Historical fiction like POSSESSION - with nerdy academics and “original” source research at the core, but also, sexy, exciting, and tension-filled.Some of my favorite books include: The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarity The Trespasser by Tana French Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman The Vacationers by Emma Straub Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton Rules of Civility by Amor Towles. I’m always on the hunt for writers who make me laugh. I also gravitate towards novels with a strong sense of time and place, a unique atmosphere, or gripping, edge-of-the-seat suspense. I love literary thrillers, historical fiction, quick-witted beach and book club reads, and any plot-driven story with a distinctive voice and a smart, high-concept hook. My primary focus is upmarket fiction with commercial appeal.
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Officially described as a “live-action comedy,” the 10-episode series appears to be more inspired by the games rather than a direct adaptation of one of their stories. The series debuted in 1995 on Sony’s original PlayStation console and has since continued with multiple sequels and spin-offs. Twisted Metal is based on a long-running PlayStation franchise of action-packed, over-the-top vehicular combat games. So what can we expect from this latest project spawned from pixels and polygons? From story details and casting info to when you can buckle-up and watch the premiere, here’s everything we know about Twisted Metal. But it seems Peacock is literally leading the pack, as it races ahead of the competition to get Twisted Metal in front of viewers this summer.īased on the classic PlayStation series of the same name, Twisted Metal looks to be the latest entry to convince fans and critics alike that the infamous video game adaptation curse has been vanquished. Movie blockbuster success, it’s no surprise streamers, networks, and studios are all eager to score a piece of the video game adaptation pie. Between the enormous popularity of HBO Max’s The Last of Us and the Super Mario Bros. Teenager Tash Carmody thought she saw an imaginary person called Sparrow lure away a little girl from a carnival when she was young herself. Review: Oh wow this book! This has been such an amazing and thrilling read that’s kept me guessing until the very end. *Free copy provided by publisher for review… Does Sparrow exist after all? Or is Tash more dangerous to others than she thinks? And she realises Mallory is the key to unlockingthe truth about a dark secret connecting them. Ass disturbing memories resurface, Tash starts to see Sparrow again. Now fifteen and mute, Mallory’s never spoken about the week she went missing. At the time nobody believed Tash, and she has since come to accept that Sparrow wasn’t real. Genre: Teen/young adult fiction, Thriller-psychologicalĭescription: Tash Carmody has been traumatised since childhood, when she witnessed her gruesome imaginary friend Sparrow lure young Mallory Fisher away from a carnival. With the rise of prestige television, maybe it's time to reach for a different beloved early 2000s movie, with enough source material to provide a decade's worth of television. The promise of new adaptations is that they will be more fateful to the books, but with imperfect but beloved adaptations, is there any urgency for the titles? Hollywood would be better off adapting a series of books that maybe were meant to be a franchise but were possibly too unwieldy for the medium of film. Both literary series were previously adapted into major film franchises, each one grossing over a billion dollars that, despite some quibbles, are genuinely beloved by fans of the source material. There have recently been announcements for television series based on both the Harry Potter books and the Twilight novels, as if this is once again the early to mid-2000s. After the recent years of rebooting television shows from the 1980s and 90s and adapting a movie or two into a show, Hollywood has set its next reboot target: popular franchises based on popular book series. Rodney Scott’s World of BBQ (Clarkson Potter, 2021) - formerly of the aforementioned Scott’s Bar-B-Que in Hemingway, and co-owner of Rodney Scott’s Whole Hog BBQ in Charleston, S.C., Birmingham, Ala. But he soon realized that barbecue warranted its own thorough examination. While writing his first book, Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine One Plate at a Time (The University of North Carolina Press, 2013), Miller considered including a chapter on barbecue, since it’s common for soul food restaurants to offer barbecue options, and so many Black-owned barbecue spots have soul food sides on the menu. Photo by Paul Miller/University of North Carolina Press Black Smoke is James Beard Award-winning author, attorney and certified barbecue judge Adrian Miller’s third book. Compelled to dig deeper, Miller became a certified barbecue judge with the Kansas City Barbeque Society in 2004: “Best conversation starter I’ve ever had,” he says and this is coming from someone who once worked in the White House as a special assistant to U.S. in 2002 that he saw it as having meaning in the broader context. It wasn’t until he attended a “life-changing” Southern Foodways Alliance barbecue excursion in Austin, Tex. Growing up in Denver, Colo., Miller only ate barbecue at home or at church events. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. In the light of the morning after, these new lovers wake up in each other’s arms. Lovers at Dawn – a brand-new follow-up story! When two strangers get trapped in a pitch-black elevator, they find connection, attraction, and red-hot heat in the darkness. Hearts in Darkness – the bestselling story that started it all! This Special Collector’s 10th Anniversary Edition Includes: And, with “one of the most beloved couples in romance,” Caden Grayson and Makenna James will stay with you long after the last page! Plus, a brand-new story and a never-before-published epilogue. And, oh, man, as the hours pass and the darkness. Jones 4 / 5 ( 45 ratings ) About this audiobook Two strangers. Trapped in his worst nightmare, only the sweet voice of the red-headed beauty distracts him from his fear. Strangers-to-lovers, forced proximity, and opposites attract goodness. Hearts in Darkness Show full title Written by Laura Kaye Narrated by Erin L. This beloved, bestselling series has it all! Scorching hot chemistry. And their struggle to find love in the light… There’s always a game on in my house during spring.□ I enjoy a good game too (Go Spurs Go!) but for some reason, I’ve only read TWO books with a hero who plays basketball. this month is also known as “March Madness” which is when a huge NCAA college basketball tournament is held so I’ll post some BASKETBALL and COLLEGE romances Happy “March Madness!” My husband was a huge bball fan and Things 1 and 3 are too. * Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (aka 3.14) so I’ll post about some romances featuring SCIENTISTS * the month of March was named after: “Latin Martius-aka Mars, the Roman god of war” which is why I’ll post some MILITARY romances Hey y’all… Yay for Friday!!□ FRIDAY FAVES IS A LITTLE MEME WHERE I CAN POST ABOUT SOME OF MY FAVORITE BOOK RELATED TOPICS, INCLUDING VARIOUS TROPES, AWESOME HEROES, BAD BOYS AND BOOKISH STUFF! *REMEMBER: ALL THE BOOKS FEATURED ON FRIDAY FAVES ARE BOOKS THAT I HAVE READ AND ADORED UNLESS SPECIFICALLY NOTED! THIS WEEK’S THEME: Basketball RomanceĬan you believe it’s been an entire year since our lives were flipped upside down and inside out? Now its March again! I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy… Bzdek shines in his selection of details that reveal the Kennedy’s humanity: Joseph Sr. It’s not a highly original insight, but the author delineates it succinctly and compellingly. Bzdek sees the Kennedy legacy not as a brief, shining moment, but as an ongoing part of the modern American story, with each brother continuing the mission of his predecessors. In the final act, Edward, too, runs for president and eventually becomes the lion of the U.S. Act III follows Robert as he soldiers on after John’s assassination, becoming a senator and a presidential candidate, only to be shot in 1968. In the second act, John takes Joe Jr.’s place and goes from congressman to senator to president in scarcely over a decade. Kennedy, who groomed his sons for politics from a very young age it ends with the death in World War II of Joseph Kennedy Jr., oldest brother and the family’s political hope. Washington Post news editor and features writer Bzdek ( Woman of the House: The Rise of Nancy Pelosi, 2007) recasts the brothers’ famous story in four acts, as each picks up the torch in the aftermath of tragedy.Īct I chronicles their childhood under a harsh father, Joseph P. It focuses on Tartuffe’s passionate relationship with the rich Orgon’s young second wife, the conflict between father and son and the opposition between Cléante’s progressive and libertine vision of the world and the conservative one espoused by Orgon and his mother. He has chosen this energetic, if not to say frenzied version of the play, which focuses on the crisis Tartuffe sets off when he enters the life of a rich family that is falling apart. This production marks Ivo van Hove’s reunion with the Troupe, which he worked with for his stagings of Les Damnés and Électre/Oreste, but it is also a reunion with Molière, whose Le Misanthrope and L’Avare he has already staged, but whom he is directing for the first time in France. The play we have known ever since, Le Tartuffe ou l’Imposteur, is a modified version dating from 1669, with a gentler pace and extended to five acts, whereas the first one comprised only three acts. It has been reconstructed thanks to the work of ‘theatrical genetics’ carried out by the historian Georges Forestier, who explains that this Tartuffe was censored by Louis XIV as the latter could not, on the one hand, be the champion of Catholic orthodoxy and, on the other, allow his favourite actor-author to perform this satire of false piety in his Parisian theatre. A jobseeker - Beneficiary of welfare support. On Being Awesome articulates a singular and gripping cultural ideal and provides a new and inspiring framework for understanding friendship, success, and happiness in our everyday lives. In this original, fun, and slyly helpful investigation of a thoroughly modern condition, pro-skater-turned-philosopher Nick Riggle argues that our collective. What can the invention of the high five and the history of “cool” tell us about the origins of awesome? Can introverts be awesome? How do our expectations of awesome relate to race, gender, and sexuality? How is our desire for awesomeness shaping our cultural landscape-art, altruism, athletics, and public life? These are just a few of the questions Riggle explores in this accessible, philosophical road trip through the ethos of our time. To be down, game, chill, basic, wack, or a preference dictator are just a handful of ways we can create, respond to, or fail to take up social openings in the office, in public, or with our friends and loved ones. We suck when we foil their attempts at creative community building. In this engaging, fun, and astute investigation of a thoroughly contemporary condition, philosopher and former pro skater Nick Riggle argues that our collective interest in being awesome (and not sucking) marks a new era in American culture, one that is shaped by relatively recent social, political, and technological shifts.Īt the core of his work is the idea that awesome people are exemplars of social creativity. A lively philosophical exploration of what it means to be awesome and not suck, and a plea for more awesomeness in our personal, social, and public lives |