![]() ![]() Razor sharp, darkly comic, sexually charged, socially disruptive, Luster is a portrait of a young woman trying to make sense of her life in a tumultuous era. Edie is the only black woman who young Akila knows. She becomes a hesitant friend to his wife and a de facto role model to his adopted daughter. As if navigating the constantly shifting landscapes of contemporary sexual manners and racial politics weren't hard enough, Edie finds herself unemployed and falling into Eric's family life, his home. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage-with rules. She's also, secretly, haltingly, figuring her way into life as an artist. Sharp, comic, disruptive, tender, Raven Leilani's debut novel, Luster, sees a young black woman fall into art and someone else's open marriage.Įdie is stumbling her way through her twenties-sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In Mead’s rendering, Eliot proves a deeply loving partner and devoted stepmother. Here, she wants to “go back to being a reader,” and sets out to rediscover Eliot, visiting the places Eliot lived, studying her letters, and even holding a journal in Eliot’s own handwriting. Her love affair with Middlemarch and its author, George Eliot, began when 17-year-old Mead was growing up in southwest England. ![]() In this deeply satisfying hybrid work of literary criticism, biography, and memoir, New Yorker staff writer Mead (One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding) brings to vivid life the profound engagement that she and all devoted readers experience with a favorite novel over a lifetime. ![]() ![]() ![]() Watterson's explanation in his book, boils down to this: he didn't want to. The point of refusing to license Calvin & Hobbes, as I understand it from reading Mr. Kindly note that we are not looking for any new mods. Thanks to /u/BetterCalvinHobbes for the background and logo! Some non-related subreddits which are recommended! ![]() If not it means that it is stuck in the spam filter and therefore kindly message us to remove it. Please see if your submission is displayed in the subreddit. If you think you have anything to add, kindly PM us. Single panels are allowed as far as they are meaningful by itself and are a whole panel. Don't try to make money with C&H merchandise or help others to do soĬ&H artwork which is 'Not in the spirit of Calvin and Hobbes Comics' are not allowed ![]() ![]() Two hundred years after its publication, it is heralded as a classic and a masterpiece by so many metrics. Shelley was the daughter of groundbreaking feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft, wife of romantic poet Percy Shelley, and author of (in my opinion) the greatest novel ever written.įrankenstein is both a classic of the gothic genre and the first ever sci-fi novel. Written by a girl who, at the time, was not even twenty years old, Frankenstein is considered to be the originator of science fiction literature. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a lot of things. So, if you’re looking to expand your own library of the best sci-fi books that everyone should read, from both the 19th and 20th centuries, these are the ones to check out. The “contemporary sci-fi books” section is reserved for the ever-growing library of modern sci-fi books that this century will continue to gift us with. This means we’re covering everyone from Mary Shelley to Dan Simmons. How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsuįor the purposes of this list, “classic sci-fi books” refers to anything published before the start of the 21st century. ![]() To Be Taught If Fortunate by Becky Chambers.This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. ![]() |