![]() ![]() Meanwhile, divorced dad Charlie (Wilson) reluctantly agrees to accompany his teen daughter Lou (Chloe Coleman) to Kat’s sold-out concert, where she’ll tie the knot on stage. ![]() She plays Kat, a global pop icon who is about to marry fellow singing sensation Bastian (Maluma). Lopez, who also produced the project, will be a major draw, showing off both her star power and singing abilities. Potential viewers should savour the breezy tone - not to mention its similarities to Notting Hill, another rom-com about a regular guy wooing a celebrity. It’s tempting to surmise that Lopez is telling us something about her life inside a celebrity fishbowlĪrriving in the UK and US on February 11, this Universal release is well-suited for the Valentine’s Day crowd. But although Lopez no doubt intimately understands her character’s struggles with fame, the film does fall victim to the genre’s worst cliches, leaving a fresher, funnier take on the material just out of reach. ![]() There’s a lot of heart to this unlikely tale of a pop superstar and a humble maths teacher who fall for one another, and director Kat Coiro harkens to a bygone era when Hollywood studios would make these kinds of pleasingly frothy date-night pictures. ![]() A romantic comedy that balances between a fairy-tale love story and a more practical portrait of modern courtship, Marry Me is elevated by the sweet rapport between stars Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson. ![]()
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![]() ![]() "To my delight and total surprise, there are these charming and outrageous Ya-Ya clubs forming all over the country: wild women and not a few savvy men who identify with my tribe of fictional Louisiana girlfriends," writes Wells in a welcome letter posted on the "Ga-Ga for Ya-Yas" Web site, The book explores the Teflon-tough ties of mothers, daughters and childhood friends, set in the languid Deep South, circa 1940 to present. In the words of countless Ya-Yas around the nation: "That is so Ya-Ya."īut what, or who, is a Ya-Ya? The definition lies inside the pages of "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood," the novel by Rebecca Wells that has spawned dozens of Ya-Ya groups nationwide. "But `Gone With the Wind' is on TV today," countered her mother. "But I'm not sick," said the New Orleans youngster. Jane Hobson's daughter knew her mother was a "Ya-Ya" at age 8, when her mother woke her on car pool day, felt her forehead for a temperature and determined that she had a fever and must stay home from school. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Chino has his arm around me and tells Dilla, ‘Yo, you don’t understand, this little kid right here, you’re his favorite.’ But I didn’t know he was John Coltrane at that time.” record executive working on Chino’s sophomore album, I Told You So, said. ![]() “It was Jay Dee, Common, and me,” Dan Charnas, who at the time, was a Warner Bros. They met the young producer at his makeshift studio - aka the basement of his house - which was located in Conant Gardens, the neighborhood Jay Dee, who would later switch his moniker to J Dilla, grew up. In the summer of 1999, Dan Charnas and pugnacious rapper Chino XL traveled to Detroit to work with a burgeoning producer named Jay Dee. Photo Credit: Gregory Bojorquez/Getty Images We spoke to Dilla Time author Dan Charnas about his extensive new book, J Dilla’s complicated relationship with Q-Tip, and why he wants to recenter Slum Village and Fantastic Vol. ![]() Dilla created his own time, which clashed both to create something disjointed, but also beautiful and purposeful. Before J Dilla, musicians either played straight time or swing time. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Let me start with the style, as that’s the most divisive thing about both men’s writing, but in different ways. Both have a unique style that combines startling poetic passages with disregard for whether the reader can tell what’s going on. I’d have appreciated it better if I’d known what was going to happen (and, often, what was happening).Ĭormac McCarthy’s border trilogy invites obvious comparison with Faulkner’s work: Both are written by country folk about country folk, are full of details of rural life, and focus at least as much on their characters’ psychology as on action sequences. There are “spoilers” in here, but this isn’t the kind of story that relies on plot twists to keep you reading. I wasn’t exactly disappointed: It does what famous 20th-century literary novels do, which is combine insight into characters with stylistic innovations. The revolution will… on Modernist Manifestos & WW1…Īs I Lay Dying is one of the most-famous novels in American literature. Suspendedreason on Information Theory and Wr…Īdhi Anugroho on The revolution will be inscrib… Writing (and composing): Mahler, Beethoven, Faulkner, House of Dawn, & the Wundt curveįollow A Writing Guide on Categories.George Steiner and post-modern dialectic as improv. ![]() The revolution will be inscribed in cuneiform. ![]() ![]() ![]() His characters stand tall and face the challenges presented to them they do not cower or whine, as David Drake points out below. ![]() “It’s important for us to recognize where modern fantasy comes from, and Wellman certainly had an impact on the field, even if (as I suspect) the average reader today has no idea who he is.”įrom his Appalachian-inspired fantasies of John the Balladeer to the sword and sorcery of Hok the Mighty and even the Wild West cavalry soldiers of the forgotten outpost of the soon-to-be reprinted Fort Sun Dance, Wellman remains readable and relevant to contemporary audiences. Sutter, who is both a novelist and the Managing Editor at Paizo Publishing. “I think he deserves more attention both the incredible quality of his voice and his contributions to the genre’s foundations,” said James L. ![]() Instead, he plumbed the depths of American folk culture for the brightest metal and darkest coal. “Manly was first and foremost a storyteller,” said novelist David Drake, who was a friend of Wellman’s and is now the owner of his literary estate. ![]() When Manly Wade Wellman died in 1986, he left behind a wealth of stories and novels that continue to resonate into the new century-the silver strings plucked by a master’s hand. ![]() ![]() From there the novel backtracks, backtracks all the way to Heydrich’s family and birth, his upbringing and abortive naval career-cut short after he seduced the daughter of Admiral Raeder-and his entry into the world of Nazism and the SS. The author, French novelist Laurent Binet, begins with an image of one of the assassins, Slovak commando Jozef Gabčík, trying to sleep in his safehouse in Prague ahead of the assassination attempt. He is one of the most powerful and evil people who ever lived, and HHhH tells the story of his assassination by agents of the Czech resistance. The Heydrich in question is Reinhard Heydrich: disgraced naval officer violinist, champion fencer, and connoisseur of the arts model Aryan object of admiration from no less than Hitler himself head of the Gestapo, Criminal Police, and Security Service, and other powerful instruments of Nazi order and one of the architects of the Final Solution. ![]() ![]() An abbreviation of a German phrase purportedly current within the upper echelons of the Third Reich, HHhH stands for Himmlers Hirn heißt Heydrich-Himmler’s Brain is called Heydrich. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Long good-bye Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA40909821 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Farewell, my lovely Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 23:37:58 Associated-names Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She did redeem herself in the end but she didn't suffer long, which will definitely upset a lot of people. Unlike most people I really liked Tash and didn't find her to be irritating, at least not for the first 65 percent of the book. Highly recommend Tash Hearts Tolstoy when you’re in the mood for a contemporary with a lot of HEART! ![]() I loved narrator Meghan Crawford’s portrayal of emotion through the story. In the same vein, Tash’s fears of falling for someone who doesn’t understand asexuality are fully realized on the page…And I was angry, hurt, and healed for her through the story. I loved that she was taken seriously and that the challenges in the industry (the trolls, fear, change). Tash’s story explores the challenges in making art, especially modern art. Tash is not only discovering who she is as a rising YouTube director but also who she is as an asexual youth. ![]() Teens producing a web series that goes viral…And everything that comes with growing up and discovering who you are. The story was just as great as I imagined! I loved the dynamic world that felt so real. I’ve been waiting for Tash to get an audiobook since the book was announced! As luck would have it, Kathryn did an AMAZING giveaway with both the paperback AND audio copy. ![]() ![]() Yet alien as it was, the Republic still holds up a mirror to us. Tom Holland brings to life this strange and unsettling civilization, with its extremes of ambition and self-sacrifice, bloodshed and desire. This was the century of Julius Caesar, the gambler whose addiction to glory led him to the banks of the Rubicon, and beyond of Cicero, whose defence of freedom would make him a byword for eloquence of Spartacus, the slave who dared to challenge a superpower of Cleopatra, the queen who did the same. Rubicon paints a vivid portrait of the Republic at the climax of its greatness – the same greatness which would herald the catastrophe of its fall. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world. ![]() The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. ![]() Bloody and labyrinthine political intrigue and struggle, brilliant oratory, amazing feats of conquest and cruelty’ Ian McEwan, Books of the Year, Guardian ‘The Book that really held me, in fact, obsessed me, was Rubicon. ![]() ![]() ![]() What the publisher’s description doesn’t tell you is the full scope of issues the characters are dealing with. Usually I think comparisons to other books are generally inaccurate or forced, but the comparison here to The Perks of Being a Wallflower is dead on. Once I divested myself of those false ideas, I was able to enjoy this for the rather bleak book that it was. The ideas in my head/the chatter I’d heard ended up being almost entirely wrong. For some reason I had the ideas “fun” and “love story” in my brain. I heard some chatter about bisexual characters or a polyamorous relationship. I knew it had LGBTQIA+ characters, so it went on my list as something I hoped to get time to read. I’m not entirely sure what I had expected when I picked this book up. Even as life in his foster home starts to take its toll, Sebby and Mira together craft a world of magic rituals and impromptu road trips, designed to fix the broken parts of their lives.Īs Jeremy finds himself drawn into Sebby and Mira’s world, he begins to understand the secrets that they hide in order to protect themselves, to keep each other safe from those who don’t understand their quest to live for the impossible. ![]() Sebby, Mira’s gay best friend, is a boy who seems to carry sunlight around with him. When he sees Sebby for the first time across the school lawn, it’s as if he’s been expecting this blond, lanky boy with mischief glinting in his eye. Jeremy is the painfully shy art nerd at Saint Francis who’s been in self-imposed isolation after an incident that ruined his last year of school. ![]() |