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Today I finished book #11 on the "Women in Translation" rec list: Concerning My Daughter by Kim Hye-Jin, translated from Korean by Jamie Chang. This book is about an a widow in her mid-70s who ends up sharing a home with her adult daughter and her daughter's partner. Her contentious relationship with her daughter pits her long-held beliefs and societal viewpoints against her love for her child; simultaneously, she struggles in her job caring for an elderly dementia patient in a nursing home.

The protagonist is a person who values, above all, keeping your head down and doing what's expected of you. She does not believe in standing out; she does not believe in involving yourself in other people's problems; perhaps for these reasons, she believes the only people you can ever count on are family. This is how she's lived her whole life, and she believes it was for the best. However, this mindset puts her directly in conflict with her daughter, a lesbian activist who is fighting for equal employment treatment for queer professors and teachers in the South Korean educational system.

When her daughter, Green, runs out of money to pay rent after a quarrel with the university where she was lecturing, the protagonist allows Green and her partner Lane to move in, despite their fractious relationship.

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Writer: Chuck Dixon

Pencils: Tom Lyle

Inks: Bob Smith

The KGBeast must break Robin!

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The Proving Trail by Louis L'Amour

The young narrator of this tale leaves his job herding cattle to find his father, and learns that his father was murdered after a night of successful gambling.
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Writer: Dennis O’Neil

Pencils and inks: Ric Estrada

Ben has been poisoned by a toxin unknown in the West, so Richard Dragon must go up against the League of Assassins to find a cure.

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Writer: Chuck Dixon

Pencils: Scott McDaniel

Inks: Karl Story

What does the guy dressed as a fox say?

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This is an official cover from DC and Marvel. It’s just a variant cover at the moment but who knows what will happen in the future.

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Writer: J.M. DeMatteis

Pencils and inks: Ian Gibson

Barda must deal with an unwanted dinner guest.

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If you’re picking up the Ultimates, for better or worse, you’re getting a Deniz Camp book. You know, it reads like a Deniz Camp book, hopefully different from the other ones that I’ve done because I’m trying not to repeat myself, but still, it’s a representation of me and my interests. I think, at least for me as a reader, that’s what I was always looking for, you know? Like when I was a kid and I realized that the comics I liked weren’t Justice League comics but were Grant Morrison comics. That was kind of like the first big revelation for me about how to read comics was, “Actually it’s not that JLA comics are better than the other comics. It’s that these specific ones written by this specific person are better,” you know, and hopefully that’s part of what the excitement of the Ultimate Universe is. [...] I think it’s totally normal when you’re younger to identify with the characters, or the universe or whatever. That’s just the normal life cycle of things. As you get deeper into something, only then, whatever it is, whether it’s novels or TV or whatever, then you start to realize you start to realize a little bit more about how they’re made and what you’re responding to is the work of people, not this amorphous concept or character. -- Deniz Camp

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Writer: John Ostrander

Pencils and inks: Tom Mandrake

Somebody is beheading the homeless people of Denver. Thankfully, the Martian Manhunter is on the case.

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Writers: John Ostrander and Kim Yale

Pencils: Doug Rice

Inks: Sam Kieth

Manhunter is off to Japan to fight a shapeshifting assassin.

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Writer: J.M. DeMatteis

Pencils: Luke McDonnell

Inks: Bob Smith

Martian Manhunter and Vixen are the only remaining members of the Justice League, so it comes down to them to stop Professor Ivo.

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Sanders' Union Fourth Reader by Charles Walton Sanders

Despite the titles, this is more recent than his New Fourth Reader. It repeats three or four readings from the earlier works, not all of them from the fourth reader.

Interesting nowadays chiefly for the views of edifying works and science of the time.

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