![]() ![]() Maine is a big forest and genuinely creepy in this story and the deserted back roads, back roads just like every small town has, make for a most terrifying setting for the carnage that takes place throughout this story. The atmosphere written into Blood and Rain is something you can cut with a knife. ![]() Characters who this reader actually felt pretty bad to witness as werewolf fodder. ![]() The reader can totally feel his regret about past actions.) The characters as a whole create the feel Glenn was obviously aiming for - small town life, where every one knows your business and life quietly goes unnoticed behind white picket fences. (Joe Fischer, the small town sheriff, is particularly well crafted and very fleshed out. But, Glenn did a fantastic job of creating a great supporting cast for his werewolf yarn. Let's face it!! In Blood and Rain, the werewolf is the star. The monster is scary and almost as threatening in human form as he is transformed. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() We watch the little girl try to make sense of experiences that defy logic. ![]() In black-and-white drawings that pulse with energy, she places the rebellious, outspoken young Marji at the center of alternately funny and wrenching vignettes about her extraordinary family. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, the first English-language edition, combines parts one and two of her original French-language series. Satrapi-a descendant of Persian royalty and the daughter of leftist intellectuals-grew up during a period of great upheaval, as the Islamic Revolution toppled the Shah, Iran went to war with Iraq and dissidents of various political affiliations rotated in and out of prison. Instead, she leans into the confusion she felt as a child in 1970s Tehran. 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Returning to England, Collins attended Cole's boarding school, and completed his education in 1841, after which he was apprenticed to the tea merchants Antrobus & Co. However, there is still much to be discovered about this superstar of Victorian fiction.īorn in Marylebone, London in 1824, Collins' family enrolled him at the Maida Hill Academy in 1835, but then took him to France and Italy with them between 18. He is studied widely new film, television, and radio versions of some of his books have been made and all of his letters have been published. ![]() Most of his books are in print, and all are now in e-text. Now, Collins is being given more critical and popular attention than he has received for 50 years. ![]() But after his death, his reputation declined as Dickens' bloomed. 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