![]() ![]() References to her literary work pervade the music and literature of Brazil and Latin America. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. Clarice Lispector's spare, deeply disturbing yet luminous novel transforms language into something otherworldly, and is one of her most unsettling and compelling works.Ĭlarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short story writer. Her irresistible fascination with the dying insect provokes a spiritual crisis, in which she questions her place in the universe and her very identity, propelling her towards an act of shocking transgression. ![]() There she sees a cockroach - black, dusty, prehistoric - crawling out of the wardrobe and, panicking, slams the door on it. G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed'. ![]() One of Elena Ferrante's Top 40 Books by Women ![]()
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5/31/2023 0 Comments Shades of earth beth revis![]() ![]() They will have to look inward to the very core of what makes them human on this, their most harrowing journey yet. Amy and Elder must race to discover who-or what-else is out there if they are to have any hope of saving their struggling colony and building a future together. And if they're going to stay, they'll have to fight. The biggest secret of all? Godspeed 's former passengers aren't alone on this planet. There are giant pterodactyl-like birds, purple flowers with mind-numbing toxins, and mysterious, unexplained ruins that hold more secrets than their stone walls first let on. ![]() But this new Earth isn't the paradise Amy had been hoping for. They're ready to start life afresh-to build a home-on Centauri-Earth, the planet that Amy has traveled 25 trillion miles across the universe to experience. The final book in the New York Times bestselling trilogy, perfect for fans of Battlestar Gallactica and Prometheus ! Amy and Elder have finally left the oppressive walls of the spaceship Godspeed behind. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Megahex comic![]() The strips are intricately drawn and painstakingly watercoloured, while the narratives are a gloomy insight into the lives of suburban down-and-outs. And what you’ll leave with is far scarier than any spook house frights the fear of looking deeply at yourself in the mirror and finding a monster (or nothing) in your place. ![]() There are plenty of hysterical Darwin Award-worthy situations in Megahex, but that’s not likely to be your takeaway. But there’s so much lurking beneath the seemingly superficial surfaces - questions about friendship, loyalty, love, drug addiction, sexual identity, and hopelessness. ![]() It would be easy to dismiss Megahex as another stoner comic. Megahex… is an existential stoner tale that is part Furry Freak Brothers, part Beavis and Butt-Head, and part Jean Paul Sartre (with some Jackass thrown in for good measure)…. ![]() He Captures that stoner stay-at-home life so accurately that I actually find his comics really depressing and thank God I don't ever have to hang out with anybody like that ever again. For a series about slackers, these books are remarkably emotionally visceral and intense. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Lover unveiled![]() So, he is 300 years old and we don't get any kind of his backstory. Balthazar on the other hand was a carbon copy of her heroes. Erika was a really interesting lead with so much backstory which was revealed only at the end. ![]() This book was a good ensemble cast book and a very mediocre main pairing book. Will the very thing that brings them together lead to the ultimate destruction of the Brotherhood? Or will they have to lose everything in order to save the race’s most sacred defenders? ![]() When Devina’s wish for true love is finally granted, Balthazar and Erika unwittingly become the gateway for the rebirth of an old enemy of the Brothers. ![]() Mutilated bodies that cannot be explained are all over her case list-and then there are her nightmares in which she’s hunted by shadows and captivated by a mysterious man who is both a suspect and a savior. Especially not a human.Īs a homicide detective, Erika Saunders knows there is something otherworldly going on in Caldwell, New York. As a thief, he has stolen a lot of things…but he never thought his heart would be taken by another. Possessed by the demon Devina, Balthazar is once again on the hunt for the Book of Spells-and fighting an undeniable attraction to a woman. ![]() Ward’s #1 New York Times bestselling series. True love brings a deadly threat to the Black Dagger Brotherhood in this sizzling new novel in J.R. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Dear martin book cover![]() ![]() ![]() Jared: Right here, right now, on these red hills of Georgia, a son of former slaves and sons of former slave owners are sitting down at the table of brotherhood, dude. He is subject to the abuses of an unjust and racist society, something he never really had to think about before Officer Castillo so easily took his rights away in the previous chapter. However, unlike the world of video games, in real life Jus has no control over his own outcome. At this moment in the novel, Jus is coming to the realization that violence is not just the stuff of video games-it is all around him. That night, his fate could have easily been like that of Shemar Carson, a seventeen-year-old Black boy from Nevada who was shot by a white police officer earlier that year. For Jus, the violence within the fantasy world of the video game has become all too real as he realizes that he is not exempt from having to face it. Jus knows that he very easily could have been shot by Officer Castillo, who kept his hand on his gun at all times. It reminds him too much of the violence he faced when Officer Castillo arrested him. In this passage, Jus is put on edge by the violent video game that he is playing with Manny. ![]() One wrong move, and Jus might've been the next Shemar Carson. ![]() Just like the one Castillo kept his hand on while treating Jus like a criminal. ![]() |