![]() And they have valid reasons not to confess those feelings. But of course, neither knows the other's feelings. ![]() And though I've seen the nerd/jock trope done brilliantly ( Power Plays and Straight A's comes to mind), the book kinda subverted expectations, and it was interesting.Īnyway, Ethan and Casey, surprise surprise, are in love with one another. ![]() Casey is nerdy, but he also enjoys hiking. Yes, Ethan plays a sport, but he's also a science major. At first, it seemed like we were gonna get the nerd-and-jock trope, but that's not the case. The story follows two best friends, Ethan and Casey. Only, something opposite of great happened, and now, though the rating is still three, I don't feel bad about it. ![]() As I got closer to the end, I knew I was going to rate it three stars (unless something great happened) and that I'd feel bad about the rating. ![]()
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Mehta includes so-called "Bollywood" in his sweeping account of Bombay's subcultures: he hilariously recounts, in diary style, day-to-day life on the set among the aging male stars of the action movie Mission Kashmir. ![]() Mehta likewise deploys a gritty documentary style when he investigates Bombay's sex industry, profiling an alluring, doomed dancing girl and a cross-dressing male dancer who leads a strange double life. Investigating the city's bloody 1992 1993 riots, he meets Hindus who massacred Muslims, and their leader, the notorious Godfather-like founder of the Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena party, Bal Thackeray, "the one man most directly responsible for ruining the city I grew up in." Daring to explore further the violent world of warring Hindu and Muslim gangs, Mehta travels into the city's labyrinthine criminal underworld with tough top cop Ajay Lal, developing an uneasy familiarity with hit men who display no remorse for their crimes. Returning to Bombay (now known as Mumbai) from New York after a 21-year absence, Mehta is depressed by his beloved city's transformation, now swelled to 18 million and choked by pollution. ![]() Bombay native Mehta fills his kaleidoscopic portrait of "the biggest, fastest, richest city in India" with captivating moments of danger and dismay. ![]() ![]() It’s always a challenge to impact the fine art world in a significant way, but for toy designers, comic artists and character licensors that challenge is different and perhaps more difficult. Part of that exhibition involves a contest, so alert your little sister and read on after the jump. As this latest news was lighting up the showbiz wire, Reger was quietly opening his first major Hollywood art exhibit, called The Encyclopedia of Hallucinations. ![]() ![]() At this point, the licensing of artist Rob Reger’s signature character has become a cottage industry for future goths one that includes comics, an apparel line and soon a major motion picture starring current teen it-girl (or should I say Hit Girl), Chloe Moretz. In the past fifteen years, the character Emily the Strange has risen in popularity from a seemingly random illustration on a skateboard deck into a generational touchstone for tween girls (particularly the non-Barbie crowd). “The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.” –G.K. ![]() ![]() ![]() This knowledge, which Kay shared with me on the Aboriginal walking tour she hosts in Byron Bay, in northern New South Wales, dates back tens of thousands of years. “Bundjalung people would grind these up to make flour for baking a flat biscuit in hot ashes.” The long, strong leaves, she added, were dried out and used for weaving baskets. “See these seeds?” said Arakwal-Bundjalung woman Delta Kay as she gently cradled a seed head protruding from a Lomandra longifolia (spiny-headed mat-rush) plant growing near a popular surfing beach. But as home cooks around the world focused on producing Instagram-worthy loaves, Australian researchers were busy testing the viability of producing ancient grains for mass consumption – an experiment that could have implications for everything from food security to reconciliation. Mastering the art of making sourdough will be remembered as one of the biggest culinary trends of the Covid-19 era. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was afraid a film would steal my hero not just for me but for my readers.” ![]() I don’t know how they knew it was one of my favourite movies but I took the meeting with them and listened to them but said that while I was flattered by their interest, I didn’t want to sell the rights to the series while I was still writing them. “Their opening line was that they had made Fargo. Two years ago, Working Title Films approached him about buying the seventh Hole book The Snowman. Selling movie rights to Harry Hole on the other hand was not an easy decision for Nesbo. “They had trouble with the last line of the movie - the punchline - so I wrote the last line of the movie,” he says. ![]() Nesbo had no creative input into the film apart from one contribution. “So when they came to me with this huge offer for a movie deal, I said, yes, let’s do it.” “I created a foundation to fight illiteracy in the third world and decided that all the royalties from the book would go to it,” explains Nesbo. The movie about Norway’s most successful headhunter who is also an art thief screens her for buyers is a standalone story and not part of Nesbo’s world-famous series following police detective Harry Hole. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Osoitan artikkelissa mallin käyttökelpoisuuden yhdistämällä siihen eri aikakausien ja suuntausten käsityksiä tarinamaailmoista, nykyisen retorisen narratologian uudelleenarviointia kerronnan kommunikaatiorakenteesta ja kahden teoksen vuorovaikutuksen kontekstia avaavaa adaptaation teoriaa. Sen ytimenä on Pekka Tammen (1992) klassisen narratologian teoretisointeihin perustuva Boothin-Chatmanin malli, joka kuvaa kerronnan hierarkkista rakennetta. Esittelen ja hyödynnän artikkelissa uudenlaista teoriasynteesiä. Tätä moninaista kerrostumisen tapaa Kalevala-muunnelmissa ei ole aiemmin tutkittu, eikä ilmiön erittelemiseksi ole kirjallisuustieteessä olemassa valmista teoreettista työkalua. ![]() ![]() Erittelen näitä tasoja, ja osoitan, että kerrostumisella on teoksen kommunikaatiotavoitteen kannalta oleellisia tehtäviä. Viittaukset ankkuroituvat analyysissani joko muunnelman omaan tai alkuperäiseen versioon Kalevalan maailmasta. Osoitan, että romaanin viittaukset eepokseen kerrostuvat jopa viidelle erilaiselle rakenteelliselle tasolle kerronnassa ja tarinamaailmassa. Karpin romaani toisaalta versioi Kalevalaa hyödyntämällä sen henkilöhahmoja, maailman piirteitä ja juonikulkuja, toisaalta se jatkaa Kalevalan tarinaa. Edelleen tarkastelen, kuinka romaanin viittaukset eepokseen kerrostuvat romaanin kerronnan ja tarinamaailman rakenteessa. Tarkastelen tässä artikkelissa, millaisin eri tavoin Kalevala-muunnelmaromaani Mikko Karpin Väinämöisen vyö (2007) viittaa kansalliseepos Kalevalaan (1849). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ashley, for her part, has mother issues and is prone to sleepwalking, leading to one disastrous nocturnal incident involving Gordon’s bedside cabinet. Gordon’s full name, we learn, is Gordon Crapp he tends to forget about important bills, and his 40-something body is falling into dishevelment. A combination of extortionate vet bills and a fusspot landlord obliges the pair to cohabit, while also establishing a parallel between the dog’s gradual return to fitness and its keepers’ fresh (if painfully tentative) romantic start. She, with not uncharacteristic impulsiveness, flashes a breast by way of thanks Gordon, who has been single for some time, is so distracted he promptly runs over and badly injures the pooch. While driving through Sydney’s hipster suburbs, microbrewer Gordon (Patrick Brammall) stops to let student nurse Ashley (Harriet Dyer) cross the road in front of him. ![]() Such a match demands not a meet-cute but a full-on comedy of errors. One early indicator of the determinedly perverse course the show plots through modern love is that “Colin From Accounts” thereby sticks itself with perhaps the least appealing title in 21st century television. Again, we watch – sometimes through fingers – as frazzled folk inch awkwardly towards intimacy, only this time they’re united not by accidental pregnancy, but the stray dog that lends the show its name. ![]() ![]() In other words, these were stories of scientific revolution rather than linear progress and they often presented all systems of thought as potentially restrictive. On the contrary, these stories were preoccupied with conceptual crises, in which one system of thought was overthrown by another. However, these stories did not simply oppose politics with science so that the former was associated with ignorance and repression and the latter with knowledge and liberation. Furthermore, the article explores how these narratives were mobilized in relation to the Cold War and particularly the ways in which nationalist agendas were seen as repressing the international exchange of ideas that many science fiction writers regarded as central to science. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although science fiction of the Golden Age in the 1940s and the 1950s is often associated with narratives of progress, this article demonstrates that there was a fascination within this period with narratives of cyclicality, rather than progress, narratives in which social and scientific systems collapse back into new dark ages and/or re-emerge out of such new dark ages. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Wholly immersive' Ren e e Ahdieh, New York Times bestselling author of The Wrath and the Dawn But what they find out may lead them down paths they never imagined. ![]() ![]() Their hunt lures them far from Paris and into the icy heart of Russia, where crystalline ice animals stalk forgotten mansions, broken goddesses carry deadly secrets, and a string of unsolved murders makes the crew question whether an ancient myth is a myth after all.Īs hidden secrets come to light and the ghosts of the past catch up to them, the crew will discover new dimensions of themselves. Desperate to make amends, Severin pursues a dangerous lead to find a long-lost artefact rumoured to grant its possessor the power of God. Severin and his team members might have successfully thwarted the Fallen House, but victory came at a terrible cost - one that still haunts all of them. Returning to the dark and glamorous 19th century world of her New York Times bestseller, The Gilded Wolves, Roshani Chokshi dazzles us with another riveting tale full of mystery, danger, and romance. 'Devastating and delicious' Holly Black, New York Times bestselling author of The Cruel Prince They are each other's fiercest love, greatest danger, and only hope. ![]() |