Whew, I don‘t know much about Bauhaus. But the dislike that the author holds for Gropius‘s wife Alma, seems over the top and problematic.
Whew, I don‘t know much about Bauhaus. But the dislike that the author holds for Gropius‘s wife Alma, seems over the top and problematic.
This is an interesting topic. Having more walkable communities, better transportation, less car centered growth is always the hope. It always seems so potentially doable. But ….
“You could have left…maybe you would have gotten away. I‘ll never truly understand you”. “We didn‘t leave …because we belong! Because we say so.”
“Those missing kids aren‘t missing anymore. They‘re where they‘ll always be, dead and in Ohio.”
This reminds me of It by Stephen King; the story has the same sort of cyclic horror and abuse hiding behind a the facade of a “nice” town. Unlike It, the monster in loving is a religion (or cult), and the religion is a pyramid scheme, and it remains undefeated by the end of the story. That tension of the monstrous thing confronted but not defeated, just escaped, feels very adult.
#Choose20 comics that stuck with you or influenced you. Post one cover a day, in no particular order. No reviews, no explanations. Just covers. Day 20:Castle Waiting Volume 1: Lucky Road
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This was a pretty breezy history of lipstick in the US specifically. And, more specifically, how lipstick was sold to woman and thus what being a woman was supposed to mean at different points in history. The ways economics and makeup interact drew special attention.
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The frantic multiverse travels of Dead X-men is enjoyable, although too high stakes to be fun. I read this based on the team make-up. So if you like Jubilee, Rachel, Cannonball, Dazzler, Frenzy and Prodigy you might like this. (I will never understand Prodigy‘s power. Someone explain it to me.)
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…I don‘t know. I guess alternate realities, where characters are so different that all they share is a mild aesthetic connection to characters you already know, doesn‘t appeal to me.
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This is ok. Unsurprisingly, wealthy absinthe collectors are as out of touch as wealthy art collectors. The author seemed casually wealthy in a way that made me dislike him. Not a bad person, just weirdly casual. The way he talked about googling the forger‘s name, made it sound like he‘d never searched for anyone online before. Still, low stakes true crime for the win.
There are so many irons in the fire in this book that it‘s hard for me to know what was sincere, what was parody, what was a meditation on the inherent unreality of plot structure, and what was just a fantasy novel. There‘s lots of funny lines, there‘s purple writing that I‘m 85% sure is genre aware parody, there‘s reevaluations of problematic fantasy tropes.
The story of a missing indigenous woman from the point of view of her loved ones rather than from the pov of detectives or police was welcome change. This also feels like a very honest portrayal of the messiness and abruptness of grief.
So there‘s this point in the book where the male character mentions men not receiving compliments from women very often and…that‘s probably true. But I have a sinking suspicion that, as the female character doesn‘t think about it, the male author doesn‘t know how often compliments from strange men end with insults, harassment, threats and violence directed at women they‘re “complimenting”.
I like Pargin‘s work. But I think there‘s things he misses about being a woman, and since this book was basically a man and woman in a car together, it comes up. Idk, Trump just won an election and there are guys posting “Your body, my choice” on SM. My patience for a lonely guy‘s pov where he occasionally full on rants about “feminists” is pretty low.
I have a question. The author of 7 wonders is writing about the temple of Artemis and says that bees were her symbol. Her priestesses were called honeybees. And for a sec that made sense, then I remembered the long history of male scientists (hilariously) thinking the queen bee was a king. Were bees her symbol cause there were lots of bees in the area, cause everyone liked honey, or did ancient people know something later naturalists forgot?
I think comics based on live action tv fail when they attempt art that looks as much as possible like the actors. It leads to static art that hits an uncanny valley and isn‘t very good at telling stories. Farscape was visually stunning tv with a lot of motion. This comic does a better job of being a Farscape comic by using an art style that is less figurative but shows more motion.
I really like this series. It‘s messy and all over the place. But I like the characterizations and complexities of so many of these characters. It‘s big, and top heavy. But I‘ll miss Krakoa.
Parts of this are just straight Hero‘s Journey beats. But other parts are the hero who is explicitly a member of a community. Also, Bruce Wayne, doing his best!
It‘s interesting that in a book about a deadly plague, the economics would still be the dreariest and most annoying part. But I suppose that‘s why economics is the “dismal science”.
The preface starts out by describing Hadrian‘s wall like “Ramparts are attractive..nothing bigger, grander, more masterful. And more impressive …power pulses from Hadrian‘s Wall”. Honestly seems like a 🍆metaphor.
It‘s probably good that the Alt-right don‘t like each other anymore than people outside of their movement like them.
This is good. But I got honestly upset when the horse turned out to be an antagonist. I wandered around raging (internally) “The horse is supposed to be her only friend!”
Damn it Corey, I don‘t have time for these doorstoppers! Fine. Okay. I‘ll read this and I‘ll like this. But I won‘t be happy about it.
A solid horror novel. A Christian evangelical cult has the most successful gay conversion camp ever. By which I mean, it‘s not successful at all, but they do open portals to hell.
I‘m about 1/3 of the way through this and I can‘t find a plot. Penny wants a job, gets a job, then experiences her job. And then seems to want nothing. A cypher of a character. There is something dark about the interplay of capitalism and dreaming and that unacknowledged darkness against the coziness of the setting is kinda odd.