![]() ![]() In a way, this comic reminds me a bit of the series Giant Days but mostly because of the college themes of dealing with a new place as a freshman just starting out. I think I find myself enjoying young adult stories and themes more when they are in comic form than in prose, maybe because I’m so used to reading shoujo manga. ![]() With this manga adaptation though, I think the story has found a medium by which it has really attracted my attention. ![]() I didn’t really read much young adult literature back then. Written by Rainbow Rowell and published in 2013, the young adult novel would have surely slipped under my radar. I’ve never read the book that this manga is adapted from, and I’m not entirely sure that I would have given it a chance in prose form. ![]()
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Max Where the Wild Things Are sailing to the wild rumpus “in and out of weeks and almost over a year.” Using images and techniques inspired by William Blake, Randolph Caldecott, Samuel Palmer and others, Maurice Sendak interpreted the works of great masters: Grimm, George MacDonald, Herman Melville. Mickey In the Night Kitchen swooping out of his clothes into a basin of bread batter. He leaves us with images of children flying to adventure and back again. News: Author of “Where the Wild Things Are” dies ![]() But they live as fully as Sendak himself lived right up to his last months and weeks and hours. ![]() Children are full humans, compromised only by their lack of vocabulary and practice in reporting how they live. ![]() Sendak stood up squarely in the middle of the last century, and he shouted both those inanities out the door. Or they were perfect packaged gifts from heaven, Mother Nature in glorious form, only to be corrupted by growing up. 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A round-up of what’s been happening at the Daphne du Maurer website during the first three months of 2023Ģ023 has started at quite a pace, with lots of exciting information and news relating to Daphne du Maurier. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Themes that emerge throughout these commentaries include core Sufi theological, philosophical and metaphysical traditions, such as the teachings of Prophet Muhammad as the insan al-kamil, divine attributes of Allah and the Prophet Muhammad, and much more. For instance, throughout her discussion, she draws on the teachings and literary traditions of Jalaluddin Rumi, Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi, Ahmed Rifai, Ken’an Rifai and many others. The book is organized around these 83 verses, in which Sargut provides stunning in-depth commentaries on each verse by drawing from Sufi, Turkish and Islamic traditions. The compilation consists of a robust commentary of Surah Ya-Sin or the 36th chapter of the Qur’an and its 83 verses. O Humankind Surah Ya-Sin (Fons Vitae, 2021) is compiled by Cemalnur Sargut, who is a Sufi teacher based in Turkey and has been translated into English by Victoria Rowe Holbrook. ![]() |