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![]() ![]() Now who on Taras are you? Where did you come from?” Was this the same person who’d spoken to him outside? “Uh … who are you?” “There you are.”įor a moment he struggled to form a slurred question. A dark-haired boy leaned over him, studying his face. The blinding sunlight was gone-he was somewhere dim and quiet, breathing processed indoor air. “Guide the star!” he shouted, just before the blackness closed in. The pain swelled, crowding everything else out, and he felt himself slipping away. Something had begun to rise in his chest, a bubble of vital information-what was it? His mouth worked silently, trying to pin down the words dancing at the edge of his tongue. “Who are you? How’d you get past the fence?”įence? He shook his head. It took a moment to unscramble what the person was shouting. ![]() With a cry of surprise, he turned and saw a blurry figure crouched beside him. What was this place?Ī hand landed on his shoulder. He squinted hard enough to make out the gray shape of a nearby building, and something vast and green behind it. The muggy air seemed to vibrate, but he couldn’t tell whether it was real or whether he was imagining it. Shoving aside his confusion, he pushed himself to one knee with a grunt. He grasped for simple facts: where he was, how he’d gotten here. The pain followed a second later, smacking the back of his head like a club. ![]() He sucked in a ragged gasp of air and sat up. The boy opened his eyes to a sky the color of melted butter and a sense of inexplicable terror. ![]() ![]() Degas's talents as a narrator are on full display in this trilogy as he renders the tension and suspense in each installment. To date, Degas has won more than 15 AudioFile Earphones Awards for his exceptional audiobook performances. Rupert Degas skillfully narrates all three books in the Metro trilogy. Now exclusively on Audible, you can listen to this inventive and thought-provoking post-apocalyptic series. In Russia alone, more than 500,000 copies of the debut novel, Metro 2033, have been sold. ![]() The Metro trilogy has attracted avid fans and become a cult best seller in multiple countries, including Italy, Poland, and the USA. Artyom is tasked with a mission that will determine the future of his station-and maybe the whole of humanity. Among these states, war breaks out as the factions fight over differing ideologies and the last remaining resources.Īt the center of the action is Artyom, a young man living in VDNKh, the northernmost inhabited station on its line. In Moscow, those who are left seek refuge in the underground train stations of the citywide Metro system, creating communities that gradually became independent states. Now, 20 years later, humanity is nearly extinct, and cities have been left uninhabitable due to radiation. In 2013, nuclear war tore the world apart. Listen to the gripping post-apocalyptic trilogy that inspired video games, spin-offs spanning a variety of genres, and an international following. ![]() ![]() ![]() The only thing stopping Paul from believing in Vince is himself - and that is one obstacle Paul can't quite seem to overcome. Vince must be messing with him, because there is no way Vince could want someone like Paul.īut when Paul hits Vince with his car - in a completely unintentional if-he-died-it'd-only-be-manslaughter kind of way - he's forced to see Vince in a whole new light. And for some reason, Vince pursues Paul relentlessly. Vince is everything Paul isn't: Sexy, confident, and dumber than the proverbial box of rocks. ![]() He works a dead-end job in a soul-sucking cubicle, and if his grandmother's homophobic parrot insults him one more time, Paul is going to wring its stupid neck. His closest friends are a two-legged dog named Wheels and a quasibipolar drag queen named Helena Handbasket. ![]() He's thirty, slightly overweight, and his best features are his acerbic wit and the color commentary he provides as life passes him by. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The winner of each category - chosen by students in selected schools across the country - received £2,500, which was presented at an awards ceremony. The Roald Dahl Funny Prize was launched in 2008 in association with Michael Rosen, Children's Laureate 2007-9, with the aim of drawing attention to funny children's books.īooks were awarded in two categories: Funniest Book for Children Aged Six and Under and Funniest Book for Children Aged Seven to Fourteen, with a shortlist of six titles in each category. The Roald Dahl Funny Prize ran from 2008 to 2013, with the aims of promoting laughter and humour as a feel-good factor when reading, drawing attention to funny books as readable and enjoyable, and rewarding authors and illustrators who write and illustrate books using humour. ![]() ![]() „Guilt/Pleasure“ was still open so we took that. ![]() She wanted a cool name as an artist and as we met we wanted to mesh our names when we became a team, but „Guilty Pleasure“ had already been taken. Her name written in Kanji is pronounced „Jo“ in Chinese, and can be read like the word „Guilt“ or „guilty“. KN: Actually the name comes from Jo (TogaQ). How did you come up with the name Guilt/Pleasure? Is it something like „guilty pleasure“? She would arrive a bit later into the conversation. ![]() The Interview started with Kichiku Neko, because TogaQ had worked until late into the night to get something done. Thanks to a secluded area at the Tokyopop-booth we had the chance to chat a while about their work and „In these Words“, the story that introduced them to their German fans. ![]() At the Connichi in Kassel I had the pleasure of meeting the two wonderful women who are „Guilt/Pleasure“: the author Kichiku Neko (KN) and the artist TogaQ (TQ). ![]() ![]() ![]() Ilonka found her initials Georgina Ballard (her maiden name) carved into a tree. ![]() She's wearing a wig because she has cancer, and she has a tattoo because she was part of the cult when she was young. Stanton is really Athena, the daughter of the original Paragon cult leader, Aceso. He would go home to live his life, just like Sandra did at the end of season 1. Spence - his prognosis would no longer be terminal thanks to advancements in HIV treatment in the late '90s.Christopher Pike novels - stories that would have been told at The Midnight Club include Remember Me and possibly Monster.Ilonka - gets a new roommate, who takes Anya's old bed.Only the patients ever saw him as he offered them kind words before they died. The Janitor - is confirmed to be Death.Amesh - dies early in the season from his glioblastoma.Let's run through the key plot points that would have been fleshed out in season 2: ![]() So I'm writing this blog as our official second season," Flanagan wrote. "My biggest disappointment is that we left so many story threads open, holding them back for the hypothetical second season, which is always a gamble. With so many story threads to tie up, Flanagan instead took to Tumblr to post a detailed rundown of what would have happened to the members of The Midnight Club in season 2. ![]() ![]() ![]() La planète des singes ( 1963 trans Xan Fielding as Planet of the Apes 1963 vt Monkey Planet 1964) is a witty, philosophical tale à la Voltaire, full of irony and compassion, quite unlike the later film adaptation, Planet of the Apes ( 1968), which used only the book's initial premise and lost its Satirical point, which is most effectively conveyed when the astronaut protagonists of the tale, who reminisce about the events portrayed, turn out themselves to be apes, in a reversal of the implications of the usual Apes as Human narrative. ![]() Boulle uses moral fable to pinpoint human absurdities, and his relatively large body of work in the sf genre is a good illustration of this method. His experience of the Orient permeated much of his early work, which was generally not sf Le pont sur la rivière Kwaï ( 1952 trans Xan Fielding as The Bridge on the River Kwai 1954) remains his best-known novel. (1912-1994) French author who trained as an electrical engineer and spent eight years in Malaysia as a planter and soldier. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not only from a majority of the manga I have read, but as well as what Shakespear wrote them as being originally. The characters are different, and relatively unique. ![]() Once I had actually read and finished, however, I was glad I did. I had put off reading this manga ( as well as watching the anime ), in spite of many people telling me of their enjoyment over both. The characters in this manga are actually quite a bit different than how Shakespeare originally wrote them! Which is something I enjoyed. In some places it looks odd or lacks details, or is just bland to look at in general. It's not very stunning nor breathtaking, nor anything that's very different from any other manga. In the very end, I found that the twists were interesting, but not enough to bring myself to a point that I found myself extremely fond of, nor completely understanding of, what happened. ![]() Towards various different aspects and events that happened, I was questioning myself and what I'd read, as well as rereading/glancing it over. Said factors are both unique and confusing. There are quite a few factors, however, that claim difference between the two. Story-wise Romeo x Juliet, is indeed another tale based off that of William Shakespeare's work " Romeo and Juliet ". ![]() ![]() While various scenes depicting visits to psychologists later in life make it clear that Bechdel's childhood left a troubling mark on her adult life, the book ends on an uplifting note, concluding with the lines, "There was a certain thing I did not get from my mother. In exploring her mother's lack of warmth, Bechdel supplements her own recollections with insights from the psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, particularly with reference to his notion of the true self and the false self and his theory on transitional objects. The book is Bechdel's attempt to come to grips with her relationship with her mother, an unaffectionate amateur actor trapped in a marriage to a closeted homosexual. The book covers events that occurred before she was born all the way up to the process of editing Are You My Mother? itself. ![]() The dream is then interpreted and explained in the context of various events in Bechdel's life, jumping backwards and forwards in time in doing so. Synopsis Īre You My Mother? is composed of seven chapters, each introduced by a description of a dream that Bechdel had. Its title alludes to the 1960 children's picture book Are You My Mother? by P. The book interweaves memoir with psychoanalysis and exploration of various literary works, particularly Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. ![]() ![]() The book is a companion piece to her earlier work Fun Home, which deals with her relationship with her father. Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama is a 2012 graphic memoir written and illustrated by Alison Bechdel, about her relationship with her mother. ![]() |