![]() ![]() If I had one complaint about this DVD set, it's that the music is recorded so much louder than the voice track, and is difficult to find the right volume level to listen to. ![]() Pepper" (broadcasted, but unreleased in video) you should get pretty much the whole picture of the Beatles. Watch this anthology with video "The Compleat Beatles", "Making of A Hard Days Night" and "The making of Sgt. ![]() This DVD set contains additional comments by Niel Aspenall, and George Martin that's never been seen elsewhere which reveals the back stories about the production of Beatles' music, their earlier days on the road etc. Pepper that much than George himself ? In this sense this anthology is very important, because all the information comes directly from the Beatles themselves. Someone had to make this mini-series, and who would be better than the Beatles themselves ? For instance, who could tell with more believability that George didn't like the album Sgt. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Dory's antics include stabbing her doctor with a lollipop stick as revenge for a shot. There are sweet lessons along the way about being part of a loving family. (The opening page defines "FANTASMAGORY" as "a dream-like state where real life and imagination are blurred together.") Hanlon shows much understated empathy for the characters and what makes kids tick, from Dory's overactive imagination and nonstop energy to the long suffering of her sibs who just want to be left in peace. When her siblings ignore her, she fills the house with imaginary (mostly cute) monsters. The first installment of a new chapter-book series, it features an intrepid 6-year-old who's about to go into first grade and doesn't let being the baby of the family slow her down. Parents need to know that Dory Fantasmagory is an entertaining story drawn from a lot of real-life experience by author/illustrator Abby Hanlon, a former first-grade teacher. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sam can’t resist trying to find out more about the kid who died and who now seems to guide their investigation. ![]() Yet the past keeps roaring back-in Sam’s memories and in the form of a thirty-year-old suspicious death that took place in Sam’s new home. They’re certain they don’t have much time left.īut Sam's life seems to be on the upswing after meeting several new friends and a potential love interest in Shep, their next-door neighbor. Now, as Sam’s own nineteenth birthday approaches, their recent near-death experience haunts them. ![]() Sam Sylvester has long collected stories of half-lived lives-of kids who died before they turned nineteen. In this queer contemporary YA mystery, a nonbinary autistic teen realizes they must not only solve a 30-year-old mystery but also face the demons lurking in their past in order to live a satisfying life. Here’s something rare-a suspenseful story that also feels like a hug.” -Sarah Glenn Marsh, author of the Reign of the Fallen series “Look no further for your next favorite read, because The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester has it all: a gripping murder mystery that will keep you turning pages, ghosts, romance, and a treasure trove of queer characters with depth and heart. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile in 1999 London, physicists Kearney and Tate-remembered in 2400 as the fathers of interstellar flight-are getting nowhere. ![]() 25th-century characters include a woman who's sacrificed almost everything to merge with the AI "mathematics" of a crack military spacecraft a former daredevil who once surfed black holes but has retreated into a virtual reality tank the lady proprietor of the Circus of Pathet Lao, with an alien freakshow and a hidden agenda and a variety of raunchy, smelly, gene-sculpted lowlife, some comic, some menacing. A whole dead-end culture is based on beachcombing this rubble of industrial archaeology. Along its accessible fringe, the "Beach", solar systems are littered with crazy, abandoned devices used to probe the Tract since before life began on Earth. ![]() Space-going humanity is the latest of many civilizations to be baffled by the impenetrable Kefahuchi Tract that vast stellar region where an unshielded singularity makes physics itself unreliable. ![]() Light marks that fine writer M John Harrison's first return to the heartland of SF-including spaceships and hair-raising interstellar chases-since his apocalyptic anti-space opera The Centauri Device (1975). ![]() ![]() ![]() My favorite of the bunch, Wally Wood’s Disneyland Memorial Orgy, shows - among other things - Goofy fucking Minnie as she leans against a cash register, Tinkerbell performing a strip tease, and the seven dwarves assaulting Snow White, all while dollar signs beam sunnily from the magic kingdom’s trademark castle. “There’s also something weirdly liberating about some of the images. His main contribution to Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings, “Disneyland Memorial Orgy,” is very profane indeed. It seems Wally Wood couldn’t resist the temptation. Interestingly, in our interview Michael Paulus said, “I think if it was Disney, the tendency would have been to do something profane.” The other, “Repeat Offender,” reviews Aaron McGruder’s latest Boondocks collection, All the Rage. One, “Low-Calorie Cheescake,” is a review of Last Gasp’s Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings. ![]() Meanwhile, over at, I have a review essay on Sandman Mystery Theater: Sleep of Reason.Īnd I have two pieces in the most recent Comics Journal. To see Paulus’ art, he has a gallery on his website. We talk about cartoon characters and, specfifically, their skeletons. I have an interview with the artist Michael Paulus on the Gobshite Quarterly website. ![]() ![]() ![]() Will their training be enough to help them combat a threat whose powers greatly outnumber theirs? But as she’s finding her footing, Sunny and her friends are asked by the magical authorities to help track down a career criminal who knows magic, too. Soon she's part of a quartet of magic students, studying the visible and invisible, learning to change reality. And then she discovers something amazing-she is a "free agent" with latent magical power. ![]() There seems to be no place where she fits in. She's a terrific athlete, but can't go out into the sun to play soccer. ![]() Her features are West African, but she's albino. Sunny Nwazue lives in Nigeria, but she was born in New York City. Perfect for fans of Children of Blood and Bone! Her characters take your heart and squeeze it her worlds open your mind to new things." - Neil Gaiman, author of The Graveyard Book and American GodsĪffectionately dubbed "the Nigerian Harry Potter," Akata Witch weaves together a heart-pounding tale of magic, mystery, and finding one's place in the world. "Nnedi Okorafor writes glorious futures and fabulous fantasies. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite Symbol being the third book, Langdon will actually be a prequel, giving an actor younger than Hanks the chance to stare seriously at symbols while piecing together conspiracy theories that sound like Reddit but are actually real (in the books). Meanwhile, Inferno was the fourth book, meaning they skipped over Symbol entirely. When Hollywood came calling, they did Da Vinci first, Angels second. Now this is a bit confusing, so stay with us: As The Da Vinci Code was the first Langdon book to become a sensation, it was the second to be published, after Angels & Demons, which initially sold pretty well, too. The show will be structured around The Lost Symbol, the third Langdon novel, and since its paperback edition runs some 671 pages, that should be enough to fill a season, at least, without having to Stretch Armstrong the source too much. That’s exactly what’s happening: As per Deadline, NBC has greenlit a pilot for Langdon, which will following its puzzle nut on the small screen. It’s time for Langdon to start snooping weird conspiracies on television. Though the third Langdon movie, Inferno, disappointed at the box office (despite letting star Tom Hanks have a better hairdo), that was four years ago. The Da Vinci Code may kick off with one of the clumsiest first sentences in literature - and the successive ones aren’t much better - but it’s been unstoppable juggernauts lo these two last decades, turning author Dan Brown into a bestseller and making a legend out of its hero, renowned symbologist Robert Langdon. ![]() ![]() She tells the ship's AI, referred to simply as Ship, to keep a narrative of the voyage. One hundred sixty years and approximately seven generations later, it is beginning its deceleration into the Tau Ceti system to begin colonization of a planet's moon, an Earth analog, which has been named Aurora.ĭevi, the ship's de facto chief engineer and leader, is concerned about the decaying infrastructure and biology of the ship: systems are breaking down, each generation has lower intelligence test scores than the last, and bacteria are mutating and evolving at a faster rate than humans. It includes twenty-four self-contained biomes and an average population of two thousand people. ![]() traveling at 108,000,000 km/hr or 10% the speed of light). Plot Ī generation ship is launched from Earth in 2545 at 0.1 c (i.e. The novel's primary narrating voice is the starship's artificial intelligence. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel concerns a generation ship built in the style of a Stanford torus traveling to Tau Ceti in order to begin a human colony. Aurora is a 2015 novel by American science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson. ![]() ![]() Set in Pompeii during the first century AD, just a scant few years before the famous volcanic eruption that will encase the city in lava and ash, this is nevertheless a story that is positively teeming with life. ![]() But it’s also like almost nothing else that exists in this genre at present, carefully drawing contemporary parallels that will feel deeply familiar in a world where modern women still must fight far too hard for autonomy, equality, and the right to feel both safe in and in charge of their own bodies. Yes, The Wolf Den is brutal in its violence and unflinching in its depiction of the many horrors and indignities poor women, slaves, and other marginalized groups of this time must have faced. ![]() (Thank goodness it’s set to be the first installment in a trilogy, is what I’m saying.)Īn incredibly well-written and clearly deeply researched tale, Harper’s debut is both a fascinating tale in its own right and an important reclaiming of the sorts of stories from history we far too rarely get to hear. Clocking in at nearly 500 pages, her novel The Wolf Den is an enthralling, exhilarating read from its first page to its last, rooted in both archeological fact and emotional truth. ![]() But clearly, none of us saw Elodie Harper coming. On paper, the idea that a historical novel about the lives of a group of prostitutes in a Pompeii brothel is actually one of the year’s most strident tales of female empowerment seems as though it should be fairly ridiculous. ![]() ![]() If you get offended easily, then you probably will. This story contains M/M sexitimes and horrible puns. Everyone knows werewolves hate mages, but Bryan is determined to prove everyone wrong, even the mage in question. There's a good chance Max might be reason enough to leave the closet, if he can only get the man to go on a date. Unfortunately, there's something oddly appealing about the huge, muscled Beta visiting his office for processing.īryan AKA Biff (yeah, he knows) is gay but he's not out. ![]() The job sucks and he's in no mood to cope with redneck biker werewolves. So he works for DURPS (the DMV for supernatural creatures) as a sumage, cleaning up other mages' messes. Max fails everything - magic, relationships, life. Carriger, presents an offbeat gay romance in which a sexy werewolf with a white knight complex meets a bad boy mage with an attitude problem. ![]() NYT bestseller Gail Carriger, writing as G. Can a gentle werewolf heal the heart of a smart-mouthed mage? ![]() |