Persuasion dakota6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() While the filmmakers are aware of the potential backlash over remixing a classic novel, every change was made with Austen in mind. Movies Dakota Johnson takes control of the ‘unsexy’ side of making movies: Producingĭakota Johnson’s TeaTime Pictures will unveil “Am I OK?” and “Cha Cha Real Smooth” at this year’s virtual Sundance Film Festival. So it felt pretty natural to give voice to a modern sensibility through these characters.” “I relate so strongly to the book and I relate so strongly to Anne that I’m constantly drawing connections between my life and Anne’s. “I’ve loved Jane Austen my whole life, and ‘Persuasion’ has always been my favorite novel,” Winslow says. Instead, the writers wanted to bring a contemporary tone into a classic tale. Frederick Wentworth, Anne bemoans that they are now “worse than exes, we’re friends.” Austen, of course, didn’t write that in her 1817 novel, but the sentiment resonates with the sense of longing the English author evoked.įor screenwriters Ron Bass and Alice Victoria Winslow, who collaborated on the adaptation, the goal wasn’t to alter Austen’s intention or story. ![]() ![]() As she muses on her relationship with former flame Capt. In “Persuasion,” a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s final novel made for Netflix, protagonist Anne Elliot speaks directly to the camera, addressing the audience like an old friend. ![]()
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Heart to heart by lurlene mcdaniel6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() When Arabeth is sixteen, she and her mother receive the call that will change their lives-but they don't know to whom they should be forever grateful. When the worlds of these three girls and their families intersect, lives are changed in ways never imagined. ![]() Due to her diseased heart, she's led a sheltered life. Clair has not had the luck to have a best friend. Kassey only learns of this in a startling and devastating way-when Elowyn's life-giving donor wishes are about to be honored. Arabeth St. But one thing Elowyn has not yet shared with Kassey is that she checked the organ donor box on her newly acquired driver's license. This emotionally charged novel explores loss, love, renewal, and the ways in which these complex bonds within families and between friends are tested at life's most challenging moments. Elowyn Eden and Kassey Messechek are best friends. From Lurlene McDaniel, the bestselling author of young adult inspirational fiction, comes Heart to Heart. ![]() Fossil men kermit pattison6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It is the ultimate mystery: where do we come from? In 1994, a team led by fossil-hunting legend Tim White uncovered a set of ancient bones in Ethiopia's Afar region. A work of staggering depth." - Minneapolis Star TribuneĪ decade in the making, Fossil Men is a scientific detective story played out in anatomy and the natural history of the human body: the first full-length account of the discovery of a startlingly unpredicted human ancestor more than a million years older than Lucy ![]() In this, he is every bit as good as the best scientist writers." - New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) Pattison's uncanny ability to write evocatively about science. ![]() Requiem for a Wren by Nevil Shute6/24/2023 ![]() Alan Duncan, though considerably changed by his war experience, comes to terms with his life and adapts as best he could. Though this is somewhat a sad story, it is a hopeful one as well. Life afterward is nothing but just a struggle for survival, which battle she loses at the end. Her life is weighed by grief and guilt, and the resulting PTSD completely unmans her. With slow accuracy, Alan brings to life Janet, and her story wins the reader's sympathy. ![]() While the story is more or less revolved around the narrator/protagonist, a good part of it is spent on the story of the wren officer, Janet Prentice. His fear of flying and the fear of facing life challenges in his new disability are personal hurdles that he must overcome. The brother's girl, a wren officer, is lost to him without a trace, and he must find her for his brother's sake. His brother, a marine sergeant, has died in Normandy and he wishes to learn the true details. But this is not easy.ĭisabled fighter pilot, Alan Duncan, must confront his own ghosts and fears. They know that they must put the past behind them and adapt to civil life as best as they could. ![]() The ghosts of the past haunt them, the guilt weighs them, and an unexplainable restlessness possesses them. War may be over, but for them, it'll never be over. ![]() Requiem for a Wren is a sad story of the consequences of those servicemen/women who served in WWII. "Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.” ![]() Green Arrow, Volume 4 by Jeff Lemire6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() I'm still hopeful that this can eventually become something great, but for now I'll just settle for what it is. Oliver's father has never ( that I know of) really played a big role in his backstory before this, so why the sudden change?Īlthough, the show is pretty popular, so I can see why they'd maybe want to take things in that direction, and I'm probably one of the few people who didn't like it. ![]() It's not an exact copy of the show, but it felt tainted and stinky. And like the tv show, it wasn't a total accident that his ship went down and he ended up on the island. Instead of having Oliver's father give him a list of his wrongs to right, his father was part of some ancient Arrow Tribe.or some such nonsense. I was a little disappointed that they seem to be trying to take a page from the tv series, though. ![]() At least this made sense, even if it wasn't mind-blowing. ![]() Lemire is such an improvement on Nocenti that I can't help but breathe a sigh of relief. As much as I like the idea of Green Arrow, this volume still isn't what I was looking for. ![]() Singularity Sky by Charles Stross6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Aboard the New Republic's flagship, an engineer and intelligence operative from Earth covertly attempt to prevent the use of a forbidden technology-and fall in love along the way. This causes extensive social, economic and political disruption to the colony, which was generally limited by the New Republic to technology equivalent to that found on Earth during the Industrial Revolution. In actuality, the planet has been visited by the Festival, a technologically advanced alien or posthuman race that rewards its hosts for "entertaining" them by granting whatever the entertainer wishes, including the Festival's own technology. The novel follows the ill-fated military campaign by a repressive state, the New Republic, to retaliate for a perceived invasion of one of its colony worlds. Together the two are referred to as the Eschaton novels, after a near-godlike intelligence that exists in both. A sequel, Iron Sunrise, was published that same year. ![]() It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2004. Singularity Sky is a science fiction novel by British writer Charles Stross, published in 2003. ![]() Alexander freed star wars6/23/2023 ![]() The lack of information only makes the inscrutable creature all the more terrifying.īor Gullet is shrouded in mystery. Flipping through the Rogue One: Ultimate Visual Guide yields no clues only here on can you find a little information gathered by intrepid writer Amy Ratcliffe. And as it's the season for all things creepy, it seemed an appropriate time to talk about why.īor Gullet is so mysterious that we don’t have a lot of details about it, either in the galaxy far, far away nor our own. But none are as sinister and spine-tingling as Bor Gullet, which made its unforgettable debut in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Star Wars certainly has its share of creatures that go bump in the dark, from the shrieking mynocks in the depths of a cavernous asteroid to the snarling vexis lurking in the dim caves beneath the sands of Pasaana. In a galaxy filled with strange and unusual creatures, Bor Gullet stands out (slithers out?) as the creepiest. ![]() ![]() ” - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story novelization by Alexander Freed ![]() “The thing in the shadows repelled him, offended him on a level too intimate for words. ![]() Dial a for aunties epub vk6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, a dead body proves to be a lot more challenging to dispose of than one might anticipate, especially when it is inadvertently shipped in a cake cooler to the over-the-top billionaire wedding Meddy, her Ma, and aunties are working at an island resort on the California coastline. When Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome mother calls for her even more meddlesome aunties to help get rid of the body. Download Or Read PDF Dial A for Aunties Free Full Pages Online With Audiobook. ![]() Garnethill book6/23/2023 ![]() This event is part of the 2021 Book Week Scotland Digital Festival. Glasgow Women’s Library is the only accredited museum in the UK dedicated to women’s lives, histories and achievements, with a lending library, archive collections and innovative programmes of public events and learning opportunities. They are joined by the great niece of Hannah Frank, Barbara Spevack, who will read one of her relative’s poems. Melody and Denise will discuss women writers of the area and share anecdotes, stories and readings throughout. Denise’s debut novel Garnethill was named after this iconic location and the Glasgow Women’s Library have organised regular walking tours of Garnethill for many years. ![]() Join Crime writer Denise Mina and Glasgow Women’s Library volunteer Melody House on this special, conversational tour of the Glasgow Garnethill area. This pre-recorded film is part of the 2021 Book Week Scotland Digital Festival. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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