Alex disregards the advice of his trusted friend, LAPD detective Milo Sturgis, and jeopardizes his relationship with longtime lover Robin Castagna in order to pursue Lauren's murderer. And the ultimate horror takes place when, soon after, Lauren's brutalized corpse is found dumped in an alley. But years later, when Alex encounters Lauren as a stag party's featured entertainment, both doctor and patient are stricken with shame. Reluctantly, the psychologist chalks Lauren up as one of the inevitable failures of a challenging profession. But for all Alex's skill and effort, Lauren resists-angrily, provocatively. Lauren Teague is a beautiful, defiant, borderline-delinquent teenager when her parents bring her to Alex Delaware's office.
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Bee Movie by Chris Sauer6/7/2023 Voice talent at hand is really good and the story flows (or flies?) along nicely. You may have issues with how they are being humanized (with these movies they all talk and do other human stuff that is not in their actual nature), but you have to sell a movie to kids and their parents, so just suspend your disbelief. So taking a bit of the fear(s) many have of those insects is not a bad thing. They also are useful to nature, in a different way then bees, but still. They (wasps) have similar traits and looks. Though I'm not sure if it's bees every time. And I reckon they still have - especially when you are eating (outside) and they come and you sort of panic. then again maybe it's better that way - I can use it with less guilt and it has probably a better effect. I'm kind of surprised that not every single review has this as a summary line. Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo6/7/2023 Italian critics now point out that, despite Svevo's foreign success, it was an Italian, Eugenio Montale, who wrote the first significant critical appraisal in 1925. As Svevo's reputation spread, he was called the Italian Proust in France, the Italian Musil in Germany, and the Italian Joyce in England. Joyce's intervention eventually found a foreign audience for Svevo's third and perhaps best novel, The Confessions of Zeno (1923), first published and very well received in France. 1), with whom he exchanged language lessons in Trieste. Svevo might have despaired had it not been for his friendship with the expatriate Irish novelist James Joyce (see Vol. His first novel, A Life (1893), published at his own expense, and his second, Senilita (As a Man Grows Older) (1898), were virtually ignored. His Italian had indeed something foreign about it, as did the characterizations of heroes and heroines in his novels. Born in Austrian Trieste of a Jewish Italian-German family, Svevo spoke German fluently and pursued a business career before taking up fiction under a pseudonym that means "Italus the Swabian" or South German. Thornhill by Pam Smy6/6/2023 This did not affect my opinion of the book or my review itself.The words tell the story of Mary, an orphan who lived in Thornhill as a ward of the state before it was shut down. I received an ARC of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Told in alternating, interwoven plotlines-Mary’s through intimate diary entries and Ella’s in bold, striking art-Pam Smy’s Thornhill is a haunting exploration of human connection, filled with suspense.Ī New York City Public Library Notable Best Book for Kids Determined to befriend the girl and solidify the link between them, Ella resolves to unravel Thornhill's shadowy past. From her room on the top floor of her new home, she has a perfect view of the dilapidated, abandoned Thornhill Institute across the way, where she glimpses a girl in the window. When her few friends are all adopted or re-homed and she’s left to face a volatile bully alone, her revenge will have a lasting effect on the bully, on Mary, and on Thornhill itself.Ģ017: Ella has just moved to a new town where she knows no one. Parallel stories set in different times, one told in prose and one in pictures, converge as a girl unravels the mystery of the abandoned Thornhill Institute next door.ġ982: Mary is a lonely orphan at the Thornhill Institute For Children at the very moment that it's shutting its doors. The lost world crichton novel6/6/2023 One could speculate that Jurassic Park was sort of West World with dinosaurs instead of robotic cowboys. The novel was published in November of 1990 and became a huge bestseller. But the debate still remains “Jurassic Park book vs movie” The genesis of the idea for Jurassic Park went back to a screenplay that Crichton began working on in 1983. Universal Pictures and Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment purchased the rights to the novel even before it was published, back in 1990. As fate or pure chance would have it, the job of bringing Crichton’s dinosaur novels to the movie screen fell to another brilliant visionary, Steven Spielberg. His untimely death from cancer in 2008 robbed the world of many undoubtedly great future works, to be sure, but his legacy lives on. The late Michael Crichton (1942-2008) created some truly wonderful science fiction material: The Andromeda Strain, West World, Eaters of the Dead, Congo, Sphere and, most notably, the Jurassic Park novels. Heavy american memoir6/6/2023 He feels deeply not only his own pain, but the pain of the women around him. Instead, he turns his grief and rage on himself, using food to force down his feelings. Laymon can’t talk about any of this with his mother. His mother’s on-again, off-again boyfriend is violent, too. At home and at neighbors’ houses, Laymon experiences and witnesses sexual violence: a babysitter abuses him, and he sees older boys raping girls and younger boys. Laymon begins his story in Jackson, Mississippi, where he spent most of his childhood. Their complicated relationship, and the lies they have to tell to get through their lives, underpin Laymon’s memoir. Laymon’s mother was a brilliant and dedicated professor who encouraged Laymon to read and write, but often beat him and leaned on him for emotional support a child could not provide. That “you” turns out to be Laymon’s mother, and the rest of the book is addressed to her. Laymon says in his book’s first pages that he will not write the palatable, uplifting “American memoir” that an unnamed “you” wants him to write. Campusland by scott johnston6/6/2023 To Eph Russell, who looks and sounds like an avatar of privilege (shh!–he’s anything but) Devon is heaven. If she’s fabulous and no one sees it, what’s the point? To Lulu Harris-It Girl-in-the-Making-her first year at the ultra-competitive Ivy-like Devon University is a dreary impediment. Her closet isn’t big enough for two weeks’-worth of outfits, much less her new Rag & Bone for fall. A wickedly delightful novel that may remind you of Tom Wolfe and David Lodge. Joyous, fast and funny, Scott Johnston’s Campusland is a satiric howl at today’s elite educational institutions-from safe spaces to tribal infighting to the sheer sanctimony. "This high-spirited, richly imagined, and brave novel is a delight to read. Freud stated “that he had a more penetrating knowledge of himself than any man who ever lived or was likely to live.” 3 And Freud stopped reading him because he feared Nietzsche had anticipated many of his own ideas. Thomas Mann, Herman Hesse, André Gide, William Butler Yeats, Rainer Maria Rilke, George Bernard Shaw, Eugene O’Neill, August Strindberg, to name but a few, were all influenced by him. Initially, Nietzsche’s influence was primarily literary and artistic. The Weimarer Nietzsche-Bibliographie, published 2000-2002, includes over 20,000 entries in 42 languages. The International Nietzsche Bibliography, published in 1968, listed over 4,500 entries in 27 languages since then more than 3,000 books on Nietzsche have been published. This influence is reflected in the enormous secondary literature about Nietzsche. Stanley Rosen has called him the most influential philosopher in the western world and for Charles Taylor, all contemporary philosophy is neo-Nietzschean. In 1955, Martin Heidegger wrote, it is “Nietzsche, in whose light and shadow all of us today, with our ‘for him’ or ‘against him’ are thinking and writing…” 2 This is even more evident today. I am no man, I am dynamite.” 1 Nietzsche’s Influenceįriedrich Nietzsche's (1844-1900) influence on the present age is all pervasive. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous-a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. City of Silver by Annamaria Alfieri6/5/2023 The King of Spain has discovered that the coins the city has been circulating throughout the world are not pure silver and is sending his top prosecutor and the Grand Inquisitor to mete out punishment. At the same time, Potosí finds its prosperity threatened. Fray Ubaldo DaTriesta, local Commissioner of the Inquisition, has been keeping an eye on the Abbess, who is too %u201CProtestant%u201D for his tastes, and this action may be just what he needs to convince the lazy, cowardly Bishop to punish her. It looks as though the girl committed suicide, but Mother Abbess Maria Santa Hilda believes her innocent and has her buried at the convent in sacred ground. In Potosí, the richest city in the Western Hemisphere, Inez de la Morada, the bewitching, cherished daughter of the rich and powerful Mayor, mysteriously dies at the convent of Santa Isabella de los Santos Milagros, where she had fled in defiance of her father. Fables comic compendium6/5/2023 Meanwhile, trouble of a different sort brews at the Fables’ upstate farm, where nonhuman inhabitants are preaching revolution.and threatening the carefully nurtured secrecy of Fabletown. But when Snow White’s party-girl sister, Rose Red, is apparently murdered, it’s up to Fabletown’s sheriff-the reformed Big Bad Wolf, better known as Bigby-to find the killer. Disguised among the ordinary citizens of modern-day New York City, these magical characters created their own peaceful and secret society called Fabletown. Collecting the first six story arcs of the Eisner Award-winning modern fairy tale classic in an affordably priced compendium! When a savage creature known only as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, the famous figures of folklore were forced into exile. |