![]() “But it is the recognition of this messiness that forces you to understand the full humanity of Black women.” In other words, in order for Black women to be seen, their stories must include the good, the bad, and the ugly. “Nina was incredibly fucking messy,” Samudzi says of the singer, whose life was marked by racism, mental-health challenges, and physical abuse. She attributes the chasm to a collective inability to accept parts of a Black woman’s life that do not fit into a prescribed narrative. ![]() In a 2019 episode about Nina Simone on Revolutionary Left Radio, a leftist podcast about philosophy, history, and politics, the writer Zoé Samudzi reflects on this revisionism by analyzing the gap between the High Priestess of Soul’s brutal reality and her golden legacy. ![]() And amid the chatter, the identities of Black women get sanitized, oversimplified, and sometimes lost. These discussions have turned into calls to protect their bodies in life and to say their names in death, but they have also led to a kind of deification that assuages feelings of guilt more than it honors lives. The deaths of Breonna Taylor, Oluwatoyin Salau, and Dominique Fells, among many others, have reignited conversations about the women who inhabit a strange space between invisibility and hypervisibility, for whom safety is rare. ![]() America has been talking a lot about Black women lately. ![]()
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![]() ![]() There are children of the Celestials which is what Ego was in Guardians 2 I believe. The Eternals have been on this world from the beginning of time. This was simply a beginning and I don't see more volumes for this run. ![]() I do feel like there was much more to the story. I hope they do make this into a movie and give it a good treatment. I didn't know anything about the Eternals and I was excited by this Marvel outing. Preferably told by someone other than Neil Gaiman? Anyone? that gives this a somewhat Marvel universe-y feel to it.Īt the end of this I was kind of left scratching my head, but maybe this isn't the whole thing? The story takes place during the events of the Superhero Registration Act, so there are a few cameos with Tony & Co. ![]() They're living among us as humans and occasionally superheroes. Ish.ĭue to vaguely explained happenings, the lion's share of these Eternals have been mindwiped and have no idea who or what they are anymore. ![]() The Eternals are these super-powerful & immortal beings that were created before humanity, and they (I guess) act as our protectors when even bigger, more powerful, older immortal beings decide it may be time to end us. So, if he can do no wrong in your book, then you'll want to check this out. It does, however, have that typical Gaiman smell to it. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't exactly satisfying (to me) in any sort of a meaty story sort of way. The first time I read this I was a diehard Gaiman fangirl and I gave it 4 stars. ![]() ![]() To win, Darrow will need to inspire those shackled in darkness to break their chains, unmake the world their cruel masters have built, and claim a destiny too long denied – and too glorious to surrender. Among them are some Darrow once considered friends. Darrow and his comrades-in-arms face powerful enemies without scruple or mercy. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society’s mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart from within.īut devotion to honor and hunger for vengeance run deep on both sides. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. ![]() Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. ![]() ![]() Competing in Peri's mind however are the memories invoked by her almost-lost polaroid, of the time years earlier when she was sent abroad for the first time, to attend Oxford University. Over the course of the dinner, and amidst an opulence that is surely ill-begotten, terrorist attacks occur across the city. Three Daughters of Eve is set over an evening in contemporary Istanbul, as Peri arrives at the party and navigates the tensions that simmer in this crossroads country between East and West, religious and secular, rich and poor. ![]() ![]() A relic from a past - and a love - Peri had tried desperately to forget. ![]() As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground - an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor. Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. "The stunning, timely new novel from the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Architect's Apprentice and The Bastard of Istanbul. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the beginning, Kate is separated from Michael and Emma as she uses the book of Atlas to go back into the past but is unfortunately unable to get back to the present. ![]() ![]() Part 1 was mainly about the elder sister Kate getting hold of the first book, while the Fire Chronicle is about Michael, the second sibling, becoming the keeper of the second book, The Fire Chronicle. The story is about 3 kids who are on a quest to find 3 magical books, known as the Books of Beginning. However, my fears were laid to rest once I started reading the book as there were enough references, in the beginning, itself for me to get an idea as to what transpired in Book 1. The Fire Chronicle is Part 2 of ‘The Books of Beginning’ series by John Stephens.Ĭonsidering that I hadn’t read part 1, ‘The Emerald Atlas’, I was apprehensive whether I would be able to successfully follow the plot and if it would affect the way I would perceive the book in the end. While some may not like fantasy novels, I find that they have the capacity to let you escape from the chains of reality and make you believe, at least for the time that you are reading the book that magical things can happen. Otherwise, the story would not come out well and the reader will not enjoy the book at all. Not only does it require imagination on the part of the author, he/she should also be able to translate it onto paper effectively so that the readers will be able to imagine the same thing. Fantasy fiction is a tricky thing to write. ![]() ![]() ![]() And while Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland is known worldwide, many of the great fantasy comics have virtually vanished - until now. ![]() But from 1900 to 1915, American newspapers offered some of the most fascinating comics ever printed. These pages were a Sunday staple for less than two decades, soon replaced by humorous family comics that more closely mirrored the modern society. This confluence brought about a unique genre within a new art form-the Fantasy Comic Strip. One such advance was four-color printing, which brought to life stories inspired by both the technology of the time and the children’s fiction enjoyed by a burgeoning middle class. The dawn of the 20th century saw of technological advances that were only dreamed of decades before. Collect the greatest fantasy comic strips from the earliest days of comics. ![]() ![]() There are also sweet, sad, funny chapters about her family, and especially how they are dealing with her grandmother’s dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.Īnd there are chapters that are not sweet, funny or sad, where she rails against insurance companies and their unhelpful (to say the least) ways. She also reveals her own “really serious and raw stuff” – experiences with avoidant personality disorder, imposter syndrome, ADD, OCD, tuberculosis, rheumatoid arthritis, anemia, depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation. ![]() There’s even a picture of her using the device. The new book goes into those subjects in more depth, including a personal narrative of using TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation) to deal with her treatment-resistant depression. Jenny’s previous book, “Furiously Happy,” dealt a lot with struggles against depression and anxiety – Jenny’s own and other people’s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Told in 14 distinct voices, including that of the ship that brought them to the American shores and the founder of African Town, this powerfully affecting historical novel-in-verse recreates a pivotal moment in US and world history, the impacts of which we still feel today. At the end of the Civil War, the survivors created a community for themselves they called African Town, which still exists to this day. Their journey includes the savage Middle Passage and being hidden in the swamp lands along the Alabama River before being secretly parceled out to various plantations, where they made desperate attempts to maintain both their culture and also fit into the place of captivity to which they’d been delivered. ![]() ![]() In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and brought to Mobile, Alabama aboard a ship called Clotilda. Here is the blurb from the publisher:Ĭhronicling the story of the last Africans brought illegally to America in 1860, African Town is a powerful and stunning novel-in-verse. AFRICAN TOWN by Irene Latham and Charles Waters is just such a book. Every now and then I come across a book that leaves me breathless and awed by its storytelling and power. ![]() ![]() Few would have predicted an autobiography by Agassi would be this good.Īndre Agassi’s description of his childhood is bizarre enough to not be a stereotype, yet will be recognisable to those who hear it. From rebel to saviour, washed-up to rejuvenated, reviled to adored, Agassi went on this journey with confusion and understanding, petulance and acceptance.Ī good book about Andre Agassi was always going to be worth a read. ![]() Alongside the bumpy performance on the court were rises and falls in his standing with the public. ![]() It was far rockier with rises, falls and durability that surprised fans and critics. But his career did not follow the familiar trajectory of young prodigy to world beater before decline as age and injury catch up. Andre Agassi is undoubtedly one of the greats of modern men’s tennis. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A diary is Nao's only solace - and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine.Īcross the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox - possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. "A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be." ![]() A brilliant, unforgettable, and long-awaited novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki ![]() |