![]() ![]() ![]() But "leaning in to some of the things that might be coming up during this time can be valuable, too," Bieker says. Of course, there's time to watch Netflix - we all have to find the balance that's right for us. "Art can help me ask the difficult questions of myself and then try to answer them." "I believe that fiction asks us to turn toward the difficult parts in our own lives and our own selves to try to find some sort of grace. But Bieker believes this difficult time of quiet and isolation is an invitation to look at ourselves in new ways. Narrator Lacey May is 14 years old when her mother abandons her.īieker understands that, at a time when readers are facing real world fears about coronavirus, it might feel like an odd moment to immerse oneself in a fictional world of drought, chaos and childhood trauma. ![]() In Bieker's debut novel Godshot, a devastating drought in a fictional California town has led residents to seek answers in a charismatic cult leader. "It didn't feel like I was so isolated - it made my experience feel more universal," she says. Whenever she found those stories, she says it felt healing, cathartic - a release. "Growing up, I was hungry for narratives that were tackling some of the things that I was experiencing and feeling," she recalls. How?Ĭhelsea Bieker's mother left when she was 9 years old. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Godshot Author Chelsea Bieker ![]()
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![]() ![]() Drawing on the discipline of life writing and from comics studies, I aim to position Brosh’s webcomics within the field of graphic medicine and to explore how they might expand conventional understandings of illness within this contextual frame. ![]() Launched in 2009 on the free blog platform, Blogspot, Brosh’s deceptively simplistic aesthetic and comically dark representation of mental illness has since amassed near-cult following online. This paper analyzes webcomics as a compelling new dimension of autobiographical illness narrative, using Allie Brosh’s webcomic blog, Hyperbole and a Half, as its case study. As an experimental mode of self-representation, webcomics are part of an urgent, digital turn in autobiographical writing, where speaking to one’s personal experiences also takes place within the social economies of the Internet. Amidst the powerfully democratizing, public spheres of Web 2.0, life writing has taken on new geographies and forms of mobility through webcomics. ![]() ![]() He describes VW's rise from 'the people's car' during the Nazi era to one of Germany's most prestigious and important global brands, touted for being 'green.' He paints vivid portraits of Volkswagen chairman Ferdinand Piëch and chief executive Martin Winterkorn, arguing that the corporate culture they fostered drove employees, working feverishly in pursuit of impossible sales targets, to illegal methods. In Faster, Higher, Farther, Jack Ewing rips the lid off the conspiracy. By early 2017, VW had settled with American regulators and car owners for $20 billion, with additional lawsuits still looming. A few months later, the EPA disclosed that Volkswagen had installed software in 11 million cars that deceived emissions-testing mechanisms. ![]() In mid-2015, Volkswagen proudly reached its goal of surpassing Toyota as the world's largest automaker. ![]() Summary "A shocking exposé of Volkswagen's fraud by the New York Times reporter who covered the scandal. ![]() ![]() My personal life is not as complicated, although it’s still not simple. I suppose I could go back in the closet and find employment, but why should I have to pretend to be someone I’m not in order to get hired? Besides, I would rather get hired with my employer knowing up front that I am transgender. ![]() Now don’t take my eight month unemployment spell as me calling myself Lazy, the problem is a lot of employers don’t want to hire transgender people and in the state of Georgia there are no laws to protect me in searching for employment. I wouldn’t say it but I know both jobs got rid of me because of my gender identity. I have lost two jobs in the last 2 years and have been unemployed since December of last year. You see, I live in a small town in west Georgia, about an hour away from downtown Atlanta, and unfortunately people are not the most open minded here. ![]() I would like to share with you a story of great personal triumph, telling how I overcame the odds and became the person I was always meant to be, but I can’t. ![]() ![]() ![]() Read moreĪfter her stint in the Hinterland, Alice is back in New York City and trying to be a 'normal' teenager. I think this book might have been more compelling if I didn't spend some of it a little confused. I recommend these if you're into dark fantasy and faerie stories but definitely read them back to back. Finch's story is a little more interesting because he has a better outlook and is actively travelling into different worlds, and isn't all woe is me like Alice can get. Suddenly, in the middle of the book, we get every other chapter being from Finch's POV as he travels between worlds with a new character. There also were less characters as this centered on Alice and Sophia's friendship with the mystery plot going on in the background. This one was definitely a little more "in the day of" rather than full of action so parts were a bit boring. Like the first book, and maybe even more because it's been so long between books, I really didn't care about what happened to these characters. I also enjoy that this is darker interpretation including some actual blood and guts. ![]() I really enjoy Albert's writing because it's whimsical without being over-the-top poetic or metaphorical like some writers can get when trying to write fairy tale type stories. To be honest, I haven't read the first book since 2018 so I went into this one with very little memory of what happened before and relied on this book to remind me. ![]() ![]() ![]() "A raucous, new kind of pulp action hero.Flash Gordon, Jack Burton, and Buckaroo Banzai got nothing on Duke LaGrange." (Marcus Muller, comic artist and creator of King of the Unknown) Praise for The Adventures of Duke LaGrange series: You are sure to fall in love with Key's menagerie of colorful characters and laugh-out loud storytelling talents. ![]() How to Win at Pit Fighting with a Drunk Space Ninja is the second book in The Adventures of Duke LaGrange, a series of hilarious sci-fi adventure romps from the creative mind of Jay Key. ![]() Mega-trolls, flying insectoid soldiers, and acid-spitting sludge beasts.oh my! And it's not just the looming specter of combat staring Duke in the 's his former love. The only way for the tandem to escape the harsh world of Psitakki is for Duke to survive the most dangerous underground pit fighting tournament in the cosmos. Holy hedgehogs! Everyone's favorite bounty hunting duo is back! Nova Texas' favorite son, Duke LaGrange, and his silent swordsman sidekick, Ishiro'shea, once again find themselves unceremoniously removed from Cyborg Joe's and deposited on a planet at the least opportune time. Fifteen of the biggest, strongest, and nastiest warriors in the entire universe.and Duke LaGrange. ![]() ![]() ![]() The group flees to the fictional Lincoln Building to avoid an impending tsunami. Mark and Trina form an alliance with Alec, Lana, and others, who rescue them from a group of street urchins. Set thirteen years before the prologue and the events of The Maze Runner, the main story of the novel begins in New York City, when the world is hit by catastrophic solar flares. Thomas is then sent into the Maze with Teresa, setting the events of The Maze Runner in motion. He is told that Teresa will get the Swipe as well. In the prologue, Thomas goes through the Swipe and is put in the Box, as he is one of the candidates who is needed inside. The book is set prior to the events of The Fever Code and 13 years before The Maze Runner book. It is the first prequel book in The Maze Runner series and the fourth installment overall. The Kill Order is a 2012 young adult dystopian science fiction novel written by American author James Dashner and published on August 14, 2012, by Delacorte Press. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book ![]() ![]() I’m also going to give up on my mini-book buying ban because it seems like every single month I end up buying 10+ books from Book Outlet and there’s no point in me calling this a mini-book ban when I’m buying more books then I did last year *deep sigh*. I’d say that the average ratings of the books are about a 4-4.25 there were some really great books while others were *cough, cough* basic. This month I also did a good bit of blogging done, but don’t get to used to this because my summer class that I have to go and listen to lectures starts soon. Four guards strode up the lane with a tall woman in their midst, her hands secured. As an Ohio resident, she spends her summers outdoors and winters inside freezing her butt off. ![]() ![]() One of the biggest things that helped me read so many books was the semester ending during the first week of May. Whitt paused, and Cale joined him, her own staff planted like a sentry. Book 2 in the My Pack SeriesThe guys struggle to keep themselves whole as they search for their lost Kitten. Lane Whitt is a reader turned writer who found her niche with Reverse-Harem. ![]() Can you believe I read 12 books in the month of May? Nope, neither can I. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The move paid off for the German publishing house: The novel spent nine years on the best-seller list of the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel. Perfume was rejected numerous times before finally getting published in 1985 by Diogenes. Reading Perfume was a physical experience I could smell the scenes printed on the pages, and I became more aware of the odors and scents surrounding me in my everyday life, deepening its dimensions and making me more present in it.Īfter finishing the book, keen to read anything by Süskind, I went to the public library to see what other novels by him I could check out. The writing was magnetic I felt powerless to resist Süskind's ability to intertwine the gruesome with the sublime, just as the victims in the novel were powerless to resist the repulsive protagonist's olfactory manipulations. ![]() The evocative language, the vivid descriptions pulled me into this story of a murderous perfumer and his superordinary sense of smell. DW's Cristina Burack Image: Bilal El Soussi It was the first work of contemporary German literature that I tackled on my own outside of a classroom, underlining words in pencil in the street car to look up later in the dictionary. I read it in German around 10 years ago when I was still a relative newcomer to the language. Perfume: The Story of A Murderer (1985) by German author Patrick Süskind is the kind of book that makes you miss your tram stop. ![]() |