when it first came out and I didn't know what the heck I was doing because I kinda set it aside as "not my kind of book" and didn't really think about it again. Still, it'll take pluck and a quick tongue to help an Underground Railroad conductor, join a traveling medicine show as the Amazing Pig Boy, take to the sky in a hot air balloon, and save his brother by trying to kill him. Homer has no idea of the dangers he'll face, but he figures he owes it to the brother who took care of him for so many years. ![]() When Homer Figg's dear older brother is sold into the Union army against his will, Homer sets off to bring him home. (This review reflects only my own opinion, not the opinion of the commitee!) ![]() Review copy provided by publisher for Young Hoosier Book Award consideration. ![]() An enchantment of ravens series order6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Now both of their lives are forfeit, unless Isobel can use her skill as an artist to fight the fairy courts. Their alliance blossoms into trust, then love-and that love violates the fair folks’ ruthless laws. Waylaid by the Wild Hunt’s ghostly hounds, the tainted influence of the Alder King, and hideous monsters risen from barrow mounds, Isobel and Rook depend on one another for survival. She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes-a weakness that could cost him his life.Furious and devastated, Rook spirits her away to the autumnlands to stand trial for her crime. ![]() ![]() But when she receives her first royal patron-Rook, the autumn prince-she makes a terrible mistake. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobel’s paintings are highly prized. ![]() 393 150, rue Ste-Cath.O - local #113Ī skilled painter must stand up to the ancient power of the faerie courts-even as she falls in love with a faerie prince-in this gorgeous debut novel.Isobel is a prodigy portrait artist with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread, weave cloth, or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. ![]() Sweeter Than Wine by Susan Sallis6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But there were others in the feuding families who were to be drawn into the subtle, confusing, and emotional bonding. The two young lovers, scandalizing respectable Bristol, forced the families to unite and an uneasy truce was formed in time for their child to born. There, Jack Martinez, handsome roue and gambler, danced with spoilt, precocious Maude Rudolph and a spark was kindled. The Rudolphs and the Martinez disliked each other intensely - until the Michaelmas Ball of 1927. The quarrel had begun many years before - in 1850 on a West Indian sugar plantation - but although Charles Martinez and Hanover Rudolph had been dead a long time, the resentment and grudges of that old enmity still separated the two most important families in Bristol. ![]() Book miracle creek6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Angie Kim tackles hot-button subjects with a delicate touch, proving herself a master of both portraiture and storytelling. De Sica's acting was considered the highlight of the film. 'Miracle Creek is an engrossing puzzle-box of a book: a twisty courtroom drama that also manages to be emotionally astute, culturally perceptive, and deeply empathetic. Bicycle Thieves was deemed the greatest film of all time by Sight & Sound magazine's poll of filmmakers and critics in 1958, and was cited by Turner Classic Movies as one of the 15 most influential films in cinema history.ĭe Sica was also nominated for the 1957 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for playing Major Rinaldi in American director Charles Vidor's 1957 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, a movie that was panned by critics and proved a box office flop. ![]() These two films are considered part of the canon of classic cinema. Indeed, the great critical success of Sciuscià (the first foreign film to be so recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) and Bicycle Thieves helped establish the permanent Best Foreign Film Award. Vittorio De Sica (/də ˈsiːkə/ də SEE-kə, Italian: 7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian film director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement.įour of the films he directed won Academy Awards: Sciuscià and Bicycle Thieves (honorary), while Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow and Il giardino dei Finzi Contini won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. ![]() Catch and cradle by katia rose6/25/2023 ![]() Marina Townsend has always known she and her best friend Iz were made to be more than friends. What they didn’t expect was to have their world turned upside down by a champagne-fueled New Year’s kiss with the girl who’s been their best friend since toddlerhood. ![]() So far their quest to find Miss Right has only resulted in heartbreak and way too many awkward run-ins with exes at the campus sports bar, but at the end of the day, Iz can always count on their friends, their glorious collection of designer sneakers, and their steadfast belief that love is out there somewhere to get them back in the game. ![]() Granted, life as a gender non-conforming jock at a small coastal university does not exactly present a wealth of opportunity, but that hasn’t stopped Iz from seizing the day. Iz Sanchez has looked for love just about everywhere. ![]() Sometimes love is in the last place you look. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mama’s daughter, Beneatha, aspires to attend medical school and become a doctor, a considerable challenge for an African-American woman at that time. Mama tells her daughter-in-law, Ruth, that she and her late husband shared the dream of owning a house, but that poverty and racism prevented them from fulfilling this dream during Big Walter’s lifetime. However, the members of the Younger family have conflicting ideas-conflicting dreams-regarding the best use for the money, which causes tension.Īt the beginning of the play Mama, Big Walter’s widow, expresses uncertainty regarding the best use for the money. The family eagerly awaits the arrival of the insurance check, which has the potential to make the family’s long deferred dreams into reality. Shortly before the play begins, the head of the Younger family, Big Walter, dies, leaving the family to inherit a $10,000 life insurance payment. The play centers on the Youngers, a working-class family that lives in Chicago’s South Side during the mid-twentieth century. A Raisin in the Sun examines the effects of racial prejudice on the fulfillment of an African-American family’s dreams. ![]() |