Tag: short stories

EL本棚紹介(58) The Complete Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, by Don Rosa

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EL本棚紹介(55) Jughead with Archie, by Stan Goldberg

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EL本棚紹介(54) The Illustrated History of Football, by David Squires

[Welcome to the EL Book Introductions series. These posts are all short (<180 words) introductions/reviews of books in the EL library. They focus on telling you what we think will be interesting for you, a college student and English learner, so use them to help you find the right book for you. You can also use the tags to find books about topics you might be interested in.] _______ Do you like football (or “soccer” in American English)? Or do you LOVE it? Football is not just a sport. For many people, it is an obsession or even a way of life. This book is written for football nerds (otaku), …

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EL本棚紹介(46) I’ll Mature When I’m Dead, by Dave Barry

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EL本棚紹介(35) Daytripper, by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba

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EL本棚紹介(34) Chasin’ the Bird: Charlie Parker in California, by Dave Chisholm and Peter Markowski

[Welcome to the EL Book Introductions series. These posts are all short (<180 words) introductions/reviews of books in the EL library. They focus on telling you what we think will be interesting for you, a college student and English learner, so use them to help you find the right book for you. You can also use the tags to find books about topics you might be interested in.] _______ How do you write about music? One of the strengths of comic books is their use of color and shape to represent sound. This is one of the most important aspects of Chasin’ the Bird, which tells the story of a …

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EL本棚紹介(33) Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 1, by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima

[Welcome to the EL Book Introductions series. These posts are all short (<180 words) introductions/reviews of books in the EL library. They focus on telling you what we think will be interesting for you, a college student and English learner, so use them to help you find the right book for you. You can also use the tags to find books about topics you might be interested in.] _______ Do you like Tokugawa history? Do you like crazy violence? Do you like…little babies? If so, you may be interested in Lone Wolf and Cub (子連れ狼). It is the story of Ōgami Ittō, the former executioner or the Shogun, now an …

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EL本棚紹介(32) Astro Boy, by Tezuka Osamu

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EL本棚紹介(31) X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga, by Chris Claremont, John Byrne, and Terry Austin

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EL本棚紹介(28) Stray Bullets Volume One, by David Lapham

[Welcome to the EL Book Introductions series. These posts are all short (<180 words) introductions/reviews of books in the EL library. They focus on telling you what we think will be interesting for you, a college student and English learner, so use them to help you find the right book for you. You can also use the tags to find books about topics you might be interested in.] _______ Sometimes stories can leave us with lots of questions. We might think about why the characters did what they did. We might think about what will happen next. Stray Bullets offers a series of connected short stories that you will not …

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