5/23/2023 0 Comments Dead is the new black series![]() ![]() “I couldn’t believe this was happening on my subway in my city that I grew up in,” he said.Ġ1:01 Jordan Neely: crowds protest in New York after death of man on subway train – video Kyle Ishmael, a 38-year-old Harlem resident, said the video of the incident left him feeling “disgusted.” ![]() ![]() Some described the act as a lethal overreaction to a person in the throes of mental illness and others defended the marine veteran’s actions.Ī group of protesters gathered on Wednesday afternoon in the station where Neely died to call for an arrest. The office noted that any determination about criminal culpability would be left to the legal system.Īs news of Neely’s death spread online, video of the encounter evoked strong reactions from New Yorkers and officials. Neely died from compression of the neck, the city’s medical examiner determined on Wednesday, classifying his death as a homicide. The man held Neely in a chokehold with his legs wrapped around his body Neely lost consciousness during the struggle and later died in the hospital. The man who pinned down Neely has not been identified but has been described in local reports as a 24-year-old former US marine. ![]()
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5/22/2023 0 Comments Stephen king billy summers series![]() ![]() The miniseries will be written by Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz, with Zwick also serving as a director. The studio will soon shop the project to streamers and premium cable networks. RELATED: Superman Reboot in Development at WB With Ta-Nehisi Coates Writing & J.J. You won’t put this story down, and you won’t forget Billy.” Even though Billy Summers by Stephen King is being published by another publisher, we will be producing one of our popular custom-made slipcases for this US. It’s about love, luck, fate, and a complex hero with one last shot at redemption. From legendary storyteller and 1 bestseller Stephen King, whose restless imagination is a power that cannot be contained, (The New York Times Book. ![]() “This spectacular can’t-put-it-down novel is part war story, part love letter to small town America and the people who live there, and it features one of the most compelling and surprising duos in King fiction, who set out to avenge the crimes of an extraordinarily evil man. So what could possibly go wrong? How about everything,” the official book synopsis reads. Billy is among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet, a Houdini when it comes to vanishing after the job is done. But he’ll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. ![]() He’s a killer for hire and the best in the business. “Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Into the abyss demons of astlan![]() ![]() Barb argued that although the name "Abyzou" appears to be a corrupted form of the Greek ἄβυσσος ábyssos "abyss", the Greek itself was borrowed from Akkadian Apsu or Sumerian Abzu. Barb connected Abyzou and similar female demons to the story of the primeval sea, Abzu, in ancient Mesopotamian religion. ![]() Her fullest literary depiction is the compendium of demonology known as the Testament of Solomon, dated variously by scholars from as early as the 1st century AD to as late as the 4th. Ībyzou (also spelled Abizou, Obizu, Obizuth, Obyzouth, Byzou etc.) is pictured on amulets with fish- or serpent-like attributes. In the Coptic Egypt she is identified with Alabasandria, and in Byzantine culture with Gylou, but in various texts surviving from the syncretic magical practice of antiquity and the early medieval era she is said to have many or virtually innumerable names. ![]() Abyzou was blamed for miscarriages and infant mortality and was said to be motivated by envy ( Greek: φθόνος phthonos), as she herself was infertile. In the myth and folklore of the Near East and Europe, Abyzou is the name of a female demon. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments A touch of ruin paperback![]() ![]() She is also too easily manipulated by others. One minute she is happy and in love with Hades, and the next, she is angry and doing something to spite him. ![]() Not to mention, she is extremely mercurial – her moods can change at the drop of a hat. She is childish, vindictive, jealous, obstinate, and insecure. In the previous book, she was a trifle aggravating, but in this book, she has morphed into someone who is practically insufferable. So, I persevered – just barely.Ī Touch of Ruin’s greatest flaw is its protagonist, Persephone. I desperately wanted to shelve the book at multiple points throughout the story, but as a book reviewer, I knew that I had to see it through to the end. A Touch of Darkness was such an enjoyable read, but A Touch of Ruin was an exercise in willpower. Wow, what an entirely disappointing sequel. TLDR: A dissatisfying follow-up to A Touch of Darkness featuring an insufferable lead and a lackadaisical plot. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() More interested in those mind-bending conspiracy theories? Then check out The Name of the Rose or the action-packed Kingsman movies. If your favorite part of Langdon’s story is the way he solves the puzzle box mystery surrounding hidden clues in famous works of art, then the National Treasure films are a perfect alternative. That means it’s fairly easy to find films that give off Da Vinci Code vibes. In fact, movies centered around conspiracy theories and twisty mysteries have long been a Hollywood staple. ![]() Thankfully, Hanks’ popular film series isn’t an anomaly in the world of cinema - there are lots of movies like The Da Vinci Code out there ( Shutter Island, National Treasure) for when you need a cinematic getaway. Not only do they take you around the world without you ever having to leave your couch, they also feature fun mysteries and conspiracy theories that you can unravel right alongside Langdon. The first film, along with its follow-ups - Angels & Demons and Inferno - are perfect rainy day movies. As if he hadn’t already owned our hearts with movies like Forrest Gump and Castaway, Hanks’ Robert Langdon is like an intellectual Indiana Jones, whose deep dive into a murder mystery sends him on a wild treasure hunt of epic proportions. ![]() The Da Vinci Code didn’t just take the book world by storm, it was also a box office smash that further cemented our love for the incomparable Tom Hanks. ![]() ![]() ![]() At first, Ana’s a typical American teenager - she slams doors, lies and sulks. ![]() She happens to have a brother called Judas Iscariot. Of course, the primary figure in The Book of Longings is not Jesus anyway but Ana - aka “Little Thunder”. Instead, great swathes of this story are achingly dull. Since it’s Christ at hand here, you would think there might be some spellbinding characterisations included, perhaps peppered with magic realism and a variety of feverish disquisitions about the meaning of all things. She like many fellow characters in this tale comes off as a modern American sent back through time to enlighten the Flintstones at every turn. But the problem is that her protagonist Ana is incredible both as a historical figure and as a human being. In her afterword, Susan Kidd Monk explains that since almost nothing is known of Jesus’s life between the ages of 13 and 30, she felt quite justified as a novelist in creating a flesh and blood wife for him. Quite simply, this is one of the most preposterous stories ever told. Alas, with The Book of Longings, a novel about Jesus Christ’s long “silenced” missing wife Ana, Monk Kidd has fallen spectacularly back to earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. ![]() The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. To celebrate the release of the major motion picture trilogy, we will be reissuing the A-format paperbacks with exclusive images from the films on the covers, the first of which being The Fellowship of the Ring, in which the young hobbit, Frodo, is bequeathed a magical ring from his Uncle Bilbo, and learns that he must take it into the land of the Dark Lord, Sauron, and cast it into the Cracks of Doom. Tolkien created a vast new mythology in an invented world which has proved timeless in its appeal. By turns comic and homely, epic and diabolic, the narrative moves through countless changes of scene and character in an imaginary world which is totally convincing in its detail. The first part of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring an exclusive cover image from the film Impossible to describe in a few words, JRR Tolkien's great work of imaginative fiction has been labelled both a heroic romance and a classic fantasy fiction. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The lover by marguerite duras![]() ![]() This incident represents one contact point between her fiction and the truth. The former student clearly recalls Duras appearing at school, flaunting a diamond ring, saying she knew a rich man. The denial invites the question: Did she ever tell the truth? She says she was ostracized for her reckless teenage affair with an older Chinese millionaire – yet one classmate remembers Marguerite as secretive and well-behaved, though she boasted mysteriously of leading a double life. ![]() One ponders the odd qualification: admitting she “only” lied to men implies she was willing to deceive half the human race. With these words, Marguerite Dur aspenned a categorical denial of any fanciful invention in her many autobiographical novels and films. After doing a little digging to answer the eternal question – “but did it really happen?” – I think a shrink might be just the ticket. Anyway, Blakey Vermeule will lead the discussion, with Paula Moya and Stephen Seligman, who is a psychiatrist and professor from UC-San Francisco. It’s going to be a lot of fun – fans of The Lover are coming out of the woodwork and writing to me. ![]() The Book Haven wrote about the upcoming event here. We’re gearing up for the next “Another Look” event a week from tomorrow – that’s Monday, May 12, at 7:30 p.m. ![]() ![]() ![]() (less)Īs a contemporary reads kind of a girl, Tahereh Mafi’s A Very Large Expanse of Sea caught my attention for its unique and untold story in YA. It terrifies her-they seem to come from two irreconcilable worlds-and Shirin has had her guard up for so long that she’s not sure she’ll ever be able to let it down. He’s the first person in forever who really seems to want to get to know Shirin. Instead, she drowns her frustrations in music and spends her afternoons break-dancing with her brother.īut then she meets Ocean James. So she’s built up protective walls and refuses to let anyone close enough to hurt her. ![]() She’s tired of the rude stares, the degrading comments-even the physical violence-she endures as a result of her race, her religion, and the hijab she wears every day. Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be. It’s an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially so for someone like Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who’s tired of being stereotyped. ![]() Summary:( From the publisher) It’s 2002, a year after 9/11. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Flaubert novels![]() ![]() The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. ![]() Above all, the book brings out the poetic density and beauty of Flaubert’s novels: the poetry of loss and constriction, the poetry of subjective time, the tragic poetry of frustration, and the poetry of unconquerable dreams. ![]() The vision of Flaubert emerges, showing his artistic relevance to his time and to our own. A voiding undue emphasis on biography, Professor Brombert focuses on the haunting motifs of the novels and analyzes the features which contribute to Flaubert’s total vision, while respecting the integrity of each work and discussing each novel in its own terms. Through a probing study of Flaubert's novels which brings out their nuances of tone, technique, vision, and meaning, Victor Brombert provides a close and complex analysis of Flaubert’s art in relation to his tragic themes. ![]() |