An odd biography, there is nothing in this book in Chris’s own words, except in the beginning that includes a short motivation speech he once delivered about going through rehab and one letter at the end that he wrote to his parents during his last relapse. However there are no other in...
I could relate to a lot of what she wrote about and really enjoyed reading this one. I also listened to the audiobook of Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, which is a short book about the sudden death of her father. I could relate so much too her feelings over the loss of ...
From age 14 to 17 Baldwin was active during out-of-school hours as a preacher in a smallPentecostalchurch, a period he wrote about in his semiautobiographical first and finestnovel,Go Tell It on the Mountain, and in his play about a womanevangelist,The Amen Corner. Baldwin’s preaching wa...
Before writing the famous "Peter Pan and Wendy" in 1911, James Matthew Barrie wrote "The Little White Bird" in 1902, in which he first explored the character of Peter Pan. José-Luis Munuera has adapted this forgotten text, creating a character that is both personal and loyal to the ...
a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumors that swirl around him.The readers: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they’...
Prospero's Books: Directed by Peter Greenaway. With John Gielgud, Michael Clark, Michel Blanc, Erland Josephson. The magician Prospero attempts to stop his daughter's affair with an enemy.
"The reason I wrote the book—which is called Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate—is because the period has relatively little purchase with the wider public unlike, say, the Tudors or the Victorians or the Normans. That situation is particularly puzzling because there...
building its collection by scanning physical book copies in its possession. It lends the digital versions to readers worldwide, with more than three million digitized books on offer. Titles range from Stephen King’s scary bestseller “It” to Kristin Hannah’s historical novel “The Nightingale....
(1974),The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, and Six More(1977), andTales of the Unexpected(1979). Dahl also wrote several scripts for movies, among themYou Only Live Twice(1967) and (with Ken Hughes and Richard Maibaum)Chitty Chitty Bang Bang(1968). His autobiography,Boy: Tales of ...
As a child and a teenager, I wrote ___, trying to be an author like him.When I ___ my first book, I was not sure if I should throw it out to the world or shelter it forever. That’s why I went to grandpa that night, my faithful reader, who once again gave me tremendous ...