![]() ![]() Old Man Logan is the best Wolverine story bar none. Just when I’d written off Jeff Lemire he comes out with a really good superhero comic - and of course it’d be for a fellow Canuck like Wolverine! It didn't blow me away, but I thought it was a pretty decent start for this title, and I'm definitely interested in reading more. ![]() More hijinks ensue as Wolverine insists that he needs to kill off people that no longer exist, and eventually Old Man Captain America steps in to slap some sense into him. Confused, Logan goes to lick his wounds at his old friend Hawkeye's house. Of course, it's not his style to ask questions first, so Cho is forced to gently break all of his ribs, and send him packing with a little internal bleeding. I'm asking myself the same question, old guy. ![]() His list of Who To Kill leads to a confrontation with the new (and Totally Awesome) Hulk.īut wait? Who's this new kid? Where's Banner?! So, like an unhinged Santa, Logan is making his list and checking it twice. Yay! Now he can stop his dystopian future from ever happening! Instead of sensibly realizing that he's been transported to a different earth, he assumes that he's traveled to his past and been give a second chance of sorts. ![]() Old Man Logan wakes up naked in the 616 universe with no memory of where he is, or how he got there. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive By Carole Boston Weatherford, Illustrated by Eric Velasquez Jesse Owens grew up during the time of Jim Crow laws, but adversity didn’t stop him. ![]() He was chosen to compete in the Summer Olympics in Nazi Germany where Adolf Hitler was promoting the idea of “Aryan superiority.” Owens’s winning streak at the games humiliated Hitler and crushed the myth of racial supremacy once and for all. Owens defied the odds to become a sensational student athlete, eventually running track for Ohio State. As a boy he worked several jobs: delivering groceries and working in a shoe repair shop to make ends meet. Born in rural Alabama under the oppressive Jim Crow laws, Owens’s family suffered many hardships. ![]() But the life of Jesse Owens is much more than a sports story. Who Was Jesse Owens By James Buckley, Jr., Illustrated by Gregory Copeland At the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, track and field star Jesse Owens ran himself straight into international glory by winning four gold medals. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In one Philadelphia area, for instance, “more than half the women in the ward were single, widowed, or separated, and this imperiled the newly fledged black family”-imperiled it because so many of those unencumbered women were determined to live on their own terms, having begun a journey to freedom that was ongoing. The population, writes the author, was young and in many cases disproportionately female, with liberating follow-on consequences. Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route, 2007, etc.) examines the many ways in which (mostly) young black women tried to live their lives within the confines of new urban enclaves such as Harlem and West Philadelphia, from which Italian and Jewish immigrants had moved on and into which newcomers from the South were streaming. A provocative study of urban African-American women a century and more ago.Ĭharacterizing her work as an “account of the wayward,” literary scholar Hartman (English/Columbia Univ. ![]() ![]() It’s easy to sympathize with her, and it’s heartbreaking to see all she has to do just to stay afloat and stay safe while all of these new things are happening around her. She basically has to start life from scratch after aging out of foster care and going to community college while homeless. ![]() The length ends up hurting it-it’s a fairly long book, but so much of it could have been edited out or paced better.Ĭrystal Blue is a good character to start a story with because she’s so fiercely independent. Though I got invested in Crystal as a main character and was rooting for her until the end, I don’t think there’s much that is special or noteworthy about this story that we haven’t already read in hundreds of other books. I haven’t read a longer urban fantasy story in a while, so I was excited to dig into this one. Neither was her unusual appetite for meat. She also learns that the beast her mother died protecting her from wasn’t just a part of her imagination. After recovering from an almost fatal car accident she soon learns that there are definitely more than just animals and humans in the world. Sure, there were some instances where she wondered if she were something more, but what more could she be other than a foster kid from Nevada? There’s no such things as vampires and witches…right?Īfter abruptly leaving home to study Zoology in California, Crystal runs into Alveya Tera, a beautiful, and, yet, dangerous member of the mysterious Josbryn family. ![]() ![]() As far as Crystal Knew, she was just a normal girl. ![]() ![]() After I finished The Falconer was one of those few times. There have been few times when I finish a book, close it, and stare at the cover in awe of what I have just finished reading. How much is she willing to lose – and just how far will Aileana go for revenge? ![]() She’s determined to track down the faery who murdered her mother, and to destroy any who prey on humans in the city’s many dark alleyways.īut the balance between high society and her private war is a delicate one, and as the fae infiltrate the ballroom and Aileana’s father returns home, she has decisions to make. ![]() Armed with modified percussion pistols and explosives, she sheds her aristocratic facade every night to go hunting. Now it’s the 1844 winter season and Aileana slaughters faeries in secret, in between the endless round of parties, tea and balls. Lady Aileana Kameron, the only daughter of the Marquess of Douglas, was destined for a life carefully planned around Edinburgh’s social events – right up until when a faery killed her mother. ![]() How: A copy of this novel was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. What: The Falconer (The Falconer #1) by Elizabeth May ![]() ![]() ![]() Fifty years after Interaction's initial publication, this new edition presents a significantly expanded selection of close to sixty color studies alongside Albers's original text, demonstrating such principles as color relativity, intensity, and temperature vibrating and vanishing boundaries and the illusion of transparency and reversed grounds. With over a quarter of a million copies sold in its various editions since 1963, Interaction of Color remains an essential resource on color, as pioneering today as when Albers first created it. Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a limited silkscreen edition with 150 color plates, Interaction of Color first appeared in paperback in 1971, featuring ten color studies chosen by Albers, and has remained in print ever since. ![]() Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this influential book presents Albers's singular explanation of complex color theory principles. ![]() Josef Albers's Interaction of Color is a masterwork in art education. Interaction of Color (4th ed., paperback) by Josef Albers forward by Nicholas Fox Weber The 50th anniversary edition of a classic text, featuring an expanded selection of color studies. ![]() ![]() ![]() On August 11, 2017, the show was cancelled after one season. Stevie Nicks re-recorded an acoustic version of her Fleetwood Mac song " Gypsy" to serve as the show's theme song. Moreover, Lisa Rubin serves as executive producer and showrunner. In February 2016, Sam Taylor-Johnson was announced as the director for the first two episodes of the series, in addition to an executive producer. The first season comprises 10 episodes and was released on June 30, 2017. Billy Crudup co-stars as her husband Michael. Naomi Watts stars as Jean Holloway, a psychologist who secretly infiltrates the private lives of her patients. Gypsy is an American drama streaming television series created by Lisa Rubin for Netflix. ![]() ![]() ![]() This beloved series, read in schools across the world, has inspired two motion pictures and a Broadway musical. ![]() Whether it is for readers who are experiencing Percy's funny and thrilling adventures for the first time, or for fans who want to devour the saga again, this gift will be prized by readers aged 8-80. 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