![]() ![]() The train’s magic is malfunctioning and spreading a purple smoke called The Fear through the streets of Chicago. ![]() ![]() Only, the stakes are even higher than they thought. Onboard, they discover each train car is its own magical world with individual riddles and challenges that must be solved before they can reach the engine room and rescue Louisa May. The catch? Louisa May has run onto a magical train that mysteriously arrived at the station near Etta and Eleazar’s houses. Invincible Girl is brave, daring, and bold-everything Etta wishes she could be.īut when Louisa May Alcott, a friendly Goldendoodle from across the street, disappears, Etta and the dog’s boy, Eleazar, must find their inner heroes to save her. ![]() Etta spends most of her time alone, working on her comic book about Invincible Girl, the superhero who takes down super villain Petra Fide. Twelve-year-old Etta Johnson has Loud Days where she can hear just fine and Quiet Days where sounds come from far away and she gets to retreat into her thoughts. In this touching debut middle grade novel, a girl with hearing loss and a boy adjusting to life in a new country connect through their love of comics and get entangled in their own fantastical adventure. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Joanne, then, receives one herself alleging that she and Jerry are not brother and sister, but in fact lovers! When they arrive they discover that someone has been sending poison pen letters to the residents of this sleepy town. ![]() Jerry and his sister Joanne therefore move to Lymstock expecting a quiet convalescence. In this novel, Miss Marple does not appear until the last few chapters, but the writing is sublime and her presence is felt throughout the novel.įormer Air-Force pilot, Jerry Burton is recommended by his doctor to convalesce in the sleepiest and most dull town possible. I'm definitely a Miss Marple girl! Poirot is great, but Miss Marple remains my favourite, particularly after the brilliant BBC dramatizations starring Joan Hickson in the 1980's. I do love me a good Agatha Christie! Reading an Agatha Christie is like sitting in your most favourite armchair wearing your comfiest slippers with a nice cuppa. ![]() ![]() ![]() Upon closer inspection, there is such an edgy nastiness to the film that makes its purposeful nihilism still feel shocking. ![]() Known largely now for its stinging treatment of pool shark culture and the cool, The Hustler shined a spotlight on the hunky king of that world, Fast Eddie Felson (played of course by a never-hotter Paul Newman). Piper Laurie began doing that in the 1950s as a contract player working with stalwarts like Douglas Sirk, and continued refining this type into the1960s with her iconic turn as Sarah in The Hustler (1961). When it comes to contemporary acting, however, distinct flashes of Laurie’s style can be glimpsed, albeit fleetingly, in the performance styles of starlets such as Carey Mulligan and Michelle Williams - women who are striking, intellectual, maybe a bit bruised, maybe a bit tough – tremulous gamines with hearts of steel. This label is perhaps a bit inaccurate when considering her expansive body of work over seven decades, that stretches across nearly as many artistic mediums – acting in film, television, theater sculpting, painting and now, with the release of her memoir, Learning to Live Out Loud, writing. The first thing I think of when I think of Piper Laurie is ‘Movie Star’. ![]() ![]() One of the most beloved cult novels of our time and a landmark of trans literature, Imogen Binnie's Nevada is a blistering, heartfelt, and evergreen coming-of-age story, and a punk-smeared excavation of marginalized life under capitalism. ![]() As Maria finds herself in the awkward position of trans role model, she realizes that she could become James's savior-or his downfall. She ends up in the backwater town of Star City, Nevada, where she meets James, who is probably but not certainly trans, and who reminds Maria of her younger self. Everything is mostly fine until Maria and Steph break up, sending Maria into a tailspin, and then onto a cross-country trek in the car she steals from Steph. ![]() She takes random pills and drinks more than is good for her, but doesn't inject anything except, when she remembers, estrogen, because she's trans. She's in love with her bike but not with her girlfriend, Steph. Maria Griffiths is almost thirty and works at a used bookstore in New York City while trying to stay true to her punk values. ![]() A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction finally back in print, Nevada follows a disaffected trans woman as she embarks on a cross-country road trip. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whatever I did to deserve you, it must have been good.Thanks for keeping me grounded while encouraging me to fly.Given a choice, I'd still pick you to be my mom.Mothers are the gift that never stops giving.Moms hold your hand for a short time, but stay in your heart forever.If you ever want to see what love is, just look through the eyes of a mother.Beneath every child standing tall, is a mom holding them up.Happy Mother's Day to my favorite pajama mamma.Happy Mother's Day to the original crazy cat lady.Someone else did the dishes, then put away the laundry.In the garden of love, you'll find moms growing.Whether near or far apart, a mother's love is always in your heart.Everything I ever hope to be, I learned from you.Happy Mother's Day to one of my favorite parents.Since most of these captions are short and sweet, pair 'em with some words of your own or a Mother's Day quote to really drive your point home. Below, you'll find captions that cover all the special women in your life: your mother-in-law, wife, aunt, sister, daughter (and new mom), stepmom and grandma(s). Sign up for NBC South Florida newsletters. Get South Florida local news, weather forecasts and entertainment stories to your inbox. ![]() ![]() ![]() By sharing his personal story, Sasaki makes his argument all the more appealing. In essence, Sasaki argues, the minimalist lifestyle liberates people by eliminating distractions and encouraging them to partake in the new sharing economy. ![]() ![]() ![]() He also credits the rise of the minimalist movement in Japan to information overload, the destruction of houses in the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, and the advancement of technology-particularly smartphones and cloud storage. The book is surprisingly intimate and often reads like a memoir posing as a self-help guide as the narrative moves between Sasaki’s search for happiness and practical ways to implement lifestyle changes (for example, he suggests thinking of possessions as roommates who don’t pay rent). Using his 215-square-foot apartment as the prime example, he suggests that studio living with mere basics not only reduces overhead and improves one’s social life but makes housekeeping three times easier.īuilds his case for a minimalist lifestyle by looking inward and sharing personal details about the improvements he’s made in his life. Sasaki, co-editor-in-chief at Wani Books, a manga publisher in Tokyo, delivers insights on the benefits of a private refuge in his compulsively readable primer on living with less. Goodbye, Things The New Japanese Minimalism Hardcover Illustrated, by Fumio Sasaki (Author) 3,163 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 14.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover from 30.23 2 Used from 30.23 13 New from 36.00 Paperback 22.54 16 New from 20.63 Audio CD 36.95 2 Used from 62.65 4 New from 36. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There is a very real fear, and possibility, that in reading you might contract the blackdog from the text itself, so virulent is the hopelessness that Kelso’s work details. This is a book of the contained and Ersatz is the world in the corner of the bourgeois eye, the poverty scratching itself into your pupil. In the city of Ersatz depression is real and rightly so, a creature stalking the material conditions of the city's inhabitants. Of that aforementioned list, only Gray has an actual knowledge and understanding of the post-industrial working class and its psychological conditions. In other words, there is as much Victor Hugo and Balzac and Alisdair Gray in Kelso’s vividly realised machinations of a society being digested by moral and economic decay as there is Ballard or Burroughs. Chris Kelso has written a number of acclaimed and prize nominated works spanning a variety of styles and genres, and yet it seems the critical reception of his writing has revolved around a misplaced categorisation of his style, and that this oversight ought to be addressed even if the short handed manner of doing so feels unavoidable within the conscripts of this review. ![]() ![]() ![]() There have bee n productions in San Francisco and Auckland, with others coming up. We remounted it six times, including at the Sydney Opera House, Belvoir and Melbourne Theatre Company, and most recently in 2010 in London's West End. By November 2006 we had it onstage at the Stables Theatre. In 2005, as Artistic Director of Sydney's Griffin Theatre Company, I commissioned Tommy Murphy to adapt the memoir. I was being interviewed because I directed the theatrical adaptation of the book. Conigrave wrote Holding the Man, a candid and magical memoir of his 15-year relationship with Caleo. I was to be interviewed for a documentary called John and Tim, being made by Waterbyrd Filmz, about the lives of John Caleo and Timothy Conigrave. ![]() ![]() Last week, a film crew landed in my living room. ![]() ![]() ![]() As my father would say, 'what side do you want to be on? Do you want to put your shoulder to the wheel of justice, or do you want to be part of the problem?'" "The Buddhists, I think, are much more perceptive when they recognise that evil, for better or worse, is part of the natural way of things, and it's not going to go away. And above all, he's advocated tirelessly for a better understanding of traditional cultures, and how they help us understand what it means to be alive on our planet. He's studied Santeria in Haiti and ayahuasca in the Amazon. ![]() He's written books about the great civilisations of South America and the exploration of Everest. Wade Davis is one of Canada's foremost anthropologists. Wade Davis in a discussion with Paul Kennedy, with excerpts from a lecture at the Ontario Heritage Trust. We have a lot to learn by listening more carefully. Wade Davis thinks we need to pay more attention to the values, the voices, and the concerns of Indigenous peoples. ![]() For all of our technological sophistication, the centre isn't holding, great civilisations seem less united than ever. ![]() ]In our age, many societies look like they're hurtling towards disorder and disunity. **This episode originally aired January 23, 2018. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Porque el género es también una identidad social, influida pero no determinada sólo por la biología, sino también por factores externos como la educación, la cultura o el entorno. La ciencia ha sido –continúa siendo- injusta con las mujeres. ![]() La sociedad ha cambiado mucho desde entonces, pero ciertas sentencias son muy difíciles de borrar del inconsciente colectivo. “Designar a las mujeres como el sexo débil es bioógicamente injusto.”Įn las páginas de Inferior se desmonta una falsa verdad biológica: las féminas no son débiles o endebles, ni física ni mentalmente.ĭarwin, considerado el padre de la ciencia moderna, afirmó a mediados del siglo XIX que “aunque las mujeres suelen superar a los hombres en cualidades morales, son inferiores intelectualmente”. ![]() |