![]() ![]() ![]() You don’t hug someone that long unless you’re looking at them like ‘please leave me the fuck alone. It’s essentially a rite of passage and she’s in entertaining good company.įlashing back to the Season 2 reunion, Danielle claimed, “I said goodbye at the reunion with all those long, awkward hugs. You can look up any reputable company and they’ve had numerous lawsuits.” Plus it feels like legal troubles a prerequisite for getting on Real Housewives of New Jersey at this point. Copyright infringement is extremely common in our business and by her saying ‘She’s a thief,’ it’s nothing remotely like that. I’ll still be living here and everything else. She admitted, “I had a very bad lawsuit which did come out on the show and they were attaching a lien onto my house. Right out of the gate, Margaret addressed the lawsuit talk. Margaret and Danielle did a combined interview for Grants Rants Hollywood Talk and they tackled every question that came their way. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Attracted by a woman whom they call Nova, they swim below a scenic waterfall. They can breathe the air, drink the water and eat the fruit. They land their shuttle on a temperate, lushly forested planet which they name Soror ( Latin for sister). ![]() ![]() Because they travel close to the speed of light, time dilation causes centuries to pass on Earth during their two years in transit. The manuscript was written by journalist Ulysse Mérou, who in 2500 was invited by wealthy Professor Antelle to accompany him and his disciple, physician Arthur Levain, to Betelgeuse. In a frame story, a rich couple sailing alone in space, Jinn and Phyllis, rescue and translate a manuscript from a floating bottle. The novel tells the tale of three human explorers from Earth who visit a planet orbiting the star Betelgeuse, in which great apes are the dominant intelligent and civilized species, whereas humans are reduced to a savage animal-like state. It was adapted into the 1968 film Planet of the Apes, launching the Planet of the Apes media franchise. La Planète des singes, known in English as Planet of the Apes in the US and Monkey Planet in the UK, is a 1963 science fiction novel by French author Pierre Boulle. ![]() ![]() ![]() To be fair about it, I am somewhat prejudiced against Bloom. A few weeks ago I decided to give it a try and found it to be a piece o’ cake, mostly. A couple years ago I found a copy dirt-cheap at some thrift store or another and its fat binding has glowered at me from the shelves since. ![]() Given Harold Bloom’s prodigious reputation, I was afraid of the thing, and so avoided it, figuring it to be fraught with lit theory of the densest sort. I dimly remember when this book came out (1998) how big and important and controversial it was supposed to be. ![]() ![]() It sets out the principles underlying the ideal relationship between religion and politics and between the government and the people. The Art of Governance (1892/93) was written as Iran entered a pre-revolutionary phase, and ideas that we recognise today as the precursors of political Islam were spreading. A Traveller’s Narrative (1889/90) is an authoritative statement of the broad lines of Bahā’i social and political thinking. In this work, Abduʾl-Bahā gives virtuous and progressive Islamic clerics a leading role among these intellectuals, indeed most of his appeals are directed specifically to them. ![]() In The Secret of Divine Civilization (1875) Abduʾl-Bahā supports the administrative and broader social reforms of Mirzā Hosayn Khān, but looks mainly for organic reform through the efforts of Iranian intellectuals to waken and educate the masses. ![]() Principles for progress : essays on religion and modernity by `Abdu'l-Bahá Book (monograph) This book presents three of the works of Abduʾl-Bahā, son of the founder of the Bahāʾi Faith, dealing with social and political issues. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gabino Iglesias, The Devil Takes You Home (2022)Īnthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See (2014) O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi, Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052–2072 (2022) Olympe Bhêly-Quénum, Snares without End (1978)īrooke Bolander, The Only Harmless Great Thing (2018) Nelson Algren, The Neon Wilderness (1947)Īhmet Hamdi Tanpinar, The Time Regulation Institute (1962) Delany, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders (2011) Of them, my favourite 18 works of fiction, in roughly this order but with the Delany definitely way out in front of everything else, were: Of these, 114 were by straight white men writing in English, 127 were by the rest of the world (but only 71 by women), with 19 multi-authored or otherwise too complicated to fit into those categories. In 2022, I read 258 books (250 of them for the first time). Conferences, keynotes, research presentations, plenaries and papers.Join 1,392 other subscribers Follow Mark Bould on Publications ![]() ![]() ![]() For Tom, our normal reality seems like a dystopian wasteland.īut when he discovers wonderfully unexpected versions of his family, his career, and - maybe, just maybe - his soul mate, Tom has a decision to make. ![]() In a time-travel mishap, Tom finds himself stranded in our 2016, what we think of as the real world. Utterly blindsided by an accident of fate, Tom makes a rash decision that drastically changes not only his own life but the very fabric of the universe itself. because it wasn't necessary.Įxcept Tom just can't seem to find his place in this dazzling, idealistic world, and that's before his life gets turned upside down. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases, where avocados never go bad and punk rock never existed. You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. ![]() ![]() ![]() December 22: Both of the movies from the Matrix trilogy released in 2003 were shut out of visual effects Oscar consideration by the Visual Effects Award Nominating Committee.November 17: Arnold Schwarzenegger sworn in as Governor of California.June 29: Katharine Hepburn dies of cardiac arrest.June 12: Gregory Peck dies of bronchopneumonia.February 24: The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski, wins 7 César Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Sound, Best Production Design, Best Music and Best Cinematography.It was also the second film to surpass the billion-dollar milestone after Titanic in 1997.įinding Nemo was the highest-grossing animated movie of all time until being overtaken by Shrek 2 in 2004. ![]() The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King grossed more than $1.14 billion, making it the highest-grossing film in 2003 worldwide and in North America and the second-highest-grossing film up to that time. ![]() ![]() Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King The top 10 films released in 2003 by worldwide gross are as follows: Highest-grossing films of 2003 See also: Lists of box office number-one films § 2003 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even on his deathbed, he seems to accept it as his due. The relatives assembled under his roof treat him with the utmost contempt. Here he meets the sickly, affectless Raif Bey, who is, we’re told, “the sort of man who causes us to ask ourselves: “What do they live for? What do they find in life? What logic compels them to keep breathing?” When at last they make friends, it becomes clear that Raif’s reason for living cannot be his family. The narrator has fallen on hard times, and it is only with the help of a crass and belittling former classmate that he is able to find work as a clerk at a firm trading in lumber. The story begins in 1930s Ankara, the Turkish Republic’s newly appointed capital. ![]() And no one seems able to explain quite why. ![]() It is read, loved and wept over by men and women of all ages, but most of all by young adults. And yet, for the past three years, it has topped the bestseller lists in Turkey, outselling Orhan Pamuk. It was just a love story, they said – the sort that schoolgirls fawned over. Even those who greatly admired the other works of Sabahattin Ali viewed this one as a puzzling aberration. Decades later, when Madonna in a Fur Coat became the sort of book that passed from friend to friend, the literary establishment continued to ignore it. W hen it was first published in Istanbul in 1943, it made no impression whatsoever. ![]() ![]() ![]() Over all the sun was streaming, to all the birds were singing, to all the primroses were yellow, and the speedwell blue, and the country, however they interpreted her, was uttering her cry of “now. While, powdered in between, were the villas of business men, who saw life more steadily, though with the steadiness of the half-closed eye. Wilcox had known him - who barred himself up, and wrote prophecies, and gave all he had to the poor. These things in Hertfordshire and farther afield lay the house of a hermit - Mrs. The grave’s occupant - that is the legend - is an atheist, who declared that if God existed, six forest trees would grow out of her grave. Six forest trees - that is a fact - grow out of one of the graves in Tewin churchyard. To the left fell the shadow of the embankment and its arches to the right Leonard saw up into the Tewin Woods and towards the church, with its wild legend of immortality. It rolled along behind the eastern smokes - a wheel, whose fellow was the descending moon - and as yet it seemed the servant of the blue sky, not its lord. ![]() ![]() Tunnels followed, and after each the sky grew bluer, and from the embankment at Finsbury Park he had his first sight of the sun. “With the first jolt he was in daylight they had left the gateways of King’s Cross, and were under blue sky. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thereby, while you could not exactly call her the lead character, her presence due to her brusque attitude and strong opinions is always noticed. Olive appears either directly in these stories as well or is merely mentioned. Alongside of that the book is divided into small chapters, which focus on various other people from the small town in Maine that the Kitteridges live in. The book follows the life of Olive Kitteridge, a seventy year-old retired teacher, as she lives out her days with her husband Henry, while struggling to maintain a relationship with their son Christopher. Elizabeth Strout pulls at your heartstrings so much that you hardly have any left after reading this story. I’ve been looking to read something a bit more lighthearted anyway,” and she looked at me and said “I wouldn’t say that the book is lighthearted in any way”. ![]() I remember when my friend gave me this book, after having recommended it to me time and time again, and I said “I’ll definitely read it. ![]() |