![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Featuring a homeless young Batman who's grown up not knowing that his parents were the Waynes, a garage mechanic named "Big Al" in place of Alfred, a bat-symbol derived from bruises left by a Wayne family signet-ring and sex-worker Catwoman among other variations on the traditional origin. The Miller/Aronofsky project has been among the most infamous unmade screenplays for years. And he created Batman out of whole cloth to fight crime and a corrupt police force." He built his own Batcave in an abandoned part of the subway. And Batman turned his back on his fortune to live a street life so he could know what people were going through. ![]() The Batmobile was just a tricked-out car. read it and said, "We don't want to make this movie." The executive wanted to do a Batman he could take his kids to. We hashed out a screenplay, and we were wonderfully compensated, but then Warner Bros. We would argue about it, and I'd say, "Batman wouldn't do that, he wouldn't torture anybody," and so on. "It was the first time I worked on a Batman project with somebody whose vision of Batman was darker than mine. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Lily is ostracized from her family for being too eccentric. I loved this book so much and was all in for the enemies to lovers situation happening. I just finished reading her second book of the series Dreaming of You and it was absolutely fantastic! One of my favorites! ![]() It brought tears to my eyes and joy to my heart.Įven though my first taste of Lisa Kleypas was not quite as satisfying as I had hoped, I was wise to continue giving her a try. Fortunately, the ending more than made up for all my frustration throughout much of this story. ![]() Her strong and willful nature started grating on my nerves, and her unwillingness to communicate or confide her heartbreaking secret to the hero until the last few chapters of the book frustrated me to no end. I started the book very much loving her vivacious, witty, and incorrigible behavior however, by the end of the story my love affair with her had waned. While I adored and fell head-over-heels in love with the hero, Alex, I can't say the same for the heroine, Lily. Unfortunately, this book didn't work for me like I had hoped. I can see why most of my Goodreads friends love and consider her one of their all-time favorite romance novelists. This is my first Lisa Kleypas book and there is not doubt that she is one INCREDIBLE writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After Absolon promises to do so, she opens the window saying “All right, one quick kiss before the neighbours notice”. “If I give you one kiss, will you go away and stop pestering me?”, asks Alison. Allison tells him rather rudely that she loves another and he should go away. The bedroom is on the ground floor, so the window is level with his breast. Then, with a leave of true-love in his mouth for good luck he goes to Allison’s house and starts to beg her to let him in. That’s my chance!” So early in the morning before the sunrise he dresses himself neatly, combs his hair and chews grains of paradise (guinea pepper) and liquorice, the medieval equivalents of Tic Tacs, to make his breath sweet. Absolon thinks: “I haven’t seen the carpenter at his home in Oxford, it means he must have really gone to fetch wood, which in turn means Allison is tonight alone. ![]() “No, I haven’t seen him all day”, answers the friar, “he may have gone home or to the grange for wood, the prior often sends him there”. Meantime, Absolon happened to spend Monday at the place called Osney near Oxford and he asked one of the friars whether the carpenter worked for them today. Nicholas and Allison go on their tiptoes out from the attic to the bedroom, where they make love until morning. ![]() James Joyce – “Ulyss… on James Joyce – “Ulysses” (“Lest… James Joyce – “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” (ctd.)Ĭonsider sunk costs… on Rudyard Kipling –…Ĭonsidering Sunk Cos… on Rudyard Kipling –…. ![]() ![]() His books have received many awards from organizations such as the International Reading Association, and the American Lib Award-winning author Neal Shusterman grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where he began writing at an early age. As a full-time writer, he claims to be his own hardest task-master, always at work creating new stories to tell. In the years since, Neal has made his mark as a successful novelist, screenwriter, and television writer. Within a year of graduating, he had his first book deal, and was hired to write a movie script. ![]() After spending his junior and senior years of high school at the American School of Mexico City, Neal went on to UC Irvine, where he made his mark on the UCI swim team, and wrote a successful humor column. Award-winning author Neal Shusterman grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where he began writing at an early age. ![]() ![]() Monster Island - A Zombie Novel David Wellingtonįirst in the cult classic trilogy: “A fantastic zombie novel. ![]() This volume features to following stories:ġ. Poor Boys in Poorhouses by Peter Kellyģ. A Night in the Kohler House by Donna Marie Westġ1. Joe Baker Closes Up by Jackson Robinsonġ2. Millie's Lore by Ron Ripley and Kevin Saito Show book ![]() And you realize there is only one treat they crave. A horde of tiny ghouls scamper into your room, saliva dripping from their razor-sharp fangs. Were those footsteps you heard, creaking across the floorboards? Was that whispering outside the window? Or just the whistling of the wind? And the only tricks you’ll find are the ones your mind plays on you, as you feverishly turn another page… Each one is a treat for shivers and shrieks. Twelve nightmarish tales of terror lurk within this sinister tome. Scare Street is proud to present a new collection of diabolical delights. And a cursed photographer goes to horrific lengths when their vision slowly decays… Two brave souls spend the night in a haunted house, only to emerge forever changed. Trick or treat, trick or treat! Hungry ghouls crave fresh meat…Ī recovering addict faces the ultimate test when an old friend puts him through a terrifying ordeal. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I’ve been Black my entire life, so it’s never something that I had to really think about. “It was incredibly sad for me to hear,” she said. When researching the Philippines with her mom, Hayes learned for the first time about the idealization of white features and pale skin that is prevalent across Asia. ![]() When the Black Lives Matter movement grew this summer, Hayes said her family encouraged her to engage with both Black and Filipino history. I think a lot of mixed people kind of go through that same thing with feeling like they have to identify with one race instead of all of the races that make up who they are.” “Growing up, it’s been kind of confusing trying to navigate where I fit. ![]() “Getting the chance to experience and embrace two different cultures is super cool,” she said. Growing up, she had the chance to explore both her mom’s Filipino culture and her dad’s Black culture through food, family and shared history. Laya DeLeon Hayes, a 16-year-old actress and the voice of Doc McStuffins on the Disney series of the same name said her parents never sat her down for “the talk” about being biracial. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of the writers in the “Lovecraft Circle” were famed during the era of pulp magazines, and their tales could be found within the covers of Weird Tales and other science fiction and horror pulps. In the latter part of his life, the mythos expanded significantly as a small group of authors, with whom Lovecraft corresponded, borrowed themes and elements from Lovecraft as well as each other. ![]() The first stage of development was one characterized by Lovecraft himself when he was alive and writing. The development of the Cthulhu Mythos can be neatly separated into several chronological stages. They were picked up by subsequent writers who added to the shared universe that he created, constructing, in the process, a massive backdrop that came to be known as the Lovecraftian or Cthulhu Mythos. ![]() His genre was that of “cosmic horror,” and the monsters he created were so terrifying that those unlucky enough to encounter them would lose their sanity. It was a new type of horror that had its origins in space and beyond the realms of human understanding. What Lovecraft introduced us to, however, was no ordinary horror. Authors such as Stephen King would cite H.P. He struggled in life, psychologically and financially, but what he wrote would achieve cult status and be recognized as the seminal works of horror that would inspire generations in the following decades. In the early years of the 20th century, a horror writer in Providence, New England was feverishly detailing the terrifying visions that his imagination held. ![]() ![]() This soundtrack album ⓟ 2021 Home Box Office Inc. Previously released Harold Budd tracks used in the show:Ģ and 18 from The Serpent (In Quicksilver) © 1981 All Saints Recordsĥ and 16 from The White Arcades © 1988 All Saints Recordsġ2 and 17 from Luxa © 1996 All Saints Recordsġ4 and 15 from By The Dawn's Early Light © 1991 All Saints Records HBO® and related trademarks are the property of Home Box Office, Inc. © 2021 Artwork and Photographs © 2021 Home Box Office, Inc. ![]() Tracks 1, 3, 4, 6 - 11 & 13 comprise original score elements for the show composed, performed and recorded by Harold Budd © Home Box Office Inc. ![]() Tracks 1, 3, 4, 6 - 11 & 13 published by L-T Music Publishing BMI, Tracks 2, 5, 12, 14 published by Universal Music Publishing obo Toyon Music. I Know This Much Is True throws stone after stone at Dominick and Thomas Birdsey, twins born in 1950 who find themselves at conflicted early-middle-age as the first Gulf War ramps into action in. ![]() Trenton Takaki - Fazioli f278 Nord Electro IIĬhris Benham at Big Orange Sheep New York, NY February, 2020Īll compositions by Harold Budd. Harold Budd - Fazioli f278 Fender Rhodes Nord Electro IIĬlarice Jensen - ACME Artistic Director & Cello ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As a result, she was a young and sometimes overbearing (but in a cute way?) feminist and overachiever. Her role model was-and continues to be-Lisa Simpson. And, not surprisingly, her clothes perpetually smelled of fried tortillas when she was a child. (Maybe she tried this, maybe she didn't.)Īs a daughter of undocumented Mexican immigrants, Erika has always been determined to defy borders of any kind. In fact, her childhood apartment was so close to Chicago that she could hit it with her shoe if she flung it out the window. She has recently been appointed the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Chair in the Latin American and Latino Studies Department at DePaul University and is part of the inaugural core faculty of the Randolph College Low Residency MFA Program.Įrika grew up in the Mexican working class town of Cicero, Illinois, which borders the city's southwest side. She was a 2017-2019 Princeton Arts Fellow, and a recent recipient of the 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library Foundation and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. Her debut young adult novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, published in October 2017 by Knopf Books for Young Readers, is a New York Times Bestseller and a National Book Awards finalist. A poet, novelist, and essayist, her debut poetry collection, Lessons on Expulsion, was published by Graywolf in July 2017, and was a finalist for the PEN America Open Book Award. Sánchez is the daughter of Mexican immigrants. ![]() ![]() ![]() how the geniuses of modern day football came to realize the importance of a great left tackle in protecting the quarterback’s butt ( Blind Side), or how a cash-constrained baseball executive can use statistics to cobble together a winning lineup ( Moneyball) an intimate understanding of how richly compensated alpha males at a trading desk on Wall Street dominate the poor schlubs ( Liar’s Poker) It’s like they’ve been given inside access to some previously hidden world. ![]() Lewis is an influential writer with a talent for making his readers feel smart. Q: Who is this Michael Lewis guy and why has this book been making such a splash? The ideal audience would be the inquiring readers of Flash Boys open to a counterbalance. It’s structured in FAQ format, but the questions aren’t really frequently asked so much as ones I’d like to answer. I’m imaging what a PR response might look like, though not an entirely serious one. The new book by Michael Lewis criticizing high-frequency trading has created quite a stir. ![]() |