![]() ![]() Janet Munsil's sparkling stage adaptation of Jane Austen's classic tale of love, family, and the politics of marriage premiered in 2012 in a co-production between two of Canada's most prestigious companies, Theatre Calgary and Canada's National Arts Centre (Ottawa). Sold-out and held-over in numerous large professional theatres, including Canada's National Arts Centre, Theatre Calgary, and The Arts Club Stanley Theatre, this adaptation is highly popular with schools and community theatres for its clarity, comedy, and large number of great acting roles - especially for women. ![]() More than 200 years after the novel first appeared in print, Janet Munsil's witty, romantic, and ingenious adaptation of Jane Austen's beloved tale of the independent-minded Elizabeth Bennet and enigmatic Mr Darcy is remarkable for capturing the tone and compressing the complexity of the story into a fast-paced, funny, and fiercely romantic two hours on stage. ![]()
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![]() So with very little knowledge, Bud decides to head out on his own in search of his father in Grand Rapids, Michigan.Im kind of so-so on this one. Once he decides to hit the road to find this mystery man, nothing can stop him-not hunger, not fear, not vampires, not even Herman E. Bud, not Buddy is a 10-year-old boy who has been abused in a foster care home in Flint, Michigan. He tries to escape using the door, but in the process, he is stung multiple times and gets cut on fish heads. However, Bud realizes too late that the bat is really a hornet’s nest. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!!īud’s got an idea that those flyers will lead him to his father. When he wakes up from his nap, he is frightened by what he thinks is a vampire bat and tries to kill it with a rake. His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: flyers advertising Herman E. ![]() He’s the author of Bud Caldwell’s Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself.ģ. He has his own suitcase full of special things.Ģ. ![]() Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud’s got a few things going for him:ġ. ![]() Hit the road with Bud in this Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic about a boy on a journey to find his father-from Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963, a Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I do have some secret knowledge of what he was planning on doing.”īy the 1980s, after decades of not touching this franchise, Asimov wrote two more sequels, Foundation’s Edge (1982) and Foundation and Earth (1986). It wasn’t until Doubleday republished the books in 1961 that they blew up in popularity. On top of that, the original book versions of Foundation, published by Gnome Press, were not very successful. The point being, Asimov did not have a plan - at all. In fact, all three novels in the original trilogy - Foundation, Foundation and Empire (1952) and Second Foundation (1953) - were originally published as serialized, interconnected short stories. Subsequently, when the “novel” version of Foundation was published in 1951, it was comprised of these short stories, adapted to be made into a cohesive book. ![]() Campbell pressured Asimov to expand the idea into a series of short stories, sometimes called “novelettes.” ![]() The figure of Prince Willis “made him think of soldiers and Empires” and caused him to pitch a short story about huge future history that would be about the “the collapse of the Galactic Empire.” This was 1941, Asimov was only 21 years old, and the editor he pitched was John Campbell, who ran the famous science fiction magazine Astounding. According to Alec Nevala-Lee’s history book, Astounding, Isaac Asimov was inspired to write Foundation by an illustration from the opera Iolanthe contained in a book of Gilbert and Sullivan lyrics he was reading while riding a train. ![]() ![]() ![]() At this point in my life I seem to be reasonably healthy. The stories - Carrie, 'Salem's Lot, and The Shining - have been successful enough to allow me to write full-time, which is an agreeable thing to be able to do. My job is writing, and it's a job I like very much. I love them, and I believe that the feeling is reciprocated. I am a grown man with a wife and three children. Let's talk very rationally about moving to the rim of madness. But for now it's on, and so let's talk very honestly about fear. Sometimes when the wind blows the way it's blowing now, we lose the power. The house is empty as I write this a cold February rain is falling outside. ![]() In re-reading it the other night, I found it so compelling a read about the writer life and the meaning of horror that it seemed only fitting to post it in its entirety here. Editorial Note: This essay by Stephen King was originally published as the foreward to King's 1977 short story collection, Night Shift. ![]() ![]() ![]() Initially, shy about sharing their histories, they tend to the sheep and carry out the work as needed. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Jack Twist, the shy and vulnerable rodeo and Heath Ledger plays Enis Del Mar, the hot-headed yet deeply contemplative cowboy. It takes us through the journey of Jack and Enis, two hardworking cowboys, who fall in love with each other when they take up a temporary paid gig of herding sheep on the steep pastures of Brokeback Mountain. Ang Lee’s movie adaptation of Annie Proulx’s acclaimed short story Brokeback Mountain is an intimate exploration of human turmoil, purpose and love set in the lush green snow-capped mountainous landscape of Wyoming. When a finely crafted story lands up in the hands of a compassionate director, what emerges is an elusive yet haunting cinematic experience. ![]() ![]() ![]() They find housing with two women, but are soon attacked by the Tsujikaze gang, and in the confusion of the fight their paths separate: Takezō decides to become a vagabond and wander the world challenging strong opponents, and Matahachi chooses to stay with the women. They manage to escape and swear to become "Invincible Under The Heavens" ( 天下無双, Tenka Musō). Two 17-year-old teenagers who joined the losing side, Takezō Shinmen and Matahachi Hon'iden, lie wounded in the battlefield and pursued by survivor hunters. ![]() The story starts in 1600, in the aftermath of the decisive Battle of Sekigahara. In 2000, Vagabond won the 24th Kodansha Manga Award for the general category, as well as the Grand Prize of the sixth Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2002. The series is currently on an extended hiatus, with the latest chapter released in May 2015.īy December 2012, the manga had over 82 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. Viz Media licensed the series for English release in North America and has published the current 37 volumes as of April 2015. It has been serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Morning since September 1998, with its chapters collected in 37 tankōbon volumes as of July 2014. It portrays a fictionalized account of the life of Japanese swordsman Musashi Miyamoto, based on Eiji Yoshikawa's novel Musashi. ![]() Vagabond ( Japanese: バガボンド, Hepburn: Bagabondo) is a Japanese epic martial arts manga series written and illustrated by Takehiko Inoue. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whereas there are just a few too-telegraphed discloses, that is a minor quibble when many strands of the tapestry are integrating on many story levels in such an satisfying technique. Sullivan’s composing boosts with every book, as does his plotting. Sullivan pulls off what’s one of my most popular designs of composing, the place the story simply retains acquiring twistier and enigma heaps upon thriller as the story unravels to be a a lot bigger mythology than it appeared in the beginning of the story. Sullivan struck the bottom operating and by no means let up. ![]() I am not completely positive I can separate the tales from in between the three publications now, provided that reviewing them so quickly again to again, however gladly, Age of War dives proper again into the midst of the story with one of my most popular characters, Suri, as she waits on Arion to awaken, and in addition she in addition to Michael J. It was an engrossing binge-fest so as to add Age of War to the combination because the story got here to be a lot deeper in addition to darker and way more outstanding. I merely like this whole assortment to date, and in addition what a pointer! To do that book justice and remind myself of the story up till now, I returned in addition to learn the preliminary two books, Age of False impression and Age of Swords previous to leaping into this latest tome. ![]() ![]() coalesces into an intriguing and informative journey through the 50th state." - Publishers Weekly "Prato's work stays winningly informal and idiosyncratic throughout and. "A rebuke to cultural appropriation, combined with tribute to a place she loves too much to make her own." - New York Times, Top Summer Reads Praise for the author's previous essay collection, Volcanoes, Palm Trees & Privilege: Essays on Hawai'i: " Kids in America vibrates like a coke high, while still managing to ask hard questions and find the spots of human failing and hope, as the best essays do." -Monica Drake, Author of Clown Girl and The Stud Book ![]() Phenomenal." -Lidia Yuknavitch, Author of Verge-Stories and The Book of Joan "A dazzling exploration into how cultures and identities criss-cross each other, Liz Prato's Kids in America traces how Gen X emerged from the fire and fury of a nation falling to pieces. "Like a sociologist with a memoirist's sensibilities, Prato skillfully explores the environment that bred and defined Gen X, diving deeply into the sexist and racist mythologies of the era, excavating everything from pop culture to grief to violence." -Gina Frangello, author of Blow Your House Down ![]() Part memoir, part documentary, these probing and intimate essays take us through the grief, the freedom, the risk-taking, and the pain that shaped Generation X. ![]() " Kids in America is a kick-ass collection. ![]() ![]() ![]() The schoolmaster kept up his relationship with Lewis and Tolkien through letters and visits. ![]() Following the war, George and Moira Sayer moved to Malvern College where would become a teacher and eventually head of English. ![]() Until the close of the war where he worked in the Intelligence Corps. To do this, I want briefly to introduce George Sayer. Since I refer to the Inklings and their meetings so often, I thought I would be best to share a bit more of their background. I don’t think that the Inklings were more important to English literature than the Paris Expats or the Bloomsbury Set or the Detection Club, but in terms of the development of fantasy literature, the Inklings created new worlds. ![]() Without Lewis’ persistent support and criticism and the company of other mythopoeic writers, Tolkien may never have completed that grand project of turning his mythology into popular story, lyric, and epic. Without the daring possibilities in Tolkien’s work and the intelligent conversation of the Inklings, Lewis may never have turned to popular fiction and cultural criticism. One of those was the Inklings, which made C.S. I wrote last week about all the literary groups that formed some of the greatest writers of the 20th century, and how L.M. ![]() ![]() ![]() He owes a debt to her family that can never be repaid, but falling for Alice was not how he planned to repay it. ![]() The only thing stopping him from achieving his throne is the one thing with which his powers cannot seem to help. ![]() Luke will stop at nothing to gain the right to rule, even if it means manipulating Alice and her newfound powers for his own gain. With the appearance of two strangers claiming to be warlocks, the unravelling of years-old secrets and misrepresented bloodlines begins. Powers she knew nothing about and can scarcely comprehend. An heirloom that is the key to unleashing the unfathomable magical properties hidden within Alice's blood. Until the day she inherited a mysterious family heirloom from a father she never knew. She's devoted, a good girl who has always done what was right. Alice always believed her life was ordinary. ![]() |