![]() ![]() Hollywood is very welcoming to foreigners, but Americans for the most part aren't welcomed in other countries. Henry Cavill as Superman, James Garfield as Spider-Man, Christian Bale as Batman, Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln? ![]() Imagine if Stephanie Meyers expressed disgust at the casting of non-Americans in her Twilight series? Or if a foreign actor were turned down for an iconic American role because of their nationality, e.g. with Americans, so production was moved to England for his convenience. Also, Rosie O'Donnell, who enjoyed the books, expressed interest in a bit part (forget which), but she was turned down, too, per Rowling's order.īack in the mid-'80s, when Disney was starting on Who Framed Roger Rabbit, they hired Canadian-born British animation director Richard Williams, who was renowned for his exquisite animated title sequences in films like The Pink Panther series, but he refused to work in L.A. Director Chris Columbus had chosen Liam Aiken, with whom he'd worked previously on Stepmom, for the title role, but Rowling nixed that idea. ![]() Rowling stipulated that only British actors would be cast in the Harry Potter movies, never mind that the films were by Warner Bros., a major American studio. ![]() I've noticed this with British commonwealth writers and such. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If she bests her fellow students in contests of steel, poison and the subtle arts, she’ll be inducted among the Blades of the Lady of Blessed Murder, and one step closer to the vengeance she desires. Now, Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic-the Red Church. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father’s former comrades. In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.ĭaughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. As a result of being tired, I can’t concentrate, so I didn’t want to start listening to Nevernight and find myself lost.Īnyway, less self-pity and more of the review! Lately, I’ve been finding it difficult to wake up and get out of bed. Typically I listen to audiobooks in the morning, whilst getting ready for work. I haven’t been able to listen to it as quickly as I would like though. It’s no fault of the audiobook at all – I loved it (and I’ll go into more detail on that below). I feel like this review is a little overdue, just because Nevernight took so long to listen to. ![]() ![]() For over two years, Michael has been scouring the midwest for buried newspaper articles and obscure medical reports, and now he’s finally pinpointed the source of the problem. Pretty young men and women like Michael’s best friend, Scary Mary, are disappearing from underground goth clubs all over Detroit. It’s super short, 2.8k, and it’s free, so pour yourself a cup and read it. When I’d panic-read this – not that it was any hardship, mind you – I realised I’d already reread a book this month, so there really was no need to panic. The guy Mikael is trying to kill is the one who turned Wild Bill against his will, so their end goal is the same.īlood, sex and humour – that’s what you get in these, and if you find yourself with some time on your hands, I recommend giving them a go. Mikael’s best friend Scary Mary was killed by vampires and in Payback, Mikael is set on getting payback. This is a series of short stories about goth guy Mikael and vampire Wild Bill. Next up is Manikin, and if I remember correctly, it was the one I liked the best when I read them the first time. So despite not having time to read, I read both Payback and Vertigo. It’s been many years since I read it, but you can’t go wrong with Jordan Castillo Price – you really can’t. Going through my favourite short stories in my head, I came to think about the Channeling Morpheus series by Jordan Castillo Price. ![]() ![]() It’s ReRead Friday! I had a bit of a panic because I hadn’t reread anything when this came up on my to-do, so I figured I’d have to grab something short. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “The Embodiment” takes us into a dystopian gynecology office where a pregnant woman is told that she must find a father for her baby or face horrific consequences. “The Head” follows a woman haunted by her own bodily waste. But in this unforgettable collection, translated by the acclaimed Anton Hur, Chung’s absurd, haunting universe could be our own. By turns thought-provoking and stomach-turning, here monsters take the shapes of furry woodland creatures and danger lurks in unexpected corners of everyday apartment buildings. ![]() “Like the work of Carmen Maria Machado and Aoko Matsuda, Chung’s stories are so wonderfully, blisteringly strange and powerful that it's almost impossible to put Cursed Bunny down.” ―Kelly Link, bestselling author of Get In TroubleĪ stunning, wildly original debut from a rising star of Korean literature-surreal, chilling fables that take on the patriarchy, capitalism, and the reign of big tech with absurdist humor and a (sometimes literal) biteįrom an author never before published in the United States, Cursed Bunny is unique and imaginative, blending horror, sci-fi, fairy tales, and speculative fiction into stories that defy categorization. "Cool, brilliantly demented K-horror-just the way I like it!" - Ed Park, author of Personal Days SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE AND WINNER OF A PEN/HEIM TRANSLATION GRANT ![]() ![]() ![]() In telling the story of the Youngers, a Black family aiming to move from a “rat trap” tenement on Chicago’s South Side to a house in a working-class white neighborhood, it both reports on and anticipates the racist backlash to upward mobility that has been a blight on American life since Reconstruction. It’s not as if the play needed help to feel relevant like all great works it has proved itself incessantly timely. How, then, to make it new? Apparently, on the evidence of this staging, by furiously underlining its subtleties and downplaying its conventional strengths, a reversal of standard procedure that produces a sometimes stunning, sometimes stunted result. ![]() Yet on Tuesday the Public opened O’Hara’s take on Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun”: not merely a revival but a further “exploration” of an earlier production of a 1959 classic that is arguably as well known today as it was epochal when it debuted. Leaving his recent “ Long Day’s Journey Into Night” aside, Robert O’Hara doesn’t typically direct revivals nor, leaving Shakespeare aside, does the Public Theater typically produce them. ![]() ![]() (…I can’t decide if I’d like to imagine myself sitting at a café or riding in a gondola while leisurely enjoying a decadent dessert, some glassy gelato or biscotti and a cup of Cappuccino in my couture ball gown and Gucci sunglasses…Espresso has always been a little too strong for me. And, bravo/brava! if you’re fortunate to have experienced the authentic Italian culture and regional foods while on vacation. ![]() ![]() Reservations continue to offer the chance to sit-down and “mangiare” in a Classic family-style setting with traditional entrées complimented by a cocktail or glass of wine, a plate of assorted olives, peppers and cheeses or artisan bread dipped in infused olive oil. Attendees nostalgic of Poughkeepsie’s First Friday and Italian Festivals might remember being encouraged to try hand-held variations on more conventional staples while walking past food trucks and pop-ups promoting local venues – like the casual, often inexpensive slice of pizza (my compliments to Naples!). At least here in the Hudson Valley residents and tourists from all walks of life routinely order take-out or find their way to Poughkeepsie’s Little Italy to support restaurants and bakeries established in the Italian district and surrounding area. ![]() With a pizza shop on almost every corner it’s hard to say you haven’t tried some version of Italian food while visiting or living in New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() Penelope would love to help, but she’s smuggled an American Normal into London, and now she isn’t sure what to do with him. ![]() In Any Way the Wind Blows, Simon and Baz and Penelope and Agatha have to decide how to move forward.įor Simon, that means deciding whether he still wants to be part of the World of Mages - and if he doesn’t, what does that mean for his relationship with Baz? Meanwhile Baz is bouncing between two family crises and not finding any time to talk to anyone about his newfound vampire knowledge. And in Wayward Son, they wondered whether everything they understood about themselves might be wrong. In Carry On, Simon Snow and his friends realized that everything they thought they understood about the world might be wrong. Other books by Rowell reviewed on this blog: Any Way the Wind Blows (Simon Snow #3) by Rainbow Rowell ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout this and subsequent books, he argues for system of education that emphasizes learning as an act of culture and freedom. He returned to Brazil in 1979.įreire's most well known work is Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970). In 1969 he was a visiting scholar at Harvard University and then moved to Geneva, Switzerland where he assumed the role of special educational adviser to the World Congress of Churches. ![]() Following the military coup d'etat of 1964, he was jailed by the new government and eventually forced into a political exile that lasted fifteen-years. He subsequently became active in adult education and workers' training, and became the first Director of the Department of Cultural Extension of the University of Recife (1961-1964).įreire quickly gained international recognition for his experiences in literacy training in Northeastern Brazil. After a brief career as a lawyer, he taught Portuguese in secondary schools from 1941-1947. Born in Recife, Brazil, on September 19, 1921, Freire died of heart failure in Sao Paulo, Brazil on May 2, 1997. The Brazilian educator Paulo Freire is among most the influential educational thinkers of the late 20th century. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story teaches us that true love is always worth sacrificing for. Although her love was not reciprocated, the nightingale’s selfless act of love is remembered long after she is gone. In the end, the rose is given to someone else and the nightingale dies. The nightingale sacrifices her own life to create a crimson rose for the object of her affection. A young nightingale falls in love with a beautiful rose, but the rose is promised to another. The Nightingale and the Rose is a story about love and sacrifice. The Nightingale and the Rose: A Fairy Tale of Love and Sacrifice The story has been adapted into various forms, including an opera, ballets, and films. The story is about a nightingale who sacrifices her own life to create a rose for a young student who is in love with a professor’s daughter. The Nightingale and the Rose is a fairy tale written by Oscar Wilde. ![]() ![]() ![]() The adventures continue for Laura Ingalls and her family as they leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and set out for Kansas. They offer a unique glimpse into life on the American frontier, and tell the heartwarming, unforgettable story of a loving family. The nine books in the timeless Little House series tell the story of Laura's real childhood as an American pioneer, and are cherished by readers of all generations. Just when the Ingalls family starts to settle into their new home, they find themselves caught in the middle of a conflict. Laura and her sister Mary love exploring the rolling hills around their new home, but the family must soon get to work, farming and hunting and gathering food for themselves and for their livestock. Laura Ingalls and her family are heading to Kansas! Leaving behind their home in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, they travel by covered wagon until they find the perfect spot to build a little house on the prairie. ![]() ![]() This edition features the classic black-and-white artwork from Garth Williams. About the Book A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.īased on the real-life adventures of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie is the third book in the award-winning Little House series, which has captivated generations of readers. ![]() |