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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But this wish only camouflaged the deeper feeling Sasha always had: that at, tender wallet, offering itself to her hand - it seemed so dull, so life-as-usual to just leave it there rather than seize the moment, accept the challenge, take the leap, fly the coop, throw caution to the wind, live dangerously ("I get it," Coz, her therapist, said), and take the thing. It was easy for Sasha to recognize, looking back, that the peeing woman's blind trust had provoked her: We live in a city where people will steal the hair off your head if you give them half a chance, but you leave your stuff lying in plain sight and expect it to be waiting for you when you come back? It made her want to teach the woman a lesson. Inside the rim of the bag, barely visible, was a wallet made of pale green leather. ![]() Sasha was adjusting her yellow eye shadow in the mirror when she noticed a bag on the floor beside the sink that must have belonged to the woman whose peeing she could faintly hear through the vaultlike door of a toilet stall. It began the usual way, in the bathroom of the Lassimo Hotel. ![]()
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The remains of the day 19895/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Adaptation Name Change: Ruth and Sarah become Elsa and Irma in the film.This novel and film includes examples of: Darlington Hall, where they worked together, is now owned by a rich American through Stevens's memories of working there over the decades, and through his way of telling them, we learn not only about the Lord Darlington who used to live there and how his downfall came about, but also about Stevens's character, his relationships with Lord Darlington, Miss Kenton, and his father, and what's left for him after a life of completely devoting himself to the service of another person.Ī pre-stardom Lena Headey has a small part in the movie as a pretty servant girl. Benn) for the first time in twenty years to ask her to return to her old job. The novel is set in 1956 and narrated by a butler, Stevens, who recalls his career and considers the nature of his profession as he drives through the English countryside to visit his old colleague, Miss Kenton (now Mrs. The Remains of the Day is an acclaimed 1989 novel by Japanese-born English author Kazuo Ishiguro, adapted into a 1993 James Ivory film starring Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, and Christopher Reeve. ![]()
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Nettleblack nat reeve5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Is the world she's lost in also a place she can find herself? Told through journal entries and letters, Nettleblack is a subversive and playful ride through the perils and joys of finding your place in the world, challenging myths about queerness - particularly transness - as a modern phenomenon, while exploring the practicalities of articulating queer perspectives when you're struggling for words. Ships from and sold by Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery. ![]() Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK FOR JULY 2022. When the net starts to close around Henry, and sinister forces threaten to expose her as the missing Nettleblack sister, the new people in her life seem to offer her a way out, and a way forward. Ships from and sold by Book Depository CA. ![]() In academical guise, they mostly write about Elizabeth Siddal causing havoc with medieval objects, or horrible geese invading Pre-Raphaelite artworks. ![]() Sent out to investigate a string of crimes, she soon realises that she is living in a small rural town with surprisingly big problems. Theyre currently working towards a PhD in Victorian art, literature and queerness at Royal Holloway, University of London. But leaving the safety of her wealthy life isn't as simple as she thought.Īmbushed, robbed, and then saved by a mysterious organisation - part detective agency, part neighbourhood watch - a desperate Henry disguises herself and enlists. the author’s love of victorian literature was dripping off the pages. Henry Nettleblack has to act fast or she'll be married off by her elder sister. Nettleblack by Nat Reeve anyone else read and love this book I thought is was such a fun, sweet read. ![]()
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Aya of yop city5/10/2023 ![]() Not to mention when Moussa, the spoiled rotten Sissoko boy finds out he’s going to be a dad! How can he tell his old man, one of the richest and most feared men in the whole country? Aya of Yop City is a gorgeously rendered animated drama that places the Ivory Coast in a shimmering new light. Their ambition is to follow plan C: Combs, Clothes and Chasing Men! Big trouble comes to town when Adjoua realizes she’s pregnant. While Aya has dreams of becoming a doctor, her two best friends, Adjoua and Bintou, just like to hang out and spend their evenings dancing, drinking and flirting with boys. Score Categories: Visuals: 3.00 Animation: 2.50 Music: 2.50 Acting: 3.00 Story. It’s wryly funny, breezy account of the simple pleasures and private troubles of everyday life in Yop City. It is the story of the studious and clear-sighted 19-year old Aya, her easy-going friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbors. Her dad is a sales rep for a brewery, and certainly gets his fill of the product. Aya is loosely based upon Marguerite Abouet’s youth in Yop City. ![]() ![]() Her mom Fanta is the neighborhood’s most trusted healer. It is always lively, with open markets, colorful fabrics, funky cafés and of course, music everywhere. Aya is 19, and she loves her neighborhood of Yop City in Abidjan, where everyone knows each other. From teen romance to parental tribulations, it offers a rare glimpse into the daily lives of Africans, and is adapted from a best-selling series of graphic novels. ![]() Against the colorful and spirited backdrop of the Ivory Coast in the 1970s, Aya of Yop City is a vibrant, beautifully animated film. ![]()
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Musil the man without qualities5/10/2023 ![]() A deep-seated respect for craft is palpable throughout the movie. Schäublin’s grandmother worked in a watch factory and was responsible for making the balance wheel, or unrueh, of the mechanism. Breitling, too, originated in Saint-Imier. The valley of Saint-Imier was the hometown, and continues to be the base of operations, for the luxury watch company Longines. “Unrest” is predicated on historical fact, both in terms of family history and broader currents of culture. Boffo box office numbers can’t have been uppermost in the director’s mind. ![]() Schäublin confabulate to get funding for that idea? “Unrest” is also a period picture, taking place in a remote township in 19th-century Switzerland. It’s odd enough that a film should be dedicated, with a conspicuous level of particularity and tenderness, to watch-making, but anarchism as well? What kind of elevator pitch did Mr. ![]() ![]() Did anyone think to ask, though, if it would be synchronized? That’s one question raised by “Unrest,” the quixotic new film by writer and director Cyril Schäublin. “The revolution will not be televised,” Gil Scott-Heron intoned famously toward the tail end of the 1960s. ![]()
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The magnificent ambersons novel5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() " a typical story of an American family and town-the great family that locally ruled the roost and vanished virtually in a day as the town spread and darkened into a city. As George Amberson's friend (name unspecified) says, "don't you think being things is 'rahthuh bettuh' than doing things?" "The Magnificent Ambersons is perhaps Tarkington's best novel," said Van Wyck Brooks. ![]() The decline of the Ambersons is contrasted with the rising fortunes of industrial tycoons and other new-money families, which did not derive power from family names but by "doing things". The novel and trilogy traces the growth of the United States through the declining fortunes of three generations of the aristocratic Amberson family in a fictional Mid-Western town, between the end of the Civil War and the early part of the 20th century, a period of rapid industrialization and socio-economic change in America. In 1942 Orson Welles directed a film version, also titled The Magnificent Ambersons. It was the second novel in the Growth trilogy, which included The Turmoil (1915) and The Midlander (1923, retitled National Avenue in 1927). The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. ![]()
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Ancestor Stones by Aminatta Forna5/10/2023 ![]() Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. ![]() Ancestor Stones reads much like a memoir but-perhaps for that reason-is less compelling than her earlier work. Forna conveys the complexity of life in small African villages.
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![]() The quest, however, proves to be difficult, as-so far-nobody has managed to discover who the legendary DeVor really is. This assignment is supposed to finally be Jamie's ticket to journalistic fame and fortune. Hitting rock bottom in the concrete jungle of Manhattan, investigative journalist Jamie Walker lands the assignment of a lifetime: find the most elusive artist of a generation, who has enthralled the art and fashion world for over a decade. ![]() As Jamie delves deeper into the mysteries surrounding the enigmatic artist. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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![]() ![]() As the scout bees traverse the fields, readers are provided with a potpourri of facts and statements about bees. Perhaps the trouble is that Ehlert has captured all the color of the garden, but not its subtle gradations or the light, the space, the air, and the continual movement and change.įollow a swarm of bees as they leave a beekeeper’s apiary in search of a new home. There is also little sense of the relative times for growing and blooming-everything seems to come almost at once. The stylized forms are almost more abstractions than representations (and why is the daisy yellow?). ![]() ![]() Bold, stylish, and indubitably inspired by real flowers, there is still (as with its predecessor) a link missing between these illustrations with their large, solid areas of color and the real experience of a garden. Unlike the vegetables, whose juxtaposed colors were almost painfully bright, the flowers make a splendidly gaudy array, first taken together and then interestingly grouped by color-the pages vary in size here so that colored strips down the right-hand side combine to make a broad rainbow. "Mom and I" plant bulbs (even rhizomes), choose seeds, buy seedlings, and altogether grow about 20 species. From the artist who created last year's shoutingly vivid Growing Vegetable Soup, a companion volume about raising a flower garden. ![]()
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