Gothic & Lolita by Masayuki Yoshinaga5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Taschenbuch. In the ten years since the trend began it has expanded to a number of cities including Tokyo and now boasts many thousands of devotees who dedicate their lives to creating ever more flamboyant and bizarre variations on the Gothic theme. The origin of the movement was in Osaka in the mid 1990s when young teenagers adopted Gothic fashion in response to the clothes worn and promoted by Japanese Gothic rock bands. The majority of girls in the scene are teenagers and most usually stop dressing and behaving this way by the age of eighteen. The psychological characteristics of the average Japanese Goth is one of introversion and exclusivity. Influenced by Western fashion trends from the mid 1980s, young teenagers, predominately adolescent girls, congregate in the urban centres of Harajuku, Akihabara and a number of underground clubs in and around Tokyo, dressed head-to-toe in gothic costumes and late-Victorian dress. Gothic & Lolita charts the trend of Gothic street fashion that has swept Japan over the last decade. ![]()
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The hard stuff wayne kramer5/13/2023 ![]() David Sprague and Ira Robbins wrote in Trouser Press that the album "careens from free-jazz-backed spoken word to bug-eyed metal in a manner every bit as fierce and feral as Kramer's golden age." Entertainment Weekly 's Mike Flaherty was less favorable, describing the album as "a bombastic album dominated by tales of ’90s-style sociopolitical decay" and giving it a C+. ![]() the Hard Stuff shows to be in full command of his jam-kicking facilities," while praising the album's "vital rawness". Critical reception Professional ratings Review scores The band Claw Hammer backs up Kramer on most songs, with featured guest appearances by members of Bad Religion, the Melvins, and Suicidal Tendencies. It was released on Januby Epitaph Records. ![]() The Hard Stuff is the solo debut album by American musician Wayne Kramer, best known as a guitarist with the 1960s group MC5. ![]() If we were villains book 25/13/2023 ![]() The friendship, once beautiful, begins to hold something worth fearing. But as these things so often go, something dark and sinister soon sews hatred in them, and wedges its way between them. ![]() If We Were Villains is the story of a tightly knit group of seven lyric-mad Shakespearean thespians who seem to prefer each other’s company to anyone else’s, thereby offending the rest of the world. If you still want to know more about this book, I assume you're a masochist. You are literally a bound bundle of dead tree. That ending grabbed an invisible dagger and twisted it between my ribs. I tore through it, but I feel like it tore through me. ![]() ![]() I hate this book so much I can't bear it. Reader, when you read the synopsis for this book, you will likely hear a voice saying, “Oh, this sounds interesting! Let's do it.” And I’m here to tell you right now-that’s the devil talking.ĭon't let my five-star rating fool you. ![]() Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy5/13/2023 ![]() The story is chock-full of talking skeletons, evil sorcerers, beastly vampires, ancient legends, gritty action, and deadly gods. All The Action/Fantasy/Adventure You Could Ask For Intrigued? Well, we’ve come up with a few reasons as to why you should read the series, or possibly even reread it! 1. The pair goes on many thrilling adventures in their attempt to stop the terrifying Baron Vengeous from bringing back creatures known as the Faceless Ones. Stephanie, who later takes on the name Valkyrie Cain, begs Skulduggery to take her on as his apprentice, and he reluctantly agrees because she is holding his very expensive hat hostage. She is rescued by a man named Skulduggery Pleasant, who happens to be a four hundred-year-old sorcerer detective and a living skeleton. ![]() While she is staying overnight in said mansion, she receives a mysterious phone call before being attacked. The story follows twelve-year-old Stephanie Edgeley who inherits her late uncle’s mansion. Landy received several awards for Skulduggery Pleasant, including the Irish Book Awards in 20, was nominated for a Young Reader’s Choice Award in 2010, and won Irish Book of the Decade in 2010, as well as many other accolades. ![]() Skulduggery Pleasant is the bestselling series by Irish author Derek Landy. ![]() Brokeback mountain book5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Is Brokeback Mountain based on a True Story? Proulx went on to discuss how rural North America and regional cultures influence his work, and how he "looks at the historical tilt between what people hoped for and who they thought they were and what happened to them." "The story was not 'inspired,' but the result of years of subconscious observation and thinking that finally led to writing," the Pulitzer Prize-winning author told Wyoming's Planet Jackson Hole. In a separate interview at the beginning of December, Prolux was asked what inspired the story of the two tragic lovers. In a December 2005 interview with The Associated Press, a few weeks after Brokeback Mountain hit theaters, Proulx declined to discuss the origins of Ennis (Ledger) and Twist (Gyllenhaal). A Meditation on Love and Grief was immediately praised and won Proulx a number of accolades, including the National Magazine Award for Fiction.Ĭritics have praised Novell's realism and depiction of Wyoming, but the work appears to be entirely fictional. The short story written by Annie Proulx was first published in the New Yorker in 1997. The tragic story of "Brokeback Mountain" is not based on true events, but is actually adapted from a novel of the same name. ![]() A Power Unbound by Freya Marske5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9781529080988 Number of pages: 384 Dimensions: 234 x 153 mm MEDIA REVIEWSĪ Restless Truth keeps all the heart and heat of A Marvellous Light, but quadruples the hijinks. When a plot to seize unimaginable magic power comes to a head on Jack's own family estate, Jack, Alan and their allies will become entangled in a night of champagne, secrets and bloody sacrifice - and the foundations of magic in Britain might be torn up by the roots before the end.Ī Power Unbound is the spellbinding conclusion to The Last Binding trilogy by Freya Marske and unfortunately, he happens to be everything that Jack wants in one gorgeous, infuriating package. He's loud in his hatred of the aristocracy and their unearned power. Cagey and argumentative, Alan is only in this for the money. And to make matters worse, they need the help of writer and thief Alan Ross. Now Jack is living in a bizarre puzzle-box of a magical London townhouse, helping its owner Violet track down the final piece of the Last Contract before their enemies can do the same. But with the threat of a dangerous ritual risking every magician in Britain, he's drawn reluctantly back into that world. He renounced magic after the death of his twin sister. Jack Alston - Lord Hawthorn - would love a nice, safe, comfortable life. ![]() 'Sublime prose, top-notch world-building, delightfully queer' - TJ Klune, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, on A Marvellous Light ![]() The decagon house murder5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Seven students, members of their university's mystery club, decide to spend a week-long vacation on Tsunojima Island off the coast of Japan. The second English-language edition was published in December 2020 by Pushkin Press, and in July 2021 the manga adaptation, illustrated by Hiro Kiyohara, was announced for publication in America. Locked Room International published the first English-language edition of the novel in 2015. The Decagon House Murders belongs to the honkaku subgenre of mystery fiction. ![]() Borrowing its basic plot structure from Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None (Christie's book is directly referenced by some of the characters at several points), it tells the story of a group of seven university students who travel to a deserted island that was the scene of a grisly mass murder six months earlier, where events soon turn ominous. The Decagon House Murders ( 十角館の殺人, Jūkakukan no satsujin) is a 1987 Japanese mystery novel, the debut work of author Yukito Ayatsuji. ![]() ![]() ![]() If news travels that quickly with such MINOR things, wouldn't it travel all the more quickly when there has been MURDER? EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE DIED AT SOME POINT IN THE NOVEL.Īnd the whole plot with Swede and Brandon seemed 100% unnecessary. This I didn't believe, especially whenever people quickly became abreast to the fact that Watson's room had been rummaged through, or that there was a fight in the smoking room. I can understand one or two, but Good Lord! People were getting murdered left and right and yet no one really cottoned on to the fact. Swede with Brandon plus a few extra cohorts And HOW many villains/ruffians did they have to deal with? Let's tally: I don't know if it was because I got distracted reading the story or what, but I thought the whole plot was outlandish. ![]() Antuan de sent exupery little prince5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It took many years-and many readings-for this reader to begin to understand that the book is a war story. He is instructed by a wise if cautious fox, and by a sinister angel of death, the snake. The rose has made him so miserable that, in torment, he has taken advantage of a flock of birds to convey him to other planets. But we are no closer to penetrating the central riddle: What is “The Little Prince” about?Įveryone knows the basic bones of the story: an aviator, downed in the desert and facing long odds of survival, encounters a strange young person, neither man nor really boy, who, it emerges over time, has travelled from his solitary home on a distant asteroid, where he lives alone with a single rose. This year marks an efflorescence of attention, including a full-scale exhibition of Saint-Exupéry’s original artwork at the Morgan Library & Museum, in New York. But it has altered the conclusion without really changing the point. Over time, the suffrage of readers has altered that conclusion, of course: a classic is a classic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when the show's vicious fanbase confirms his worst anxieties, neither his growing romance with Tariq nor his success in the competition can keep Paris's fear of failure from spoiling his happiness. Sure, he's the competition, but he's also incredibly cute with more confidence than Paris could ever hope to have. ![]() And yet, not only does he impress the judges and win week one's challenge - he also catches the eye of fellow contestant, Tariq Hassan. So, when his roommate enters him in Bake Expectations, the nation's favourite baking show, Paris is sure he'll be the first one sent home. Despite his passion for baking, constant self-doubt has left him a curdled, directionless mess. Paris Daillencourt is a recipe for disaster. ![]() |