6/30/20
Human's Tribune
Volume 2
Issue 26
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Book Reviews: 3 Essential Reads For Today
By Ember Hernandez
Cheshire Crossing, by Andy Weir
Cheshire Crossing is a graphic novel about three different girls: Alice, Dorothy, and Wendy. They have been diagnosed with Dissociative Psychosis, which means they feel they cross into different worlds. When they’ve been sent into an asylum with a professor that believes them, something bad happens. In Oz, the Wicked Witch of the West crosses into Never-land. She finds Captain Hook, and they partner up to destroy the three girls. When they figure out all the bad guys are coming together, Alice, Wendy, Dorothy have to figure out how to save the day… and keep their sanity.
Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. Sheets, by Brentha Thummler.
Marjorie just wants her normal life back. After her mom died, that wasn’t an option. With her dad grieving and shutting himself away from almost all human contact, and her little brother only 6, she has to run her family laundromat all on her own. With a shady man looking to take the property for himself, and an 11-year-old ghost who just wants a friend. His name is Wendell, the ghost who wants to be friends with Marjorie, finds his “ghost town” quite boring. There are a lot of rules, no fun, and no one likes him or wants to play with him. When he breaks all the rules and travels into the human world, he has to hide from all the ghosts who want to stop him. When these two heartbroken kids meet, who knows what will happen?
Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐(1 extra for beautiful art.)
3. Almost Human, by Ari North
In the future, there are mods that allow you to customize yourself. When Sunati, a young woman who is allowed to use mods, sees a girl that’s beautiful but doesn’t use mods because of her Egan’s Syndrome, she falls in love. Austen, a 19-year-old scholar in college, sees Sunati as a ray of sunshine and can’t help falling either. When these two young women fall for each other, the future has to conflict them as well. With Sunati hiding secrets, and Austen trying to control her anger (but fails), something happens that’s special indeed..
Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐(2 extra for LBTGQ+ content and breathtaking art.)
Cheshire Crossing, by Andy Weir
Cheshire Crossing is a graphic novel about three different girls: Alice, Dorothy, and Wendy. They have been diagnosed with Dissociative Psychosis, which means they feel they cross into different worlds. When they’ve been sent into an asylum with a professor that believes them, something bad happens. In Oz, the Wicked Witch of the West crosses into Never-land. She finds Captain Hook, and they partner up to destroy the three girls. When they figure out all the bad guys are coming together, Alice, Wendy, Dorothy have to figure out how to save the day… and keep their sanity.
Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. Sheets, by Brentha Thummler.
Marjorie just wants her normal life back. After her mom died, that wasn’t an option. With her dad grieving and shutting himself away from almost all human contact, and her little brother only 6, she has to run her family laundromat all on her own. With a shady man looking to take the property for himself, and an 11-year-old ghost who just wants a friend. His name is Wendell, the ghost who wants to be friends with Marjorie, finds his “ghost town” quite boring. There are a lot of rules, no fun, and no one likes him or wants to play with him. When he breaks all the rules and travels into the human world, he has to hide from all the ghosts who want to stop him. When these two heartbroken kids meet, who knows what will happen?
Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐(1 extra for beautiful art.)
3. Almost Human, by Ari North
In the future, there are mods that allow you to customize yourself. When Sunati, a young woman who is allowed to use mods, sees a girl that’s beautiful but doesn’t use mods because of her Egan’s Syndrome, she falls in love. Austen, a 19-year-old scholar in college, sees Sunati as a ray of sunshine and can’t help falling either. When these two young women fall for each other, the future has to conflict them as well. With Sunati hiding secrets, and Austen trying to control her anger (but fails), something happens that’s special indeed..
Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐(2 extra for LBTGQ+ content and breathtaking art.)
You're Saying It Wrong
By Antoinette Durand
Common sayings like, "worth their salt," and "take it with a grain of salt" can sometimes be mixed up. People who are worth their salt are good at what they do. Roman soldiers were paid in salt. If someone tells you to "take it with a grain of salt," it means that it's not infallible or it's possible it's wrong. "Not worth a grain of salt" is a common phrase that is a mix of the first two said sayings. It doesn't really mean anything.
Has someone ever said to you during an argument, "I could care less"? If you were to stop and think about it, that undermines their argument. The actual phrase it "I couldn't care less."
You mean that the world can be brutal is you say, "It's a doggy-dog world." "Dog-eat-dog world" is the correct version of the phrase. The rapper Snoop Dog released a song in 1993 that said "doggy-dog world". The saying comes from the Latin canis caninam non est.
A person who made major changes in their life could be said to have done a 180 in their life. That's actually correct. The phrase can be said incorrectly as "they did a 360 in their life". A 360 is a circle. If you're facing North and you do a 180, you'll end up facing South.
From How Stuff Works
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