![]() Salome, which stars Pacino and Jessica Chastain, is a filmed version of the play, while Wilde Salome is a documentary that captures the challenges Pacino faced when performing in the play and simultaneously directing the two features. Pacino first saw the play performed in London in 1988 with Steven Berkoff in the role of Herod, and the work and performance sparked an obsession for Pacino with the work. Wilde’s adaptation has spawned multiple stage productions, including an opera by Richard Strauss, along with influencing work by musicians including Nick Cave and U2. Salome is Oscar Wilde’s most controversial work, banned in London in the late 19th century.Ī tale of lust, greed and revenge, it follows the legend of King Herod and his desire for his young stepdaughter, Salome, and her sexual baiting of John the Baptist. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He has written other outrageous books about the Lambchop family, including Flat Stanley, Stanley and the Magic Lamp, Invisible Stanley, Stanley’s Christmas Adventure, Stanley in Space, and Stanley, Flat Again! You can learn more about Jeff Brown and Flat Stanley at Macky Pamintuan is an accomplished artist who lives in the Philippines with his wife, Aymone their baby girl, Alison and a West Highland white terrier named Winter. The Japanese Ninja Surprise Sep-2009 Book - 3 A FLAT NINJA Stanley and his brother, Arthur, are such huge fans of the movie star ninja Oda Nobu that they decide to send him something even better than fan mail - Stanley himself Soon enough, Flat Stanley is in Japan, seeing the country with hi. ![]() ![]() Jeff Brown created the beloved character of Flat Stanley as a bedtime story for his sons. ![]() ![]() Little does Hannah know that the city of excitement would spiral into a city of fear and danger. ![]() But in the end the message trumps the momentum of the story which, although horrific in its content, may leave readers wondering how Amy's feeling about all that's happened. The book reflects the journey of Hannah a country girl who’s excited to go to see her sister Sarah in London to help her with the shop that focuses on sugared candies made of violets, rose petals and Rosemary etc. Amy comes across convincingly ("When people are described as being a 'bit of a loner,' it sounds as if they're deep and mysterious, but actually all it means is that they haven't got anyone to go round with, and how sad is that?") even if readers may question whether Amy would adopt this voice for a police report ("He was my one big hope in the world and I wanted him to be everything I'd dreamed he'd be") the transcripts of e-mail exchanges read more credibly. "So, with the end of the Amy-Bethany-Lou friendship, I had to find something to replace it." In a chat room one day, she begins talking with "Zed," who claims he's 18, and decides to meet him, despite her own intuitions about the danger, plus warnings from her parents and new geeky-but-wise friend "Beaky." Zed indeed turns out to be a pervert who gives Amy a date rape drug and then, as she later recalls through "flashbacks," proceeds to photograph her naked (he does not rape her). Amy is part of a foursome of teenaged English girlfriends until one friend moves away and she becomes a third wheel. ![]() ![]() In Hooper's ( Megan) briskly paced Internet "sex-crime" novel, Amy narrates her cautionary tale as a rather unwieldy case report to a policewoman. ![]() ![]() But all too soon, he’ll ignite a literary scandal whose repercussions echo through the years. Truman’s fame is at its peak when such notable celebrities as Frank and Mia Sinatra, Lauren Bacall, and Rose Kennedy converge on his glittering Black and White Ball. ![]() But once a storyteller, always a storyteller-even when the stories aren’t his to tell. Sure of the loyalty of the man she calls “True Heart,” Babe never imagines the destruction Truman will leave in his wake. Through Babe, Truman gains an unlikely entrée into the enviable lives of Manhattan’s elite, along with unparalleled access to the scandal and gossip of Babe’s powerful circle. This diminutive golden-haired genius with a larger-than-life personality explodes onto the scene, setting Babe and her circle of Swans aflutter. But beneath this elegantly composed exterior dwells a passionate woman-a woman desperately longing for true love and connection.Įnter Truman Capote. By all appearances, Babe has it all: money, beauty, glamour, jewels, influential friends, a high-profile husband, and gorgeous homes. Guest, Gloria Guinness, and Pamela Churchill. Her flawless face regularly graces the pages of Vogue, and she is celebrated and adored for her ineffable style and exquisite taste, especially among her friends-the alluring socialite Swans Slim Keith, C. ![]() ![]() Of all the glamorous stars of New York high society, none blazes brighter than Babe Paley. ![]() ![]() ![]() … A lot of my friend cohorts back in high school joined the military, and it sort of mirrors some of their journeys. ![]() Basically, the whole oeuvre is you take a soldier through when they’re bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, and you go through the actual process of war and how they change. … This was very much a homage to military science fiction. Kameron Hurley: Dietz is your run-of-the-mill grunt in the military who signed up to get back at folks who had destroyed the city where they live. Rob Wolf: The Light Brigade is about a war as seen through the eyes of a soldier named Dietz. In her interview with Rob Wolf on New Books in Science Fiction, she discusses using a mathematician’s help to map her time-jumping plot, working with a hands-on literary agent, and making ends meet as a writer, among other things. She has received numerous awards, including two Hugo Awards, a British Science Fiction Award, and a Locus Award. The second is the story that emerges from their experience as they learn that truth-and reality itself-are two of the war’s biggest casualties. The first kind of story got Dietz, the narrator of Kameron Hurley’s military science fiction novel The Light Brigade, to enlist in a war against aliens from Mars. Some war stories emphasize heroism and a higher purpose others emphasize brutality and disillusionment. ![]() ![]() Is there anything you didn’t like about this book? The train next to the wonderful spot when Mum and Dad was young. What was your favourite part in this book? My favourite part of the book is when Dad had a zap on his bum. What is the climax of the story? When the lightning went on Dad’s bum. What problems do these characters face? They went to a picnic spot then there was bad things. Who are the main characters? Little brother, Dad and Mum. They went onto a boat and paddled all the way to a different picnic spot then Dad said “Hooray, at last, we are going to eat,” but actually, it was a dump place!Īfter lots of bad places to picnic, they went back home then he saw their house and they had a picnic spot at their house! ![]() ![]() Then they went through the wheat – the big mother and the baby and the dad and then all the mosquitoes came to the bears. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The quest for picnic perfection will delight readers in this classic Beginner Book edited by Dr. They sat on a bench, then actually it was a big picnic today and everyone came to the picnic and they left because all the people came and there were too many people. So they found another picnic spot – just between some trees. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel also bears similarity to some works by Dashiell Hammett and the name of character Nicky Belane rhymes suggestively with the name of author Mickey Spillane as well as Casablanca's main character Rick Blaine. A convoluted detective story about a hard-boiled private eye who solves his cases by waiting them out, Pulp evokes Raymond Chandler, an author who lived in Los Angeles and set stories there, as did Bukowski. He fell ill during the spring of 1993, only three-quarters of the way through Pulp. He began writing it in 1991 and encountered several problems during its creation. It was published in 1994, shortly before Bukowski's death. “Pulp is the last completed novel by Los Angeles poet and writer Charles Bukowski. Book is tight, square and firm, corners sharp, rubbed. Original quarter black cloth over red illustrated paper-covered boards, Light edge wear, particular to spine ends and corners. Unable to control his legendary facility for death-dealing, the Finnish army just turned him loose in the woods and let him hunt first the invading Russians, then the unwelcome Germans. ![]() ![]() ![]() Together they will uncover many truths to the mystery of what happened to Selene's former coven and how it relates to her own past, present, and future. Only Damian can show her that not all Carpathian men are monsters. ![]() This brings back horrific memories for Selene. Selene and her childhood friend, Vicky cast a spell to strengthen their magic when they are confronted by a monster, a vampire of legend. She has since relocated to Europe under the care of her aunt who teaches occult history at a university in Romania. Whereas his long time companion and comrade in arms, Sebastian, succumbed to his own despair and turned vampire, Damian hopes that his own willpower will be enough to allow him to meet the dawn before committing any more atrocities to his soul. He is, however, coming ever closer to passing the point of no return. In that time he has yet to find his lifemate. Keeping with the Carpathian world, this is my own story with appearances by some of Feehan's beloved characters.ĭamian Von Shrieder has been hunting vampires for the better part of a thousand years. ![]() The Universe of the Dark Series belongs to Christine Feehan. Montana Fandoms: Dark Series - Christine Feehan ![]() ![]() ![]() The plot is one that leaves the reader chuckling at every turn. ![]() He had a successful career as a journalist and poet and consequently turned to fiction and drama. It appeared in a magazine in 1887 and provides a prophetic glimpse into Wilde's genius for comic timing, dialogue and situational comedy. The Canterville Ghost was the first of Oscar Wilde's short stories to be published. ![]() Yet, the reader is totally unprepared for Oscar Wilde's brand of tongue in cheek humor as he takes all the ingredients of a traditional ghost story and turns it on its head, and creates a hilarious parody instead of a morbid saga! The story progresses with creaking floor boards, mysterious passages, dark attics, clanking chains, and weird howling. They're warned by the owner that it is haunted by a most horrifying and gruesome spirit who had once cruelly murdered his own wife. An American diplomat's family moves into an ancient stately mansion. ![]() ![]() I won’t pretend I fully understand mental illness, but I’ll be more empathetic after reading this book. ![]() I thought this was a really timely topic since so many people seem to be struggling with mental illness these days. The author is very frank about what she experiences, including days when she just can’t get out of bed. The book is a collection of essays, many of which focus on Lawson’s depression and anxiety disorders (among several other issues). Furiously Happy fits this category in spades. April’s challenge was to read a funny book since April is National Humor Month. I read Furiously Happy, which might have the best book cover ever, as part of the 2023 Thoughtful Reading Challenge. (This in no way affects the honesty of my reviews!) All commissions will be donated to the ALS Association. ![]() As an Amazon Associate I earn a small commission, at no additional cost to you, from qualifying purchases. ![]() ![]() This post may contain Amazon Affiliate links. Lawson, an award-winning blogger, holds nothing back in describing her disorders, her coping mechanisms, her family life, and her opinions on everything from the Australian outback to cats that yawn too much. Furiously Happy is Jenny Lawson’s candid and humorous memoir about her struggles with mental illness. ![]() |