5/12/2023 0 Comments Movie the price of salt![]() ![]() Therese accepts, and away from New York, the two are able to acknowledge their love for each other. Carol is about ten years older and very beautiful they are instantly drawn to each other, and when Therese sends Carol a Christmas card, the two women strike up an unusual friendship.Ĭarol is in the midst of a bitter divorce and custody battle, and without the prospect of seeing her daughter for months, she invites Therese on a winter road trip west. Therese is an aspiring set designer with a boyfriend she doesn’t love (which he knows) and a temporary job in the toy department of a large New York department store when she sees Carol Aird across the counter. Reading Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt (also known as Carol, and the basis for the new film of that name) was like seeing another camera angle on 1950s New York. One of my all-time favorite movies is All About Eve, the 1950 Bette Davis classic about the Theatre (capital T, British spelling), ambition, friendship, and bumpy nights. ![]()
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5/12/2023 0 Comments The memoirs of ulysses s grant![]() ![]() ![]() Hesseltine thinks it’s just because Grant’s enemies were better writers than his friends. Why the decline in Grant’s reputation? Grant biographer, William B. Yet last year, Grant’s 200th birthday anniversary passed without national notice. The largest of its kind in the United States, the statue depicts Grant at two and one-half times life size. A parade down Pennsylvania Avenue concluded with the unveiling of a majestic equestrian statue at the foot of the Capitol, directly aligned on the National Mall with the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. Thirty-seven years later, on the 100th anniversary of his birthday, April 27, 1922, the nation again celebrated Grant, by proclamation of President Warren Harding. Grant was ultimately interred in what is the largest mausoleum in North America, “ Grant’s Tomb.” ![]() The funeral procession stretched for seven miles and took five hours to reach the burial site. Now consider that, at that time, the city’s population was only 1.9 million. To understand the depth of respect Grant enjoyed in his day, consider this: On August 8, 1885, more than 1.5 million people attended his New York City funeral. But a full accounting of his service to this country might turn that around. Since 1885, Grant’s reputation has waned. Our 18th president, whose birthday is Thursday, April 27, might seem out of place on this list. In the late 19th Century, the three individuals most widely regarded as the nation’s greatest presidents were George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and… Ulysses S. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments The improbability of love painting![]() ![]() This novel is a mix of your favorite art history novels, but it’s still uniquely its own. ![]() It was named a New York Times Editor’s Choice, earning this fabulous review from the New York Times. The Last Painting of Sara De Vos by Dominic Smith (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April, 2016). Here’s your chance to find out my recent art history reading recs too. I just took a stack to my painting class and passed them around. As readers of this blog know, I’m a little obsessed with art history books, both fiction and nonfiction, and there have been quite a few good ones lately. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Raven kennedy gold![]() ![]() It is one of the best New Adult Fantasy books out there' Kay Thatcher, author of Prince of Blades 'TEN GILDED STARS! Remarkably original.and the prose, people. Raven Kennedy crafts an astonishing world that's filled with captivating characters and a story you won't be able to put down' Ivy Asher, bestselling author of The Osseous Chronicles and The Lost Sentinel Series 'This series is amazing and I can't recommend it enough. ![]() Who gave me food, shelter, and his heart. King Midas, who rescued me from the streets. Every single word gleams like gold' Beck Michaels, author of Divine Blood 'This is one of those series that started off phenomenal, and only gets better with every subsequent book' Laura Thalassa, author of The Bargainer Series 'Get ready to be enthralled from the first word, and begging for more by the last. The Plated Prisoner Series Collection 3 Books Set By Raven Kennedy (Gild, Glint, Gleam): Gild: Locked away in a castle on the snowy mountains in the Sixth Kingdom of Orea, I have never known freedom. Raven has written a story for the ages, destined to go down as one of the epics' Sarah A Parker, author of To Bleed a Crystal Bloom 'Raven writes with a magic that comes to life on the page. I've cried, laughed, screamed, thrown my kindle across the room, picked it up again, swooned. ![]() I've never been so immersed in a story before-never read characters that have felt so real. PRE-ORDER THE HEART-POUNDING FINAL INSTALLMENT IN THE BESTSELLING PLATED PRISONER SERIES Praise for The Plated Prisoner Series 'This series has stolen my heart, my breath, my regard for anything else. ![]() ![]() ![]() Intelligent, charming, and utterly readable, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen marks the debut of a talented new literary voice. -(summary from back of book) As a series of extraordinary events alter her perspective–and sweeping changes come to Ringgold itself–Catherine Grace begins to wonder if her place in the world may actually be, against all odds, right where she began. But before things have even begun to get off the ground in Atlanta, tragedy brings Catherine Grace back home. ![]() And when, with the help of a family friend, the dream becomes a reality, she immediately packs her bags, leaving her family and the boy she loves to claim the life she’s always imagined. The daughter of Ringgold’s third-generation Baptist preacher, Catherine Grace is quick-witted, more than a little stubborn, and dying to escape her small-town life.Įvery Saturday afternoon, she sits at the Dairy Queen, eating Dilly Bars and plotting her getaway to Atlanta. The town of Ringgold, Georgia, has a population of 1,923, one traffic light, one Dairy Queen, and one Catherine Grace Cline. ![]() Sometimes you have to return to the place where you began, to arrive at the place where you belong. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments The wager a tale of shipwreck![]() ![]() Life onboard an 18th-century ship was perilous, as Grann amply shows. Central to his populous cast of seamen are David Cheap, who, through a twist of fate, became captain of the Wager Commodore George Anson, who had made Cheap his protégé formidable gunner John Bulkeley and midshipman John Byron, grandfather of the poet. ![]() Drawing on a trove of firsthand accounts-logbooks, correspondence, diaries, court-martial testimony, and Admiralty and government records-Grann mounts a chilling, vibrant narrative of a grim maritime tragedy and its dramatic aftermath. More than half survived the wreckage only to find themselves stranded on a desolate island. Though initially part of a fleet, by the time of the shipwreck, the Wager stood alone, and many of its 250 crew members already had succumbed to injury, illness, starvation, or drowning. In 1741, the British vessel the Wager, pressed into service during England’s war with Spain, was shipwrecked in a storm off the coast of Patagonia while chasing a silver-laden Spanish galleon. The author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z returns with a rousing story of a maritime scandal. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Bones & all book![]() ![]() ![]() Lee's alright I don't really care for him. ![]() Maren, what? She hates herself and she eats people. I'm about to go way harder here than I did in my goodreads review because there's no Camille DeAngelis here that I have to tiptoe around MOST OF THE TIME YOU DON'T EVEN GET REMAINS, MOST OF THE TIME YOU DONT EVEN GET A POLICE REPORT. Don't come into this expecting gore or a captivating 80s atmosphere, because it delivers on neither EVERY SINGLE EATING PEOPLE SCENE IS COMPLETELY OMITTED. OL20000760W Page_number_confidence 94.84 Pages 312 Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 300 Republisher_date 20191226163825 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1224 Scandate 20191218040239 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781250046529 Sent_to_scribe Tts_version 3.2-rc-2-g0d7c1ed Usl_hit true ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 09:56:39 Boxid IA1745418 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments A twisted tale a whole new world![]() Liz earned a degree in Egyptology at Brown University and then promptly spent the next ten years producing video games. Liz Braswell was born in Birmingham, England but grew up in a small New England town. ![]() And readers will never look at the story of Aladdin in the same way again… What happens next? A Street Rat becomes a leader. But soon their fight for freedom threatens to tear the kingdom apart in a costly civil war. To stop the power-mad ruler, Aladdin and the deposed princess Jasmine must unite the people of Agrabah in rebellion. Agrabah lives in fear, waiting for his third and final wish. ![]() When Jafar steals the Genie's lamp, he uses his first two wishes to become sultan and the most powerful sorcerer in the world. ![]() What if Aladdin had never found the lamp? This first book in the A Twisted Tale line will explore a dark and daring version of Disney's Aladdin. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments May sarton solitude![]() ![]() ![]() This ebook features an extended biography of May Sarton. ![]() Both uplifting and cathartic, it sweeps us along on Sarton’s pilgrimage inward. Journal of a Solitude is a moving and profound meditation on creativity, oneness with nature, and the courage it takes to be alone. Sarton’s garden is her great, abiding joy, sustaining her through seasons of psychic and emotional pain. A few moments of desultory conversation with dear Arnold Miner, when he comes to take the trash, may calm an inner storm. She confesses her fears, her disappointments, her unresolved angers. THE VALUE of solitude one of its values is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression. She likens writing to “cracking open the inner world again,” which sometimes plunges her into depression. She shares insights about everyday life in the quiet New Hampshire village of Nelson, the desire for friends, and need for solitude-both an exhilarating and terrifying state. ![]() In her bravest and most revealing memoir, Sarton casts her keenly observant eye on both the interior and exterior worlds. May Sarton’s parrot chatters away as Sarton looks out the window at the rain and contemplates returning to her “real” life-not friends, not even love, but writing. “Loneliness is the poverty of self solitude is richness of self.” -May Sarton wise and warm” journal of time spent in her New Hampshire home alone with her garden, her books, the seasons, and herself (Eugenia Thornton, Cleveland Plain Dealer ). ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Ella frank true![]() Almost like I was peering into the rooms and watching the story take place. I almost felt like I was reading something that was a secret and I had to creep around the halls in search for the truth of its inhabitants. While reading I couldn’t help but envision the dark depths of sadness combined with the halls of the chateau and lose myself. The darkness of the storytelling entwined with passion and things that are forbidden reminded me a lot of Interview with a Vampire. She travels to France to stay at the chateau and little does she know, she will immerse herself into the past present and future of all that is Chantel and Philippe, she herself will never be the same. Gemma Harris is a beautifully buttoned up journalist with the opportunity to get some answers from the artist who has been secluded in his man made prison. But Philippe is one who has hidden himself away for years after people have dubbed him the local villain, and now after years of seclusion he has finally let someone in… In his Dark, eerie and beautiful Chateau in France, the beautiful Philippe Tibideau lives a reclusive life, a renowned artist for his six beautiful paintings of his life, his muse, Chantel Rosenburg. ![]() This is a very different book from the contemporary novels written by Ella Frank. ![]() ![]() WOW.įirst of all, this is an erotic novel, just so people are aware. I cant even begin to explain the feelings and emotions that this beautiful book stirred in me. I was lucky enough to land my little hands on a copy of this from Ella Frank herself. ![]() |