![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But I’m alert! Eyes shut open! Already all lights in the house are turned on! I’m at the verge of hysterical breakdown, waiting to see Sun Down Motel’s ghosts banging on the door. My husband is still making entire Jurassic World’s sound effects by snoring loudly. ![]() It’s midnight in LA, even my 24/7 partying neighbor is sleeping. I cannot sleep! I cannot move! I cannot breathe! When I was younger so much younger than today I never needed anybody’s help in anyway but even all ghost members of Beatles cannot save me! I’m numb, terrified! I’m speechless! I’m about to do something in my pants but I don’t! I barely hold myself! Thankfully, I wore diapers before reading something sooooo scary! So I’m giving my 5 gaazzzzzillion ssstaaarss (I cannot even speak or properly write, this book is so horrifying! I wish I hold my childhood Teddy bear to gather my wits but I already ripped its head when I was nine, reading Salem’s Lot! Dammit!) Twilight zone’s intro music blasting out in my mind: nananana!!!! I’m in the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition and I’m at the dimension of imagination….Nanana!!! This is one of my favorite horror reads of the year and so far it’s my favorite novel of the author! ![]()
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![]() ![]() This new translation encapsulates the qualities that have secured Proust's reputation, and serves as a perfect introduction to his writing.Ībout the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. ![]() Swann in Love is part of Proust's monumental masterpiece In Search of Lost Time, and it is also a captivating self-contained story. ![]() His wilful self-delusion is both poignant and comic, and his tormented feelings play out in scenes of high comedy amongst Odette's socially pretentious circle. The novel traces the progress of Swann's emotions with penetrating exactitude as he encounters Odette at the regular gatherings in the salon of the Verdurins. ![]() Swann is a highly cultured man-about-town who is plunged into turmoil when he falls for a young woman called Odette de Crecy. Set against the backdrop of Paris at the end of the nineteenth century, the story of Charles Swann illuminates the fragilities and foibles of human beings when in the grip of desire. Swann in Love is a brilliant, devastating novella that tells of infatuation, love, and jealousy. ![]() ![]() ![]() What are the strategies that helped you become successful in your journey?ĭuring the self-publishing process, I have met some amazing people, coaches, and teachers. It encourages a child’s sense of excitement and curiosity. The book introduces children to the wonders of color theory. My book, Kita and the Magic Paint is about Kita, the raccoon, and her friends discovering that by mixing two colors, they can create a brand new color. Please tell us more about your book, Kita and the Magic Paint. I am still learning more to this day, but it has truly become a passion that I will continue to pursue. Between editing, sketches, illustration process, and marketing, there was a feast of new ventures to research and learn. The process was not the easiest one there is a LOT to learn! I knew I couldn’t give up. I didn’t think I had what it took to make my dreams come true, but with unwavering support, I was encouraged to follow my dreams and accomplish my goal. It was something that I always wanted to do, be an author. I started the self-publishing process in March 2020. Laura Please tell our readers more about your journey. We love camping, live music, and creating different arts and crafts projects. I have an amazing husband and a very energetic 4-year-old. I write children’s books that encourage creativity and imagination. Hi Laura, Great to have you with us today! Please tell us about what it is that you do. ![]() ![]() Today, we have the pleasure of interviewing Laura, Author of Kita and the Magic Paint. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Solo actor Plunkett portrays about a dozen roles male and female, old and young. He pays a high price for not seeming to be like the other boys his age.Ībsolute Brightness was written with heart-tugging decency by James Lecesne, directed with a sure hand by Kate Alexander, and effortlessly performed by Jeffrey Plunkett. Leonard is considered “different” by many in his community. Rather, Absolute Brightness has a unique aura about it, with its own wrinkles taking on the issue of violence against one determined young man named Leonard Pelkey. Settling in at 1st Stage as the opening production of this year’s Logan Festival of Solo Performances, The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey is no vapid, run-of-the-mill police procedural. Performed at the Logan Festival of Solo Performances, 1st Stage. Jeffrey Plunkett in The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, written by James Lecesne, directed by Kate Alexander. It was a hate crime centered upon a missing young teen boy–a hate crime the detective ultimately closed with the help of some local citizens. ![]() He is recalling a hate crime from a decade previously that put his small “half-assed” South Jersey shore town, somewhere off the Garden State Parkway, on the map. “The dark side is my beat.” These are some of the first words heard from a New Jersey detective in The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey. ![]() ![]()
![]() At the time Sorrenti was an emerging photographer, sleeping on his agent’s couch and pinching pennies to buy film. We spent the next two years together we were inseparable.”Įarlier this month Phaidon released Kate, a collection of 50 portraits (see an exclusive image from the book above) of Moss taken by Mario Sorrenti during that period. They met again by chance a few months later at a party, and the photographer recalls spending the whole evening together, “walking into the early morning until we fell asleep in the grass in Hyde Park. When Kate Moss and Mario Sorrenti first met in London the summer of 1991 during a modeling job, Sorrenti was immediately taken with her. ![]() On the occasion of his new book ‘Kate,’ photographer Mario Sorrenti discusses starting out his career, slowing down in the age of digital photography, and passing on his craft to his daughter Gray. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you've always thought of Heaven as a realm of disembodied spirits, clouds, and eternal harp strumming, you're in for a wonderful surprise. Now, Randy Alcorn brings eternity to light in a way that will surprise you, spark your imagination, and change how you live life today. In the most comprehensive and definitive book on Heaven to date, Randy invites you to picture Heaven the way Scripture describes it- a bright, vibrant, and physical New Earth, free from sin, suffering, and death, and brimming with Christ's presence, wondrous natural beauty, and the richness of human culture as God intended it. We all have questions about what Heaven will be like, and after 25 years of extensive research, Dr. What is Heaven really going to be like? What will we look like? What will we do? Won't Heaven get boring after a while? ![]() ![]() Who is Katherine Ryan and her husband Bobby Kootstra? Do they have children together? 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He received his doctorate from Montreal's Concordia University after specializing in abnormal homicide and sex crimes. is a criminologist, lecturer, musician, and the author of seven books on crime. Behind The Horror: True Stories That Inspired Horror Movies Author 1, Mellor, Lee ISBN-13, 9781465492388 Language, English Publisher, DK Publishing (Dorling. Behind the Horror dissects these and other bizarre tales to reveal haunting real-life stories of abduction, disappearance, murder, and exorcism. ![]() Which case of demonic possession inspired The Exorcist? What horrifying front-page story generated the idea for A Nightmare on Elm Street? Which film was inspired by an 18th-century Japanese folktale? Unearth the terrifying and true tales behind some of the scariest Horror movies to ever haunt our screens, including the Enfield poltergeist case that was retold in The Conjuring 2 and the serial killer who inspired Hannibal Lector in The Silence of the Lambs. Uncover the twisted tales that inspired the big screen's greatest screams. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the other hand, the movie sticks faithfully to the later version of the text, which could potentially be cause for disappointment among those of us who expected Bortko to say something politically unexpected. On one hand, Bortko has been commended for at least trying to dampen down the story’s anti-Semitism, without losing sight of the bloody history of Cossacks and Jews. It makes sense that even today, Bulba should be expected to make waves. It’s a tale of Zaporizhian Cossacks, Poles, pogroms, war, forbidden love, and lots and lots of romantic nationalism. Taras Bulba, the short novel by Nikolai Gogol, has two versions – the later, official version being markedly more pro-Russian in nature. ![]() ![]() “I’ll tell you what I think.” Shortly thereafter I said, “Oh dear God. “The politics,” everyone said, “what do you think about the politics?” ![]() When I started getting texts and e-mails imploring me to see the new “Taras Bulba” film, directed by a Russian with a Ukrainian-sounding last name – Vladimir Bortko – I was intrigued. If you are not familiar with Nikolai Gogol, you should be. Of course, if you are familiar with Nikolai Gogol, you probably know how the film ends. ![]() |