![]() ![]() Over the decades, the women in Malaysia have struggled to secure gender equality in an otherwise patriarchal society. Feminism and the Women’s Movement in Malaysia: An Unsung Revolution by Cecilia Ng, Maznah Mohamad, and Tan Beng Hui If that sounds like your cup of tea, you should check it out! 2. This book weaves ancient Chinese mythology into an immersive realm of magic yet, it still has themes of loss, sacrifices and hope. Her skills come in handy when she embarks on a quest to save her mother, where she has to battle legendary creatures of folklore in this mystical world. ![]() Having learned alongside the Crown Prince of the magical Celestial Kingdom, Xingyin is skillful with a bow and more interestingly, magic. This debut book by Sue Lynn Tan is a must-read for fantasy lovers! Inspired by the great legend of the Chinese moon goddess, Chang’e, this book follows a young woman on a mission to save her mother. Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan Whether you’re a history geek or an avid reader of fiction, we’ve got you covered. To celebrate International Women’s Day, we’ve compiled a list of books that talk about women’s history as well as feature female leads, and autobiographies for you to huddle up in a blanket and read. Who doesn’t love books? A hundred thousand words jammed pack into an adhesive-bound pocket of delight with pages that smell like heaven (yeah, you know what smell I’m talking about). ![]()
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Trigger warning: Too violent and too cool for some!In Shops: Final Orders Due: SRP: $4.99 NEMESIS RELOADED #1 (OF 5) 3RD PTG SPECIAL EDITION (MR) Meet the mother and son superhero team from Paris!In Shops: Final Orders Due: SRP: $4.99 Everyone wants superpowers, but only six people will be selected as their country's Ambassadors in this global competition. (W) Mark Millar (A) Travis Charest (CA) Frank Quitely ![]() In Shops: Final Orders Due: SRP: $4.99ĪMBASSADORS #3 (OF 6) 2ND PTG SPECIAL EDITION (MR) This first story features artwork by superstar FRANK QUITELY. In a world of eight billion, who do you choose? Join six of the greatest artists in the industry for an enormous story about ordinary people from around the world explaining why it should be them. The most ambitious comic book of all time is finally here! Imagine you could gift superpowers to six people. AMBASSADORS #1 (OF 6) 3RD PTG SPECIAL EDITION (MR) ![]() ![]() ![]() I can tell you one more thing: there was something inside that fallen chimney at the Kitchener Ironworks. ![]() How IT's Pennywise Makes a Creepy Cameo in 11/22/63 During his adventure though, Jake ends up spending some time in Derry, Maine, and needless to say, he doesn't end up fond of the place. The book centers on Jake Epping, a teacher who goes through a time portal into the past, on a mission to prevent the infamous assassination of U.S. ![]() One of King's coolest callbacks to a prior book came in his 2011 novel 11/22/63. Related: IT: Pennywise’s Disturbing Baby-Eating Deleted Scene Explained To be sure, references to other King projects do happen in King adaptations, they're just generally not to another specific adaptation, thus preventing them from tying directly together in a matter similar to something like the MCU or The Conjuring-verse. Unfortunately, Hollywood adaptations will always be at least somewhat limited as to how they can approach creating some kind of connected King cinematic universe, thanks to the hurdles of legal rights deals, and different studios controlling different stories. ![]() ![]() The Yattering and Jack may be my favorite story in volume one. ![]() The Midnight Meat Train (turned into a film in 2008), is about someone slaughtering people on the New York subway, and hanging them like meat for something that lives in the tunnels, and feasts on human flesh. The framing story for the series is called Book of Blood, it’s a ghost story that sees a young charlatan literally inscribed with the tales told in the book after a rift is open allowing the dead the ability to tell their stories through him. I dove into Volumes 1 to 3, and quickly realized that yes, he can still creep me out, and for the first time in a long time, made me anxious of dark spaces and shadows. ![]() ![]() With the imminent arrival of The Scarlet Gospels in May, I thought I would throw some of his books back into my reading cycle, and what better place to start that his brilliant collection of short stories – the Books of Blood series. There are few authors that can get under my skin with their stories and nightmare imagery. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, when the novel opens, Sister John is in the midst of a period of great intimacy with God. There was no shade, no shelter, no water.” Mirages of peace simmered and beckoned, only to recede as her spirit approached. ![]() Each hour in choir was a desert to be crossed on her knees. Her arms ached, her back felt sore, and she was hungry. ![]() The Gregorian melodies, sung without harmony sounded like dirges. God thirsted, but she had nothing to offer. The majority of that time, Sister John was plagued by spiritual aridity, and suffered her daily tasks and prayers as an enormous burden. Named after the famed Spanish mystic and poet of the 16th century, Sister John is a modern-day cloistered Carmelite nun who has spent almost two decades in the Carmel. Unlike Mariette in Ecstasy, the novel is written from the first personal perspective, giving the reader a privileged view into the inner life of the protagonist, Sister John of the Cross. In Lying Awake, Salzman paints a vivid portrait of a woman grappling with the delicate relationship between pathology and mysticism. But today, I take up an extraordinary work of a non-Christian author, Mark Salzman. In the first post of this series, I reviewed a novel that explores similar questions: Ron Hansen’s Mariette in Ecstasy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Publisher's Description For the last five months, Tom Anderson has been without a job, a fact he's been hiding from his wife Jean-and everyone else. Through tense scenes of war and tender moments of romance, The Reunion will make you believe that everyone can get a second chance at life and love. The Reunion: A Novel Unabridged Dan Walsh 6.99 9.99 Save 30 5 out of 5 stars for The Reunion: A Novel Unabridged Audiobook on CD. ![]() Unbeknownst to Aaron, someone is searching for him.With deep insight into the human heart, consummate storyteller Dan Walsh gently weaves a tale of a life spent in the shadows but meant for the light. Once honored for his heroism, he now lives in near obscurity, working as a handyman in a humble trailer park.But God is a master at finding and redeeming the lost things of life. His career is comprised of 21 books, including the widely successful When Night Comes, The Reunion, and The Unfinished Gift. The Reunion tells the story of Aaron Miller, an old Vietnam vet and handyman in a trailer park. ![]() Read Or Download The Reunion: A Novel By Dan Walsh Full Pages.Īaron Miller knows a thing or two about loss. ![]() ![]() ![]() After winning a PEN fellowship, marrying, and publishing her first novel, Grande discovered that writing her story could help her make sense of her troubled past and gain the courage to create a stable life for herself and her new family. Grande explores the complicated relationships of her uprooted family, dissecting a history of abuse (her grandmother verbally and physically abused her mother, who in turned abused Grande and her siblings) and vowing to break the cycle. She worked hard in school, graduated with honors from college, and landed a teaching job in L.A. to help her and two older siblings get to L.A. Grande then recounts her difficult childhood: her parents divorced and left her with her grandmother in Mexico at age nine, after two failed attempts, Grande made it across the border with the aid of her father, who returned from the U.S. ![]() The memoir opens with Grande leaving Los Angeles to attend UC Santa Cruz at age 21, on her way to becoming the first in her family to earn a college degree her parents, both naturalized citizens, were not educated beyond elementary school. ![]() Novelist Grande ( The Distance Between Us) writes with strength and passion of her life’s journey-from her birth in a shack in the poverty-stricken Mexican town of Iguala, to success as an author in the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pinker also includes a number of cartoons and, more importantly, sentence diagrams and other visuals, and these come across much better on iPad than on my Kindle Paperwhite. ![]() The layout of the book is stylish, and that’s something that often gets lost on Kindle. However, I happened to buy The Sense of Style on Apple Books soon after it came out in 2014, so I reread it on my iPad, which turned out to have some advantages. ![]() As much as I love print books (and I still buy and borrow plenty of them), I prefer reading my weekly craft books on Kindle so I can easily reference my notes or search the books from my computer. I also, just by happenstance, read this week’s book – Steven Pinker’s The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century – in a different format than I usually do. But it’s also true that occasionally shuffling your routine can wake you up. Having a regular schedule that incorporates time for writing is important, and I think it’s also true that you can train your brain to be productive at specific times (my brain starts tinkering away at this newsletter on Friday mornings, whether or not I’m sitting at my keyboard). My wrists have missed my split keyboard and vertical mouse, but otherwise the change has given me a welcome jolt of energy. How did the writing go this week? My schedule has been off-kilter this week (for good reasons this time, not pneumonia!), and I’ve been writing and working in a lot of new spots. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s no surprise that I am a huge fan of Beatriz Williams. Within days, Ruth is on her way to Moscow, posing as the wife of counterintelligence agent Sumner Fox in a precarious plot to extract the Digbys from behind the Iron Curtain.īut the complex truth behind Iris’s marriage defies Ruth’s understanding, and as the sisters race toward safety, a dogged Soviet KGB officer forces them to make a heartbreaking choice between two irreconcilable loyalties. Were they eliminated by the Soviet intelligence service? Or have the Digbys defected to Moscow with a trove of the West’s most vital secrets?įour years later, Ruth Macallister receives a postcard from the twin sister she hasn’t seen since their catastrophic parting in Rome in the summer of 1940, as war engulfed the continent and Iris fell desperately in love with an enigmatic United States Embassy official named Sasha Digby. The world is shocked by the family’s sensational disappearance. ![]() In the autumn of 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. The New York Times bestselling author of Her Last Flight returns with a gripping and profoundly human story of Cold War espionage and family devotion. ![]() |