![]() ![]() Marcus and his wife, Kathryn, work together in Berne, where they live with their three children. The foil stamping is then applied during the production process after the pages are printed and before the final binding. When the illustration is complete he cuts the paper from the wooden board.įor books that feature holographic foil stamping, he then tapes a piece of transparent film over the art and indicates with a black marker where the foil stamping should be. For sharper details, he first lets the paper dry, then paints the final picture layer by layer. For backgrounds and blended contours, he uses wet paint on wet paper to get a softer effect. At this point, he is ready to begin painting. He then copies his rough sketches onto the paper in pencil. He begins each book by stretching watercolor paper over a wooden board so that it won't warp when wet. Marcus does most of his illustrations for children's books in watercolors. His best-known work to date is The Rainbow Fish, which has remained on bestseller lists across the United States since 1992. In 1983, he decided to dedicate more time to artistic pursuits, and began to write and illustrate his first book, The Sleepy Owl, which was published in 1986. ![]() Marcus Pfister was born in Berne, Switzerland, and began his career as a graphic artist in an advertising agency. ![]()
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![]() After all, he had placed second out of all the test-takers, and he knew that achievement was unrepeatable. And after that was all over and done with, he dreaded having to retake the written portion. Olive, of course, hadn’t been able to finish his practical portion of the exam, having been carted off alongside Claire, Trystan, and Felix for questioning following the incident with Ilseong Jin. He didn’t personally think that this alone would satisfy Eunji. ![]() Her brother, Soha, and Felix congratulated her, while Olive offered her his usual shrug-nod of nonchalance. She passed with flying colors and received a printed certificate detailing her accomplishment, along with a note informing her she would receive her physical license within a few months. On Monday the following week, Eunji received the results of her State Conducting Exam. ![]() ← Previous Work Part 2 of Six Chances Next Work → Stats: Published: Completed: Words: 240,371 Chapters: 45/45 Kudos: 15 Bookmarks: 3 Hits: 255 ![]() ![]() ![]() Would a stable hand really think that he 'identified' with a horse 150 years ago? Whichever editor let this book slip out should have their fingers rapped. Yet it's hard to forgive an author who strives so hard for historical realism and then punctures her own balloon with anachronisms. It makes the book seem heavier than it should be, unravelling all the months of research that must have gone into it. ![]() In other words, Gaffney doesn't know when to let the story flow and when to occasionally indulge herself. Instead of reading on, this reader thought the fire was a fine place to put the book down for the night. For instance, Gaffney reckons the middle of a life-threatening fire is a good time for a quick literary tour of Barnum's circus. Too often you'll find a moment of genuine drama slowed to an unbearable pace. Unlike Kevin Baker's hyperkinetic Dreamland, Gaffney does a fine job sorting 19th Century New York myths from reality. Unfortunately, the admirable would have fitted into 200 odd pages, leaving the reader wading through an extra half a book. There is much to be admired in the 450 pages of Metropolis, a story of post Civil War New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() How are we, at this moment, measuring who's living in poverty?ĭESMOND: Poverty measurement's very complicated. That was when the national poverty rate was around 19%. RASCOE: There was a war on poverty that was declared some 50 years ago. And then we have the audacity to ask, how can we afford to drive down poverty in this country? - even though the country does a lot more to subsidize affluence? We protect lavish tax breaks that accrue to the wealthiest Americans, and that starves anti-poverty spending. We invest in companies that have a record of union busting and exploitation. RASCOE: So how do the rest of us who are not in poverty benefit by keeping people poor?ĭESMOND: We consume cheap goods and services. MATTHEW DESMOND: Thank you so much for having me. ![]() The book is called "Poverty, By America," and Matthew Desmond joins us now. In a new book, sociologist Matthew Desmond argues there's another reason why poverty grows so persistently here - because those who are better off benefit from it. Why does a country as wealthy as the United States have so many living in poverty? The reasons are many - predatory financial services, stagnant wages, rising housing costs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a rare adaptation that, rather than simply transcribing the source material, transcends it. The Austrian comic artist and illustrator Ulli Lust has been a member of the Berliner alternative art scene since the late 1990s, and nowadays ranks as one of its leading representatives. Twenty-five years later, this talented Austrian cartoonist has looked back at that tumultuous summer and delivered a long, dense, sensitive. 1 September 1967, Austria) 'Today Is The Last Day Of The Rest Of Your Life', 2009. Lust’s loose, deceptively simple art, tinted in washes of faded color, creates a mood of deepening claustrophobia as the complicit Karnau and the innocent Helga descend toward the same fate. Back in 1984, a rebellious,17-year-old, punked-out Ulli Lust set out for a wild hitchhiking trip across Italy, from Naples through Verona and Rome and ending up in Sicily. The narrative switches between two small cogs in the relentless machinery of the Reich: Hermann Karnau, a sound engineer who progresses from arranging the speakers at Nazi rallies to conducting bizarre aural experiments on concentration camp prisoners, and Helga, the eldest daughter of Joseph Goebbels, who, along with her siblings, is destined to be murdered by her parents in Hitler’s bunker. She is more than up to the task, transmuting the material with visual imagination and insight. ![]() Following her award-winning graphic novel memoir Today Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life, Lust adapts The Karnau Tapes, Beyer’s dense, dark novel set during the collapse of the Third Reich. ![]() ![]() ![]() They’re equally as fascinating as the popular ones. However, books out there that don’t get as much fame as some of these popular books. I know it’s not true in every case, but most of the film adaptations I see are super popular books on the shelves. Hollywood never seems to pay attention to books unless they’re best sellers. There are many books out there that I wish I could see turn into films. Too many books don’t get a second glance from filmmakers Did it have significant differences from the book? Oh, yeah! Did my friends and I enjoy watching every film? Of course! Even with the changes, it felt magical seeing our favorite characters come to life. I still remember how excited I was when Harry Potter turned into a film franchise. If the changes make sense, even the most avid readers will let them slide. ![]() And there are some books out there that would be super boring on film if things didn’t change for the film. Yeah, I know a terrible film adaptation can put me in a day-long fit, but most avid readers understand that not everything they read is going to make it to the movies. ![]() But I can’t help it! It’s an incredible feeling seeing your favorite books turned into a film. Yes, I know, the book is always better than the movie. ![]() ![]() ![]() All, I may conjecture, will have the same underlying reason: they gravitated to what they feared most.ĭuncan’s novels revealed the small betrayals of teenage life, magnified in blood. Ask a Duncan fan, and there are legion, and none will have the same answer for their favorite novel. Lois Duncan-the pen name of Lois Arquette, who died on June 15 at age 82-had a canny brilliance all writers strive for: To create work that was intense and personal that also spoke to millions. Her novels revealed the small betrayals of teenage life, magnified in blood. ![]() Fear, in Duncan’s world, lurked in a school hallway, in the eyes of a friend, in the trust of a teacher. Griffin on each paperback cover, a portrait of a teenage girl with wide eyes and brown hair, haunted by something just out of sight. Duncan wrote nearly fifty novels, with titles like Summer of Fear, Stranger With My Face, and Killing Mr. ![]() If you didn’t read Lois Duncan, your friends did, and if they didn’t, their friends did. If you were an adolescent girl of a certain age-born somewhere between 19, caught between Gen X and millennial-you read Lois Duncan. ![]() ![]() I'm usually more careful, but this one got buy me. As a general rule, I don't care for abridged audiobooks, and would not have purchased if I had realized. ![]() Actually, I wanted the complete narration, not half the story.įor a book that's less than 300 pages in its entirety, only offering an abridged edition makes no sense at all. The book is good, but it's not very long. If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Haunted? Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Alanna Ubach? And they won't leave her alone until she helps them resolve their unfinished business with the living. This one doesn't really count since it's not the complete novel. Read online books at Title / Author / Series Shadowland Suze is a mediator - a liaison between the living and the dead. I had hoped to get audible versions of them, but not all are available. This is my favorite series by this author. ![]() Yes, I have enjoyed reading her books for years. ![]() Would you be willing to try another book from Meg Cabot? Why or why not? Someone who doesn't mind the story being chopped up into a shorter, less interesting rendition of the original. This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more? ![]() ![]() ![]() When the Constantines win the friendship of the town matriarch, the mysterious Widow Fortune, they are invited to join the ancient festival of Harvest Home, a ceremony whose quaintness disguises dark intentions. ![]() Here they begin a new life: simple, pure, close to nature-and ultimately more terrifying than Manhattan's darkest alley. When he and his wife search New England for the perfect nineteenth-century home, they find no township more charming, no countryside more idyllic than the farming village of Cornwall Coombe. ![]() In this spellbinding horror novel, a family trades their crime-ridden city for country life-and encounters an evil more sinister than they could have imagined After watching his asthmatic daughter suffer in the foul city air, Theodore Constantine decides to get back to the land. In this spellbinding horror novel, a family trades their crime-ridden city for country life-and encounters an evil more sinister than they could have imagined After watching his asthmatic daughter suffer in the foul city air, Theodore Constantine de. ![]() ![]() ![]() She and her best friend Mal dealt with many bullies growing up in Keramzin in the estate of a Duke he turned into an orphanage. An orphan who grew up to become a part of Ravka’s First Army, Alina has always felt like an outcast, largely due to her half-Shu heritage. Netflix’s Shadow and Bone shares its title with the first Grishaverse novel, and also follows Alina Starkov as she discovers her power as the Sun Summoner. Uniting several beloved characters, the worlds of the Grisha trilogy and the Six of Crows duology are combined for the Netflix series, which has become a hit since its release. Finally, the King of Scars duology focuses on a character not yet introduced to the Netflix series named Nikolai Lantsov. The Six of Crows duology focuses on a street gang known as the Crows, who operate out of the criminal underworld of Ketterdam. The Grisha trilogy follows Alina Starkov, a young woman living in the kingdom of Ravka who discovers extraordinary abilities she never knew she possessed. A series of novels surrounding the author’s original universe, the Grishaverse thus far consists of three series: the Grisha Trilogy, the Six of Crows duology, and the King of Scars duology. ![]() ![]() Newly adapted for Netflix, Shadow and Bone is a fantasy series based on Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse. ![]() Spoiler warning: Spoilers for the finale of Shadow and Bone season 1, and for the novel Siege and Storm.Ĭontent warning: Brief discussion of sexual abuse. ![]() |