6/9/2023 0 Comments The slap tsiolkas![]() The slap and its consequences force them all to question their own families and the way they live, their expectations, beliefs and desires. The Slap is told from the points of view of eight people who were present at the barbecue. This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced by the event.In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye onto that which connects us all: the modern family and domestic life in the twenty-first century. Binding is still very good.At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. Previous owner has stamped and written on inside synopsis page. ![]() ![]() ![]() Top edge of some pages in book middle have tiny tear. Slight curve to right tail front cover corner. ![]()
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6/8/2023 0 Comments Clifton Hill by M. Payano![]() ![]() It is a slow burner not because nothing happens early on - plenty does - but because director Albert Shin and his screenplay cowriter James Schultz unfold the many mysteries of their story at a pace that allows viewers to let the details sink in and roll around in their heads, setting up tantalizing possibilities before giving us more to chew on and sending us down different paths of consideration.Ībby (Tuppence Middleton of The Imitation Game and the Black Mirror TV series) returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls, Ontario after her mother dies and she and her younger sister Laure (Hannah Gross of the 2019 Joker film and Fat Tuesday) inherit their mother’s motel. Disappearance at Clifton Hill is a horror-adjacent mystery thriller that should please viewers who have a taste for off-center stories that look superb and are told and acted well.Ĭanadian thriller Disappearance at Clifton Hill is an intriguing offering with horror overtones. ![]() ![]() ![]() He sits as if he inherited the art from generations of sultans in the palace above Seraglio Point.” No one sits quite so relaxedly, expertly, beatifically as a Turk he sits with every inch of his body his very face sits. Pritchett: “One realizes there are two breeds in Turkey: those who carry and those who sit. “Most men and women lead lives, if not of quiet desperation, at least of desperate quietness, and they jump at a chance to talk about their work to an outsider who seems eager to listen.” “I don’t like to write I like to have written.” “Readers want a writer who believes in himself and in what he is saying. Active verbs push hard passive verbs tug fitfully.” ![]() They push the sentence forward and give it momentum. “Verbs are the most important of all your tools. “The most important sentence in any article is the first one.” “The airline pilot who announces that he is presently anticipating experiencing considerable precipitation wouldn’t think of saying it may rain.” I typically save good quotes while reading a book in this case, I'm afraid that I've saved half the book. ![]() It's honest, well written, and full of stories and examples that help you remember the key advice. Every high school and college student should be required to read this. The best book I've ever read about writing. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Magic strikes series![]() Stream It Or Skip It: 'MerPeople' On Netflix, A Docuseries About Professional Mermaidsįerocious And Wild: An Imperial Tina Turner Proved To Be The Soul Of 'Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome' Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Bama Rush’ on Max, A Documentary About The Highs, Lows, Secrets, And Sacrifices At Work In Rushing A University of Alabama Sorority Tina Turner, Rock 'n Roll Legend, Dead at 83 'Carrie' Actress Samantha Weinstein Dead at 28 After Two-Year Battle With Cancer Netflix’s ‘The Son’ Ending Explained: Did Nicholas Die?Ĭannes Film Festival 2023: 'Asteroid City' Finds Wes Anderson Casting His Eyes Towards The Night Sky Stream It Or Skip It: 'Broker' on Hulu, An Adoption Drama Asking Tough and Touching Questions About Family Oprah Winfrey Reveals Tina Turner Turned Down a Role in 'The Color Purple' in 1985: "She'd Already Lived It" Stream It Or Skip It: 'Hard Feelings' on Netflix, a German Comedy About Teens Cursed with Talking Genitalia ![]() Is 'About My Father' Streaming on HBO Max or Netflix? Is 'You Hurt My Feelings' Streaming on HBO Max or Netflix? ![]() Is 'The Machine' Streaming on HBO Max or Netflix? Is 'Love Again' Streaming on HBO Max or Netflix? Gwyneth Paltrow Recalls "British Press Being So Horrible" After Her 'Shakespeare in Love' Oscar Win: "Totally Overwhelming" ![]() Stream It Or Skip It: 'Royalteen: Princess Margrethe' on Netflix, the Second in a Series of DOA Norwegian Teen Romances Seth Rogen Slams Streaming Service Execs for Their "Secretiveness" and "Insane Salaries": "Thank God for These Labor Unions" ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Books like if tomorrow comes![]() ![]() Ranging in complexity, these spanned from daily digital puzzles, language games, and text-to-image generators to virtual social spaces, AR filters, and motion capture devices for broadcasting one’s physical activity. In hindsight, I realized the Game’s instant success could be chalked up to the proximity it had to other tools and technological processes that became household staples in earlier pandemics. A bubble inside which to project the world’s reinvention. ![]() This was time spent largely alone, loitering inside one’s own personal biosphere: a climate-conditioned safe house removed from all the chaos Out There-raging wildfires, unsurvivable ozone levels, multispecies extinction. It was a means of killing time in the third global pandemic in under a decade, when lockdown cycles seemed to merge into one infinitely long stretch of time spent indoors. ![]() The Game, when it was still referred to as one, started out simply enough. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Scooby doo team up 2![]() ![]() Back with the analysts, they discover that each person sees a different monster: Velma sees a giant spider, Robin sees an acid monster, Fred sees a vampire, etc. Ace and Scooby chase after Scarecrow in order to get the fear gas antidote, with Batman in a robin-esque costume calling himself a Dog Wonder. ![]() As Ace and Scooby are unable to see the monster (because fear gas had no effect on dogs), they were able to spy the Scarecrow using his gas in order to stop Batman from interfering with his crimes. ![]() Scooby was talking with Ace the Bat-Hound when a monster seemingly attacks the group. Meanwhile, Batman and Fred converse with Doctor Thirteen about their differing methods of discovering the crook's identities while Daphne speaks with Kaye Daye on mysteries. Velma was glad to accept it, after all the Mystery Analysts boasts such members as TV Detective Roy Raymond and Magician Detective Mysto. Robin soon thanks them for accepting their investigation he gave after beating Man-Bat. He is awoken to a meeting of the Mystery Analysts of Gotham City who listen as Velma tells a tale of one of Mystery Inc.'s mysteries. Scooby-Doo is woken by Shaggy while he dreams of being Batman's partner and defeating the Penguin, the Joker, the Riddler, and Catwoman. is at the Mystery Analysts convention, the Scarecrow unleashes his fear gas, which affects all in attendance - except Scooby-Doo and Ace the Bat-Hound, who must save the day. 10.2 Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments James bond silverfin![]() ![]() ![]() He is currently starring in Tittybangbang series 3 on BBC Three and has appeared as a panellist on QI. Subsequent television work has included writing and starring in BBC Three's Fast Show spin-off sitcom Swiss Toni. He worked as producer, writer, director and occasional guest star on Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) from 2000 to 2001. He worked with Whitehouse on the radio comedy Down the Line and is to work with him again on a television project, designed to be a spoof of celebrity travel programmes. He came to public attention as one of the main writers and performers of the BBC Two sketch show The Fast Show (1994-2000). Higson then became a plasterer before he turned to writing for Harry Enfield with Paul Whitehouse and performing comedy. ![]() They released two singles on the Specials' 2-Tone label. Higson, Cummings and Edwards formed the band The Higsons of which Higson was the lead singer from 1980 to 1986. Higson was educated at Sevenoaks School and at the University of East Anglia (where his brother has taught since 1986 and is now a professor of film studies) where he met Paul Whitehouse, David Cummings and Terry Edwards. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Lamia by Michael Gardine![]() ![]() To make matters even more confusing, though she was originally represented as a single monster, some later sources spoke of an entire class of creatures known as “lamiae” or “lamias.” Some tales describe her as having once been a beautiful woman loved by Zeus who was later punished by Zeus’ jealous wife Hera others present her as a monster sent by the gods to punish mortals who angered them. ![]() The evidence for Lamia’s mythology is sparse and contradictory. In some myths, Lamia (or a Lamia-like creature) was eventually slain by a brave hero. In later traditions, however, she would often take on the form of a beautiful woman in order to lure young men to her bed, where she would feed on their flesh. ![]() Lamia primarily hunted young children, sometimes even snatching them from their mothers’ breasts and devouring them on the spot. Usually represented as a hideous, foul-smelling creature, her most distinctive feature was her eyes, which she could remove from her head and store in a box. Lamia was a female monster or spirit who belonged to the world of Greek popular religion. ![]() ![]() Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. ![]() Many of the author's favourite motifs "appear here fully formed: cross-dressing, siblings of opposite sexes who seem like aspects of each other, royal personages (Danish) corrupted by patriarchy, young women threatened by misogynistic patriarchy, other women chained by ideals of sexual purity, wild animals, artists, and whores, as well as witches, shape-shifters, and other wielders of magic" (Orlando). Dinesen's best known work, Out of Africa, was published only three years later firmly establishing her reputation. The jacket of this edition, depicting a dramatic landscape within a Gothic architectural border, was designed by the prominent British artist Rex Whistler (1905-1944). ![]() She began drafting Seven Gothic Tales in English while still living in Kenya, eventually seeking publication as a means of alleviating her financial crises, as the English-language book market was much larger than the Danish. As a student, Dinesen had already published a number of tales in Danish under the pseudonym Osceola. Originally published in America a few months earlier, this collection of short enigmatic stories became instantly popular and a Danish translation by the author appeared in print the following year. First UK edition, first impression, of the author's first book, in an exceptionally bright and sharp example of the jacket. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The city is in decline-the Subway Vigilante is on the loose-which Lillian seems to equate with her own fall from grace. An old woman now, she roams the streets of Manhattan alone, passing landmarks public as well as private and befriending several New York characters (all too benevolent to be believed) along the way. Intercut with this narrative is the more fanciful story of Lillian’s adventures on New Year’s Eve 1984. The marriage eventually fractures, and Lillian suffers a mental breakdown. They marry, but when she becomes pregnant with their son, Johnny, she's forced to quit her job-maternity leave being a thing of the future. Though a self-styled “scoffer at love,” Lillian falls hard for Max Caputo, the head rug buyer at Macy’s. Macy’s, where she turns out witty rhymes that promote the department store on her own, she writes light verse, eventually published in several volumes. ![]() ![]() A smart, stylish, independent young woman, she lands a job at R.H. Rooney’s Lillian Boxfish comes to Manhattan in 1926 to make her mark. Rooney ( O, Democracy!, 2014, etc.) has written a lively, fictionalized version of Fishback’s story, drawing on real milestones but imagining her subject’s inner life. A poet and writer of clever, innovative ad copy, Margaret Fishback was admired in her time-the pre– Mad Men era-but is mostly forgotten now. ![]() |