6/26/2023 0 Comments Author of the blind side![]() ![]() ![]() Will - New York Times Book Review "The Blind Side works on three levels. is not only sound but shrewder than that of many so-called football insiders who can't see the forest for the trees." - Allen Barra - Washington Post " is advancing a new genre of journalism." - George F. It isn't." - Malcolm Gladwell "Lewis's overview of the evolution of NFL strategy. It's a storybook about modern society, ancient virtues, and the power of love, money and talent to do a little good." - Jay Hancock - Baltimore Sun "The Blind Side is as insightful and moving a meditation on class inequality in America as I have ever read-although to put it that way, I realize, makes it sound deadly dull. ![]()
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Bookshelves is only one of many features at. You are currently viewing the details page on Bookshelves for the book Gefährliche Liebe: (Die Tribute von Panem, #2) by Suzanne Collins and Sylke Hachmeister and Peter Klöss.īookshelves is one feature of Bookshelves is found under the /shelves/ subfolder at. ![]() ![]() ![]() His additional titles include “We Sold Our Souls” and “Horrorstör,” which he is also set to adapt for New Republic. ![]() Hendrix is also the author of the bestselling “My Best Friend’s Exorcism,” which was recently adapted into the Amazon Studios film of the same name. Romel Adam and Jose Cañas will oversee for Ghost House. Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert’s Ghost House Pictures will produce the film with Hendrix and Adam Goldworm’s Aperture Entertainment. He’s childhood trauma incarnate, delivered from one generation to the next.” He’s the vehicle of an unfulfilled mother’s pain, her regrets and loneliness. “Pupkin represents the losses of growing up. “Hendrix has created a wholly original creature in Pupkin, one as iconic as Chuckie or Pennywise,” wrote The New York Times in its January review. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Whatever happened to batman![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was a direction seemingly perfect for returnee Clooney, who showed some serious dramatic chops in ER and was just starting to find his footing in the movies. He wanted to take the franchise in a more serious direction, featuring a more psychologically complex Batman than what had been experienced before. So the pair met, with Schumacher sharing his vision for the franchise. After all, like Batman Forever before it, Batman & Robin couldn't possibly fail. to meet with Joel Schumacher and begin work on a script for Schumacher's third entry in the Batman franchise. Screenwriter Mark Protosevich was enlisted by Warner Bros. The project actually went pretty far, all things considered. But what if maybe, just maybe, it was a success in every essence of the word? If that were indeed true, then we would have seen Batman Unchained. ![]() Alas, in this world we know that Batman & Robin was more a monster piece of cinema than anything else. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Uma Thurman would take home Best Supporting Actor and Actress Oscars respectively, and Joel Schumacher would be revered as the most extraordinary director in the history of cinema. George Clooney would have been hailed as the greatest Batman to ever hit the screen. In a different world, 1997's Batman & Robin would have been a masterpiece of cinema. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Blood water paint![]() Artemisia Gentileschi was an amazing woman, who endured innumerable struggles fighting for nothing more than justice – not to mention one of the finest painters of the Baroque era. The structure of the book also helps it go by very quickly – I read the whole thing in one night. ![]() I don’t normally go for books in verse, but in this case, it perfectly captures the narrator’s artistic nature, without feeling pretentious at all. I won’t go too far into her story, as I couldn’t do it the justice she deserves, but suffice to say, it uses verse to combine her development as a painter with her development as a woman – fighting through her mother’s death, a rape, and a trial. The book follows her frustrations in a male-dominated society – the injustices of her father, her painting “tutor,” and an incredibly sexist court system. While this book is never extremely physically graphic, it doesn’t shy away from the emotional repercussions of the events it details.Ī story expertly told in verse, Blood, Water, Paint retells the true story of Artemisia Gentileschi, a female painting prodigy in the 16 thcentury. ![]() ![]() Those sensitive to the topics of rape or torture should proceed cautiously. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments House of earth and blood![]() But Hunt soon realizes there’s far more to Bryce than meets the eye-and that he’s going to have to find a way to work with her if they want to solve this case.Īs Bryce and Hunt race to untangle the mystery, they have no way of knowing the threads they tug ripple through the underbelly of the city, across warring continents, and down to the darkest levels of Hel, where things that have been sleeping for millennia are beginning to stir. She stands for everything he once rebelled against and seems more interested in partying than solving the murder, no matter how close to home it might hit. Hunt Athalar, personal assassin for the Archangels, wants nothing to do with Bryce Quinlan, despite being ordered to protect her. But when the murderer attacks again, Bryce finds herself dragged into the investigation and paired with an infamous Fallen angel whose own brutal past haunts his every step. Two years later, her job has become a dead end, and she now seeks only blissful oblivion in the city’s most notorious nightclubs. But it all comes crumbling down when a ruthless murder shakes the very foundations of the city-and Bryce’s world. By day, she works for an antiquities dealer, selling barely legal magical artifacts, and by night, she parties with her friends, savoring every pleasure Lunathion-otherwise known as Crescent City- has to offer. Half-Fae, half-human Bryce Quinlan loves her life. ![]() ![]() Yet, I didn’t feel like the setting lived up to its potential. Finally, there was SO much room to play on the atmosphere in this book (the grounds of a school, an abandoned mansion, a dense and dangerous forest…so much to work with). Honestly, none of the characters were particularly likable, other than the mom, Kim. The author portrayed Scarlett the most vividly, but she was not a likable character. Next, none of the characters were vivid, to me. Once you finish the book, you’ll understand, so I won’t go too far into that in case of spoilers. ![]() ![]() However, I was left with some issues with the story. ![]() I was constantly left asking myself, “What the heck is going on?” The book is discusses teen pregnancy, domestic abuse, rape culture, and is LGBTQ friendly. The story provides ample amounts of surprises and twists that the reader won’t see coming. Yet, the book didn’t leave me stunned like her others. While I will say, those four are easily remain my favorites, Jewell’s newest book The Night She Disappeared still gave me the thrilling entertainment I know I’ll receive any time I pick up one of her books. I’ve been a huge Lisa Jewell fan ever since I read Watching You, The Girls in the Garden, Then She Was Gone, and The Family Upstairs. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Trick mirror jia tolentino![]() The final essays return to issues of feminism and womanhood. ![]() ![]() ![]() She examines her own alma mater in "We Come from Old Virginia," which analyzes relationships between sex and power institutions at the University of Virginia. In "The Story of a Generation in Seven Scams," Tolentino positions scamming as the action that has defined the Millennial generation, referencing how these scams have affected her life from college to the present day. The following essay, "Pure Heroines," also focuses on women here, tracing the life cycle of the literary heroine from girlhood to adolescence to adulthood. Tolentino uses a combination of personal narrative and analysis of larger social trends in "Always Be Optimizing," in which she describes society's current ideal woman and the ways in which athleisure trends reflect her. Tolentino focuses on her personal history in "Reality TV Me," which describes her time on a reality show as a teenager. She then begins the collection with "The I in Internet," which traces the development of the internet in terms of its social and psychological effects, as well as Tolentino's own use of it. Tolentino introduces her own work, contextualizing it as writing produced in the context of the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hide and Seek, illustrated by Susan Hellard, 1986.At the Park, illustrated by Susan Hellard, 1986.See You Later, Alligator, illustrated by Colin Hawkins, 1986.The Bad Babies' Book of Colors, illustrated by Debbie van der Beek, 1986.Let's Pretend, illustrated by Susan Hellard, 1985. ![]() One Nil, illustrated by Gary Wing, 1985 illustrated by Jon Riley, 1987.John Lennon, illustrated by Karen Heywood, 1985.The Bad Babies' Counting Book, illustrated by Debbie van der Beek, 1985.His Dilly the Dinosaur series has sold over 2 million copies worldwide.īradman and his family live in Beckenham, Kent. degree from Queens' College, Cambridge, and worked as a music writer and as a children's book reviewer for Parents magazine before beginning to write children's literature in 1984. Knopf, Methuen Publishing, Puffin Books, and HarperCollins.īradman was born in Balham, London. He is the author of more than 50 books for young people published by multiple houses including Alfred A. Tony Bradman (born 22 January 1954) is an English writer of children's books and short speculative fiction best known for the Dilly the Dinosaur book series. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments A little hatred abercrombie![]() In an interview with Edge magazine, Abercrombie stated that video games have been a big influence on his writing, including early interest in text-based adventure games and historically based strategy games such as Civilization and Age of Empires. Ībercrombie has been an avid player of video games since his childhood. He was educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School and Manchester University, where he studied psychology. Life and education Ībercrombie was born in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. His novel Half a King won the 2015 Locus Award for best young adult book. ![]() He is the author of The First Law trilogy, as well as other fantasy books in the same setting and a trilogy of young adult novels. Joseph Edward Abercrombie (born December 31, 1974) is a British fantasy writer and film editor. ![]() |