![]() There are a dog and a cat, a few chickens, and, on the edge of the wood, the small grave of Peter’s little sister Elfie, who died two years before. He keeps a constant suspicious eye on the Georgenhof’s Polish handyman and two Ukrainian maids. Twelve-year–old Peter, a quiet boy, hangs around playing with his microscope, trying to get out of his Hitler Youth duties and avoiding Drygalski, the petty official who oversees the estate across the road.ĭrygalski, mourning a dead son and caring for a sick wife, is a puffed-up bureaucrat obsessed with his own importance. Dead flies lie on their backs in the teacups on the dresser. The Georgenhof sits, along with a modern housing estate, in the middle of miles of snow, its gate askew, the summer drawing room ice-cold and full of dumped packing crates. ![]() The once rich Von Globigs live in run-down grandeur on the Georgenhof estate, an old shambles of a place not far from the eastern front, bracing itself against the bitterness of a terrible winter. It follows the fortunes of a family in East Prussia, between January and May 1945. ![]()
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And around them, Delhi struggles with water shortages, mobs, police violence, severe heat, and more-all while its residents try to articulate what it means to live in Delhi, to be Indian, to live half on the global stage and half drowning in local partisanship. Initially disconnected from the political world, both characters begin to realize just how deep the divide is between the people with power and those without. Samit Basu’s new novel The City Inside explores this temptation from the perspective of two residents of near-future Delhi: Joey, the manager of a hugely popular livestreaming star and Rudra, a disaffected gamer alienated from his wealthy family. ![]() Layers of Choice: Discussing The City Inside with Samit BasuĪs the world grows more complicated, and for many people, more dangerous, it also becomes more tempting for those with privilege to turn their gaze away. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eighty years have passed since that fateful flight and still, Amelia’s plane has never been found. Just six weeks later, she disappeared over the Pacific Ocean. No one expected her to survive.” Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart by Candace Flemingįrom Amazon: “On May 21, 1937, the most famous female pilot of all time, Amelia Earhart, set out to do the impossible: circumnavigate the globe at its widest point–27,000 miles in all. And on October 9, 2012, she nearly lost her life for the cause: She was shot point-blank while riding the bus on her way home from school. So she fought for her right to be educated. Raised in a once-peaceful area of Pakistan transformed by terrorism, Malala was taught to stand up for what she believes. ![]() ![]() They said women weren’t allowed to go to the market. It opened their eyes to horrible situations in other countries and the courage it takes for one person to stand up to injustice.įrom Amazon: “Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. Two of my kids dove into this one in middle school and couldn’t stop talking about it for quite some time. Biographies for Teens and Tweens I am Malala by Malala Yousafai ![]() ![]() It contributes nothing to either character or the DC canon at large. Batman essentially says hey I’m gonna rescue this hostage but I literally have no reason to stay in Arkham and no one is going to make me so I’m just gonna head out k byeee. The basic premise of the book is that Joker wants to get Batman committed to Arkham so he takes a hostage to bait him. Please don’t ever rely on style over substance! Yes I see that Joker is extreme with his font, but I still need to be able to read the words! ![]() ![]() The dialogue it does have is typically from the Joker but written in an awful jagged red font that becomes incredibly difficult to read. It mostly contains text boxes filled with sophomoric philosphy and musings that would maybe impress a depressed teen or a severely inebriated adult. It has very little plot and very little dialogue. Or it’s the bloated and wordy poetry a goth kid writes in high school when they’re trying to out angst their friends. ![]() It’s either super edgy, loaded with cursing and insulting dialogue, along with in your face adult themes. Grant Morrison’s style is usually one of two things. I see a lot of Grant Morrison make these kinds of lists actuallly, and I’m always reminded that I don’t like Grant Morrison. ![]() I always see it pop up on reading guides and “must read” lists. Batman: Arkham Asylum- A Serious House on Serious EarthĪuthor Grant Morrison, Illustrations Dave McKeanīatman: Arkham Asylum by Grant Morrison is largely considered to be a Batman classic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shiori must wander the land with her face hidden, alone and silent, while her brothers live as six cranes. But her evil stepmother discovers her secret and curses both her and her brothers. When she inadvertently discovers she can do forbidden magic by bringing a paper crane to life and befriending a dragon, she wonders if perhaps she can alter her fate. Shiori is a classic rebellious princess who prefers sampling delicious treats from the kitchen and playing games with her brothers to fulfilling royal duties - especially her duty to marry some noble lord she's never even met. I'm most familiar with the version recorded by the Brothers' Grimm, though there are many variants, and Elizabeth Lim has taken the source material and turned it into something much more nuanced and compassionate than the original tale. ![]() Six Crimson Cranes is a reimagining of a classic if lesser-known fairy tale, The Six Swans. Folkloric family magic and monstrous mothers tie together these two July releases, though their tones could not be more different. ![]() ![]() ![]() Uneasy in the midst of the malevolent Unseelie Court, pixie Kaye is sure of only one thing-her love for Roiben. ![]() In Ironside, the sequel to Tithe, the time has come for Roiben’s coronation. When one talks Val into tracking down the lair of a mysterious creature, Val finds herself torn between her affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming. But there’s something eerily beguiling about Val’s new friends. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city’s labyrinthine subway system. In Valiant, the companion to Tithe, seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York City, trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. There, amid the blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient and violent power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms-a struggle that could very well mean her death. Fierce and independent, she drifts from place to place with her mother’s rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. In Tithe, sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. ![]() ![]() Jack kills Jill and then returns to her gothic world. Nancy and her friends learn that Jill is killing students in order to make a key which will reopen her own doorway. Sumi is found dead, as are several other students. The students were all altered by their time in different worlds where they were able to be their true selves, and most long to return to them. The students include Kade, who spent time in a fantasy world with goblins and fairies, Jacqueline "Jack" and Jillian "Jill," who spent time in a world of vampires and mad scientists, and Sumi, who spent time in a nonsense world full of candy and rainbows. ![]() Nancy is sent to a boarding school for children who have had similar experiences. When she is returned to the real world, her parents do not believe her story. As a child, Nancy found a doorway that led her to the land of the dead, based on the story of Persephone and Hades. Rarely, children may find doorways that transport them to other worlds. ![]() It was first published in hardcover and ebook editions by Tor.com in April 2016. Every Heart a Doorway is a fantasy novella by American writer Seanan McGuire, the first in the Wayward Children series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Turning to the books, let’s begin with Democracy in America. But when you are representing human beings or deciding things that affect them, you need to understand, as best you can, the workings of human life. You need a good head to read all those words and figure out how they apply. Why is it important for lawyers and judges to read widely? The books you’ve cited as intellectual influences are not standards of the law school curriculum. If there’s a difference in the federal law interpretation, we’ll probably hear the case and try to iron it out. It could be a major question, it could be a minor question. Or it might involve whether Guantanamo prisoners are entitled to seek habeas corpus. It might involve a comma in the Internal Revenue Code, which different courts interpret differently. A case in front of us might involve the meaning of a statute. Our job, the nine of us, is basically to create a uniform rule of law by ironing out differences. ![]() We are most likely to hear those cases where lower courts have come to different conclusions about the same question of federal law. We work on difficult legal issues involving laws passed by Congress. So I’m going to ask a very simple question, because I know the answer is quite complex. When you took over his seat on the Supreme Court, Justice Harry Blackmun advised you, “When you have the chance, tell people what you do”. Foreign Policy & International Relations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “It’s a mesmeric world, comic in the way teenage voyages of self-discovery inevitably are, but with an undertone of menace, horror, even hints of allegory. ![]() In this bombshell of a novel, Chandler Klang Smith has imagined an unimaginable world: scathingly clever and gorgeously strange, The Sky Is Yours is at once faraway and disturbingly familiar, its singular chaos grounded in the universal realities of love, family, and the deeply human desire to survive at all costs. As they wander toward the scalded heart of the city, they face fire, conspiracy, mayhem, unholy drugs, dragon-worshippers, and the monsters lurking inside themselves. ![]() When violence strikes, reality star Duncan Humphrey Ripple V, the spoiled scion of the metropolis’ last dynasty Baroness Swan Lenore Dahlberg, his tempestuous, death-obsessed betrothed and Abby, a feral beauty he discovered tossed out with the trash, are forced to flee everything they've ever known. In the burned-out, futuristic city of Empire Island, three young people navigate a crumbling metropolis constantly under threat from a pair of dragons that circle the skies. “Influenced by the likes of Jane Austen and Rick and Morty, Smith tackles timely issues while leaving room for some delicious reality TV references.” - Entertainment Weekly NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal ![]() |