She's a bit of a foodie, nothing too serious. Besides writing, she loves reading-duh!-cooking, watching bad TV, and going to the movies-popcorn, please. Unless you're a vampire, of course.Ĭamilla is a cat lover, coffee addict, and shoe hoarder. Every story she pens has a guaranteed HEA that will make your heart beat faster. Her characters have big hearts, might be a little stubborn at times, and love to banter with each other. A keen traveler, Camilla knows mosquitoes play a role in the ecosystem, and she doesn't want to starve all those frog princes out there, but she could really live without them.Ĭamilla is an engineer who left science behind to enter the whimsical realm of romantic fiction. Camilla is a cat lover, coffee addict, and shoe hoarder. Camilla is an engineer who left science behind to enter the whimsical realm of romantic fiction.
0 Comments
It exposes our deepest feelings like a raw nerve, like cold air on minty teeth. It is a genre that allows for exploration of the awful, terrible, horrible parts of humanity in order to find something that is strangely beautiful. This is the kind of book that reminds me why I love horror. “The Last House on Needless Street” by Catriona Ward is the kind of horror that seeps into your bones, the kind that makes you think you might be a little messed up for even reading it, the kind that makes you want to stare the author straight in the eyes and ask, “Who hurt you?” What if Wendy first traveled to Neverland. Straight on till Morning : A Twisted Tale Synopsis And then of course Captain Hook is as black-hearted as always and dare we say difficult as ever to defeat! An exciting tale for any Neverland fan, complete with pirates, Nana and secret hideouts. So many of the adventures take places in the jungle, with the lost boys. We also loved the inside glimpse to special places in Neverland we had only before seen on the map. Peter Pan fans will be happy to see her step easily into this role. As typical of any governess, she is able, and capable of making a difference and rallying the troops to save the island. While as a character she always spoke her mind, Wendy really comes into her own as a character. What we loved about this book is that heroine role that Wendy takes on in the story. With Wendy as a governess, finding her own way, and Tink making mischief, it will be up to these two to save Neverland from Captain Hook. As with all the books in the A Twisted Tale series these novels take a story we all know, like Peter Pan, and mixes things up a bit. This, however, led to questions on its own: Surely, they can’t be the first who refused to kill each other?īut with the sisters now knowing and remembering the love they used to have for one another in the Black Cottage, the options were to either kill them anyway, or find a new antagonist. Blake attempted to convince the readers during the previous three books that Katherine, Arsinoe, and Mirabella are incapable of killing each other because they simply aren’t made for it. Overall, I was disappointed with Five Dark Fates, primarily with the focus on the more supernatural elements of the story. I can’t help but wonder if Blake meant it to be a duology until the series kicked off and the publishers asked for more, because the series could have ended after One Dark Throne (#2). Unfortunately, there were some flaws to the series as a whole. Note: spoiler-free for Five Dark Fates until otherwise stated. As personal preferences go, Three Dark Crowns seemed to be right up my alley I liked the darker, intense fantasy, especially if it features an interesting magic system. I have been loyally following Kendare Blake’s Three Dark Crowns (TDC) series since Three Dark Crowns (#1) was published in September 2016. When Amano was designing characters for the earlier 8-bit and 16-bit games, he would draw basic designs for use in-game before adding his signature multiple-accessory flourish to the box art versions. A lot of it is stuff that wasn't used at all." It has everything that I've put together-rough drafts of characters, scenario sketches, things that I normally wouldn't show. "It contains a lot of roughs and designs you wouldn't otherwise see, things that weren't used and things that at the time I was a little embarrassed about showing. "Fundamentally, it encapsulates my entire involvement with Final Fantasy, from Final Fantasy I to X," Amano said through a translator. This week Dark Horse Comics will publish Sky: The Art of Final Fantasy, a massive tome containing every piece of artwork Amano has drawn for the series. In a quiet little room tucked away in a corner of New York Comic Con, I sat down with the man whose unique art style is an unmistakable hallmark of Square Enix's role-playing series. After Final Fantasy I hit shelves in 1994, Amano stepped down as character designer to turn his attention to other projects, but continued to produce artwork for the series. Final Fantasy was successful enough to warrant a score of numbered and unnumbered spin-offs, with Amano designing characters and creating promotional artwork. The artist joined Square in 1987 to design characters for what would be the studio's last game. Yoshitaka Amano is a household name for fans of the Final Fantasy series. Through a series of exquisitely observed autobiographical sketches, Adrian Tomine explores his life in comics - from an early moment on the playground being bullied, to a more recent experience, lying on a gurney in the hospital, and having the nurse say 'Hey! Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. As he mines his conflicted relationship with comics and comics culture, and people at large, he once again animates the absurdities of modern life and how we choose to live it. Through a series of exquisitely observed autobiographical sketches, Adrian Tomine explores his life in comics - from an early moment on the playground being bullied, to a more recent experience, lying on a gurney in the hospital, and having the nurse say 'Hey! You're that cartoonist!', it's self-deprecating, honest, and above all else, humorous. Pretty much every zannie in the world was wanted for some type of war crime. He was a member of the secret police under the Fujimori administration.” No surprise there. “Um.” “The zannie is wanted for war crimes by the Peruvian government. Whatever would I do without you?” Nita winced. Nita shifted her feet, looking at the corpse again. How could I resist?” Her black-and-red-striped bangs fell forward as she dipped her head and half smiled. Her mother shrugged, draping her jacket over a chair. If she’d wanted to cut up the same unnaturals as usual, she would have asked to stay with her dad in the States and work on unicorns. She’d been looking forward to dissecting something new. I thought we moved to Peru to hunt South and Central American unnaturals? Chupacabras and pishtacos and whatever.” It wasn’t that zannies were common, but Nita had dissected plenty during the months she and her mother spent in Southeast Asia last year. “Another zannie?” Nita scowled at her mother and crossed her arms as she examined the body. He was indistinguishable on the outside from any other human-the inside, of course, was a different matter. Middle-aged, and in the place between pudgy and overweight, he wore a casual business suit and a pair of wire-rimmed glasses with silver handles that blended into the gray at his temples. NITA STARED AT the dead body lying on the kitchen table. I chose books almost at random, based on their titles, I guess, or their covers, a method that led me to Edmund White, Yukio Mishima, Jeanette Winterson, Baldwin. As a student in Kentucky’s public schools, which means I wasn’t getting much of a literary education, I didn’t have any idea what names to look for. I have mixed feelings about lesbian and gay sections in bookstores now, but it was a wonderful resource for the pre-internet kid I was. This store had a section dedicated to lesbian and gay literature, tucked away in a back corner, and each time I went I would spend a few sweaty minutes there before I snatched a title and carried it to another part of the store to sit and read. I grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, and there was a wonderful independent bookstore in town, a place called Hawley-Cooke, where, since I was a bookish kid, I spent pretty much every Friday night. I don’t remember exactly how old I was when I first discovered Giovanni’s Room, but I was quite young, maybe 14 or 15. What Are Attachment Styles?Īccording to Levine and Heller, everyone has an attachment system-a mechanism in your brain that compels you to seek, monitor, and maintain intimacy with a chosen partner. Along the way, we’ll examine how Levine and Heller’s ideas compare with recent research on attachment styles and include recommendations from other experts on practical ways to improve your relationship. Finally, you’ll learn how to adopt the behaviors of the secure attachment style and use them to make your relationships more fulfilling. Then, you’ll discover the problems that can arise if your intimacy needs clash with your partner’s and how to handle it when they do. In this guide, you’ll first learn how humans generally relate to romantic partners: What are secure and insecure attachment styles, and why do they matter? You’ll then learn more about the three attachment styles, and what your attachment style indicates you need from a relationship. In Attached, psychiatrist Amir Levine and psychologist Rachel Heller contend that many of our relationship issues stem from differences in how we perceive and express intimacy-and that, by understanding this, we can achieve greater harmony in our relationships. 1-Page Summary 1-Page Book Summary of Attached Honestly, everything about this book is wonderful. The journey Daisy takes to understanding Ellie, and vice versa, is one of the best sister narratives I’ve read in a long time. Her sister (the one dating a prince, the one who drives most of the action of the story) is complete and compelling in her own right. The main character, Daisy, is wonderfully complex and self-aware without falling into any of those ‘flawed heroine’ tropes I get so tired of. I’ve been going through a bit of a reading slump for the past several years (I know, it’s driving me crazy.) But this book…this book was everything I’m looking for. Are you looking for a fun read where you invest in the characters and their circumstances without being worried that the world might end? Then this book is for you. Y’all…y’all…this book is balm for your soul. |