![]() Detective Jonathan Graham doesn’t believe a civilian, a noblewoman at that, should be anywhere near a murder investigation, but Sophie insists on helping bring the killer to justice. Hearing of a murder in a London rookery, Sophie seizes the opportunity to prove her skills. As the conversation turns to their secret ambitions, the women form a sisterhood and a bold plan: they will make their dreams a reality, no matter the obstacles. ![]() When a stuffy ballroom at yet another Season proves to be nothing more than the usual rumor mill, Sophie seeks respite in the library alongside four other young women who, for their own reasons, are also looking for escape. ![]() But Sophie has bigger plans-she aspires to be an investigative reporter. Lady Sophronia Bremerton is a far cry from the typical debutante, but she’s the toast of London’s upper class for one simple reason: she’s a society columnist for the London Illustrated News, and the gentry loves seeing their exploits printed in the gossip pages. ![]()
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6/26/2023 0 Comments The elementals mcdowell![]() ![]() After his diagnosis, McDowell taught screenwriting at Boston University and Tufts University while continuing to write commissioned screenplays. McDowell was diagnosed with AIDS in 1994. After his death, the collection was acquired by Chicago's Northwestern University, where it went on display in 2013. His extensive and diverse collection, which reportedly filled over seventy-six boxes, included items such as death pins, photographs and plaques from infant caskets. McDowell specialized in collecting death memorabilia. ![]() ![]() McDowell and Senelick remained together for thirty years until McDowell's death. McDowell's partner was theatre historian and director Laurence Senelick, whom he met in 1969 when McDowell was a cast member of the Senelick-directed play, Bartholomew Fair. McDowell lived in Medford, Massachusetts, and maintained a residence in Hollywood with his sister Ann and the filmmaker Peter Lake. from Harvard College, and a Ph.D in English from Brandeis University in 1978, based on a dissertation entitled "American Attitudes Toward Death, 1825–1865". McDowell was born in 1950 in Enterprise, Alabama, and graduated from T.R. His best-known work is the screenplay for the Tim Burton film Beetlejuice. ![]() Michael McEachern McDowell (J– December 27, 1999) was an American novelist and screenwriter described by author Stephen King as "the finest writer of paperback originals in America today". ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Salesman broadway![]() ![]() Part of the problem is that Cromwell made a choice not to treat the flashback sequences in the play, which explain the present, as realistic but instead turns them into stylized snapshots. Truly, it’s a rich and moving star performance and the reason to see the show.Īlas, the relationship between Willy and Biff (Khris Davis) is less secure. He’s always present, huffing and puffing, improvising his way out of trouble, at least until time catches up with him, and hiding his pain. ![]() Pierce, you feel at every moment, is playing a man doing his best with the cards he was dealt. Pierce’s stellar performance avoids the problem that beset Philip Seymour Hoffman in the last Broadway revival, which was that Willy cannot be so neurotic as not be sympathetic, and it is as innovative in its own way as Brian Dennehy’s unforgettably muscular etching of Willy more than 20 years ago. ![]() (Joan Marcus)Īll of that can seen in this Cromwell’s production, featuring a spare and elliptical design from Anna Fleischle and a bluesy soundscape composed by Femi Temowo. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Shadow Magic by Joshua Khan![]() ![]() He then returned his attention to the mango. “I ain’t the captain,” Thorn shouted back. “You’re supposed to eat it, not kiss it,” the girl shouted as she waited below. ![]() He’d used up his stock at Castle Gloom months ago, and ever since he’d been recruited for this trip to the Sultanate of Fire, the thought of obtaining a new crate of that golden fruit had not been far from his mind-or his belly, which gave a gentle rumble. She tossed it up.Īh, how he’d missed the smell of fresh mango. “You can have this if you let me have a look at one.” She paddled her old skiff alongside the ship’s hull and raised a mango. Thorn leaned over the railings of the ship. “Hey! You got any zombies up on deck?” shouted the girl from her small boat. The manticore, one of the many predators of the Shardlands Gabriel Solar, fiancé to one of the Djinnic princesses K’leef, a prince and friend to Lilith and Thorn Jambiya, a prince, blind and known as the Lawgiver Let not light see my black and deep desires.īaron Sable, her adviser and loyal nobleman ![]()
6/25/2023 0 Comments Mary shelley mary wollstonecraft![]() ![]() ![]() She suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason.Īfter Wollstonecraft's death, her widower published a Memoir (1798) of her life, revealing her unorthodox lifestyle, which inadvertently destroyed her reputation for almost a century. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men but appear to be only because they lack education. Today Wollstonecraft is regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers, and feminists often cite both her life and her works as important influences.ĭuring her brief career she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Until the late 20th century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconventional personal relationships at the time, received more attention than her writing. Mary Wollstonecraft ( / ˈ w ʊ l s t ən k r æ f t/, also UK: /- k r ɑː f t/ 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Two more novels showing how Jimmy Gold rejects his materialistic life and becomes his “essential self” again are contained in numerous meticulously hand written notebooks secured in a hefty safe, along with numerous short stories and even some poems – everything John Rothstein has written since his self-imposed retirement. What Morrie discovers after holding Rothstein at gunpoint is that the known Jimmy Gold novels – including the third one where Jimmy appears to have sold out – are just part of the literary cycle that John Rothstein has conceived in his Runner series. ![]() When Morrie and two thick headed accomplices break into Rothstein’s remote New Hampshire farm, they are looking for fabled hoarded cash, yes, but Morrie also wants answers from his literary idol: “Why in God’s name couldn’t you leave Jimmy Gold alone? Why did you have to push his face down in the dirt like you did?. But the reclusive author hasn’t published anything for decades, and Morris Bellamy, small time criminal, is incensed. His iconic anti-hero, Jimmy Gold (whose catchphrase is “Shit don’t mean shit”) has resonated with readers like Holden Caulfield a generation before. The story centers around writer John Rothstein, who is considered by some to be one of America’s greatest authors, akin to Hemingway, Salinger, Vonnegut, Steinbeck, Roth. A blood drenched, visceral, scary love letter to literature. Finders Keepers is Stephen King’s love letter to literature. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments A ferry of bones & gold![]() ![]() ![]() * The required number of miles for members who will not manage to reach at least 4 flights with AEGEAN and/or Olympic Air until 31.05.23, is 48,000. To retain your Gold Tier, you have a fixed 12-month period from the date of your upgrade or renewal of your tier to collect 12,000 Tier Miles, including 4 flights with Aegean and/or Olympic Air, or** collect a total of 70,000 Tier Miles, regardless of which airline you choose to fly with. Whichever you do first will get you there. To upgrade from Silver to the Gold Tier, all you need to do is fly Aegean or Olympic Air at least four times and earn 24,000 Tier Miles within 12 months or* collect a total 70,000 Tier Miles, regardless of which airline you choose to fly with. ![]() Moreover, you are entitled to the Star Alliance Gold status which ensures a seamless and enhanced travel experience within the Star Alliance network. Going Gold is a serious upgrade, so we add on even more benefits to help you make the most of every trip, with exclusive benefits at the airport, in flight and beyond. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Gtd book![]() ![]() Roy Baumeister has done interesting research backing this up, showing that incomplete tasks limit our available focus. When we are trying to constantly keep track of everything we have to do inside our heads, that will interrupt and distract our focus. If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.ĭavid Allen says the cause of our modern overwhelm is simple: Our brains were never designed to hold a lot of information at one time.įor example, if you’re in the middle of writing your PhD paper, but your train of thought is constantly being broken when you suddenly remember that you have to file your taxes… or water your plants… or buy your friend a gift… or walk your cat… then you can’t be very productive! Relieve stress by creating an “external brain” ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Reading the divine comedy![]() ![]() But surely it is unique to African American rewritings of Dante to suggest that the Divine Comedy is itself a kind of slave narrative. In many ways, the African American reception of Dante follows a recognizable narrative of reception: the Romantic rehabilitation of the author the late-nineteenth-century glorification of Dante as a radical writer of reform the twentieth-century modernist rewriting and the adaptation of the Divine Comedy into the prose of the contemporary novel. ![]() Dennis Looney examines how African American authors have read, interpreted, and responded to Dante and his work from the late 1820s to the present. Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy is a literary-historical study of the many surprising ways in which Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy have assumed a position of importance in African American culture. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Recently, Euphoria and Bombshell star Alanna Ubach has been cast in the show for season two as a recurring guest star, she will portray Carol Atkinson, known as Black Market Carol, a fellow flight attendant who doesn't like Cassie. Colleague/government operative Shane (Griffin Matthews)īut there are also some new faces to look forward to.Her lawyer best friend Annie (Zosia Mamet).Cassie's fellow flight attendant/informant Megan (Rosie Perez).Naturally, Kaley Cuoco will be back as the lovable but troubled, Cassie Bowden. The Flight Attendant season 2 cast: Who's in it? So it looks like it's all fun and games for the gang, even if you have to have a bit of a strong stomach. In one, Kaley returned to her bathroom to find it coated in fake cockroaches designed to freak her out. Filming is currently underway, with Kaley posting photos from the set – particularly the pranks the cast and crew are pulling on each other in between takes. ![]() |