![]() Not to dive right into the feels, but I’m gonna: had this book and ensuing series been around when I was in high school, it would have changed my life. Have I convinced you yet to go read Cute Mutants, Vol 1: Mutant Pride? If so, cool cool. Let me start off by sharing this a tweet of mine from earlier today: Can I bring them back together in time to stop the villain from taking revenge? Have I mentioned I’m not a people person? Magneto help us. Except trying to make a difference makes things blow up in my face and the team’s on the verge of falling apart. The bigger problem is a mysterious mutant causing unnatural disasters, and we’re the ones who have to stop him. Now there’s a whole group of us with strange abilities, including super hot ice queen Dani Kim who doesn’t approve of how reckless I can be. ![]() One hot make out session with the host herself, and I can talk to objects like my pillow (who’s far too invested in my love life) and my baseball bat (who was a pacifist before I got hold of him). ![]() Except people and me never got along, and apparently you need social skills to run a successful team. ![]() My name is Dylan Taylor, human incarnation of the burning dumpster gif, and this is my life. ![]()
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Tanzer's books often combine elements of multiple genres including horror, fantasy, science fiction, realism, and comedy. She studied Art History at Rollins College, and received a Master's in Humanities from Florida State University, with a focus on 18th-century novels written by women about the transatlantic slave trade. She moved to West Palm Beach Florida when she was 12. She is known for genre-bending fiction that combines horror and fantasy with strong female protagonists, depth of characterization, and realistic interpersonal relationships. ![]() She won the Colorado Book Award for historical fiction, and has been nominated for the Locus Award, British Fantasy Award, and the Wonderland Book Award. Molly Tanzer (born October 29, 1981) is an American fantasy, horror, and science fiction writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What’s one thing not many know about you?Īn interesting combination of thinking and doing. For example I have to have all of the bank notes in my wallet facing the same way so that the plastic windows lined up. I’m fairly obsessive compulsive but I hide it well. That would probably take about five minutes so I would spend the rest of the time publicly attending gay weddings, rule climate change a fact once and for all and sort out some appalling refugee processing issues. Hopefully find some women of merit to put in the cabinet. If you could be Prime Minister for a week, what would you do? Here she tells all in our latest industry profiles. From wanting to be a vet, then an author, then PR, then advertising, then journalism, Sarah Bailey, group account director at DDB Melbourne now has a job that’s a “bizarre combination of PR, writing, journalism and cat herding”. ![]() ![]() ![]() Working together as a father/daughter team they face evil knights, soar through the air on a griffin, evade capture on a submarine and work together to create a sparklingly colourful happy ever after. At first, our red crayon-loving explorer is reluctant to have her dad join the excitement but she soon releases that his artistic abilities are needed - to save them from the most dangerous adventure yet. The latest book in the trilogy is Return and our young adventurers'father joins the excitement of another perilous journey. ![]() Using their unique magical crayons to illustrate their way through the dangers they encounter, they save the day the day by rescuing the kingdom's captured king. In the second book Quest, our young adventurer finds a kindred spirit and together our heroes embark on a colourful quest. Her journey takes her from forest, to river, to magical kingdom and finally into the air as she seeks to help a new friend and return home. ![]() She has her heart set on adventure and her crayon enables her to escape her dull and lonely life to a magical world of possibilities. In his first book Journey, we are introduced to a seemingly ordinary young girl, with an extraordinary magical red crayon. ![]() Readers may be aware of Aaron Beckers wordless picture books - Journey & Quest the series becomes a trilogy with the addition of the newly released book Return. ![]() ![]() The beauty of a Coen Brothers film, virtually any Coen Brothers film, is that which makes "No Country for Old Men" so brilliant and yet so resolutely unsatisfying as the film winds its way down. ![]() Then, there is Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), a man who has been so weathered by his lifetime in law enforcement that even he is, on a certain level, evil by omission. Llewellyn Moss (Josh Brolin) is, perhaps, less obviously evil and, yet, is so overcome by greed, the desire for massive life improvement and the thrill of the chase that he too succumbs to evil. ![]() I'm not sure if love exists in "No Country for Old Men," but I'm damn sure that evil exists in both places obvious and not quite so obvious.in people obvious and, yes, not quite so obvious.Īnton Chiguhr (Javier Bardem) is obviously evil even as he is, equally as obviously, the most principled man featured in the film. Yet, evil, much like love, permeates those hidden crevisces in our souls and, more often than not, shows up for no rhyme nor reason.Īnd so we come to "No Country for Old Men," the latest Coen Brothers mind-fucking masterpiece based upon a Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name. We can seek to justify it or understand it or prevent it. This may, or may not, explain why sometimes a great fuck and a BMW will add up to love. ![]() Love has its origins in the deeper, more primitive recesses of our beings. ![]() Most of us attribute our love to the cumulative power of a bunch of tangibles adding up, somehow, to something wholly intangible. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is what he knew how to do in the world. I watched my father carve those things all day. There he is, in a refugee camp, surrounded by those things on the wall. The photograph below is of a man and his art. I was not supposed to be there, and no one expected me to live.īut nothing in this photograph shows that. At the time, we did not know what would happen to us, what our future might look like. ![]() ‘Stateless’ is the word given to someone like me. My father tells me that this is the size of a pop can. ![]() I was born in the Lao refugee camp in Nong Khai, Thailand in 1978. My father built a raft made of bamboo to cross the Mekong River. In this new series, we give authors a space to discuss the way they write – from technique and style to inspirations that inform their craft.Īfter the war in Vietnam ended, we were some of those three million refugees nobody wanted. We featured her story ‘How to Pronounce Knife’ in Granta 141: Canada. Souvankham Thammavongsa is the author of three books of poetry: Small Arguments , Found and Light. ![]() |