![]() Glinda is an entirely unremarkable character, but I can forgive that. So we have our witches three, and here is where things go sour. to kill her, claiming she's the wicked witch responsible for the death of the old king. Glinda (Michelle Williams) is first encountered, for reasons not entirely clear, in a dark and spooky graveyard at the back end of the dark forest. ![]() Weisz plays the villain convincingly, with enough menace and restraint to pull it off.įinally, there's Glinda the Good, replete with her flying bubbles. Evanora (Rachel Weisz) is the manipulator, the real wicked witch, and-as far as I'm concerned-easily the best character in the whole film. ![]() Then there's Evanora, Theodora's older sister. She falls instantly and unconvincingly in love with the wizard, Oz, who also happens to be a terrible rake and lady's man. Theodora (Mila Kunis) is a young, naive thing, susceptible to love, bouts of fury, and her sister's manipulations. In Oz the Great and Powerful we have Theodora, Evanora, and Glinda. ![]()
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![]() The novel is sensitively written but I found ‘Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?’ to be the more poignant of the two books probably because the distance of time after writing ‘Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit’ made her own memoirs more personal and reflective. Having read Winterson’s memoirs ‘Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?’ last month, ‘Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit’ seems perhaps less shocking to me than if I had read these books the other way round even though the events are virtually the same. It is a coming-of-age story like no other. It is a semi-autobiographical novel: the main character is called Jeanette and her experiences of growing up in a Pentecostal household in Lancashire and exploring her sexuality are heavily drawn from the author’s own life. ![]() ‘Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit’ is Jeanette Winterson’s controversial debut novel first published in 1985. ![]() ![]() PEN America: What does Out of Darkness have to say about silencing stories?Īshley Hope Pérez: I grew up in a community about 20 minutes from New London, Texas, which is where the book is set. And I think that when we start subtracting ideas and experiences from young people’s education, we are failing them.” “I don’t know actually how we find our way back if these attacks on young people’s access to books succeed. “It needs to be shocking every time,” she told PEN America. Pérez, who is also a professor at The Ohio State University, spoke to PEN America about the experience of having her book caught up in the book-banning frenzy, and the need to treat the new movement as an urgent threat causing real harm to students. That made it the third most-banned book in U.S. The theatrics led Out of Darkness to be banned 23 times in the 2021-2022 school year, according to the newly released PEN America Index of Banned Books. So it’s painful for her to see her book among the many that have been banned as part of a wave of challenges washing over American schools.Īt school board meeting after school board meeting, a short passage of Out of Darkness was read aloud for shock. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() New Moon gave me something to watch on TV when there was nothing else on, I wouldn't recommend it for any other purpose. If this is the kind of Romantic chemistry that sells on the market (a chemistry where two people act like kissing is more pain than pleasure) then Romance itself could be a dying genre. Why is everyone so lazy about this? it actually degrades the quality of the material. I'm truly not sure what it is about the Twilight saga that demands such a plastic style of acting. Like all bad stories, this one advances by making up its own rules on the spot, resulting in a movie that makes very little sense. The reasons for this however seem largely unjustified by the story. ![]() Wheras Edward is quite blatantly shy, Jacob by contrast is angry. Unfotunately, around the beginning of the third act we grow out of Jacob almost as fast as we grow into him. 7 Demand for the book was so high that advance reading copies were being sold on eBay for as high as 380. Their interaction which takes up the majority of the movie in fact, feels less broody than the Bella/Edward connection. New Moon was published by Little, Brown in the USA on Septemwith an initial print run of 100,000 copies. At times, it feels like Jacob may be the better match for Bella. New Moon may have one edge over its predecessor which is that Taylor Launter puts more into the game than Rob Pattinson. This one is severely unfocused, with a plot that denies motivation and has lazy acting across the board.well not quite. Twilight was a bit better mostly cause it had some direction. Okay here it is, New Moon is not unwatchable (thought some parts come close). ![]() ![]() The novel’s nameless narrator describes a life emotionally terrorized by two separate traumatic ordeals: her older brother’s struggle with a brain tumor, which first develops when he is two years old, goes into remission, and then returns when he is in his early twenties and her own sexual molestation at the hands of her uncle-in-law at age thirteen. This success is all the more surprising given the challenges Eimear McBride’s work presents to its readers. It has received near-unanimous praise from British reviewers, turning its author into something of a literary celebrity. It comes with a formidable backstory: after nine years of rejections, it was published by a tiny and new publishing house in England, and in the space of just a few months, started winning prize after prize. ![]() The Irish novelist Eimear McBride’s debut A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing is now being released in the US. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Joffrey's unusual way of life is threatened by the ambitious Archbishop of Toulouse, and soon the jealous young king Louis XIV: Joffrey is arrested for 'sorcery'. ![]() As Angelique gradually discovers virtuous Peyrac's remarkable talents as scientist, musician and philosopher, she falls passionately in love with him. ![]() For the sake of her family, Angélique reluctantly agrees to the match but refuses the advances of her husband, who does not enforce his conjugal rights, wishing only to win her heart. In this first part of the Angélique cycle, set in Mid-17th century France under the young Sun King Louis XIV, still struggling for his throne, while beggars and brigands roam the country, Angélique de Sancé de Monteloup, fifth child of an impoverished country nobleman in the Poitou marshlands, expected to struggle for a meager subsistence, educated in a nunnery, is betrothed at 17 to Joffrey de Peyrac, the 12 years older rich but cripple Comte de (count of) Peyrac de Morens and seigneur (Lord) of Toulouse, scarred in the face and said to be a sorcerer, in fact practicing oriental mining techniques which make his vast fortune. ![]() ![]() Fixated on revenge, Tau dedicates himself to an unthinkable path. Those closest to him are brutally murdered, and his grief swiftly turns to anger. He's going to get himself injured, get out early, and settle down to marriage, children, and land. Young, gift-less Tau knows all this, but he has a plan of escape. One in every hundred men is able to magically transform himself into a bigger, stronger, faster killing machine.Įveryone else is fodder, destined to fight and die in the endless war. One in every two thousand women has the power to call down dragons. Their society has been built around war and only war. The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable fight for almost two hundred years. ![]() ![]() Game of Thrones meets Gladiator in this debut epic fantasy about a world caught in an eternal war, and the young man who will become his people's only hope for survival. ![]() ![]() ![]() Irene is as mean as she is beautiful, so Scottie makes a point to keep her distance. High school nemeses fall in love in Kelly Quindlen's She Drives Me Crazy, a queer YA rom com perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli and Casey McQuiston.Īfter an embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, seventeen-year-old Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with the worst possible person: her nemesis, Irene Abraham, head cheerleader for the Fighting Reindeer. “A little sweet, a little sharp.” - Booklist, starred review ![]() ![]() ![]() At the time, I had just suffered a head-on collision with the music industry, after a long period of post-teen crisis sparked by a series of family bereavements. Reading these phrases back now, well over a decade later, I’m slightly embarrassed by the wording, but not at all by the sentiment. I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for giving such eloquent expression to pretty much everything that needed to be said, and for providing a reason to hope, when I for one was just about ready to despair. ![]() I read your book Capitalist Realism last week, and it felt like coming up for air after a long time spent underwater. ![]() ‘Dear Mark,’ began an email of January 2010 to a man I had never met: ![]() ![]() ![]() Often illuminated by the lush natural light of Leiter’s studio in New York City’s East Village, these black-and-white images uncover the mutual and empathetic collaboration between the artist and his subjects. Many of the 35 photographs in the exhibition are on public view for the first time.įed by thrilling recent discoveries from Saul Leiter’s archive, the exhibition reveals the world of the artist and the women in his life through his studies of the female figure. The exhibition, which includes work from the mid-1940s through the early 1960s, will be the subject of an upcoming book, also titled In My Room, to be published by Steidl/Howard Greenberg Library. This article was originally published on May 26, 2018:ĭeeply personal and contemplative, many of the images in Saul Leiter: In My Room at Howard Greenberg Gallery share tender moments underscored by the subjects’ trust in the photographer. The works covered the mid-1940s through the early 1960s, and offer intimate and quite sensual looks at Leiter's muses and NY life in the mid-century. ![]() We continue to look at the best posts on from 2018, and one that the readers picked was Saul Leiter's beautiful photography show, In My Room, at Howard Greenberg Gallery this past summer. ![]() |