![]() ![]() ![]() Failed fertility treatments and a heartbreaking attempt at adoption have fractured their marriage and left Tess edgy and adrift. Eight years ago, Tess and Jake were considered a power couple of the New York publishing world- happy, in love, planning a family. Where I Lost Her is a story about the fine line between longing and madness, nurturing and obsession, as one woman searches for the truth about a mysterious child. In Where I Lost Her, Greenwood is at her formidable best as she brings her lush prose and distinctive style to a novel of literary suspense in the vein of Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight and Mary Kubica’s The Good Girl. ![]() Greenwood’s novels, deftly combining lyrical prose with heartrending subject matter, have earned her acclaim as “a writer of subtle strength…finding light in the darkest of stories” (Publishers Weekly). Greenwood and Miranda Beverly-Whittemore as they discuss their new books, Where I Lost Her and June. Join us for a special event featuring two authors, T. ![]()
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![]() Polyamory, swinging, monogamish relationships and more. Nonmonogamous: Sexual/romantic nonexclusivity, with all-around informed consent. Off the Escalator, intimate relationships might be: Gahran identifies five main ways that intimate partners can step off the traditional Relationship Escalator. "Stepping Off the Relationship Escalator" explores how unconventional relationships might look and work differently from traditional relationships. Over 330 individuals are quoted directly in this book (with permission). Participants shared moving, in-depth personal stories and insights. In 2013-14, journalist Amy Gahran surveyed 1500 people about their unconventional intimate relationships: how those relationships work, how they feel, and why these people stepped off the Escalator. Many people have stepped off the Relationship Escalator, to live and love in uncommon ways. If you wish to explore a different way of loving, it’s not always obvious what your options are, or where those paths might lead. The “Relationship Escalator” is the bundle of social conventions for intimate relationships: monogamy, living together and much more, ideally until death do you part. Fortunately, there are plenty of options. Yet often, people assume that all healthy or serious intimate relationships must follow same trajectory. ![]() ![]() The casting will be totally just a dream cast situation and therefore not everything I wish will / could possibly happen. Standard disclaimer: This series is just for fun and I obviously have no involvement in film or anything like that. Also, I just finished rereading the first book so it’s fresh in my mind! Anyway this is gonna be a long one so STRAP IN. Last week I did Six of Crows and this week we’re doing The Foxhole Court! This was requested to me a couple times and I am more than happy to deliver the goods since you all KNOW I love this series. If this is you’re first time here – this is a blog series I started in which I discuss what my perfect adaptation for various books would look like. ![]() If you missed that, be sure to read it right here. ![]() It’s round two of Film Adaptation Friday, the series I started last week. ![]() ![]() Estamos demasiado acostumbrados al "terror" simple y directo del cine o de escritores que recién comienzan a publicar. ![]() Hacía tanto tiempo que no tenía oportunidad de leer algo así, supuso una sorpresa y un agradable reencuentro con el género de terror. Con un mérito adicional: muchos de estos relatos han sido escritos especialmente para el presente volumen.Įsta es una de esas antologías que atrapará a los fanáticos del género, y que seguro convierta en seguidores a quienes incursionen en él. ![]() En este caso ha agrupado con singular talento las narraciones más representativas que era posible ofrecer al lector exigente, y el resultado ha sido una obra maestra que no debe faltar en ninguna biblioteca. Grant, compilador de la antología, es el mejor especialista en trabajos de selección dentro de este género. ![]() Esta es la primera vez que se reúnen en un solo volumen los autores más brillantes de la literatura de terror actual. ![]() ![]() They looked like whales that had learnt how to swim on top of the sea. But no one had ever spoken of anything like this! The warriors and old women knew all that was important in the world. His eight years had been full of familiar things. Nanberry turned to see where Yagali pointed.įor a second he thought he dreamt. Colbee had speared a giant waragul, a mackerel, too. ![]() Who needed dainya, the mud oysters? The women had been out in their low-slung canoes, hauling in fish with nets and lines. ![]() Behind them the stream trickled between the trees and mud flats to join the waves. âHey, you with empty hands! Where are the dainya?' The other girls laughed. One of the girls yelled at him from the shore â his sister, Yagali, catching a ball of twisted twigs and feathers as one of the others threw it to her. He pushed himself into the daylight in one strong sweep. He loved this most of all: how in one instant you could change from air to sea.Īt last his lungs began to ache. Nanberry wriggled like a fish, turning so he could see the surface of the water. ![]() Light drifted in gold shivers from above. Nanberry waded in till the water tickled his waist, felt the sandy mud between his toes, then took a deep breath and dived down. ![]() The breeze smelt of smoke and cooking fish. The harbour was emu-berry blue, the ripples playing with the sun. W ARRANE (S YDNEY C OVE ), THE TIME OF MANY FISH AND FEASTS (26 J ANUARY 1788) ![]() ![]() ![]() You know the ones:īefore I received a copy of MinaLima’s edition, I almost wasn’t going to get one (despite my love of their other illustrated classics) because nothing could replace my old copy with the iconic Tenniel illustrations. But none of the five titles they’ve tackled before have such cherished original illustrations as those of John Tenniel’s from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Barrie’s Peter Pan, originally illustrated by Francis Donkin Bedford, to Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden, originally illustrated by Charles Robinson (United Kingdom) and Maria Louise Kirk (United States). MinaLima has challenged themselves by choosing novels with some of the most iconic illustrations in children’s literature, from J.M. MinaLima’s illustrated edition of Lewis Caroll’s classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass is out in the world, and it is beautiful and weird, as it should be. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book chronicles her life after her Year of Yes had begun-when Shonda forced herself out of the house and onto the stage when she learned to explore, empower, applaud, and love her truest self. This poignant, intimate, and hilarious memoir explores Shonda’s life before her Year of Yes-from her nerdy, book-loving childhood to her devotion to creating television characters who reflected the world she saw around her. Shonda knew she had to embrace the challenge: for one year, she would say YES to everything that scared her. ![]() And then, over Thanksgiving dinner, her sister muttered something that was both a wake up and a call to arms: You never say yes to anything. With three children at home and three hit television shows, it was easy for Shonda to say she was simply too busy. So who would suspect that Shonda Rhimes is an introvert? That she hired a publicist so she could avoid public appearances? That she suffered panic attacks before media interviews? ![]() Her iconic characters live boldly and speak their minds. She’s the creator and producer of some of the most groundbreaking and audacious shows on television today. “As fun to read as Rhimes’s TV series are to watch” ( Los Angeles Times). ![]() The instant New York Times bestseller from the creator of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away with Murder shares how saying YES changed her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Guests included Michael Gingold from Fangoria magazine, Mr. There seemed to be a constant and symbiotic exchange of energy between Fant-Asia fest regulars, fest organizers, especially Mitch Davis, Karim Hussain and Julien Fonfrède, and the visiting fellow cinephiles, journalists and filmmakers. The guests seemed to genuinely enjoy themselves amid the hoopla and fanfare. The healthy list of invited guests surely cut into the Festival profits, but it helped enormously in creating a buzz and instilling self-confidence among the fest organizers (as well as putting Fant-Asia on the International map). Author Donato, 2nd from left, with Italian entourage, from left, Sergio Stivaletti, Patrizia, Loris Curzi, Mariano BainoĪ major difference between this year and last is the added guest list of visiting filmmakers, writers, journalists and critics. ![]() ![]() ![]() Compare Standard and Premium Digital here.Īny changes made can be done at any time and will become effective at the end of the trial period, allowing you to retain full access for 4 weeks, even if you downgrade or cancel. You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. If you’d like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. ![]() If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for $69 per month.įor cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the “Settings & Account” section. 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That’s how I felt when I finished reading Johann Hari’s Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention and How to Think Deeply Again (Crown Publishers, 2022, 368 pages). ![]() During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages. ![]() ![]() In The Great War, acclaimed cartoonist Joe Sacco depicts the events of that day in an extraordinary, 24-foot-long wordless panorama: from the riding exercises of General Douglas Haig to the massive artillery positions and marshalling areas behind the trench lines, to the legions of British soldiers going 'over the top' and being cut down in No-Man's-Land, to the tens of thousands of wounded soldiers retreating and the dead being buried en masse. Almost 20,000 British soldiers were killed and another 40,000 were wounded that first day, and there were more than one million casualties by the time the offensive halted a few months later. Launched on July 1, 1916, the Battle of the Somme has come to epitomize the madness of the First World War. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Sacco's work the best argument around for comics as a journalistic medium.' - GQ July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme ![]() |