![]() ![]() The text is soft-spoken wish-fulfillment, from the motorcycle ride to the wander around the empty school to the protagonist's working alongside his father ("We tack back and forth down the hallway, sweeping the school from stem to stern"), and Hesse has an unerring ear for the kind of detail that brings a nighttime outing with Dad to life. ![]() Finally the boy dozes off, wakened only when his father is finished, and the two zoom back home just as the rest of the world is rising. While Dad cleans the gym floor, the boy shoots baskets father and son eat their nocturnal lunch in the dark, quiet courtyard Dad buffs the library while the kid reads aloud to him from a library sofa. ![]() On Friday nights, our young narrator and his father put on their helmets, get on Dad's motorcycle, and head out to Dad's job at a school. ![]()
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![]() ![]() More recently, there’s also the Firestarter reboot by Blumhouse Productions, premiering on May 13, 2022, in theaters and on Peacock. The remake is based on the 1975 novel and the original 1979 film adaptation and is set to premiere later this year. Gary Dauberman, the writer responsible for King movie reboots It and It: Chapter Two, is working on a reboot of ‘Salem’s Lot. The novel was an instant success and was promptly followed by a film adaptation in 1976 starring Sissy Spacek in the lead role, and was later rebooted in 2013.įrom there, King’s catalog of film and TV adaptations continued rapidly expanding and still is today. ![]() His first novel was Carrie, published in 1974, and followed the story of a bullied teenage girl who discovers she has telekinetic powers and uses them to enact revenge on those who tormented her. ![]() King’s written work has also been the source material for many film and TV series adaptations over the years. His written works have been incredibly successful, selling an estimated 350 million copies, according to The Washington Post, and his works are still popular today. With over 60 published books and short stories, Stephen King has built a career as the master of the horror genre. ![]() ![]() There is a mysterious element to much of the story here. Poe’s story is a classic example of nineteenth-century Gothic literature. This is the ‘Tell Tale Heart’ of the story’s title. However, ultimately the narrator’s psychological state begins to decline even further over time as he is haunted by a hallucination in which he believes that he can still hear the old man’s heart beating underneath the floorboards of his house. For instance, after he murders the old man he cuts his body up into pieces and hides them under the floorboards of his house. He is also calculated in how he tries to cover up the deed. This was not a crime of passion, but was carefully planned by the narrator in advance of him carrying out the act. This narrator has murdered an old man who he describes as having a ‘vulture eye’. It follows an unnamed narrator whose psychological state is extremely precarious, though he insists that he is sane. ![]() The Tell-Tale Heart is a short story which was written and published in 1843 by the mid-nineteenth century American horror and Gothic author, Edgar Allan Poe. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Prince himself is based on the playing card, Jack of Hearts, who is believed to win his crown through sacrifice for love. I’ve portrayed Reading’s buildings in my artwork over many years and designed public artworks that celebrate its built heritage.Īfter his release, Oscar Wilde was said to have remembered Reading Gaol as a sort of enchanted castle and I’ve depicted it as such in the Happy Prince’s tale. ![]() I began illustrating it as a personal project and decided to set the story in Reading – the town of my birth and a connection to Oscar through ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’. Oscar Wilde’s story, ‘The Happy Prince’, was originally published in 1888 and is a tale about doing good deeds to help others. ![]() With an introduction by Michael Seeney, author and collector of Wilde’s work.Īuthor: Oscar Wilde, illustrated by Sally Castle. This enchanting combination of fairy story with concrete urban reality, a tale of sacrificial love written with a flourish and swirl, turns a simple book into a gem as precious as the large red ruby that glowed on the Prince’s sword-hilt. Sally Castle’s beautifully hand-lettered and illustrated edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince sets the story among Reading’s parks, squares, rooflines and churches – the town that’s shaped her and her artwork and where Oscar spent an unhappy period in gaol. ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. THE IRRESISTIBLE BLUEBERRY BAKESHOP & CAFE is a warm and delicious debut about the power of a simpler life. As she learns about her grandmother and herself, it becomes clear that a 24-hour visit to Beacon may never be enough. ![]() The rescue turns Ellen into something of a local celebrity, which may or may not help her unravel the past her grandmother labored to keep hidden. What should be a one-day trip is quickly complicated when she almost drowns in the chilly bay and is saved by a local carpenter. Ellen leaves Manhattan and her Kennedy-esque fiance for Beacon, Maine. Mary Simses can write evocative detail that puts you right in the scene, with dialogue that always rings true." -James PattersonĪ high-powered Manhattan attorney finds love, purpose, and the promise of a simpler life in her grandmother's hometown.Įllen Branford is going to fulfill her grandmother's dying wish-to find the hometown boy she once loved, and give him her last letter. ![]() ![]() "You will devour The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop &Cafe. ![]() ![]() ![]() Usually, the creation of the State of Israel is cast as a story that begins with Herzl and is brought to fulfillment by the Holocaust. To reframe this trajectory, Cramsey draws on a vast array of historical sources to examine what she calls a "transnational conversation" carried out by a small but influential coterie of Allied statesmen, diplomats in international organizations, and Jewish leaders who decided that the overall disentangling of populations in postwar east central Europe demanded the simultaneous intellectual and logistical embrace of a Jewish homeland in Palestine as a territorial nationalist project. In Uprooting the Diaspora, Sarah Cramsey explores how the Jewish citizens rooted in interwar Poland and Czechoslovakia became the ideal citizenry for a post–World War II Jewish state in the Middle East. She asks, how did new interpretations of Jewish belonging emerge and gain support amongst Jewish and non-Jewish decision makers exiled from wartime east central Europe and the powerbrokers surrounding them? ![]() ![]() ![]() Donald Trump said Nicola Sturgeon 'didn't love Scotland'.Rishi Sunak dodged questions on Dominic Raab bullying - and said he could 'respect' his record. ![]()
![]() ![]() The current issue of Newsweek, the chief justice wrote, “contains a purported account of what is happening inside the court in the case of Planned Parenthood v. ![]() Rehnquist to write a stern note to all of the law clerks on June 10, 1992. There was, for instance, an apparent leak, one that prompted Chief Justice William H. There are other echoes of recent events in the papers of Justice Stevens, who served on the court for 35 years, retired in 2010 and died in 2019, at 99. In June, the current Supreme Court overturned Roe and Casey after considering questions about precedent and the court’s legitimacy, coming to the opposite conclusion from Justice Kennedy. Souter that saved the core of the constitutional right to abortion established in Roe in 1973. ![]() In the Casey decision, Justice Kennedy joined a controlling opinion with Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and David H. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She bluntly and repeatedly tackles the physical consequences of menopause: hip spread ("a confetti of cellulite"), flabby midsections ("like having a sleeping puppy lying on a pillow in her lap, except that when she stood up, the puppy, pillow and lap remained") and hair loss (but "you can get a wig for your pubic hair. ![]() Thayer dutifully lays down her threads and weaves them into a busy plot. Faye, a widow and blocked painter, solves a locked-room mystery while sleuthing on behalf of Marilyn and also discovers her inner art therapist. Brilliant and lovable, but a "dowdy academic," Marilyn botches her attempt to save Alice's high-power job but rediscovers her sexuality (after the Club revamps her wardrobe) and loses her insufferable husband, Theodore. ![]() Recovering alcoholic and perennial hippie Shirley, a talented masseuse, unknots workaholic Alice, who clues Shirley on how to dress for success, craft a business plan and establish her dream spa–retreat. A chance meeting at a cocktail party brings four Boston-area women in their 50s and 60s together to found the titular club, in which they confess their woes and plot to help one another. It's chick lit for the AARP crowd in Thayer's spirited but not very funny 14th novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In a starred review, a critic for Kirkus called the book a “snug, funny round of hijinks by low dogs.” They decide to break into the backyard, and much-needed shenanigans ensue. The story follows Augie and Perry, two dachshund friends who are bored out of their gourds after their human companions have once again left for the day. ![]() The movement and playfulness of dogs are on full display in Falconer’s new picture book. He likens this constant motion to being in a bus station, even more fitting because, as he sees it, dachshunds are “kind of bus-shaped. He recounts a time when he was living in Los Angeles with his own dachshund while also watching two dachshunds belonging to painter David Hockney he was in bed, and all three dogs were taking turns burrowing down to the foot of the bed under the covers and then crawling back out. (Falconer spoke to us via a Zoom call not from Manhattan but from Connecticut, where he’s recovering from a broken leg.) His currently canineless household notwithstanding, Falconer and his family have a history with dachshunds that stretches back generations. “I’d love to, but I live in Manhattan, and it’s just too much,” says the bestselling children’s book author and illustrator whose latest book is Two Dogs (Michael di Capua/HarperCollins, June 28). At the beginning of our interview, Ian Falconer clarifies that, right now, he doesn’t have dogs of his own. ![]() |