![]() ![]() Eventually, his sons-in-law band together and overthrow him, so Leir is forced to flee to France. Leir also only asks for 100 knights for his entourage, which his wicked daughters reduce to zero after a couple of years. The primary plot of the play follows the history closely: King Leir has three daughters, two of whom flatter him to receive their shares of the kingdom, and one who truly loves him but refuses to play his games. ![]() These coinciding milestones may contribute to why Shakespeare peppered the play with so many references to Roman gods and goddesses. Supposedly, King Leir of the Britons ruled in the 8th century B.C., which is also about the time that Rome was being founded. The inspiration for Shakespeare’s play comes from Geoffrey of Monmouth’s book, published in 1136, called History of the Kings of Britain.
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![]() ![]() It’s quite amusing to think that a book about developing video games could come back to the work I do. There were a few themes I found that matched with other projects I work on and though they may not be new, they are still interesting to learn about from different perspectives. If you work in tech, like I do, then it’s very likely that Blood, Sweat and Pixels will resonate with you as well. Not only do I love playing a lot of games a lot of the time, I am also fascinated by how they get made, which brought me to reading a book called “Blood, Sweat, and Pixels” that examines the human stories behind video game development. I mention video games because I am (perhaps not surprisingly in my line of work) a big fan. Regardless of the industry in which you work, every project you work on will have creative and technical logistics that need to be overcome whether that’s selling services, making cars or developing video games. ![]() ![]() My Autobiography has to be read by all who are interested in the movies, but it is far from the contribution to film history it should have been, or that Chaplin could have made it had he so desired. “The Chaplin who comes through in these pages seems to me a cold and essentially self-centered man” Chaplin is currently a different person from the Charlie who first made movie audiences laugh and cry half a century ago, he is still unable to tell the truth about his parents and childhood, and about his strange ambivalence toward Communism. ![]() It is noteworthy that My Autobiography is by Charles, not Charlie Chaplin.Īlthough Mr. ![]() Highlights from the Salinger Q&A can be found here.Ĭhaplin’s Autobiography: Is Disappointing and Defective As Film History And Mediocre As Literature The film advances the theory that the author never fully recovered from the heartbreak of having Oona O’Neill (daughter of playwright Eugene O’Neill) choose Chaplin over him. The following text is excerpted from a review that was first published in Films in Review magazine in December, 1964. ![]() ![]() The recent release of Salinger draws attention to a historical figure not widely associated with the eponymous author: Charlie Chaplin. ![]() ![]() ![]() The narrative switches several times between Ninny's story set between World War I and World War II, and Evelyn's life in 1980s Birmingham. The film's subplot concerns Evelyn's dissatisfaction with her marriage, her life, her growing confidence, and a developing friendship with Ninny. Over several encounters, Ninny tells Evelyn about the long-abandoned town of Whistle Stop and its residents. Evelyn's husband, Ed, has an aunt living there. It was nominated for two Oscars at the 64th Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress (Tandy) and Best Adapted Screenplay.Įvelyn Couch, a timid housewife in her 40s, meets elderly Ninny Threadgoode at an Alabama nursing home. The film was released in theaters in the United States on December 27, 1991, garnered positive reviews from critics and was a box office hit, grossing $119.4 million on a $11 million budget. Written by Flagg and Carol Sobieski, and starring Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker and Cicely Tyson, the film tells the story of a housewife who, unhappy with her life, befriends an elderly lady in a nursing home and is enthralled by the tales she tells of people she used to know. Fried Green Tomatoes is a 1991 American comedy-drama film directed by Jon Avnet and based on Fannie Flagg's 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, though, I can’t imagine this book with any other name. ![]() The working title was The Devil and the Rose, which my agent loved but others thought wasn’t specific enough. I love the title, but it was a mess getting there: my team and I had a document with 75 options, and we went back and forth for weeks. On another, it was customary at the time for condemned prisoners to pay a monetary tip to the executioner-a weird, grim factoid that hints at how some of my characters seal their own fates. (My friends know I'm an incorrigible pun-lover.) On one level, my spies are searching for heretics and traitors, so the secrets they uncover will tip off the hangman about his next victim. A Tip for the Hangman is a pun to that effect. The goal of the title was to sweep the reader up into the dangerous world of Elizabethan espionage: full of secrets, impossible choices, and people who can be swayed for the right price. How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? When not writing, she enjoys good theater, bad puns, and fancy jackets.Įpstein new book, A Tip for the Hangman, is her first novel. A Michigan native, she now lives in Chicago, where she works as a copywriter. in creative writing and Renaissance literature from the University of Michigan. in fiction from Northwestern University and a B.A. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gasser teaches music fans how to become engaged listeners and provides them with the tools to enhance their musical preferences. Using easy-to-follow notated musical scores, Dr. He sheds light on why babies can clap along to rhythmic patterns and reveals the reason behind why different cultures around the globe identify the same kinds of music as happy, sad, or scary. Gasser delves into the science, psychology, and sociology that explains why humans love music so much how our brains process music and why you may love Queen but your best friend loves Kiss. Nolan Gasser-a composer, pianist, and musicologist, and the chief architect of the Music Genome Project, which powers Pandora Radio-breaks down what musical taste is, where it comes from, and what our favorite songs say about us.ĭr. In this sweeping and authoritative book, Dr. But what is it that makes music so universally beloved and have such a powerful effect on us? From the chief architect of the Pandora Radio’s Music Genome Project comes a definitive and groundbreaking examination of why we respond to music the way we do.Įveryone loves music. ![]() ![]() I'm legitimately interested to see how this goes. ![]() ![]() Especially considering the timing and the reason and taking into account previous X-Men canon. The team dynamics we're great, I could even almost get by the whole bit where Jubilee now has a baby, but I'm a little lost as to why the heck Rachel and Storm were butting heads so much. 1 eBook : Edmondson, Nathan, Wood, Brian, Andrade, Filipe, Medina, Paco, Barberi, Carlo, Johnson, Dave, Andrade, Filipe. I love the fact that we have a team of females here and that the team, and the comic itself, is still called X-Men. Review 2: We've got a good set up here and I'm just curious. While I wasn't really up to speed on much of what was happening here, it was well-written and illustrated, and I would definitely consider picking up more. I also liked that it got me back up to speed on Jubilee, who was a favorite character of mine, but had sort of dropped off the radar (and apparently become a vampire. The X-Women finally get their own book, from critically acclaimed superstars Brian Wood (X-MEN, ULTIMATE X-MEN, DMZ, The Massive) and Olivier Coipel (AVX. I am glad that it just sort of happens that way, and other characters are involved, albeit peripherally, so it doesn't seem like they are doing it for PR reasons. A lot of people really like that this is an all-female team, though there are almost always strong female characters in X-Men books, so that's not terribly important to me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Theophilus Mirkwood ought to be insulted. Forsaking all she knows of propriety, Martha approaches her neighbor, a London exile with a wicked reputation, and offers a strictly business proposition: a month of illicit interludes…įor a fee. After all, if she has an heir on the way, her future will be secured. Newly widowed and desperate to protect her estate and beloved servants from her malevolent brother in law, Martha Russell conceives a daring plan. In Cecilia Grant’s emotionally rich and deeply passionate Regency romance debut, a deal with a rumored rogue turns a proper young woman into…Ī Lady Awakened. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Baby." He said my name like a purr that reached the vertebrae of my spine. See?”ĭex's thumbs tipped my chin back so that I could look at his face-at his beautiful, scruffy face. “I’m thinking that I love you so much it scares me. I held my hands out for him to see how badly they were shaking. In this case, I’d take his nipple piercings. I had my entire life ahead of me, and I needed to quit being a wuss and grab life by the balls. For so long I’d been happy to just be alive but now.now I had Dex. What kind of life was I living if I let my fears steer me? This was a gift I’d forgotten to appreciate lately. I loved him and sometimes there were consequences of it that were scary, but it-the emotion itself-wasn't. My bones and heart knew that there was nothing for me to fear. That didn't mean that he was the only one who knew how to give. ![]() Well, there were three other words I'd like to hear but I'd take these from him. "That's my girl."Īfter all the crap that I'd gone through today, there couldn't have been three better words to hear. ![]() It was everything I’d wanted.Įach of his thumbs curved over the shells of my ears. I don't know how to explain it-it was like Christmas morning when you were a kid. It pulsed, full of life and warmth and gummy bears and glitter. “My rib cage clenched all of the organs and muscles within it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is what has enabled his poems to resound in every age and every place. One Hundred Poems of Tukaram is a translation of selected poems of this. Tukaram's poetry hold its rejuvenating powers even in the turbulent times of our own twenty-first century. On every word of these poems, the reader gets the feeling that what is being expressed is exactly their own heart's cry- no matter at which place and in which times they are born! Chokhoba's expression becomes the expression of each of his reader overcoming all the barriers of social, cultural, historical and geographical restrains. Tukaram was a sixteenth century Indian poet who challenged the norms of the day, whether literary, social or religious in his poems that not only energized a decaying society but also influenced the centuries to come. ![]() So strong is the poignant self-expression of his poems that it find its resonance even in our own digital age! His poems have withstood the onslaught of Time for last seven hundred years to become a timeless classic of Indian poetry. Expressions of the human soul that dares to aspire against their 'lot'!!!Ĭhokha Mela was a thirteenth century poet from India, who was born in the most downtrodden community, yet rose to become one of the most significant poets in Indian literary history. ![]() |