6/29/2023 0 Comments Rachel daphne du maurier![]() ![]() ![]() Having already lost his heart, he is then (very willingly) initiated into sex, assuming all the time that marriage, or at least everlasting love, is on the cards. ![]() In some ways it is an age-old story, albeit with a trademark Du Maurier twist: sexually inexperienced 25-year-old becomes infatuated with someone 10 years older. I doubt there’s a phrase in the entire novel which better sums up what Daphne du Maurier is up to. In fact, revisiting this fantastically well-wrought novel of suspicions and betrayals some four decades later – and watching Roger Michell’s startlingly honest new film, starring Rachel Weisz – they might as well be lit in blazing neon. Now though, rather like its protagonist, I am also stopped in my tracks. I wonder if I even noticed these three brooding little words when I first read My Cousin Rachel as a teenager. ![]()
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![]() The book has been received beautifully so far, though, and that’s because it is beautiful. Not many Americans are exposed to that, and so she thought not many would embrace it. It’s an internal experience that uses traditional Igbo religion as its lens. It’s not about the “immigrant experience,” nor does it look like what other popular African writers have done before her. In a recent piece for BuzzFeed, Emezi ruminates on doubts she held that the novel would even have a future. I’m not particularly good at surrendering to unknowns.” You can’t predict anything, you have to surrender to a lot of unknowns. “It’s one of those things where it’s uncharted territory for me. When I ask whether she thinks the hurt will fade or increase once Freshwater is available for public consumption, she’s unsure. “It's weird to have this goal in your life that you look forward to, and you think it's going to be this magical ‘all my dreams are coming true!’ moment, and really, it's… it's that, but it's also very difficult and it hurts.” She laughs and continues, “Which was unexpected.” ![]() “It’s been a lot more stressful than I would’ve anticipated,” she tells me. When I speak with writer Akwaeke Emezi, it’s less than a week before her debut novel, Freshwater, comes out. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Darkly dreaming dexter![]() ![]() Because of his father’s teachings and his occupation, Dexter knows the perfect methods in which to dispose of and cover up his little hobby. Dexter specializes in killing other murders, rapists, and bad people, channeling his urge to kill into taking out only those who are threats to other humans. ![]() But he doesn’t just murder any kind of people. That’s because in his spare time, he’s a sociopathic serial killer who murders people. When he’s not living his alias as mild mannered, forensic expert Dexter Morgan, Dexter is up to plenty of hijinks. The series follows Dexter Morgan, a forensic blood spatter pattern expert analyst for the Miami-Dade Police Department. His first book in the Dexter series was published in 2004 and was called “Darkly Dreaming Dexter” as opposed to the title his daughter suggested, “Pinocchio Bleeds”. Dexter is the main character of the suspenseful, intriguing novels by Jeff Lindsay. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Vivian vance and lucille ball![]() ![]() Frawley died from a heart attack in March 1966 at the age of 79, while Vance passed away in August 1979 at age 70 following a battle with breast cancer.While he also had a reputation for being an alcoholic and difficult to work with, Considine called him a 'terrific guy'.Frawley and Vance played Fred and Ethel Mertz on 'I Love Lucy,' which aired from 1951 to 1957, but it was well-known that they despised each other.When the lieutenant general asked Frawley what Vance was really like, Considine said he bluntly replied: 'That miserable c**t'.The actor, who played Frawley's grandson on the show, told Page Six a lieutenant general and his adjutant were visiting the studio lot at the time.Tim Considine, 81, alleged that Frawley crudely insulted Vance on the set of their 1960s sitcom 'My Three Sons' years after 'I Love Lucy' ended.No love lost between the Mertzes: I Love Lucy star William Frawley crudely called his on-screen wife Vivian Vance a 'miserable c**t' after a fan asked what she was really like, co-star claims ![]() ![]() ![]() It offers rare insight into the lives of Maoist guerillas and of the Adivasi tribals living in the Red zone.īased on extensive on-ground reportage and exhaustive interviews with Maoist leaders, including their supreme commander, Ganapathi Kobad Ghandy and others who are jailed or have been killed in police encounters, this book is a combination of firsthand storytelling and intrepid analysis. The director-general of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is of the opinion that the killing of 22 security personnel, including seven of his commandos, in a Maoist ambush last week is not an intelligence and operational failure. ![]() ![]() It traces the circumstances due to which the Maoist movement entrenched itself in about 10 states of India, carrying out deadly attacks against the Indian establishment in the name of the poor and the marginalised. Pandita is the author of Hello, Bastar: The Untold Story of India’s Maoist movement. He has extensively reported from conflict zones ranging from Bastar to Baghdad. He is the co-author of the critically acclaimed book on insurgency: The Absent State. With direct access to the top Maoist leadership, Rahul Pandita provides an authoritative account of how a handful of men and women, who believed in the idea of revolution, entered Bastar in Central India in 1980 and created a powerful movement that New Delhi now terms India's biggest internal security threat. TRANQUEBAR PRESS HELLO, BASTAR Rahul Pandita is a senior special correspondent with the Openmagazine. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Fred rogers the good neighbor![]() James Wilson, Octavia Books, New Orleans, LA Winter 2019 Reading Group Indie Next List ![]() And when’s the last time a biography made you cry tears of joy?” Learning more about Rogers’ life through the words of his family and friends in this well-researched and comprehensive biography will give you even more reason to admire the man. Rogers’ Neighborhood, this is an essential read. If you are a fan of Fred Rogers and want to understand what drove him to create Mr. ![]() And yet, believe it or not, he was an even better, more caring man than he portrayed on television. “A wonderful biography of an American icon who seemed too good to be true. ![]() ![]() ![]() Being cool was the only important thing, and if you weren’t cool, what were you, really? It was a time of transition, vulnerability and confusion.Ī worn copy of “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” ended up in my hands one muggy summer day. I, like most other middle-schoolers, was struggling to keep up with the norms of the rest of my class and spent most of the day gossiping with my friends. I first read “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” when I was in middle school, a time that I still identify as one of the nastiest stages in adolescence. It’s always in the center of everything, out of sight and out of mind, co-existing until someone from the periphery has the sudden urge to pick it back up again. It’s as if I can’t bear to let it out of my sight every time I reread it, or as if the book can’t tear itself away from the countertop. ![]() Somewhere between the time when I first read the book five years ago and now, that spot on the kitchen island became the permanent spot for the novel. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments An ocean of minutes review![]() ![]() She agrees to a radical plan-time travel has been invented in the future to thwart the virus. When Frank catches the virus, his girlfriend Polly will do whatever it takes to save him, even if it means risking everything. America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. ![]() F]ull of fascinating social commentary on class differences, racism and 's easy to fall into this novel and become emotionally involved in Polly's journey and her search to find the people she loves." - Los Angeles Times In the vein of The Time Traveler's Wife and Station Eleven, a sweeping literary love story about two people who are at once mere weeks and many years apart. AN INDIE NEXT PICK A "Best Book of 2018" - Real Simple "Lim's steady prose and deft character development ensured that I was hooked on Polly's story from beginning to end. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Dreamland by Kevin Baker![]() ![]() The area hosted a trio of great playgrounds - Steeplechase, Luna Park, and Dreamland - each striving to be more extravagant and exciting than its neighbor, the three together forming a beachside city of lights, so bright that nighttime ship passengers approaching Manhattan from far off in the Atlantic were convinced that New York City was burning to the ground. ![]() And not always pleasant fiction, either.Ī "perpetual circus" is how one historian described Coney Island at its height. The whole enterprise sounds like fiction nowadays. ![]() When writing a novel set amongst New York's Coney Island amusement parks during the first decade of the 20th century, an author's greatest challenge may be to make the features and follies of those places seem credible. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments A Fortunate Life by A.B. Facey![]() ![]() ![]() There are no literary devices employed: this is simple narration, the honest telling of a tale by a marvellous storyteller. The author recounts the events of his life from the late 19th century through to 1976. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. A Fortunate Life is the only book written by Australian author, Albert Bernard Facey. They very soon found they had a bestseller on their hands! Albert died in 1982, nine months after A Fortunate Life had been published, and his daughter Barbara died in 2010. Finally, on the urging of his daughter, Barbara Rose, the hand-written manuscript was submitted to the Fremantle Arts Centre Press to see 'if they could print a few copies for the family'. He made the first notes of his life soon after World War I, and filled notebooks with his accounts of his experiences. ![]() Facey, who had no formal education, taught himself to read and write. He joined the tramways and was active in the Tramways Union. He was in the Eleventh Battalion at the Gallipoli landing after the war, he became a farmer under the Soldier Settlement Scheme but was forced off the land during the Depression. ![]() His many jobs included droving, hammering spikes on the railway line from Merredin to Wickepin and boxing in a travelling troupe. He was looked after by his grandmother until he was eight years old, when he went out to work. His father died before he was two and he was deserted by his mother soon afterwards. Facey (1894-2010) and grew up on the Kalgoorlie goldfields and in the wheat-belt of Western Australia. ![]() |