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Rebound by kwame alexander5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Parents should be prepared to discuss coping with loss and feelings, as well as choosing the right people to allow in your life. ![]() It deals with the death of a parent and grief along with normal teen-growth drama. He’s also the Founding Editor of Versify, an imprint that publishes fiction and poetry for children and young adults. ![]() This powerful novel in verse is set in the late 1980s and focuses on the childhood experiences of Chuck, who will grow up to become the beloved dad of The Crossover's Jordan and Josh. Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, and the New York Times bestselling author of 28+ books, including The Undefeated, Booked and Rebound, the follow-up to his Newbery medal-winning middle grade novel, The Crossover. Parents need to know that New York Times best-seller Rebound is a stand-alone prequel to Kwame Alexander's Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Honor Book The Crossover. A boy looks forward to trying beer with his parent and hates it.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Two teens are caught with marijuana on them and get arrested. The same teen and his friends are seen drinking from bottles in brown paper bags, most likely alcohol. A teen is described as changing personalities when he started smoking weed. ![]() Heavenly Khan by Victor Cunrui Xiong5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() But as one keeps reading, one may become blasé. The lyrical style is a breath of fresh air. In my opinion, the book doesn't deserve to be canceled, but at least the publisher should include a caveat.more In addition, Plath speaks of "yellow as a Chinaman," and refers to a handsome man as "Nordic" (meaning Aryan).
Persuasion story5/24/2023 ![]() However, at 19, Anne was easily swayed by the opinions of others.Īnne’s mentor, Lady Russell, had different plans for the young woman than marrying a poor lieutenant in the Royal Navy. Anne and Wentworth loved each other deeply. ![]() ![]() Persuasion is set eight years after a certain event–Anne Elliot rejecting the proposal of Lieutenant Frederick Wentworth. He, however, is a rich captain–and he holds a grudge. When Anne and Wentworth reunite, she’s penniless and love-struck. Anne Elliot (Dakota Johnson) rejected her love, Frederick Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis), eight years ago.Įver since, she’s regretted letting her mentor persuade her away from him. Directed by Carrie Cracknell and written by Ron Bass and Alice Victoria Winslow, Netflix’s Persuasion adapts one of Jane Austen’s most beloved novels. ![]() Arthur clarke space odyssey5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() “It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen,” he told Kubrick’s assistant editor. Griffith in 1915, only a teenager in the projection booth had anything nice to say about 2001. People love to remember how the snobs got it wrong.Īt one studio screening, attended by, among others, a woman who had worked forĭ. ![]() Those preview screenings and early reviews have become part of the film’s legend. The critics in New York, however, all hated it (except for Penelope Gilliatt in the New Yorker), and it had not done well in preview screenings with studio execs and celebrities, who found it boring and confusing. It was especially popular with acidheads and pot smokers, science geeks, budding filmmakers, and people under forty in general. It was a big hit and ended up the highest-grossing film of 1968. STANLEY KUBRICK’S 2001: A Space Odyssey was not a flop when it came out. ![]() George lucas revenge of the sith5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() The obvious bluescreen set extensions and scenes made out of ones and zeroes made the very flesh and blood actors feel as artificial as the pixels surrounding them. ![]() A large chunk of the blame there could be pinned on the prequels’ reliance on then-pioneering digital innovations and CG instead of the analog tangibleness of creature and model effects that were staples of the original films. Ironically, that creative spark that fills every frame of Lucas’ first Star Wars movie feels largely absent from the prequels - especially in Sith. But unfortunately, none of the prequels were as good as the ones fans imagined for 16 years. Sith does many things differentlt than Luke, Han and Leia’s movies, but none of them better - forcing the franchise into a deep carbonite freeze until Disney bought Lucasfilm and went on to release The Force Awakens in 2015.īefore Menace and after Return of the Jedi, fans spent the better part of 20 years waiting for more big-screen stories from that galaxy far, far away - stories that would backfill into A New Hope and deliver on two decades worth of expectations. Like the other two prequels, it suffers from clunky narrative choices and problematic character drama that the original trilogy does not, choices that are seemingly features and not bugs of Lucas’ emotionally flat prequel experiment. In hindsight, and long after the rush of opening night has faded, Sith is arguably the movie that broke Star Wars. ![]() The crossing bosch5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() You don’t have to have followed Bosch for the quarter of a century he’s been doing this you don’t need to know his past and have deep background to understand his character. “Nobody writes police procedurals as well as Connelly. ![]() ![]() “Fast detective action is skilfully interwoven with courtroom pyrotechnics.” “utterly engrossing work from the reigning master of the police procedural.” “Connelly’s masterly 20th Harry Bosch novel… …the notion of crossing resonates on different levels-the intersection of predator and prey, cops gone rogue, and for Bosch, the transition from one part of his life into something exciting and new. ![]() As always, Connelly’s blackboard work is as precise as his finale is exciting.” …But the appeal here isn’t all cerebral the novel concludes with a stunning, bullets-flying set piece in whichĬareful investigation turns suddenly to intense action, almost like a nuclear physicist’s blackboard formulas exploding into atomic bombs. The Crossing is one of the Evening Standard’s Best Crime Fiction Books of 2015 The Crossing is one of Amazon’s Bestselling New Books for 2015 The Crossing is one of ’s Best Mystery Novels of 2015 Home » The Crossing (2015) » The Crossing Reviews ![]() ![]() ![]() It was this capacity that enabled Lincoln as president to bring his disgruntled opponents together, create the most unusual cabinet in history, and marshal their talents to the task of preserving the Union and winning the war. He won because he possessed an extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires. That Lincoln succeeded, Goodwin demonstrates, was the result of a character that had been forged by experiences that raised him above his more privileged and accomplished rivals. ![]() Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry. ![]() ![]() Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president. ![]() Station Country by Philip Holden5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() While on this team, Coulson discovered that he had been killed and brought back to life. to lead a new team to investigate the cases S.H.I.E.L.D. To preserve his sanity, it was necessary to erase all his memories of his own death and resurrection.Ĭoulson returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. ![]() ![]() On Fury's orders, Coulson was brought to the Guest House, a secret facility where he was brought back to life using treatments developed by Project T.A.H.I.T.I., which Coulson had formerly presided over. His death gave the Avengers the push they needed to band together and stop the Chitauri invasion. operative in the investigation into Stark Industries.ĭuring the Attack on the Helicarrier, Coulson was killed by Loki. Coulson later ran ground interference, surveillance and tactical operations in Puente Antiguo, New Mexico as part of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s investigation surrounding an incident with Thor and the Destroyer. ![]() He served as the primary operative in the Avengers Initiative following a Skrull Invasion of Earth in 1995 that led to the surfacing of Captain Marvel. Coulson was Nick Fury's right-hand man for many important missions and his liaison to the Avengers. "Phil" Coulson was a highly decorated agent and former Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. To serve when everything else fails, to be humanity's last line of defense, to be the shield." ―Phil Coulson ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What ensues is an atmospheric, cryptic extrapolation of movies and how they intertwine with life, and the forgotten films that curse the lost librarian still. ![]() Laing agrees to speak with the journalist, but only through the lens of the cinema. Unsure at first whether Laing is a pseudonym or some sort of Hollywood boogeyman, a journalist manages to track the forgotten man down to a motel on the fringe of the Wisconsin wilds. ![]() Roberto Acestes Laing was highly regarded by acclaimed directors around the globe for his keen eye, appreciation for eccentricity, and creativity in interpretation. In the mid-'90s a rare-film librarian at a state university in Pennsylvania mysteriously burned his entire stockpile of film canisters and disappeared. For the reader, there is little we can know for sure, but this is what makes the book so exciting." In the process, Rombes found the freedom of fiction pushing him towards a new type of writing. "The novel is an attempt to write about film through fiction, engaging both art forms at once with the analytic mind of the academic and the imagination of the storyteller. P> *A Best Book of 2014 - Flavorwire, Entropy Magazine, Book Riot About halfway through Nicholas Rombes’ The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing, Laing explains his motives for burning a handful of unknown films by directors you’ve heard of (David Lynch, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alejandro Jodorowsky, others) in a metal can behind the library where he worked in 2003. ![]() |