![]() ![]() ![]() In her new novel, Keller - a Korean-American who works as a free-lance journalist in Hawaii - does not simply tell the story of a fictional “comfort woman” named Akiko, but by juxtaposing Akiko’s story with that of her American daughter, Beccah, turns her tragic history into a familial saga of love and pain and resentment. ![]() When the war ended, shame and humiliation, not to mention physical and emotional scars, exiled many of the women from their families and their former lives forever. They were also beaten, tortured and forced to give up their former identities and names. Taken to battlefront “recreation centers,” the women were forced to have sex with dozens of soldiers a night. Some were kidnapped at gunpoint others were recruited with false promises of jobs in factories and restaurants. It’s hard to think of a euphemism more disturbing than the one that gives Nora Okja Keller’s stunning new novel its title: “Comfort Woman.” “Comfort women” were young women and girls (many of them Korean) forced by the Japanese army to work in brothels during World War II. ![]()
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![]() It's a place where people pay to go when they need to disappear. The stories take place in the town of Rockton. Kelley Armstrong has written a very entertaining series. When the bodies of two other women turn up, Casey and her colleagues must find out if it's an outsider behind the killings or if the answer is more complicated than that.before another victim goes missing.Ĭasey Duncan returns in another heart-racing thriller from number-one New York Times best-selling author Kelley Armstrong. ![]() Taking shelter in a cave, they discover a former resident who's been held captive for over a year. Now, in A Darkness Absolute, Casey and her fellow Rockton sheriff's deputy Will chase a cabin-fevered resident into the woods, where they are stranded in a blizzard. What she didn't expect is that Rockton comes with its own set of secrets and dangers. ![]() ![]() She knew living in Rockton meant living off the grid completely: no cell phones, no Internet, no mail, very little electricity, and no way of getting in or out without the town council's approval. ![]() When experienced homicide detective Casey Duncan first moved to the secret town of Rockton, she expected a safe haven for people like her, people running from their past misdeeds and past lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() A couple of years later, her work was published. She easily ranks her children as her greatest accomplishment.īlayne has always harbored an interest in fiction, but it wasn’t until 1998 that she tried her own hand at writing by reaching out to an online audience. A gregarious son completed the family in 1997. That same summer, her spirited daughter was born. The next year she married and in 1995 she graduated from the University of Oklahoma College of Law and was admitted into the Oklahoma Bar Association. In 1990 Blayne graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. ![]() Today, she is a project manager for a legal publishing company by day, and writer by night. The result is a diverse collection of lesbian fiction.īlayne has held a number of interesting, and sometimes rather unusual jobs (sunflower sexer), and completed a stint as a Combat Medic in the Army National Guard. With each novel she tackles a new personal writing challenge. She is the Royal Academy of Bards 2005 Hall of Fame Author and a recipient of the 2014 Academy of Bards Lifetime Achievement Award.īorn in Northern California in January 1969, Blayne Cooper is the best-selling author of a variety of fiction ranging from mystery/romance to outrageous parody. ![]() Blayne Cooper has also written under the pen name Advocate. ![]() ![]() ![]() The comic, called The Dark Knight III: The Master Race (hopefully an ironic title), is the third part of Miller’s Dark Knight Trilogy. Now Miller will return to pen a new Batman comic, according to the Verge. The brooding, hulking, neo-fascist Batman favored by Burton and Nolan stems from Miller’s Reagan-era creation, which erased memories of Adam West’s campy Caped Crusader from the minds of an entire generation. Miller’s 1986 The Dark Knight Returns, a four-part story about Batman’s return from retirement and self-imposed exile, seeped into the crevices of every subsequent comic-book movie, from Sam Raimi’s Darkman to Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy but it most notably acted as a template for Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, which practically owes alimony to Miller. Since Tim Burton’s brooding, black-as-oil Batman hit theaters in 1989, the cinematic world of Bob Kane’s iconic detective has drawn invariably from the comics of Frank Miller. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When he rescues a drowning woman in the ocean, she’s more than what she appears. Hunting sirens is more than an unsavoury hobby-it’s his calling. The ocean is the only place Prince Elian calls home, even though he is heir to the most powerful kingdom in the world. Robbed of her song, Lira has until the winter solstice to deliver Prince Elian’s heart to the Sea Queen or remain a human forever. To punish her daughter, the Sea Queen transforms Lira into the one thing they loathe most-a human. Until a twist of fate forces her to kill one of her own. With the hearts of seventeen princes in her collection, she is revered across the sea. Princess Lira is siren royalty and the most lethal of them all. Here’s my review for To Kill a Kingdom! I hope you enjoy it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe cats don’t do enough to merit an entire story of anyone’s cat.Įven I have my own cat story, but I could probably only fill a page with it. Now, it wasn’t too bad when he veered off the subject of his own cat and gave some history or other lessons on cats, but I really didn’t want that either. ![]() Still, I admire Amory because he is an animal activist, but save me from this at Christmas. I just want a cute story about an animal. I am actually dramatizing this, but when I read a Christmas story, I don’t want to read about how lab cats are treated or how dolphins are slaughtered. Read this book years ago and loved it, but this year, well, all I can say is this: It is not a Christmas story instead it is a horror story. Any human who sacrifices their lifestyle to rescue a 1977 New York feline is okay with me. If he was writing today, there would be cute little GIFs about Polar Bear, with dancing reindeer.Ĥ.) This is written under chapters titled as, His Foreign Policy, His Hollywood, His Fitness Program.you get the picture. Cleveland Amory was a pioneer in animal protection and he wrote several engaging books about Polar Bear. Poor grimy cat.ģ.) This was written B.C.O.N. 1977! NYC at its filthiest, dimmest, and scariest. Methinks it was packaged for the money-spending holiday back when bookstores were bursting with buyers eager for new stories about.cats.Ģ.) This cat was rescued from a Manhattan street in 1977. The cat of the title was rescued on Christmas Eve. ![]() ![]() ![]() The editors used this special issue to create a community of Jewish feminists that bridges generations, classes, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations and cultural contexts. As the purpose of Sinister Wisdom is to foster a specific lesbian-feminism that includes all women across any number of diversities, “Dina” (as this issue came to be known) is a microcosm of this principle. ![]() In using this title, editors of the periodical Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz and Irena Klepfisz reclaim the potential of the tribe of women that never materialized. “The Tribe of Dina” is presumably the women Dina sought out in response to her controlling brothers. ![]() Dina is only referenced as an accessory to her powerful male relatives, except for a short anecdote about how she left Israel to seek other women. Dina is a Biblical character, the only daughter of Jewish forefather Jacob and his wife Leah, whose brothers founded the twelve tribes of Israel. The publication was so successful upon release that it was published as its own book called “ The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women’s Anthology” in 1989. In 1986, the radical lesbian feminist periodical Sinister Wisdom published a themed issue titled “ The Tribe of Dina.” It spans two of the four annual publications of Sinister Wisdom, making it both issue 29 and 30. ![]() ![]() ![]() When not writing, Barbara often takes time to enjoy the work of other authors, and that of a certain well-known martial artist, whose name is listed among the "Ten things you might not know about Barbara. ![]() Currently, Barbara is busy working on her next story that will, no doubt, showcase an extraordinary heroine in an exciting and intriguing adventure. At the heart of every book, is a strong, independent woman. The reader is transported to exotic countries that Barbara has meticulously researched to provide her fans with a true sense of the culture and history relevant to each story. She is an international best selling author with books translated into over 30 languages. To date, Barbara has written 22 books, including two under the pen name Kathryn Harvey, these books are quite different from the Barbara Wood's novels and she, her agent and editor agreed that a pen name would serve to indicate the difference. ![]() ![]() A few years prior, Barbara met her husband George. During this time, Barbara held numerous jobs, before she sold her first novel in 1976. After High School, Barbara attended the University of California at Santa Barbara but left to train as a surgical technician. She grew up in Southern California and attended Los Angeles Schools. Together with her parents and older brother, she immigrated to the United States. Barbara Wood was born on 30 January 1947 in Warrington, Lancashire, England, UK. ![]() ![]() ![]() All the while, Rama III continues its in-explorable journey towards the node, where the climax of their voyage awaits the stunning revelation of the true identity of the beings behind this glittering trek across the cosmos. ![]() As the octospiders lure the humans deeper into their domain, the humans must decide whether the creatures are their allies of enemies. Fleeing a tyrant, a band of humans ventures into the nether regions of the ship, where they encounter an emerald-doomed lair ruled by the fabulously advanced octospiders. But the great experiment designed by the Ramans has failed, and Rama III has be a battleground. Book Synopsis On its mysterious voyage through interstellar space, a massive alien starship carries its human passengers to the end of a generations-long odyssey. A massive starship of alien origin arrives at the end of its generations-long journey, at which time its human passengers confront a sinister evil, and discover the identity of their hosts-the Ramans-and their ultimate plan for humanity. About the Book The long-awaited, New York Times bestselling conclusion to the epic Rama series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Poetry is the most popular literary form in Lithuania. Maironis is lauded as the patriarch and a classic of Lithuanian poetry, with his most famous collection of verse being Pavasario balsai (1895) (Voices of Spring). That is why Lithuanian literature has a strong lyrical tradition, which was carved out at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries by the formation of the modern nation and the standardisation of the Lithuanian language. Poetry: Lithuanians are a nation of poets.What should we know about Lithuanian literature? The year 1989 is thus the best starting point from which to begin the story of contemporary Lithuanian literature. ![]() Since then, independent and freely composed Lithuanian literature could also return to its natural course: liberated from the former pressures of ideological censorship, it embraced a variety of creative trends, and started gathering new impetus to develop. On 11 March 1990, by reclaiming its independence, the Republic of Lithuania regained its place on the map of the world. Occupied for nearly 50 years, Lithuania started breathing freely around 1989, when the Soviet Union crumbled and the Berlin Wall came down, and when the Baltic countries joined hands in the Baltic Way. Throughout the 20th century, it experienced a range of dramatic shifts and historical transformations, turbulence and ideological pressure. Its natural progress in tune with Western cultural trends has been interrupted many times by foreign oppression. Lithuanian literature comes from a country that has seen a lot and has suffered plenty of trials. ![]() |