It’s a tale of sexism, shifting national identity and good old-fashioned propaganda, all of which coalesced to create the image of an unchecked tyrant that endures today.īorn on February 18, 1516, Mary was not the long-awaited son her parents, Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, had hoped for. In the words of one contemporary chronicler, “It was said that no one could remember there ever having been public rejoicing such as this.”Ĭenturies later, however, the Tudor queen is remembered as one of the most reviled figures in English history: “ Bloody Mary.” This is a story of how a heroic underdog became a monarch who was then mythologized as a violent despot-despite being no bloodier than her father, Henry VIII, or other English monarchs. Still, she rode into London on August 3, 1553, to widespread acclaim. Historian Sarah Gristwood describes the ascension of Mary I as a “staggeringly bold” course of action undertaken with little chance of success. She seized it with unprecedented ambition from those who sought to thwart her. The first woman to rule England in her own right didn’t simply inherit the throne.
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After getting to know her better, it was difficult not to feel sympathy for her. However, as readers, we get a glimpse at Cameron’s home life and her complicated family, thus showing us a more vulnerable side to her “mean girl” actions. She’s attractive, popular and has no regard for others. To almost everyone around her, Cameron Bright appears to be your stereotypical “mean girl”. Yet something told me to give it a chance and fortunately I listened. Pitched as “The Taming of the Shrew meets Mean Girls”, I was a bit wary of it since The Taming of the Shrew is the Shakespeare play that I hate the most. Fortunately, I was able to snag an advance copy of their latest book, If I’m Being Honest. As a slightly obsessive YA contemporary rom-com reader, I’ve wanted to read an Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka book ever since their début novel last year. Moreover, hard science fiction often avoids using technology as a mere plot device, instead focusing on how scientific advances come about and how they change human society. While these stories explore speculative topics, they maintain a respect for the known laws of physics, chemistry, and biology. First and foremost is the reliance on accurate and consistent scientific principles. Hard science fiction is characterized by several features that distinguish it from other subgenres. By using scientific principles as a foundation, these stories can create a sense of realism that draws readers in and encourages them to think critically about the implications of scientific progress. The essential idea behind hard science fiction is to create a plausible narrative based on current scientific understanding.īut why is scientific accuracy so important in this subgenre? The answer lies in the fact that hard science fiction attempts to explore the possibilities of the future by extrapolating from what we know today. Although these books take place in imaginative settings and feature advanced technologies, they remain grounded in real-world scientific principles, making them more plausible than other works in the genre. Hard science fiction is a subgenre that places great importance on scientific accuracy and consistent logic. Extensions can happen but are extremely rare and discouraged. At the end of the six weeks, either the project is finished or the project is killed. The team delivers the shaped project with all necessary skills present in the team and have full responsibility for scope in a cycle of six weeks. Shaped projects that don’t make the cut are not systematically stored.īuilding. Shaped projects are pitched to the management team with some senior members present, and together they decide which projects to green light, and which to drop. Shaping needs to happen at the appropriate level of abstraction: concrete enough, so the team knows what to do, but not so prescriptive that it restricts the team from figuring out interesting details themselves. Senior team members, who ultimately will not execute the project, define the problem and solution with the right amount of detail. Delivering a project with Shape Up consists of three distinct phases: Who’s behind it?Īs of May 2019, Picturestart currently owns the rights to the movie, with Plan B on board to produce. What format will it be? Will the Eleanor & Park adaptation be a Movie or a Series? Here’s what we know about the Eleanor & Park movie adaptation so far: What’s it about? What’s the plot?įrom IMDB: “Eleanor Douglas and Park Sheridan are two star-crossed teens living in 1980s Omaha, trying to get through their own struggles while figuring out the complicated matter of first love.”Įleanor & Park was released in April 2012 and has since sold over a million copies. By Jennifer Marie Lin on Jul 6th, 2020 (Last Updated Jul 6th, 2020)Įleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell has had some stops and starts in getting a movie adaptation, but there’s been a flurry of activity lately. We have Bengali, we have Hebrew, we have Turkish, and we have hopefully also Slovenian. It is a great joy for me to see that in just ten years, this book has been distributed all over the world, and printed in 35 different languages. The first one was a call to attention, saying something is wrong the second was my attempt to sum up what we have learned in these 40 years of research and projects around the world. What is the major difference between the two books? Island Press: Next year marks 50 years since the publication of Life Between Buildings this year is the 10th anniversary of Cities for People. Here, Gehl talks with staff of his publisher, Island Press, about what has changed (or not) in his 60-year career as an architect, and why Amazon is scarier than the coronavirus. He is widely credited with creating and renewing urban public spaces in cities around the world, including Copenhagen, Melbourne, New York City, London, and many others. He is the author of Life Between Buildings (1971) and Cities for People (2010), among other books. Jan Gehl is a founding partner of Gehl Architects-Urban Quality Consultants. She has given away the treasures she’s collected over her many lifetimes to purge her past and clear the way for a future with her new lover, ER doctor Luke Findley. Now, two hundred years after imprisoning Adair, Lanore is trying to atone for her sins. He is a monster in the flesh, and he wants Lanore to love him for all time. And though he is handsome and charming, behind Adair’s seductive façade is the stuff of nightmares. He used his mysterious, otherworldly powers to give her eternal life, but Lanore learned too late that there was a price for this gift: to spend eternity with him. She had no choice but to entomb Adair, her nemesis, to save Jonathan, the boy she grew up with in the remote Maine town and the man she thought she would be with forever. Including imprisoning the man who loves her behind a wall of brick and stone. Lanore McIvlvrae is the kind of woman who will do anything for love. In the second installment in her supernatural Taker trilogy, Alma Katsu, author of the highly acclaimed The Hunger, takes you on a “fascinating” ( Cliché Magazine) and passion-fueled journey that transcends the boundaries of time. Some Americans did not view Huck as a positive role model for young readers. Huck Finn, a rebellious teenager, fakes his own death to escape an alcoholic father and throughout the book challenges the mores of his society. This novel, written by Samuel Clemens (1835–1910) under the pen name Mark Twain, chronicles the adventures of two young white boys and an escaped black slave who sail the Mississippi River on a raft. Huckleberry Finn banned immediately after publication (AP Photo/David Duprey, used with permission from The Associated Press)Ī 1907 article in the Library Journal reported that Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) had been banned somewhere every year since its publication. Immediately after the book was published, it was banned in Concord, Massachusetts, and has been banned several times since then from libraries because of what some viewed as inappropriate content. 23, 2010, Mark Woodhouse, Mark Twain archivist, holds a first edition "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" book by Mark Twain at the Mark Twain Archive at Elmira College in Elmira, N.Y. In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. Each post highlights three key elements that make the featured book exceptional enough to start learning about it well in advance! If you’re unfamiliar with my “Buzzworthy Books” series: these posts serve to preview reads I’m already recommending for the coming year. THE CHALK MAN releases January 9th, 2018-mark your calendars now, and stay tuned for a full review of THE CHALK MAN and an interview with author C.J. Tense, immersive, and masterfully plotted, THE CHALK MAN delivers a read that's both on-trend and wickedly original. Tudor's exceptional debut is a gripping blend of traumas big and small, imagined and real-a layered suspense story that leads readers down the rabbit hole of horrors that follow a young boy into adulthood. Part dark coming of age story, part psychological thriller, this outstanding debut will be a must-read for fans of Stephen King, Ruth Ware, and Liz Nugent-a bit of an eclectic blend, perhaps, but an appropriate illustration of the many facets that will make this debut so widely-appealing. It’s that time of year again: time to start compiling a wishlist of 2018 crime fiction! There’s no better way to kick off this year’s “Buzzworthy 2018 Books” series than with a superb crime fiction debut: THE CHALK MAN by C.J. Buzzworthy 2018 Book #1: THE CHALK MAN by C.J. She falls in love with a lanky, russet-haired idealist from Berlin, Konrad Weiss, with whom she shares - along with other key characters - a love of languages. At its heart is the beautifully drawn Hiroko Tanaka, first seen in Nagasaki in August 1945 as a young schoolteacher turned munitions factory worker whose artist father is branded a traitor for his outbursts against the emperor and kamikaze militarism. Unfolding in four sections, the novel traces the shared histories of two families, from the final days of the second world war in Japan, and India on the brink of partition in 1947, to Pakistan in the early 1980s, New York in the aftermath of 11 September and Afghanistan in the wake of the ensuing US bombing campaign. As an unnamed captive is unshackled and stripped naked in readiness for the anonymity of an orange jumpsuit, he wonders: "How did it come to this?" The vastness of the question as applied to a prisoner in Guantánamo is a challenge to which this epic yet skilfully controlled novel rises in oblique and unexpected ways. T he huge ambition of Kamila Shamsie's fifth novel is announced in the prologue. |