15. Remodernist film is for the young, and for those who are older but still have the courage to look at the world through eyes as if they are children. ** The only exceptions to Point 5 about video are Harris Smith and Peter Rinaldi; to my mind they are the only people who have...
Cool off with a frosty New Year’s Eve Chapter One excerpt fromThe Garden Collection, a story of courage, strength, and unconditional love. I’ve posted the New Year’s Eve Prologue to this sweet romance a few years ago. If you prefer to start there, here’s theLINK. Enjoy. Friday, ...
It also feels like the Courage TV show I remember as a kid, with random monsters unrelated to the main plot showing up at random to menace the cast. Having the Scooby gang trying to logic this stuff out when logic clearly has no place in this story adds a bit of hilarity to the ...
What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane. There was a point, as the missile crisis was reaching its peak, when Soviet Premier Nikita Khr...
Just the sort of courage you need right now, she reminded herself. She stowed the flask in her reticule and opened the door. The carriage creaked as the driver turned to look at her stepping down. The sky was overcast, the morning fog muffling the streetlamps that still burned. “Thought...
We got a card, a highlighter and we had to highlight the word we found each time we solved a riddle, all of them written by different writers. Here’s one: Each riddle was on an easel and we walked through the rooms of the museum. It was nice to be there after hours and it ...
but is it clear he doesn’t really want to get to know him, and through his teasing suggests he isn’t even worthy of an identity. Later in the story the girl befriends the boy, who dwells beneath the boardwalk and dreams of a better life. When the grandfather learns of this budding...
And to be honest, it’s not like I was able toabsorbthat much. Goodreads tells me I finished 90 books this year, but there’s maybe only 10 that stick out in my mind; and Goodreads does NOT report that I also started and read the first 20 pages of at least 50 more books which ...
In parallel, Sarah arrives in Ireland with a mission that leads her to uncover dark secrets blending the everyday with the otherworldly. Evie Woods has written another story that is both magical and grounded in the charm of everyday bookish life. Her ordinary characters have extraordinary courage...
The sort of transgression committed by Lessing and Mitchell surely is not the kind of ethical breach Dederer surveys among the male artists she includes in her book--rape, child abuse, other forms of violence--but to defy cultural norms as they did is an act of courage, unlike the ...