![]() ![]() Born and raised in Nigeria, she received her MPA from New York University and was awarded a 2015 Miles Morland Writing Scholarship. Currently-lives in Brooklyn, New York CityĪkwaeke Emezi is an Igbo and Tamil writer and artist based in liminal spaces.Awards-Commonwealth Short Story Prize-Africa.Unsettling, heart-wrenching, dark, and powerful, Freshwater dazzles with ferocious energy and serpentine grace, heralding the arrival of a fierce new literary voice. Written with stylistic brilliance and based in the author’s realities, this raw and extraordinary debut explores the metaphysics of identity and being, plunging the reader into the mysteries of self. ![]() ![]() When Ada travels to America for college, a traumatic event crystallizes the selves into something more powerful.Īs Ada fades into the background of her own mind and these alters-now protective, now hedonistic-move into control, Ada’s life spirals in a dangerous direction. Born "with one foot on the other side," she begins to develop separate selves. Her parents successfully prayed her into existence, but something must have gone awry, as the young Ada becomes a troubled child, prone to violent fits of anger and grief.īut Ada turns out to be more than just volatile. As an infant in southern Nigeria, she is a source of deep concern to her family. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Norris never came back, but I did, time and again for each sequel. Looking at the tagline Sorry Jack, Chucky’s Back I hoped to see the return of Officer Norris (I didn’t recall that the character's first name was Mike-this was before I was obsessed with such details). I don't recall the first time I watched Child’s Play, but I do remember going to the video store when I was young and renting the first sequel on VHS. I discovered Chucky in the same way as those other maniacal slasher killers, at the local video store. This book will examine several facets of Chucky, his loved ones and enemies, and the six films in the Child’s Play series, as well as why he has endured so well and continues to be a pop culture icon. Of the franchises that reached mass appeal in pop culture, starring such cinematic killers as Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, and Jason Voorhees, only one slasher icon continues in his original context-Chucky. ![]() The slasher sub-genre achieved the peak of its popularity in the 1980s with major studios releasing multiple films each year. ![]() And if you’re reading this book, then you probably do, too. The following essays were written about a film series that I love. ![]() ![]() It removes the veil it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of a rebel soul” (604, 605). But it gives the only opportunity the bad man can have for amendment. ![]() “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world… No doubt Pain as God’s megaphone is a terrible instrument it may lead to final and unrepented rebellion. Key Concepts: #1: Pain makes us realize… our need for God! ![]() Therefore God lacks either goodness, or power, or both.” This is the problem of pain, in its simplest form (560). If God were good, He would wish to make His creatures perfectly happy, and if God were almighty He would be able to do what He wished. Lewis’ first apologetic book, in which takes on the great challenge of reconciling the notion of an all-powerful and loving God and the existence of pain & suffering. ![]() ![]() YA)Īfter surviving a suicide attempt, a fragile teen isn't sure she can endure without cutting herself. Pulse-pounding, on both visceral and intellectual levels-a wild, brutal ride. Readers may find the storybook ending a welcome relief, though it does seem forced after the pain that precedes it. In the end, he deals out just deserts all around: Eric gets a stepfather he can respect Virgil, a vicious mauling plus 20 years in stir Sarah, a new and loving set of parents. Though Crutcher doesn't always play fair in developing his themes-all the conservative Christians here are humorless dupes or hypocrites, and one tries to commit suicide after it comes out that his girlfriend had an abortion-his language, characters, and situations are vivid and often hilarious. Enter Virgil, her psychotic father, who speaks only in threats in a terrifying passage, he stalks and stabs Eric in order to learn where Sarah (who has escaped) is hiding. Between trenchant classroom confrontations over abortion and other religious controversies, exhausting swim team workouts, and a sudden relationship with a classmate, Eric loyally finds time to visit Sarah. Sarah Byrnes, her face hideously scarred from what she calls a childhood accident, sits silent and withdrawn in the psychiatric ward her friend Eric (``Moby''), who has admired her since grade school as the toughest person he knows, wonders what could have finally pushed her over the edge. Once again, Crutcher assembles a crew of misfits to tackle the Big Issues. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reading a work that has mastered both the technicalities of writing and the complexities of good story telling, I do feel that I have become a much better writer myself. Having continued to read after this project, I find myself examining texts much more closely, with the intent of unearthing the ‘core’ of its intent. Truly, I feel that applying a critical knowledge to any art form, whether it be film, radio, television, theatre, art or literature, furthers the comprehension of the medium, which in turn allows for complete enjoyment. Having been pushed to dig deep into a text, and pull out significant moments, quotations, symbols, motifs, themes and characters, I believe I understand Lam’s intentions with Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures much better. One of the greatest skills I feel I have honed from this project is the ability and keenness to analyze literature much more critically. The grade twelve ISU has definitely been challenging, but captivating at the same time. ![]() ![]() This is the start of his story. Out of the chaos, a boy emerges with the power to change everything: Thomas. ![]() ![]() The world has ended: the earth is scorched, and fever rages through the population. ![]() Â A prequel to the New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series – now a series of major movies starring Dylan O’Brien! SEE THE FILMS. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Russell Wakefield helped to raise the level of individual volumes." He succeeded his uncle as 5th Baronet Birkin in 1942. Bleiler, in the Creeps series "editorial stress was on fairly low-brow stories of horror and sadism, although stories by H. Birkin included stories of his own in most of these volumes (under the pseudonym "Charles Lloyd"), these being later collected as Devil's Spawn (1936). Authors anthologized in the Creeps series included H. He was educated at Eton College and was later employed by the publisher Philip Allan to anonymously edit the Creeps horror story anthologies, the first which appeared in 1932. Klein, entry on Birkin in The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural Viking Penguin 1986 Biography īirkin was the son of Colonel Charles Wilfred Birkin and Claire Howe, the daughter of Alexander Howe. ![]() ![]() It sounds almost ridiculous to type that in this day and age, but when I think about the politics of recent years, it is as accurate a way as any to describe the fear, anger, and downright hatred many Americans have toward women of color who dare reach for political power without first capitulating to white male supremacy. Congress, and everyone freaked the fuck out. ![]() In 2017, four confident, talented, unapologetic young women of color were elected to U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() But there are also laugh-out-loud moments and moments of heartwarming tenderness that show how the bond between Gaustad and her husband remains strong through it all. And she bluntly shows how inadequately our health care system addresses the needs of those suffering from dementia. Gaustad doesn’t shy away from depicting the horrors this disease inflicts upon both those who suffer from it and those who care for them. I was reluctant, at first, to read it, afraid it would bring up still painful memories of my father’s struggles with Alzheimer’s-and it did, yet I also found the book healing. ![]() Joan Loren Gaustad’s memoir about her husband’s dementia and the journey on which it took them as a couple is a beautiful book-both in terms of the writing and the accompanying art. ![]() ![]() ![]() (7) d (This is against policy at Cimitière de Clarens.) (6) c (~bloods plotline disappear halfway through ~berries have 61 fewer ORAC units than açaí) (5) c (“A Cadillac-sized smile drove away with his face as if I’d just agreed to pay him ‘in cayash,’ as Dad would say, for a Sedona Beige Metallic Pontiac Grand Prix, fully loaded, two grand over sticker price, driving it off the lot right then and there.” “Stop the radicals! Join the antioxidant revolution!”) (12) _ “Post-BBC Office is anyone allowed to be named Gareth? Really? Really?” (11) _ “Maybe I don’t need this many antioxidants and/or self-indulgence.” (10) _ “I’m confused about what editors, like, do?” (9) _ Handy pronunciation key for difficult-to-pronounce words like “açaí” or “pessl” ![]() ![]() ![]() (8) _ Authoritative blurb raises questions about agenda of blurber (5) _ Contains metaphors that go down like a junebug having lion sex in a bourbon mood (4) _ It seemed sort of good in the beginning, but by the end I was like, “Blaahahhgajh. (3) _ If feeling extremely charitable, I might call it “frothy” (b) The bottle of açaí juice I bought for lunch Reviews of “Special Topics in Calamity Physics” and the Bottle of Açaí Juice I Bought for Lunch Cleverly Masked as SAT Test Questions ![]() |