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A Roaring Twenties adventure unfolds in Jennifer Chiaverini's latest bestselling Elm Creek Quilts novel, another in "a series that neatly stitches together social drama and the art of quilting" (Library Journal).
Newly wed in a festive yet poignant ceremony at Elm Creek Manor, bride Elizabeth Nelson takes leave of her ancestral Pennsylvania home. Setting off with her husband, Henry, on the adventure of a lifetime, Elizabeth packs the couple's trunk with more than the wedding quilts she envisions them dreaming beneath every night of their married lives. They are landowners who hold the deed to Triumph Ranch, 120 acres of prime California soil located in the Arboles Valley, north of Los Angeles.
"Triumph Ranch," says Mae, a traveling companion whom Elizabeth has let in on the promise of the Nelsons' bright future. "That sounds like a sure thing." But in a cruel reversal of fortune, the Nelsons arrive to the news that they've been had, and they are left suddenly, irrevocably penniless.
They are hired as hands at the farm they thought they owned, and Henry struggles mightily with his pride. Yet clever, feisty Elizabeth -- drawing on her share of the Bergstrom women's inherent economy and resilience -- vows to defy fate through sheer force of will. As her life intertwines with Rosa Diaz Barclay, native to the Arboles Valley and a fellow quilter, their blossoming friendship sheds light on many secrets that have kept each of them and their families from their rightful homes.
In the cabin where Henry and Elizabeth are living on Triumph Ranch, Elizabeth discovers quilts belonging to Rosa's mother, and in their exquisite patterns recognizes a misplaced legacy of love, land, and family. But her newfound understanding of the burden of loss that Rosa shares with the mysterious Lars Jorgensen places her in mortal danger. Only by stitching the rift between the past and the future can the inhabitants of Triumph Ranch hope to live in peace alongside history.
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She did it again!.......2007-09-13
Ms Chiaverini did it again!! This newest book is just as wonderful as the past books in this series have been! When I started reading it, I was a bit disappointed that it was only set in the past, but once I got into to reading that went away quickly! This is a 'don't want to put it down' book, highly recommended.
The Quilter's Homecoming: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel.......2007-08-28
Jennifer has done it again: another novel of one of my favorite quilt series and had me burning the midnight lamp to finish this well written story about some great characters. Can't wait for the next episode!
The Quilters Homecoming.......2007-08-17
I read all ten of her books in the Elm Creek Quilters series and they were all wonderful. She follows "quilting" families back and forth as the country developed, the hardships they encountered, up to the present day. Occasionally the books jumped around a little from generation to generation, but I was able to catch up. Being a quilter myself, I was interested in her vast knowledge and explanations of quilting. This would be a wonderful series to give to a quilter as a gift.
The Quilter's Homecoming.......2007-08-14
After reading all the other books in the "Elm Creek Quilters" series, and hearing so much about Elizabeth,it was great to read a book that told about her and Henry's adventurous beginnings in California. Jennifer Chiaverini's gift for spinning a tale peaked in this novel as she unfolded the events of Henry and Elizabeth's cross-country trip and the dreams they shared, along with the trials and disappointments. Things did not go as they had hoped and planned, but all things worked together for good.
Still a good read.......2007-08-04
Would really rate it about 3.5 stars- I enjoyed it but it's not my favorite. I prefer the ones in the series that are more about the main core of characters. I have read the other books but didn't actually recall Elizabeth being mentioned. Still, the way Chiaverini weaves quilting throughout her stories is always clever and crafty- definitely worth reading.
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The deadliest agent in the Marvel Universe has finally gotten out of the spy game, and she's not asking for much, just a life of her own. When a sudden assassination attempt provides a harsh reality check, the former Soviet agent tracks a string of international killings that will lead her back to a Russia she can barely recognize. Collects Black Widow #1-6.
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An old favorite meets a new favorite.......2005-12-09
The old favorite is Marvel Comics, which I devoured during my formative years. The new favorite is Richard K. Morgan, whose work I've been reading ever since he published his first novel, _Altered Carbon_.
The combination is terrific. Natasha Romanova (the Black Widow) has always been a comparatively minor character in the Marvel lineup, and her treatment hasn't always been consistent. Here she finally gets the focused treatment she deserves.
Frank Miller and Alan Moore pretty much spoiled me for other comic-book writers (oops, "graphic novelists"), so it takes a lot to please me. Morgan isn't quite Miller, but his handling of Black Widow is at least in the same ballpark as Miller's run on _Daredevil_ and comparable in flavor to Miller's _Batman: The Dark Knight Returns_. The quality isn't quite there -- most notably because Morgan has a tendency to make his protagonist spout militant-feminist cliches a little too often -- but the approach is similar.
The story here is most definitely told on Morgan's own turf. I won't spoil anything for you, but be prepared for some revelations about Natasha's backstory that will satisfy both Marvel fans and readers of Morgan's noir SF. (Marvel readers may be pleased to know that Nick Fury is around as well -- and although Daredevil isn't, you'll at least spot Matt Murdock's name on Natasha's cellphone. Other readers have objected to the treatment of the relationship between Nick and Natasha, but I don't share their objections.) And yes, Morgan has cranked Natasha's brutality up several notches. I think that's a good thing all around, but your mileage may vary -- at least if you prefer your Cold War-era spies warm and cuddly.
The art by Bill Sienkiewicz and Goran Parlov is magnificent, of course -- consistently fine throughout, and some of the compositions are downright stunning. (And unlike Miller on Daredevil, Sienkiewicz and Parlov don't sometimes forget which body part they're drawing and make somebody's left leg sprout a right foot, or double the length of someone's sideburns between one panel and the next and then add a mustache in the panel after that.) Dan Brown's colors are every bit as magnificent.
And more good news: apparently Morgan has an ongoing relationship with Marvel and has been doing some further work on Black Widow. I don't subscribe to any of the monthlies, so I'm looking forward to reading it when it's published in book format.
And hey, while we're rescuing second- and third-string Marvel characters whose potential hasn't previously been fully realized -- can we get somebody busy on Iron Fist, please? (As with Black Widow, there's been a movie in the works on and off for several years; a graphic novel like this one might be a big boost.)
Female Empowerment? Nah, Just Routine Male Bashing..........2005-06-16
Good fiction has a venerable tradition of subtly weaving relevant social commentary into the strands of its plot and character development. Sadly, what writer Richard Morgan has given us instead in "Homecoming" is an oversimplified, tired, and in-your-face message: Women are superior and they're victims, men are inferior and they're predators. And by virtue of her superiority and victim status, the Black Widow apparently has the moral justification to play judge, jury, and Punisher-with-extreme-prejudice to every man who wrongs her or another woman -- which, as it turns out, is EVERY major male character in this book! One reviewer praised this collection for not being misogynistic; but if fairness and equality truly mean anything, how can Morgan's swing to the opposite extreme be any better?
On page one a woman speaking at an abortion rights rally is brutally murdered. This story involves a conspiracy to kill all the women who went through the U.S.S.R.'s top secret Black Widow program. So of all the settings Morgan could have chosen, why this one? Because Morgan wants the reader to believe that people who don't share the feminist viewpoint must be small-minded, intolerant savages. So by contrast, are all of Natasha's acts of violence committed purely in self-defense with no hint of being judgmental? Well... not exactly.
Our heroine stabs a man who attacks her in the desert. When he won't talk about who sent him, she lets him bleed to death. She takes another man into the bedroom, ostensibly for some bondage love-play, and then threatens to castrate him if he doesn't talk. She sees two neanderthal-type truckers chase and grab a young woman; when they refuse to release her, Natasha, convicting them both as rapists, kills one and cripples the other. But she never hesitates to fall back on the sweet but helpless female stereotype -- that is, if she can use it as a weapon against a man.
In case anyone has missed the point, the sloganeering dialogue drives it right into the earth's core. "Like most men... he underestimates me," "What happened to the latest blonde? Silicone leak?" "...are you going to do the man thing and let me down?" "...I don't like guns... they're more than a little symbolically suspect" (so I guess we should ignore the cover image), "...you're not a woman. You're under no pressure to care about your looks or appearance," "...I was perhaps encouraged by irresponsible men to risk the damage," "The thought of a genuinely powerful woman as an active independent agent... well, you can imagine the reaction," and "It's what most women are up against. If you want to succeed, you've got two choices... pole dancer or hard-faced harridan." Hey Richard, I've known plenty of women who are successful who don't fall into either one of those categories, and they did so without ever sacrificing any of their feminine strengths or gifts.
Morgan catalogs every anti-female behavior perpetrated by evil men that you can imagine. The men lear at women, tell degrading jokes about them, and call them "baby," "sugar," and "bitch." They lie, cheat, steal, brainwash, assault, rape, torture, and murder. They give alcohol to underage girls and give dangerous drugs to women of all ages. They threaten to take away a woman's right to choose, take away a woman's ability to reproduce, and deny women equality in the work place and everywhere else. Yup, "All men are scum." And that's not me reading between the lines, that's right out of the script. The problem is not that Morgan is portraying things that don't go on every day -- any reasonable person would agree that they do -- but that every single man in Natasha's world is guilty of at least one of these crimes, whether he's an enemy, an informant, or a so-called ally. In one scene, Ms. Romanov admonishes her reluctant male assistant to "stop looking at my ass." She is bent over in front of a mirror, putting on make-up, and wearing nothing but lacy, skimpy, black lingerie -- all rendered beautifully by Bill Sinkiewicz. Is she kidding?
You might think that the ultra-steadfast Nick Fury would be exempted from the Black Widow's team testosterone hit list... but you'd be wrong. He's in on the whole brainwashing thing, in a totally ludicrous and implausible way. Look, I'm not a continuity freak: any writer who has a legitimate and interesting reason for doing revisionist history on some characters should be allowed a free hand. But Nick and Nastasha have covered each other's backsides for decades. They've always done what was right for each other, whether or not it was easy or consistent with orders. They've had a mature professional and personal relationship based on mutual trust, respect, and loyalty. And yet there's not a single male-female relationship in "Homecoming" about which the same can be said. What creative reason did Morgan have for doing away with all of that? None, he just wanted to push an agenda: treat all people as unique and valuable indivduals and never make sweeping judgments about a person based on membership in a group... except for men. There's nothing unfair about saying they're all the same, right?
Suppose there was an Iron Man story in which Tony Stark learns that Whitney Frost has hacked into various male-run computer mainframes, including his own, and stolen a number of classified schematics for weapons systems. Using the designs, Whitney and a small army of women -- all of whom are gossipy, vain, and sneaky -- set out to blackmail a handful of nations in Europe. While organizing a defense, Tony tries to confide in some of his lady friends, but they're all too busy crying, shopping, or being gold diggers. Iron Man eventually saves the day and to insure that Madame Masque never builds another weapon, he breaks every bone in her left arm and hand. No due process for this she-demon! As offensive as this sounds, Morgan's efforts are even more so -- because he indicts 98% of the book's audience based solely on gender. Thankfully, the days of Lois Lane being an annoying snoop and a simpering hostage are long over. There's no need to replace those stories with stories that are equally objectionable and just as unlikely to build any bridges between the sexes.
Fangs, yes. Scruples, no. Fans who want some decent femme fatale action that demeans neither gender would do better to check out Devin Grayson's Black Widow, Gail Simone's Birds Of Prey, or even the Powerpuff Girls. Richard Morgan, on the other hand, should go write for Desperate Housewives.
Surprisingly solid Black Widow story.......2005-05-21
As a previous reviewer mentioned, the Black Widow has been one of the lesser known and mishandled characters in the Marvel Universe. In the hands of novelist Richard K. Morgan, he has taken to the character back to the roots of her origin, focusing more on action, espionage, and story rather than exploiting a sexy drawing for adolescent boys to slobber over. The story concerns Natasha being thrown back into the spy game (as if she ever really left) after an assassination attempt on her life. Soon, along with her male sidekick, she's kicking butt and taking names, all the while unraveling a conspiracy which evolves into the best Black Widow story Marvel has ever published. This TPB's only flaw is that it wears a bit thin towards the end, but the art by the great Bill Sienkiewicz is worth giving this a look at alone. All in all, if you've been looking for a mature and action packed mainstream comic, give this a look.
Not too shabby.......2005-05-21
I am relatively new to the graphic novel/comic scene so I have not read any of the old incarnations of this character. I enjoyed this book. It was easy to follow and her actions seemed to make sense. I was surprised that this was written by Richard Morgan. Morgan wrote one of the worst books ever written "Fallen Angels". Honestly If I had noticed that he was the author of this I never would have read it. Kudos to him for better writing this time around.
The art is very well done as well. Nice bright colours and good lines etc....
I look forward to more in this series (there will be more?)
Scott
Morgan's Widow has fangs!.......2005-05-09
Over the years Natasha Romanov, the Black Widow, has shown up time and again, often working with The Avengers and Daredevil. Despite the efforts of more recent Widow scribes such as Jim Starlin, Devin Grayson, Greg Rucka and Bendis, she's long been a laughingstock character -- little more than a sex object, "the bike of the Marvel Universe." But now novelist Richard Morgan (ALTERED CARBON; WOKEN FURIES; etc.) has teamed up with artist Bill Sienkiewicz (ELEKTRA: ASSASSIN) and utterly outdone all previous incarnations of this superspy. While keeping to established continuity, Morgan has updated the Widow, making her a much more human, respectable character, and the book much less misogynstic than it often has been. He's scripted a tight, mean, intelligent and topical comic book, aimed at adults rather than adolescent boys, that any fan of espionage fiction, superhero comics or plain ol' good storytelling should enjoy. Anyone picking up this book looking for exaggerated female bodies in kinky poses will be disappointed, but if you're looking for a very fine comic book, look no further. Do yourself a favor, even if you don't think you care for this particular character, and pick up this book. The Black Widow finally has her fangs.
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- "It's that hate which sustains the war"
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Eisner award-winning writer Brian Azzarello (100 BULLETS, SUPERMAN: FOR TOMORROW) creates a Western for the new millennium. Reuniting with his HELLBLAZER collaborator, artist Marcelo Frusin, Azzarello fashions a tough-as-nails saga that combines all the bloody action and atmosphere of a Sergio Leone film with the provocative storytelling of HBO's Deadwood. Wes Cutter is a wanted man running from a violent past - the horrors of the Civil War, a brutal stint in a Union prison camp, and the savage fallout of Reconstruction. Now he's on a quest for the one thing in short supply: peace. Joining Wes is his beautiful wife Ruth, a woman who has been to hell and back herself - and hides dark secrets of her own. The road they travel will be a bloody one, leaving a trail of bodies stretching from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean.
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"It's that hate which sustains the war".......2007-04-12
Loveless is a comic about Confederate women and men before, during, and after the Civil War. The last western comic book I bought was . . . wait, I've never bought a western comic before. But the cover artwork on this series is awesome (particularly #7) and I was compelled to buy and read the series. Sometimes I don't care if a comic has a good story, I buy comics sometimes just out of respect and admiration of the incredible cover artistry. With this series, the inside artistry is exceptional also.
The series is about hate - the serie's title is "Loveless." It is about how violence, war, silence, imprisonment, and prejudices bring about deep hatreds and re-occuring violence. The series emphasizes how evil is not exclusive to the male gender; rather, the women who support the violent parts of their men are complicit. And sometimes the women are as violent as the men. I work hard to avoid hate. But I must confess, if there is one thing I hate, it is the violence, war, silence, and animosity that are neverendingly borne out of the stupidity of hateful reasoning.
The title of this review is a quote by one of the gun runners, trying to comfort a woman who is worried about her imprisoned husband. He is trying to assure her that her fears, about the capacity of harm that hate can bring, are unfounded. But women are empathetic and socially intelligent, and her fears are well founded.
I recommend this book on many levels. The art has a perfect tone for the story. The visual storytelling and scripting are brisk and fluent. This is an "adult" story and not for readers who are unsophisticated, or unwilling to question the protaganists' moral decisions.
A critique of the story so far is that it is too fictional, almost completely excluding any characters with any high level of human decency, compassion or understanding - which may keep it within the bounds of the 'Vertigo' horror genre category, but which keeps the series from being more realistic, historical, or universal. I don't fault the story for not having regular moral endings; I fault it for erring almost exclusively with horror genre endings. There are no Macbeths here taking much time questioning the morality of their violent choices. This series is no Sandman, where at least occasionally there is a hope in hell. I still give the series 4 stars for it's cleverness, artistic beauty, & exceptionally professional execution and uncommonly individual and good artisitc styles (there are two primary artists rotating duties on the book and covers).
This series is rarely about hope or finding answers. In this fictional world, there are no easy, moral 'good guys.' The characters too often stupidly do not rise above focusing on more than themselves and their immediate loved ones - almost always choosing violence as their response to violence.
The series is about how hate creates hate. In the fictional world of "Loveless" there is very little education, limited community understanding, almost a complete absence of the benefits of diversity, and a marked absence of mercy. But I still highly recommend the series to adults because it one of the finest comic books being currently produced.
A Fine Beginning.......2006-12-12
Writing: A
I liked Brian Azzarello's writing in 100 Bullets at first, but after a story that's gone on many years without resolution, had my doubts about this new book. 100 bullets is like the X-files - the individual self-contained stories are satisfying, but there's a bigger story at hand that develops at a snail's pace and really gets annoying because it's never resolved and eventually becomes so overly complicated that you can't understand it anymore.
Fortunately, Loveless works well as a self-contained graphic novel. Azzarello has also stated that it will only run 50 issues or so (or 10 trade paperbacks), so hopefully this title won't run into the same problem that 100 bullets has. The story is intriguing, but the book still works in an episodic manner, and I love forward to the next trade paperback when it comes out.
Art: A+
Marcelo Frusin is the best thing about Loveless. I loved his work in Hellblazer, and have missed him sorely. He is probably one of most cinematic comic book artists of all time. His linework is simple yet elegant, and incredibly expressive. His layout is clear and smooth. I agree with other reviewers that the flashbacks could have been more obvious (sometimes a flashback is obvious from the beginning, sometimes you have to read it twice), but I did appreciate it's innovativeness.
Patricia Mulvihill, the colorist, deserves special mention. Although Frusin's pencils and inks are beautiful, the final work wouldn't be as breathtaking as it is without her gorgeous coloring work. She has a cinematography's eye when it comes to choosing the colors to complement the story and art, and creates a great mood for the story.
Overall, a great beginning, and given that it's relatively inexpensive trade paperback, it is definitely worth picking up.
Azzarello's Loveless is a dark and twisted journey through the Old West.......2006-07-03
Brian Azzarello has added a new on-going series to his already excellent 100 Bullets. Already well-known for his work in Hellblazer, Brian Azzarello's Loveless is a dark and twisted take on the Old West (specifically post-Civil War Old West) is like a hearty stew combining the epic expanse of classic Sergio Leone spaghetti western, Eastwood's Outlaw Josey Wales and the rapid-fire dialogue of HBO's Deadwood. I thought he could never top his work in 100 Bullets, but Azzarello continues to impress as he's taken his gift for dark storytelling and transposed it to the Old West to create a new mythical tale of vengeance, dark secrets, death and sex.
Loveless: A Kin of Homecoming collects the first five issues of Azzarello's Loveless series. The trade paperback introduces the two main characters whose lives will be the focal point of the stories. Wes and Ruth Cutter are the husband and wife whose lives have been torn apart by the brutality of the Civil War in the Missouri territories. The story makes special mention of Bloody Bill Anderson and Quantrill's Raiders --- pro-Confederate bushwhackers whose extreme hatred for Union soldiers and pro-Union civilians brought bloodshed and banditry to a new level in the Missouri territories. It is the aftermath of this guerilla-type war during the Civil War that has forced both Wes and Ruth Carter on a journey of vengeance on all those who have wronged them.
Azzarello deftly interspersed flashback scenes of Wes and Ruth Carter's lives before the events of the Civil War reaches Missouri. They're a happy and deeply in love couple whose only aspirations were to live a modest and peaceful life. This was not meant to be as Wes soon volunteers to fight for the Confederate side and leaving his wife in the care of his brother Jonny. What happens within the story collected in this trade sets up some of the back story as to why Wes and Ruth Carter are now both harder and meaner than they were before the war came to them. Already, there's hints of familial double-cross and betrayal. Secrets kept by both main characters from each other. Loveless is a a dark tale of post-Civil Reconstruction that has never been told in the history books, but Azzarello sure makes it vivid with his storytelling and the excellent artwork by his collaborator Marcelo Frusin.
Frusin's artwork gives Loveless a cinematic look to it. One could almost wonder if he wasn't making storyboards for a new Western film production instead of just a comic book series. From scenes of sudden violence and sex to flashbacks of the same, Frusin's artwork seemlessly matches the words Azzarello has put down on page. The images could easily tell the story in itself if the words were suddenly removed. There's a simplicity and ease to the images in conveying the tale being told.
Azzarello's already mentioned that the series will end around 50 or so issues and will be collected in ten trades. Each trade will contain five-issues. These five-issues will tell a new story-arc in both Wes and Ruth Carter's journey through Azzarello's western tale. The first story-arc is now over and collected and I await for the next trade to tell me the continuation of the Carter's journey through Loveless. A series from Vertigo that fans of 100 Bullets and Hellblazer should not miss.
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Ratti and Westbrook present a new direction for the graphic novel in a series that follows the Asian adventures of a Western pilgrim who is influenced by the interaction (sometimes violent) of cultures in the Medieval era. The captivating text, presented
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When Clay Spencer fails to arrive home at the expected hour on Christmas Eve of 1933, his family grows concerned. While his seven brothers and sisters and his mother keep vigil the older son, Clay-boy, goes in search of his father. But on his journey through the snowbound Virginia hills, the boy experiences a series of hazardous, touching and hilarious adventures.His life is endangered by an enraged deer, the family's honor is threatened by a well-meaning outsider, and unexpected help is provided by the fearsome county sheriff. An encounter with the neighborhood Negro community church teaches Clay-boy a lesson in race relations and, while taking refuge from a snowstorm, he is overwhelmed by the intoxicating hospitality of two elderly genteel lady bootleggers.Finally, at midnight, when all hope for him has been abandoned, Clay Spencer provides a surprising climax to the story, and in a single moment illuminates the triumph of the human spirit. Rich with life that rings true, filled with nostalgia, laughter and tears, The Homecoming is a warm and wonderful classic of American literature.
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GREAT AND TOUCHING READ.......2005-06-10
This of course is the beginning of the Waltons (TV). This book is now often overlooked, which is a shame as it is a well written piece of literature. This is the touching story of a typical mountain family during the depression years. I enjoy rereading this one ever so often, near Christmas. It is not a lengthly tale, it is one you can read on a snowy Saturday (get you in the mood). This is also a well crafted book, told my a master story teller. The author's character developement is absolutely wonderful. I hate to use the word "classic" as I feel it is quite over used, but with this work I am tempted. It is certainly a book you should add to your list.
Loving the Walton's.......2003-01-02
For years I have loved the Walton Family.The Books on the Spenser family are delightful.Can anyone tell me how I could get the Movies The Homecoming.The original is Starring Patricia Neal,and then if I am not mistaken there is also a Christmas movie with the TV Walton Family.I would love to have these movies.Thanks for your help.
Heartwarming little novel........2000-11-20
I picked this up at the library one day, being in a Christmas mood and after years of watching The Walton's "Homecoming" Christmas special and loving it. The story is quite different fromt the TV movie, somewhat more bleak in tone...Olivia here is worrying that her husband's delay in coming home is because he is off drinking somewhere instead of hurt in a bus accident. Probably a bit more accurate feel of the Depression here. Still very absorbing and touching, the characters are no less lovable. A nice short read for a rainy day.
Spencer's Mountain.......1999-12-01
I'm looking for the movie version of Sepncer's Mountain. Any idea on how to get it?
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A Great Book, But Lots of Blank Pages from Bad Printing !.......1999-04-27
I have always liked the tv version "The Waltons" and was excited to receive the book. However I was disapointed to get the book only to find, the Printer had done a terible job, which left many pages blank.
Thank you Mr. Hamner
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Mary Jane Watson goes to Midtown's Homecoming Dance.......2005-10-15
Granted, the four-part stories about Mary Jane Watson written by Sean McKeever and drawn by Takeshi Miyazawa exist in their own universe. In "The Amazing Spider-man" one of the running gags while Peter Parker was in high school was that Aunt May was always trying to set him up with Mary Jane, the niece of Anna Watson who lived next door. Betty Brant and Liz Allen got to see that Mary Jane looked like a movie star, but readers and Peter were kept in the dark until the end of issue #42 when she offered that immortal first line, "Face it, tiger, you just hit the jackpot!" Eventually Peter and Mary Jane would be married and attempt to live happily ever after, even though the shadow of Gwen Stacy's death lay between them. But in both the "Spider-man" theatrical film and the "Ultimate Spider-man" comic book we had a major revision in that now Mary Jane Watson is there from the beginning, literally the girl next door, and no longer the big time party girl Peter met when he was in college.
"Mary Jane, Volume 1: Circle of Friends" introduced us a situation that borrow elements from both of the above. Mary Jane Watson is attending Midtown High just like Peter Parker, where she is dating Harry Osborn while her best friend Liz Allen is dating Flash Thompson. This quartet is pretty much the in group and Peter Parker is on the periphery. Indeed, Mary Jane sees more of Spider-man (and thinks more of him) than she does Peter. That is why these stories remind me more of the television series "Smallville" than of anything in the Marvel mythos, especially with the idea that Mary Jane, like Lois Lane, falls for the superhero before the mere mortal fated to be her spouse. What it does continue is the reformation of Mary Jane as the classic girl next door. "Circle of Friends" is not about a high school girl having a superhero as a date for homecoming but about one who does not understand why she is not happy with her boyfriend and who is stunned to discover Flash is "crushing" on her. All of that is only a set up for what happens in this volume.
"Mary Jane, Volume 2: Homecoming" begins with both couples planning to go to the Homecoming dance together and have the greatest night of their teenage lives. But Liz is also aware that Flash has a crush on Mary Jane, while Harry wants Mary Jane to help him cheat on a test. The next thing we know Liz is avoiding her boyfriend and her best friend while Harry breaks up with MJ. Things get worse when Liz accuses MJ of having an affair with Flash and while MJ is able to convince Liz otherwise, Harry lets slip to Flash that MJ had a crush on him back in the 8th grade. Flash wins the Homecoming football game and all that is left to make a perfect evening is for Flash and Liz to be named king and queen at the dance. However, that is not exactly what happens and then there are the repercussions of that twist to deal with in the final chapter.
These stories about Mary Jane are not really about Mary Jane, but which I mean that the young girl here is not the self-assured super model we know from "The Amazing Spider-Man" or even the dedicated friend who knows Peter Parker's secret in "The Ultimate Spider-Man." This is a Mary Jane who knows Peter Parker is alive and despite a nice little chat at the Coffee Bean about Spider-man that has a certain degree of poignancy at this point she simply thinks he is a strange one (but in a good way). If MJ is the girl next door, then Liz is the best friend who knows she is the best looking girl in school, Harry is the boyfriend pushing the relationship, and Flash is the other guy who spells only trouble for our heroine. In other words, these are archetypal characters for a story of high school sturm und drang. The advantage that McKeever and Miyazawa have is that our familiarity with the characters from the Spider-man comic books provides a background to each that gives them more depth.
But even if you were a young girl whose knowledge of Spider-man was limited to the two theatrical films, you should have no problem recognizing the archetypes. I can even argue that is the target audience for these mini-series. Besides, MJ looks pretty darn cute in this manga-style artwork with those big green eyes. So even though "Mary Jane" exists in its own little cul-de-sac in the Marvel universe, it relies on our familiarity with the characters. The result is nothing great, but an enjoyable variation on the story of the girl who one day becomes Mary Jane Parker. Hopefully the story will continue because I would like to see how MJ and Peter get together in this version, which is the point at which I think the "Mary Jane" mini-series should end.
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This third volume of Michael Reynolds's extraordinary evocation of Hemingway's life finds the American writer in Paris in 1926 having just finished The Sun Also Rises, and follows him through the dissolution of his first marriage and the beginning of his second. We witness the emergence of the public image of Hemingway and his development into a mature and major literary talent. Most significantly, Reynolds reveals how the emerging Hemingway hero--tough, masculine, self-reliant--represented a radical break from figures in his earlier work, who are vulnerable, wounded survivors living precariously in a world in which they have little control. And he shows how this transition had its roots in Hemingway's own life, as he developed from a rootless and insecure expatriate into the forceful figure of myth, influenced by his father's suicide, his second marriage, and his return to America.
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Reynolds' great saga continues..........2005-10-14
Michael Reynolds achieved the Mt. Everest of biographies with this five-parter about the complex, self-contradictory, vain, politically problematic and always fascinating Hemingway. The book concentrates on that period between the publication of "The Sun Also Rises" and the completion of his first draft of "A Farewell to Arms" three years later. It takes us from Hemingway's drafty art studio in Paris where he lived during and after his divorce from Hadley and the embarking on his marriage with Pauline Pfeiffer.
The pressure's on when, after the publication of "Men Without Women" in 1927, Hemingway needs to follow up "Sun..." with another equally brilliant novel. He frets with an idea about a son's journey from America to Europe with his father, a spy-for-hire. But then drops the idea. He marries Pauline, travels around France and Spain, writes a couple of more great short stories before launching into his tale of a wounded American soldier's love affair with an English nurse during WWI. Hemingway went from Paris to Key West to Pigotte, AK (where Pauline went home to deliver their new baby) to Montana, back to Oak Park to deal with a terrible family tragedy and back to Europe, all as he composed "Farewell." What's so wonderful about Reynolds telling it is how emotionally caught up in these events you get--after all, Hem's wife delivered him a new son AND his Oak Park family collapsed and needed Hem to build it back up, both WHILE WRITING THIS BOOK--a heroic feat on Hem's part of artistic discipline. There are sections of Reynolds' book that left me in tears, especially his gorgeous closing sections where you really feel Hemingway has arrived at the threshold of myth--he's left his Oak Park boyhood and his young apprenticeship in Paris with Stein, Pound, etc. behind and come into his own--as a writer, a personality and a genius.
A beautiful, evocative, heartfelt tour de force.
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"Belva Plain is in a class by herself." -The New York Times
New York Times bestselling author Belva Plain has penned twenty internationally acclaimed novels. Her tales of family, heritage, and history will resonate with anyone who knows what it is to love and what it is to be a part of a family, which is why her stories captivate readers by the millions. Following up on the first omnibus edition of her work, here are three more rich, moving novels in one volume: Blessings, Whispers, and Homecoming.
Blessings is the deeply moving story of the beautiful and gutsy Jennie Rakowsky, whose hidden secret of her youth is about to ruin her brilliantly successful career and brand-new engagement.
In Whispers, Lynn and Robert Ferguson seem to have the perfect marriage. But behind closed doors, they hide a terrible secret that threatens to destroy everything.
In Homecoming, family matriarch Annette Byrne makes one last effort to pull the fragmented parts of her clan together after tragedies have rocked their once comfortable world.
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Susan Veraghen has returned to her hometown, but it`s not the place she remembers, and if she plans to stay, she`ll have to paint the town red--blood red. Orion`s Bastards, led by the monstrous Buster, have put the once-quaint town under their boots, and they`re not rolling out the welcome wagon. But Susan bears the mark of the Devil, and when the Bastards take the only thing she holds dear, there`ll be Hell to pay. Homecoming is a critical narrative link between Grendel: War Child and the upcoming Grendel illustrated novel by Greg Rucka and Matt Wagner. BE ADVISED: CONTAINS VIOLENCE AND ADULT LANGUAGE.
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