They’re children’s books by the acclaimed late British poet and novelist Helen Dunmore, set in the rocky cliffs and azure sea of Cornwall in the southern part of Great Britain. The Ingo series has four books – Ingo, The Tide Knot, The Deep, and The Crossing of Ingo, with a standalone addition, Stormswept, published later with different characters. I’m rereading these children’s books in the sticky Auckland summer, diving into their ocean of adventure where it’s possible to breathe underwater and you can ride ocean currents like a rollercoaster. The spines of Helen Dunmore’s Ingo books, a collection of differently sized editions, make clear lines of blue and purple and green. Shanti Mathias explores what the quartet of underwater adventure novels meant to her childhood self, and what they mean to her now.
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Later that year, Marvel editor Axel Alonso, who was impressed by The Other Side and Scalped, hired Aaron to write issues of Wolverine, Black Panther and eventually, an extended run on Ghost Rider that began in April 2008. In 2007, Aaron wrote Ripclaw: Pilot Season for Top Cow Productions. In 2006, Aaron made a blind submission to DC/Vertigo, who published his first major work, the Vietnam War story The Other Side which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Miniseries, and which Aaron regards as the "second time" he broke into the industry.įollowing this, Vertigo asked him to pitch other ideas, which led to the series Scalped, a creator-owned series set on the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation and published by DC/Vertigo. The story, which was published in Wolverine #175 (June 2002), gave him the opportunity to pitch subsequent ideas to editors. Aaron decided he wanted to write comics as a child, and though his father was skeptical when Aaron informed him of this aspiration, his mother took Aaron to drug stores, where he would purchase books from spinner racks, some of which he still owns today.Īaron's career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine back-up story script. His cousin, Gustav Hasford, who wrote the semi-autobiographical novel The Short-Timers, on which the feature film Full Metal Jacket was based, was a large influence on Aaron. Jason Aaron grew up in a small town in Alabama. This reading of the role of more-than-humans in Silent Words also identifies Nature’s propensity to share Anishinaabe teachings in subtle and unexpected ways for those who are willing to listen. Danny achieves this on his journey through the woods while decolonizing and re-indigenizing himself. The Anishinaabe medicine wheel teachings profess that a holistically healthy person seeks to find balance among their intellectual, spiritual, emotional, and physical self. With the help of some human interpreters, Danny develops the epistemological tools and the humility to allow Nature to heal his past traumas as well. Danny’s reconnection to Nature and his willingness to listen to its many abstract teachings are central to the reclamation of his indigeneity. The relationship between boy and Nature transcends the boundary between the human and the more-than-human world and becomes that of a student and teacher. When Danny flees his run-down house in a settler-colonial town, he finds limitless support from the plant and animal life of Northern Ontario. This presentation examines the extent of which Nature in Ruby Slipperjack’s Silent Words (1992) serves to reconnect 11-year-old protagonist, Danny, to his Anishinaabe identity. 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Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of Communism, a tender and passionate story of first love between two young men who eventually find themselves on opposite sides of the political divide-a stunningly poetic and heartrending literary debut for fans of André Aciman, Garth Greenwell, and Alan Hollinghurst. Tomasz Jedrowski is a remarkable writer." - Justin Torres, bestselling author of We the Animals "Captivating both for its shimmering surfaces and its terrifying depths. "Imagine Call Me By Your Name set in Communist Poland and you'll get a sense of Jedrowski's moving debut about a consuming love affair amidst a country being torn apart." - O, The Oprah Magazine 'When broken people do broken things - especially in the name of love - we all get broken, too. 'A startling affair.I'll be cleaning up particles of darkness in my office for weeks.' - Josh Malerman (Bird Box, Inspection) What have you done today to deserve your eyes? For fans of Kathe Koja, Clive Barker and Stephen Graham Jones.Ī whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet between two lonely young women in an internet chat room in the early 2000s - a darkness that threatens to forever transform them once they finally succumb to their most horrific desires.Ī couple isolate themselves on a remote island in an attempt to recover from their teenage son's death, when a mysterious young man knocks on their door during a storm.Īnd a man confronts his neighbour when he discovers a strange object in his backyard, only to be drawn into an ever-more dangerous game.įrom Bram Stoker Award finalist Eric LaRocca, this is devastating, beautifully written horror from one of the genre's most cutting-edge voices. Three dark and disturbing horror stories from an astonishing new voice, including the viral-sensation tale of obsession, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. The novel is epic, tragic, darkly funny and unique. 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The descriptions of the ship and new inventions were detailed enough, but not so lengthy and full of description or space jargon that I got bored (The book's web site has a diagram of the ship). This book was less action packed, and less violent, and I thought that although most of the characters of both books could have been a little better developed, those in Across the Universe were a little more realistic. Having just finished the Hunger Games trilogy, it's hard not to make a comparison. Although I thought I had it figured out, and sometimes was on the mark, it still held some surprises. It combines elements of mystery, sci-fi, utopian paranoia, and a bit of romance. Both narrators do a very good job portraying the emotions of the young characters, and the story is easy to follow as an audio book. This book is written from the perspectives of two characters in alternating chapters with two different narrators. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. But as their senior year begins, they must decide if they will part ways and return to the dull futures they had planned, or if they will take a risk and leap into a brightly colored future-together. Through a summer of art and friendship, Xander and Skylar learn more about each other, themselves, and their feelings for one another. There's something about the antisocial artist's refusal to yield that forces Skylar to acknowledge how much his own orchestrated future is killing him slowly.as is the truth about his gray-spectrum sexuality, which he hasn't dared to speak aloud, even to himself. Xander himself does plenty of damage too. She writes positive-outcome romances for LGBT characters struggling against insurmountable odds because she believes there's no such thing as too much happy ever after. Skylar's life has been laid out for him since before he was born, but all it takes is one look at Xander's artwork, and the veneer around him begins to crack. Proud to be from the first Midwestern state with full marriage equality, Heidi is a vocal advocate for LGBT rights. He came to idyllic, Japanese culture-soaked Benten college to hide and make manga, not to be transformed into a corporate clone in the eleventh hour. Xander Fairchild can't stand people in general and frat boys in particular, so when he's forced to spend his summer working on his senior project with Skylar Stone, a silver-tongued Delta Sig with a trust fund who wants to make Xander over into a shiny new image, Xander is determined to resist. |