![]() ![]() Rather, Paszylk has written knowledgeable yet approachable two-page essays on 88 movies, ranging from the silent era to the mid-2000s"- Rue Morgue "Paszylk adopts a casual style of writing, yet his work is well researched and scholarly. ![]() quotes from seemingly every damn academic article, Interview and notable review related to the movies he covers, and imparts enough factoids about the flicks to make one suspect he's really just a glowing brain and a set of eyes floating in a jar, absorbing genre-related information all day.That said, don't assume this is a stuffy academic tome. "Note to horror know-it-alls do not, I repeat DO NOT make any genre-related bar bets with Bartlomiej Paszylk, because he will slay you. ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments Without Warning by K.G. MacGregor![]() ![]() Lily and Anna don’t fall in love at first sight (it is, after all, extremely dark in the wrecked mall). I liked several things about this romance. Their path to couple-dom is a little bumpy–family pressure in the form of Anna’s conservative father and a misunderstanding that makes Lily doubt Anna’s feelings–but happily resolved. ![]() Once reunited, the women find themselves drawn to one another, although the out Lily worries whether she can keep her feelings for the Amazonian Anna strictly platonic. The earthquake and mutual life-saving creates a deep bond between the women, but a mix-up means that they don’t see each other for seven months–on the day of Anna’s divorce from the unsuitable Scott. After making some progress toward an exit, and learning more about one another, Anna manages to get help for Lily when her asthma threatens to suffocate her. ![]() The women join forces to escape the crumbling structure, which is being wracked by aftershocks. In a clothing store when the quake hit, Lily encounters and frees Anna, who is trapped under a fallen bookshelf in a different store. In Without Warning, lawyer Lily Stewart and car dealer Anna Kaklis are both inside a mall in Los Angeles when an earthquake causes portions of the building to collapse. The book is the first in her Shaken series, which originated as Xena-based fanfiction ( available here). Taking my cue from a comment on my last review, I read another KG MacGregor book, this time Without Warning. ![]() ![]() ![]() The two girls share everything with each other-or so Ivy thinks. The other kids at school may think the Glen kids are weird, but Ivy doesn’t care-she has her cousin Heather as her best friend. It’s an old-fashioned way of life, full of superstition and traditions, and sixteen-year-old Ivy loves it. ![]() Those are the rules in Rowan’s Glen, a remote farming community in the Missouri Ozarks where Ivy Templeton’s family has lived for centuries. ![]() Sarah Jude, an American author, pens a captivating psycho-thriller in her debut book, The May Queen Murders that is set across a farming community village where the folks still believe in superstitions and peaceful life with no electricity, among them are two teenage girls, but when one of them goes missing in their community festival, things turn quite worse, as the other teenage believes that there are secrets that she doesn't know about her missing cousin as well as about the place she calls home. ![]() ![]() Her solution? Turn the playground into a full-blown courtroom with a judge, jury, witnesses. ![]() Follow this brother-sister duo as they take justice into their own hands and explore the meaning of fairness, integrity, and repairing relationships on the playground and in business in this installment of the award-winning Lemonade War series.Įvan Treski thinks fourth grader Scott Spencer is their prime suspect, so he challenges him to a game of basketball. lemonade? Evan and Jessie are hot on the trail of the missing lemonade-stand money. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “I always wanted to own a cattle farm when I was finished with my career. She said she was looking for a “more enduringly satisfactory way of life” for her and Arnella, who became a model and died in 1998. But she returned to Jamaica permanently in 1967 where she devoted herself to building up a wicker furniture business and raising cattle, once even winning the Champion Farmer of Jamaica title. ![]() He also wrote: “Nobody ever tried harder than Pat to make me happy.”Īfter Flynn’s death of a heart attack in 1959, the young widow briefly revived her acting career after giving it up for a few years when she and Flynn had a daughter, Arnella. ![]() In his autobiography “My Wicked, Wicked Ways,” Flynn described her as an “attractive, warm and wholesome” woman who “could cook Indian curry” and dance and sing. That’s not to say there wouldn’t be a party on the drop of a hat.” In Jamaica, “we were very busy doing nothing. In a 2000 interview with The Associated Press, Wymore Flynn said she had stopped listening to the roguish stories about her husband years ago and described Jamaica as the couple’s retreat from the pressures of Hollywood. ![]() ![]() ![]() Second of all, guide varies between severe information on points Heinlein understood about as well as can have Kip understand about– space suit design, oxygen containers, what soft drink jerks have in the pockets– and also Clarke’s Regulation magic baffled handwaves on the things he doesn’t. We accept one of the most amazing things occurring because Kip is amazed and also attempting to figure his choices. Have Spacesuit escapes all of this in two methods– firstly the very first individual voice of Kip, that is really practical, very determind, and with no purpose of quiting on anything ever before. It does the same opening out as far as risks are worried– there’s a young boy repairing a spacesuit and wishing to go to the moon eventually, then he’s kidnapped by flying-saucer aliens as well as trying to leave, then he’s rescued by one more collection of aliens as well as intending to obtain home, then he’s bordered by a league of aliens and also the future of the human race is at risk. Have Space Suit Will Travel Audiobook – Robert A. It after that opens out as well as out, to the moon, to Pluto, to Vega, to the Lesser Magellanic Cloud. It begins typically in near-future America with a teenage child that wants to go to the moon. Have Spacesuit, Will Travel, 1958, is the last of Heinlein’s juveniles but for Podkayne of Mars, and also it appears to me quite different from the others, as well as from Heinlein’s various other job. ![]() Heinlein Have Space Suit Will Travel Audiobook – Robert A. ![]() ![]() ![]() Welcome to the world of Cynthia Rylant Favorite Series Children’s Books Young Adult Award Winners Sample Chapter Activities Poetry Young Readers Information About Cynthia Rylant Resources.If you would like to contact me please feel free to drop me an email. I tend to help out wherever help is needed and love to get involved in community projects. I also help in the school library, as my passion is reading and I love books. ![]() Apart from school, I am the mother of two beautiful children, Hayden and Grace, and love to spend time helping in their classroom’s. At this moment in time I am completing the coursework required to get into the Graduate Teacher’s Certification Program at GVSU. I received my degree in Business Administration in 1995 from The American Intercontinental University in Atlanta, GA, but have recently decided to go back to school to pursue a Teaching Certificate and a Master’s in Education. Brenda’s Bio I am currently a student at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Other writers of Nancy Drew volumes include Harriet herself, she wrote most of the series after Mildred quit writing for the Syndicate and in 1959 began a revision of the first 34 texts. ![]() In a few cases, outdated plots were completely rewritten. The Nancy Drew books were condensed, racial stereotypes were removed, and the language was updated. In 1959, Harriet, along with several writers, began a 25-year project to revise the earlier Carolyn Keene novels. The Stratemeyer Syndicate's devotion to the series over the years under the reins of Harriet Stratemeyer Adams helped to keep the series alive and on store shelves for each succeeding generation of girls and boys. It was her characterization that helped make Nancy an instant hit. Mildred wrote 23 of the original 30 Nancy Drew Mystery Stories®, including the first three. Wirt), who breathed such a feisty spirit into Nancy's character. ![]() Edna contributed 10 plot outlines before passing the reins to her sister Harriet. For Nancy Drew, the writers used the pseudonym Carolyn Keene to assure anonymity of the creator.Įdna and Harriet Stratemeyer inherited the company from their father Edward Stratemeyer. The company that was the creator of the Nancy Drew series, the Stratemeyer Syndicate, hired a variety of writers. Carolyn Keene is a writer pen name that was used by many different people- both men and women- over the years. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Lucian Freud by William Feaver![]() ![]() The grandson of Sigmund and a Berlin-born refugee to Britain from Hitler’s Germany who spoke all his life with a foreign intonation, Freud became a key if reluctant member in the 1940s of the group of painters known as the School of London. William Feaver, a friend and collaborator of Freud’s for 30 years, gives us a Lucian who always resisted categorisation. And yet somehow the result of a lifetime of ferocious application was a style that is as singular as that of Rembrandt or Frans Hals. Nor was he, in the course of a 70-year career, ever much interested in composition, disliking the element of stagecraft involved. Was Sylvester right? It’s pretty obvious from the clenched distortions of Freud’s apprentice portraits that his innate weaknesses contributed as much as his strengths to the development of a distinctive approach. ![]() ![]() Freud, Sylvester wrote, lacked natural talent but had achieved his success through “a huge effort of will applied to the realisation of a highly personal and searching vision of the world”. I n 1995 the art critic David Sylvester caused a stir by suggesting in the Guardian that Lucian Freud – by then 73 and widely acknowledged as a major figurative British artist – was “not a real painter”. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This opening essay is the most famous and oft-quoted in the collection.Īfter exploring these concepts in a bit more detail, Fulghum begins exploring other concepts. He realized that everything he truly needed to know or believe in had been passed down to him in Kindergarten: Share everything, play fair, don’t hit people, put things back where you found them, etc. This credo began as a very lengthy list of things, but over the years became refined down to fundamentals. In the Credo that begins the book proper, he states that he writes a statement of belief for himself every year. He warns that he has used his imagination and creative license to adjust facts to suit his purpose, so none of the essays should be taken literally. ![]() He recounts seeing a bumper sticker in the midst of a snowstorm that read ‛Don’t Believe Everything That You Think,’ and how these words struck him as a very powerful way of looking at your own existence, how you cannot assume that you yourself have any sort of innate wisdom or expertise. Fulghum begins by informing the reader that he wrote the essays over the course of years without any intention of publishing. The fifty essays are all very short, ranging in length from a few hundred to about 1,000 words. All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten is a collection of essays written by minister Robert Fulghum, published in 1986. ![]() |