![]() ![]() ![]() That can’t hurt in today’s puerile and downright stupid teen movie market. Moore’s character is also clear about liking herself for who she is, regardless of how often the “cool kids” make fun of her. Jamie is a Christian who actually manages not to look evil, one-dimensional, hypocritical, or silly, though her father is a bit hard-nosed (but gets better). Most of their friends should drive right off a cliff, but Landon and Jamie are actually pretty cool, with brains, ethics, and goals. ![]() The good news is that the film presents main character teenagers who are actually not annoying to hear speak. It’s very much like most romances, in fact, with very little to differentiate it. Sound familiar? A little like Love Story perhaps? Well, it is.
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5/30/2023 0 Comments Rocky by Bianca D'Arc![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ? The original “Rocky” won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Film Editing? Star Sylvester Stallone, who wrote the screenplay, received a nod for Best Original Screenplay, but lost to Paddy Chayefsky for “Network.” Dig deeper to infuse them with unusual and unexpected tics,ĭid You Know. These unusual little tics and traits add surprising and interesting depth to the characters. ![]() Adrian’s brother, Paulie, (and Rocky’s best friend) the boorish drunk who works in a meat packing plant is revealed to be a painter in “Rocky Balboa.” Rocky wears glasses to write down his debt-collection assignments from his boss (the specs would reappear briefly in “Rocky V.”). Expect the Unexpected from the Characters – From Adrian wearing a watch on her sweater to Rocky keeping the combination to his locker inside his fedora for six years, there are a plethora of little moments throughout the saga that you don’t expect from the characters, which makes them all the more real and relatable. ![]() ![]() The saga examines a lot of timeless social, political and economic issues. ![]() Bujold packs multiple levels of meaning into her deceptively simple but honed prose, putting more story into each page of her deceptively slim volumes than you would expect. There is a lot more humor in the series than that thumbnail description would lead you to believe. The series follows, roughly in chronological order, his parents' meeting and his birth, his construction of a Secret Identity as the admiral of a mercenary fleet, his loss of this identity, and his subsequent reconstruction of his life.īut funny. ![]() The majority of the stories feature Miles Vorkosigan, son of the Prime Minister of the Empire of Barrayar, who was born short, hunchbacked and with brittle bones as the result of a chemical assassination attempt on his father while his mother was pregnant. Sometimes known simply as the Miles Vorkosigan series, the Vorkosigan Saga is a collection of Space Operas by Lois McMaster Bujold taking place in a future where humans have colonized several new worlds, but continue to embrace all the bad habits that made life so fractious on Earth. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Angélique à québec anne golon![]() ![]() Vsevolod Golubinov died of a stroke in July 1972, when Simone Changeo was just beginning her search for historical material for the tenth volume of the Angelica series. In the year the book was published in the USA under the name of Sergeant Golon. Sergeanne Golon), without asking the opinion of the authors. ![]() An English publishing house published the first book in the same 1957 under the pseudonym Sergeant Golon (fr. In the year on the birthday of their third child, the first volume was published in France, the authors were Anne and Serge Golon introduction male name assumed a greater seriousness in the publication of the novel (the perception in society of a woman was different from today French women received the right to participate in elections only in the city). The first to publish "Angelica" were the Germans in the city, indicating Anne Golon as the author. In 1953, the manuscript for the first volume of The Angelica was sent to four publishing houses in France, Germany, England and Italy on behalf of Anne Golon. As Simone and her daughter Nadine now assert, the real author was Simone Changéot alone, her husband was more of an assistant in the search for historical material in the Versailles library. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Domesticated richard francis![]() Francis describes how tameness, tolerance of human contact, and increased in-group sociality are frequent precursors to domestication and are often allied with the retention of juvenile traits in adults. He ranges widely across species, including house pets, livestock, and pack animals, discussing the types of genetic changes that commonly occur during the process of domestication and the developmental implications such changes have. ![]() ![]() With encyclopedic detail, Francis ( Epigenetics) investigates the nature of domestication, focusing mostly on the biological rather than anthropological factors responsible for a wide array of human/animal partnerships. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Mr bear peace at last![]() ![]() Her father had a talent for drawing that he shared with Jill, regularly slipping illustrated notes into her school lunchbox, and her mother - previously a librarian in the Harrods lending library - had wanted to be a writer and did much to encourage Jill (while still at school Jill made her own library of hand-written and illustrated books to share with her friends). Jill Murphy (1949 – 2021) was born in Surrey. Murphy’s art, each print telling its own story, makes beautiful framed prints for children’s bedrooms or nurseries. Jill Murphy’s The Bear Family series of books comprise wonderfully warm and relatable stories, Murphy’s acute observation of family life delighting both children and adults alike. ![]() Jill Murphy's bestselling classic certainly resonates with tired parents who are all too familiar with the plight of poor Mr Bear… With a snoring Mrs Bear, an excitable Baby Bear and a house full of tapping and dripping and ticking, peace is hard to come by – will Mr Bear ever get a decent night's sleep? In Peace at Last we meet the delightful Bear family for the very first time. It’s been an honour collaborating with the Jill Murphy Estate, bringing a collection of prints from the much-loved Bear Family to life for the very first time. ![]() ![]() The Gorgios are even worse, trying to take the child away.Ī run-in with social services, aptly nicknamed the Cruelty, launches Serena on a journey that is at once an escape and a quest to reunite her family. The sisters get no help from the Yulang, because Willow’s child was born out of wedlock and the family has been declared outcast. By birth they are half Yulang, half Gorgio, but are accepted by neither race. In a society similar to ours in some ways and very different in others, 16-year-old Serena and her older sister, Willow, struggle to get by in a tough, crime-infested urban neighborhood. ![]() By Louise Spiegler (Published by Clarion Books)Īndre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction in 2005 ![]() ![]() ![]()
5/29/2023 0 Comments The bad guy celia aaron read![]() ![]() He is dark, twisted, disturbed and he will have you wrapped around his finger within a blink of an eye. ![]() Hold on tight ladies ‘cuz you are going to fall hard and fast for Sebastian. A scoundrel who will set the world on fire if that means he gets what he wants. But every fairy tale has a villain, someone waiting in the wings to rip it all down. She was a damsel, one who already had her white knight. ![]() Instead, this is the true tale of how I found her, how I stole her, and how I lost her. I neither seek forgiveness nor would I accept it. And I can assure you, it will get so dark that you’ll find yourself feeling around the blackened corners of my mind, seeking a door handle that isn’t there.ĭon’t mistake this for a confession. To tell the truth for once in my hollow life, no matter how dark it gets. My name is Sebastian Lindstrom, and I’m the villain of this story. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments List of redwall books![]() ![]() The streaming giant has plans for an animated original movie adaptation of the first book in the series, Redwall, as well as an animated TV series adapting the adventures of the books’ legendary Martin the Warrior, whose exploits begin in Mossflower, the second book in the series. ![]() Recently, Netflix announced that they have acquired the rights to the entire library of Redwall books. ![]() RELATED: 10 Incredible Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books That Need Adaptations The books, which were published from 1986 to 2011, the last one seeing posthumous release just months after its author’s passing, were aimed mostly at elementary and middle-grade readers, though they have an undeniable appeal for adults as well, and often explore dark and serious elements.ĭespite the popularity of the series, however, the Redwall books have only ever made it to the screen once before, in a three-season animated series that aired on public television in the United States beginning in 1999. ![]() For those who didn’t grow up reading them, British author Brian Jacques’ Redwall series is a massive, 22-book saga of anthropomorphic animals fighting epic battles of good-and-evil. ![]() |