![]() ![]() An angry poltergeist residing in the family home terrorizes Sethe and her three children, an act which causes two of them to run away forever.Įight years later, Sethe lives alone with her daughter, Denver. Sethe is a former slave living on the outskirts of Cincinnati, Ohio shortly after the Civil War. ![]() This was the first film produced by Harpo Films.ĭespite being a box office bomb, Beloved received an Oscar nomination for Best Costume Design for Colleen Atwood, the film received mostly positive reviews, and both Danny Glover and Kimberly Elise received praise for their performances. Based on Toni Morrison's 1987 novel of the same name, the plot centers on a formerly enslaved person after the American Civil War, her haunting by a poltergeist, and the visitation of her reincarnated daughter. Beloved is a 1998 American psychological horror drama film directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, and Thandiwe Newton. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Her compulsive mendacity when wedded to her virtues–beauty and cleverness–and to her vices–a penchant for scheming and acquisitiveness, an ignorance of the business world, poor character judgment, and a talent for artifice, makes her a danger, in the end and most of all to herself. ![]() (Actually, one of the other characters labels her a “vixen.” Why is it that the female of the species has been so consistently maligned?)Īmong other things, The Eustace Diamonds is about the ubiquity of lying, and Lizzie Greystock, the protagonist, wins the laurels. Like Thackeray, Trollope chooses a bitch as his protagonist. Like Collins’ novel, diamonds go missing, and much authorial effort is expended navigating their disappearance and whereabouts. In some respects, The Eustace Diamonds is a fusion of Vanity Fair and The Moonstone. All I can say is that maybe there’s hope for Moby Dick, another classic with which I’ve endured some false starts. ![]() I can’t say it was an altogether pleasant experience, but it was never an unilluminating one. This time I made my way through a considerably bulky exemplar, nearly 600 pages of the dense prose of The Eustace Diamonds, to the literal bitter end for Trollope’s protagonist. I’ve started Trollope novels a few times over the years, but never got past a few chapters. With regard to the pantheon of great Victorian writers, I’ve adored Dickens, Thackeray, Collins, and, most of all, Eliot, but I’ve never been able to plow through a Trollope novel. ![]() ![]() Most of the chapters in Sunburn are told from the perspective of its two central characters: Polly (Pauline) and Adam. Her latest work, Sunburn, incorporates many elements of noir fiction in a novel that will keep readers wondering about who among its many flawed but intriguing characters can be trusted (hint: it might be nobody). In addition to this award-winning series, Lippman has also written a number of bestselling standalone novels, several of which blur the lines between literary and suspense fiction. After spending years as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun, she made her name as a novelist with the Tess Monaghan mystery series, about a reporter who becomes an "accidental" private investigator. ![]() A superb novel of psychological suspense about a pair of lovers with the best intentions and the worst luck.Ĭrime writer Laura Lippman is both prolific and versatile. ![]() ![]() And the Silver Prince of Byrn telling Maddie to take control. But things go wrong almost from the start: there's a strange man on the bus, she's almost run over by Taya, a girl going for a summer job at Havenfall, and things with Brekken get complicated.Īnd then. And where Maddie will find Brekken, the boy she loves, now a soldier of Fiordenkill. Havenfall - the gateway to other worlds, the place that keeps the peace between worlds, and where Maddie's uncle Marcus is the Innkeeper - the guardian of the treaty and the host of the annual summer summit. Especially when she sees how her mother has lost all hope. And keeping the secret - that her brother Nate was killed by a monster from another world - is almost more than she can bear. Maddie's father, understandably, is not keen on Maddie spending time with her mother's family - because the crime Maddie's mum is languishing on death row for committing is the murder of Maddie's brother. It's the only place she feels truly at home. ![]() ![]() But after a visit to her mother in prison, Maddie wants nothing more than to go to Havenfall to see her uncle, Marcus. Maddie Morrow is supposed to spending the summer with her Grandma Ellen. ![]() ![]() ![]() When creating aligned messages, have an external message for the organization, but also have a specific message for the customers that matter the most. In creating these communications, pull your sales team in close to listen to their concerns as voiced to them by your customers, and include these concerns in your response plans. Provide frequent and timely communications to your employees and customers to manage expectations for delivery of goods and services. Align messages, and equip your front-line sales and service personnel ![]() Planning will serve you well in the days to come.Ģ. Create plans to move meetings online using audio and video conference collaborations, and proactively and positively set the tone for meetings. Efforts to train and implement cross-functional work partners will ensure continuity of your business and your commitments to customers. Plan now to ensure continuity in business operationsĬreate a plan to manage the inevitable and unplanned sick leave of employees. ![]() Here are three tips to implement today to establish a “keep calm and carry on” mindset for your business and how you serve your customers. ![]() Our leadership and behavior have the potential to define an organization, to send its customers spinning, to disrupt its stock, its profitability, and its market share. ![]() ![]() And in “Tumours and Butterflies,” a high school teacher is sucked back into her abusive father’s orbit after he’s diagnosed with thyroid cancer. In “Designs,” a Nigerian student is torn between his childhood sweetheart and his American girlfriend. ![]() ![]() The later stories relocate to America, mainly Boston, where, in “Shelter,” a Nigerian woman trying to free herself and her daughter from the woman’s abusive husband runs into the indifference of local social workers. In “America,” a female science teacher has an affair with another woman and faces a choice between two different ways of life. “Story, Story!” features a childless teacher who slowly-and chillingly-reveals her real interest in the pregnant woman she befriends. Her characters mostly hail from Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State, where, in “On Ohaeto Street,” a woman revises her image of her wealthy husband after a violent burglary. In this collection of 10 empathetic short stories, Okparanta chronicles life in her native Nigeria and the immigrant experience in America. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “This highly entertaining fantasy weaves a tale of friendship, trust, & courage that will not only warm your heart but keep you flipping the pages all the way to its unexpected & pulse-pounding climax. THERESA LINDEN, author of award-winning Battle for His Soul “I thought Mandy Lamb would just be a fun kid’s story, but it is really deep and exciting! TURNER’s imagination and creativity are simply amazing, and this book takes it to a new level.” Those looking for a unique, challenging read will love this ‘animal yarn with a Christian twist.’īuy the book to start reading Mandy and James’ adventure today! This page-turning rural fantasy is a heart-warming tale about friendship, trust, and courage-and not letting what you are define what you do. With danger on the way, will James prove friend or foe? ![]() She’s starting senior school and she’s about to meet James, a strange, dog-like orphan who has a bad habit of running off at the full moon. Mandy Lamb is the world's only half-sheep girl, thanks to a spot of well-meant but ill-advised genetic tinkering. Can a half-sheep girl and a werewolf be friends? ![]() ![]() In its concision, eloquence, and clear presentation of history, On Juneteenth vitally revises conventional renderings of Texas and national history. ![]() ![]() Reworking the traditional “Alamo” framework, she powerfully demonstrates, among other things, that the slave- and race-based economy not only defined the fractious era of Texas independence but precipitated the Mexican-American War and, indeed, the Civil War itself. All too aware of the stories of cowboys, ranchers, and oilmen that have long dominated the lore of the Lone Star State, Gordon-Reed-herself a Texas native and the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas as early as the 1820s-forges a new and profoundly truthful narrative of her home state, with implications for us all.Ĭombining personal anecdotes with poignant facts gleaned from the annals of American history, Gordon-Reed shows how, from the earliest presence of Black people in Texas to the day in Galveston on June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger announced the end of legalized slavery in the state, African-Americans played an integral role in the Texas story. ![]() Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond. ![]() ![]() An older woman attempting to sound like young men just comes off as simply ridiculous and really distracts from the story. She sounds like she must be a much older woman and yet all the main characters are young twenty and thirty-somethings. The narrator does such a terrible job I just can't understand why she was chosen for this project. If the plot didn't have the usual Christie twists and suspense, I wouldn't have been able to get through it. The book does suffer from some cringe-producing dialogue (especially with Christie's attempts at American lingo), but listening to the audio version was torturous. ![]() I had read this years ago I thought it would be a fun and nostalgic listen. ![]() ![]() Remember our various discussions on King George and how the Dragon could be a metaphor for a number of different ideas/concepts. How does Iseult feel about Tristan? She is very conflicted. ![]() She knows he killed her kinsman the Morholt but she also knows that he killed the dragon. She doesn't want to marry the Steward so she ultimately protects Tristan. What object does Iseult use to justify Tristan's cause? The Dragon's Tongue. How do Tristan and Iseult feel about each other? Love at first sight, they are enthralled with one another and know that no matter what they do, the love will still be there. ![]() What significance does it have on the saga of Arthur Pendragon? What literary devices does Sutcliffe utilize to illustrate her point? How does Lancelot feel as this sequence occurs? What does he see? Ensure you are comfortable with the legend of the Holy Grail and what it represents to Arthur and his knights.ĭescribe the sequence of events starting on page 152 and continuing onto 153. Also keep in the mind the structure of Greek Tragedies. ![]() |