Batman arkham asylum grant morrison6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Written by legendary comics creator Grant Morrison and beautifully illustrated and restored by artist Dave McKean, this deluxe edition collects the fully painted story together with Morrison’s complete annotated script and page layouts as well as a 16-page gallery of preliminary and promotional art by McKean and an afterword by editor Karen Berger. The Batman must descend into this heart of darkness, confront his greatest foes, and face the truth of his own divided identity - or condemn himself to share their fate. Led by the Joker, Arkham’s inmates issue a terrible ultimatum to the man responsible for their imprisonment. ![]() It is April 1st, and the lunatics have taken over the asylum. Within its claustrophobic walls the demented and deformed enemies of the Batman brood in padded cells and unlit cellars, dreaming of a day when they might rise up and overthrow the world of reason. ![]() More than half a century later, the Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is a place of dismal corridors and oppressive shadows-a dark riddle in stone and timber, best left unsolved. In 1920, following the death of his disturbed mother, brilliant psychologist Amadeus Arkham began the conversion of his ancestral home into a hospital for the treatment of the mentally ill. ![]()
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Pădurea norvegiană by Haruki Murakami6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() For me, I saw his delusion / slip out of reality as him inheriting the 'illness' from Naoko, that she inherited from Kizuki the night she 'moved on' from him (the night Toru and her slept together. Spoiler As for the ending of the novel - at first I was left a bit puzzled, then I reached my own interpretation, whether or not it is what was intended I am unsure of. Sometimes, often rather, I would be too moved to continue reading and first had to process what I just read. Murakami's matter of fact style writing was refreshing yet deeply touching I felt myself moved to tears several times throughout the book. To say the least, this book was extremely emotional, for me at least, and left me feeling completely drained and empty. ![]() As a first time reader of Murakami, I didn't know quite what to expect whether the book would be emotional, light-hearted, disappointing. ![]() Vault of Glass by Candace Robinson6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() The mother keeps the girl in a cave I believe out of fear, coming occasionally to wash her face, bring her food, and clean her hair. The story follows the birth of a baby who is claimed by a shapeshifting witch despite her mother’s pleas. (We’ll get a screener sent to us soon so we can rewatch with subtitles, so I’ll be coming back to update this post once we do!) Still the story was so visual and the interactions so visceral, we didn’t need dialogue to understand what was going on. The poor employees tried multiple times to get subtitles to work, but after three or four stops and starts they gave up. The screening we saw had a multitude of issues, as many who screen foreign films have likely seen before. Imagine my surprise and delight to find this film which portrays a shapeshifter I had never heard of before. It’s something I’ve always enjoyed working into my novels, from the Stolen series to The Seeking to The Wolves of Kanta series. If you’ve read my work, I have a love of shapeshifters and people who can take on the appearance of someone or something else. The other day I got to attend a movie screening for a Macedonian film from independent film company Focus Films: You Won’t Be Alone. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book begins with one woman’s personal, particular heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood, traditional gender roles, and the power dynamics that persist even in many progressive homes. ![]() In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical vignettes that shine, hard and clear as jewels. “Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.” The bestselling poet and author of the “powerful” (People ) and “luminous” ( Newsweek ) Keep Moving offers a lush and heartrending memoir exploring coming of age in your middle age. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Good Housekeeping, Goodreads, Zibby Mag, Newsweek, BookPage, and LitHub “.reminds you that you can.survive deep loss, sink into life’s deep beauty, and constantly, constantly make yourself new.”-Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author ![]() Rachel smythe patreon6/9/2023 ![]()
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