![]() You’ll find a similar origin in the original 1940s comics, told very quickly before things take a turn toward bombastic action. ![]() Wonder Woman: The Golden Age Omnibus Volume 1īy William Moulton Marston and H.G. And it’s canon, so everything that’s come out since is building off of this foundation. It’s also stunningly gorgeous, with lush, expressive artwork on every page. The book builds a compelling world around Wonder Woman, as Rucka and Scott bring new life to long neglected iconic characters. The classic beats remain in this modern take, from Paradise Island, to Steve Trevor, to Diana venturing into the world of men. Wonder Woman’s origins have been retold several times over the decades, and Rucka and Scott capture the best elements of each in Year One. ![]() Image: Nicola Scott/DC Comics Wonder Woman’s origin story ![]()
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![]() In Iron Ambition, Tyson elaborates on the life lessons that D’Amato passed down to him and reflects on how the trainer’s words of wisdom continue to resonate with him outside the ring. ![]() In Tyson’s bestselling memoir Undisputed Truth, he recounted the role D’Amato played in his formulative years, adopting him at age sixteen after his mother died and shaping him both physically and mentally after Tyson had spent years living in fear and poverty. D’Amato died a year before Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion in history. When Cus D’Amato first saw thirteen-year-old Mike Tyson spar in the ring, he proclaimed, “That’s the heavyweight champion of the world.” D’Amato, a boxing legend who had previously managed the careers of world champions Floyd Patterson and José Torres, would go on to train the young boxer and raise him as a son. ![]() ![]() ![]() The problem seems to be that everyone wants to “improve” The Great Gatsby, to make a few revisions here and there, common-sense revisions that “Fitzgerald surely would have wanted.” This has been a problem throughout the long textual history of the novel-freelance emending. Three or four are responsibly done, but the others are simply efforts, often haphazard, to capture a small slice of the enormous market for the book. West III: I examined thirty-four new editions of the novel, all of them published after its copyright protection had expired. Can you tell say something about what you discovered? Our readers will be very interested to know that you undertook a study of all the new editions of Gatsby that appeared in print when the novel entered the public domain. I think you’ll agree that the expiration of copyright is generally a good thing for readers, as new editions become available and as scholars are free to quote at length from public domain works. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Library of America: The Great Gatsby entered the public domain in 2021. Scott Fitzgerald, circa 1925, the year The Great Gatsby was published. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the earliest known autobiographies by a woman, Lieutenant Nun offers a portrait of a bold young girl who defied her society's gender roles, yet remained committed to its service as a participant in the conquest of the Americas. Distinguished for her fighting skills and cursed with a quick temper, Catalina de Erauso spent much of her life balancing precariously between valor and villainy. After mistakenly killing her own brother in a duel, she roamed the Andean highlands, becoming a gambler and a killer, and always just evading the grasp of the law. Refusing to be regimented into the quiet habits of a nun's life, she escaped from a Basque convent at age fourteen dressed as a man, and continuing her deception, ventured to Peru and Chile as a soldier in the Spanish army. ![]() ![]() Born in 1585, Catalina de Erauso led one of the most wildly fantastic lives of any woman in history. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Black women generally experience a loss of $1 million in lifetime earnings.Īnd children are not the only people women are caring for. Unequal caregiving labor results in an average $400,000 loss in lifetime earnings for women over the course of a 40-year career, according to research by the National Women's Law Center (NWLC). Pew Research Center recently reported that married women tend to spend more time on household chores and childcare, while husbands spend more time on leisure activities. That penalty can be attributed, at least in part, to women taking on more of the childcare responsibilities than men. “Mothers are also paid less for each child that they have, which impacts how much discretionary income they have to save,” Valle Gutierrez tells Fortune. Not only do mothers face the gender wage gap-women still earn $0.83 for every dollar men make in 2023-but they also face a “ motherhood penalty” when it comes to hiring, salaries, and perceived competence. Women generally face more threats than men do to their long-term financial security, but those challenges are compounded for women with children, the report finds. “Mothers are the ones that are paying a penalty for the status quo.” Mothers disproportionately shoulder society's care work, points out the report’s author, Laura Valle Gutierrez: “Our retirement system is based on lifelong earnings and work, but our work systems and our economy really are relying on the unpaid and undervalued work of women and mothers specifically,” she says. ![]() ![]() ![]() This time, the reader is accompanied by his friends Peter and Sarah, and his dog Harry. Second, this is the first Choose Your Own Adventure in which the reader is not alone during his adventure. ![]() ![]() Although it is only the third installment of the Choose Your Own Adventure books, By Balloon to the Sahara introduces some new elements to the series.įirst, unlike the more fantastical settings of the first two books - a mysterious time cave and searching for the lost city of Atlantis - this entry into the series introduces the more grounded (pardon the pun) and classical adventure setting of a hot air balloon ride in France that goes out of control. ![]() ![]() ![]() I think about them as I go about my day, wondering what they’re going to do or decide about the problems they’re facing. I won’t put the book down until I’m all done. I know that once I open the cover and get past the dedication page, I’m a goner. I’ve often had to take a novel by Rachel Hauck or Susan May Warren or Siri Mitchell and set it off to the side so that I’m not tempted to start reading it. ![]() There’s nothing worse than staying up and getting to “The End” and being disappointed with how an author finished the story.) and it’s also the end of the book.īut you’re satisfied with this happily-ever-after you stayed awake for. One more chapter.”Īnd suddenly it’s 2 A.M. ![]() You start reading a novel and you get so caught up in the story - the conflict between the hero and the heroine, or maybe you’re wondering “Are they ever going to realize they love each other?!” - you can’t put the book down. Sometimes we even stay up into the wee small hours because we’re celebrating something fun.īut how often have you stayed up too late because of a book? We lose sleep for lots of different reasons. ![]() ![]() “It actually brought us a lot closer,” he said. To research, DeVaughn said he spend more time with his father (whose wife, Debbie Allen, is DeVaughn’s stepmother and is also portrayed in the series). “I had to really fine tune my basketball skills as well and become a baller again, because I hadn’t touched the ball since high school.” But DeVaughn says the physical aspect of it was a challenge: “I had to drop 30 pounds and had to get shredded,” he says. Nailing his dad’s mannerisms, voice and cadence was easy. He admits it was a little surreal to be auditioning opposite his brother, “but I wouldn’t want anybody else playing my dad except for one of us.” It was DeVaughn, whose resume includes “Snowfall,” “The Secret Life of the American Teenager” and “Runaways,” who won the gig. ”We got so lucky that the person who happened to the best for the part was also his son, and honestly the second best guy we saw was his brother.” ![]() All of that stuff that embodies Norm in that moment,” executive producer Max Borenstein tells Variety. “We needed somebody who could really pull off that complex mix of ego, arrogance, talent, feeling threatened, being incredibly charming, but also carrying with him a chip on his shoulder. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Manufactured under license from TOMY Company, Ltd. Preschoolers can pretend to race to the rescue with this 14-inch Transformers toy robot! Also look for other Playskool Heroes Transformers Rescue Bots Academy figures to build a rescue team (sold separately, subject to availability). Splash blaster can be used in robot and firetruck modes. Chosen to become a Rescue Bots Academy trainee by Optimus Prime, Hot Shot is the hero of the team! Hot Shot can now take on his firetruck mode like his mentor, Heatwave the fire-bot! Little heroes can imagine going on daring missions with their favorite Transformers Rescue Bots Academy characters! Designed with Easy 2 Do conversion, the Hot Shot toy converts from robot to vehicle mode and back again in 1 simple step! In bot mode, the Hot Shot figure features a fun, button-activated Splash Blaster rescue tool with lights and sounds and a posable ladder, inspired by the animated series. ![]() ![]() ![]() The writing was simple and descriptive, the pacing quite slow yet the main character, Lex was so real. Thanks, Izzy.Īs you see my emotions ran high in this book. And my friend stares and goes back to her book, Endgame. What makes it worst is that I finished this book during school so suddenly everyone’s silent and then there was me, tears running down my face like a hormonal teenager who can’t control my emotions. Source: Harper Collins Australia (Thank you for the tears!) But Lex is about to discover that a ghost doesn’t have to be real to keep you from moving on.įrom New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye is a gorgeous and heart-wrenching story of love, loss, and letting go. ![]() But there’s a secret she hasn’t told anyone-a text Tyler sent, that could have changed everything. And it feels like that’s all she’ll ever be.Īs Lex starts to put her life back together, she tries to block out what happened the night Tyler died. Now she’s just the girl whose brother killed himself. Friends who didn’t look at her like she might break down at any moment. The last time Lex was happy, it was before. ![]() |