5/23/2023 0 Comments Sally mann autobiography![]() Her memoir is less an account of her adult career as a celebrated photographer and more an elaborate rumination on the forces (genetic and willful) that have given a pleasing warp to her character and her art. Most admirers of Mann, and I am one, will find themselves doubly impressed after seeing what she can do on the page. I don’t want to exaggerate the effect of our brief interaction on her life. An editor headlined the piece “The Disturbing Photographs of Sally Mann,” and that teaser, along with the humid images inside of her three lissome children, clothed and unclothed, ensured an avid readership at a time when the country was hysterical about the perils of child pornography. ![]() A 1992 cover story that I wrote for the New York Times Magazine about her and her book Immediate Family created a media sensation for a week or two. ![]() ![]() Comments/Context: This review comes with a warning that I may not be a wholly impartial critic, as I play a minor role in Sally Mann’s memoir. ![]()
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5/23/2023 0 Comments Sea of tranquility a novel![]() “‘I was confused by your book,’ a woman in Dallas said. ![]() Then we jump again, to a section called “Last Book Tour on Earth,” in which a celebrated author, Olive Llewellyn, makes a long series of publicity stops in 2203, answering the same questions over and over about her famous pandemic novel. From there we jump to the year 2020 and the story of Mirella, whose husband killed himself after losing everything in a Ponzi scheme. In a forest near Vancouver, he encounters a strange man dressed as a priest with an unplaceable accent. We begin by following a young man across 1912 Canada after he’s been exiled by his family in England. ![]() ![]() It’s transporting and brilliant and generous, and I haven’t ever read anything quite like it. ![]() "Sea of Tranquility" is full of grandeur, but without even a whiff of grandiosity. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments The curse workers series![]() ![]() People smoke cigarettes and a stranger does "a line of coke" in the bathroom at a party. The main character's granddad is an alcoholic who frequently drinks until he passes out. He is repeatedly belittled and betrayed by his brothers and a close family friend who use physical and emotional abuse to get him to do things he doesn't want to do. The main character, Cassel is manipulated into killing others. Some characters self-mutilate as an act of penance for wrongful deeds. Parents need to know that this series starter features violence that is disturbing at times. However substance abuse is not glamorized and there are consequences for those who use.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. ![]() ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Hickman xmen![]() ![]() ![]() Hickman then wrote the core X-Men title developing those ideas, while other creators picked up on different aspects for separate titles featuring Marvel’s mutantsĪs individual issues, and even three trade paperbacks, Hickman’s vision for the X-Men stuttered because the ideas appeared prioritised above all else. That set out a blueprint of the X-Men’s future, introduced several threats, and established a community open to all mutants on the island of Krakoa, connected to the wider world via transportation gates and offering an array of new florinic-based technology. What he supplied was an innovative rebuilding of their world set over three separate eras introduced during House of X/Powers of X, mystifyingly absent from this Omnibus. In 2019 Jonathan Hickman was given free reign to re-imagine the X-Men and the world they occupied. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Tintenherz [1-4] by Cornelia Funke![]() ![]() It was the first time I worked on a book edit while the illustrator was sitting next door. Her husband Mike wrote a recipe for each plant AND Franziska Blinde, one of my Artists in Residence here at Volterra came to illustrate the book at my house. Then my daughter Anna translated it into German. ![]() I wrote this book in English so Tammi could read and comment and add her ideas. They’ll make Caspia go in search of ten plants, but she’ll find so much more on her adventures in the Green Kingdom. It is the story of ten letters in a drawer, written by a blind girl named Rosalinde to her sister Minna and of the riddles they contain. So this book tells the story of Caspia who has to spend a summer in Brooklyn, although she would prefer to stay with her friends. Non fiction? Fiction? I think it was a comment from her husband Chris that made us realize this should also be a story, as that’s what in a way we both are. It took Tammi and me quite a while to figure out what kind of book this should be. We became friends and decided to make a book together that would inspire the readers to take a closer look at Green Kingdom and to maybe make some of them fall in love with plants. I loved the way Tammi wrote about plants and she came to visit me. It all began when I read a book by Tammi Hartung, an ethno botanist and herb farmer from Colorado. This has been a very unusual book to work on for many reasons. Will be published in Germany in April 2023. ![]() ![]() ![]() Against the backdrop of a glittering but brutal circus world, this book charts the history of elephants in America, the inspiring story of the Elephant Sanctuary, and the spellbinding tale of Billie, a resilient elephant who defied the system even as she struggled to overcome a life of abuse and never lost sight of the life she was meant to have. “Last Chain on Billie: How One Extraordinary Elephant Escaped the Big Top” by Carol Bradley. Yet when Wellington escapes, Windrow is bereft and quickly replaces him with a calmer female tawny owl. Newspapers must be strewn everywhere to defend against “scatological accidents.” And there are nights when he hoots uncontrollably, much like an errant car alarm. Wellington turns out to be a handful: He requires unskinned chopped rabbit - awkward to order at Harrods Food Hall. Windrow is a British historian, editor and author of several hundred books, articles and monographs, particularly those on organizational or physical details of military history, and the history of the post-war French Foreign Legion. ![]() ![]() His brother, an expert in falconry, finds him a little owl - a bird roughly the size of a loaf of bread. ![]() While recovering in his London high-rise from a skydiving accident, British military historian Windrow wishes for the company of a pet. “The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar: Living With a Tawny Owl” by Martin Windrow. ![]() ![]() And as she races to save England from a most disturbing fate, Maggie realizes that a quick wit is her best defense, and that the smallest clues can unravel the biggest secrets, even within her own family. The upstairs-downstairs world at Windsor is thrown into disarray by a shocking murder, which draws Maggie into a vast conspiracy that places the entire royal family in peril. Yet castle life quickly proves more dangerous - and deadly - than Maggie ever expected. Instead, to her great disappointment, she is dispatched to go undercover at Windsor Castle, where she will tutor the young Princess Elizabeth in math. ![]() Spirited, strong-willed, and possessing one of the sharpest minds in government for mathematics and code-breaking, she fully expects to be sent abroad to gather intelligence for the British front. Now Maggie returns to protect Britain's beloved royals against an international plot - one that could change the course of history.Īs World War II sweeps the continent and England steels itself against German attack, Maggie Hope, former secretary to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, completes her training to become a spy for MI-5. Susan Elia MacNeal introduced the remarkable Maggie Hope in her acclaimed debut, Mr. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Untitled by Leigh Bardugo![]() Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, Nikolai must find a way to refill Ravka’s coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army. ![]() No one knows what he endured in his country’s bloody civil war-and he intends to keep it that way. The dashing young king, Nikolai Lantsov, has always had a gift for the impossible. "The story exists at an intersection of past and future selves, and in the dawning understanding that what you most fear may be what you most need." - Washington Postįace your demons.or feed them. " touches on religion, class, family, love - all organically, all effortlessly, all cloaked in the weight of a post-war reckoning with the cost (literal and figurative) of surviving the events that shape both people and nations." - NPR ![]() See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with the Netflix series, Shadow and Bone - Season 2 streaming now!ĭiscover what comes next for daring rogue Nikolai in King of Scars, the start of this captivating new duology from #1 bestselling author, Leigh Bardugo. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Sooner or later bruce hart![]() ![]() ![]() The Harts wrote a string of YA novels for Avon Flare in the late 80s/early 90s, and Now Or Never was the second to last of them.Īs for Carole Hart writing another book without her husband - her most recent work seems to be a documentary released in 2009 called For The Next Seven Generations. It's worth noting that there was something like 20 years between the publication of Waiting Games and Now Or Never based on the fact that the book seems to have been out of print ever since its initial run, I'm guessing that whatever success it had didn't warrant continuing, anyway. ![]() My guess is that the main reason the book was written decades after the second one was to finish what they'd started, not really to revive/reboot the series to go on and on. I'm not quite sure why so many people feel that the story was left unfinished. I bought a copy of Now Or Never back when it was still in print, and I can tell you that the story does reach a conclusion in that book, even though the Harts left themselves a bit of room to keep going just in case. Bruce and Carole Hart wrote another rock-themed novel set in NJ called Strut, but it is unconnected to the Sooner Or Later series. ![]() Twilapickle, the above poster is mistaken, there are only three novels in the series: Sooner Or Later, Waiting Games, and Now Or Never. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Flat stanley invisible stanley![]() ![]() ![]() Originally a child actor, he became Jeff Brown because Actors Equity already had a Richard Brown as a member. Jeff Brown was born Richard Chester Brown. ![]() In translation, he traveled to France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan and Israel, among other places. The character's life extended further, as schoolchildren mailed cut-outs of him to their friends. All together, Stanley's tales have sold nearly a million copies in the United States alone. The last, "Stanley, Flat Again!," was published the year he died. Flat Stanley became the star of a series of perpetually popular books. Jeff Brown had worked in Hollywood and as an editor and writer in New York before creating Flat Stanley, a hero for the youngest readers whose adventures, with illustrations by Tomi Ungerer, were first published in 1964. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. ![]() |