6/12/2023 0 Comments This vicious grace a novelThis year’s festival includes new films from some of cinema’s biggest names, including Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, Todd Haynes, Ken Loach, and even (well, sort of) Jean-Luc Godard. After a stellar return to form with last year’s event, which followed a delayed and truncated 2021 festival and a totally cancelled 2020 edition, the circuit’s starriest annual event seems ready to deliver another enviable selection of some of the year’s best (or, at least, destined to be) films. The red carpets are being rolled out, the rosé is being chilled, and the biggest names in international cinema are getting ready to converge on France for this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
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It has been named one of the Best 50 Nonfiction Books of the Last 100 Years and was included in the 100 Best Social Policy Books of All Time.ĭesmond's research and reporting focuses on American poverty and public policy. "Evicted" was listed as one of the Best Books of 2016 by The New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post, National Public Radio, and several other outlets. He is also a Contributing Writer for The New York Times Magazine.ĭesmond is the author of over fifty academic studies and several books, including "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City," which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, National Book Critics Circle Award, Carnegie Medal, and PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. During Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Matthew Desmond is social scientist and urban ethnographer. 6/12/2023 0 Comments Roma by Steven SaylorOn the reread the book struck me as slightly weaker than I remembered it as the mystery is again somewhat tame, while the historical fiction part (usually the strength of these novels) is less interesting, though there are superb moments like Gordianus interviews with Vercingetorix, Arsinoe, Cleopatra the triumphal parades etc overall still a very good book, though not quite among the top Gordianus novels as I originally thought (Catillina's riddle remains my all time favorite, with Roman Blood, Murder on the Appian way, Arms of Nemesis, Mist of Prophecies and Rubicon the top tier, Venus Throw, Last seen in Massilia and these last 2 - Triumph and Judgement as second tier) I remember quite liking this one when I read it first being about Gordianus return to Rome and his investigation of a possible plot to kill Caesar at one of his 46 BC triumphs which Gordianus first refuses to do when Calpurnia asks, but then agrees when he finds out that his Massilian friend Hyeronimus "the Scapegoat" was murdered trying to emulate Gordianus and investigate for Calpurnia when our hero was presumed dead in Egypt as there is no original read review from publication date (I have read all Gordianus books pretty much on publication and even earlier when i was lucky to get an arc), I will add only a few things. Reread in 2018 on the release of the long awaited Ides Gordianus book Throne of Caesar 6/11/2023 0 Comments Rebecca du maurierde Winter who travel from hotel to hotel in Europe. Spoiler alert: Important details of the novel are revealed below This leads to some turbulence in the marriage, which is put to rest when Rebecca’s old ship containing the remains of a body is washed up on shore – and she learns of the truth behind Rebecca’s death. She hears stories of how wonderful Rebecca was and starts to believe that her husband is still in love with his ex-wife. de Winter is haunted by the memory of Rebecca wherever she turns and she begins to feel jealous of her predecessor. Danvers who remains a faithful assistant to Rebecca, Maxim’s dead wife. She is constantly intimidated by the housekeeper, Mrs. The narrator is met with a beautiful home with an eerie atmosphere. de Winter move to Maxim’s wealthy estate, Manderley house in England to begin their married life. After a few short weeks of a whirlwind romance, the young couple gets married. The heroine of the novel meets the love of her life, the character Maxim de Winter, on a fateful day in Monte Carlo. The novel Rebecca is the story of a young unnamed woman that is recalled as a flashback. That is until a ship is suddenly washed ashore and the truth comes out. The narrator is convinced that everyone in the world – her husband included – loves glamourous and talented Rebecca more than they love her. Danvers and the ghostly presence of her husband’s ex-wife, Rebecca. Rebecca recounts the story of a young woman who marries a wealthy widower and moves into the hauntingly beautiful Manderley house. 6/11/2023 0 Comments Library mouse a friend's taleNot only is the story amusing, but the information will be useful in classrooms. This clever presentation of world housing types has three pages of backmatter that describes each style and its location. Kirk's familiar gouache illustrations maintain a mouse perspective filled with library details. Praise for Library Mouse: Home Sweet Home The book includes photos of the real house styles discussed in the text and a relevant glossary of architectural terms. Finally, though, the renovation of the library is complete, and they can move back to their true home, the library! They build and live in a variety of houses: a castle, an igloo, a yurt, a modern house, and even a geodesic dome. Sam knows research is key, so he finds books about architectural styles to get ideas for building a temporary home from objects found around the library. So off they go in search of a new place to live. When Sam the library mouse and his friend Sarah wake to find the library being packed up to prepare for a major renovation, they realize they won't have a home during the construction. Reading Level: 3.7 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 Physical Information: 0.5" H x 8.7" W x 10.6" (1.05 lbs) 40 pagesįeatures: Dust Cover, Glossary, Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian Lexile Measure: 670 AD (Adult Directed Text) Juvenile Fiction | Animals - Mice, Hamsters, Guinea Pigs, Etc. Click for more in this series: Library Mouse 6/11/2023 0 Comments I'll Be Home by Toni ShilohIn honor of her, I am featuring a book all my children enjoyed, mostly because it made their mother cry! When I brought Love You Foreverby Robert Munsch home all those years ago, I didn’t realize how much of an impact it would make on me. Happy Friday and Happy Birthday to my daughter Allison! This sweetheart has been such a blessing to our family. Ferguson, Joanna Davidson Politano, Kit Chase, Nancy Moser, Rachel Hauck, Robert Munsch, Roseanna White, Toni Shiloh Amant, children's books, contemporary romance fiction, dual timelines, historical fiction, historical romance fiction, Janet W. Little Sweet Pea, God Loves You by Kit Chase God Loves You, Little Peanut by Annette Brashler Bourland The Love Note by Joanna Davidson Politano Check them out - there’s still time to get them before Valentine’s Day! □ For more LOVE-ly books, head over to That Artsy Reader Girl. There are books for your reading list and books for your kids. They run the gamut of genres but all feature love in some form or fashion. Happy Tuesday! This week I am featuring books - some I have read, others on the TBR list - that have LOVE in the title. 6/10/2023 0 Comments The bells by edgar allan poeRachmaninoff wrote to his friend Nikita Morozov in December 1906, asking whether he could think of a suitable subject for a choral piece to follow his cantata Spring. The US Premiere of the work was given by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra and Chorus on 6 February 1920 and the UK Premiere by Sir Henry Wood and the Liverpool Philharmonic and Chorus on 15 March 1921. Rachmaninoff dedicated The Bells to Dutch conductor Willem Mengelberg and the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Rachmaninoff called the work both a choral symphony and (unofficially) his Third Symphony shortly after writing it however, he would later write a purely instrumental Third Symphony at his new villa in Switzerland. It was one of Rachmaninoff's two favorite compositions, along with his All-Night Vigil, and is considered by some to be his secular choral masterpiece. The traditional Gregorian melody Dies Irae is used frequently throughout the work. The words are from the poem The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe, very freely translated into Russian by the symbolist poet Konstantin Balmont. 35, is a choral symphony by Sergei Rachmaninoff, written in 1913 and premiered in St Petersburg on 30 November that year under the composer's baton. The Bells ( Russian: Колокола, Kolokola), Op. The young and hip team of writer Denny O'Neil and artist Neal Adams took a major step forward for the medium, proving that superhero stories could tackle relevant real world problems like systemic racism, over-population and most memorably, heroin addiction when Green Arrow's long-time kid sidekick Speedy is shockingly revealed to be an addict. Green Lantern #76 was the start of the iconic "Green Lantern/Green Arrow" run. This is the first time we've ever had the honor of offering a page from this milestone comic book story that has likely been reprinted more times than any other non-origin story issue. Many comic historians believe this issue marked the end of the Silver Age and the start of the Bronze Age of comics, an era marked by less innocence and more content reflecting vast changes in American society that took place in the late 60s and early 70s. Here is a rare opportunity to own a piece of comic book history, a Neal Adams page from the significant Green Lantern #76 (1970) featuring both Green Lantern and his new partner Green Arrow in a climatic moment where they capture the villain of the story. Dimensions: This art has an image area of approximately 10" x 15". And in the interest of health and safety, I think it’s better that he’s not unleashed.” “There’s no way a woman could possibly resist your charm.”ĭominic smiled. “With all your lines, they’ll be wrapped around your little finger,” he said sarcastically. But if you’re insinuating that anyone could have me wrapped around their little finger, you’re damn wrong.” You know me, I love parties and if there’s an excuse to throw one, I’ll do it. “Look, I’m not saying I wouldn’t have a ceremony. They have a way of always getting what they want.” He gave Taryn a mock scowl. “You say that now, but it’ll be different when you meet your mate. “Hey, I admit it – the likelihood of me ever having one is slimmer than slim.” “Oh and you’re a regular Romeo, are you, Tao?” Taryn’s question was rhetorical. “There isn’t a romantic bone in your body.” “I still can’t believe that you had a mating ceremony,” Tao said to Trey. 6/10/2023 0 Comments Helen of Troy by Bettany HughesIn Greek mythology, Helen of Troy, also known as Helen of Sparta, was the daughter of Zeus and Leda (or Nemesis), step-daughter of King Tyndareus, wife of Menelaus and sister of Castor, Polydeuces and Clytemnestra. The spectacular shrine to Helen in Sparta, to the archaeological site in modern Turkey that will be forever linked with The feature-lengthĭocumentary takes in some of the most beautiful scenery of the ancient world, from the magnificent citadel at Mycenae and Reveals just how a pre-historic princess in Bronze Age Greece - a real Helen - would have looked. Hughes argues that many images of the mythic Helen,įrom Hollywood movies to romantic paintings, have got her all wrong: Helen was the original sex goddess. Love affair and ended with a bloody and disastrous conflict. Very human drama, interweaving pleasure and pain, sex and violence, love and hate: a tale that started with a messy She is 'the face that launched a thousand ships' the woman blamed for the Trojan War - a conflict that causedĬountless deaths - but who was the real Helen of Troy? Bettany Hughes travels across the eastern Mediterranean toĭisentangle myth from reality and find the truth about the most beautiful woman on earth. |