No longer human ito7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Ito's universe is also very cruel and capricious his characters often find themselves victims of malevolent unnatural circumstances for no discernible reason or punished out of proportion for minor infractions against an unknown and incomprehensible natural order. For example: A girl's hair rebels against being cut off and runs off with her head Girls deliberately catch a disease that makes them beautiful but then murder each other a woman treats her skin with lotion so she can take it off and look at her muscles, but the skin dissolves and she tries to steal her sister's skin, etc. The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. Nevertheless, upon graduation he trained as a dental technician, and until the early 1990s he juggled his dental career with his increasingly successful hobby - even after being selected as the winner of the prestigious Umezu prize for horror manga. ![]() Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1963, he was inspired from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's comics and thus took an interest in drawing horror comics himself. ![]()
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The mist of avalon book series7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() When she falls victim to Viviane’s fate machine, she runs when her life is essentially brought to ruins. Morgaine, Igraine’s daughter by her first husband, the Duke of Cornwall, and to a certain extent, Viviane’s adopted daughter, becomes a priestess of Avalon. She has strong convictions and even a few regrets especially for her family and the strains put on them by their fates. ![]() Viviane is strong, not likeable, but admirable. Especially when she finds out she’s really just a pawn for Viviane, her sister and priestess of Avalon, who has already once married her off to an older man and plans to marry her to the man who will be high king so she can bear him a son. Igraine, the eventual wife of Uther Pendragon and the mother of King Arthur, is miserable and it’s hard to blame her. Yes, it’s the lazy way but this is already a very long post.Ĭharacter-wise - I love the strong women. ![]() If you want a more detailed description, I give you this. It closely follows with the generally known legend and all the characters are there. It may be a little disjointed but I’ll try to pull it back together at the end when I finish up this little experiment.įirst, for those unfamiliar with this book, The Mists of Avalon is a re-telling of Arthurian legend from the perspective of the women. Over the course of the seven weeks I spent reading The Mists of Avalon, I started writing down what I liked/didn’t like about this book and a few thoughts that I didn’t want to slip away. ![]() The messenger lois lowry7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Matty, however, is able to go through the paths in the forest without being harmed by it, so the village leader tasks him with delivering messages to the other towns in the region. For example, it warns people by stinging them with twigs, and when the warnings are ignored and the forest is entered again, the intruder is killed. Matty's town is surrounded by a mysterious forest, which seems to be alive and deadly. They have changed Matty, who once was one of those refugees, from being "the fiercest of the fierce" to a decent young man. Matty, the protagonist, is a teenage boy who lives with his blind guardian called Seer in a village simply called "Village." The community is a utopian place where the selfless inhabitants help each other as much as possible they even provide the constant stream of new arrivals with food, clothes, shelter, and education. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() Notable american women ben marcus7/8/2023 ![]() As the collection progresses, the stories get weirder, the narrators more hermetic, the landscapes more allegorical, until we reach the final story, a 40-page episode narrated entirely from inside the head of a man walking down a corridor in pursuit of a female colleague with whom he is obsessed. ![]() The stories that make up the first part of Leaving the Sea take place in a recognisable American landscape with identifiable characters who move through space and time in a more or less conventional mode. He is associate professor in the School of Arts at Columbia University, where he teaches creative writing. He is the editor of The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories (2004) and the forthcoming Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories. His fiction, essays and reviews have appeared in publications including Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Believer and The New York Times. ![]() Ben Marcus is the author of four books of fiction, The Age of Wire and String (1995), Notable American Women (2002), The Flame Alphabet (2012), and his latest collection of short stories, Leaving the Sea. ![]() Loki agent of asgard trust me7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() More importantly, the internet believes Loki is being written as LGBT+, probably somewhere in the “+” part - a good bet is genderfluid and bisexual. Now he’s trying to rewrite his own story and be able to play a new role. However, I’m a sucker for stories about stories and the magic of storytelling, and Loki has this in spades - he was locked into his role as a villain and couldn’t escape. Loki, generally drawn as a creepy old man, has been youthified for this series in a pretty blatant appeal to Tom Hiddleston fangirls, and I don’t really think the series is going to struggle like Ms. Loki is about, well, Loki, and a bunch of other Scandinavian-appearing characters. Marvel every month because it’s awesome, but also because it’s an extremely rare example of diversity and I want it to do well. I can’t afford to buy many comics on a monthly basis, and if I’m actually going to buy something at all instead of waiting for the library to buy collected editions, it’s because I want to support the endeavour. This one was a little borderline for me in terms of monthly buying. Everybody and their uncle said I should read Loki: Agent of Asgard, so I finally started, and yes, it is awesome! ![]() ![]() This effect is more pronounced because of how it differs with his predecessor’s direct approach. Perhaps the more critical adjustment Montgomery has introduced, however, is how his relationships with his players has expressed across-the-board improvement. Montgomery has installed a system - shot quality over quantity, activation of the weak-side defenseman, quicker closing in the defensive zone, hanging onto pucks to improve offensive looks - that produced the best regular-season team in NHL history. ![]() Because I think you can see that true emotion in someone’s face matters.” We like to do stuff face-to-face rather than over the phone. “We communicate whether we’re giving unfortunate news, like I had to deliver to Smitty, or whether we’re congratulating someone. Montgomery believed a phone call or text would not do to break the news to a respected teammate, even one who had become a spare part. When Smith opened the door, Montgomery told the 33-year-old right wing of the trade. ![]() That afternoon, the first-year Bruins coach went to Smith’s room. ![]() A shorter summa7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() If you want to know about an update on the stock market, or the third season of your favorite show, QuillBot has you covered. ![]() Whether you have a news article, a research paper, or even a confusing paragraph, the summarizer tool will help you get the information that you need. The summarizing tool can be used with a multitude of sources. ![]() Users are also able to control how long they want the paragraph to be using the summary length slider. Paragraph mode takes the input and condenses it into a paragraph that combines elements of summarizing and paraphrasing, creating a naturally flowing text that explains key points. You can use the summary length slider to change how many sentences you receive. The Key Sentences mode takes the input and shows the most important sentences within it. SUMMA OF THE SUMMA Hardcover Januby Kreeft (Author) 197 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 22.49 Read with Our Free App Hardcover from 175.00 1 Used from 175.00 Paperback 29.95 29 Used from 8.32 15 New from 27. There are two automatic summarization types: Key Sentences and Paragraph. Our AI uses natural language processing to grab critical information while maintaining the original context. QuillBot Summarize is an online summarization tool that allows you to take an article, paper, or document and condense it into the most important information at a click of a button. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when he discovers that Penelope has secrets of her own, this elusive bachelor must decide. there is suddenly the girl haunting his dreams. At the time of its release in 2002, Romancing Mr. But when Colin returns to London from a trip abroad, he discovers nothing in his life is quite the same - especially Penelope Featherington! The girl who was always simply. Bridgerton was named one of the Ten Best Romances of 2002 by the editors at. and fears she doesn't know him at all.Ĭolin Bridgerton is tired of being thought nothing but an empty-headed charmer, tired of the neverending sameness of his life, and, most of all, tired of everyone's preoccupation with the notorious gossip columnist Lady Whistledown, who can't seem to publish an edition without mentioning him in the first paragraph. ![]() ![]() After half a lifetime of watching Colin Bridgerton from afar, she thinks she knows everything about him, until she stumbles across his deepest secret. Penelope Featherington has secretly adored her best friend's brother for. Lady Whistledown's Society Papers, March 1824 The fourth book in Julia Quinns globally bestselling, Regency-set, Bridgerton Family series, now the inspiration for the Netflix series Bridgerton by Shonda. "Everyone knows that Colin Bridgerton is the most charming man in London." Romancing Mister Bridgerton (Bridgerton Series 4) by Julia Quinn 4.4 (133) Hardcover 20.99 27.99 Save 25 Hardcover 20.99 Paperback 14.49 eBook 7.99 Audiobook 0.00 Large Print 21.99 View All Available Formats & Editions Premium Members get an additional 10 off AND collect stamps to save with B&N Rewards. ![]() The beauty in the breaking7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() The market is undergoing a growing transformation from the boost given by social networks to the technological professionalization of services. ![]() alone, beauty tech (as it is sometimes called) revenues are estimated to have reached US$1.35 billion last year. In Latin America, new startups have been trying to join the digital transformation of the beauty industry, already well established in the rest of the world. ![]() Or there are those who, as in other industries, got used to the fact that today all these services must be two clicks away and at home. Studies point to all kinds of changes in usage and consumption, from today’s people opting for fewer but more premium products to the fact that because of covid masks, more eyelash masks were sold than lipsticks.Īfter the reopenings, another reality was also apparent: the waiting lines outside the beauty salons for the long-awaited haircut or hair dye. Although cosmetics sales initially declined during 2020, different reports show an upswing in 2021, with a global market value of more than US$500 billion. One of the markets transformed by the pandemic is the beauty market. Three Latin American startups, all of whom agree that “everything is still to be done” in the region, told us how they are taking advantage of the opportunities in this new industry. ![]() Technology is transforming the massive beauty market. ![]() Embassy row book 17/7/2023 ![]() ![]() WOW! This was another book that was not at all what I expected and I mean that in a good way. Because on Embassy Row, the countries of the world stand like dominoes, and one wrong move can make them all fall down. and if she doesn't stop it, Grace isn't the only one who will get hurt. But they can't control Grace - no more than Grace can control what she knows or what she needs to do. Not Alexei, the Russian boy next door, who is keeping his eye on Grace for reasons she neither likes nor understands.Įverybody wants Grace to put on a pretty dress and a pretty smile, blocking out all her unpretty thoughts. ![]() Not her new friends, who all live on Embassy Row. Not her grandfather, a powerful ambassador. ![]() Someday she is going to find the killer and make him pay.Īs certain as Grace is about these facts, nobody else believes her - so there's no one she can completely trust. Grace Blakely is absolutely certain of three things:ģ. Synopsis: A new series of global proportions - from master of intrigue, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Ally Carter. ![]() |