Julian of norwich divine love6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Thus Jesus Christ that doeth good against evil is our Very Mother: we have our Being of Him,-where the Ground of Motherhood beginneth,-with all the sweet Keeping of Love that endlessly followeth. ![]() For it is the property in God which doeth good against evil. For wickedness hath been suffered to rise contrary to the Goodness, and the Goodness of Mercy and Grace contraried against the wickedness and turned all to goodness and to worship, to all these that shall be saved. "Jesus Christ that doeth Good against evil is our Very Mother: we have our Being of Him where the Ground of Motherhood beginneth,-with all the sweet Keeping by Love, that endlessly followeth."ĪND all this bliss we have by Mercy and Grace: which manner of bliss we might never have had nor known but if that property of Goodness which is God had been contraried: whereby we have this bliss. ![]()
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She’s the author of A Pup Called Trouble, A Dog’s Way Home, and Stay. ![]() It will be available August 13.įans of Pax and A Dog's Way Home will love this heartwarming story of a girl living in a shelter and the homeless dog she's determined to reunite with his family. Bobbie Pyron has worked in libraries and bookstores in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah and has been active in local animal rescue work for many years. Stay: from the author of A Dog's Way Home ![]() China cry the nora lam story6/11/2023 ![]() Every background character, advertisement, shot of graffiti, and song lyric is a pun on superheroes and other pop adventure icons. Immediately you'll be hit by references to everything from Blackhawk to Mazinger Z, and that's the real fun of the series. Enter Precinct 10, led by the '40s hero, Jetman. All of the "science heroes" live in their own secluded city, Neopolis, and a city filled with superhuman threats requires a police force that is also superhuman. It takes place in a world extrapolated from the pulp heroes of the 1940s, with "science" added generously in front of other words. Top 10 is a brilliant fusion of the police procedural and the superhero team. ![]() I also suggest that you get both trades, since the twelve original issues tell a full story.) ![]() They're all worth getting, in my opinion, but this original series is most certainly the best. ![]() Alan Moore wrote all but the last, which was written by Paul DiFilippo. ![]() There's also a graphic novel, The Forty-Niners, and two follow-up mini-series, Smax and Beyond the Farthest Precinct. (This review is for the original twelve issues of Top 10, collected in two trades. While these are all brilliant books that belong in the libraries of every comic book reader, I'm here to talk about a slightly lesser-known work that may just be Moore's best: Top Ten, from America's Best Comics. Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow, Watchmen, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. 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In 2013, DC began collecting the earliest stories of some its most enduring series and characters in matching trade dress volumes, titled Golden Age Omnibus, Silver Age Omnibus and Bronze Age Omnibus, replacing the earlier lines Showcase Presents, DC Archive Editions and DC Chronicles. ![]() Individual volumes tend to focus on collecting either the works of prolific comic creators, like Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko major comic book events like " Blackest Night" and " Infinite Crisis" complete series or runs like Gotham Central and Grayson or chronological reprints of the earliest years of stories featuring the company's most well-known series and characters like Batman and Justice League of America. DC Omnibus is a line of large format, high quality, full color, hardcover editions published by DC Comics since 2007, reprinting comics previously printed in single issue format. ![]() Books like the daevabad trilogy6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() We hope every fan finds a new favorite on this list. We've rounded up some of the best fantasy ever written, including both classics that a true fan shouldn't miss, newcomers that make a necessary addition to the canon and lots of diversity in the realms of origin stories and the authors who dreamed them into being. Fantasy, for our purposes, is everything else that tickles our less-skeptical side. If it features the extraterrestrial, we'd call that science fiction, or ghost stories, which we consider horror. ![]() ![]() In general, we're considering stories that include an element of the unexplainable. Lewis and Lewis Carroll as the pinnacle of the form. Originating from the oral tradition of folklore and stories told around ancient campfires, some consider mythology and epics, like The Odyssey,to be the purest form of fantasy, while others point to the likes of J.R.R. Now, the best fantasy books aren't all dusty tomes that have been passed down for generations.Īs the oldest genre of literature on record, what constitutes fantasy often depends on who you ask. All suggestions are welcome, but would prefer adult over YA. Looking for another fantasy book/series with lots of political games, shades of grey as far as who is good and bad, and a non-European type setting. ![]() As an adult, I still treasure that first foray into other realms, but my appetite for fantasy has diversified. Books like the Daevabad trilogy Just finished the Daevabad trilogy and I LOVED it. For years, hobbits, wizards and elves populated my dreams as the stories I heard enriched and expanded my own imagination. 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