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mylifeinfiction · 12 days

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Harleen by Stjepan Šejić

He smiles... and I make the worst mistake of my life... I smile back.

As fascinating an origin story as it is a compelling, thematically complex study of mental illness, Stjepan Šejić's Harleen shows us the 'meet cute' behind the twisted relationship between Gotham's Clown Prince of Crime, The Joker, and Dr. Harleen Quinzel. It's heavy on the psychiatric, favoring conversations and inner monologue over any substantial action; a choice that works beautifully in showing how inevitable Dr. Quinzel's transformation into Harley Quinn really was. However, the moments of action we do get, throughout, are delivered in a satisfyingly graphic manner that effectively displays the erratic, manipulative psychology of these characters.

I really enjoyed getting a more nuanced look into Harley Quinn, a character I'm mostly familiar with through animated series (where she's little more than a caricature of 'mad love') and films (where's she's so far gone, there's really no trace of Dr. Quinzel left). Šejić's smart writing and gorgeous artwork elevate this character to something more interesting, more consequential, than a secondary villain while also giving further insight into the psyches of several other Batman villains, in the process.

9/10

-Timothy Patrick Boyer.

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readingtostaysane · 5 months

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Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados - review

rating: ⭐⭐⭐ (3.5)

“I want to be heard without consequence because to be heard is such a novelty. If someone asks while looking me straight in the eye, I slither away. Even though we are looking at each other, I am still hiding. My dark eyes are good for that. The feelings on the tip of my tongue have no shape; they’re listless, always trying to sneak up in a moment of poignancy. Sometimes what I want to say is “I want you to be mine!” Sometimes it is “I feel trapped!” Sometimes it is “I resigned myself to a fate I thought I wanted, but now I don’t!” But I have yearnings, that’s true. I make choices. I take action. That is simply how I navigate. But isn’t it who I am who goes out into the world? Do those few lonely moments when I return inward, away from noise and glamour, really count?”

Happy hour is a book that is purely vibes living our best summer in New York. I had so much fun reading this book, having never been to New York myself i felt as if i was experincing the city with the characters. The main character is funny, witty and you never get bored of her adventures.

Isa and Gala are two girls who are illegally in the country therefore they cannot work normal jobs which causes them to always live on edge when it comes to money. They party at night with elite people and work through the day in street markets. Although the first half of the book where they do go to these parties was very enjoyable I was hoping to meet more interesting people as the book progressed. You can also argue that this was the author’s intention in portraying a New York so full of life yet so incredibly filled with boring and dull people.

With that said, I think the book could have dived deeper in some of its themes. The disparity between rich and poor people in New York, although explored could have benefited with more characters struggling to survive in the city, instead of only our two main characters.

Isa and Gala are not exactly likable nor do they have to be for you to enjoy this book, in fact i appreciated the characters being so very flawed and making absolute stupid decisions over and over again, it gave them substance, it made them human. It kept things interesting and you were always on edge thinking “how could these girlbosses make this situation even worse” i love drama in my books !! They are funny and that’s why it’s such an easy read.

“Being a young girl is always a cute trick. It leaves nothing to be desired and it is easy. I feel as though becoming a woman is like a long tradition of going through things and coming out strong, but I am tired and weary!”

The best part of this book is Isa’s inner thoughts and her very astute observations over the people that surround her. She is a slave of the system she lives in and has to take the best she can out of every situation. Ee see her make these moves to survive over and over again, sometimes she’s smart about it but other times she isn’t, and that’s what makes it a compelling story.

conclusion: this is a great summer read !! It gives you fun, interesting characters but doesn't have a plot you need to pay close attention to. It shows you the ins and outs of a great city and keeps you entertained throughout the whole novel.

#book review #booklr #happy hour #marlowe granados #literature #quotes #new york #new your city #vibes #no thoughts head empty #books & libraries #2020 books #my reviews

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garadinervi · 3 months

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Israeli Damage to Archives, Libraries, and Museums in Gaza, October 2023–January 2024, A Preliminary Report from Librarians and Archivists with Palestine (LAP), February 1, 2024 (pdf here)

Plus: A Talk About Israeli Damage to Archives, Libraries, and Museums in Gaza, by ArabLit Staff, ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly, February 8, 2024

(image: «This is what remains of my younger brother's home library. My brother is an extraordinary scholar of Arabic language grammar and was about to earn his PhD and who has introduced six books into the Arabic language rich collection of scholarly books.» – Mosab Abu-Toha)

#art #book #report #librarians and archivists with palestine #mosab abu toha #arablit #arablit quarterly #2020s

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flaviathebibliophile · 1 year

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The Deck of Omens by C.L. Herman (Review)

Title: The Deck of Omens Author: Christine Lynn Herman Type: Fiction Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal, Horror Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Date published: April 21, 2020 A complimentary physical copy of this book was kindly provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. The teenagers of Four Paths must save their home. Though the Beast is seemingly subdued for now, a new threat looms in…

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laurenillustrated · 8 months

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handsome, clever, and rich.

Emma Woodhouse poster design for fun! Based on the 2020 film.

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readauthority · 1 year

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Best Popular Books Published in 2020

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, 2020 Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents novel by Isabel Wilkerson, 2020 Writers & Lovers by Lily King, 2020 The Death of Vivek Oji novel by Akwaeke Emezi, 2020 Untamed by Glennon Doyle, 2020 Luster by Raven Leilani, 2020 My Dark Vanessa: A Novel book by Kate Elizabeth Russell, 2020 Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, 2020 Beach Read by Emily Henry,…

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#2020 books #Best books of 2020s #books of 2020 #popular books published

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dogzcats · 9 months

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EMMA. (2020): from book to screen

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go-see-a-starwar · 5 months

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Absolutely ready for the Haydenaissance let’s do this

#hayden christensen #DILF-era Hayden let’s gooooooo #get him an HBO drama #get him in an A24 film #get him the most Oscar-baity script possible #the 2020s are gonna belong to Hayden (like the Aughts should have)#ready for the haydennaisance #about to be booked and busy #it’s what he deserves

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browsethestacks · 3 months

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Comic - Mad Magazine 2024 FCBD Special Edition (2024)

Art by Kerry Callen

#Comics #DC Comics #Mad Magazine #Superman #Kerry Callen #Art #DC #FCBD #Humor #Humor Comics #Mad #Shirtless #Mad Magazine 2024 FCBD Special Edition #2024 #2020s #20s #Free Comic Book Day

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clarkgriffon · 9 months

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REVISITING PRIDE & PREJUDICE: PART TWO ↠ The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (2012-2013)

#the lizzie bennet diaries #tlbdedit #lbdedit #tlbd #lbd #austenedit #jane austen #RevisitingPrideAndPrejudice #webseriesedit #sooo unsure how to tag this but #endless eternal gratitude to talis for telling me to watch this and then sending me down the rabbit hole #me in 2020 watching this and then the BBC series then reading the book: wow this classic universally acclaimed story is good actually?#creations

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cosmicnovaflare · 8 months

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Redraw of Cinder’s coronation gown.

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mylifeinfiction · 2 months

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Wonder Woman: Dead Earth by Daniel Warren Johnson

**WARNING: MINOR/VAGUE SPOILERS!!**

"Will you help me revive this Dead Earth?"

Daaaamn! Wonder Woman's a badass!

Yeah, yeah, yeah... I get it, we already knew this, but until you see what happens between her and Superman in this story, you don't really know the least of it. The rest of the book is a solid story about the core beliefs of Wonder Woman being challenged by the ghosts of her past, and her journey to find a way to put those ghosts to rest. The art is chaotic and messy and totally at home within this story full of ravaged landscapes and mutated monstrosities. It makes the action explode off the page with a ferocity as ugly as it is riveting. The new characters are okay, but only really ever work as well as they do in direct relation to how well this broken down version of Diana works. The parts are definitely better than the whole, but they're more than enough to make the whole worth reading.

But that Superman flashback... Daaaamn!

7.5/10

-Timothy Patrick Boyer.

#booklr #comic books #wonder woman #wonder woman: dead earth #DC Comics #graphic novel review #comic book review #book review #books #fiction #reading #book reviews #readers of tumblr #2020 books #comics #comic book #graphic novel #daniel warren johnson

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finelythreadedsky · 5 months

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JSTOR Wrapped: top ten JSTOR articles of 2023

Coo, Lyndsay. “A Tale of Two Sisters: Studies in Sophocles’ Tereus.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 143, no. 2 (2013): 349–84.

Finglass, P. J. “A New Fragment of Sophocles’ ‘Tereus.’” Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik 200 (2016): 61–85.

Foxhall, Lin. “Pandora Unbound: A Feminist Critique of Foucault’s History of Sexuality.” In Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey, 167–82. Edinburgh University Press, 2003.

Garrison, Elise P. “Eurydice’s Final Exit to Suicide in the ‘Antigone.’” The Classical World 82, no. 6 (1989): 431–35.

Grethlein, Jonas. “Eine Anthropologie Des Essens: Der Essensstreit in Der ‘Ilias’ Und Die Erntemetapher in Il. 19, 221-224.” Hermes 133, no. 3 (2005): 257–79.

McClure, Laura. “Tokens of Identity: Gender and Recognition in Greek Tragedy.” Illinois Classical Studies 40, no. 2 (2015): 219–36.

Purves, Alex C. “Wind and Time in Homeric Epic.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 140, no. 2 (2010): 323–50.

Richlin, Amy. “Gender and Rhetoric: Producing Manhood in the Schools.” In Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey, 202–20. Edinburgh University Press, 2003.

Rood, Naomi. “Four Silences in Sophocles’ ‘Trachiniae.’” Arethusa 43, no. 3 (2010): 345–64.

Zeitlin, Froma I. “The Dynamics of Misogyny: Myth and Mythmaking in the Oresteia.” Arethusa 11, no. 1/2 (1978): 149–84.

#alphabetical order. im not ranking them #i still have two more froma zeitlin essays to read (one new and one a reread) in the next few days though #and its possible one of those might knock amy richlin off the rest (nothing personal; its a great piece just not my area)#but if im willing to have two things by the same scholar i would have to rethink including grethlein 'the poetics of the bath in the iliad'#some of my favorite articles/book chapters of the year are not on jstor though...#bill beck 'lost in the middle: story time and discourse time in the iliad'!!!#and lyndsay coo has a 2020 chapter updating and expanding this 2013 article that is 🔥🔥🔥#and of course judith mossman 'women's voices in sophocles' which is what send me to garrison 1989 and rood 2010 but is not itself on jstor #i also reread some of melissa mueller's objects as actors book which is wonderful as always #and i would be incredibly tempted to put william m calder iii's tereus article on a top ten list for sheer entertainment value #jstor wrapped #mine

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umbrvx · 1 year

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orv doodles because i finally finished it recently

#omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv #kim dokja #yoo joonghyuk #han sooyoung #i started this book in like 2020 but i kept taking long breaks til i decided to just start over #and then i read the whole thing front to back in like a few weeks #i want to draw stuff for it soo bad!!! but ill leave it til after i catch up w some comms #also im not 100 percent these r how ill draw these guys yet bc im not sure how sold i am but ill figure something out if i draw them enough #until then. hi

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haveyoureadthispoll · 5 months

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#polls #book: i'm glad my mom died #author: jeannette mccurdy #genre: non fiction #genre: memoir #year: 2020s

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garadinervi · 5 days

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«At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book. We do this so that everyone, everywhere has access to a great research library.» – Internet Archive, April 2024

#video #book #internet archive #2020s

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