Bad things for Perivale, yes, but good things for the reader. I really enjoyed this (as I always enjoy Milne) and loved that it was of a more serious bent than some of his other plays of the era. I love a good comedy of errors about bigamy but a change is nice. ...
Everyone had left for upstairs except Imma who seated alone in the parlor, face bent down to her phone as if she was busy with something important. “What are you doing there, come on” those were the courteous words of Greg’s elder sister who cheerfully smiled at Imma and took her up...
. . . his tail when he trotted along curled over his back and made children laugh aloud; but when he was thinking about the chase it hung in a horizontal bow; when stealing away or in full cry it was held slightly lower and no longer bent, and it flowed finely into the curves of ...
Gender: Male Hair color: Grey Eye color: Brown Political and military information Affiliation: Vanguard Cult of Osiris (unofficially) Rank: Vanguard Commander (formerly) Class: Warlock (Dawnblade, Voidwalker, Sunsinger, Stormcaller, formerly) (Broodweaver) Notable info: Capable of cr...
Another great read (recommended to me by a librarian) was Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo. It’s the second book in the Ninth House series and set in New Haven, CT, my hometown. The book is based on the secret societies at Yale and is full of magic and ghosts. A wonderful read for a...
Josie’s not caught up in the gender implications of a crew that includes roles for actresses like Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, and Tuva Novotny; she’s just concerned with their professional bonafides. Garland’s film is rife with such intriguing twists that poke at...
They plan parties, cast curses on dudebros, try to find Sideways a girlfriend, and elude the fundamentalist witch hunters hellbent stealing their magic. But for Sideways, the hardest part is the whole ‘having friends’ thing. Who knew that balancing human interaction with supernatural peril ...
walking with them, bent my left leg back from the knee as if the ankle had been mangled while stepping onto an escalator…. Twice each week the phone rings at three in the morning. I never answer. Someone is practicing sad news, I’m certain. ...
The path was narrow and in places crossed through domes made where snow weighed down evergreen boughs. There were towering rhododendron bushes, their leaves snow-covered and curled against the cold. Some of them were twelve or fifteen feet high but where their branches were bent down with snow...
appeared in women’s magazines as an ad for a contemporary clothing brand. Leonardo’s postures and gestures are explicitly performed, strikingly, by women. There is one enigmatic young man, with his bare torso turned away from the viewer. He seems bent in sorrow, perhaps foreshadowing the ...