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New to Me - February 2023

New to Me #boardgames - February 2023 @boardgame_love @Capstone_Games @PegasusspieleNA @AdamsAppleGames

February is the shortest month of the year, though it can seem quite long (or did before a stat holiday was added to it). It can seem even longer when you don’t get as many games played as usual! As I mentioned in my February gaming post, missing two Sundays and a week of no games at work, it was only natural that fewer games would be played. I still think playing 14 games in 28 days isn’t…

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December's marks 80 years of the first Lady of the All-Star Squadron, Liberty Belle! Let's celebrate her with a bunch of DC greats!

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Love in Taipei (2023) Review

When Ever Wong is thinking her summer before medical school will be great, her parents send her from Ohio to Taiwan on a study programme to help study Mandarin and culture. Although the fact that the teens call it “Loveboat” then maybe it will be enjoyable after all? ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Continue reading Untitled

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Power Man and Iron Fist vol. 1 #116 by Jim Owsley, Mark Bright, Julianna Ferriter, Jerry Acerno, and Janice Chiang

Happy New Year to those who celebrate!

2024 is a big year—the 50th anniversary of the first appearances of Danny Rand, Colleen Wing, and Misty Knight—so get your party hats ready!

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The former boyfriend of Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei, who killed her by setting her on fire, has himself died from burns sustained in the attack, a Kenyan hospital official has said.

Dickson Ndiema ambushed the marathon runner as she returned home from church more than a week ago. He then doused her with petrol and set her ablaze.

Local administrators said the two had been in conflict over a small piece of land in north-west Kenya, where Cheptegei lived and trained.

Ndiema died on Monday night at the intensive care unit, where according to the hospital, he had been admitted with burns on more than 40% of his body.

"He developed respiratory failure as a result of the severe airway burns and sepsis that led to his eventual death on Monday evening at 18:30 hours [15:30 GMT] despite life-saving measures," a press release from Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital said.

Cheptegei died last Thursday - four days after she was attacked. She suffered burns to more than 80% of her body.

I saw athlete on fire running towards me after attack, neighbour tells BBC

'Running for her family' - Olympian mourned after vicious attack

Neighbours said that on the day of the attack,they heard screams before Cheptegei came running towards them shouting for help.

Local media reported that Ndiema had sneaked into Cheptegei's home in western Kenya’s Trans Nzoia county with a five-litre jerry can full of petrol.

Some of the fuel he poured on Cheptegei splashed onto his own body, according to reports. As a result, Ndiema got caught in the fire after he set his former partner alight.

Ndiema was to face charges as police said they were treating Cheptegei's death as murder, with the former boyfriend named as the main suspect.

But now that Ndiema has died, the criminal case has been dropped and an inquest into the two deaths will be opened instead.

Both Ndiema and Cheptegei were admitted to Moi Hospital before their deaths.

Cheptegei's death shocked people across the world, with fellow Ugandans saying she was an inspiration to them.

The 33-year-old Olympian was the third female athlete to be killed in Kenya over the last three years. In each case, current or former romantic partners were named as the main suspects by police.

In 2021, world-record holder Agnes Tirop was stabbed to death and six months later Damaris Mutua was strangled.

"I don't wish bad things on anyone, but of course I would have loved for him to face the law as an example for others so that these attacks on women can stop," Beatrice Ayikoru, secretary-general of the Uganda Olympic Committee, told the Reuters news agency.

Some observers are saying that female athletes are becoming increasingly vulnerable.

"[This is] because they go against traditional gender norms where the woman is just in the kitchen and just cooking and taking care of kids. But now female athletes are becoming more independent, financially independent," Joan Chelimo, who co-founded Tirop’s Angels to help highlight the issue of violence against women.

Cheptegei was born on the Kenyan side of the Kenya-Uganda border, but chose to cross over and represent Uganda to chase her athletics dream when she did not get a breakthrough in Kenya.

When she first gotinto running, she joined the Uganda People’s Defence Forces in 2008 and rose to sergeant rank.

Her career included competing in this year's Paris Olympics. Although she came 44th in the marathon, people in her home area called her "champion".

She also won gold at the World Mountain and Trail Running Championships in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in 2022.

Cheptegei is set to be buried on Saturday at her ancestral home in Bukwo, Uganda.

Attacks on women have become a major concern in Kenya. In 2022 at least 34% of women said they had experienced physical violence, according to a national survey.

"We don't want this to happen to any other woman, whether an athlete or from the village, or a young girl," Rachel Kamweru, a spokesperson the the government's department for gender and affirmative action, told the BBC.

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3, 9, 13

What were your top five books of the year?

Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

The Nutmeg's Curse - Amitav Ghosh

Kindred - Rebcca Wragg Sykes

Did you get into any new genres?

sci-fi babyyyyy

What were your least favorite books of the year?

didn't finish them so can't fully judge, but some books I dropped

The Mote in God's Eye - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

Blind Descent - James Tabor

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THE 236 GREATEST PERSONALITIES IN THE ENTIRE KNOWN HISTORY/COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THIS WORLD! (@INDIES)

i.e. THE 236 GREATEST PERSONALITIES IN WORLD HISTORY! (@INDIES)

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Marie Curie

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Cary Grant

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The Lumiere Brothers, Auguste & Louis

Carl Friedrich Benz

Michelangelo

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Ramana Maharishi

Mark Twain

Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri

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Rene Descartes

John F. Kennedy

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Walt Disney

Albert Einstein

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Pythagoras

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Cosimo de’ Medici

Johann Sebastian Bach

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Archimedes

Jackie Chan

Guru Dutt

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Robert Morris

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Petr Kellner

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Jack Welch

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Arjun (of Bhagwan Krishna’s Gita)

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George Lucas

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Helen Keller

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Roger Federer

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William Blake

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Bernardo Bertolucci

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Radha (Ancient Krishna devotee)

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Pele

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luck meets opportunity

Carl stepped out of his car and stretched his arms after the long drive, exhaling a plume into the crisp winter air. A somber Jerry stood hunched over by the entrance of Chiang’s, wearing a grey sweater and baggy jeans. He stared at the concrete sidewalk. If he noticed Carl, he gave no indication until Carl greeted him with a firm squeeze of his shoulder. Jerry returned an almost imperceptible nod. Carl pulled open the doors and they both walked in.

The smell of overcooked soy sauce and cheap oils saturated the air, heavy with steam trapped by the unventilated ceiling.

“Some things don’t change,” Carl said.

“Nope,” Jerry said.

They stood behind two little girls running around what looked to be their mom and dad. The girls pulled on opposite ends of a doll.

“Hey! It’s Rachel’s turn,” the mother said.

The bigger girl gave a final, victorious tug at the doll. She grinned. The doll returned a frozen plastic smile. The smaller one frowned and hugged her dad’s leg.

The family recited their order. They all held hands as they took the receipt. The cashier looked at the boys.

“Go ahead, I’m not hungry,” Jerry said.

“I didn’t come all the way here to eat by myself,” Carl said.

“Maybe later.”

Carl shook his head. “Man, she messed you up good.”

He ordered two of everything, the chow mein, the fried chicken in house sauce, that one mushroom dish he forgot the name of, stacks of eggrolls, and drinks. The cashier looked at Jerry twice and threw in an extra fortune cookie.

Carl filled a cup with ice and Diet Mountain Dew. He offered it to Jerry.

“I bet you still drink this every day,” Carl said.

Jerry almost smiled. “Hasn’t killed me yet.” He accepted the cup.

They found a booth next to the front windows, across an aisle from the family with the two girls. The little one danced with the doll.

Carl took a bite of the chicken and looked at it. “I remember liking this.”

“It hasn’t changed,” Jerry said.

“I guess I’ve been away too long.”

Jerry snapped open his wooden chopsticks and poked at the food, first slowly, then ravenously.

“You okay?” Carl asked.

“I haven’t eaten in awhile.”

Carl shook his head.

They heard the loud voices of an argument outside the restaurant. A woman’s voice would yell for a bit and then the man’s voice would yell for a bit and they would take turns. The voices were unintelligible through the thick windows. Carl opened the eggrolls and Jerry took one. Neither of them looked outside. Carl cracked a fortune cookie.

“A new home will find you soon,” Carl said.

Jerry cracked open another. “Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.”

“Does that mean preparation is when luck meets opportunity?”

Jerry stopped chewing for a second. “That’s nonsense.” He took another bite of the mushrooms.

The yelling outside continued. The family with the two girls moved to a table farther from the window. The red-faced woman outside pointed at a stack of papers in her hand and shook it at the man.

“Do you want to move?” Carl asked.

“I don’t mind it here,” Jerry said.

At the other table, the girl named Rachel held noodles up to the doll’s mouth.

“Let’s go.”

“No, I’d rather stay here.”

Carl stood up and lifted two plates of food.

“No! It’s normal, okay?” Jerry shouted. He looked at his chopsticks which were both splintered in half. An overturned cup had spilled the remaining Diet Mountain Dew. Carl put the plates down in the corner and threw stacks of napkins at the liquid. Jerry held his head, looking down at his plate. Carl fetched a fresh pair of chopsticks and placed them on the table.

“Jerry, let’s get drinks.”

“I’ve already done that.”

“Not with me, you haven’t.”

“I’d rather not.”

Jerry snapped his new chopsticks but left them in his food.

“This isn’t like me,” Jerry said. “I swear. It was never me first. I didn’t do anything to her. You have to believe me.”

“I believe you. It’s okay.”

Carl mopped up the liquid and piled the wet napkins into a takeout box.

“Thanks for coming,” Jerry said. Carl nodded.

Jerry opened the last fortune cookie. He flipped the slip of paper over. “It’s blank,” he said.

“You want another one?”

He flipped the paper over again. “I kind of like it this way. I never really liked a piece of paper telling me what was going to happen.” Jerry put it down and looked at it for awhile. “Carl, do you have a pen?”

“No, what for?”

“Oh, never mind. I’m being silly.”

The arguing man entered Chiang’s alone. His face was red and tired. He wore a gray sweater nearly identical to Jerry’s. He said something to the cashier, exchanged some cash, and left with a bag of fortune cookies. The family with the two girls watched the man until he was out of sight. They pushed through the doors and fled in the other direction. 

“Wonder if he got any blank ones,” Carl said.

The shouting outside resumed.

“Let’s hope he did,” Jerry said.

Underneath the far table, the girls’ doll lay on the floor, still smiling. Jerry grabbed it and hurried out the doors. He made a sharp turn and sprinted away.

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THE 236 GREATEST PERSONALITIES IN THE ENTIRE KNOWN HISTORY/COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THIS WORLD! (@INDIES)

ie. THE 236 GREATEST PERSONALITIES IN WORLD HISTORY! (@INDIES)

Rajesh Khanna

Lionel Messi

Leonardo Da Vinci

Online Indie

Muhammad Ali

Joan of Arc

William Shakespeare

Vincent Van Gogh

J. K. Rowling

David Lean

Nadia Comaneci

Diego Maradona

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Meena Kumari

Julius Caesar

Harrison Ford

Ludwig Van Beethoven

William W. Cargill

Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche

Samuel Curtis Johnson

Sam Walton

John D. Rockefeller

Andrew Carnegie

Roy Thomson

Tim Berners-Lee

Marie Curie

James J. Hill

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Roman Polanski

Samuel Slater

J. P. Morgan

Cary Grant

Dmitri Mendeleev

John Harvard

Alain Delon

Ramakrishna Paramhansa (Official God)

The Lumiere Brothers, Auguste & Louis

Carl Friedrich Benz

Michelangelo

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Ramana Maharishi

Mark Twain

Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri

Bruce Lee

Bhagwan Krishna (Official God)

Charlemagne

Rene Descartes

John F. Kennedy

Bhagwan Ganesha (Official God)

Walt Disney

Albert Einstein

Nikola Tesla

Alfred Hitchcock

Pythagoras

William Randolph Hearst

Cosimo de’ Medici

Johann Sebastian Bach

Alec Guinness

Nostradamus

Christopher Plummer

Archimedes

Jackie Chan

Guru Dutt

Amma Karunamayi/ Mata Parvati (Official God)

Peter Sellers

Gerard Depardieu

Joseph Safra

Robert Morris

Sean Connery

Petr Kellner

Aristotle Onassis

Usain Bolt

Jack Welch

Alfredo di Stefano

Elizabeth Taylor

Michael Jordan

Paul Muni

Steven Spielberg

Louis Pasteur

Ingrid Bergman

Norma Shearer

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

Ayn Rand

Jesus Christ (Official God)

Luciano Pavarotti

Alain Resnais

Frank Sinatra

Allah (Official God)

Richard Nixon

Charlie Chaplin

Thomas Alva Edison

Alexander Graham Bell

Wright Brothers

Arjun (of Bhagwan Krishna’s Gita)

Jim Simons

George Lucas

Swami Sri Lahiri Mahasaya

Carl Lewis

Brett Favre

Helen Keller

Bernard Mannes Baruch

Buddha (Official God)

Hugh Grant

K. L. Saigal

Roger Federer

Rash Behari Bose

Tiger Woods

William Blake

Jesse Owens

Claude Miller

Bernardo Bertolucci

Subhash Chandra Bose

Satyajit Ray

Hippocrates

Chiang Kai-Shek

John Logie Baird

Geeta Dutt

Raphael (painter)

Bhagwan Shiva (Official God)

Radha (Ancient Krishna devotee)

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Jorge Paulo Lemann

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Vladimir Putin

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Roger Moore

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Blaise Pascal

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Rudyard Kipling

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Yogi Berra

Barry Levinson

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Louis Daguerre

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Elia Kazan

Alexander Fleming

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Frank Marshall

Viswanathan Anand

Major Dhyan Chand

Swami Vivekananda

Felix Rohatyn

Sam Spiegel

Anand Bakshi

Victor Hugo

Bhagwan Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Official God)

Steve Jobs

Srinivasa Ramanujam

Lord Hanuman

Stanley Kubrick

Giotto

Voltaire

Diego Velazquez

Ernest Hemingway

Francis Ford Coppola

Michael Douglas

Kirk Douglas

Mario Lemieux

Kishore Kumar

James Stewart

Douglas Fairbanks

Confucius

Babe Ruth

Raj Kapoor

Titian aka Tiziano Vecelli

El Greco

Francisco de Goya

Jim Carrey

Mohammad Rafi

Steffi Graf

Pele

Gustave Courbet

Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi

Milos Forman

Steve Wozniak

Georgia O’ Keeffe

Mala Sinha

Aryabhatta

Magic Johnson

Patanjali

Leo Tolstoy

Tansen

Henry Fonda

Albrecht Durer

Benazir Bhutto

Cal Ripken Jr

Samuel Goldwyn

Mumtaz (actress)

Panini

Nicolaus Copernicus

Pablo Picasso

George Clooney

Olivia de Havilland

Prem Chand

Imran Khan

Pete Sampras

Ratan Tata

Meerabai (16th c. Krishna devotee)

Queen Elizabeth II

Pope John Paul II

James Cameron

Jack Ma

Warren Buffett

Romy Schneider

C. V. Raman

Aung San Suu Kyi

Benjamin Netanyahu

Frank Capra

Michael Schumacher

Steve Forbes

Paramhansa Yogananda

Tom Hanks

Kamal Amrohi

Hans Holbein

Shammi Kapoor

Gerardus Mercator

Edith Piaf

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New Post has been published on Harold Gross: The 5a.m. Critic

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Mysteries with a Spin(-off)

In an unusual event, two spinoffs have come out of BBC staples…and both are really quite good.

Sister Boniface Mysteries

Ten years ago (Father Brown 1.6) we met an unlikely detective nun. Now, as the Father Brown series has wound down, they have revisited the idea and spun out a delightfully light and entertaining series starring Lorna Watson in the title role. She has a convent-based lab and several sisters to populate the tales. Virginia Fiol, Tina Chiang, and Carolyn Pickles among them.

But one of the biggest successes of this show is how it has solved the friction between the local constabulary and the sectarian detectives (my biggest frustration with Father Brown). Basically, there is none. Sister Boniface is welcomed with, even deputized by the local DCI, played by Max Brown.

Taking the place of that interaction is, to a point, the local paper manager and reporter, Miranda Raison (Nightflyers, Vexed) and the detective seconded on his way to the Met, Jerry Iwu. And, of course, there is a town, Great Slaughter no less, full of characters and in-comers that cause mayhem and murder. But almost always with a light heart and a bit of humor, despite the circumstances.

Beyond Paradise

Death in Paradise has just finished its 12th season. But through the years it has cycled through multiple main detectives. Those that survived to the end of their terms went back to England to pursue a new chapter in their lives. We have, on occasion, even heard from them again. But it was inevitable in this era of franchises that one would get picked for their own show.

Re-enter Kris Marshall and Sally Bretton as one of the real success stories of the original series. And, of course, a collective of quirky constabulary: Zahra Ahmadi, Dylan Llewellyn, and redoubtable and often overlooked Felicity Montagu. The additions of Barbara Flynn and Jamie Bamber (Fearless) are fun  well.

The mysteries are on about the same level as its originating series. Which is to say, clever and somewhat easily solved in ways that aren’t always fair to the viewer, but entertaining nonetheless. Unlike Death in Paradise, the personal stories are more integrated and part of the continuing focus of the series. Not quite a soap, but not quite just full-on mystery either. The two aspects are balanced nicely as we watch our main couple adjust to their new lives, trials, and travails and the other characters grow and learn. It still remains, at heart, a cozy series, but with enough meat to chew on, and fun characters to keep it all interesting.

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Tomorrow evening, Netflix goes stay with Chris Rock. Selective Outrage, the comic's newest comedy particular, would be the first live-streaming occasion in Netflix historical past, as the massive crimson streaming machine takes on the remainder of one of the best streaming companies.Chris Rock election outrage date and timeDate: Saturday (March 4)Time: 10 pm ET / 7 pm PT / 3 am GMT (Solar.) / 2 pm AEDT (Solar.)Sure, Peacock, Paramount Plus — heck, even HBO Max and Apple TV Plus stream soccer — are all broadcasting stay streams of some kind, pending Netflix. And its grand debut in stay occasions focuses on one among its core competencies: standup comedy.Rock shall be broadcasting from Baltimore, Maryland for the occasion, however his a part of the present is just one of three components of the night. What's going to he speak about? We count on all of the political banter and a giant dose of The Slap dialogue.Earlier than that particular, although, there's going to be a half-hour stay pre-show known as "The Present Earlier than The Present." It airs from The World Well-known Comedy Retailer in Los Angeles. Ronnie Chiang (The Each day Present, M3GAN) hosts and visitors embody Arsenio Corridor, Leslie Jones and Dion Cole. It's going to additionally function commentary from well-known buddies of rock resembling Cedric the Entertainer, Ice-T, Jerry Seinfeld, Kevin Hart and Sir Paul McCartney.Netflix seems to maintain folks round with its post-show, which has the same-awkward title because the pre-show: "The Present After the Present." David Spade and Dana Carvey will function hosts. Friends embody Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, JB Smoove and Arsenio Corridor.When does Chris Rock: Election Outrage air on Netflix?Chris Rock: Election Outrage begins at 10 pm ET / 7 pm PT on Saturday (March 4). That is 3 pm GMT and a couple of pm AEDT, respectively, within the UK and Australia.Earlier than the Present The Present begins at 9:30 pm ET / 6:30 pm PT / 2:30 am GMT / 1:30 pm AEDT.The present after the present takes place as soon as The Rock is finished, which is TBA.Is there a Chris Rock: Election Outrage trailer?Netflix did not present a trailer for the occasion, however dropped the above date announcement for its massive particular.Immediately's Finest Roku Streaming System Offers

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Hanamikoji: Geisha's Road & More Coming to Kickstarter in October

Hanamikoji: Geisha's Road & More Coming to Kickstarter in late October from @boardgame_love

Just saw this on Boardgame Geek over the weekend and since I loved Hanamikoji, I am definitely interested in the new sequel game called Hanamikoji: Geisha’s Road. Designed by Jerry Chiang and Eros Lin with art by Maisherly, the game will be published by Emperor S4 Games. In this game, you’re not trying to attract the most prestigious geishas to your establishment. Instead, you are trying to…

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Power Man and Iron Fist vol. 1 #121 by Jim Owsley, Mark Bright, Janet Jackson, Jerry Acerno, and Janice Chiang

The full range of human emotion.

[p-c-ba-dcforever]

Aquaman pt 2

[muffinlance]

Newish reader but I've been loving your work SO MUCH, and subsequently craving more of that brand of story-feels. So a) THANK YOU for writing and for sharing your work, it is SO LOVELY, and b) do you uh... do you have any random book recs? (Already looked through your list of fic bookmarks on ao3.) (P.S. Thank you again, your found family feels are so *chef's kiss* good, and your reluctant or not-so-reluctant dad!characters are all SUCH GOOD DADS.)

Do I have book recs

DO I EVER

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell: we pick up an alien song coming from a nearby star. While governments debate what to do, the Jesuits fund an expedition. Do NOT look up plot summaries, it is way too easy to get spoiled on this one. Beautiful writing, vividly human humans, alien-yet-understandable aliens. Trigger warning: rape.

Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff: 1960s America. A black family deals with racism and Eldritch horrors, and fucking kills it. Sometimes literally. Trigger warning: people being racist assholes. Author is African American themselves, and the black characters have hella agency. Also Lovecraft-typical horror.

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel: who wants to read about a plague apocalypse during a plague apocalypse? THIS GIRL. Trigger warnings: implied rape, some underage, and lots of death. NOT a grimdark apocalypse though.

Everything by Ted Chiang. Short story writer, most famous for "Story of your life", which the movie Arrival is based on. "Understand" and "Exhalation" are also amazing, and his work is pretty easy to find online. This dude. This dude is my role model. No particular trigger warnings.

Anything by Neil Gaiman, he's famous enough I doubt I need to elaborate. No particular trigger warnings unless you pick up the Sandman graphic novels (highly recommended), and then All The Trigger Warnings, especially in volume one.

Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker: who likes novels about dinosaurs written by actual paleontologists? DEFINITELY THIS GIRL. I went through a phase in childhood where I read this thing pretty much everyday. Still holds up as an adult. Trigger Warnings: it's about nature, things die and/or get eaten lots.

The Last Whales by Lloyd Abbey: another childhood favorite that in retrospect was Not For Children. The apocalypse, from the point of view of whales. Trigger warning: hopeful ending, but RL-typical Humans Being Awful To Oceans. And it is an apocalypse story, plus a nature story, so. Things die. Things get eaten. Orcas are dicks.

The Mote in God's Eye by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven: ridiculously engaging first contact book. Also who the heck was letting me pick books as a child? (No one, that's who. I was an INDEPENDENT THIRD GRADER and you COULDN'T STOP ME. ...Except from reading Moby Dick, which definitely got me mocked too much in the classroom so I didn't get past chapter one until adulthood.) I read this in like, sixth grade, I do not accurately recall trigger warnings.

Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals: autobiography of one of the Little Rock Nine. Trigger Warnings: All The Racism. That's kind of the point.

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates: short story, easy to find, had a ridiculous impact upon my childhood and writing for a story I didn't read until adulthood (my mom read it long ago in college, and told me of a man in ill-fitting boots that might or might not have been hiding cloven hooves. This was a Very Influential Image.) Recommender Chose Not To Apply Trigger Warnings. Nothing graphic.

The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu: another short story that you can have LeVar Fucking Burton read to you, it is so soothing. PS LeVar Burton (of Star Trek TNG and Reading Rainbow fame) has a podcast. He reads you stories. You should be listening. Trigger warnings: racism and assimilationist themes.

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle: in which a black writer has WAY too much fun deconstructing the magical negro trope and the inherent racism in Lovecraft's writing and I am HERE for it. The malicious glee in this book is top notch. Same warnings as for Lovecraft Country.

Ursula K. Le Guin, everything. My first intro to her was Earthsea, she's also quite famous for The Left Hand of Darkness. Google by book for warnings.

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle: had your heart broken by the movie as a child? Prepare to be good-hurt in EVEN MORE WAYS! No particular warnings.

The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill: it's just nice and I like it okay? No particular warnings.

My wrist hurts from swiping and I'm at the end of my history in Libby and there is a baby sleeping on me so I can't go upstairs and look at my bookshelf, so this list is complete. Return to me when you need more.