![]() ![]() ![]() I hope you’re all staying safe and sane during this crazy time. She also thanked coronavirus first responders and other essential workers who “are keeping us safe.” On Wednesday, she posted a photo and message on Instagram thanking those who had wished her a happy birthday. But when Adele’s reality seemed to collide with Adele’s ideal, she too became outrage fodder. The multiple-Grammy winner’s “regular gal” persona, so deliciously at odds with the aching perfection of her voice, is the antithesis of the suburban perfection foisted on Reed. So if Donna Reed were a member of the White House press corps, Trump would no doubt be lashing out at her as well, shocked to discover that the actual woman was nothing like the stereotype she has been used to perpetuate.Īdele, meanwhile, got caught in a spin cycle that was Donna Reed in reverse. ![]() In 1984, she replaced an ailing Barbara Bel Geddes as Miss Ellie on “Dallas,” and when a recovered Bel Geddes returned to replace her, Reed sued and received a $1 million settlement. About the treatment of women in Hollywood (where she was known as a “troublemaker”), the Vietnam War (she co-chaired Another Mother for Peace and supported presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy) and nuclear power. As many rushed to point out, Reed was always outspoken, and often quite angry. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Novelists such as Aravind Adiga, and a slew of talented writers still unknown outside India, are painting artful portraits of present-day city life. But this aversion to the Indian capital seems to be waning. Distinct eras, value systems and social classes converge in this sprawling city.Ĭontemporary Delhi used to be ignored by authors, who tended to write about the city's glorious past or about other Indian locales. Businessmen and expatriates jog along the same trails from which labourers pilfer firewood for cooking and bathing. Servants who toil away for £60 a month walk their masters' gingham-clad dachshunds. In the parks of affluent south Delhi, college students exchange surreptitious kisses among 14th-century tombs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Magic and romance spliced with peril is the staunchest cocktail for escapist prone teenagers. Great for kids aged between 12 and 15 depending on reading level.ĭescribed as a ‘coming-of-age story with an unconventional romance between an aloof and difficult boy who happens to be a male witch and a strong-willed, psychically sensitive schoolgirl’ you couldn’t have planned a plot that would have hooked my 13 year old self more thoroughly. ![]() I remember this as being the first book I’d read that really scared me, that lured me in, that made me feel like I’d gone to a different, darker world. The three girls have to harness their own power, not just against the supernatural malice of their aunt, but against the poverty she keeps them in and the truth she keeps from them. ![]() Gaelyn Gordon’s, at times terrifying tale, Tripswitch pitches three orphaned cousins against their evil aunt Lureene a bludger of the system, a skeamster with evil powers and the abuser of her two twin sons Cain and Abel. ![]() ![]() ![]() But it turned out to be my favorite book that I read in the month of August! And that is high praise, because I managed to read a total of 15 books in August, with five of them being 5 star reads for me! So, thank you to my friends at Atria Books for asking me to be a part of the blog tour as we celebrate the release of The Charm Offensive this Tuesday September 7 th! I know you guys are going to fall in love with this one! So, when I heard about the premise of The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun, I’ll admit that I was skeptical. So many of my friends and sorority sisters look forward to watching The Bachelor or the Bachelorette every Monday night, but I just never really got the appeal, to be honest. Reality dating tv shows have just never really been my jam. Review: The Charm Offensiveby Alison Cochrun ![]() ![]() ![]() Because their parents come out only on weekends, he and his friends are left to their own devices for three glorious months. After a tragic mishap on his first day of high school-when Benji reveals his deep enthusiasm for the horror movie magazine Fangoria-his social doom is sealed for the next four years.īut every summer, Benji escapes to the Hamptons, to Sag Harbor, where a small community of African American professionals have built a world of their own. ![]() He spends his falls and winters going to roller-disco bar mitzvahs, playing too much Dungeons and Dragons, and trying to catch glimpses of nudity on late-night cable TV. Benji Cooper is one of the only black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Morelli is a Trenton cop and former town bad boy, and Ranger is a bond enforcement agent at Vinnie’s, as well as the owner of a Rangeman Security. Stephanie is perpetually undecided between two men in her life- Joe Morelli and Ranger. Whether it is that they find a large boa constrictor in someone’s house, Stephanie’s car blows up or gets crushed (she has really bad luck with cars), or if the skip is a “vampire”, there is always some sort of trouble. And every time they go out to find these people, some sort of mayhem always happens. However, Lula likes to tag along with Stephanie to find skips. Stephanie has befriended a large and in-charge (and proud of it), neon spandex-wearing ex-prostitute, named Lula, who is now the office file clerk. When the series begins, the main character, Stephanie Plum, has become a bond enforcement agent for her cousin Vinnie’s bond agency. There are 27 books in the main series and four in-between books. These novels are nothing short of comedic and raunchy as well. ![]() Another very entertaining and fun book, with Stephanie getting a lot. Book Review: Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich Goodreads Overview: Fugitive Apprehension Agent Stephanie Plum has a big problem on her hands: Seven-year-old Annie Soder and her mother, Evelyn, have disappeared. Unfortunately there are other dangerous characters looking for them as well. Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is caught up looking for a missing mother and daughter when they go missing on a custody bond. ![]() The Stephanie Plum series is a romantic, mystery series based in Trenton, New Jersey. Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich is the 8th book in the Stephanie Plum series. ![]() ![]() Later that evening, Brida, Uhtred, and Thyra go into the woods to play. Sigrid tells Brida not to spill the water or else she’ll turn the floor to mud. Brida and Uhtred are then taken to Leeds in Northumbria to work for Earl Ragnar and his family. ![]() The next day, they are taken to the battlefield and made to help recover the bodies of the fallen as well as their weapons. Later on in the series, she become's Ragnar's woman, and after he dies, she becomes Uhtred's nemesis.įollowing the Danish’s victory at the Siege of Eoferwic (866), a young Brida is taken prisoner, as well as Uhtred. When they reach adolescence, they become lovers. She and Uhtred become playmates and close friends. Like Uhtred, she is Saxon in origin, and is adopted by the Danes after they see the ruins of her village, wiped out by a raiding party from a rival band of Vikings and experience Brida's feisty nature.Īlongside Uhtred, she comes to love the Danes for their free-spirited nature. Brida is the central antagonist of the show, acting as the deuteragonist of the first half of Season 1, an anti-heroine in its second part, an ally in Season 2 and Season 3, the main antagonist of Season 4, one of the two main antagonists of first half of Season 5, and a major antagonist in its the second part. ![]() They're too stupid." -Brida īrida of Dunholm is a main character and later an antagonist in both The Saxon Stories novel series, and The Last Kingdom television series. ![]() ![]() ![]() After that, Charley did TV shows like Race to Dakar, By Any Means, Right to the Edge, Charley Boorman’s Extreme Frontiers, and Charley Boorman’s USA Adventure. This trip has been turned into a bestselling book and a hugely successful TV series named “Long Way Round”. ![]() Resulting from their shared love for motorbikes, they became friends and eventually set off to the first of several great adventures together: Going around the world from London to New York – via the long way – via Europe and Asia. It all started in 1997 on a film shoot, when Charley met Ewan McGregor, known from Star Wars, Moulin Rouge, Trainspotting, Doctor Sleep and other films. ![]() Adventurer, motorbike enthusiast, travel writer and TV presenter: Charley Boorman has explored the world for the past few decades. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1978, Steven Levy rediscovered Albert Einstein's brain in the office of the pathologist who removed and preserved it. His most recent book, Facebook: The Inside Story, recounts the history and rise of Facebook from three years of interviews with employees, including Chamath Palihapitiya, Sheryl Sandberg, and Mark Zuckerberg. Levy published eight books covering computer hacker culture, artificial intelligence, cryptography, and multi-year exposés of Apple, Google, and Facebook. ![]() He is the author of the 1984 book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, which chronicles the early days of the computer underground. Steven Levy (born 1951) is an American journalist and Editor at Large for Wired who has written extensively for publications on computers, technology, cryptography, the internet, cybersecurity, and privacy. Non-fiction (science-technology, business) Author Steve Levy at a book signing at Nest Labs in Palo Alto, February 2014 ![]() ![]() ![]() Are you surprised at the universal appeal of this story?Ī: I had already worked for a couple of years on We, the Drowned when my female cousin asked me a very unsettling question. ![]() Q: We, the Drowned has become an international sensation. There are cannibals here, shrunken heads, prophetic dreams, forbidden passions, cowards, heroes, devastating tragedies, and miraculous survivals everything that a town like Marstal has actually experienced, and that makes We, the Drowned an unforgettable novel, destined to take its place among the greatest seafaring literature. Strong, resilient, women raise families alone and sometimes take history into their own hands. Ships are wrecked at sea and blown up during wars, they are places of terror and violence, yet they continue to lure each generation of Marstal men fathers and sons away. ![]() Spanning over a hundred years, from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the Second World War, and from the barren rocks of Newfoundland to the lush plantations of Samoa, from the roughest bars in Tasmania, to the frozen coasts of northern Russia, We, the Drowned spins a magnificent tale of love, war, and adventure, a tale of the men who go to sea and the women they leave behind. ![]() Already hailed in Europe as an instant classic, We, the Drowned is the story of the port town of Marstal, whose inhabitants have sailed the world’s oceans aboard freight ships for centuries. Carsten Jensen’s debut novel has taken the world by storm. ![]() |