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But on his trip, Jesse’s helicopter crashes and he disappears, presumably forever. He’s something of an adventurer, and he doesn’t hesitate to head off to a remote area of Alaska to photograph the terrain, even though it means missing their one-year anniversary. Jump ahead a few years later, and now Emma and Jesse (Luke Bracey, the Point Break remake) are newly married, living in California, and very happy. With a plot that even Nicholas Sparks would think was too unbelievable, the film centers on Emma ( Hamilton’s Phillipa Soo), who was fortunate enough to meet her perfect guy, Jesse, at their New England high school, leaving her best guy friend, Sam, pining for her from afar because he’s too much of a wuss to tell her how he feels. Ever wonder what happens to a film that breaks out of Lifetime/Hallmark Channel jail? Me neither, but apparently one such film is One True Loves, from director Andy Fickman ( Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, Race to Witch Mountain, Playing with Fire) and co-writers Taylor Jenkins Reid and Alex Jenkins Reid (adapting Taylor’s novel). Liberty's Daughters by Mary Beth Norton5/28/2023 Professor Norton went to original sources, studying the private papers of more than 450 American families - urban and rural black and white, Northern and Southern, rich, and poor. The historians who perpetuate the opposite picture evidently neglegted to find out how the Colonial women themselves viewed their status, she contends. Prior to the revolution, she protests, they were not relatively equal partners in the home, didn't take part in business affairs, had rigidly defined gender roles, and lacked, a feeling of self-worth. Taking issue with influential histories - and indeed, the pictures she finds in most books on Colonial and post-Revolutionary America - this professor of history at Cornell combats the idea that Colonial women shared a halcyon era of equality with men before sinking into second-class citizenship and the Victorian vapors of the 19th century. The role of womenin America before, during, and after the revolution, challenging some widely held assumptions in the process. Behave sapolsky goodreads5/28/2023 Couple that with the second reason - for the majority of its colonial and independent history, America has had a moving frontier luring those whose extreme prickly optimism made merely booking passage to the New World insufficiently novel - and you've got America the individualistic. And who were the immigrants? Those in the settled world who were cranks, malcontents, restless, heretical, black sheep, hyperactive, hypomanic, misanthropic, itchy, unconventional, yearning to be rich, yearning to be out of their damn boring repressive little hamlet, yearning. Currently, 12 percent of Americans are immigrants, another 12 percent are children of immigrants, and everyone else except for the 0.9 percent pure Native Americans descend from people who emigrated within the last five hundred years. “Why should people in one part of the globe have developed collectivist cultures, while others went individualist? The United States is the individualism poster child for at least two reasons. Toews miriam5/27/2023 Loewen’s daughter, who was the founder of Loewen Windows lumber business and a respected entrepreneur. The first settlers, Klaas Reimer, had come to Manitoba from Ukraine in 1974. Miriam is related to the first setters of Steinbach as a direct descendant through her dad, Melvin Toews. She was raised in her hometown by her Mennonite parents, who belonged to Kleine Gemeinde. Miriam has said her experience of working in the film enabled her to write her book called Irma Voth.Īuthor Miriam was born in 1964 in Steinbach, Manitoba. It was one of the factors that helped the Carlos Reygadas film win the Jury Prize at the Cannes Festival in 2007. Her role in the movie was a very important one and praised by many. Besides writing, Miriam has also acted in a movie called Silent Light. She has also been the finalist for Scotiabank Giller Award on two occasions. Miriam has won many literary prizes for her work, including the Findley Award and the Governor General’s Award. She is particularly popular for writing the All My Puny Sorrows, A Complicated Kindness, Irma Voth, etc. Miriam Toews is a popular Canadian author, who has written several widely successful standalone novels. Killing for Company by Brian Masters5/27/2023 So who is it? That would be Dennis Nilsen, who murdered at least 15 people and disposed of their bodies in the most gruesome fashion. If you haven’t seen it, it is a very good series that you should watch). In May 2018 one of these infamous serial killers died, resulting in people wanting to know more and him and his killing, leading to books and a television series about him (Des, starring David Tennant. They have always been a fascination for many, including me, for many reasons including how their minds work and the reasoning behind their crimes, they are made of stuff that fiction writers wouldn’t dream of (and have inspired many of your favourite horror films). Serial killers have been part of popular culture since the 1970s, gaining media attention and the spotlight but have been around a lot longer, possibly starting in 1888 with Jack the Ripper. 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That would be horrific enough, but there’s more-Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather’s journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rants…until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he described for herself.Īlone in the woods with her dog, Mouse finds herself face to face with a series of impossible terrors-because sometimes the things that go bump in the night are real, and they’re looking for you. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. After all, how bad could it be?Īnswer: pretty bad. When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods in this chilling novel that reads like The Blair Witch Project meets The Andy Griffith Show. The Making of Star Wars by J.W. Rinzler5/27/2023 First, he undertook a book on Revenge of the Sith, which was in production at the time, but eventually, he pitched George Lucas on doing one on A New Hope. The author spoke to IGN recently about the process of writing The Making of Aliens, and the challenges Cameron and Hurd faced while bringing their vision to the screen.įrom Star Wars to AlienRinzler began working at Lucasfilm in 2001 and was hired as the nonfiction editor, which is what led to his penning what would become the acclaimed Making of books on the Original Trilogy. Rinzler is well known among fans of behind-the-scenes filmmaking tomes, having authored the definitive making of books on the original Star Wars films as well as a variety of other works on iconic movies like Planet of the Apes, the Indiana Jones series, and Alien. And now the detailed story of how Aliens was created, including the many ups and downs Cameron and his producer Gale Anne Hurd faced, has been told in Titan Books’ The Making of Aliens by J.W. Of course, 34 years later Aliens is a bona fide classic itself, a worthy successor to the original Alien that not only continued the story of Sigourney’s Weaver’s Ellen Ripley, giving her an emotional arc that she was lacking in the first film, but which also fleshed out the world of the Xenomorphs in way that ensured that Alien would become a franchise for decades to come. The mists of avalon mistress of magic5/27/2023 She has strong convictions and even a few regrets especially for her family and the strains put on them by their fates. Viviane is strong, not likeable, but admirable. Especially when she finds out she’s really just a pawn for Viviane, her sister and priestess of Avalon, who has already once married her off to an older man and plans to marry her to the man who will be high king so she can bear him a son. Igraine, the eventual wife of Uther Pendragon and the mother of King Arthur, is miserable and it’s hard to blame her. Ĭharacter-wise - I love the strong women. If you want a more detailed description, I give you this. It closely follows with the generally known legend and all the characters are there. It may be a little disjointed but I’ll try to pull it back together at the end when I finish up this little experiment.įirst, for those unfamiliar with this book, The Mists of Avalon is a re-telling of Arthurian legend from the perspective of the women. Over the course of the seven weeks I spent reading The Mists of Avalon, I started writing down what I liked/didn’t like about this book and a few thoughts that I didn’t want to slip away. A court of flames and silver5/27/2023 Where is Jennifer Ikeda or Amanda Leigh Cobb? And the key to halting them might very well rely on Cassian and Nesta facing their haunting pasts.Īgainst the sweeping backdrop of a world seared by war and plagued with uncertainty, Nesta and Cassian battle monsters from within and without as they search for acceptance - and healing - in each other's arms. Meanwhile, the treacherous human queens who returned to the Continent during the last war have forged a dangerous new alliance, threatening the fragile peace that has settled over the realms. The fire between them is undeniable and only burns hotter as they are forced into close quarters with each other. But her temper isn't the only thing Cassian ignites. The one person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-scarred warrior whose position in Rhysand and Feyre's Night Court keeps him constantly in Nesta's orbit. Worse, she can't seem to move past the horrors of the war with Hybern and all she lost in it. And ever since being forced into the Cauldron and becoming High Fae against her will, she's struggled to find a place for herself within the strange, deadly world she inhabits. Nesta Archeron has always been prickly-proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive. Maas' sexy, richly imagined series continues with the journey of Feyre's fiery sister, Nesta. |