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Mitford love in a cold climate6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Special mention goes to Jemima Rooper and Anna Popplewell as sex-mad innocents Jassy and Victoria. ![]() ![]() Still, if the script is a little dodgy, the cast is just about perfect-Alan Bates, as Uncle Matthew, prowls the floor at a deb dance like a Rottweiler on parade Celia Imbrie is delightfully distracted as Aunt Sadie Elisabeth Dermot Walsh and Rosamund Pike are charming as lovely, clueless Linda and the all-seeing narrator, Fanny. ![]() Do admit, Fanny! Mitford loyalists will mourn the loss of Uncle Davey they may also wonder why, say, on the page it's Aunt Sadie who can't talk horticulture with a dinner guest because she prefers to leave such matters to the gardeners whereas on the screen it's daughter Linda who can't identify the soup because she prefers to leave them to the cook. My brilliant wife, a fiction editor by trade, spotted a brief two-character scene that didn't seem to make much sense it turned out to be a collage of the zingier lines from three different scenes involving two sets of characters and spread out over twenty pages. Nancy was the first to exploit the glittering vein of inside jokes and family legend that's sustained the Mitford industry for over fifty years, and when her two most popular books, the titular "Cold Climate" and the earlier "Pursuit of Love," were "adapted" (sliced and diced and drastically condensed) to fit this stingy two-episode format, there were bound to be a few loose ends. ![]()
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Books similar to the couple next door6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() I've been guilty of the 'cleaning-crime' on occasion. That excerpt was simply a fun 'comic' release!!! She gets a bucket of warm water and a cloth and sits down on the floor by the front door, begins to clean it, getting deeper into the grooves. The scrolled ironwork is covered in dust and had to be scrubbed by hand. She starts in the front entryway, cleaning the antique grate thatĬovers the air duct. I started laughing - (to myself of course -my husband was sleeping).when the character, Anne, had a 'cleaning episode' moment. This is a question for my women friends: When you are stressed, do you start cleaning? If ever fueled with anxiety, do you need to clean something, even if your house is already spotless? Really.I'm not sure if I'm laughing at myself - or the story - or both!Ī few random thoughts - as you know I'm not going to give anything away: **HYSTERICAL**!!!! SO MUCH FUN!!!!! I could roll on the floor laughing right now. It's 3am.I just finish reading this -'sleep-killer'-story. ZERO SPOILERS!!!! ZERO SPOILERS!!!! LESS THAN ZERO!!! SAFE TO READ!!!! ![]()
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Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet6/27/2023 ![]() Sweet has illustrated more than eighty children’s books and was awarded the Caldecott Honor for The Right Word and A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, both written by Jen Bryant. She researched her informational books by traveling and noting the details of everyday life. Sweet has used mixed media, including sketchbooks, ink, watercolor, acrylic, photography, cartoons, newspaper articles, and multiple typefaces. She studied at Endicott College and Kansas City Art Institute. In her teens, she attended art school, focusing on pottery, but when she became acquainted with Maurice Sendak’s drawings in Little Bear, she realized she wanted to illustrate children’s books. ![]() ![]() “ Melissa Sweet was born in Ridgewood, New Jersey. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Şair'in şiirleri, kronolojik ve tema bakımından incelendiğinde istisna şiirler dışında birçoğunun şairin hayatındaki değişmelerle örtüştüğü sonucuna varılmıştır. Buradan hareketle şairin hayatı, eserleri ve şiirleri üzerine bir inceleme yapılmaya çalışılmıştır. Alanyazın incelendiğinde, Ziya Osman Saba'nın şiirleri üzerine genel ifadelerden öteye gitmeyen yorumlar haricinde, yapılmış çalışmalar sınırlıdır. Şair, "Yedi Meşale" topluluğundayken yazdığı şiirlerinden ziyade son dönem şiirleriyle bilinmektedir. Araştırma nitel bir çalışma olup doküman incelemesi modeliyle bilgilere ulaşılmıştır. Bu çalışmanın amacı, Ziya Osman Saba'nın edebiyatımızdaki yerini tespit etmek ve şiirlerini tema ve dönem olarak değerlendirerek incelemektir. ![]()
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Platos ion6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Illustration by Valerie Woelfel, with refinements by Jill Curry Robbins. ![]() ![]() Vatican Museums, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano, 16570. To be contrasted is what happens in Iliad 1, where the tears of the old father Chryses are harshly disrespected by Agamemnon.Īttic red-figure neck-amphora: Departure of Hector, detail, Priam in tears. The tears of the old father Priam, pictured here at the moment of Hector’s final farewell to his parents, will in the end be respected by Achilles in Iliad 24. And it is easier to discredit such imitation when you hear a rhapsode paraphrase Homer in prose. For Plato, mimesis is not a re-enactment as it is for rhapsodes: it is mere imitation. ![]()
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Diane Arbus by Marvin Israel6/26/2023 ![]() In 2006, the motion picture Fur, starring Nicole Kidman as Arbus, presented a fictional version of her life story.Īrbus was born Diane Nemerov to David Nemerov and Gertrude Russek Nemerov, a Jewish couple who lived in New York City and owned Russek's, a famous Fifth Avenue department store. Between 20, Arbus and her work were the subjects of another major traveling exhibition, Diane Arbus Revelations. The book accompanying the exhibition, Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph, edited by Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel and first published in 1972 was still in print by 2006, having become the best selling photography monograph ever. Millions viewed traveling exhibitions of her work in 1972–1979. ![]() In 1972, a year after she died by suicide (there exists a popular cliche of her being the Sylvia Plath of photographers), Arbus became the first American photographer to have photographs displayed at the Venice Biennale. Her work has been described as consisting of formal manipulation characterized by blatant sensationalism. Diane Arbus (/diːˈæn ˈɑːrbəs/ Ma– July 26, 1971) was an American photographer noted for photographs of marginalized people-dwarfs, giants, transgender people, nudists, circus performers-and others whose normality was perceived by the general populace as ugly or surreal. ![]()
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Sookie stackhouse book 96/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Tara calls Holly Cleary, a witch, to ask if Sookie can come over to ask about witches. In Dead to the World, Sookie meets up with Tara on the road, and she is introduces Sookie to Claudine Crane, during their conversation, she asks Tara does she know a Witch. Sookie meets Tara who is dating Franklin, she is at Club Dead, an actual nightclub, and the two drink and dance. In Club Dead, she then opens up a clothing store called Tara's Togs, and then briefly dates the vampire Franklin Mott. ![]() Bill informs Sookie that he owns the strip mall where Tara's store is located. In Living Dead in Dallas, Tara is engaged to Eggs Tallie, but this relationship ends when a secret sex party they attend, has a bad outcome. ![]() In the fourth book Dead to the World, it is revealed that Tara has a sister and a brother who left home/town as soon as they could. In the television series, it is revealed that Sookie and Tara maintain a close relationship because Tara accepted Sookie for what she was, and as a child Tara would run to Sookie's house to escape beatings from her mother. In the novels, not much information is given about Tara's family, except for the abuse by her alcoholic parents, and her mother in particular. ![]()
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Thomas Clayton by Randy J. Harvey6/26/2023 ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Buch. C.-once an innocent-will have to stand strong to protect the people he has come to love. Boats's involvement with a corrupt business cartel could cost lives, and T. grows into a man, he begins to realize the danger Boats could bring upon the Hagans and T. Something criminal is going down in their tiny Oklahoma town, and Boats is at the center of it. is haunted by the loss of his family and the oppressive Boats. is taken in by Buck and Rosie Hagan, a local foreman and his wife.Įven so, T. There's a light at the end of the tunnel when T. All the time, though, Boats is on his back. He makes friends and begins to experience new things-notably drugs, music, and girls. He joins up with the high school football team just to get out of the house. In a new town, at a new school, under a hostile roof, T. Boats seems to have a vendetta against young T. With no family to care for him, he's forced to live with the dreaded "Bastard Boats," his father's half brother. Thomas Clayton Gurley loses his mother, father, and sister to a tragic car accident when he is only fifteen. ![]()
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Ancestor trouble book review6/25/2023 ![]() Newton understood the physical characteristics she shared with her relatives, e.g., her cherished Granny’s bad posture, or “hunch.” But, she wondered, “Beyond environment, were all of us who came from this tangle of acrimony and mental illness - also struggling against something innate?” Was there, as Granny said, something “hiding in my blood”? In moments of self-awareness, she began to consider the possibility of behavioral continuities within her lineage, which had always been veiled in secrecy. ![]() ![]() She concedes that, at the time, she was prone to “barn-burner rages” as a by-product of her dysfunctional upbringing. ![]() Newton, who knew nothing of this 1969 episode because it happened before she was born - threatened to hurl herself out of a window during college over a spat with a boyfriend. ![]()
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Le guin the ones who walk away6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Is the happiness of thousands worth the suffering of a single innocent person? Of one innocent child? Think about that. The Hainish Cycle reflects the anthropologist's experience of immersing themselves in new strange cultures since most of their main characters and narrators (Le Guin favoured the first-person narration) are envoys from a humanitarian organization, the Ekumen, sent to investigate or ally themselves with the people of a different world and learn their ways. Her interest in non-Western philosophies was reflected in works such as "Solitude" and The Telling but even more interesting are her imagined societies, often mixing traits extracted from her profound knowledge of anthropology acquired from growing up with her father, the famous anthropologist, Alfred Kroeber. She was known for her treatment of gender ( The Left Hand of Darkness, The Matter of Seggri), political systems ( The Telling, The Dispossessed) and difference/otherness in any other form. Her recent publications include the novel Lavinia, an essay collection, Cheek by Jowl, and The Wild Girls. ![]() ![]() Le Guin published twenty-two novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, etc. ![]() |