Claire and Mark are locked in a loveless marriage along with two kids neither like, let alone love. Claire is clinically depressed, spending her days drinking wine on the couch in her bathrobe while Mark, also depressed but whose sick leave has expired, works a job he has no idea how to do. Then cracks start appearing as they begin to look at their situation. How did they ever become a couple? Why don’t they care about their children? Why does Mark think he works in another profession? All isn’t what it seems…
When I saw this title I thought it can’t just be DC characters fighting, and some inevitably becoming, vampires can it - there has to be more to this than that, otherwise why do it? Which is why I was willing to give DC vs Vampires the benefit of the doubt and picked it up.
It’s still the ‘80s, Jerri’s still Count Crowley, the local TV host of bad horror movies, and she’s still battling monsters and attending AA. This time she goes another round with the werewolf from the first book and also a vamp from the big city. Ooo…k.
Approached by the adult daughter of an old flame who’s dropped off the map, Happy “Hank” Doll heads up to Olympia, Washington, to delve into the subterranean world of the homeless and find the missing woman. What he doesn’t realise is that he’s being used in a nefarious and complex plan and nothing is as it seems.
Joan Peterson is a 1950s secretary, she’s a 1960s hippie, she’s a 19th century frontier rancher, she’s a 1920s maid, a WW1 cabaret singer, and she loves George, she loves Roger, she loves Dane, Tony, Don, and Frank - but something’s not right here. And as Joan suspects her very reality is an ever-changing cliched construct, the Cowboy is there to put her doubts to bloody rest. Because love? It’s everlasting, baby.
Atomic Habits is about the importance of small changes (like atoms) leading to big changes rather than anything nuclear-related. It’s also not really an original work. James Clear (a name designed for puns I’ll try to steer… away… from) makes it… transparent… that his book is more of an aggregator of past advice/books. That’s probably why it’s so underwhelming, at least for someone who’s read similar books, because the material isn’t new and feels repetitive.
In Invisible Wounds: Graphic Journalism, cartoonist Jess Ruliffson transcribes/illustrates the real-life stories of 12 US military veterans and their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, their time in the military, the effect on their lives, for better or worse (mostly the latter), and the transition from military to civilian life.
Somehow someone has reset the events of Flashpoint so that they never happened. Thomas Wayne is alive again as the Flashpoint Batman but remembers everything that happened before - and is determined to put things right. Except someone called The Clockwork Killer - whose victims’ bodies are found with their innards replaced with clock parts - is stopping him.
A robot companion “dies” leaving his family to deal with the surprisingly painful loss. A company creates fake memories to be implanted in its customers. Spiritual enlightenment is bought and sold Matrix-style, by plugging into them. A dark society sends children into space to die for seemingly no reason. People struggle to survive in a new Ice Age. And reincarnation is made real so that nobody dies - even those who want to…
Kujirai and Kudou are real estate agents in the walled city of Kowloon, Hong Kong. Both are young, single, good-looking and the summer’s a-heating up… gee, I wonder where this is headed? Except Kudou is strangely taken with the concept of nostalgia and Kujirai begins to suspect something’s up with her colleague. Are they really just co-workers - or do they somehow share a past she doesn’t know about?
A mysterious young woman stumbles across an eerie mansion during a stormy night and meets a pair of haunted sisters with a horrible secret - and what’s that strange noise coming from the attic? Then, a widower remarries only to find her first husband returned from the dead - and looking for revenge against her new family? Only Orochi, the mysterious young woman, knows the truth behind these tales.
A patch of land is taken over by an alien presence - and is spreading. This is Area X. Expeditions have ventured inside its borders and few have returned, with the ones that have come back having been profoundly changed. And yet, after years of venturing into it, little is known about what is inside Area X. Now, the 12th expedition sets out to uncover the mysteries of the land and maybe even make first contact - that is if whatever’s taken over Area X is interested in making contact…
