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![]() The film adaptation of How to Talk to Girls at Parties (directed by John Cameron Mitchell) will be in theaters in 2018. Some of his most notable titles include the groundbreaking #1 New York Times bestselling Sandman comics series (which garnered nine Eisner Awards and the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story) The Graveyard Book (the first book ever to win both the Newbery and Carnegie medals) American Gods (which will soon be released as a television show in the US) and The Ocean at the End of the Lane, the UKs National Book Award 2013 Book of the Year. ![]() About the Author Neil Gaiman is the celebrated author of books, graphic novels, short stories, and films for readers of all ages. The Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, and Nebula award-winning novel and hit Starz television series by Neil Gaiman is adapted as a graphic novel! Collects issues #1-9 of American Gods: My Ainsel. The first paperback edition of the glorious two-volume, full-color graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaimans 1 New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal winning novel The Graveyard. ![]() Book Synopsis The bizarre road trip across America continues as our heroes gather reinforcements for the imminent god war! Shadow and Wednesday leave the House on the Rock and continue their journey across the country where they set up aliases, meet new gods, and prepare for war. ![]() About the Book Based on the award-winning novel-Cover. ![]()
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Burnt offerings marasco novel5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Montgomery), relocate from the city to a rundown 19th-century mansion for a few months in the summer. The Rolf family, writer Ben (Oliver Reed), his wife Marian (Karen Black), and their 12-year-old son Davey (Lee H. The film was originally announced as a project for Bob Fosse, from a screenplay by Robert Marasco in December 1969, and when that fell through, Marasco adapted his script into a novel published in 1973. Curtis, the man who made the hugely popular Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows (1966-1971) and its big screen spin offs House of Dark Shadows (1970) and Night of Dark Shadows (1971) as well as many other fondly remembered small screen horrors, was never the most dynamic of directors and although Burnt Offerings has many memorable moments, he can’t sustain his studiously methodical approach to the story over an overlong 116 minutes. ![]() There’s the germ of a fascinating idea at work in Dan Curtis’ hard-to-categorise Burnt Offerings, an idea that isn’t really done justice by the execution, but which remains intriguing and very watchable nonetheless. ![]()
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Daniel kehlmann goodreads5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() But for a long time it was a novel that Kehlmann, who turned 45 in January, was reluctant to write. Kehlmann’s eighth novel and the sixth one to come out in English, “Tyll” is also his second book of historical fiction, following his 2005 best seller “ Measuring the World.” “Tyll” has either been or is being translated into more than 20 languages. Tyll travels through a Europe devastated by conflict, encountering fraudsters, soldiers and royalty, including Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia, whose love of Shakespeare chimes with Tyll’s own sense of theatrical spectacle. “Tyll” transmits the 14th-century tale of the jester Tyll Ulenspiegel about 300 years into the future, plopping him into the Thirty Years’ War. It has sold nearly 600,000 copies in Germany since it was published there in 2017, and is being adapted by Netflix as a television series. ![]() For example: “Tyll,” his latest book, which Pantheon will publish in an English translation by Ross Benjamin on Feb. It was the kind of caper that he might have written into one of his novels, where escape artists, pranksters or con men often outwit their adversaries. BERLIN - When Daniel Kehlmann read the news that the former Nissan executive Carlos Ghosn, facing financial misconduct charges in Japan, fled the country in a box, he couldn’t help but feel a twinge of admiration. ![]()
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Crooked house novel5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() His lovely and level-headed granddaughter Sophia Leonides hires PI Charles Hayward, son of a late Assistant Commissioner at Scotland Yard, to investigate Aristides' death. Wealthy 86-year-old Anglo-Greek business magnate Aristide Leonides (inspired by Aristotle Onassis?) dies from an insulin injection fatally laced with eserine (used in eye drops). In marked contrast with recent Phelps-scripted films, Crooked House stays mostly faithful to the book. ![]() (Both of these novels have no appearance by Christie's sleuth Hercule Poirot, and this was a time when the author was rather down on Poirot.) It certainly plays to Julian Fellowes' interests, being set at a huge country house among a wealthy family of eccentrics who are partly descended from country gentry. Most people who read this blog probably know the plot of Crooked House, which Christie once named as one of her favorites among her mysteries, along with another non-series novel, Ordeal by Innocence. ![]() As Christie fans vigorously debate the merits of Sarah Phelps' scripted 2018 adaptations of the Queen of Crime's novels The ABC Murders (1936) and Ordeal by Innocence (1958), I'd like to remind people who may have missed it that there was another Christie film-one much more calculated, it seems to me, to please traditionalists/textualists-which appeared recently, in 2017: Crooked House, an adaptation of the 1949 novel that was co-scripted by Julian Fellowes of Gosford Park and Downtown Abbey fame. ![]()
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Undocumented by Tings Chak5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() Forewarned is forearmed as they say and this book helps to explain what is shaping up to be one of the most important struggles of the 21st century. Undocumented provides critical context for understanding how migrant detention works to strip people of their humanity and make them invisible to society at large. That’s why it’s so important to keep informed. The situation in Canada is not much better, as refugees flee over the US border only to be threatened and arrested when they arrived. With Trump talking about building a border wall, hiring hundreds of thousands of border guards and even discussing using 100,000 national guards to deport migrants, things are looking grim. ![]() This second, expanded edition of the book comes at a difficult time for migrants. Tings has been active in the Toronto chapter of No One is Illegal, a group dedicated to protecting the rights and freedoms of migrants. ![]() ![]() First published in a very short run in 2014, Undocumented grew out of the research of architect and activist Tings Chak. We’re thrilled to announce the publication of our fourth title, Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention Centres’. ![]() |