I don’t want to walk the longest continual path so much as the most impactful ones, the ones that show me nature and beauty, myself and others, the present and especially the past from some surprising vantage. But for me, hiking is a means to an end, never the end itself. It’s true that I love walking long distances, whether that means going from Mexico to Canada via the Pacific Crest Trail or traversing entire states like Florida and Arizona a month at a time. It is, allegedly, “the world’s longest continuous walk,” a fact I’ve never bothered to vet despite the dozens of friends who’ve sent it my way. Maybe you’ve seen it online, too-a Google Maps screenshot of the globe with a blue line that curves nearly 14,000 miles northward from Cape Town, South Africa to Magadan, Russia, arcing like a launched rocket through zones of extreme geopolitical turmoil. The map that has become a meme first began arriving in text messages, emails, and social media tags at least four years ago.
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I know many people loved King and perhaps I just wasn’t in a receptive mood, but this missed the mark for me. My opinions are completely subjective and influenced by my ever-changing moods on a given day. I’ve read mediocre books that I’ve loved and well-written books that I didn’t enjoy. Although originally slated to be a standalone, KING is now a two part series. Warning: This book contains graphic violence, consensual and nonconsensual sex, drug use, abuse, and other taboo subjects and adult subject matter. When they come crashing together, they will have to learn that sometimes in order to hold on, you have to first let go. Published by Self-Published on June 15th 2015ĭoe has no memories of who she is or where she comes from.Ī notorious career criminal just released from prison, King is someone you don’t want to cross unless you’re prepared to pay him back in blood, sweat, pu$$y or a combination of all three. While not without its stilted moments and easy sentiments, “Mother and Child” is lucid, engaging, and novelistic in the best sense - even if it could have used that little extra aesthetic push that made “Nine Lives” so remarkable. In his new film, “Mother and Child,” Garcia continues his mission to dramatize intersecting lives of women, yet here his three main characters are figures in a single, elegantly unfolding narrative. The narratives themselves, surveying women from different classes and pasts and at different life thresholds, may not have been equally gripping, but together the film had a cumulative power, while certain segments (especially Robin Wright Penn’s supermarket encounter) could be considered short-film classics. Bringing to the women’s picture a rigorous aesthetic design, “Nine Lives,” made up of nine disparate segments about different female characters shot in elaborate single takes, successfully translated the structure of a short story anthology to the screen, and without denying film’s unique properties. In his 2005 film “Nine Lives,” Rodrigo Garcia did something cinematically unexpected. It takes place just before the events of Resident Evil, with Special Tactics and Rescue Service (S.T.A.R.S.) medic Rebecca Chambers and former marine Billy Coen discovering a train full of zombies in the Arklay Mountains (home to the Spencer Mansion). Resident Evil 0 is the fifth game released in the series but the first chronologically. With series newcomers in mind, the brief plot synopses below contain only mild spoilers such as broad plot points and character introductions. Missing from this list are mobile and pachinko games, light gun and Wii shooters (Resident Evil Survivor, Survivor 2, Dead Aim, Umbrella Chronicles, Darkside Chronicles), and non-canonical/non-consequential/difficult to access spinoffs (Resident Evil Gaiden, Outbreak, Outbreak: File #2, Mercenaries 3D, Operation Raccoon City, Resistance, Umbrella Corps, Re:Verse) While many others are considered canon, this is not an exhaustive chronology, but rather an approachable guide to entering and enjoying the world of Resident Evil video games. How to Play the Resident Evil Games in Chronological Orderįor this list, we’re focusing on 12 Resident Evil games: all 10 core entries and the two Revelations spinoffs. That number rises near 60 when accounting for mobile and pachinko games. However, the total number of Resident Evil console games - including spinoffs and remakes - sits around 30. There are 10 core Resident Evil games: RE 0-7, Village, and Code: Veronica. It can be termed “Participant Research.” There is a design at the core of this style of research. You are forgiven for thinking Orwell's mode of research was a bit extreme. We always got the same answer: they did not want a lame man, nor a man without experience” . We loitered for hours outside service doorways and when the manager came out we would go up to him in ingratiatingly cap in hand. One day, I remember we crossed the Seine eleven times. Day after day, Boris and I went up and down Paris, drifting at two miles an hour through the crowds, bored and hungry and finding nothing. My two hundred francs saved me from trouble about the rent, but everything else went badly as possible. “We again failed to find work the next day, and it was three weeks before the luck changed. I proposed reviewing Orwell's “Down and Out in Paris and London” because it is about being homelessness in those cities and some issues have not changed in all these years. And the people selling it? They’re not Stormlings. When she dons a disguise and sneaks out of the palace one night to spy on him, she stumbles upon a black market dealing in the very thing she lacks-storm magic. But the more secrets Aurora uncovers about him, the more a future with him frightens her. He’ll guarantee her spot as the next queen and be the champion her people need to remain safe. At first, the prince seems like the perfect solution to all her problems. To keep her secret and save her crown, Aurora’s mother arranges for her to marry a dark and brooding Stormling prince from another kingdom. But she’s yet to show any trace of the magic she’ll need to protect her people. She’s intelligent and brave and honorable. As the sole heir of Pavan, Aurora’s been groomed to be the perfect queen. Long ago, the ungifted pledged fealty and service to her family in exchange for safe haven, and a kingdom was carved out from the wildlands and sustained by magic capable of repelling the world’s deadliest foes. In a land ruled and shaped by violent magical storms, power lies with those who control them.Īurora Pavan comes from one of the oldest Stormling families in existence. Valerie: It was actually my editor, Jes Negrón, who came up with the cultural dance theme. Everything from Baz Luhrmann’s “Strictly Ballroom” to the Japanese version of “Shall We Dance?” to the documentary “Mad Hot Ballroom.” Your book is every bit the same cultural delight in movement. Me: I love a good ballroom dancing movie. I strive to promote a world of equity and inclusion – of peace and joy – and I can do that with my words and in my interactions with children as I share my books with them. I think about those children, who are now adults, as well as my young nieces, ages 5 and 7. When I taught elementary students, it was difficult to find diverse literature for them. I want all children to feel seen and heard, valued and validated. Valerie: Children need to see themselves in books. Me: What draws you to writing picture books in particular? The illustrations by Maine Diaz are also able to capture that movement and glee that is so inherent in children’s dance. Somehow, this book was able to capture in words the joys of movement and the variety of dances that kids might enjoy. “Let’s Dance” is a delightful look at dance around the world. You can learn more about her at her website. In addition to writing picture books, she has also written magazine articles and poetry. Valerie Bolling has been an educator for over 25 years and a writer since age 4. I always love hearing what succeeded for someone’s first publication. Today’s Simply 7 is with another debut picture book author. As time progresses in both Mega-City One (literally-the series started in 2079 and as of now takes place in 2143) and the real world, so, too, does Dredd. A reflection of our own struggles with law and justice, living and dying.īut that idea essentially lacks nuance, dismissing the flexibility of Dredd as a figure and the function of his stories. Indeed, many purists and diehard fans will tell you that Dredd functions best when he is unflinching and morally reprehensible. A “Street Judge”-officer, judge, jury, and executioner in the monolithically dystopic Mega-City One-Dredd is, by all outward appearances, a one-dimensional satire of fascism in his original conception by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra. Since his debut in 1977’s 2000 AD #2 over forty years ago, the grim, fit, and unapologetic Judge Dredd has become both one of comics’ most emblematic figures, but also one of its most enigmatic. I’m the impassive new girl with nothing left to give.Īfter months of refusing, I finally agreed to make the move to Alrick Falls. He’s the persistent playboy who refuses to walk away. The cocky quarterback and his friends have come together in a boxset! This collections includes Fumbled Hearts, Defenseless Hearts, and the exclusive short story no longer available anywhere else, Fourth Down! Robinson, Marni Mann, Max Monroe, Meagan Brandy, Micalea Smeltzer, Dr. Bromberg, Kandi Steiner, Karina Halle, Katie Ashley, Kelsie Stelting, Laurelin Paige, Leia Stone, Lexi Ryan, Lora Richardson, M. Asher, Ilsa Madden-Mills, Jennifer Wilson, Jessica Hawkins, Jewel E. Each author has graciously donated their story so that 100% of profits from this anthology will be going to the various charities The Bookworm Box is able to support because of you, the readers.Ĭontributing authors: Aileen Erin, Alessandra Torre, Chanda Hahn, Charleigh Rose, Colleen Hoover, Dominique Laura, Eric R. Each author showcased in this anthology was featured in The Bookworm Box in 2020. The only thing these stories have in common is their starting point. Where they took that sentence was completely up to them.Įvery story is different. Each author was given the same first sentence. Much like the first installment, Two More Days is an exciting and unique reading experience with contributions from several of our charity's featured authors. The Bookworm Box is proud to present Two More Days, our second anthology installment. Throughout, the author uses magic merely as a hook: “I don’t like it when weird, magical stuff gets in the way of my personal life,” Katie moans. Katie has an enemy of sorts, an obnoxious wizard named Phelan Idris who’s more irritating geek than terrifying death-dealer. The fantasy element is dealt with in an even less satisfying manner. In order to follow the recipe of chick-lit, she engages in some romantic back and forth with nerdy coworker Owen, as well as with the immeasurably more suave Ethan, and also in much should-I-buy? self-torture over a pair of ridiculously expensive red shoes. Katie, the single Manhattanite who just doesn’t know what to do with guys even when they come on to her, works not at a fashion magazine or publishing house but instead at MSI (Magic, Spells and Illusions), which is “kind of like a Microsoft for magic users, only not as into world domination.” Though she doesn’t have any supernatural abilities, Katie possesses a rare immunity to magic, “which in the magical world counts as sort of a superpower.” Arguably, she should have one of the world’s coolest jobs, but in Swendson’s hands, it becomes just another standard office gig. (not reviewed), two wildly disparate fictional genres get together and leave nobody happy in the morning. City girl tries to find love and avoid evil wizard. |