“Exiles” is a very unusual story, but also a thoughtful one. Him visiting a Ren Faire is hilarious, and him thinking about Dream is tearfully touching. The Wake is a stunningly gorgeous comic that also does a good job of tying together many of the characters from the entire epic, however it’s Hob’s epilogue that really knocks it out of the park. I also find that I liked Mark Hempel’s abstract art much more than when I first saw it years ago. Overall the story is really well structured and does a great job of bringing home to roost everything that Morpheus has done since he returned to life, and the ending is very moving. I think that offering closure to both Rose’s story and Morpheus’ is well done … though I’m less convinced of the importance of Delirium in all of this. It holds together really well as a complete work, though the first half does still drag a bit. I thought that “The Kindly Ones” was too long when I originally read it, but that was over two years or so in floppies.
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Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Bipolar II, Terese Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island reserve in British Columbia. When she gets to school, she does indeed meet Kakeru, and he is quickly assimilated into her group of friends. The letter also includes instructions on how to save Kakeru, something that the Naho of the future failed to do, and has had to live with that regret. This future self tells Naho that, today, she will meet Kakeru. However, in the very first chapter, we are introduced to a new addition, a transfer student from Tokyo named Kakeru.īefore we meet Kakeru, the day begins with Naho receiving a letter from someone who claims to be her from ten years in the future. 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Of course, Diop isn’t from the same social stratum as his fictional hero, and the series’ first five episodes also show him trying to internalize a ‘real ethical code’ as husband and father. George Orwell, for example, remarked that ‘gentleman-thieves’ like Maurice Leblanc’s ‘Arsène Lupin’ or Ernest Hornung’s ‘Raffles’ – both of whom exist in Holmes’s orbit – have ‘no real ethical code, merely certain rules of behavior which they observe semi-instinctively.’ They fear social exclusion, losing their ‘amateur status’ and being judged true ‘cad.’ Netflix’s surprise hit, Lupin, reinvents this ‘gentleman-thief’ trope with the story of Assane Diop, a Senegalese orphan who uses ‘Lupin’ stories to get revenge on the man who ruined his father. NetflixĬlassic detective stories recognized that both ‘consulting detectives’ like Sherlock Holmes and ‘Napoleons of Crime’ like Professor Moriarty were dabblers in puzzles and crime, sportsmen who shared the same social spirit. Man of Steal: In Netflix's 'Lupin', Omar Sy stars as the gentleman burglar inspired by Maurice. Some days pass us by without leaving a trace and some days we remember forever.ĭo you remember your first kiss? Or how the first rays of the spring sun feel? Or how about the best meal you ever had? These memorable experiences are characterised by intensity of perception, depth of feeling or sense of profound significance, causing them to stand out in our mind and involve a heightened sense of wonder and awe.īut what ingredients produce these happy memories? Why is it that a piece of music, a smell, a taste can take us back to something we had forgotten? And can we learn to create happy memories and be better at holding on to them?Ĭombining research on happiness and mnemonics (learning techniques that aid memory retention or retrieval) Meik Wiking explores how peak experiences are made, stored and remembered. The third book from the internationally best-selling author of The Little Book of Hygge, Meik Wiking.Įvery year, we are given a fixed number of days. In his most famous short story collection, “The Ways of White Folks”, Hughes tells stories of segregation from the point of view of both whites and blacks, the ongoing theme as the title suggest being the ways whites oppress in era of Jim Crow. Langston Hughes work spoke of hope and tried to often empower the oppressed in his poems, such as in his poem “Democracy”. Hughes’ description of a sole black student in the poem “Theme For English B” captures the alienation that’s been magnified by race, and his poem “Madam and her Madam” (where a hard working black maid calls out the white woman she works for after the latter claims there is no barriers between them) speaks of the utter obviousness and destructive naivety whites embodies in a white privileged society. His short stories and poems speak of the nuances and horrors of racial hatred and discrimination. Rarely has there been a writer who could deliver such strong wisdom, wit and a sense for justice in his prose. Hughes was the author of several plays, dozens of poems, two biographies as well as a slew of other writing projects. 1902-1967) is one of those writers that don’t need an introduction. |