![]() ![]() I produced, wrote and edited the video along with producer Craig Duff, who shot and provided additional editing: Most of the movies are based on short stories (which do appear in books). I do mistakenly say that Blade Runner is one of ten PKD “books” that have been adapted, when I meant to say, “stories.” Only a few novels have, so far, provided source material for films – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, A Scanner Darkly, Confessions of a Crap Artist, Radio Free Albemuth. Testament to the strangeness of his brain. ![]() ![]() It’s fascinating that Dick’s 50-year-old stories are just now being brought to the big screen – and still seem modern. Dick and all the movie adaptations of his books and stories, the latest of which is The Adjustment Bureau, based on the story “Adjustment Team” written in 1953. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() We readily consented, and when the hour came we lived up to our promise. Several months ago the affiliate here in Birmingham asked us to be on call to engage in a nonviolent direct action program if such were deemed necessary. Frequently we share staff, educational and financial resources with our affiliates. We have some 85 affiliate organizations across the south, and one of them is the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. ![]() I think I should indicate why I am here in Birmingham, since you have been influenced by the view which argues against “outsiders coming in.” I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization operating in every southern state, with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms. ![]() If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. While confined here in the Birmingham city jail I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Not much later his friend Al, who owns the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to the past, a particular day in 1958. Reading the essay is a watershed moment for Jake, his life-like Harry's, like America's in 1963-turning on a dime. He asks his students to write about an event that changed their lives, and one essay blows him away-a gruesome, harrowing story about the night more than fifty years ago when Harry Dunning's father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a sledgehammer. It begins with Jake Epping, a thirty-five-year-old English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching GED classes. In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King-who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer-takes readers on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it. ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963, THREE SHOTS RANG OUT IN DALLAS, PRESIDENT KENNEDY DIED, AND THE WORLD CHANGED. Now a miniseries from Hulu starring James Franco Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize One of the Ten Best Books of The New York Times Book Review ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The lure of intellectual and artistic self-emancipation put him at odds with his family, and the Orthodox faith itself, though, as a novelist, he wrote warmly of the possibility of an undistracted faith, simple and pure.īut such security was not his own experience, and the tension between the closed world of piety and the modern world, with its powerful intellectual resources - from Freudian psychoanalysis to the scientific criticism of texts - gave Potok a subject to which he returned again and again. As a teenager, he listened to The Lone Ranger on the radio, and read Joyce's Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, and the novels of Hemingway and Evelyn Waugh. He encountered New York in the 1940s, with its passion for baseball and ethnic politics, through secret acts, little betrayals. In other respects, however, his early years were spent in a community determined to keep the secular world at a distance. Potok grew up in a modern Orthodox form of Judaism - modern in the sense that men did not grow beards and were not expected to retain their earlocks. ![]() ![]() ![]() She played to every stereotype of the evil stepmother and I became convinced I was this dreadful woman. My husband's ex-wife was constantly complaining to my husband about me and the way I behaved towards her children. "I think second wives are the forgotten people. "The ex-wife is seen as the victim - always," she says. At the time he was divorced with two children. One member, Clare Bamford, met her husband four years ago. For many of the women, Robertson says, the club has proved a marriage-saving lifeline. ![]() They can use the club's website for online chat and advice, go to monthly regional meetings and meet other members. The BSWC is only a year old, but it already has nearly 400 paying subscribers, according to Robertson. What she really wants to see is that crown knocked firmly off the first wife. Life as a second wife, she says, can be a tedious existence blighted by poverty, interminable fights over children and assets and a feeling of dread that the ex is just never going to go away. "And she wears that priority like a crown on her head." ![]() "In a divorce, priority is given to the first wife," says Robertson. In her view, Britain's army of second wives (about one in 10 families are now stepfamilies) have it tough and their lives rarely involve the catalogue of sassy goings-on followed by a happy ending that tend to feature in novels on the subject. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nathaniel Hawthorne used her as a model for Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter her detractors referred to her as "the instrument of Satan," a witch, "more bold than a man," and Jezebel-the ancient queen who, on account of her tremendous political power, was "the most evil woman" in the Bible. ![]() Charged with heresy and sedition, she defended herself brilliantly, but the court, faced with a perceived threat to public order, banished her for behaving in a manner "not comely for sex." The seeds of the American struggle for women's and human rights can be found in her courageous story. Her unconventional ideas attracted a following of prominent citizens eager for social reform. ![]() In a time when women could not vote, hold public office, or teach outside the home, the charismatic Hutchinson wielded remarkable political power. ![]() ![]() ![]() We plunge into the hidden yearnings and disappointments of her uncle, an art historian stuck in a dead marriage, who travels to Naples to extract Sasha from the city’s demimonde and experiences an epiphany of his own while staring at a sculpture of Orpheus and Eurydice in the Museo Nazionale. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then as a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend. We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist’s couch in New York City, confronting her long-standing compulsion to steal. ![]() Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other’s pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Kenya. Jennifer Egan’s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. ![]() ![]() And why are there blue butterflies everywhere?Įven as Kiran worries that her friends will soon forget who they are in the face of this, Kiran sets off with the obnoxious and jokey bird Tuntuni and a new companion, an erudite and gender-neutral tiger named Bunty, through an intergalactic clothes dryer of a wormhole to rescue her friend Prince Lal. ![]() That means that even in the Kingdom Beyond, familiar characters from Bengal legends that Kiran and her team meet keep flickering out and being overwritten by characters from the Brothers Grimm or other Western stories. There’s not much time to ponder, as Sesha’s megalomania now involves merging all the stories of the world into one unified storyline. Does he even want that, and will it change his relationship with Kiran? With crown prince Lal trapped in another dimension, that leaves Neel to be crowned raja. Sesha is trying to take over the world, and Neel’s father the raja has run away. Kiran hopes she’s going to be celebrated as a hero for freeing Neel and outwitting her father, the serpent king Sesha. This book picks up right where the last book, Game of Stars, left off. Audiobook on hoopla ebook and audiobook on Libby. Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond Book 3 by Sayantani DasGupta. I have Charlotte of Charlotte’s Library to thank for the Advanced Reader’s Copy of this again, though it came out at the beginning of March and is now generally available. So far (as usual), I’m doing a better job of keeping up with reading than reviewing for my # CybilsReadDown challenge. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The sun was so round and glossy and black that had it a figure eight on it, well, it would have validated a lot of long-standing philosophical and theological complaints, underlining once and for all just where we earthlings sit on the cosmic pool table. When Claude glanced at the sky, he saw that the text of Les Miserables had been painted over by Salvador Dali. With the absence of the cloud cover that normally caused the sky over Seattle to resemble cottage cheese that had been dragged nine miles behind a cement truck, the city, for the first time in memory, would have an unobstructed view of one of nature’s most mystical spectacles. The sky was a velvety black paw pressing on the white landscape with a feline delicacy, stars flying like sparks from its fur. The sky, layered with thin altostratus clouds and smog, appeared to reflect human suffering and failed to awaken in Claude visions of paradise. And here’s the kind of prose you can look forward to: Here’s what seems to pass for humor in a Tom Robbins novel: beets (the very existence of), a woman getting stung in a delicate place by a bee, and lesbians (the very existence of). ![]() People have recommended him on the basis of comparisons to Douglas Adams, but Adams is, you know, funny. ![]() Well, I officially don’t get Tom Robbins. ![]() ![]() In "Rabbit Hole" it's Joey Strade, who has a crush on Ingrid and who happens to be the police chief's son. As is common when teens are fighting crime, Ingrid brings along a friend. The mystery here involves the murder of a loony resident of Echo Falls, the town where Ingrid lives, and the fact that Ingrid has struck up a secret friendship with the woman before her death and the fact that Ingrid's soccer cleats are found near the body. (Yes, I know that's not a word, but this book is so good it makes you want to create new adjectives.) Peter Abrahams usually writes thrillers for adults, but his first try at writing a mystery for kids is funny, scary, surprising and just about can't-put-downable. There's soccer practice, school, her role as Alice in her town's production of "Alice in Wonderland" - oh, and there's that murder she has got to solve. ![]() |