![]() ![]() ![]() Shirow is also known for creating erotic art.īorn in the Hyōgo Prefecture capital city of Kobe, he studied oil painting at Osaka University of Arts. He is best known for the manga Ghost in the Shell, which has since been turned into two theatrical anime movies, two anime TV series, an anime TV movie, and several video games. Masamune Shirow ( 士郎 正宗) is an internationally renowned manga artist. The result was Appleseed, a full volume of densely-plotted drama taking place in an ambiguous future. His work caught the eye of Seishinsha President Harumichi Aoki, who offered to publish him. While in college, he developed an interest in manga, which led him to create his own complete work, Black Magic, which was published in the manga fanzine Atlas. Born in the Hyōgo Prefecture capital city of Kobe, he studied oil painting at Osaka University of Arts. Shirow is also known for creating erotic art. ![]() ![]()
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She's surrounded by friends, she's captain of the cheer squad, and her crush has just asked her out. ![]() Alyssa begins her senior year living the life that most teenage girls dream of. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lost in a new and different world, lost in someone else’s view of the world. And I get a kick out of the fact that the book is a technology that hasn’t changed in hundreds of years (although, I’ll admit the future of the book seems somewhat uncertain in this electronic age).īut best of all, I love the way I can curl up in bed, in a comfy chair, or on a blanket in the park and ge t lost in a book. I love the feel of a book, especially if it’s squat and heavy and fits in my hands just so. Well, I like the smell of a book, of its paper and ink, the perfume of the printed word. And there’s nothing elevated about reading that stuff. 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Last week’s guest blogger was Paula Yoo, who gave away a copy of her book to a random commenter. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ian Malcolm and a group of scientists venture to the island for research purposes, but little do they know InGen’s rivals, BioSyn, have been following them and want to get to the island to follow their own nefarious plans… Jurassic Park was destroyed after the events of the first book, but evidence has been found to suggest there was a second island supporting dinosaur life. The film adaptation of The Lost World differs from the book to a greater degree than the original film did, but the general premise is there. ![]() So I perused the To Be Read pile and looked for the most engaging, gripping book I could find.Īnd here I am now reading Michael Crichton’s The Lost World, sequel to one of my favourite books/movies ever: Jurassic Park. It’s safe to say I made the right choice. ![]() ![]() I waded through those and decided I needed a real break from high-concept, metaphysical madness. For some reason I thought reading Huxley essays would be a good idea despite the fact my brain was starting to die. Thomas Pynchon’s postmodern classic, Gravity’s Rainbow, may well be the death of me. I’m finding myself struggling with books as of late. ![]() ![]() It’s one of the best-selling novel series of all time-over 90 million copies of the series have been sold worldwide-and yet, unless you are a nerd like me who reads science fiction and fantasy literature as a regular thing, up until now it’s more than possible you’ve never heard of it. Prior to Amazon deciding to adapt it into a TV show-a precursor to the streamer’s even more expensive Lord of the Rings fantasy series due next year-it has occupied an oddly contradictory space in the consciousness of the world: huge, and yet mostly invisible. The Wheel of Time is based upon a novel series by the same name, published by Robert Jordan starting in the 1990s and until his tragically early death at 58 in 2007, and then completed by Brandon Sanderson in 2013. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like Douglas Adams, Octavia Butler, Graham Joyce, Kage Baker, and so many other amazing authors, we lost Terry Pratchett way too soon. Oh, I picked up Night Watch and read it at some point and found it funny enough, but not enough to dive further in, I suppose. If I start something, I want to be able to finish, you know? Anyhow, as the Discworld universe kept expanding, and I kept failing to leave schooling behind (ahem, grad school, way too much grad school), I kept not reading Terry Pratchett books. I’ve also never found a library that had a full complement of Pratchett books in either physical books or ebooks, or some combination of the two. ![]() Could anything else measure up in quite the same way? I wasn’t sure. 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