![]() ![]() We only include products that have been independently selected by Elite Daily's editorial team. Your next fave bad*ss female protagonist awaits. If you're ready to immerse yourself in another intense world with dark and twisted rules and where characters battle to survive, check out these books like The Handmaid's Tale. In fact, many of these heroes are underdogs, making their fights for survival that much more satisfying to read about. Not all of these heroines are navigating a world where the birth rate is declining and are forced to reproduce to save society like Offred, but many of them still face environmental disasters and systems regulating reproduction as shown in the Hulu series. ![]() Just as Offred grew up in a chilling society where women have less rights than men, the women in these dystopian books like The Handmaid’s Tale fight against oppressive governments. To rally your rebel spirit even further, here are books like The Handmaid’s Tale that'll make you want to start a rebellion. Now that Season 4 of the Emmy-award winning show is underway, your feminist flag is flying once again. ![]() When you read about her in Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian book, The Handmaid's Tale, and saw her character portrayed by Elisabeth Moss in the Hulu series based on the story, you couldn’t help but cheer her on as she tackled the male-dominated totalitarian society Gilead. ![]()
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Digory is frightened and lonely which is why he quickly becomes very close with Polly, needing a friend to anchor him and to take his mind off his current circumstances.ĭigory is innately curious and courageous. ![]() Digory is living in London with his Aunt Letty and Uncle Andrew while they take care of his mother, who is very sick, and while his father is in India. ![]() ![]() ![]() Legally, there’s nothing wrong with this sort of liberty-taking, if that’s what it is-Austen died over 100 years ago and the text of Pride and Prejudice has long been in the public domain-but there is considerable debate as to what constitutes a reimagining or a rip-off, let alone exploitation. In the 21st century, that usage crossed a threshold into unabashed exploitation with novels like Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009), a parody of the Jane Austen classic that deploys some 85 percent of its prose verbatim. Wells’s darkest scientific romance, The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896).Īuthors have used the technique of riffing on (or altogether reworking) old storylines for centuries. ![]() In her latest novel, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau (2022), she retells what may be H. She must have liked the idea of using another author’s work as a speculative template. Set in the Mexican countryside, this feminist horror novel depicts a woman’s oneiric, dread-inducing experience in a haunted mansion that siphons Edgar Allan Poe’s iconic gothic tale “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Like Poe, Moreno-Garcia features an enigmatic lord of the manor, bad omens, hidden family secrets, and a murder mystery. THE TITLE of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic (2020) denotes its story as well as its literary subgenre. ![]() ![]() ![]() With it she’ll make the Order pay and avenge the friends they’ve taken from her.īut first, she must survive those who would steal her core for their own benefit while keeping her true identity a secret from the adventurers looking to delve into her dungeon. When the Order makes a catastrophic mistake, transforming Alexandra into a dungeon core, they inadvertently give her the power to bring back technology long since thought lost on this world. ![]() She wakes in a world of magic and monsters, encountering a mysterious Order with plans millennia in the making. Instead, they changed an engineer into the single most powerful fabricator in existence, a dungeon core.Īlexandra Rousseau, an engineer from the European Federation Star Navy with a past darker than the void between the stars, is unexpectedly launched into hyperspace when an FTL jump goes horribly wrong. They thought sacrificing her would further their own goals. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His large head bristled with thick black hair, graying some at the temples. The clerk continued, lazily, unhurried, describing Big Juan as a colossal monolith of a man, huge in every aspect. Whenever Big Juan pleasures Big Rosa, the squeamish cut bait and run for cover. Well, he’s been trying to kill Big Rosa that way as long as I can recollect and it ‘pears to me her yells get stronger every year. Reckon to see Big Juan die long before she does. About forty, he had a lean red-flushed face under pink hair and a mild tic in his left eye. Just Big Juan Venzino making time with his woman. What you mean - relax? Anguished, he jumped up from his chair, a rotund man with a pot belly and an incredible hangover. ![]() Didn’t these Florida crackers ever get excited about anything? He turned, staring at the hotel clerk leaning against the doorjamb. This time he heard himself yelling, Police! ![]() Then, able to move, shaken and white-faced, he jerked himself upright in his rocking chair on the hotel veranda. He leaned forward, hackles bristling along his neck. He whispered it first because he was, for the moment, petrified. It ripped the peaceful Sunday morning out by the roots, raging through the murmur of flies, muted breezes and village church music into the sick place where his hangover cringed. IT WAS THE DAMNEDEST SCREAM he’d ever heard. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The images were selected from 'Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition', opening at the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen in March 2020. ![]() The book has been developed and curated by Nick Cave in collaboration with Christina Back. Stranger Than Kindness asks what shapes our lives and makes us who we are, and celebrates the curiosity and power of the creative spirit. Information about the song 'Stranger than Kindness' is automatically taken from Wikipedia. Listen to Stranger than Kindness by Nick Cave, follow the lyrics and discover the top songs of this artist. SongsTube² provides Nick Cave best songs. It features full colour reproductions of original artwork, handwritten lyrics, photographs and collected personal artefacts along with commentary and meditations from Nick Cave, Janine Barrand and Darcey Steinke. Stranger than Kindness video by Nick Cave with info and lyrics link. This highly collectable book invites the reader into the innermost core of the creative process and paves the way for an entirely new and intimate meeting with the artist, presenting Cave's life, work and inspiration and exploring his many real and imagined universes. Stranger Than Kindness is a journey in images and words into the creative world of musician, storyteller and cultural icon Nick Cave. Anita Lane, Founding Member of Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds, Dead at 61 Singer-songwriter co-wrote two of Caves signature songs, 'From Her to Eternity' and 'Stranger Than Kindness,' before. ![]() ![]() "Seeing that the general state of my health was so poor, my brother-in-law recommended a stiff regime of yoga practice to knock me into shape and strengthen me up to face life's trials and challenges as I approached adulthood." "A deep melancholy often overtook me, and at times I asked myself whether life was worth the trouble of living. "My poor health was matched, as it often is when one is sick, by my poor mood," he writes. In his latest book, Light on Life, he recounts how physical weaknesses led him to the ancient practice of yoga: ![]() Iyengar began life as a frail and sickly child - but now, at the ripe age of 87, the yoga master can still stand on his head and hold a conversation at the same time. He refined and perfected the technique of doing yoga poses that is most widely taught in the United States. ![]() B.K.S Iyengar is considered the world's greatest living yoga master. ![]() ![]() In this darkly comedic drama about love and aging, a seen-it-all teacher has more learning of his own to do. But things become complicated when he sees Sorano again-as a new student at school! Hara immediately shuts down the possibility of a relationship, although the situation is unearthing issues from Hara's youth, when he himself had complicated sexual feelings in his teens.and the current emotional baggage that still lingers with his now-graduated student, Rihito. While at a gay bar, he meets a young man named Sorano and makes an instant connection. He spends his days teaching at an all-boys school, his nights out on the town. ![]() Learn more about the teacher Hara Manabu, a gay man who feels somewhat adrift in the world. ![]() The continuation of Asumiko Nakamura's beloved Boys' Love manga Classmates: Dou kyu sei, now in English for the first time ever! Life goes on after graduation, but a certain former teacher is dealing with a real mess: himself. ![]() ![]() ![]() With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Joshi's illuminating introduction and notes to each story.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories presents the definitive corrected texts of these works, along with Lovecraft critic and biographer S. ![]() This Penguin Classics edition brings together a dozen of the master's tales-from his early short stories "Under the Pyramids" (originally ghostwritten for Harry Houdini) and "The Music of Erich Zann" (which Lovecraft ranked second among his own favorites) through his more fully developed works, "The Dunwich Horror," The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and At the Mountains of Madness. Howard Phillips Lovecraft's unique contribution to American literature was a melding of traditional supernaturalism (derived chiefly from Edgar Allan Poe) with the genre of science fiction that emerged in the early 1920s. A definitive edition of stories by the master of supernatural fiction ![]() ![]() ![]() Those awards? It picked up a handful of Golden Raspberry Awards. A true classic that currently holds a 4.3 rating on IMDb, an 11% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and has been mocked endlessly by its star, Sylvester Stallone. Snyder, Blake broke into feature film writing with the award-winning Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992). The son of Emmy-award winning TV producer, Kenneth C.T. ![]() ![]() Adored and praised widely by industry insiders, Blake’s work lends its name to a *ahem* ‘prestigious’ screenwriting competition, he has been posthumously honoured by the Writers’ Guild of America, and there are even tributes to him in the end credits of several movies around 2010. The terrible writer who is directly responsible for every major movie being formulaic rubbish.Īlthough passing away in 2009, screenwriter Blake Snyder continues to be one of Hollywood’s most influential figures. ![]() |