![]() ![]() Cult: The heroine of "The Cult of the Cat" learns that she is destined to become a member of a cult who worship the Egyptian cat goddess Bast.Clear My Name: In "Hangman’s Alley", Jacey has to do this for the ghost of Melinda Walpole.Be Careful What You Wish For: Even the most innocent wishes would usually lead to a bad ending.Asshole Victim: Several of the 'heroines' were delinquents or bullies, fully deserving of whatever horrible fate befell them.Alternate-History Nazi Victory: In "The Sentinels", the heroine enters a version of the world where 'Britain had been successfully invaded by Germany in 1940 and was now a German colony'.The Alcoholic: Sandy's father in "Winner Takes All", which forces her to make a Deal with the Devil. ![]() This comic (and its strips) provide examples of: ![]() ![]() The title was reused by Rebellion for the 2017 Halloween Special comic Scream! & Misty ( Scream! having been Fleetway's horror comic for boys). The title was created mainly by Pat Mills, on a hot streak following Battle, Action and 2000 AD and continued the ethos of those titles, with a focus on modern, creepier, gorier horror than earlier horror comics. While there were similarities with its Fleetway stablemates Tammy and Jinty, each comic had its own focus, with Misty concentrating on supernatural and horror stories. Misty was a British comic for girls published by Fleetway in London from 4th Feb 1978 until 1984, after merging with Tammy on 19 January 1980. ![]()
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![]() V For Vendetta explores man as the embodiment of an idea. Beneath his mask, he ceases to become a person but a manifestation of a concept, a symbol of protest against government tyranny. And, finally, inspired by Guy Fawkes, V bases his appearance and expression around the event and its era. They were inspired from the Reagan/Thatcher era. The Norsefire regime is highly conservative, homophobic, and racist. During the rise of conservatism in the 1980s, the American President Ronald Reagan and the English Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher were universally criticized for their insensitivity to demographic groups who “oppose traditional moral values”. V for Vendetta is based on the idea that this war has occurred: Russia, the US and Africa have all been destroyed. ![]() The population was terrified that a nuclear war would result from the race between the United States and the U.S.S.R. The Cold War was still escalating, when Moore was writing V for Vendetta. Therefore, the novel serves as a warning.The author presents a model of social change in a highly repressive society people are continuously being watched by a very powerful government.V for Vendetta refers to many historical events, including: the Cold War, the conservative values of the Reagan/Thatcher era, and the Guy Fawkes Gunpowder Plot. Alan Moore shows a nightmarish dystopian society, he is telling the readers what they should value and preserve by using counter examples. ![]() ![]() Thought of as an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant for white clothing and her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her room. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. ![]() ![]() Emily Dickinson was an American poet who, despite the fact that less than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime, is widely considered one of the most original and influential poets of the 19th century.ĭickinson was born to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For the photographs of wildlife, of snow and of the diverse forest animals at first being intensely cautious regarding the snowman but soon realising and understanding that there is no threat but treats emanating, coming from the snowman, that this stranger in the woods in fact brings benefits and winter nourishment (carrots, nuts, seeds etc.), they all are indeed visually delightful and also in my humble opinion tell the story of Stranger in the Woods: A Photographic Fantasy much much better than the accompanying text in any way can.Īnd truth be told, the featured narrative for Stranger in the Woods: A Photographic Fantasy, for and to me, it feels pretty much silly and distractingly tedious, not to mention that it also rather renders the wildlife depicted in the photographs frustratingly anthropomorphic, which most definitely quite massively destroys the oh so wonderful winter realism of the photographs (unless of course, I totally ignore and not pay any attention at all to the written words in Stranger in the Woods: A Photographic Fantasy, unless I only focus my eyes on Carl R. Sams II and Jean Stoick had made their Stranger in the Woods: A Photographic Fantasy totally wordless, yes, my star rating would definitely be considerably higher. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 'It describes experiences that will be recognisable everywhere. Riveting, original and uncompromising, this is the most important book to have emerged from South Korea since Han Kang's The Vegetarian. ![]() Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is the life story of one young woman born at the end of the twentieth century and raises questions about endemic misogyny and institutional oppression that are relevant to us all. Kim Jiyoung has started acting strangely. ![]() Kim Jiyoung is a wife who gives up her career and independence for a life of domesticity. Kim Jiyoung is a model employee but gets overlooked for promotion. Kim Jiyoung is a good student who doesn't get put forward for internships. Kim Jiyoung is a daughter whose father blames her when she is harassed late at night. Kim Jiyoung is a female preyed upon by male teachers at school. Kim Jiyoung is a sister made to share a room while her brother gets one of his own. THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY SELLING SOUTH KOREAN SENSATION THAT HAS GOT THE WHOLE WORLD TALKING 'A ground-breaking work of feminist fiction.' Stylist Who is Kim Jiyoung? Kim Jiyoung is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tress is an ordinary girl with no thirst to see the world. Most characters seem to be White Kallia is brown skinned.Ī lush, captivating blend of The Phantom of the Opera and fresh, new magic.Ī fantasy adventure with a sometimes-biting wit. Readers will ache for the next installment. As the romantic tension ratchets up, so deepen the mysteries. Glorian is awash with stunning scenery and spectacle, and Kallia enchants as a flawed and fiery lead, armed with tricks and witty banter. When horrible things begin to befall competitors, Kallia’s caught in the middle. But as her confidence grows, so does her fear of Jack’s returning and taking all of it away. Soon she’s a controversial star, wowing the audience and inspiring ire in the judges in equal measure. She arrives in a city that’s colder and less friendly than she’d imagined and barely makes it into the competition. Jack won’t hear of it, but when Kallia discovers he has been lying to her, she can no longer stomach staying put. ![]() Despite this, Kallia feels called to Glorian, the city beyond the cursed woods surrounding them, where she’s learned of a competition for magicians. ![]() Club master Jack favors her above all others and acts as her mentor. It’s the only home she’s known she was left in the cursed Dire Woods as a baby. Kallia is the showgirl magician star at Hellfire House, descending each night from a chandelier and inspiring awe in patrons. In a world where men dominate the stage, Kallia is determined to win a magicians’ contest. ![]() ![]() This program features bonus music recorded by Dr. Daniel Torday has written this generational cusp with wisdom, style and sincerity.' - Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Gold Fame Citrus ' Boomer1 is a dazzling new novel from one of America's premier writers. Told through the perspectives of Mark, Cassie, and Mark’s mother, Julia, a child of the '60s whose life is more conventional than she ever imagined, Daniel Torday's Boomer1 is timely, suspenseful, and in every line alert to the siren song of endless opportunity that beckons and beguiles all of us. 'Boomer1 is a doozy-a prescient, cathartic love letter to Gen X, a fond call to arms for Millennials. But as his videos go viral, and while Cassie starts to build her career, Mark loses control of what he began - with consequences that ensnare them in a matter of national security. When Cassie refuses his marriage proposal, Mark leaves New York and returns to the basement of his childhood home in the Baltimore suburbs.ĭesperate and humiliated, Mark begins to post a series of Online video monologues that critique Baby Boomers and their powerful hold on the job market. ![]() His girlfriend Cassie - a punk bassist in an all-female band, who fled her Midwestern childhood for a new identity - finds work at a “new media” company. ![]() ![]() This program is read by Maggie Siff, acclaimed star of Mad Men, Billions, and Sons of Anarchy.īluegrass musician, former journalist and editor, and now PhD in English, Mark Brumfeld has arrived at his 30s with significant debt and no steady prospects. ![]() ![]() It’s interesting how content Enid Blyton was to create these single-faceted characters, but where Belinda and Irene’s talents, for example, don’t dominate their personalities, Mavis’s “Voice” is so deeply boring that when she gets her comeuppance, I barely care. Third Year at Malory Towers: This one introduces Bill, one of my favourite characters, and Mavis, one of the most boring. ![]() I do love the first time Gwendoline tries to make friends with a rich person though! The main plotlines are a little too dramatic for my taste, culminating in two girls hanging over a cliffside in a storm. Second Form at Malory Towers: Not one of my favourites. As a kid, I identified so strongly with the ‘good’ girls that I never really noticed, but as an adult it’s definitely noticeable. ![]() General impressions on this reread were that the girls were quite a bit bitchier than I remembered – they can be extremely harsh to the girls they deem ‘not quite right’. ![]() Ownership: I don’t remember a time before owning these! The general gist, however, is that these are brilliant!īook: Malory Towers (Second Form, Third Year, Upper Fourth, In the Fifth, Last Term) by Enid Blyton I thought it might get a tad tedious if I reviewed these all individually, so I’m going to give a quick overview of the rest of the series ( my review of First Term at Malory Towers is here). ![]() ![]() Samuel Fennix, saying that the quality of the writing on the show meant that there was very little he had to invent himself. In an interview with USA Today, Michael Keaton described the pleasure he took in portraying Dopesick's lead character, Dr. ![]() Sackler oversaw the reformulation the drug with a newly-developed coating that supposedly gave the drug a slow release action and reducing the risk of opioid addiction, and rebranding it as Ox圜ontin. As Stat describes, in the late 1980s Sackler, who was then assistant to his father, the president of Purdue Pharma, concocted a scheme by which to circumvent the company's bestselling opioid painkiller, MS Contin, going off-patent. According to The New Yorker, Arthur passed on the belief to the younger Sacklers that they should "Leave the world a better place than when you entered it." In the second half of the 20th century, the Sackler name became synonymous with philanthropy and patronage of the arts, while they expanded their wealth to become one of the richest families in America.īut the actions of Richard Sackler would see the family rebranded in the 21st century as "the family that built an empire on pain," per The New Yorker. Both were doctors, and the two shared options in the company with their older brother, Arthur, a psychiatrist. Sacker's father, Raymond, bought Purdue Pharma in 1952, along with his brother, Mortimer. ![]() ![]() And within asset classes, private equity and real estate had more challenging times in 2022 on various counts than private debt, infrastructure, and natural-resources strategies did. ![]() On the other hand, dry-powder inventory 1 “Dry-powder inventory” is the amount of capital available to GPs expressed as a multiple of annual deployment. These factors led to a year-over-year decrease in deal volume and fundraising. Also, many LPs faced overallocation challenges in their institutional portfolios, resulting in the denominator effect. The second was relatively slower because of lower availability of debt, rising cost of debt, and dislocation in asset prices. After an exceptional 2021 for private markets, 2022 was a year of two halves for the industry. ![]() |