![]() ![]() "I guess I can say that we start to see some ponies acting very strange," she said. I don't want a story about how Fluttershy started a fluffy bunny sanctuary - I want stories and depth, while still being something a younger kid will get engrossed in."Īsked about the series' direction and opening storyline, Cook was reticent to offer little more than a hint. "I am writing the book that, as a Pony fan and an all-ages writer, I would want to read. "I am writing this comic for, well, me!" the writer said. It's a great all-ages property now, and it's not just for girls anymore."Ĭook aims for every "Friendship Is Magic" fan demographic to appreciate the new series, which stars the six main characters from the TV series - Twilight Sparkle Applejack Rarity Fluttershy Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie - and chronicles their adventures in Ponyville. ![]() "I think the characters are strong and lovable, the stories are well-written, and there's an underlying sense of humor to the show that's very hip," she said. ![]() As a fan, Cook understands the broad appeal of "Friendship Is Magic," which has built a large cult following of adult male fans known as "Bronies," along with its appeal to younger audiences. ![]()
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![]() The book is arranged as stage acts, each covering a segment of her story. The author excels at describing Baker’s innovative and memorable dance routines and her fantastical life in Paris, where she walked her pet leopard, each adorned with a diamond choker. Grateful to the French, she worked as a spy during World War II and later adopted 12 children from around the world: She called them her Rainbow Tribe. ![]() Louis, Mo., to dance in New York and Paris, the city where she finally achieved fame and escaped American segregation and racism. Baker rose from a childhood of poverty and race riots in St. Writing in free verse, former dancer Powell pays homage to the fabulous Josephine Baker. ![]() ![]() A life devoted to self-expression through dance and racial harmony is celebrated in this lavish, lengthy picture book. ![]() ![]() In her 1997 book, entitled Mother Without Child: Contemporary Fiction and the Crisis of Motherhood, the critic Elaine Tuttle Hansen urged for critical and feminist engagement with what she described as ‘the borders of motherhood and the women who really live there, neither fully inside nor fully outside some recognizable “family unit”, and often exiles from their children’. How can we define a mother in the absence of her child? This compelling volume explores these and other questions from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, examining experiences, representations, creative manifestations, and embodiments of mothers without their children. more Conceiving of and representing mothers without their children seems so paradoxical as to be almost impossible. ![]() ![]() Conceiving of and representing mothers without their children seems so paradoxical as to be almos. ![]() ![]() ![]() The stunning second installment of The Ascendance Series takes readers on a roller-coaster ride of treason and murder, thrills and peril, as they journey with the Runaway King!Īnd don't miss the highly anticipated fourth book in the series, The Captive Kingdom, coming October 2020! ![]() Will he ever be able to return home again? Or will he have to sacrifice his own life in order to save his kingdom? But the further Jaron is forced to run from his identity, the more he wonders if it is possible to go too far. Soon, it becomes clear that deserting the kingdom may be his only hope of saving it. Rumors of a coming war are winding their way between the castle walls, and Jaron feels the pressure quietly mounting within Carthya. Just weeks after Jaron has taken the throne, an assassination attempt forces him into a deadly situation. ![]() Nielsen's New York Times bestselling blockbuster The False Prince! Who will survive? Find out in the thrilling sequel to Jennifer A. A kingdom teetering on the brink of destruction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians. ![]() ![]() COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Still irrevocably scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook, Dan Torrance has fought to find some semblance of peace. ![]() Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson and newcomer Kyliegh Curran star in the supernatural thriller, directed by Mike Flanagan, from his own screenplay based upon the novel by Stephen King. RELATED: New Doctor Sleep Trailer Takes a Shine to Danny Torranceĭoctor Sleep continues the story of Danny Torrance, 40 years after his terrifying stay at the Overlook Hotel in The Shining. ![]() has debuted a new featurette exploring the journey that Ewan McGregor’s Danny Torrance has taken following the traumatizing events of the predecessor, which can be viewed in the player below! ![]() As if the anticipation wasn’t already high for the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s sequel to The Shining, Doctor Sleep, from writer/director Mike Flanagan ( The Haunting of Hill House), and now Warner Bros. ![]() ![]() ![]() So when Major asks her out, she jumps at the chance to date the gorgeous charmer. And Harlow, who has never gotten over the way Nan treated her when she first moved to town, remains distant. Grant, the last guy she truly cared about, chose to be with her half-sister, Harlow, instead of her. Rush has another kid on the way and doesn’t have time to catch up with his sister. Some of her reputation is deserved-she’s never had to worry about anything but maintaining her perfect figure and splitting Daddy’s private jet with her brother, Rush. As the Prada-clad bad girl of Rosemary Beach, Nan Dillon has been called every vile name under the hot summer sun. Genres: Contemporary, Fiction, General, New Adult, Romanceįormat: Paperback Source: Bought for Myself Published by Simon and Schuster on June 28th 2016 ![]() ![]() Critic Joslyn Layne writes that "Despite his lack of success as a song lyricist, McGregor's narration of his vivid dreamlife provided a more unique artistic contribution than any usually recorded." ![]() He was unable to find much success afterwards, however, and by the 1980s had given up on songwriting. As a narrator of his (often terrifying) dreams, Dion adopted various personas but frequently established a fey, argumentative, insolent approach to the subject at hand – be it a hot air balloon trip to the moon with a group of multi-ethnic children, a frantic journey around New York, or a tattooing job on a woman's tongue.Īs a songwriter, McGregor's biggest success came when his song "Where Is The Wonder" (cowritten with roommate Michael Barr) was recorded by Barbra Streisand on her hit album My Name Is Barbra (1965). McGregor would essentially narrate his dreams at conversational volume. A book of the same name, containing the transcripts of a wider selection of McGregor's dreams, and with illustrations by Edward Gorey, was also published in 1964. An LP of his dream diatribes – The Dream World Of Dion McGregor (He Talks In His Sleep) – was released to minor acclaim by Decca Records in 1964. ![]() ![]() Dion McGregor (Janu– December 29, 1994) was an American songwriter known for talking in his sleep. ![]() ![]() ![]() The best part of this book was the story of Mick and June, and their ill-fated relationship –Īnd on and on it went. In fact, they were so clumsy, I wondered how old Reid was – did she have to research the eighties because she wasn’t familiar with them? (she was born in 1983, so yeah, she would have had to do her research). The eighties references read like an afterthought, and were almost exclusively about what people were wearing, or what they were listening to on the radio. I’m not sure why because the ‘ingredients’ are solid – professional surfers, Malibu beach, set in the eighties – but these scene-setters were diluted with too many superfluous characters, and a house party that is described in laborious detail (a stark contrast to the first half of the book which covers decades of the family’s history). ![]() Reid has used the same ingredients for her latest novel, Malibu Rising, but unfortunately the result lacks the magic of Daisy. Because even if Daisy Jones & The Six wasn’t your usual genre, there was something appealing about it – the nostalgia, the music alive on the page, the glamour and grunge of the industry. ![]() If I had the energy to rewind to all of the blog posts from December 2020 titled ‘Most anticipated books of 2021’, I suspect that Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid would feature heavily. ![]() ![]() Tyll, publicat în 2017, a vândut doar în Germania peste 600 000 de exemplare și este în curs de adaptare sub forma unui serial Netflix, de către producătorii seriei Dark. Romanul său din 2005, Die Vermessung der Welt (Măsurarea lumii), este cel mai bine vândut roman de limbă germană din istorie, după Parfumul lui Patrick Süskind. ![]() 1975) este fiul regizorului Michael Kehlmann și al actriței Dagmar Mettler. „O operă plină de măiestrie artistică." Ian McEwanĭaniel Kehlmann (n. Exploatând legendele medievale germane, Daniel Kehlmann realizează portretul plin de umor macabru al unui personaj aflat în căutarea libertății absolute, un spirit rebel. Printre regi blestemați, regine ce complotează neobosit, iezuiți care vânează vrăjitori și blasfematori, printre obuze ucigătoare și țărani-alchimiști, Tyll dansează și păcălește moartea, aducând la lumină nebunia regilor și înțelepciunea nebunilor. „Cel mai mare scriitor german în viață." Maxim Biller (Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung)ĭaniel Kehlmann împletește cu măiestrie poveștile unor figuri istorice reale, într-un roman ce urmărește aventurile celebrului bufon Till Eulenspiegel (în text, Tyll Ulenspiegel) prin Europa devastată de Războiul de Treizeci de Ani. „Tyll – amoral, rebel, incredibil și captivant. „Sclipitor! Prin figura legendarului bufon Tyll Ulenspiegel, Kehlmann și-a găsit avatarul perfect." Salman Rushdie ![]() ![]() Roman nominalizat la International Booker Prize 2020 ![]() |