![]() ![]() ![]() So if you’re wondering what all the hubbub is about regarding Rucka’s take on Princess Diana, here are some of his very best stories with the character over the years.īefore he started his run on Wonder Woman, in 2002, Greg Rucka’s first go-’round with the character was the graphic novel Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia. ![]() Rucka has quite a history with the character going back some 15 years, and is considered by many to be one of the definitive Wonder Woman creators of the modern era. All any of us who’ve worked on the book this last year have wanted is to serve her well, to illuminate what we so absolutely believe makes Wonder Woman such a remarkable and unique and timeless and important character.” ![]() “Writing Diana again has been an amazing experience, on the level of a dream-come-true. He announced his departure from the title via his blog, saying the following: Rucka was given the reigns of Wonder Woman for her “back to her roots” approach in DC Rebirth, and the series so far has been exactly the Princess Diana that fans have been missing since the New 52 era began. This week, Wonder Woman fans were given the bummer news that veteran comics writer Greg Rucka would be leaving the character with issue #25 this July. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She has a hard time remembering how many books she’s published since her 2010 novel “ Room” became an international bestseller. ![]() That sensation of hurtling through the story seems to reflect Donoghue’s own creative metabolism. “The Pull of the Stars” moves with the quickness of a thriller, but instead of spies and helicopters there’s nurse Julia Power in an ad hoc maternity ward. It doesn’t feel, though, like a historical novel at all. During our Zoom talk, she pulled a 1910 obstetrics book off the shelf and held its graphic illustrations of difficult births up to the camera to demonstrate what went into her story. ![]() It’s like a seagull poking through a garbage can,” Donoghue said cheerfully, her Irish accent worn soft by two decades of living in Canada. “I love researching for fictional storylines because you could just look for the interesting stuff. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Happy to be out from under a - totally fucking warranted - cloud of doubt, he settles down and resigns himself to living a solitary life. While he is initially under suspicion - because, you know, he’s a guy - the police eventually decide that he had nothing to do with Layla’s disappearance. #ButPartnersOfMissingWomenYesTheyAreLiars ![]() Which is wholly unsurprising as men are fucking liars. We are then, immediately, told that this version of events isn’t quite true. After a brief yet relatively exhaustive search, he left the rest area and went for help. When he returned from the restroom, he found her missing. He left his girlfriend, Layla, asleep in the front seat of the car. While traveling on a secluded highway at night, Finn decided to pull over and go to the bathroom at a remote rest area. ![]() This book opens with the protagonist, Finn’s, account of the night on which his live-in girlfriend went missing.Īs Finn told it, the couple was vacationing in France. Paris, I already had a sneaking suspicion as to who was going to be to blame. Martha’s going to be found in a shallow grave behind her husband’s office, traces of her blood are going to be found in his car and a review of the search history on the home computer is going to find that someone searched “how to kill your wife and get away with it” about three times a week for the last year.Īnd this belief that men are always - seriously always - to blame for the atrocities perpetrated against women translates to the page as well. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He staggers through meaningless conversations and haunts lookalike, vacuous coffee shops in the hope that he will find it there. Whether it's the barista down the street, his own family or Wren, an oncologist whose life becomes painfully tangled with his, Nick can't shake the feeling that there is some hidden realm of human interaction beyond his reach. Nick, a young illustrator, can't connect with people. ' This is a miraculous book.' Joe Dunthorne his tragicomedy will also make the heart swell.' Guardian' Brilliant. 'Beautiful, bittersweet portrait of modern life. 'Starts as a charming romantic comedy and turns into something tender and affecting about our need for connection. 'BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL OF 2021' Guardian and Irish Times The debut graphic novel by award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Will McPhail, In is intimate and accessible, a smart commentary on modern life and a joyful celebration of being human. ![]() ![]() Butler - Women's popular literature as theological discourse: a Mormon case study, 1880-1920 / Susanna Morrill - The "new woman" at the "university": gender and American Catholic identity in the Progressive Era / Kathleen Sprows Cummings - Faith, Feminism and history / Ann Braude - "Are you the white sisters or the black sisters?": women confounding categories of race and gender / Amy Koehlinger - Engendering dissent: women and American Judaism / Pamela S. Brekus - Beyond the meetinghouse: women and Protestant spirituality in early America / Janet Moore Lindman - Unrespectable saints: women of the church of God in Christ / Anthea D. ![]() Westerkamp - Revelation, witchcraft, and the danger of knowing God's secrets / Elizabeth Reis - Hail Mary down by the riverside: black and white Catholic women in early America / Emily Clark - Sarah Osborn's enlightenment: reimagining Eighteenth-Century intellectual history / Catherine A. Puritan women, spiritual power, and the question of sexuality / Marilyn J. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But the real star of the book is Ari’s mind. And though the book is more than 500 pages, the chapters are short, sometimes only one paragraph long, so the story moves quickly. Sáenz’s prose is poetic, tender and philosophical, giving even the ordinary circumstances Ari faces a kind, enchanting glow. On top of this confusion, Ari is grappling with the pressure of being gay in a world that may not accept him and trying to stand tall when all around him is news of gay death as a result of the AIDS crisis.ĭespite the heaviness of the subject matter, “Waters of the World” is an endlessly charming novel. “I live in a confusion called love,” Ari writes in his journal (which is formatted as love letters to Dante). ![]() He is sure of his feelings for Dante, but he doesn’t know how romance fits within his world. The truth, Ari finds out, is that love is hard. Even in the groggy moments of post-slumber, they are smitten. Ari and Dante wake up in the back of Ari’s pickup truck, having accidentally fallen asleep while hanging out the night before. ![]() This second book opens in the dawn of a new day - literally. Over the course of that book, Ari slowly realized that his new friend, Dante Quintana, was in love with him and that he was in love with Dante in return. In “Secrets,” readers met Aristotle Mendoza, a Mexican American teenager living in El Paso in the ’80s. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a new introduction, the author updates Charles' life to the present day. ![]() Now, in this beautiful Spanish edition of the award-winning biography, readers can follow Charles from his boyhood, when he lost his sight completely and learned to read and write music in Braille, until the age of 40, when he had become a world-renowned jazz and blues musician. Ray Charles and his soulful, passionate rhythm and melodies have been embraced around the globe for decades. ![]() As a young boy he fell in love with music, and as a man, the world fell in love with his music. ![]() ![]() It’s only Napoleon’s original vision, but he was a century ahead of his time.” Somebody has to be ruthless enough to do it, since the peoples with their ancient hatreds will never do it themselves. The balance of power is dangerous foolishness in the industrial age. The medieval jigsaw of nations is obsolete. He understands them, and he may just succeed. Hitler means to hammer out a united Europe. He uses racism because that’s the pure distillate of German romantic egotism, just as Lenin used utopian Marxism because it appealed to Russia’s messianic streak. ![]() He uses doctrines as he uses money, to get things done. I’m impressed with Hitler’s ability to use socialist prattle when necessary, and then discard it. The concentration camps are for anybody who still wants the socialist part of National Socialism." The big Nazis live like barons, like sultans. ![]() He’s frozen the German economy just as it was, smashed the labor unions, lengthened the working hours, cut the pay, and kept all the old rich crowd on top, the Krupps and Thyssens, the men who gave him the money to run for office. Hitler’s socialism was a sham to get a mob of gangsters into power. You may like it or detest it, but it’s new. ![]() The abolition of private property has created a new world. “The Russian Revolution is a radical change in history. ![]() ![]() ![]() Until he discovers the rules have changed, and he must decide to let her go or give her full access to his well-guarded life.Īs the two take a journey of discovery, secrets are revealed, which test the strength of their connection. The absence of commitment and emotional attachment in his year-long relationship with Lily was just what he needed. Haunted by his past, Adam Aquilani is a man who lives on the edge. Fresh off a broken engagement with a cheating fiancé, no-strings-attached sex was just what she needed.Įxcept one year later, she never expected their hook-ups to have consequences. The hot formula one driver is aloof, detached, and not interested in relationships. She always stands on her own, which is exactly how she entered her arrangement with Adam Aquilani. Puerto-Rican, American Liliana Serrano has never been one to let others determine her future -certainly not her pack of three overprotective brothers. ![]() The best relationships usually begin unexpectedly. ![]() ![]() ![]() She examines the rituals honoring the lares, their cult sites, and their iconography, as well as the meaning of the snakes often depicted alongside lares in paintings of gardens. She makes the case that they are not spirits of the dead, as many have argued, but rather benevolent protectorsgods of place, especially the household and the neighborhood, and of travel. In this comprehensive and richly illustrated book, the first to focus on the lares, Harriet Flower offers a strikingly original account of these gods and a new way of understanding the lived experience of everyday Roman religion.Weaving together a wide range of evidence, Flower sets forth a new interpretation of the much-disputed nature of the lares. ![]() These shrines were maintained primarily by ordinary Romans, and often by slaves and freedmen, for whom the lares cult provided a unique public leadership role. ![]() Throughout the Roman world, neighborhood street corners, farm boundaries, and household hearths featured small shrines to the beloved lares, a pair of cheerful little dancing gods. ![]() The most pervasive gods in ancient Rome had no traditional mythology attached to them, nor was their worship organized by elites. ![]() |