5/20/2023 0 Comments Four seasons stephen king![]() ![]() They float,' it growled, 'they float, Georgie, and when you’re down here with me, you’ll float, too–' His screams were shrill and piercing, and all up and down Witcham Street people came to their windows or bolted out onto their porches. George craned his neck away from that final blackness and began to scream into the rain, to scream mindlessly into the white autumn sky which curved above Derry on that day in the fall of 1957. It held George’s arm in its thick and wormy grip, it pulled George toward that terrible darkness where the water rushed and roared and bellowed as it bore its cargo of storm debris toward the sea. ![]() ![]() They float,' the thing in the drain crooned in a clotted, chuckling voice. What he saw then was terrible enough to make his worst imaginings of the thing in the cellar look like sweet dreams what he saw destroyed his sanity in one clawing stroke. Yes, sure,' George said, looking into the stormdrain.Īnd a balloon? I’ve got red and green and yellow and blue.'įloat?' The clown’s grin widened. A bright tie, electric-blue, flopped down his front, and on his hands were big white gloves, like the kind Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck always wore. He was wearing a baggy silk suit with great big orange buttons. 'I only repeat myself because you really do not seem that eager.' He held it up, smiling. “Want your boat, Georgie?' Pennywise asked. ![]()
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![]() ![]() After complaining to her husband that she could do better, he registered her for a romance writers conference and encouraged her to try her hand at writing. Although she enjoyed the novels, she was dissatisfied with the lack of cultural and ethnic diversity in the characters. To relieve job-related stress in the early 1990s, Jackson began reading romance novels. She went on to earn a degree in business administration from Jacksonville University, and to expand their family by having two sons, Gerald Jr., a Jacksonville-based filmmaker, and Brandon, who is a Political Officer in the US Foreign Service. She married Gerald, her high school sweetheart, in 1972 after graduating from high school. Jackson reached a milestone in her career in October 2013 when she published her 100th novel, becoming the first African American to achieve this milestone.īrenda Jackson was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida. ![]() ![]() She was the first African-American author to have a novel published as part of the Silhouette Desire line, and has seen many of her novels reach The New York Times and USAToday bestsellers lists. ![]() Brenda Jackson (February 2, 1953) is an American novelist who writes contemporary multicultural romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Under the influence of his mentor, Juno, a manipulative social climber, Sunam becomes entangled with both women, as they all make choices that will change their lives forever. Now Jisun wants as little to do with her father’s world as possible, abandoning her schoolwork in favor of the underground activist movement, while Namin studies tirelessly in the service of one goal: to launch herself and her family out of poverty.īut everything changes when Jisun and Namin meet an ambitious, charming student named Sunam, whose need to please his family has led him to a prestigious club: the Circle. Namin’s parents run a tented food cart from dawn to curfew her sister works in a shoe factory. Jisun, the daughter of a powerful business mogul, grew up on a mountainside estate with lush gardens and a dedicated chauffeur. Success could lead to a life of rarefied privilege and wealth failure means being left irrevocably behind.įor childhood friends Jisun and Namin, the stakes couldn’t be more different. At South Korea’s top university, the nation’s best and brightest compete to join the professional elite of an authoritarian regime. Two young women of vastly different means each struggle to find her own way during the darkest hours of South Korea’s “economic miracle” in a striking debut novel for readers of Anthony Marra and Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Books of blood volume 2![]() ![]() I think it’s more about how little horror we’ve actually had since the Books of Blood came out in ‘86 or ‘87. That’s the approach that we decided to take.Ĭlive, what is it like for you, at this point, to see your material turned into these different projects and still have such an interesting, new and different point of view, from various filmmakers?īARKER: I don’t know what it says. The stories don’t rely on each other, but they cross pollinate just so, in a way that buoys the whole film. And then, as the film started to coalesce and it was time to commingle the storylines, the only point of reference I could think of that would really help was Pulp Fiction, the Tarantino film, which is not a horror movie but it’s a great anthology movie. I went off with a writer named Adam Simon and fashioned these into script form. Was it hard to figure out exactly what you wanted to focus for this, what you wanted to add or change, and how you wanted to approach this?īRAGA: Most of the DNA was laid as Clive and I decided to take the title story from the first story in the first volume as one of the stories, and then there were two other amazing ideas that Clive had been thinking about for quite some time. We created a lot of narrative, just by being with each other. We have a body of narratives, which are Clive and Brannon’s Books of Blood. Not only did we talk about stories which are written but we started to create new stories. ![]() CLIVE BARKER: It turned out to be even bigger than we thought it was going to be. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Space odyssey by michael benson![]() ![]() ![]() Tsiolkovsky and Oberth also had important roles to play in early 20th century film projects depicting trips to the Moon.Įven absent a launch, “Woman in the Moon” helped popularize the new science of rocketry. Wells - founders of a nascent genre later to be known as science fiction. All devised their distinctive strains of rocket science in response to speculative novels, specifically the stories of Jules Verne and H.G. Spaceflight as we know it today wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for three extraordinary figures: the borderline-crazy Russian spaceflight visionary Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the hard-right nationalist German-Transylvanian rocketry pioneer Hermann Oberth and the idiosyncratic American rocketeer Robert Goddard. Yet some foundational early rocket science, embedded deep within the developmental history of the Saturn 5 - the towering, five-stage rocket that took Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins to the moon 50 years ago this week - was paid for by the budget of the first science fiction film to envision just such a voyage in realistic terms. ![]() Works of fiction aren’t particularly known for having influenced historical events. The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing provides a great opportunity to examine how an entire branch of speculative fiction - novels, short stories and also feature films - lies behind the first human footprints on another world. Some unfold as flights of the imagination. Most major achievements, be they personal or collective, arrive after rehearsals. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Daniel keyes book![]() ![]() This theme is very well developed with the help of the main character Charlie, showing both the before and after of this experimental operation. ![]() Flowers For Algernon is a science fiction read with a very interesting theme: intelligence enhancement with the help of a brain operation. Brilliant prose, intriguing plot, well developed characters… This story has it all. This is one powerful story that managed to break my heart completely by the time I reached the last page… I can definitely understand why this novel by Daniel Keyes has become a modern classic. Then again, I do like my surprises… And Flowers For Algernon turned out to be a very pleasant surprise at that. I’ve had this modern classic on my TBR for a long time, although I admit I was completely clueless about the plot and didn’t even have a general idea of what the story was going to be about. ![]() “How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibilty, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes-how such people think nothing of abusing a man with low intelligence.” 5/19/2023 0 Comments Sarah gailey just like home![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe this is because the monster sees the world as divided into unequal parts, where some deserve to flourish while others deserve to be the targets of ungoverned impulse. All monsters partition other people into two categories-those who witness their monstrosity, and those who don’t. It’s easy for a monster to seem loveable. To love a monster is easy, when the monster seems loveable. But on its own, love is no different from any other feeling. Action might spring from emotion-love might lead to an expression of affection, anger might lead to violence, a powerful impulse might lead to a monstrous act. ![]() Like anger or sadness or the desire to kill, it arrives without invitation or intention. Love in its many forms wells up out of the human spirit irrepressibly. Emotions, urges, and impulses are themselves beyond our ability to control. It’s easy to love a monster because love isn’t a decision. It is the easiest thing in the world to love a monster. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Wonderful world of wizard of oz![]() ![]() The Wonderful Wizard of Oz received praise from critics and readers alike. Baum, however, presented a thrilling adventure from a child's point of view, showing the child's ability to solve her own problems and return to the security of her home. By presenting a female protagonist, casual language, characters such as the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, and settings such as Kansas, Baum created a new approach to children's writing that is distinctly American.īefore The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, children's books were stilted morality tales designed to instruct or to frighten readers into behaving properly. Baum wanted to write a fairy tale that was American, not European, although he introduced elements of traditional European fairy tales (witches, castles, forests) into the story. Although he wrote numerous books, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is easily his most enduring. Frank Baum never imagined the impact The Wonderful Wizard of Oz would have on children's writing or the appeal the book would have to generations of readers. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Molly bon appetit cookbook![]() ![]() Despite her decision to leave, she says she’s confident in the new leadership, namely editor-in-chief Dawn Davis and executive editor Sonia Chopra, to make the magazine “a more equitable, inclusive, and dynamic place.” Saffitz’s first cookbook, as she notes, will be published in a few weeks. In a statement posted to Instagram, she says she’s “grateful to Bon Appétit and CNE to build” her career “on their platform,” but acknowledges “this opportunity was not granted equally to all.” Along with Brad Leone, one of the few remaining Test Kitchen hosts, Saffitz was one of the two people most pushed by CNE as stars of Bon Appétit’s YouTube channel. Last night, Gourmet Makes host Claire Saffitz announced that she’s exited the Test Kitchen. It’s the end of the Bon Appétit’s Test Kitchen as we know it. ![]() ![]() Rick Martinez, Claire Saffitz, and Sohla El-Waylly in Test Kitchen videos. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments The amityville horror by jay anson![]() The film starts off by showing us horrible things that happened in that house just months earlier namely a homicide case involving a father killing his entire family in the middle of the night at random with a shotgun. George (James Brolin) and Cathy Lutz (Margot Kidder) are a young couple who have just purchased a new home that rests by a lake of sorts. Regardless of what you believe and how honest the story being told may actually be, Anson had conjured up an accumulated sense of dread that this 1979 adaptation helmed by Stuart Rosenberg never quite captures. I haven't read it in full but I have read excerpts from the book before, and I can already tell you that it's a more terrifying supposed "real-life" story than this poor, messy film adaptation makes it out to be. ![]() At the time of its release and afterwards, it was subject to speculation whilst Anson faced various lawsuits. ![]() ![]() Jay Anson's "The Amityville Horror" is considered to be one of the most important, controversial, and polarizing pieces of horror literature ever committed to a few hundred pages. ![]() |