5/20/2023 0 Comments Building Character by Kate Genet![]() ![]() ![]() However, she handles the larger form and the challenges presented by a bigger dramatis personae with all the skill I’ve learned to expect from her shorter works such as the Michaela and Trisha series and the Reality Dawn novellae.Īs always, Kate’s narrative style is fluid but not ornate. Simulacra is considerably longer than anything else I’ve read by Kate except for the aforementioned romance novel, but Don’t Go There has a smaller number of characters than Simulacra. Hell, if Kate Genet wrote a friggin’ western, I’d probably love it, too. I could say that it’s more a suspense novel than pure horror, but that would be a cop out. (This could be because my first taste of the genre was King’s It, and maybe that was just too heavy a dose for a beginner.) Anyway, after reading Simulacra, the “I don’t do horror” assertion no longer holds water, either. I’ve also maintained forever - maybe even longer - that I absolutely don’t do horror. I’ve always said I don’t care for romance novels then, not quite a year ago, I read Kate’s Don’t Go There and thought it was great. ![]()
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5/20/2023 0 Comments Up Front by Bill Mauldin![]() ![]() ![]() I will take my life” Humbled, surprised and happy You can read it here:Īlso read “No, I’m not getting older. The composition is classically well executed with focus on the right place. The picture tells a story in itself and is close, without being intrusive. The photo is taken from a distance and with the respect the subject deserves. The main image in the article conveys the intensity of the moment, and creates closeness and identification. The journalist, Linea Søgaard, gets the next of kin in the case to open up about a topic that is taboo. ![]() It is all told in a close but not intrusive way. The images are of high quality and build up in a clear way under the story. The jury’s justification states that this year’s feature prize goes to a deeply serious, strong and close story with obvious political social relevance. She had submitted contributions in several categories and was awarded prizes in the category feature case of the year and picture of the year. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments The darkest legacy series![]() The only thing I regret is not starting the series sooner!! When I was halfway through the first book I purchased the entire boxed set in one go. I was in the middle of a series at the time I received it, so I placed it on my bookshelf to start at a later date. I found the first book and purchased it then and there after reading a little about its storyline. I took out my phone and found the book she was reading and discovered it was a part of a series, The Darkest Minds. I was so curious as to what she was reading to produce that level of happiness. She kept flipping back between 2 pages re-reading a particular part of the story and was smiling so much it was contagious. How it came to me purchasing the book was whilst in the waiting area of the mechanics there was a young girl reading book two (Never Fade) sitting with her mother across from me. ![]() ![]() I originally purchased the first book in this series (The Darkest Minds) a while back while my car was at the mechanics. ![]() ![]() Instead, it’s the fact more reviews are being written and collected than ever before, so today’s disasters have a better chance of vaunting over 20 reviews. And, by the way, he’s actually beat by dubious directing duo Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg, who have four movies on the list. It’s not just because Uwe Boll was employed during this time period. ![]() You may also note a number of significant stinkers are from the past 20 years. And the 20-review entry applies for every other movie on this list, and that includes the usual suspects of garbage cinema, like the deep space train wreck Battlefield Earth, the box office turkey (turtle?) The Master of Disguise, Netflix’s lazy western The Ridiculous 6, and flaccid softcore Killing Me Softly (which also makes a dubious appearance in the 200 best and worst erotic movies). We wanted to make sure the movies we’re “vouching” for as the worst ever have inflicted a minimum threshold of agony on critics. You’re going to see lots of 0% movies, and there’s even more out there, but the ones on this list all have at least 20 reviews. ![]() ![]() It’s bad movies galore as we encounter the Rottenest of the Rotten: 100 movies that scored less than 6% with the critics on the Tomatometer! (Photo by New Line Cinema/courtesy Everett Collection) 100 Worst Movies of All Time ![]() ![]() ![]() Ware's translation, which was dedicated to Burlington, not only had the lord's financial support, but Burlington also revised the text line by line to ensure its accuracy. The latter had long been dissatisfied with Leoni's and Du Bois's edition (especially the changes Leoni had made to Palladio's designs), and in the 1720s in fact he had encouraged James Gibbs to start a new translation of Palladio. ![]() Next Ware began working on his own version of Designs of Inigo Jones and Others, and in the mid-1730s he also began a new translation of Palladio's Four Books - both at Burlington's prompting. Toward the end of the 1720s, Ware met the lord and subsequently made several drawings for Burlington's Fabbriche Antiche (1730). He was first trained under Thomas Ripley and then worked in the London Office of Works. ![]() Another scholar and architect associated with the Burlington circle was Isaac Ware. ![]() ![]() ![]() "The facial appearance is not convincing. Most patients also have massively enlarged colons that bulge visibly, gurgle audibly and produce large amounts of gas - symptoms not generally attributed to Lincoln. In the patients Moley sees, droopy eyelids with thickened edges and prominent, bumpy upper lips are the most striking features. If Abraham Lincoln had MEN 2B, he would be the first recorded case. He suspects there are about 500 in all in the United States. Moley's department has 82 patients with MEN 2B in its database. Moley, a surgeon and an expert in the disease at Washington University School of Medicine in St. MEN 2B is the "rarest of the rare hereditary cancer syndromes," said Jeffrey F. ![]() (Sotos thinks there is some chance that Lincoln's mother, who died at age 34, may have had it.) In the remainder of cases, the mutation appears spontaneously in the sufferer, who can then pass it on to children. In about half the cases, patients inherit the disease from a parent. Nearly every victim gets cancer of the thyroid gland, and about half also get cancer of the adrenal gland. ![]() ![]() MEN 2B is short for "multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B." It is a subtype of a genetic disease whose sufferers invariably develop cancer in a hormone-producing organ. ![]() ![]() Iris’s ex-girlfriend, Heather, goes missing, too-just after dropping the polarizing last episode of her true crime podcast all about Iris’s sister. Then, a year later, the unthinkable happens. Devastated, her younger sister, Iris, launched her own investigation, but all she managed to do was scare off the police’s only lead and earn a stern warning: Once she turns eighteen, more meddling means prison-level consequences. For fans of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder and Veronica Mars, this whip-smart thriller follows a sapphic detective agency as they seek the truth behind a growing trail of missing girls in small-town Louisiana.Ī year ago, beloved cheerleader Stella Blackthorn vanished without a trace. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Court will proceed to review Glick's pleading to consider whether this action can survive dismissal under the provisions of section 1915(e)(2), or any other provision of law. ![]() (iii) seeks monetary relief against a defendant who is immune from such relief. (ii) fails to state a claim on which relief may be granted or (A) the allegation of poverty is untrue or (2) Notwithstanding any filing fee, or any portion thereof, that may have been paid, the court shall dismiss the case at any time if the court determines that. The applicable provisions of section 1915(e)(2) state as follows: § 1915 - also requires the Court to conduct a preliminary screening of the allegations set forth in the litigant's pleading. ![]() The federal statute under which leave to proceed in forma pauperis is permitted - 28 U.S.C. This action may proceed without prepayment of the filing fee, and the Clerk of Court is directed to file Glick's lodged Complaint as of the filing date of his request to proceed in forma pauperis. Because it appears he lacks sufficient funds to prosecute this action IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Glick's motion is GRANTED. Glick submitted a declaration that makes the showing required by 28 U.S.C. On March 4, 2015, Plaintiff Ron Glick, appearing pro se, lodged a civil complaint and filed a motion requesting leave to proceed in forma pauperis. ORDER, and FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATION I. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments The Glass Eye by Jeannie Vanasco![]() ![]() ![]() I've never read a book where the author is experiencing mental illness at the time of writing, not in retrospect. The writing is fierce and engaging, and I truly couldn't put it down., One of the most inventive and engrossing memoirs I've read in a long, long time. I have never read anything quite like The Glass Eye. . ![]() A brilliant exploration of the human psyche, The Glass Eye deepens our definitions of love, sanity, grief, and recovery. Jeannie Vanasco pulls us into her unraveling with such intimacy that her insanity becomes palpable, even logical. It becomes a puzzle Jeannie feels she must solve to better understand herself and her father. Obsession turns to investigation as Jeannie plumbs her childhood awareness of her dead half sibling and hunts for clues into the mysterious circumstances of her death. After his funeral, Jeannie spends the next decade in escalating mania, in and out of hospitals-increasingly obsessed with the other Jeanne. The Glass Eye is Jeannie's struggle to honor her father, her larger-than-life hero but also the man who named her after his daughter from a previous marriage, a daughter who died. The night before her father dies, eighteen-year-old Jeannie Vanasco promises she will write a book for him. For fans of Maggie Nelson and Meghan O'Rourke, Jeannie Vanasco emerges as a definitive new voice in this stunning portrait of a daughter's love for her father and her near-unraveling after his death. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments The hockey sweater by roch carrier![]() Carrier and his friends all wear Canadiens' sweaters with Richard's number 9 on the back. The story is based on a real experience Carrier had as a child in Sainte-Justine, Quebec, in 1946 as a fan of the Montreal Canadiens hockey team and its star player, Maurice Richard. It was adapted into an animated short called The Sweater ( Le Chandail) by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in 1980 and illustrated by Sheldon Cohen. ![]() It was originally published in 1979 under the title " Une abominable feuille d'érable sur la glace" ("An abominable maple leaf on the ice"). ![]() The Hockey Sweater ( Le chandail de hockey in the original French) is a short story by Canadian author Roch Carrier and translated to English by Sheila Fischman. ![]() |