![]() ![]() Probation seemed like a good idea, but now Danika’s scent is in his car and he’s replayed her voicemails twenty times. But she’s reckless and unpredictable, and Greer is painfully aware of what can happen when an officer doesn’t follow the rules. He’s wanted the beautiful, cocky recruit since the moment he saw her. Except lately, all he can think about is Danika. Greer doesn’t let anything -or anyone-distract him. Try not to climb into his giant, muscular lap and kiss him? Umm… Ride shotgun in his cruiser every night? Done. But when a dangerous mistake lands Danika on probation-under Greer’s watch-she’s forced to interact with the big, hulking jerk. She just wants to graduate the police academy and forget about her scowling superior. ![]() Her roommate’s older brother may be sexy as hell, but he’s also a cold, unfeeling robot. ![]() She’s got probable cause to make her move. Tessa Bailey, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer and Hook, Line, and Sinker, turns up the heat with this spicy new adult rom-com trilogy. ![]()
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5/10/2023 0 Comments The underground railroad novel![]() ![]() ![]() Having said that, I would not advise viewers to binge watch this series in a weekend and think Amazon would have been wiser to release episodes weekly, allowing each of them to be absorbed in a way that binging doesn’t do. This is an experience that shouldn't be rushed. The very structure of “The Underground Railroad” speaks to Jenkins’ ambition, one that somehow feels both episodic in that any of the ten chapters could be deconstructed on their own and often have standalone stories but the project gains its strength when seen as a comprehensive whole. ![]() Some of the chapters are nearly feature-length, and could be analyzed and appreciated on their own, not unlike something like “ The Dekalog” or “ Small Axe.” Jenkins has been given complete freedom in terms of structure with episodes running as long as 77 minutes and the shortest coming in just under 20 minutes, more than half of which has no dialogue. Based on the 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, “The Underground Railroad” is a story divided into ten chapters, but not in a traditional episodic manner. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments In the skin of a lion![]() ![]() Exquisite and musical, In the Skin of a Lion is a novel that challenges the boundary between history and myth. Her father died when she was a child she had been pulled over on an Indian reservation for the color of her skin and, at least in Arizona, she was the target of racist hatred in the workplace for being so white. Was in a relationship with Patrick but later on left him for. ‘Feel like ripping my white skin off’ If citing white privilege was the aim, they may have had the wrong target in Cluff-Gleason. ![]() Here we encounter Hana the orphaned girl and Caravaggio the thief for the first time, as well as a large cast of other characters, all lovingly and intimately portrayed. Clara Dickens - Mistress of missing millionaire named Ambrose Small. In the Skin of a Lion is Michael Ondaatje's sparkling predecessor to his Booker Prize-winning The English Patient. And he has his own adventures: searching for a missing millionaire, tunnelling beneath Lake Ontario, falling in love. Immersed in the lives of the people who surround him – the immigrants building the city, as well as those who dreamed it into being – Patrick begins to learn, from their stories, the history of the city itself. It is the 1920s, and Patrick Lewis has arrived in the bustling city of Toronto, leaving behind his Canadian wilderness home. With an introduction by Anne Enright Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting. ![]() ![]() I had read The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones and the Six in the last year, so I knew to expect an enjoyable read from TJR. James in the film adaptation of the novel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo?” host Andy Cohen asked the A-list actor, who responded with, “I do know there is an online thing about it. Because it was still a few months pre-release, I went in knowing very little about Malibu Rising but devoured it quickly. “Jessica, are you aware-we got this a lot-of how many people want you to play Celia St. Back in January 2023 during an episode of W atch What Happens Live, Jessica Chastain even revealed that she would be open to playing one of the roles: that of Celia St. No casting decisions have been announced yet, but the fan-casting kicked off as soon as the announcement came out. Who is starring in The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo? We also know that Reid herself will be one of the executive producers for the new movie. ![]() ![]() The writer was previously the developer, showrunner, and executive producer for another popular novel adaptation- Hulu’s Little Fires Everywhere, based on the book of the same name, by Celeste Ng. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is being adapted for Netflix by Liz Tigelaar. View full post on Instagram Who is making The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo? The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo An unforgettable and sweeping novel about one classic film actress’s relentless rise to the topthe risks she took, the loves she lost, and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine. ![]() ![]() ![]() Truffaut first read David Goodis's novel in the mid-1950s while shooting Les Mistons when his wife Madeleine Morgenstern read it and recommended it to him. ![]() Jean-Jacques Aslanian as Richard Saroyan.Charles Aznavour as Charlie Kohler / Edouard Saroyan.Originally, Goodis' Edward Webster Lynn (whom Truffaut adapts as Charlie) is “pictured as a relatively strong, self-confident guy who has chosen his solitude Truffaut’s Charlie Kohler has found his isolation inevitably he was always shy, withdrawn, reclusive.” Cast Truffaut significantly changes Charlie's personality in Tirez sur le Pianiste. However, Truffaut's work resolves itself into both a tribute to the American genre of literary and cinematic noir and a meditation on the relationship between art and commercialism. ![]() The film shares the novel's bleak plot about a man hiding from his shattered life by doing the only thing he knows how to do, while remaining unable to escape the past. When his brothers get in trouble with gangsters, Charlie inadvertently gets dragged into the chaos and is forced to rejoin the family he once fled. The waitress, Lena ( Marie Dubois), is falling in love with Charlie, who it turns out is not who he says he is. ![]() A washed-up classical pianist, Charlie Kohler/Edouard Saroyan (Charles Aznavour), bottoms out after his wife's suicide - stroking the keys in a Parisian dive bar. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Tea Rex by Molly Idle![]() ![]() I will be sharing three out of the plethora. When not making mischief with her boys or watching old Technicolor musicals, she can be found at her desk scribbling away, with a pencil in one hand and a cup of espresso in the other- creating a plethora of profoundly whimsical picture books!” According to said website (under “About”), Molly Idle may otherwise be found “in Arizona with her brilliant husband, two wonderfully mischievous sons, and two snugly cats. ![]() Molly Idle can be found on the web at where she links a “Portfolio,” her “Books,” “Contact” info, and her blog Wackiness Ensues…. ![]() Idleness is being free to do anything.”–Floyd Dell- American writer 1887/1969 (as found upon opening Molly Idle’s website) For ’30 Days of Picture Books’ which is to celebrate Picture Book Month, “Day Nine” features two books and an Illustrator’s Spotlight!ĭay Nine: Tea Rex AND Flora and the Flamingo See the above “ book list,” bottom of the page for other illustrators highlighted on this blog. I occasionally share an illustrator who has caught my eye. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Dead Lake by Darcy Coates![]() ![]() Her home is surrounded by rolling wilderness on all sides, and she wouldn’t have it any other way. She lives in the Central Coast of Australia with her family, cat, and a collection of chickens. Soon Sam suspects he's responsible for the series of disappearances from a nearby hiking trail.Ĭompletely stranded, Sam realizes she's become the prey in the hunter's deadliest game. Darcy Coates is the USA Today bestselling author of more than a dozen horror and suspense novels. He destroys her only way to communicate with the outside world. It seems perfect: no neighbors, no phone, no distractions.īut the dream retreat disintegrates into a nightmare when Sam sees a stranger by the lake.Ī tall, mysterious man stands on the edge of her dock, staring intently into the swirling waters below. Staying at the lake house is her final, desperate attempt to paint the collection that could save her floundering career. She's battling artist's block ahead of a major gallery exhibition. Perfect for fans of Paul Tremblay and Amy CrossĪ week's visit to the remote Harob Lake cabin couldn't have come at a better time for Sam. Dead Lake by Darcy Coates horror coverlove bookjunkie Vampire Novel, Scary Books. ![]() ![]() From bestselling horror author Darcy Coates comes Dead Lake, a cabin in the woods thriller that will make you double-check your locks at night. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when she realizes that immersing herself in her grandmother’s “society” might mean discovering the answer to the biggest mystery of her life-her father’s identity-she signs on the dotted line and braces herself for a year of makeovers, big dresses, bigger egos, and a whole lot of bless your heart. And she definitely never imagined she would accept. “But.” Eighteen-year-old auto mechanic Sawyer Taft did not expect her estranged grandmother to show up at her apartment door and offer her a six-figure contract to participate in debutante season. “I’m not saying this is Sawyer’s fault,” the prim and proper one said delicately. You can read this before Little White Lies (Debutantes, #1) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Little White Lies (Debutantes, #1) written by Jennifer Lynn Barnes which was published in. ![]() Brief Summary of Book: Little White Lies (Debutantes, #1) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes ![]() ![]() ![]() The endeavor is both incredibly costly and of uncertain profitability. ![]() The necessary technology for a chemical-fueled rocket stretches the boundaries of current engineering. Most dismiss Harriman's plans as foolhardy: Nuclear rocket fuel is scarce as the space station that produces it blew up, also destroying the only existing spaceship. He asks his business partner, George Strong, and other tycoons to invest in the venture. D." Harriman, "the last of the Robber Barons", is obsessed with being the first to travel to-and possess-the Moon. Harriman, a businessman who is determined to personally reach and control the Moon.ĭelos David "D. A part of his Future History and prequel to " Requiem", it covers events around a fictional first Moon landing in 1978 and the schemes of Delos D. Heinlein, written in 1949 and published in 1950. " The Man Who Sold the Moon" is a science fiction novella by American author Robert A. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Annatodd![]() ![]() ![]() The production features Sondheim’s score as it was performed in its first Broadway staging, with Jonathan Tunick’s original 26-player orchestration - which will be heard on the album. Lee, Patricia Phillips, Mia Pinero, Samantha Pollino, Lexi Rabadi, Nathan Salstone, Kristie Dale Sanders, Stephen Tewksbury, Daniel Torres, Felix Torrez-Ponce, DeLaney Westfall and Hennessy Winkler. ![]() They are joined by Galyana Castillo, Jonathan Christopher, Dwayne Cooper, Kyrie Courter, Taeler Cyrus, Timothy Hughes, Paul-Jordan Jansen, Alicia Kaori, Michael Kuhn, Raymond J. Lovett, along with Jordan Fisher as Anthony, Gaten Matarazzo as Tobias, Ruthie Ann Miles as Beggar Woman, Maria Bilbao as Johanna, Jamie Jackson as Judge Turpin, John Rapson as Beadle Bamford, Nicholas Christopher as Pirelli and the standby for Sweeney Todd and Jeanna de Waal as the standby for Mrs. The cast of “Sweeney Todd” features Josh Groban in the title role and Annaleigh Ashford as Mrs. The album is being produced by the revival’s music supervisor Alex Lacamoire along with co-producer Thomas Kail, who directed the production. Though a release date has not yet been confirmed, the album will be available later this year. ![]() The current revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s “Sweeney Todd” will release a cast album on Warner Music Group’s Arts Music and Reprise Records. ![]() |