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THE SINFUL LIFE OF LUCY BURNS by Eliz­a­beth Leik­nes is a moral­ity tale mixed with social satire that speaks of the power of words, thoughts and deeds. The hero­ine, Lucy Burns, nar­rates the story and she doesn’t waste time catch­ing read­ers up. No. You’re pretty much sucked into Lucy’s extra­or­di­nary life and what a life it is.
Lucy Burns […]

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Wolverine in (30) Seconds

by Avid Reader on May 10, 2009

in Avid Musings

Saw this con­densed ver­sion of X-Men Ori­gins: Wolver­ine. ROTF.
via Comics Should Be Good @ Comic Book Resources (link credit)

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How Per­fect Is That by Sarah Bird (June 2008), pub­lished by Knopf, is a moral­ity tale about an ex-Austin soci­ety wife try­ing to hang on des­per­ately to the life she once had of money, power, influ­ence and pam­per­ing, plenty of pam­per­ing. Her “fall” down the social lad­der isn’t pretty and my sym­pa­thy for her diminished […]

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The Boys by Garth Ennis and Dar­ick Robert­son, volume#1 con­tains issue 1 to 6. The series started in 2006 and is ongo­ing. The pub­lisher that released The Boys, Wild­storm an imprint of DC Comics, dropped the series after six issues due in part to the anti-hero bash­ing. The series was later picked up by Dyna­mite Entertainment […]

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The Boyfriend School by Sarah Bird is a buried trea­sure read. I read this book about maybe three or four years ago and at that time the book was sadly out of print. Now it’s avail­able again and if you haven’t read it, you should because it is a satire of the romance indus­try that is both […]

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