![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Vividly illustrated and sensitively written, Vampire Loves is alive with color, wisdom, and humor. Edgy, charming, and filled with Joann Sfar's inimitable blend of tenderness, comedy, melancholy, and philosophy, the four stories in this volume are drawn as much from the Jewish mysticism of eastern Europe as from twenty-first-century Goth culture.Īt once silly and serious, wild and poetic, Joann Sfar's disquieting tales are filled with intelligence and rich humanity. Vampire Loves follows the strange and comically romantic adventures of Ferdinand and his friends as they flirt with, seduce, cheat on, break up and make up with all manner of strange creatures, including ghosts, other vampires, tree-folk, and golems. Meet Ferdinand, a vampire who bites his victims with only one tooth in order to pass as a mosquito, who loves the music of dead singers, and who has no end of trouble trying to make sense of his relationships-some with the living, some with the undead. ![]()
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![]() The Library of America edition of Octavia Butler’s collected works gathers her 1979 masterpiece, Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century her final novel, Fledgling and her collected short stories.Īfter registration, you will receive the link via email. The Rosenbach is pleased to partner with the Library of America for this program. Part murder mystery, part fantasy thriller, Fledgling is Butler’s incomparable take on the vampire novel. In 1995 she became the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, in recognition of her achievement in creating new aspirations for the genre and for American literature. ![]() ![]() She broke new ground with books that featured complex Black female protagonists-“I wrote myself in,” she would later recall-establishing herself as one of the pioneers of the Afrofuturist aesthetic. Butler used the conventions of science fiction to explore the dangerous legacy of racism in America in harrowingly personal terms. An original and eerily prophetic writer, Octavia E. Gerry Canavan and Nisi Shawl, editors of the new Library of America edition of Octavia Butler’s works, talk about Butler’s science-fiction vampire novel, Fledgling. ![]() ![]() (about to complete Lucy's transformation into a vampire) Your impotent men with their foolish spells cannot protect you from my power.The green fairy who lives in the absinthe wants your soul. Absinthe is the aphrodisiac of the self.(helping Mina befriend a wolf) He likes you.I have crossed oceans of time to find you.(Mina sees him violating Lucy in a wolf-like form) No! Do not see me!.(as wolves howl) Ahh, listen to them! (laughs) The children of the night.And, to you, there shall be many strange things. ![]()
![]() ![]() For Christians, we are pilgrims passing through this world it is not our home, nor our final destination. We must consider the brevity of life, not knowing what will happen tomorrow, as our life is but “a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes” ( James 4:14). ![]() Our life is fleeting, so like the psalmist our prayer might be to ask the Lord to “teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom” ( Psalm 90:12). We may live our lives believing we have years to do all that we want, but the reality is none of us knows how long we have left. We are on this planet for such a short time in comparison to eternity. “So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal” ( 2 Corinthians 4:18). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Harry, with a reputation for being a player! He doesn’t always understand Audrey’s point of view, and he says the wrong things … Audrey is getting over being dumped after having sex for the first time, trying to cope with her mum having a breakdown, and she’s been distant from her friends since her break up, her life is messy – and then she meets Harry. It only happens in the movies challenges all those cliches from romantic movies, and the message they give about what love and relationships are like.Īudrey is instantly likeable, positive feminist characters are exactly what’s needed and Holly Bourne writes them so well. I’m a huge fan of Holly Bourne, and with It only happens in the movies she has written another cracker! It features pain and confusion and hope and wonder, and a ban on cheesy clichés. But that doesn’t mean things are easy.īecause real love isn’t like the movies…The greatest love story ever told doesn’t feature kissing in the snow, or racing to airports. Nobody expects Audrey and Harry to fall in love as hard and fast as they do. But there she meets wannabe film-maker Harry. Since her parents relationship imploded her mother’s been catatonic, so she takes a cinema job to get out of the house. It only happens in the movies- by Holly Bourne. ![]() ![]() This terrifying music sets the scene for this horror film quite bombastically and its eerieness is felt even in the film trailer. The opening track was composed by James Bernard, who wrote music for many horror films for Hammer and Amicus productions. ![]() ![]() However, I feel the colour and font used in the credits do seem incongruous with this film set in 1929 and rural England. These pictures add to the spooky ambience in this film, telling of how good people can be lured by the occult. The film opens with funky pre-70s opening titles and is accompanied by outlines of star sign symbols and chilling looking goat heads in lime green and crimson red neon. This evil role was filled magnificently by Charles Gray, in what in retrospect could be seen as some serendipitous casting by the director. Naturally, Lee as the hero of the hour needed to be up against an actor who would be his equal on-screen in the villainous role to make the events more credible. ![]() This film was renamed The Devil’s Bride for the American audience to make it sound less like a Western. The Devil Rides Out / Official Theatrical Trailer (1968) HD, Hammer AND PHOTOS © warner patheĪfter playing villains from Dracula to Frankenstein in many Hammer horror films, it was a treat to find Christopher Lee in a good guy role in this British horror, The Devil Rides Out (1968). ![]() ![]() Rather it is “offered to help readers explore a tradition and history that might remain unfamiliar and confusing were it not for the unique perspective of this senior Anglican theologian, churchman, and enthusiast” (12). Working from transcripts of his lectures, working-in additional material, going through several processes of editing and revision, Packer delivers less of a “cutting-edge work of theological exploration or a comprehensive history” as Donald Lewis explains in the foreword (12). The Heritage of Anglican Theologypresents, in essence, the course of lectures on Anglican history and theology that Packer gave year-in and year-out during his time at Regent College. The tone of his work does that just fine. Neither brazen nor falsely-humble, Packer does not have to tell me that Jesus loves him. ![]() He writes as one who could, at any time or season, look the Father in the eyes with the confidence that ought to become those who are called sons and daughters of the living God. ![]() I remember little from my reading that night save for Packer’s obvious, humble confidence in the love of the God he served.Īlthough I have changed in many ways in the past ten years, I am still moved deeply by Packer’s tone. Packer’s Knowing God in Kathmandu (long story). (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2021, 384 pages, $39.99) Remembering PackerĪbout a decade ago, I came across a copy of J.I. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Nightmare Lord is tired of playing by the rules and will do anything to release his deadly nightmares into the world, even if that means tormenting Nora until she breaks. Neither did he think his nemesis would find her so quickly, but there’s no mistaking his cruel handiwork. When he hid the secret to the Nightmare Lord’s escape inside her dreams, he never expected to fall in love with her. ![]() But the truth might be more than she bargained for…įor the last five years, the Sandman has spent every night protecting Nora. The Sandman is the only one she can turn to for answers. ![]() So when Nora’s friends start mysteriously dying gruesome deaths in their sleep, she isn’t altogether surprised when the police direct their suspicion at her. It took her too long to learn not to mention the hooded figure in her dreams to her mother, who still watches Nora as if she’ll crack. He has to be, if she doesn’t want a one-way ticket back to the psychiatrist. The Sandman is seventeen-year-old Nora’s closest friend and best-kept secret. ![]() ![]() Everything on the Martinelli farm is dying, including Elsa’s tenuous marriage each day is a desperate battle against nature and a fight to keep her children alive. Dust storms roll relentlessly across the plains. ![]() Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as crops fail and water dries up and the earth cracks open. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she barely knows.īy 1934, the world has changed millions are out of work and drought has devastated the Great Plains. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman’s only option, the future seems bleak. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. ![]() ![]() "The Bestselling Hardcover Novel of the Year."-Publishers Weeklyįrom the number-one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes a powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression, a time when the country was in crisis and at war with itself, when millions were out of work and even the land seemed to have turned against them. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead of telling the reader how a character feels, Niven is able to express the emotions which grip at your lungs and burn the back of your mind and throat. This book beautifully illustrates what grief is and what power a stigma has. Together these teens work through all the complicated emotions which make life what it is, yet when you believe they are reaching a healing place, their lives spiral out once more. ![]() Finch is trying to do anything that keeps him awake and present in the moment. ![]() Violet is trying to understand the meaning of being a survivor while grieving for her sister. The story is simple: It’s about a girl and a boy, yet all isn’t what it appears to be. Luckily, Jennifer Niven has finally written the book we all need. I wish I read All the Bright Places when I was 15 or when I was at university. ![]() |
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