5/13/2023 0 Comments Rocky by Bianca D'Arc![]() ![]() Rocky is a bit of a loser, but he's a sweet guy, loves helping people, and falls for Adrian, the shy woman working at the pet shop near his home. He can barely read, lives alone in a dirty apartment, gets his head pounded in amateur boxing matches for side money, and collects debts for mobsters (even though he doesn't want to at all). Rocky is presented to us from the beginning as a big, dumb guy with a heart of gold. Bianca was clearly added to be like Adrian, Rocky's love interest, but I'm not sure if the writer understood Adrian's role in the film. Creed is a sort of spiritual successor to the first Rocky film, which it pulls off very well while having its own feel and story. That said, here's the issue: she adds virtually nothing to the story. I'll start positive, Tessa Thompson is a great actress and the character of Bianca isn't insufferable, she's fine. But I'm not here to gush over the boxing classics, this rant concerns Bianca, Adonis Johnson's love interest in the movie Creed played by Tessa Thompson. ![]() If you haven't seen the Rocky movies or Creed, I highly recommend them, they're fantastic flicks. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments White Devil by Stella Purple![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() wartime policies Burns describes: like Anne Frank’s father Otto, Stella’s father applied to emigrate to America, where several of Stella’s older siblings resided and like the Franks, the Levis were denied entry into the country, the explanation being that their family of four was too large. and the Holocaust,” the new Ken Burns documentary, I recognized how Stella’s family story dovetailed with certain U.S. When, for instance, I recently happened on a painting that Matisse made of one of his odalisques in the south of France and noted the date-July, 1944, the same month that Stella and her entire community of 1,700-plus people were deported to Auschwitz, where ninety percent of them were murdered upon arrival-it makes me think very differently about the artist sitting out the war in his cozy Mediterranean villa. And almost wherever I find myself, even in the most unrelated settings, I cannot help but refer back to Jewish Rhodes. While I don’t go as far as to pin a sprig of rue, another protection against evil doings, to my underwear, as people did in the Juderia, I do keep a small pot growing on my windowsill. ![]() After coming across a blue and white glass bead in a flea market in Istanbul some years ago, I identified it as a charm that protected against the oju malu (or evil eye, in Judeo Spanish, Stella’s mother tongue) and hooked it onto a chain I have not taken off my neck since. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Fog island by tomi ungerer![]() ![]() ![]() Since moving to Ireland, the interaction of the moon, the fog and the sea near his home has captivated him. Throughout his life Tomi has been inspired by the moon. “In New York I found the city I never found, but in Ireland I found the country I always wanted.”- Tomi, in Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Storyįinal illustration for Fog Island, ink and pastel on tracing paper. Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/customer/on line 707 ![]() Warning: preg_match_all(): Compilation failed: invalid range in character class at offset 4 in /home/customer/on line 700 Warning: preg_match(): Compilation failed: invalid range in character class at offset 4 in /home/customer/on line 1384 BLOG: The Making of Fog Island, An Ode to Ireland ![]() ![]() ![]() ( You must do this while they're still warm.) Place them on a wire rack and let them cool thoroughly. Let the cookies cool for 2 minutes then roll them in powdered sugar.Bake them at 350☏ for 10 minutes, until they are set but not brown. Form the dough into one-inch balls ( just pat them into shape with your fingers), and place them on an UNGREASED baking sheet, 12 to a standard sheet. ![]() ( If you work quickly, while the butter is still warm, the dough will be softer and easier to mix.) Mix in the powdered sugar, vanilla, nutmeg, and salt. Preheat oven to 350☏, with rack in the middle position.1 cup finely chopped nuts ( measure after chopping).1/2 teaspoon nutmeg ( freshly ground is best).3/4 cup powdered sugar ( that's confectioner's sugar).1 1/2 cups melted butter ( 3 sticks, 3/4 pound).Hannah made these Little Snowballs to replace the cake Connie Mac's cake for the banquet. ![]() ![]() Then there are the two other Henry children - and Rhoda's mid-marriage adultery - and a good many other characters none of whom seem very alive but then you're never close enough to pinch them and find out. ![]() Eventually though she has finally married Byron, has had his child, and will be trapped in Italy with her uncle. The Henrys are solid middle-class Methodists and wouldn't go that far - but then they also don't quite like the fact that their son, Byron, has fallen in love with Jewish Natalie Jastrow, niece of the great scholar and author of A Jew's Jesus who lives a Berensonian existence in Siena. his wife Rhoda), good and considered man, restricts himself to the comment "I don't admire their treatment of the Jews" when he is Naval Attache in Berlin. ![]() His Commander Henry, however, a too hard working (cf. who calls our hero, Naval Commander Victor Henry, by his sobriquet Pug and will be heard saying "Good night, old top." In the beginning Wouk almost seems to be competing with Shirer - following not only Hitler's rise to power but explicating its mystique back to the Huns' earlier destruction of Imperial Rome via Hegel and Heine and one character here. This endlessly effluent, Woukmanlike novel which runs to almost 900 pages deals with a typical American family before World War II and up to Pearl Harbor and it is conveniently mapped from Washington to Berlin to Warsaw (the siege) and London (the blitz) and Moscow and Rome and points elsewhere. ![]() ![]() ![]() Located in the historic Sunshine Ballard Cottage in Berea, the store also carries branded coffee mugs and t-shirts, and the Buckmasters plan to commission local artists for new T-shirt designs over the next few months. "We really want to be an outlet for local and regional authors, give them a forum and dedicated space." "They usually don't have the big publishing houses behind them," Clark Buckmaster said. ![]() Owners Clark and Susan Buckmaster carry roughly 1,300 titles for children, teens and adults, with a strong emphasis on books by local authors and authors from throughout Appalachia. The Taleless Dog Booksellers, an all-ages bookstore selling new titles, has opened in Berea, Ky., the Richmond Register reported. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then, we list out all of her books, (by publication date) and the series (in order). First, we’ve got a list of 10 top-rated Colleen Hoover books. This guide is divided into three sections. If you are new to the party or you’ve read one book and don’t know where to go next, we are here to help you with this list of the best Colleen Hoover books. Usually it’s just new(ish) books that hit the list and then they eventually fade away, only to be replaced by another new book.īut CoHo (as her rabid fans call her), keeps finding new audiences who are gobbling up her books, and keeping her at the top of the charts. ![]() For those of you who aren’t in the biz, this is positively unheard of. This year, she has regularly sustained 3-5 books on the New York Times bestseller list. ![]() Along the way, she’s written 25 books, built a loyal audience and sold over 20 million books. It managed to hit the New York Times bestseller list in seven months. Colleen Hoover self-published her first novel Slammed, in 2012. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Dungeons & Dragons by Jeff Grubb![]() ![]() The book also details a number of cities, mostly in the Dalelands. What I remember about this book, and there is nothing all that much which actually stands out mind you, is that there was a list of the gods of the Forgotten Realms (which, after studying Ancient History, realised that no real thought had gone into the Pantheons, and that the writers were simply throwing in gods without thinking about how they really came about). These days however it is a laptop (the one I am currently using) and the Players Handbook. I remember that this book did use to be a stable part of the collection of books that I would take to a game. Also, being a hardback made it appear that it was an essential book (the original idea was that essential books were hardbacks while non-essential books were soft cover). The purpose of this book was to provide a bridge between first and second editions and to allow the Forgotten Realms to be easily transposed over to the new rules. This book is mostly obsolete now with two new editions supplanting the edition that this book for which it was originally written (and another edition on its way). An 'essential' supplement for the Forgotten Realms ![]() ![]() ![]() Larkin, and even about her ex-best friend. But the further she dives into the past, the more secrets she uncovers-about Saint Ambrose School, about Mr. ![]() When Brynn gets the internship of a lifetime working on a new true-crime show, and decides to investigate what really happened that day in the woods for herself. Thanks to Tripp's testimony none of them were found guilty of the murder and now, five years later, the trio are at the top of the school's social ladder. Larkin's body on school grounds know more than they're telling.īrynn's ex-best friend Tripp was one of them. McManus paperback30 August 2022 19.99 or 4 payments of 5.00 with Learn more ADD TO CART Booklovers earn 0. ![]() ![]() The case was never solved, but Brynn's sure that the three kids who found Mr. The most terrifying part is that they're back - or maybe they never left.įive years ago, Brynn quit Saint Ambrose School following the shocking murder of her favourite teacher. ![]() ![]() ![]() An assembly of sometimes-linked fragments, The Book of Disquiet is a mesmerising, haunting 'novel' without parallel in any other culture. In this extraordinary book, the putative 'factless autobiography' of an accountant named Bernardo Soares, Fernando Pessoa explores and dismantles the nature of memory, identity, time and narrative, creating one of the greatest - but also the strangest - modernist texts. 'Fernando Pessoa, strictly speaking, doesn't exist,' - so claimed Alvaro de Campos, one of the 'heteronyms', fully-realised substitute personalities invented by Fernando Pessoa to spare himself the trouble of living real life. ![]() A modernist masterwork that has now taken on a similar iconic status to Ulysses, The Trial or In Search of Lost Time, Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet is edited and translated with an introduction by Richard Zenith in Penguin Modern Classics. ![]() |