![]() ![]() ![]() One coffee shop boast of “a mischievous blend with notes of fermented apricot and polished concrete” another is staffed by “translucent stable boys” who “leak cold brew from crystal tanks” a third offers free coffee but charges by the number of pages you write of your screenplay. McPhail laces his middle-class, not-quite-adult life with satire. follows Nick, a city-dwelling illustrator who mixes his own projects with ad agency work and strikes poses in coffee shops and craft-beer bars, while feeling like there must be something more to existence. ![]() This clever, thoughtful debut graphic novel shows that he can produce extended narratives with just as much panache as his single-panel cartoons. He started drawing for Private Eye while still at university, and sketches regularly for the New Yorker his Instagram feed is a parade of sharp ideas. Will McPhail’s funny, shrewd cartoons often feature animals – amorous crocodiles, sly mice and bickering lizards – and cast a curious eye on human behaviour. ![]()
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To say I was eagerly awaiting book 2 is an understatement. And on top of that, Bitty's time at Samwell is quickly coming to an end.It's two full hockey seasons packed with big wins and high stakes!Ī collection of the second half of the mega-popular webcomic series of the same name, Check, Please!: Sticks and Scones is the last in a hilarious and stirring two-volume coming-of-age story about hockey, bros, and trying to find yourself during the best four years of your life. Raise your hand if you fell deeply in love with Bitty in book 1? And by deeply in love I mean in the most platonic of ways because OBV we are all shipping him with Jack! See why this was the perfect follow up!Ĭheck, Please!, Book 2: Sticks & Sconesby Ngozi UkazuĮric Bittle is heading into his junior year at Samwell University, and not only does he have new teammates―he has a brand new boyfriend! Bitty and Jack must navigate their new, secret, long-distance relationship, and decide how to reveal their relationship to friends and teammates. Review: Check, Please!: Sticks and Scones by Ngozi Ukazu ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A portrait of the excesses of America’s second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super elite, and a relentless investigation of the naked greed and indifference to human suffering that built one of the world’s great fortunes. It is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling. This is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Cap d’Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C.Įmpire of Pain chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their company, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability. Presents a portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, who built their fortune on the sale of Valium and later sponsored the creation and marketing. ![]() The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing Ox圜ontin, a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and sciences. The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions: Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing. ![]() ![]() ![]() The reader is compelled to continue along to figure out how Louise appears to have knowledge of her personal future. The story alternates between Louise and her future husband working on understanding the aliens’ languages with Louise speaking to her future daughter. These beings, referred to as heptapods because of their seven limbs, have a different language for both written and spoken words. It is narrated by Louise, a linguistics expert, who is asked by the military to help as translator between humans and aliens who have landed on Earth. ![]() ![]() Beautifully written and highly thought-provoking, it explores the argument of free will vs. Many of you may be familiar with “Story of Your Life,” the short that is the basis for the sci-fi film Arrival. I’m definitely putting it on my list of movies to watch. All of them were intelligently written, and I’m still wrapping my head around the deep philosophical questions they asked. Ted Chiang’s Stories of Your Life and Others was so brilliant, that I loved nearly every single story in this collection. Whenever I read a collection of short stories, I typically have one or two favorites. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though nearly everything has changed, one constant remains: his friend Vidocq, a 200-year-old Frenchman who has been keeping vigil for the young magician’s return. Armed with a fortune-telling coin, a black bone knife, and an infernal key, Stark is determined to destroy the magic circle-led by the conniving and powerful Mason Faim-that stole his life. ![]() Now, the hitman who goes only by Stark has escaped and is back in L.A. Sandman Slim - (2009-2021) Publisher: When he was 19, James Stark was considered to be one of the greatest natural magicians, a reputation that got him demon-snatched and sent downtown-to Hell-where he survived as a gladiator, a sideshow freak entertaining Satan’s fallen angels. Great news for fans of Warren Ellis, Charlaine Harris, Kim Harrison, and Simon R. Lovecraft, part Christopher Moore, part Jim Butcher, and totally, unabashedly dark, twisted, and hilarious. Spellbinding, utterly remarkable tale of a vengeful magician/hitman’s return from hell is part H.P. Narrative style: Present-tense first person voice told by James Stark. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here, as before, are lyric (beginning with medieval song), satire, hymn, ode, sonnet, elegy, ballad. ![]() This completely fresh selectionīrings in new poems and poets from all ages, and extends the range by another half-century, to include many twentieth-century figures not featured before - among them Philip Larkin and Samuel Beckett, Thom Gunn and Elaine Feinstein - right up to Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney. ![]() The Oxford Book of English Verse, created in 1900 by Arthur Quiller-Couch and selected anew in 1972 by Helen Gardner, has established itself as the foremost anthology of English poetry: ample in span, liberal in the kinds of poetry presented. Here is a treasure-house of over seven centuries of English poetry, chosen and introduced by Christopher Ricks, whom Auden described as 'exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding'. Poems that are also translations are included. Christopher Ricks's 'Oxford Book of English Verse' - third in succession, after Arthur Quiller-Couch's original volume (1900) and Helen Gardner's new selection (1972) - is a treasury from more than seven centuries of the poet's art. ![]() ![]() Is it probably not appropriate to feel this way about a fictional character’s suicide contemplations, but with material like this I couldn’t help it: “I could overdose on pills, but I remembered, as I went through the bathroom cabinets, that my dad doesn’t keep many pills in the house. Somehow, Sales has managed to make this section both achingly heartbreaking and… quirkily funny. On the first day of school, Elise feels like her plan has failed when things don’t quickly turn around, and… She studies ‘in’ celebrities, trendy clothes, and popular TV shows and movies Elise, however, cannot bring herself to listen to pop music, and she clings fiercely, but secretly, to her Pixies and LCD Soundsystem. Before her sophomore year, Elise decides to take on her own popularity as a sort of summer project and she sets off to become versed in mainstream pop culture. In a refreshingly funny but sad voice, Elise Dembowski describes her life as a high school student who just doesn’t fit in. ![]() ![]() It was probably my favorite read of 2013. I know my review won’t do this amazing little book full justice. ![]() Happy New Year! I think it’s pretty fitting that my review of This Song Will Save Your Life will be my first post of 2014. ![]() ![]() ![]() Relieved that I’m spared this round, I make my way toward the net, my Asics squeaking against the gym floor. “But it’s crucial for you girls to be aggressive. ![]() It’s called Hyperventilate.”Ī chorus of groans echoes throughout the gym because yes, it’s exactly as fun as it sounds. “Okay, ladies, we’re going to wrap it up with a drill some of you will remember well. I don’t think I like the way it makes me feel, but when I started, I couldn’t stop. ![]() “I think you’re going to need a new notebook,” she says, her face breaking into a smile. “Well?” I prompt, impatient to hear her thoughts and annoyed that I even care. My heart thumps harder, hoping she doesn’t catch any particularly incriminating information, but then she’s handing it back to me. Some are written like notes you’d pass in class, some read more like poems, and others are just incoherent ramblings written sideways, upside down, and everything in between. She takes the notebook from me and flips through the pages quickly with her thumb, eyebrows pulling together at the sheer volume of words. “I just want to see that you’re filling pages.” “I’m not going to read anything, remember?” she reminds me. ![]() ![]() Behind the scenes, she also works to incorporate scientific insights into film, television, and popular culture to help normalize mental health issues and educate the public about how the brain works. ![]() Her science communication work has taken her all over the world, from meeting people with extraordinary skills for Discovery Channel’s Superhuman Showdown to cocreating and hosting a science-comedy show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. But she has broadened her career to carve out time to host TV shows, guest star on podcasts, and interview celebrities.īerlin, an associate clinical professor of neuroscience and psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, has worked with big names including Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Jason Sudeikis, Chelsea Handler, and Deepak Chopra. Neuroscientist and clinical psychologist Heather Berlin, PhD, MPH, does what many of her colleagues do: she treats patients and conducts research. ![]() |