![]() This year’s festival includes new films from some of cinema’s biggest names, including Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, Todd Haynes, Ken Loach, and even (well, sort of) Jean-Luc Godard. After a stellar return to form with last year’s event, which followed a delayed and truncated 2021 festival and a totally cancelled 2020 edition, the circuit’s starriest annual event seems ready to deliver another enviable selection of some of the year’s best (or, at least, destined to be) films. ![]() The red carpets are being rolled out, the rosé is being chilled, and the biggest names in international cinema are getting ready to converge on France for this year’s Cannes Film Festival. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() "Bark, George" is no exception! This is an adorable book about a puppy named George who cannot seem to bark for his mother. I haven't met a book with a dog in it that I haven't liked yet. This book would fit nicely in a curriculum with pets or animals unit in a classroom setting. Most small children would enjoy this book because they can find humor in the different sounds the dog makes before he can actually "arf." Most children are aware of the sounds dogs make, and when George is constantly letting out another sound other than a dog bark, children will find it silly or funny. This picture book keeps the illustrations very simple with a solid background on each page, and keeping the mother dog, George, and the doctor placed consistently throughout the book. I would use this book in a classroom setting where children are starting to associate familiar sounds with what type of animal they come from. This book is about a mother dog who is trying to teach her puppy, George, to make the sound of a dog "arf." To her surprise George lets out other sounds of different animals such as a duck, pig, cat, cow, etc. ![]() ![]() The picture book Bark George has always been one of my favorites since I was a small child. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When people call the president of the United States a pig, we should reject that language regardless of our politics and demand discourse that doesn’t make people subhuman. ![]() When the president of the United States calls women dogs or talks about grabbing pussy, we should get chills down our spine and resistance flowing through our veins. If you felt belittled when Hillary Clinton called Trump supporters “a basket of deplorables” then you should have felt equally concerned when Eric Trump said “Democrats aren’t even human.” 3. If you are offended or hurt when you hear Hillary Clinton or Maxine Waters called bitch, whore, or the c-word, you should be equally offended and hurt when you hear those same words used to describe Ivanka Trump, Kellyanne Conway, or Theresa May. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whether it's a fraught family cookout, a charged altercation on the block, a raucous night in high-society Manhattan gone wrong, or the troubled efforts of a drug hustler to go clean, JM Holmes brings the thump and the heat of his scenes to life with the kind of ease that makes us not just eavesdroppers but participants. ![]() Gio proves himself an unforgettable narrator, beautifully flawed and unstintingly honest, as he recounts both the friends' conflicts and their triumphs. With potent immediacy and bracing candor, this provocative debut follows a decade in the lives of Dub, Rolls, Rye, and Gio as they each grapple with the complexity of their family histories, the newfound power of sex and drugs, and the ferocity of their desires. Bound together by shared experience but pulled apart by their changing fortunes, four young friends coming of age in the postindustrial enclave of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, struggle to liberate themselves from the legacies left to them as black men in America. Four young men struggle to liberate themselves from the burden of being black and male in America in an assured debut "as up-to the-minute as a Kendrick Lamar track and as ruefully steeped in eternal truths as a Gogol tale" ( Kirkus, starred review). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s the way it goes with narrative poetry. It’s rather more self-contained and memorable than Ovid’s usual run of sixteen lines. 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The passage I selected ( Metamorphoses I: 293308) is not representative of the book as a whole. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Reading Harlan Coben’s spectacular Home feels like running into an old friend you haven’t seen in years…Coben’s latest reminds us not only of his roots but also his mastery of the genre. “The lasting appeal of this series lies in Coben’s sympathy for ordinary people who do desperate things when they’re swept up in circumstances they can’t control.”- The New York Times Book Review Fans and newcomers alike will feel as if good friends have come home.”-Associated Press ![]() “Coben knows how to play with readers’ expectations, and he’s crafted another suspenseful and twisty tale. Where has he been for ten years, and what does he know about the day, more than half a life ago, when he was taken? And most critically: What can he tell Myron and Win about the fate of his missing friend? Drawing on his singular talent, Harlan Coben delivers an explosive and deeply moving thriller about friendship, family, and the meaning of home. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Man in the Iron Mask is the last book in the d’Artagnan series which began with The Three Musketeers and continued with Twenty Years After, The Vicomte de Bragelonne and Louise de la Vallière. And I’m already off to a great start with my first January read – The Red Sphinx by Alexandre Dumas! I’m looking forward to telling you about that one after I’ve finished reading it, but in the meantime here are my thoughts on another Dumas novel I read just before Christmas. That’s unrealistic, I know, but it’s something to keep in mind when I’m choosing which books to read and when I’m deciding whether or not it’s worth continuing with a book I’m not enjoying. I do have one goal for 2017, though: I would like every book I read to be a potential book of the year. I had considered starting 2017 by posting some reading plans and resolutions but, to be honest, after failing to keep most of last year’s, I don’t want to make any for this year. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Since then, he has quickly become one of the most popular and prolific comics writers today, working on such titles including a highly successful re-imagining of Green Lantern, Action Comics (co-written with Richard Donner), Teen Titans, Justice Society of America, Infinite Crisis and the experimental breakout hit series 52 for DC with Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid. ![]() His first comics assignments led to a critically acclaimed five-year run on the The Flash. He worked with Richard Donner for four years, leaving the company to pursue writing full-time. During that time, he also began his comics career writing Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. Through perseverance, Geoff ended up as the assistant to Richard Donner, working on Conspiracy Theory and Lethal Weapon 4. He moved to Los Angeles in the late 1990s in search of work within the film industry. He attended Michigan State University, where he earned a degree in Media Arts and Film. Geoff Johns originally hails from Detroit, Michigan. ![]() ![]() ![]() But then she too fell in love, and incurred the queen's fury. Too plain to be considered significant, it seemed that Lady Mary Grey, at least, would escape the burden of her royal blood. ![]() While Elizabeth's closest adviser fought to save Katherine, her younger sister Mary remained at court as the queen's Maid of Honour. The beautiful Katherine ignored Jane's dying request that she remain faithful to her beliefs, changing her religion to retain Queen Mary's favour only to then risk life and freedom in a secret marriage that threatened Queen Elizabeth's throne. The dramatic lives of the younger Grey sisters remain little known, but under English law they were the heirs - and rivals - to the Tudor monarchs Mary and Elizabeth I. Growing up in Jane's shadow, her sisters Katherine and Mary would have to tread carefully to survive. Behind the legend, however, was an opinionated and often rebellious adolescent who died a passionate leader, not merely a victim. Misremembered as the 'Nine Days Queen', she has been mythologized as a child-woman destroyed on the altar of political expediency. Lady Jane Grey is an iconic figure in English history. The dramatic untold story of the Grey sisters, heirs to the Tudor throne. ![]() ![]() I understand discrimination, and I understand being treated differently because people see you as a foreigner, someone who doesn’t belong because as a child I often felt that way." Trivia My last name alone meant I had to work much harder to get good grades. When she doesn't spend her days dreaming up sexy books, she plans her next travel adventure or cooks too spicy dishes from all over the world.ĭespite her law degree, Cora prefers to talk books to laws any day.Ībout her childhood Cora has shared: "Some may not know this but I grew up as an immigrant child in Germany. Before she found her passion in romance books, she was a traditionally published author of young adult literature.Ĭora lives in Germany with a cute but crazy Bearded Collie, as well as the cute but crazy man at her side. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cora Reilly (born 17 February 1985) is the author of the Born in Blood Mafia Series, The Camorra Chronicles and many other books, most of them featuring dangerously sexy bad boys. ![]() |