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where i can actually tell what is going on part of that may be purposeful since for most of the story it is difficult to even guess what exactly is happening but overall i think the art just wasn t for me scott snyder also wrote a short piece at the back of the graphic novel that gave me a good shudder it turns out that the backstory behind wytches is just about as creepy as the story itself when scott snyder was a kid he and his friend would wander around playing in the woods near their houses snyder apparently already a story teller at a young age would make up these outlandish stories about the horrid witches who roamed the forest years and years later snyder returned home and walked through the woods alone heading towards this old abandoned meat packing truck where he and his friend used to hang out suddenly he thought he saw a vaguely human shaped blur moving from tree to tree though he never found out who or what this figure might have been snyder developed the concept for wytches shortly after having this eerie experience while the story isn t perfect and the art is not a style that i found appealing i did enjoy wytches i grew to care a lot about the characters considering the length of the graphic novel and will definitely be eagerly anticipating the release of the second volume of this horror comic posted by kat at 4 03 pm 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels graphic novel horror witches tuesday july 19 2016 top thirteen books set outside the uk and the us top ten tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the broke and the bookish i am modifying the topic of books set outside the us to books set outside the uk and the us because a lot of what i read is set in the uk anyhow i love this theme because a strong sense of place in a book is something that really appeals to me and i have always enjoyed exploring other countries cultures and time periods through books i was not able to narrow my list down to ten books so i have twelve this week 1 the shadow of the wind by carlos ruiz zafón one of my absolute favorites it has some gothic elements along with mystery romance and even humor it is certainly a book lover s book set in enchanting barcelona 2 the club dumas by arturo pérez reverte another spanish author whose work i really enjoy his books are mysteries cerebral and exciting like the shadow of the wind above this is another book perfect for those who love books the ninth gate an excellent movie which stars johnny depp as a cutthroat antiquarian bookseller who must acquire a book so rare that only three copies have ever been in existence is based on this novel 3 henrik ibsen s plays the norwegian ibsen is my favorite playwright after shakespeare some of his best plays are hedda gabler ghosts an enemy of the people and a doll s house 4 the poetic edda by anonymous not a difficult read and fun and informative for those like me who are obsessed with norse mythology 5 the iliad by homer 6 interpreter of maladies by jhumpa lahiri some of the stories in this brilliant collection are set in india others in the united states with indian american characters 7 if not winter fragments of sappho trans by anne carson beautiful translations of what remains of sappho s poetry called the tenth muse she was highly praised by later greek writers but very few of her poems have survived intact anne carson s translations are haunting and eloquent 8 the language of baklava by diana abu jaber parts of this memoir take place in new york and other parts in abu jaber s family homeland of jordan i m not a foodie but i enjoyed this book which includes lots of recipes anyway if you are a foodie then you would probably really enjoy it 9 jellicoe road by melina marchetta set in australia this is an older ya novel that i absolutely adore 10 the three musketeers by alexandre dumas to my shame this is the only dumas book i have read i found it compulsively readable funny and completely deserving of its status as a classic 11 a bride s story by kaoru mori a gorgeously illustrated manga series set in central asia written by a highly accomplished japanese manga ka who excels in the genre of historical manga twenty year old amir marries a husband eight years her junior can she learn to get along with her husband and her new family and become accustomed to their unfamiliar traditions 12 candide by voltaire the ultimate world travel adventure story candide would rank high on a list of my top ten favorite books thanks for stopping by this tuesday leave a link to your top ten list in the comments and i ll be sure to return the visit posted by kat at 12 02 am 13 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels top ten tuesday thursday july 14 2016 pride prejudice manga classics genre manga pages 377 published 2014 pride and prejudice depicted in gorgeous shojo manga style being a confirmed jane fanatic and as a teenager an avid admirer of melodramatic manga in which all the characters are mildly anorexic and have enormous eyes i could hardly resist buying this hefty manga nor was i disappointed i devoured this fun exquisitely drawn manga in a few hours and enjoyed revisiting the world of elizabeth bennett and mr darcy in a new medium devout pride and prejudice fans might be a little squeamish at seeing such a complex and verbose story as austen s original novel simplified for the manga format and yes despite my enjoyment of it i cannot deny that this is certainly austen lite however i began the book acknowledging that it would be nearly impossible to capture all of the social intrigue and slights and character complexities of the novel with dialogue bubbles and the occasional narration i think this would be an excellent introduction to jane or to classic literature in general for a teenage reader or someone who usually avoids reading classics in any case i was actually impressed with how much of the novel s plot the manga encompasses and how many classic p p quotations it includes i loved the way the artist po tse depicted all of the characters elizabeth and jane were visually just gorgeous and i think the writer stacy king captured the strength of their friendship and their characters very well elizabeth and jane also intact are most of the humorous moments from the original novel mrs bennett s match making antics made me smile i loved the scene in which she tries to make mr bennett convince elizabeth to marry mr collins swearing that she will never see lizzie again if she doesn t marry collins mr bennett replies that elizabeth is in the unfortunate position of losing one of her parents from this day forward for he ll never see her again if she does marry collins speaking of the always irritating mr collins i also enjoyed his character and the sort of abbreviated almost chibi like way he was drawn compared to the other more elegant characters mr collins arrival frightens everyone most elegant of all was mr darcy and i think the artist did an excellent job showing his emotions through the lack of emotions visible on his angular sardonic face does that make any sense anyway i was perfectly satisfied with the way darcy and elizabeth s relationship changed and changed over the course of the story all of the major plot points were covered unless i m forgetting something a few things seemed out of place or a little anachronistic in the manga such as the way kitty constantly flirted with the local soldiers much more openly than she did in the book in one scene she yelled hey boys or something like that across a busy street and i was a little miffed because that wasn t something any girl in an austen novel would do elizabeth and darcy nitpicking aside i would highly recommend this manga to an austen fan who cannot get enough of pride and prejudice meaning all of them i guess as a manga reader i was incredibly pleased with the breathtakingly beautiful art there was also something very satisfying about reading a stand alone story because many of the manga series i have read consist of dozens of volumes i will definitely be checking out the other manga classics in this series and i am particularly eager to get my hands on the manga adaptations of emma and the scarlet letter this book is gorgeously drawn faithful irresistible posted by kat at 3 00 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels jane austen manga tuesday july 12 2016 ten facts about me this week s top ten tuesday hosted by the broke and the bookish asks bloggers to list ten facts about themselves so here are ten facts about me my blog and some of my eccentricities 1 i started blogging here at a myriad of books when i was fifteen that s six years ago including a long hiatus or two when i reached high school my fellow book geeks in real life seemed to become fewer and fewer i think most of them transformed into band geeks so i started blogging so that i could share my opinions about books with other people who appreciate books 2 i am a first year doctoral student in the field of women s and gender history historical writing involves lots of agonizing and footnotes but i love the historiography and research aspects of it to me reading through people s old diaries is extraordinarily cool when one writes about forgotten people in particular it is as though one conjures them up from the dead and convince readers to pay attention to them perhaps for the first time in centuries i think that is a kind of magic 3 i m a very picky eater my absolute favorite food is peanut butter and that is also my sister s favorite we have about ten jars of peanut butter in our pantry right now 4 i loove watching ghost hunter television shows where paranormal investigators spend the night locked up in a spooky basement or wandering around dark rooms with flashlights saying ohmygod did you hear that i have never seen a ghost and i don t particularly believe in ghosts i just like the idea of ghosts and the jump scares especially the jump scares my favorite show from this genre is called paranormal witness 5 i worked for three years as a grocery store cashier 6 i am fluent in french as well as english obviously so bilingual supposedly charlemagne said avoir une autre langue c est posséder une deuxième âme speaking another language is like possessing a second soul 7 i have lived my entire life in the southern united states i like fried chicken and sweet tea and i do have an inescapably strong southern accent i m terrified of the very idea of driving in the snow and i wave at strangers it is pretty humid here in the south right now 8 i recently student taught high school english the texts i taught were oedipus rex julius caesar night and all quiet on the western front i probably would have chosen different books if the choices had been up to me but i do like all quiet on the western front 9 bookish fact so far this year i have read 147 books and 42 992 pages last year i only read 164 books and 51 123 pages 10 another bookish fact i really like penguin classics the ones with the black spines i cannot resist buying a penguin edition even if i have already the book it s a problem it s just that they look so darn nice on my bookshelf and i love the images that penguin chooses for their covers thanks so much for stopping by my top ten tuesday please leave me a link to your post when you comment and i will return each and every visit posted by kat at 12 00 am 9 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels top ten tuesday saturday july 9 2016 1984 by george orwell genre dystopia pages 290 published 1949 war is peace freedom is slavery ignorance is strength the motto of the party 1984 is a 1948 dystopian fiction written by george orwell about a society ruled by an oligarchical dictatorship the oceanian province of airstrip one is a world of perpetual war pervasive government surveillance and incessant public mind control oceania is ruled by a political party called simply the party the individual is always subordinated to the state and it is in part this philosophy which allows the party to manipulate and control humanity in the ministry of truth protagonist winston smith is a civil servant responsible for perpetuating the party s propaganda by revising historical records to render the party omniscient and always correct yet his meager existence disillusions him to the point of seeking rebellion against big brother like many readers i became a fan of the dystopia genre and the recent dystopian trend in ya after reading the hunger games a few years ago 1984 is something like the granddaddy of dystopian fiction and i had heard a lot about it some phrases which orwell coined in the book like big brother is watching is part of popular culture and many people know that the society orwell wrote about was inspired by stalinism however 1984 is more than the few things about it which have become part of popular culture i now think that 1984 is an amazing book that everyone should read for themselves 1984 is different from many ya dystopias i have read in that while the teenage characters in books like the giver and the hunger games do not usually get to see the inner workings of their dystopian societies winston is a part of the party that seeks to control every aspect of citizens lives winston s job is basically to eradicate and edit information for example if the mysterious big brother made a prediction in the newspaper that never came to pass winston would go back and change the prediction so that it matches what actually happened though he comes to loathe this job winston literally rewrites history he reflects that in this society all history was a palimpsest scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary history is constantly altered to justify and vindicate the present a historian s worst nightmare while the endless work hours uniforms telescreens that watch everyone s every move and proscriptions against divergent thought were more standard dystopian fare i was most intrigued by this more psychological aspect of oceania s control over its citizens one of winston s colleagues is hard at work on furthering the development of newspeak the official language of oceania as he tells winston this is not so much a process of creating new words as destroying unnecessary words to par english down into its simplest form the concept is that nobody needs words like exquisite extraordinary brilliant wonderful fantastic when they can simply say doubleplusgood and if there is no word for liberty then how can anyone yearn for liberty the limits of one s language prescribe the limits of one s mind after all the people of oceania are warned to never even let themselves think that the party may be wrong doing so would constitute what in newspeak is called thoughtcrime while orwell was doubtless inspired by stalinism it would be a mistake to write this book off as political comment...