7/7/2023 0 Comments Listen by Kris BryantIt's going to be nice to run out there and listen to the fans all game. "I'm in left field, I'm super-pumped about that. "I'm not the best at soaking up big moments, but I hope that I can find a way to take it all in," said Bryant ( via Jordan Bastian of mlb.com). It's still so new, sitting in another dugout, in a different uniform and actually facing the guys I played with for so long."īryant also was tasked with playing left field and he seemed happy about that before the game. All these cameras were in my face, so I tried to play it off like I knew was I was doing. "Coming through the right field fence here, I'd never even set foot on that side of the concourse, so I was lost. "I spent a lot of years playing with a lot of those guys," Bryant told reporters ( including Jesse Rogers of ESPN Chicago) before the game. Bryant said it was weird facing his old 'mates, even if many of them were gone.
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The Boleyn Deceit continues the story of the "what if" king William. I thought it was very interesting to read about Anne Boleyn as an older woman, Lady Mary Tudor and the blossoming relationship of Elizabeth and Robert Dudley in a different context. One of the things I like best about this storyline is the inclusion and interpretation of the real characters into these speculative roles. A message that Alyce sends Minuette before her death sets the quartet on an adventure. The plot comes to life when friend to Minuette, Alyce mysteriously dies. We follow most of King William's story through the eyes of Minuette, a Lady in waiting to Princess Elizabeth as she, Elizabeth, William and friend to the King Dominic try to unravel a plot against Queen Anne Boleyn that could affect William's claim to the throne. She has imagined a new English lineage where Anne Boleyn has given birth to boy, William, who is now reigning after the death of his father, Henry VIII. For any Tudor lover, a different type of saga emerges that follows the storyline of what if Anne Boleyn did not miscarry in her last pregnancy? Laura Andersen writes a new historical fantasy series following this question. Alice Through the Looking Glass reunites the all-star cast from the worldwide blockbuster phenomenon, including: Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska and Helena Bonham Carter along with the voices of Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen and Timothy Spall. Directed by James Bobin, who brings his own unique vision to the spectacular world Tim Burton created on screen in 2010 with Alice in Wonderland, the film is written by Linda Woolverton based on characters created by Lewis Carroll and produced by Joe Roth, Suzanne Todd and Jennifer Todd and Tim Burton with John G. In Disney’s Alice Through the Looking Glass, an all-new spectacular adventure featuring the unforgettable characters from Lewis Carroll’s beloved stories, Alice returns to the whimsical world of Underland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter. You’ve seen the first trailer and 60 screenshots, and now Walt Disney Pictures has released five Alice Through the Looking Glass character posters that you can view in the gallery below! Alice Through the Looking Glass character posters released 7/6/2023 0 Comments The bourne supremacy bookThe following films (and television show) are part of this series: Examples include the gritty direction of the rebooted James Bond franchise for a time (most noticeably in Quantum of Solace) and the Taken films. The success of the first three films helped influence the style of many modern action films. Each movie follows a slightly different story but retains some basic elements of Bourne eluding government custody, killing a fellow assassin with some household implement and going for an innovative and harrowing car chase, and features variations on Moby's "Extreme Ways" as the end theme. The main protagonist is Jason Bourne, an amnesiac who finds himself with super-assassin skills and has to stay on the run from former employers and whoever else wants to kill him or manipulate him to evil ends. This series revolutionized the Spy Fiction movie genre for its simplicity and glamourless grittiness (as opposed to the Tuxedo and Martini style), as well as for having a smart protagonist, globetrotting (with virtually zero California Doubling), well-crafted suspense and aggressive action sequences, hand-to-hand combat and car chases especially. A series of action films tenuously ( pretty tenuously) based on the Robert Ludlum books of the same name and (with one exception) starring Matt Damon. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Steven gould booksThey're not even close to the same story. The movie is COMPLETELY different from the book. The movie has a kid named Davy in it, who can teleport, and there is where the similarities between the two end. You can't know how incredibly disappointed I was when I left the theater. Given the post 911 sentiments in the United States toward terrorism, I had been crossing my fingers and hoping that this book would get a movie adaptation. When I heard that a movie was going to be made of this book I was extremely excited. A fact that the author is extraordinarily proud of. It was a book written for someone my age, that wasn't afraid to treat me like an adult, showing such things as homosexual child rape, child abuse, alcoholism, graphic terrorist attacks, and it even used the dreaded F word like FOUR WHOLE TIMES!!! No wonder that behind Catcher in the Rye, it is the most banned children's book in history. And I must say, I was really blown away by it. Being a teenaged boy at the time, these were the exact words needed to sell me on it. She handed me Jumper with a wink and told me that I had better hurry because the book was about to be banned at that library. So, I did the thing that all geeks do, and asked the librarian for a recommendation. When this book came out, back in 1992, I was in my teens, had just finished the latest installment of The Wheel of Time, and I was looking for something else to read. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Dubliners by james joyceTheir team had finished solidly they had been placed second and third and the driver of the winning German car was reported a Belgian. The French, moreover, were virtual victors. Their sympathy, however, was for the blue cars-the cars of their friends, the French. Now and again the clumps of people raised the cheer of the gratefully oppressed. At the crest of the hill at Inchicore sightseers had gathered in clumps to watch the cars careering homeward and through this channel of poverty and inaction the Continent sped its wealth and industry. THE cars came scudding in towards Dublin, running evenly like pellets in the groove of the Naas Road. ….stories 5 to 14 in Joyce’s Dubliners short story collection, with bold denoting quotations with some symbolic importance or a particular literary device being employed, and underlining denoting free indirect discourse being used by Joyce to get as close to first person narrative voice as possible whilst still retaining the freedoms ensured by an omniscient third person narrator (although this pattern quickly breaks down and i just underline both): 7/5/2023 0 Comments Bret easton ellis 1985Clay’s holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs and also into the seamy world of L.A. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. They live in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money in a place devoid of feeling or hope.Ĭlay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. This coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age. Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980’s, Less than Zero has become a timeless classic. Its publishing in 1985 launched Ellis writing career, as it caught the medias. Less Than Zero is officially described as follows: Bret Easton Ellis was born (1964) and raised in Los Angeles, California. Ellis and Wright will executive produce the series. Ellis, writer Craig Wright ( Greenleaf), and Fox 21 Television Studios have paired up to bring this adaptation to life. Hulu has announced it is developing Less Than Zero, based on Bret Easton Ellis’ 1985 novel of the same name. Hulu is developing a TV adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero "You're supposed to be nice, you're not supposed to have a mouth - and you're certainly not supposed to go around enjoying killing people." "I always saw (Hello Kitty) as embodying a lot of the stereotypes of what Asian women are about," she says. Kind of the way the double M was lucky for Marilyn Monroe. And I picked Kate because it's a lovely one syllable, plus it starts with a "K". In case anyone's wondering how I came up with Kate Kamen. And I thought it would be a great idea to do it with a new name. " I just want to start a new chapter of my life. Hello Kitty Must Die was her debut novel.įYI Angela is now Kate Kamen. When she is not writing, she spends her time molesting her fat parakeet, Meatball, who is arguably the best toe-nibbler in the world. She practiced law until she no longer wanted to live life in six-minute increments, and so took up the pen at the tender age of 30. Born in Hong Kong, she is proficient in both Cantonese and English. Choi, author of novel is a writer who lived in San Francisco and now resides in Los Angeles, California. 7/5/2023 0 Comments Book juliet takes a breathThankfully, the journey began with Juliet taking her queer, delightful, irreverent breath. In 2020, I had a bit of a reading block and only read a grand total of seven books, so signing up for Cannonball Read this year for a full Cannonball was a big challenge to undertake. After a mix-up at the local bookshop where I ordered it from was cleared up (they handed me the graphic novel and not the hardcover I ordered – and I have nothing against graphic novels, I just wanted to read all of her words first), I went home and devoured the entire book in two and a half days. From the first time I heard author Gabby Rivera’s laugh and her description of her book on Brene Brown’s podcast “Unlocking Us”, I knew I had to read Rivera’s debut novel “Juliet Takes a Breath”. When she was 7, Jacqueline was filling numerous notebooks with stories and imaginative writing. Jacqueline reveals that her favorite works then, was Little Women and What Katy Did classics and Noel Streatfield books. She was very imaginative and most of the time you would find her reading or crafting stories. When she was in primary school, despite being in her tender age, Jacqueline love for writing emerged. Jacqueline later joined Latchmere Primary School and later joined Coombe Girls for her high school education. She was brought up in Kingston upon the Thames. Jacqueline was born in Bath, England on 17th December 1945 to a civil servant father and a housewife mother. This together with having 100 books under name makes Jacqueline Wilson an inspiration and a favorite to many young readers and authors. In the UK alone, she has sold over 35 million copies of her books and in a number of years her books have been the most borrowed from public libraries. Jacqueline has featured in numerous authors’ nomination for awards and has won many awards. Most of her books capture the theme of divorce, mental illness, and adoption, which has made her a controversy subject for featuring such these themes in children’s literature. Jacqueline Wilson is an award-winning author who has specialized in writing children’s and teen’s books. |