![]() ![]() I liked this story, but not as much as I’d hoped after reading Big Kids en Last Year Healthy. ![]() This collection of the psychedelic webcomic from Canadian cartoonist DeForge (First Year Healthy, Big Kids) follows the. DeForge uses the ant colony as a metaphore to show how routine and normalcy can derail to create room for dubious, but nevertheless accepted practices and how new generations (are needed to) question these practices. Drawn & Quarterly, 21.95 (112p) ISBN 978-1-77046-137-6. Such as fighting the red ants who try to take over the nest, or inseminating the queen ant. Something which all other ants surprisingly accept, even though it does cause them to miss out on the daily routines that all the other ants are occupied with. Neither of them quite fit in with the rest of the ant colony. Main characters in Ant Colony are two gay ants and a kid ant who’s become somewhat delusional after swallowing a cut up rainworm. What all stories have in common, are his bizarre imagination, unique art and eye-popping colours that he always combines to create intruigingly surreal realities. In every book he takes a different approach. This is the third book by DeForge that I’ve read and I must say that he keeps surprising me with the diversity of his work. ![]()
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It took me a bit of time to open this gem and, boy, I had no clue what I had been missing out on for all those months. ![]() In fact, I pushed it off until yesterday, four months later. I planned to read Broken Knight on the day of its release. You never know how thick or thin your book is, so you better make the most out of every scene, enjoy each chapter.” – L.J. “Life is like a book, a long chain of scenes threaded together by circumstances and fate. *This post may contain affiliate links, which means I may receive a small commission, at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through a link. ![]() ![]() The taunting messages are all pieces of the puzzle that are supposed to lead Rebus to the murderer. At the same time, he begins to receive anonymous notes accompanied by a knot of string or a matchstick crucifix. In this first novel, Rebus is transferred to work on a disturbing case where teenage girls, the same age as his own daughter, are being murdered. 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As the story unfolds Naho learns that she and her friends are trying to prevent a future without Kakeru. It’s special instructions on how to interact with Kakeru Naruse, a new boy in her class, so that she won’t have regrets in the future. ![]() The Gist: Sixteen year old Naho Takamiyo receives a letter from her 26 year old self 10 years in the future. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, the murders still show characteristic Lofts elements. ![]() Lofts chose to release her murder-mystery novels under the pen name Peter Curtis because she did not want the readers of her historic fiction to pick up a murder-mystery novel and expect classic Lofts historical fiction. She stood as a Town Councillor for Bury St Edmunds from 1957 to 1962, where she died in 1983. Lofts wed her second husband, Robert Jorisch, a technical consultant to the British Sugar Corporation at the town's sugar beet factory, in 1949. She married Geoffrey Lofts in 1931 with whom she had one son, Clive. In 1925 she attained a teaching diploma from Norwich Training College. Norah Ethel Robinson was born in Shipdham, Norfolk to Isaac Robinson and Ethel Garner, and grew up in Bury St Edmunds where she was educated at Guildhall Feoffment Girls School and the County Grammar School for Girls in the town. Northgate House, Bury St Edmunds, home to Lofts from 1955 until her death in 1983 ![]() ![]()
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