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![]() ![]() ![]() We recommend browsing though these, written by many leading weird fiction folk. His friend and fellow author Mike Griffin* collated links to a wonderful range of pieces about Joe, and listed them on the GriffinWords website. So we might have stopped there, but as we reflected on Joe’s passing, we also recalled that this very month four years ago, April 2016, many of us were celebrating his particular gift, his memorable personality, or his great love for The King In Yellow, that abiding creation of Robert W Chambers.Īs a result, a rather neat resource was created at the time – for those who are not that familiar with Joe or his writing, and for those who just want to enjoy remembering. We dislike sudden gushing pretences of close association – we’ve spilled beer over many noted authors, but didn’t exactly form a life-long bond because of it. There is much yet to be said, and Joe will remain a Presence in weird fiction for a long time to come.Īny contribution we might make is negligible compared to the views of those who knew him and his work far more intimately. ![]() We’ve already seen wonderful images of The bEast, with well-deserved recognition of his value to the field, and his encouragement of others, over the last few hours. We have to note with sorrow the loss of weird fiction writer Joseph S Pulver Sr, after a long struggle with debilitating illness – and yet sorrow will not be his legacy. ![]() ![]() ![]() But these won't keep readers from getting wrapped up in Oliver's malevolence and bile. The ample scatological humor is joined by a few jokes that will sail over the heads of actual seventh-graders, e.g., an aside about the work of Raymond Carver. ![]() He enjoys secretly torturing his teachers and describes his adoring mother as “a shapeless, witless mass of mousy hair, belly fat, and boobs.” His pathological disdain for his father, who fondly recalls his own school electoral victory, fuels Oliver's decision to toss his hat in the ring-in order to show up Dad. I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President. Oliver's intellectual superiority is equaled by the meanness of his spirit. When a provocation from his dad irks twelve-yearold evil genius Oliver Watson. At 12, he's the third richest person in the world, secretly running a global empire while pretending to be mentally vacant (imagine The Simpsons Oliver Watson has known since infancy that his intellect is several cuts above average. , debuts with a novel about a class election that may appeal to his show's audience as well as middle-schoolers. Lieb, executive producer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart What Should I Read Next Book recommendations for people who like I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President by Josh Lieb. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ember is a stay at home mom of two who recently refound her love. Her heroines tend to be sassy, opinionated and smart. She loves her heroines from all walks of life, just like her heroes, and she wants them to be real and relatable. ![]() On top of all that, he won't leave, further disrupting Davis' (more or less) quiet, (to a certain degree) simple, and (utterly) seersucker-free life. Ember Davis loves alpha heroes with a range of emotions, but a strong sense of how to take care of their women. Nor is he any help finding the body when Davis loses it. But since he's there, considering she has a dead body on ice, she might as well have him determine the cause of death. The last thing Davis needs is an unsolicited house call from Pine Apple, Alabama's latest excuse for a doctor. ![]() Problem number three: Leverette Urleen, MD. What was marketing thinking when they booked the Southern Canine Association's annual dog show at the Bellissimo? And what was Davis thinking when she agreed to let a dog stay with her? For a week? In her home? The home where she lives a (fairly) quiet, (reasonably) simple, and (totally) manicotti-free life? Until Bootsy Howard shows up demanding a million dollars. Davis Way Cole lives a (relatively) quiet, (somewhat) simple, and (completely) witch-free life with her husband and twin daughters on the 29th floor of the Bellissimo Resort and Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Morris latched on to the fact that the sexual division of labour (the men away hunting, the women at home gathering) necessitated some mechanism to ensure the sexual loyalty of one’s mate – this was the era of free love, after all. The early 1960s had seen the first field studies of monkeys and apes, and a corresponding interest in human evolution and the biology of contemporary hunter-gatherers. In the laid-back, blue-smoke atmosphere of the hippy era, the book struck a chord with the wider public – if for no other reason than that, in the decade of free love, it asserted that humans had the largest penis for body size of all the primates. ![]() With his zoologist’s training (he had had a distinguished career studying the behaviour of fishes and birds at Oxford University as part of the leading international group in this field), he gave us a picture of who we really are. ![]() Yes, we were naked and bipedal, but beneath the veneer of culture lurked an ancestral avatar. Its pitch was that humans really were just apes, and much of our behaviour could be understood in terms of animal behaviour and its evolution. We were all gearing up for the summer of love when, in 1967, Desmond Morris’s The Naked Ape took us by storm. ![]() ![]() Murphy Hicks Henry is a professional banjo player, teacher, and writer living in Virginia. Distinguished Achievement Award, International Bluegrass Musical Association (IBMA) The McLain Family: Alice, Ruth, Nancy AnnĬonclusion: Not Just Pretty Good for a Girl!ĭistinguished Achievement Award, International Bluegrass Musical Association (IBMA), 2015. Drawing from extensive interviews, well-known banjoist Murphy Hicks Henry gives voice to women performers and innovators throughout bluegrass's history, including such pioneers as Bessie Lee Mauldin, Wilma Lee Cooper, and Roni and Donna Stoneman family bands including the Lewises, Whites, and McLains and later pathbreaking performers such as the Buffalo Gals and other all-girl bands, Laurie Lewis, Lynn Morris, Missy Raines, and many others. ![]() Accessibly written and organized by decade, the book begins with Sally Ann Forrester, who played accordion and sang with Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys from 1943 to 1946, and continues into the present with artists such as Alison Krauss, Rhonda Vincent, and the Dixie Chicks. The first book devoted entirely to women in bluegrass, Pretty Good for a Girl documents the lives of more than seventy women whose vibrant contributions to the development of bluegrass have been, for the most part, overlooked. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The original artwork will be on display at the Frazetta Art. Then, finally, that unknown but desperate war on the roof of the world, when India was the prize, and there was nothing to stop the armed might of Imperial Russia but the wavering sabre and terrified ingenuity of old Flashman himself. Flashman at The Charge Cover Artwork for George MacDonald Frasers Flashman at The Charge. ![]() A reluctant military hero, Flashman plays a key part in most of the defining military campaigns of the 19th century, despite trying his utmost to escape them all.Ĭelebrated Victorian bounder, cad, and lecher, Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., returns to play his (reluctant) part in the charge of the Light Brigade in this of the critically acclaimed Flashman Papers.Īs the British cavalry prepared to launch themselves against the Russian guns at Balaclava, Harry Flashman was petrified.īut the Crimea was only the beginning: beyond lay the snowbound wastes of the great Russian slave empire, torture and death, headlong escapes from relentless enemies, savage tribal hordes to the right of him, passionate females to the left of him… Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Brown’s schooldays, now with a Victoria Cross, has three main talents – horsemanship, facility with foreign languages and fornication. ![]() ![]() Its real duty is to be observed… Then, when we come round and sink them, the Germans will not find it suspicious.”Īll of this secrecy resonates in the present-day story line, in which the grandchildren of the WWII heroes–inimitable programming geek Randy Waterhouse and the lovely and powerful Amy Shaftoe–team up to help create an offshore data haven in Southeast Asia and maybe uncover some gold once destined for Nazi coffers. “When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first… Of course, to observe is not its real duty–we already know exactly where the convoy is. Alan Turing is also a member of 2702, and he explains the unit’s strange workings to Waterhouse. Their job boils down to layer upon layer of deception. ![]() They’re part of Detachment 2702, an Allied group trying to break Axis communication codes while simultaneously preventing the enemy from figuring out that their codes have been broken. ![]() Our 1940s heroes are the brilliant mathematician Lawrence Waterhouse, crypt analyst extraordinaire, and gung-ho, morphine-addicted marine Bobby Shaftoe. Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods–World War II and the present. ![]() ![]() ![]() I also found it very clever how there were certainĬharacters that weren't who we believed them to be, or even be at all. It is incredibly well written, with interesting and well-developed characters, which is a feat in itself as it is all done via emails/texts. Others to create friendships, which they clearly didn't want. ![]() I took an immediate dislike to Isabel, as Iįound her annoying and self-absorbed. Timescales that you have to get used to as you read, and a lot of the charactersĪre actually quite unlikeable. It is quite a complex plot, with numerous characters and ![]() Little snippets of What's App conversations from Femi and Charlotte, as theyĭiscussed what they/we had read, as these conversations are what give you hints as to what to look for within the correspondence to solve it. The novel is well set out, with clear headers for whom theĬorrespondence was from and to, along with dates. Given, so we get to solve it alongside them. Everything that we read, is theĬorrespondence between residents of the town that Femi and Charlotte have been The murder themselves by their boss, the solicitor for the person that has been Two characters within, Femi and Charlotte, that have been tasked with solving Janice has written an incredibly clever novel, allowing usĪs the reader, to try and solve the murder of a resident in Lockwood. ![]() I went into this novel so confident that I would solve itĪnd it would be a piece of cake. ![]() ![]() The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was one of the first novels to be written entirely in dialect.The three most important aspects of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Movie Versions: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960) The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993) Tom and Huck (1995) Major Symbols: the Mississippi River rafts guilt Major Thematic Topics: racism freedom versus civilization slavery realism versus idealism societal pressure expectations ![]() Main Characters : Huckleberry Finn Jim Duke King Pap Finn Widow Douglas Miss Watson Tom Sawyer Setting: Primarily along the banks of the Mississippi River Genres: bildungsroman (coming of age novel) By allowing Huck to tell his own story, Mark Twain addresses America's painful contradiction of racism and segregation in a "free" and "equal" society. Huck soon sets off on an adventure to help the widow's slave, Jim, escape up the Mississippi to the free states. ![]() Readers meet Huckleberry Finn after he's been taken in by Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson, who intend to teach him religion and proper manners. ![]() |