And, as the latest in a series of films about famous woman by Chilean director Pablo Larraín it has good pedigree, especially Spencer (with Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana). But this movie depends on Angeline Jolie, and she doesn’t carry it off. She always seems to be acting. I don...
She does play a lot with fairy tales—she has written a series of works for theatre that are sometimes referred to as the Princess Plays, or the Princess Dramas, and which deconstruct figures like Snow White or Jackie Kennedy. And I suppose there is a simplicity to the narrative structure,...
Material Witness: The Drew Smith Series (Book 3) by Norwood Holland (Windmill Books, Sep 17, 2018) Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been by Jackie Hill Perry (B&H Publishing Group, Sep 03, 2018) Seven Full Days by Ferris Shelton (Off the Common...
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History byLea Ypi ***🏆 AFive BooksBook of the Year *** Readexpert recommendations “Freedoes all the things you could ask of a family memoir plus at least one hundred more. You’ve got the finely drawn family portraits, the novelistic reimagining...
I like some books better than others The Gundslinger is by far my favorite and I don’t love The Wastelands or Song of Susannah nearly as much as Wizards and Glass or the finale The Dark Tower. All that aside though you cant really pick them apart, the entire series is a cohesive ...
A note turns up from the Countess’s presumed dead oldest son with the chilling words, “I’m watching you.” But Nicolai Lazlaric survived, inhabiting the blood-saturated world of a vampire, consumed with seeking revenge on the one who turned him. And now it’s time to return to ...
Then I spend my free time researching ways to improve technology we have…though it’s not like anyone of my superiors would even listen to anything a mere junior operator has to say, although they really should. That is not to sound ungrateful, as I am sure many would make due ...
“If I were like One, then I can count too,” she thinks. So she pushes and pulls, stretches and straightens, forces and flattens herself, but in the end, she realizes that she can only be Zero. [picture book, ages 4 and up] She also has One and Two in this awesome series. ...
I must admit that I had a selfish motive in rushing to read Another Present Era. It’s exactly the sort of unique, utterly forgotten, and deeply intriguing book we’re publishing in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press, and Michael Gonzales was kind enough to communicate my in...
The book further covers a lot of points from scholars such as turning one’s own concept of God no longer makes one a free man, chains are on the mind, embracing the God of someone else leaves no hope for freedom, and that man came with the presence of divine fire. All these efforts...