![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Watson in The Empire of Corpses, Aren Kuboyasu in The Disastrous Life of Saiki K., Genjirō Tanigaki in Golden Kamuy, Joe in Megalobox, Houjou Shūsaku in In This Corner of the World, Ausukai Jin in Boogiepop and Others, Kanata Hoshijima in Astra Lost in Space, Shin in Dorohedoro and Belial in Granblue Fantasy. He is currently a freelancer.Īmong his many roles, he voiced Shichika Yasuri in Katanagatari, Kuranosuke Shiraishi in The Prince of Tennis, Kojou Akatsuki in Strike the Blood, IV in Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal, Reiner Braun in Attack on Titan, Saburō Katō in Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199, Junpei Hyūga in Kuroko's Basketball, Sentarō Kawabuchi in Kids on the Slope, Haruhiro in Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash, Daryun in The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Orga Itsuka in Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, Akari Hizamaru in Terra Formars, Doppo Kunikida in Bungo Stray Dogs, Asahi Azumane in Haikyuu!!, Fumikage Tokoyami in My Hero Academia, Nagare Akiba in Ushio and Tora, John H. Yoshimasa Hosoya ( 細谷 佳正, Hosoya Yoshimasa, born February 10, 1982) is a Japanese voice actor and narrator.Īfter attending Tokyo Announce Gakuin Performing Arts College and Mausu Promotion Actor Training Center, he joined Mausu Promotion. ![]()
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![]() ![]() His other DC credits include Action Comics, Adventures of Superman, Wonder Woman, the Batwoman adventures in Detective Comics, and Superman: World of New Krypton. He won the Eisner Award for Best Story with Gotham Central's Half a Life. Greg Rucka is a novelist whose work on Batman brought fresh attention to the character and to the inhabitants of Gotham City. This volume collects the first seven pulse-pounding, visually stunning issues of Rucka and Williams's landmark collaboration ( Detective Comics #854-860)-a bold tale of triumph, trauma, and the nature of heroism. Williams III ( Batman, The Sandman: Overture) proudly present one of the most intriguing storylines DC has ever published! ![]() ![]() Writer Greg Rucka ( Wonder Woman, Action Comics) and artist J.H. ![]() Is this one-woman army fighting a war she can't win, against an enemy with more power over her than she ever could have imagined? Led by a Lewis Carroll-quoting madwoman known only as Alice, they plan to turn Gotham City into a wonderland of carnage.īut Alice has something special in store for the Batwoman-something that will show her everything she thought she knew about her life as a caped crusader is wrong. She is the Batwoman, Gotham City's newest protector.īattling her at every turn of her still-young crime-fighting career is a crazed cult called the Religion of Crime. Description A formidable foe is sucking Gotham into her dark fantasy, only Batwoman can bring a madwoman back to reality and save the city!īy day, Kate Kane is a glamourous socialite with a troubled past. ![]() ![]() In the two entries with young protagonists, real high-tension physical dangers are transcended in fantasy endings and there is a reasonably diverting nonfiction piece about a guileless plowman who uncovers an archaeological treasure. A trimmer, equally colorful sketch concerns the pickpocket "Hitchhiker" who lifts the narrator's wallet, keys, and jewelry while goading him to guess his occupation. ![]() In the title story, by far the longest, an idle playboy takes up yogi concentration for gain, then-altered by the practice-uses the powers so acquired for charity. ![]() Odds and ends from a crack short-story craftsman, reprinted from The Saturday Evening Post and other magazines in a calculated bid for young readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It strikes me as unrealistic that Melody, with her super intelligence, couldn't communicate better using her low-tech talking board. (I've re-read sections of the book and I think it's Draper's overuse of exclamation points that makes her characters sound inauthentic and corny to me.)ģ. Other things that I think will date this book: MySpace, TiVo, and Nintendo Wii. Now, I still say things are "the bomb," but I'm a lot older than the kids in this book. I've never heard anyone say, "She is tripping," without droppin' the g. an adult's version of what she thinks modern kids sound like). In fact, a lot of dialogue struck me as unrealistic (i.e. Do kids in the year 2010 say "tight" anymore? I think Draper is trying to make Melody sound like an average kid, but to me she sounds like an adult trying to sound like a kid. This line was probably meant to sound poetic but comes off as a failed metaphor to me.Ģ. ![]() If a snowflake is melting in your hands, you've touched it. The phrase "untouched in my hands" really bothers me. Many people love love love this book, so I'm going to skip the praise for now (you can read plenty of it elsewhere) and go straight to criticism:ġ. ![]() ![]() ![]() Garden of Beasts was a pleasant surprise. I enjoyed the characters - many were interesting because of their quirks. There were many twists and turns in the plot and it keep you interested to the last page.Īlthough this is a work of fiction, it is believable. ![]() A murder during his attempt to make contact with an American agent has Schumann being hunted relentlessly by an German police detective and the Gestapo while trying to accomplish his objective. Being fluent in the German language does not make him blend into Berlin like a native. His mission in Berlin is compromised from be beginning and nothing is what it seems. He is boxer and is fortunately, very knowledgeable about sports. Schumann travels to the Olympics with the US Olympic team under the cover of a sportswriter. Paul was chosen because he spoke fluent German, was a meticulous planner, intelligent, and interestingly enough, an avid reader (the Feds thought this was a key factor in determining his intellectual capacity). The Feds gave him a choice of prison or going to Germany to assassinate the key official in rearming the German military. Paul Schumann was a "button man" for the mob. ![]() This was an interesting novel set in Berlin during the 1936 Olympics. ![]() ![]() ![]() Swing by the presentations page for more info. Nevertheless, I’ve continued to do my lectures and workshops, albeit virtually in some cases. I still haven’t gotten Covid as of this writing-fingers crossed!-but the pandemic at large did keep us home for big stretches of 2020-2022. ![]() Oh, and I’m also working on a big secret project we hope to announce in the coming months! It’s a preposterously ambitious full color project covering the evolution and biology of vision principles of visual perception demonstrations of how visual elements behave in the mind’s eye best practices for clarity, explanation, and effective rhetoric and some personal reflections on our family’s experiences with blindness. The book has taken me years so far, but I sincerely believe it’ll be worth it. The second draft of my (neurotically-tight) layouts ran 571 pages, and I’m determined, as I plow through my third-and hopefully final-draft, to make it substantially shorter and less rambling. I’m still working feverishly on my massive book about visual communication. Yeah, yeah, nobody reads site blogs anymore, but I have a lot to talk about-more than can fit in a tweet-and this seemed as good a place as any to put it all into words… Nursing room sign, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For further reading: Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin (1955) Richard Wright. As an important precursor of the Nonaligned Movement, which was officially organized in 1961, the Bandung Conference set the stage for newly independent states to assert and strengthen their autonomy in a world often polarized by the United States and the Soviet Union. His travel writings, edited by Virginia Whatley Smith, appeared in 2001. At the conference's conclusion, as part of a “final communique,” participating countries issued their Declaration on the Promotion of World Peace and Cooperation, which advanced ten principles, ranging from “espect for fundamental human rights” to “ecognition of the equality of all races and of the equality of all nations” to abstention from “serv the particular interests of any big powers” (Kahin 84). In this collection of essays, edited by Virginia Whatley Smith. ![]() Virginia Whatley Smith, University Press of Mississippi. ![]() A watershed moment in the history of decolonization, the meeting, also known as the Bandung Conference, drew representatives from twenty-nine newly independent Asian and African countries, including the conference's sponsors: Burma, Ceylon, India, and Indonesia. or stepping out on the town Richard Wrights Travel Writings-New Reflections. Shankar, Richard Wrights Black Power, from Richard Wrights Travel Writings: New Reflections, ed. In 1955 the famous African American writer Richard Wright traveled to Southeast Asia to observe and report on the Asian-African Conference in Bandung, Indonesia. ![]() ![]() I snagged this audio from the library not realizing it was the middle book of a trilogy, so I was a little lost regarding why this couple was already married but didn't really know or love each other. This series is well worth the time to read.Īudio narrated by Elena Wolfe & Sebastian York (excellent) But I could really understand the insecurity of everything you want is their at your fingertips and worried it will just disappear. This trait may come off as a bit immature for some readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() The heroine just can't seem to help herself. Again, this ends slightly cliffy, and a bit predictable that it was headed for a cliff. Doesn't lag and gets you turning the pages to see exactly how this relationship is going to work. And you'll just need to pick up this installment to find out what I'm talking about. And our heroine? Holly is just a sassy and take no crap from no one as ever. But Meghan March gives us a better glimpse into what exactly makes our Hero tick. ![]() You still don't have the deep background as he keeps his card close to the vest. I wanted a little more of the emotions for Creighton and BOOM - got what I asked for. " So instead, I focus on the here and now, and the complicated little fuckers called emotions for another day." ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Certainly it is the third book that Kelley Armstrong has written in her Young Adult Darkest Powers series, and it’s definitely got nail-biting potential. The Reckoning is the “nail-biting climax to Kelley Armstrong’s bestselling Darkest Powers trilogy” according to the back cover of my edition of this book. ![]() And she has a horrible feeling she's leaning towards the werewolf. She and her equally gifted (or should that be 'cursed'?) friends are now running for their lives from the evil corporation that created them.Īs if that's not enough, Chloe is struggling with her feelings for Simon, a sweet-tempered sorcerer, and his brother Derek, a not so sweet-tempered werewolf. Unfortunately, Chloe happens to be a genetically engineered necromancer who can raise the dead without even trying. Published 2010 391 pages Summary (from the book jacket)Ĭhloe Saunders is fifteen and would love to be normal. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whether it is for readers who are experiencing Percy's thrilling adventures with Greek gods and monsters for the first time or for fans who want to devour the saga again, this gift will be prized by young and old.Īmazon Interview: Rick Riordan on Percy Jackson and the Olympians This beautiful set includes the best-selling The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, and The Last Olympians. ![]() At last the wait is over! All five books in the blockbuster Percy Jackson and the Olympus series, in hardcover, have been collected in a box fit for demigods. ![]() |