![]() ![]() Oh, they probably just put them in because. ![]() No, this is still too anti-Christian to be like the overtly pro-Christian "Narnia" series, so much so that they seem to be making fun of Republicans (I don't know if they're poking fun at Ann Coulter, but I'm starting to get a little more confident that I'm the only non-religious Conservative in America), no matter how much they try to evoke thoughts of Aslan the lion god with these awesome, anthropomorphic polar bears. ![]() ![]() Wow, in a discussion regarding this film, I found a way to address Ann Coulter, so this probably isn't as exciting as the "Chronicles of Narnia" rip-off I was expecting it to be, although it does feel like a rip-off of a rip-off. Shoot, forget organized religion, this might be a deconstruction of the conservative republican party, because I'm not entirely confident that they're not trying to say something when they name the evil, female political figure in this film Mrs. or almost two hours of mostly exposition and allegorical deconstructions of organized religion. We're talking about a futuristic world, spirit animals, warrior polar bears, James Bond as an adventurous college professor (British Indy!) and Sam Elliott as a cowboy aeronaut, so this is either going to be an awesome definitive fantasy epic. ![]()
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Life as Angela’s mortal assistant isn’t so bad. ![]() Catanese comes the second fast-paced thriller about a twelve-year-old boy who must protect the kinder, gentler underworld from returning to its previous terrifying incarnation.Īfter being rescued from a fiery death by Angela Obscura, an ancient demon from the underworld, Donny Taylor is settling into a new home in Sulfur. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book questions the nature of grief and whether or not returning to normality afterward is even possible within the realm of human existence on earth. The book helped inspire a 1985 television movie, Shadowlands, as well as a 1993 film of the same name.Ī Grief Observed explores the processes undergone by the human brain and mind over the course of grieving. Lewis' stepson (Joy's son) Douglas Gresham pointed out in his 1994 introduction that the indefinite article 'a' in the title makes it clear that Lewis' grief is not the quintessential experience of the loss of a loved one but just one individual's perspective among countless others. He illustrates the everyday trials of life without Joy and explores fundamental questions of faith and theodicy. The book is compiled from the four notebooks used by Lewis to vent and explore his grief. Though republished in 1963 under his own name after his death, the text still refers to his wife as “H” (her seldom used first name was Helen). ![]() Clerk because Lewis wished to avoid the connection. The book was published in 1961 under the pseudonym N.W. Lewis's reflections on his experience of bereavement following the death of his wife, Joy Davidman, in 1960. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The film was released in 2010 to international acclaim. 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Pascin, a biography of the noted Jewish modernist painter (Julius Mordecai Pincas, known as Pascin, March 31, 1885June 5, 1930), is Joann Sfar's most personal and important work. ![]() ![]() ![]() Having finished it, I’m actually kind of glad I waited its brand of mid-life melancholy probably only gets more resonant the older you get. I bought a copy of it on Amazon a few years ago, having heard of its reputation as a life-changing book, but I didn’t actually get around to reading it until just now. Originally serialized in the Chicago-based indie newspaper Newcity starting in 1995 and later compiled into book form in 2000, it’s Ware’s meditation on loneliness, fatherhood, and the passage of time aka, a perfect book to scare me in my late-mid 20s. ![]() Maybe I’ve been ruminating on these things because I just read Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, a bummer epic of a graphic novel. Each year I get closer and closer to the age that my parents were when they had their first kid, and I think about how young and unprepared I feel at this moment in my life, and I wonder if they felt the same thing at the time. 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