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[downthetubes]

Nostalgia Trip: Batman - From the 30's to the 70's

Coming across a striking image of the Silver Age Batman and Robin - indeed, some might say, and iconic images - stirred some old, happy memories...

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Macabre Monday 

It’s no secret that Edward Gorey is a bit of a fan favorite here at UWM Special Collections. Therefore, it seems only fitting that we highlight the gor(e)y images from Haunted Looking Glass, a collection of spooky short stories he assembled and illustrated, for this week’s #Macabre Monday post. His chosen authors run the gamut of heavyweight horror, including Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Edith Nesbit, and Algernon Blackwood, among others. It was published by Avenel Publishing in New York in 1984 and distributed by Crown Publishing. With twelve illustrations for the twelve different short stories, the pen-and-ink drawings were created with a level of intricately-detailed line work that express foreboding and sinister implications.

View more posts about Edward Gorey. 

In the mood for more spooky imagery? See more here.

-- Emily, Special Collections Writing Intern

[universitybookstore]

New from Crown, the students, and edited by MSD teacher Sarah Lerner, Parkland Speaks: Survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas Share Their Stories.

[goodblacknews]

(via Michelle Obama Announces 10-City Book Tour for "Becoming")

[bookmama]

Book Mail 📖😍📬 Thank you so much to @crownpublishing for this amazing ARC of D-Day Girls by Sarah Rose🧡 This new nonfiction book looks at the female spies who helped win World War II, and looks like when the resistance, the History Channel, and your favorite spy novel all come together in one gripping book! Coming April 2019 😊

[missdarcy87]

"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody." –Mark Twain 🍂

[brennanbookblog]

Artemis

by Andy Weir

What’s better than being stranded on Mars and abandoned by your crew with only potatoes to live on?

Anything really.

Anything would be better than that.

But if we are talking in terms of Andy Weir’s brilliant first novel The Martian, what would be better that Andy Weir writing the witty and scientifically credible story of one character? That would be Andy Weir creating a witty and scientifically credible story about a whole city on the moon with an awesome no nonsense female protagonist smuggler. Which he did when he wrote Artemis.

Having loved Weir’s writing voice in The Martian, I scooped up Artemis immediately and summarily devoured it. The protagonist, Jazz, a citizen of Artemis, the moon colony, slaves away as a smuggler to save up enough slugs for a better life. Because moon real estate sounds pricier than New York and San Francisco combined. An integral player in the city’s sordid underbelly, Jazz is roped into a scheme by a wealthy benefactor while desperately dodging the ever-watchful moon cop and a new slew of moon mafia. Which, let’s face it, is kinda challenging in a city that’s literally under a bubble. (Note to self: this could be included in the genre: books that effectively employ domes as a device.) Let’s just say that oxygen is at a premium in zero G.

With a seriously diverse cast of characters, an entirely new take on moon landing and a unique pen pal scenario, Artemis is bound to launch to the bestsellers’ list immediately. Pun intended.

Kudos to Weir for introducing a minority female protagonist who is dynamic, intelligent, flawed, and beautiful -  and incidentally, like a lot of the awesome dynamic, intelligent, flawed and beautiful female characters in my own life.  

Plus, reading Weir is like taking a cool science class as an adult, just in a totally different atmosphere.

*B3 received a galley from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

[whilereadingandwalking]

I cried several times in the course of reading The Moth Presents All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown, edited by Catherine Burns, with a forward by Neil Gaiman. The Moth is a storytelling platform that hosts events all over the United States. It launched in 1997 and holds events, each themed, where people tell their stories without notes to a live audience. This is a packed collection of 45 stories about risk, courage, worry, and facing the unknown.

The stories are incredible. There’s nothing like reading 45 people telling you honestly, with grace and humor, about a turning point in their lives. Read a story about a party a man threw for his dying mother and how he discovered her worst fear in the process. Read about a child soldier, now adopted and in the United States, who has been invited to play paintball with his new friends. Read about a man who realizes and comes to terms with being a one-hit wonder. Read about kind strangers, dire situations, parents who end up understanding you after all. The chapters go by quickly, divided into sections: The Eternal Music of the Spheres, Things I’ve Seen, Keeping the Lid On, Grace Rushes In, Like a Man Does, To Face the Fear, and By Every Claim of Love. Each story is a surprise. Each one will change you, just a little bit, by reminding you something about the human condition, or telling you something you didn’t know before about the joys and hope that comes with being human. 

I received this book from @crownpublishing in exchange for an honest review. I loved it, and I would recommend it to anyone I know. The first thing I did when I was finished was look up the next StorySLAM in my area. See you soon, The Moth, because this is incredible, and I want to be part of it.

“Honesty matters. Vulnerability matters. Being open about who you were at a moment in time when you were in a difficult or an impossible place matters more than anything.  Having a place the story starts and a place it’s going: that’s important. Telling your story, as honestly as you can, and leaving out the things you don’t need, that’s vital. The Moth connects us, as humans. Because we all have stories. Or perhaps, because we are, as humans, already an assemblage of stories.”  —from the Forward by Neil Gaiman