5/13/2023 0 Comments Suicide squad get the jokerThink of all the themes that dredges up for Jason, a man basically operating by trauma at all times. That’s a killer hook, right? (I’m guessing this Black Label story takes place in a continuity where the events of Under the Red Hood never happened.) Jason Todd – the second Robin, murdered by Joker, brought back to life, and now operating as Red Hood – is doing a stir in prison and is approached by Waller to kill Joker. Get Joker! has the potential for a great hook and themes. A writer has to both ladle enough bits of personality on the secondary/cannon fodder characters of a Task Force X lineup to keep things interesting, while digging into the main characters who will drive the plot and themes. Among them, solid characterization of each team member. When you consider that we’ve had a pile of comics, two feature films and a few cartoons about Amanda Waller’s covert government project, anyone who picks this up would have some basic idea of how a Suicide Squad story needs to go. Namely, I don’t think Azzarello shows a strong handle on these characters. And Suicide Squad: Get Joker! won’t change my mind on him. He seems content to stay in his comfort zone of hard-boiled, super-masculine storytelling of doom and gloom.īut we’re so far away from 100 Bullets, and folks seem content to only remember Cliff Chiang’s awesome art during Azzarello’s controversial New 52 run on Wonder Woman.
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5/13/2023 0 Comments الطريق إلى مكة by Muhammad Asad“I never sat cross legged ever in class during the nine years I spent as a student in Rander, India.” (Moulana Umarji Sahib Rahimahullah, UK) When you teach Quran translation do not try to teach Ibn Kathir.” (Mawlana Abdullah Kapodrawi Sahib, India) “Mawlana Badr Alam Meerthi told me in Madinah Munawwarah to tell the teachers: When you teach Quduri do not try to teach Fathul Qadir. “Mawlana Islamul Haq would say: ‘One ounce of knowledge (Ilm) requires forty ounce of forbearance (Hilm).” (Mufti Shabbir Ahmad Sahib, UK) To read some of the discourses of Hakimul Ummat Mawlana Ashraf Ali Thanawi, click on this link. This page will be updated regularly.įor discourses of Muhaddithul Asr Shaykh Yunus Jownpuri Sahib, click here. This page features some discourses of some leading scholars from around the world. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Fall on your knees macdonaldThe story takes a darker turn when they are forced to abdicate from their home and travel to New York after the announcement of the First World War, which destroys their lives as they know it and only have each other to hold onto during this period. The story follows four sisters whose lives consists of their strong family bonds, forbidden love and their desire to live life to its maximum fulfillment. The novel follows the life of the Piper Family throughout the 19th and 20th century. Written by people who wish to remain anonymousįall on Your Knees is a novel written by Ann-Marie MacDonald and was first published in 1996 in Canada but then republished on October 2002 by Pocket books. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. 5/12/2023 0 Comments The slave dancer bookSome critics believed it was racist and that it portrayed slaves unfairly, as despairing, weak people unable to fight for themselves, and, indeed, as responsible for their own enslavement. The book won the Newbery Medal in 1974, and Fox has also won the Hans Christian Andersen medal for her work.ĭespite this praise, the book has also been the subject of controversy. The book tells the story of thirteen-year-old Jessie Bollier, who in 1840 is kidnapped from his New Orleans home and forced to play his fife on a slave ship while the slaves are "danced," or exercised. She writes fiction for children and novels for adults, and of all her books, The Slave Dancer has been the most widely praised and recognized. Paula Fox did not begin writing until 1962 when she was thirty-nine years old, but since then she has enjoyed critical acclaim and praise from the many readers of her books. 5/12/2023 0 Comments It starts with ysWhile I will still choose the first book over the sequel, I still thoroughly enjoyed it nonetheless. Even more so because I thought that the ending to It Ends With Us was perfect. If I am going to be completely honest, I was a little bit nervous to read this book simply because sequels are almost never as good as the original story. There, I found a large stack of It Starts With Us I quickly grabbed a copy and was on my merry way. The day that it was released, I made my way over to Schuler Books right after the dismissal bell rang. And, since I was late to joining the Hoover fan club, when I realized that there was going to be a sequel to It Ends With Us, the first book of hers that I have read, I knew I had to get it as soon as possible. I read four of her novels back-to-back with ease. The main characters in her novels all have wild backstories, and it is interesting to see how they affect their stories in the present. Yes, her books are simply just cheesy love stories, and I know that the main characters are going to end up with each other, but I’m entranced by how it happens. I have heard of her best-selling novel, It Ends With Us, for years now, and with her books gaining a lot of traction on TikTok, I thought I should finally give her a try. I hate to admit it, but I have fallen under Colleen Hoover’s spell. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Against empathy reviewIt muddles our judgment and, ironically, often leads to cruelty. Far from helping us to improve the lives of others, empathy is a capricious and irrational emotion that appeals to our narrow prejudices. In AGAINST EMPATHY, Bloom reveals empathy to be one of the leading motivators of inequality and immorality in society. Nothing could be farther from the truth, argues Yale researcher Paul Bloom. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers agree that the only problem with empathy is that we don’t have enough of it. We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. So that it would be disgusting to read.” This one is ironic, but some people detest Yerofeyev for his ‘alcoholic’ prose. The other Yerofeyev quotation on the sacred art of writing goes like this: “One should write as bad as possible. Moscow to The End of The Line mixes styles in an unpredictable way. He followed this pattern: everything from the New Testament to the Russian classics, and all the way to the bureaucratic Soviet newspapers and obscene language of the streets was inspirational to him. “Every item you see must be able to become a theme for you,” Yerofeyev wrote in his notes published under the title A Useless Fossil. Or just read him/her some Yerofeyev, and go get drunk together. Perhaps your boss wouldn’t like that one – so be careful. In order to climb it, it’s necessary to be forged steel-assed from head to toe. Here’s how Yerofeyev describes his feelings after being sacked: “I’ll remain below, and from below I spit on their social ladder. Sometimes Yerofeyev's admirers meet near his monument in the center of Moscow - and, of course, drink.įor a while, Yerofeyev (the poem’s hero) worked as a foreman in a brigade of four workers, but he was fired because they did nothing but drink, just like many others did in order to escape senseless labor. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Michael moss sugarIt’s presented in the form of stories – how instant pudding, Lunchables, and double-stuffed chocolate-covered Oreos, for example, came to exist over time. I’ve read it twice now, and I feel like I could read it a third time and still learn more. Salt Sugar Fat is one of those books that has the potential to completely rock the way you think about food. The book details the driving forces behind convenience foods (such as more women joining the workforce outside of the home and having less time for meal prep, men working longer hours, etc.), but it also talks at length about the brilliant marketing efforts of big food companies, sometimes in partnership with the government, in creating the desire for this way of eating. If not, it’s a fascinating read on how our current processed, fast-food, snacking-all-the-time culture came to be. Oh, this book, this book. I’m thinking if you’re reading here, you’re probably already familiar with Michael Moss’s Salt Sugar Fat at least in title. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Who We Are by Nicola HakenI hung onto their every nuance, their every feeling. Never did I expect to meet such heartfelt characters who were for me, so damn real. Hope which I grabbed at like I’ve never done before in a book of this genre. But at the same time, the protagonists’ fight to overcome their problems gave me hope. This story literally knocked me backwards, turned my insides out and left me with a feeling of devastation. The author has gone through a lot of trouble to make the readers able to decipher every meaning. It is so diverse from one county to another, but at the same time, so very charming. Seeing as I’m an Essex gal, I really appreciate certain peculiarities in Brit slang. Goodness me, what a way to pop my Haken cherry! I was literally at a loss for words when I started to read the Northern English lingo perfectly construed and easily understood. Going in blind was the best thing I could have done and only after reading a couple of chapters was when I realised how fitting the title is for such a compelling love story. What I did take little notice of was the blurb. I have to confess that I am a total book cover snob and if there were ever one which caught my attention more, this has to be it. Purchase Who We Are or read in Kindle Unlimited 5/11/2023 0 Comments Empire sathnam sangheraIn accessible, witty prose, award-winning journalist and best-selling author Sathnam Sanghera traces this legacy back to its source, exposing how-in both profound and innocuous ways-imperial domination has shaped the United Kingdom we know today. From common thought to our daily routines from the foundations of social safety nets to the realities of racism and from the distrust of public intellectuals to the exceptionalism that permeates immigration debates, the Brexit campaign and the global reckonings with controversial memorials, Empireland shows how the pernicious legacy of Western imperialism undergirds our everyday lives, yet remains shockingly obscured from view. Empireland boldly and lucidly makes the case that in order to understand America, we must first understand British imperialism.Įmpire-whether British or otherwise-informs nearly everything we do. A best-selling journalist’s illuminating tour through the hidden legacies and modern realities of British empire that exposes how much of the present-day United Kingdom is actually rooted in its colonial past. |