В нижней левой клеточке в честь праздника рассказываю про Almost Hero Анны Бернс, и это настолько славная книга, что я покажу тут несколько цитат вдогонку, чтобы ни у кого на этот счет не осталось сомнений.

Now, these villains were brainboxes of the highest order, possessed of enormous IQs and phenomenal powers of resilience at taking over the globe periodically, dominating it briefly, before superhero, just as periodically, swooped in and snatched it back.

Freddie was from the poor sap side of the family which meant every so often he fell in love with inappropriate females. These affairs ended in death, double-cross, robbery, court appearances, ruined reputations, jail sentences, fines, community service or, at least - though not in Freddie’s opinion - heartbreak owing to brutal rejection by the ice-cold lover he had loved.

What if he was neither ‘super-this’ nor ‘super-that’ but instead just average and ordinary? To be average and ordinary equated in hero’s mind with being sub-average and less than ordinary, which itself equated with not being acceptable, not being respectable, not being lovable - though of course he himself would never think in such New Age, self-absorbed terms.

Короче, меня этот текст совершенно очаровал, 11/10.