![]() ![]() As we all know, this journey ended in a disaster which resulted in the death of 1,517 people. Apmarks the 100th anniversary of the sailing of the Titanic. I’ve seen a spate of books taking place on THE ship. Recently though, my hopes have been raised. I read the The Windflower by Laura London, which is considered by many to be among the best pirate books and while I liked it, it did not convince me to search out other novels starring men of the high seas. That might be because I missed the pirate craze of the 80’s (and can’t say I am shedding any tears over it). I love the idea of shipboard romance but given the slim pickings in this setting, I think I may be in a pretty small group of readers. Then there is Rachel Gibson’s Lola Carlyle Reveals All and Burnfrom Linda Howard. Christina Skye’s Going Overboard is campy but fun. The much better Whirlwind from Cathy Hake and the lovely Imagine from Jill Barnett. There is the mediocre Moriah’s Mutiny from Elizabeth Bevarly. My list of shipboard romances is relatively small. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Producer Pat Sandys of London Weekend Television first approached Prichard and the Christie estate with a researched, detailed plan to film the novels Why Didn't They Ask Evans? and The Seven Dials Mystery in the early 1980s. In addition to its availability on VHS and DVD, the series began to be released on Blu-ray Disc in October 2014, marking its 30th anniversary.Īgatha Christie had never been very happy with most filmed adaptations of her works, and according to her grandson Mathew Prichard, who handled her estate after her death, she "did not care much for television", either. Bowen, Julia Jones, Alan Plater, Ken Taylor and Jill Hyem, and the series was produced by George Gallaccio. All twelve original Miss Marple Christie novels were dramatised. It aired from 26 December 1984 to 27 December 1992 on BBC1. Miss Marple, titled Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the series, is a British television series based on the Miss Marple murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie, starring Joan Hickson in the title role. ![]() ![]() ![]() I am an educator, I run the Book Club at our high school, I also run a Booktok and Bookstagram page. I’ll preface this by saying I am an avid reader. This review is going to focus more on the narrator of this audiobook- Megan Trout. ![]() This spooky, sapphic retelling of The Great God Pan is it. She no longer wonders if she wants to leave.but if she can.Īfter Rules for Vanishing, I would trust just about any YA horror KAM writes to be right up my alley. With each twisted revelation, Helen questions what she knows about Harrow, her family, and even herself. ![]() Why is the house built like a labyrinth? What is digging the holes that appear in the woods each night? And why does the house itself seem to be making her sick? Helen knows that if she is going to survive the year, she needs to uncover the secrets of Harrow. For as long as she can remember, Harrow has haunted Helen's dreams-and now those dreams have become a waking nightmare. The inheritance comes with one condition: She must stay on the grounds of Harrow for one full year, or she'll be left with nothing. So when her grandfather dies, she's shocked to learn that he has left everything-the house, the grounds, and the money-to her. Helen Vaughan doesn't know why she and her mother left their ancestral home at Harrowstone Hall, called Harrow, or why they haven't spoken to their extended family since. ![]() The Haunting of Hill House meets Knives Out in a bid for an inheritance that will leave Helen Vaughan either rich.or dead. ![]() ![]() any issues addressed in the film haven’t gone away. ![]() The message, such as it is, is about the need for action. ![]() The film is about a multiplicity of voices, so even if you hear some words, it’s enough. I hoped the words could work subliminally. She wrote: “I wanted a driving, rhythmic track to run simultaneously with speeches, so they didn’t have to be listened to. I could not have imagined all the ways in which it would force me to rethink myself.” Lizzie Borden originally planned to name Born in Flames after Les Guérillères, before settling on the title of the song Mayo Thompson wrote for her film. But as I really had no answers, the work presented itself to me as an open experiment. ![]() I wanted to follow its questions into visual language and radical feminist transformation. I was and still am enthralled with its way around language and form. In relation to her film Oriana, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz reflected: “I have been in love with this text for a very long time, since I first read it at nineteen. “They say, If I take over the world, let it be to dispossess myself of it immediately, let it be to forge new links between myself and the world.” -Monique Wittig, Les GuérillèresĪs part of UC Berkeley’s conference on Monique Wittig (1935–2003), we present two feature film responses to Les Guérillères, Wittig’s 1969 experimental novel. ![]() ![]() Shingles and branches swirled by on howling gusts, but he heard nothing – not the slightest sound. He lost all consciousness and slipped into another realm. Down crashed the tree on the Dooley home, smashing the porch roof and crushing John beneath the rubble. Scarcely had he stepped out the door when lightning cracked from the sky and struck a nearby oak. To be absolutely truthful, he never even made it off the porch. Actually, he never made it to the barn to saddle up his horse. However, luck was not on his side that night, for poor John never made it to town. While hail pummeled the frozen fields, and sleepless farmers shivered in their beds, clutching blankets to their chins, John Dooley strode out his kitchen door to brave the storm. And when her mother went into labor, her father grabbed his greatcoat to fetch the doctor from Zumbro Falls. She was so tiny she hardly seemed human.īut despite the local rumors, the child came forth into life as all children do. For they couldn’t believe the baby was destined for this world. They claimed the storm had caught the stork and whirled him off course. "Nothing could have flown straight in that wind, they all declared. East it flew, and then it hastened west, and then it twisted north and looped back again. Hail exploded from the starless sky, and the silver wind sang wildly. And no one, not even the old-timers, had ever seen its like. For on the night she was born, a storm swept into the valley. ![]() A mysterious wind blew her into this world – or so they often whispered. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe it’s because we see Starscream has found something very interesting. You also get an idea of how serious things are when the Decepticons are dropping the stealth campaign because they don’t care anymore. There’s a good moment between Verity and Jimmy, and I like how Hunter is trying to find out the name of Ratchet’s group. What they got right: The fan is under attack now. And we also get a glimpse of the boss of the PDA’s previous owner when the cops find his corpse. We also see one of the pictures, a Decepticon fortress embedded but easily spotted. Luckily so do the Autobots, who chase off Thundercracker and the Battlechargers, but Prowl is not happy about all the protocols Ratchet has broken until he says two words: siege mode. Jimmy tries to calm her down while Hunter tries to learn more about what’s going on, but the Decepticons catch up to them. Evading their pursuers for the time being, Verity has to get out and get her wits. “I’m telling you we never worked for Michael Bay!”įorced to reveal himself, Ratchet manages to get his new traveling companions away from the Decepticons, but they aren’t as concerned about keeping in disguise, which is not good for our heroes. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Gathered together in this handsome leather-look tome are all H.P Lovecraft's tales of terror, including the complete Cthulhu Mythos cycle, in their original, unedited forms. These astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction and cosmic horror, the idea that those who delve into incomprehensible secrets and try raising the gods, risk not just their lives, but their sanity. H.P Lovecraft's tales of the tentacled Elder God Cthulhu and his pantheon of unpronounceable fellow gods were written mainly for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and '30s. ![]() This volume will introduce a whole new generation of readers to his unforgettable fiction. Wikipedia says: 'H.P Lovecraft's reputation has grown tremendously over the decades and he is now commonly regarded as one of the most important horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting an influence that is widespread, though often indirect.' ![]() Lovecraft's stories in one handsome volume, a companion to THE COMPLETE CHRONICLES OF CONAN. ![]() ![]() ![]() Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT. For anyone who’s been touched by Chomsky’s trenchant analysis of our current situation, as well as anyone looking for an intelligent and coherent discussion of anarchism itself, Chomsky on Anarchism will be one of this season’s most exciting and surprising reads. Taken together, they paint a fresh picture of Chomsky, showing his lifelong involvement with the anarchist community, his constant commitment to nonhierarchical models of political organization and his hopes for a future world without rulers. ![]() This collection of Chomsky’s essays and interviews includes numerous pieces that have never been published before, as well as rare material that first saw the light of day in hard-to-find pamphlets and anarchist periodicals. ![]() Not, that is, until Chomsky on Anarchism, a groundbreaking new book that shows a different side of this best-selling author: the anarchist principles that have guided him since he was a teenager. But, in this flood of publishing and republishing, very little ever gets said about what exactly Chomsky stands for, his own personal politics, his vision of the future. His brilliant critiques of-among other things-capitalism, imperialism, domestic repression and government propaganda have become mini-publishing industries unto themselves. His scathing analysis of everything that’s wrong with our society reaches more and more people every day. We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. ![]() ![]() The book is written in third person, with Fin as the central character. While the setting sets The Blackhouse apart from the majority of tartan noir novels, May also uses flashbacks unlike any mystery author I have read. Both physical and emotional comforts are luxuries few can afford. Religion is as severe and unforgiving as the wind. ![]() ![]() Local customs are rooted in the simple need to survive. May often refers to the changing sky, the remorseless wind, and the rage of the ocean and never forgets their impact on a scene. The setting is another character, one both capricious and perverse. Life in the Hebrides is remote and difficult, squeezed between rock and ocean and constantly buffeted by winds which have scoured trees off the land. More than just a typical whodunit, I got the feeling it was written to illustrate a unique place few have seen and fewer still have truly experienced. So he heads to the Isle of Lewis, where he was born and raised, to vent his grief and see if the two murders are connected. The murder is gruesome and mimics a recent killing in Edinburgh being investigated by police detective Fin McLeod.įin’s young son has just been killed by a hit-and-run driver. ![]() ![]() In The Blackhouse by Peter May, the setting is the remote, windy, and rainswept Hebrides islands off Scotland’s western coast. ![]() |