![]() ![]() ![]() Sarah Andersen moves away from her Sarah’s Scribbles gag strips to produce… basically the same thing albeit with less cartoony art and centred around vampire/werewolf tropes. )Īll told I really liked “Fangs” and I kind of want more of those two super sweet little monsters! *lol*Įlsie’s a vampire and Jimmy’s a werewolf and they’re girlfriend and boyfriend and hilarity ensues and waffle waffle… Yes, the author might exploit a lot of clichés here, but she did it in a fun way and truth be told this only added to my enjoyment. It was on point and caused me to smirk whenever they did something “typical”. So I think “sequential art” might be the most accurate description here and I noticed that a lot of reviewers already put it in that genre which is great! =)Īs for the story itself: I loved it! Elsie and Jimmy are so adorable and I loved the black humour. ![]() Because of this the pacing is pretty fast and it seems like they jump right into their relationship and push the “fast forward” button instead of taking it slow. This was no story with a central theme but rather little snippets of Elsie’s and Jimmy’s story that starts when they meet in a bar. So first things first: I know this is titled as a webcomic, but I think this might not be the right description for “Fangs”. I mean a relationship between a vampire and a werewolf? It sounded interesting and I decided to investigate. This said, I found this on tapas and was immediately intrigued. This is me speaking from the webcomic rabbit hole. ![]()
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![]() Then, with the horrific killing by Somali pirates of four Americans, two of whom had built their dream yacht and were sailing around the world (“And now on to: Angkor Wat! And Burma!” they had written to friends), the United States Navy, Special Operation Forces, FBI, Justice Department, and the world’s military forces were put on notice: the Somali seas were now the most perilous in the world. The capture of the American-crewed cargo ship Maersk Alabama in April 2009, the first United States ship to be hijacked in almost two centuries, catapulted the Somali pirates onto prime-time news. ![]() ![]() The recent bands of daring, ragtag pirates off the coast of Somalia, hijacking multimillion-dollar tankers owned by international shipping conglomerates, have brought the scourge of piracy into the modern era. Somalia is a place where a government has been built out of anarchy.įor centuries, stories of pirates have captured imaginations around the world. Getting there from North America is a 45-hour, five-flight voyage through Frankfurt, Dubai, Djibouti, Bosaso (on the Gulf of Aden), and, finally, Galkayo. Caught up in a decades-long civil war, Somalia, along with Iraq and Afghanistan, has become one of the most dangerous countries in the world. ![]() Its history is as rich as the country is old. Somalia, on the tip of the Horn of Africa, has been inhabited as far back as 9,000 B.C. ![]() ![]() I know few books so concise that pack such an emotional punch. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a work of suspense, but we all know the twist these days, don't we? So why do we still read the story? Well, it's written with great economy, tension and wit. Sadly, we'll never know the thrill experienced by this explosive book's original audience. The doctor has played with fire and he's burning from the inside. But his evil self becomes stronger over time, until it threatens to extinguish Jekyll altogether. Resolute and determined, eventually he succeeds. He is fascinated by the duality of man and wants to explore his darker side. ![]() Rather, he consciously searches for a chemical that will allow him to separate out the two sides to his nature. But that's not quite what Dr Henry Jekyll does. The notion of a "Jekyll-and-Hyde" character has become a lazy way of describing someone when they do something contrary to their normal nature. ![]() ![]() ![]() The sisters haven’t seen each other since their catastrophic parting in Rome in the summer of 1940, as war engulfed the continent and Iris fell desperately in love with an enigmatic United States Embassy official named Sasha Digby. Were they eliminated by the Soviet intelligence service or have the Digbys defected to Moscow with a trove of the West’s most vital secrets?įour years later, Ruth Macallister receives a postcard from her twin sister, Iris. ![]() The world is shocked by the family’s sensational disappearance. In the autumn of 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. ![]() ![]() Jazz has her own private reasons for stepping away from her police career in London, but reluctantly agrees to front the investigation as a favour to her old boss. The sudden death of a pupil in Fleat House at St Stephen’s – a small private boarding school in deepest Norfolk – is a shocking event that the headmaster is very keen to call a tragic accident.īut the local police cannot rule out foul play and the case prompts the return of high-flying Detective Inspector Jazmine ‘Jazz’ Hunter to the force. ![]() The Murders at Fleat House is a suspenseful and utterly compelling crime novel from the multi-million copy global bestseller, Lucinda Riley. ![]() ![]() These stories have been enshrined in canon as much as anything written by anyone other than H. To hear Long tell it, his first contribution to the Cthulhu Mythos -and the first stories written as part of the Mythos, outside of Lovecraft’s own pen-were “The Space Eaters” ( Weird Tales July 1928) and “The Hounds of Tindalos” ( Weird Tales March 1929). ![]() Frank Belknap Long, Jr., Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Nightside 23-24 I also contributed one scenic vista, the mysterious, perpetually mist-shrouded Plateau of Leng, and one forbidden book, John Dee’s English translation of The Necronomicon, which I placed at the head of The Space Eaters when that story first appeared in Weird Tales My contributions to the Mythos were of assorted shapes and sizes, ranging from the tiny, flesh-devouring Doels, who inhabited an alien dimension shrouded in night and chaos, to the monstrous Chaugnar Faugn, whom only the suicidally inclined would have mistaken for a pachyderm. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The only American for such a mission is Dirk Pitt, who proved invincible in Raise the Titanic! Now, with the future of virtually every person in the world at stake, he must survive a complex international mission far more dangerous than any he has ever undertaken. The deadly race is on to locate and raise one of the signed copies of the treaty from its ocean grave - where it has been lying for 75 years. For the United States, possession of this document is suddenly worth billions. In the midst of an international crisis, Heidi Milligan, a beautiful, brilliant American naval commander accidentally discovers an obscure reference to the long buried North American Treaty - prompting the President of the United States to the shocking realization that the treaty offers the only salvation for an energy-starved, economically-devastated America. On both sides of the Atlantic, stunned heads of state immediately order all mention of the treaty obliterated. ![]() Two undercover couriers plummet to watery deaths in twin disasters, taking with them the only two copies of the North American Treaty, a precedent-shattering secret pact between the United States and Great Britain. ![]() ![]() Flood waters are rising across the province. ![]() It's Gamache's first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. ![]() one of his most ennobling missions.-Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book ReviewĬatastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media, and a mysterious disappearance greet Chief Inspector Armand Gamache as he returns to the Sûreté du Québec in the latest novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny. " A Better Man, with its mix of meteorological suspense, psychological insight and criminal pursuit, is arguably the best book yet in an outstanding, original oeuvre."-Tom Nolan, The Wall Street JournalĮnchanting. ![]() ![]() This would be boring if all the guests were normal. Their interactions comprise most of the action in the book, but it never gets stale.įor most of the book, the story revolves around Claire running the guest house. Each of these characters is well developed and brought to life brilliantly. ![]() A couple chapters in, we're also introduced to Jacques, the ghost. He's also the running love interest and all-around-hero-type. ![]() The maintenance man/cook of the guest House is Dean. Claire sort of inherits a guest house where there's a hole to Hell in the basement and a "Sleeping Beauty-ed" Keeper in one of the rooms. It holds true that if there is a snarky talking cat, you're usually off to a good start. Summon the Keeper introduces Claire Hansen, Keeper, and her talking cat, Austin. There are just so many wonderful nuggets in it for a fantasy/mythology nerd like myself. I also love rereading it, which I don't get to do often. I mentioned earlier that this is one of my all-time favorite books so we'll go out on a limb and say that I loved it. ![]() Previously posted to my old blog at about the same time ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() More than just the house where she set Little Women, it is the house where she wrote it. Though it is the house the March girls grow up in, Louisa was already in her twenties by the time her family moved into and began modifying the house. The March family home in Little Women is based on Louisa May Alcott’s home of twenty years, Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts. The Winona Ryder film adaptation makes me cry every time I watch it, and I watch it every Christmas. It’s a book that I think every girl I knew growing up has read at least once and I don’t know anyone who didn’t love it. I happen to own two copies of Little Women myself, one a copy of the complete text and the other a children’s edition with gorgeous watercolor illustrations. My all-time favorite episode of FRIENDS is from season three when Rachel reads The Shining and Joey reads Little Women. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.” – Louisa May Alcott ![]() “Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. ![]() |