![]() To the west, the bus through sleepy suburbs, an escape from the city's perceived seaminess. To the east, the streetcar, the bright lights and hubbub of downtown. Until the construction of Toronto's second subway line in the late 1960s, the western terminus of the Bloor streetcar at Jane Street marked a psychological border. As Lily considers her childhood friend from the distance of five decades, this remarkably sure-footed debut novel becomes a study of the depths and loss of female friendship. Lily is an observant child, a stranger fascinated by the Trenthams' artistic milieu, but The Strays, which won the Stella Prize when originally published in Australia, is more than a period piece. But when a rift develops in the volatile community of painters, Lily and Eva are on either side of a widening chasm. The Trenthams' laissez-faire child-rearing allows Lily to slip easily into the family. Indeed, when Eva takes her home, Lily is charmed by the bohemian vivacity of the entire Trentham household: avant-garde painter Evan, heiress Helena, their other two daughters and their growing community of "strays" – painters taking harbour from 1930s Australia's stifling cultural conservatism. ![]() On her first day at a new school, her working-class parents having recently moved due to the Depression, eight-year-old Lily is besotted by classmate Eva. ![]()
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![]() If you’ve read many of my movie reviews on here you’ve probably seen me use the phrase ‘ New Hollywood,‘ meaning a period and style of filmmaking that existed from roughly 1969 to 1980 and typified a change in how American mainstream cinema was made - or so was the intention.Įasy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind (subtitled How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock ‘N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood) has become, since it was first published in 1998, the seminal chronicle of that era taking an in depth look at what drove the New Hollywood movement and charting its troubled rise and spectacular fall in what certainly feels like exhaustive detail.Īcross 500 pages Biskind, after setting the scene with the counter culture of the 1960s that spearheaded the movement with the likes of Warren Beaty and Arthur Penn’s Bonnie And Clyde, divides the decade roughly by year focussing on a major film and director for each year starting with Dennis Hopper and Easy Rider in 1969 and culminating in 1979-80 with Martin Scorsese and Raging Bull – providing the book with its title. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mary pulls Jamie in front of her because she is used to Jamie’s protection. To start, the brides and their grooms are attacked by bandits on their journey back to Scotland. The clash of cultures and wills is apparent from the start. Though Alec is impressed by her courage (there aren’t many men who would dare stand up to The Kincaid), he is sure he will tame her. Unfortunately for the Baron, Alec does see Jamie and knows immediately he wants her. he knows that if either man sees her exceptional beauty, one will claim her. He wants to keep her under wraps so she can continue to take care of the family. The Baron thinks to keep his youngest, Jamie, out of sight while the marriages are taking place. King Henry has commanded Baron Jamison to marry off two of his daughters to Alec Kincaid and Daniel Ferguson, lairds of their own Highlands clans. The story of Alec and Jamie is that of an arranged marriage. This is one book that can always put a smile on my face. Since that first time, I have reread the book a number of times and now it is like visiting old friends. ![]() Many people I’ve met still list The Bride as not only their favorite Julie Garwood, but their favorite romance, period. Wild horses could not have dragged me away from this book. I refused to put the book down and I ended up reading it in record time. The first time I read The Bride, I was captivated by Alec and Jamie’s story. ![]() ![]() Cleary went on to write two more books featuring the Ralph S. The book was released as a selection of the Weekly Reader Children’s Book Club (Intermediate Division) and won the William Allen White Children’s Book Award in 1968. The story and characters were inspired both by Cleary’s son, who while recovering from a fever played with miniature cars and motorcycles, and by a neighbor who had shown Cleary a small mouse that had been trapped in a bucket. Mouse, a house mouse who can speak to humans (though typically only children), goes on adventures riding his miniature motorcycle, and who longs for excitement and independence while living with his family in a run-down hotel. It is the first in a trilogy featuring Ralph S. ![]() ![]() The Mouse and the Motorcycle is a children’s novel written by Beverly Cleary and published in 1965. Key Cast: Phillip Waller, Mimi Kennedy, Thom Sharp FILM MAKERS Writer: Beverly Cleary (novel), Jim Carlson & Terrence McDonnell (screenplay) ![]() ![]() ![]() Thankfully, former BBC reporter Delaney steers clear of mawkishness and seems much less interested in calling attention to himself than in emphasizing the importance of the oral tradition to Irish memory and writing his Storyteller may smoke a pipe and charm the country people with wee yarns that unfold into vast epics, but the rest of his characters are as real as can be, quick to take up arms against Vikings or Brits or one another, quick to strike up a song and take a drink while resisting the clichés to which people who fight and sing and drink lend themselves. ![]() Throw Hibernia into the mix, and the danger of hokum and, worse, goopy sentimentality (for which see Malachy McCourt’s History of Ireland, p. A vivid rendering of Irish history, imagined and real, embracing “blood and bones, legends, guns, and dreams, Catholics, Protestants, England, horses and poets and lovers.”Īny novel not meant for children that opens with a character called the Storyteller and praises at length the necessity of the Storyteller’s art runs the risk of calling undue attention to its author, who is, after all, the real teller. ![]() ![]() ![]() lifelong dedication to sharing the tenets of his faith.involvement in the famous Valkyrie plot and in "Operation 7," the effort to smuggle Jews into neutral Switzerland. ![]() heart-wrenching decision to leave the safe haven of America to return to Hitler's Germany.In Bonhoeffer, Metaxas presents the fullest account of Bonhoeffer's life, including his: In this New York Times bestselling biography, Eric Metaxas takes both strands of Bonhoeffer's life-the theologian and the spy-and draws them together to tell a searing story of incredible moral courage in the face of monstrous evil. One of these was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor and author. Who better to face the greatest evil of the 20th century than a humble man of faith?Īs Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the inside. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lady Susan turns on the charm, which no man can resist, but it's different with women, they can see through the outrageous lies, Catherine Vernon grows to dislike her intensely, and feels sorry for her distressed niece, Frederica, the daughter who has been deposited in a cheap boarding school. The Vernon's are noted for their generosity. She is allowed to stay with her brother-in-law Charles Vernon and his wife Catherine in their family home. ![]() Lady Susan Vernon is 35, although she looks much younger, is exceedingly pretty, gentle, with great manners, well spoken, intelligent - the perfect woman! She shows zero conscience and is determined to alter her situation to give her the most benefit with little care about the feelings of those around her and disregarding anything but her own selfish goals. Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr - A Beautiful, Different Kind of Novella From Jane Austen Imagine a Jane Austen heroine who is not a young virgin, but rather a recent widow in her thirties, in the midst of an affair with a married man. ![]() ![]() Throughout the 1950's, Birmingham's black middle class largely succeeded in insulating their children from the most corrosive effects of racism, providing multiple support systems to ensure the next generation would live better than the last. Her achievements run the gamut from helping to oversee the collapse of communism in Europe and the decline of the Soviet Union, to working to protect the country in the aftermath of 9-11, to becoming only the second woman-and the first black woman ever-to serve as Secretary of State.īut until she was 25 she never learned to swim, because when she was a little girl in Birmingham, Alabama, Commissioner of Public Safety Bull Connor decided he'd rather shut down the city's pools than give black citizens access. This is the story of Condoleezza Rice that has never been told, not that of an ultra-accomplished world leader, but of a little girl-and a young woman-trying to find her place in a sometimes hostile world, of two exceptional parents, and an extended family and community that made all the difference.Ĭondoleezza Rice has excelled as a diplomat, political scientist, and concert pianist. ![]() ![]() ![]() We use 2-ply Bristol board, large enough to accommodate artwork 10" x 15".ĭrawing board. For everyone who says "1 can't draw a straight line without a ruler." Now you've no excuse! Invaluable for drawing borders and keeping lines parallel. A must for drawing right angles and working in perspective. Handy for keeping your illustration paper from slipping off the drawing board. This holds the water for cleaning your brushes. Invaluable for covering errors in inking.Ī glass Jar. Any good brand of black india ink is okay. One art gum and one smooth kneaded eraser - which is cleaner to use. A sable hair #3 is your best bet.Įrasers. A simple drawing pen with a thin point, for inking and bordering.īrush. Some artists prefer a soft lead, some like the finer hard lead. Let's just give the various items a fast once-over. One of the nice things about being a comicbook artist is the fact that your equipment is no big deal. Here we go! On these two pages you'll find just about everything you'll need to get you started. Then we're got to make sure we're all speaking the same language. Since very few of us draw with just our fingernails, let's start off with what you'll need. ![]() ![]() After many travails and discoveries, including an arranged marriage, then a divorce, she comes out as queer and begins to build a new life. She builds it, beginning when her family arrives in Canada as refugees. ![]() This is Samra’s story of claiming her life and identity as her own. “Allah hates the loud laughter of women!” her father bellowed at her once, when she was a child playing. It was one of the first signs that her identity was disposable.” “He had decided that Yasmin would be a more suitable and elegant name for his wife than Frida. As a child she remembers, “I’d only ever been surrounded by women who didn’t have the blueprint for claiming their lives.” Her own mother had been assigned a new name, without consultation, by her father. ![]() Samra Habib was born into a traditional Muslim family in Lahore, Pakistan. ![]() |