We may also see returns for Nadia Parkes as Rosa de Vargas, Catherine's other lady-in-waiting who left for Spain, along with Catherine's 'mad' sister Queen Joanna of Castile played by Alba Galocha. The Duke of Buckingham has a good claim to the throne himself. The ambitious courtier will find more power in the future. The rising star at the Tudor court will continue to amass power. Harry's sister is now married to the King of Scotland. Georgie Henley as Margaret Tudor, Queen Consort of Scotland The loyal soldier is now firmly with Lina. Harry's caring Plantagenet relative may find her past plots against the Tudors coming back to haunt her. Laura Carmichael as Margaret "Maggie" Pole Now a young and vibrant monarch, how healthy will Harry and Catherine's romance be? Ruairi O'Connor as King Henry VIII of England The titular character is now Queen and in love with Harry, but he's proving to be deceptive when he likes and she's hiding the fact that she was not a virgin when they married. Charlotte Hope as Catherine of Aragon, Queen Consort of England
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With these two new novellas, Martha Wells shows that the world of the Raksura has many more stories to tell This world is a dangerous place full of strange mysteries, where the future can never be taken for granted and must always be fought for with wits and ingenuity, and often tooth and claw. Stories of Moon and the shape changers of Raksura have delighted readers for years. But even as Moon tries to prepare for impending fatherhood, members of the Kek village in the colony tree’s roots go missing, and searching for them only leads to more mysteries as the court is stalked by an unknown enemy. In The Dark Earth Below,” Moon and Jade face their biggest adventure yet their first clutch. As Moon is fleeing the ruins of Saraseil, a groundling city destroyed by the Fell, he flies right into another potential disaster when a friendly caravanserai finds itself under attack by a strange force. The Dead City” is a tale of Moon before he came to the Indigo Court. Her novellas and short stories contain all the elements fans have come to love from the Raksura books: courtly intrigue and politics, unfolding mysteries that reveal an increasingly strange wider world, and threats both mundane and magical. Martha Wells continues to enthusiastically ignore genre conventions in her exploration of the fascinating world of the Raksura. Moon, Jade, and other favorites from the Indigo Cloud Court return with two new novellas from Martha Wells. Nominated for the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Series Their destination is the camp, but their chances of making it there don’t look good. Percy learns all this as he, his mother, and his best friend Grover Underwood-who is not a teenage boy, but a satyr the hooves and horns were a dead giveaway–are fleeing for their lives. But luckily, there’s a place where the children of the gods are safe: Camp Half-Blood. Any demigod living in the real world is vulnerable. Then they like them very much.) When monsters smell half-bloods, they attack. (Unless they’re served up as tasty snacks. Unfortunately, Greek monsters are also real, and they don’t like demigods. Demigods, or half-bloods as they’re also known. Sometimes those relationships result in children. (Why there? Because Mount Olympus moves to wherever the center of Western civilization is-which is New York City, apparently, at least in the Olympians’ eyes.) Now and then, the gods come to earth and form relationships with mortals. The Greek gods of myth are real and living in Mount Olympus high above the Empire State Building. Percy Jackson’s first reaction to learning he’s a demigod is…huh? But it’s true. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Book thinking in picturesAn aspiring filmmaker could not take Sayles' solutions and apply them to their own particular filmmaking dilemmas, except as an example of thinking creatively. What is interesting is that every solution is scene-specific, accounting for the light, the weather, the location, or the height of the ceiling in the particular room. The shooting script is included in this book. He gives an account of the filming of Matewan, the problems with lighting, setting up shots, actors, music, and editing and how they were addressed. He writes of his past efforts in the film industry, screenwriting and previous films. He describes his initial idea for making the film, coming from reading of an incident in the miners' unionizing efforts. Sayles describes the making of his film, Matewan. If I ever had to make a feature film, my head would explode. Every step, be it fundraising, budget, hiring actors, scriptwriting, lighting, choosing locations, filters, music, or filming and editing, must be weighed against, or with, budget, actors, script, lighting, location, filters, music, editing and the weather. 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Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with informative links about Book Clubs, AMAs, etc. Home of the magic search button and endless book recommendations as well as discussions about tropes and characters, Author AMAs, book clubs, and more. R/RomanceBooks is a discussion sub for readers of romance novels. Many of the poems refer to paintings by various impressionist and expressionist painters – Bosch, Picasso, Chagall, the lesser known American painter Morris Graves and others. In the main first set we get Ferlinghetti the deeply disenchanted, angry, even bitter man screaming out at the absurdities of American culture. Finally there is a set of 13 poems reprised from his first book of poetry of 1955, PICURES OF THE GONE WORLD. These were meant to be read aloud and accompanied by live jazz. Second come 7 poems under the collected title of Oral Messages. The first is a set of 29 poems collected under the same title as the book itself. The book is made up of three sets of poems. Since them I have often been back to this slim volume to read this or that favorite poem in the book, but I had not re-read the whole in 46 years. On a sunny crisp cold November day I curled up with a pot of hot tea and decided to go back and re-read A CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND, a book of poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti which had deeply influenced me back in 1959 when I read it for the first time. Book review - Lawrence Ferlinghetti A CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND Beat Beatnik Poetry A CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND Lawrence Ferlinghetti 7/6/2023 0 Comments Cursed bunny by bora chungThe fantastical dominates in “Snare 91,” about a gold-bleeding fox and her greedy captor. In “Reunion,” a Korean woman and her Polish lover see ghosts. “Ruler of the Winds and Sands” focuses on a naïve princess and her blind prince. In “Home Sweet Home,” a couple buys a dilapidated building with a mysterious basement. “The Frozen Finger” features a woman trapped in a sinking car.īetrayal looms in “Goodbye, My Love,” which is about a woman and her three robots. “The Embodiment” is about an unfertilized pregnancy that sends the potential mother into a matchmaking frenzy. Women in trouble populate the majority of Chung’s strange tales, including “The Head,” in which a lumpy talking head lives in the toilet, continuously forming itself from a woman’s waste. Her glorious anglophone debut, enabled by award-winning Anton Hur, is poised to shock and delight. She’s a Yale MA-ed, Indiana University PhD-ed translator of Russian and Polish modern literature into Korean who writes an amalgam of speculative, ghostly, literary horror fiction. Bestselling Korean author Bora Chung is a genre-defying polyglot. In this article, we consider a current problem of politics and how an ancient author helps us approach it. Asking what ancient authors meant and how we should understand them today is important, partly because we need to consider how they might help us better deal with our pressing current problems. The study of intellectual history is desirable for its own sake. Study of ancient authors may help with current problems. Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, book I, chapter 22 (Hobbes' translation.) And it is compiled rather for an everlasting possession, than to be rehearsed for a prize. But he that desires to look into the truth of things done, and which (according to the condition of humanity) may be done again, or at least their like, he shall find enough herein to make him think it profitable. She taught writing and literature at the College of William & Mary in Virginia for fifteen years, and now spends most of her time writing in her restored chicken shed and running her four companies (Well-Trained Mind Press, Well-Trained Mind Academy, Historic Peace Hill Farm, and Rude Horse Productions). in Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Literature, an M.A. Susan was home educated and went on to complete a B.A. Norton, the Story of the World Series from Well-Trained Mind Press, and many more. She is the co-author of the perennial best-seller The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home (now in its fourth edition) and the author of numerous other books, including Rethinking School, The Well-Educated Mind, The Story of Western Science, the History of the World series from W. 7/5/2023 0 Comments The annotated alice authorIn another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again. There was nothing so very remarkable in that nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!" (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural) but, when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and, burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge. Chapter One Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice 1 was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?" So she was considering, in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. |