Writers say that Whelan has helped them understand their own work. “When I listen to Julia read my stories, it sounds like she is calling you over to tell you a great story,” said Nuzzi, whose work has been narrated by Whelan. “When I write now, I try to think like that, that...
The storytelling compels the daughters to take stock of their own relationships, while Lara confronted a birds eye view of her own life. If you prefer an audiobook, the one for Tom Lake is narrated by Meryl Streep. 25. Good Material, Dolly Alderton Anyone who's thumbed the pages of a ...
Take my favourite line, used to describe an infested mattress on the ship on which Morten sails: ‘The lice seep forth like water.’ How horrifyingly marvellous is that? It captures the action so simply and so precisely. You can see the lice rising out of the fibres. It is absolutely ...
Narrated with engaging wit, the book brims with brilliant anecdotes. A particular favourite of mine is the account of Shelley’s father opening unlimited credit for his son at a bookseller’s in Oxford when he started there as a student: ‘My son here,’ he said, pointing good-humouredly...
Lawrence Kasdan did the screenplay for my favorite all-time genre film,Raiders of the Lost Ark,which would win a Hugo at Chicon V. And no, the Suck Fairy had not had any impact upon my appreciation of it which if anything has strengthened down the decades. She drops by to watch it ...
aNarrated by Morgan Freeman, it follows the annual journey that penguins and their mates endure to bring a newborn penguin into the world. This film has some of the most amazing footage I've ever see in a documentary ... including underwater footage beneath the ice of penguins feeding and...
The paper has a dual focus. One, is to use India as a case study to reflect upon the political, economic and socio-cultural structures of the country and h
The ISS has now become a backwater as far as programs go. It has aged badly, and only has a couple of years left. During this one day, the next phase of space exploration begins as a crew is launched for the next Moon landing. Still, between the workouts on the stationary bike and...
Narrated with engaging wit, the book brims with brilliant anecdotes. A particular favourite of mine is the account of Shelley’s father opening unlimited credit for his son at a bookseller’s in Oxford when he started there as a student: ‘My son here,’ he said, pointing good-humouredly...
The purpose of this study is three fold; first, it attempts to show to what extent Fielding’s writings unfold the basic characteristics of the eighteenth century lines of thinking, foremost of which is the importance of context for the determination of