![]() ![]() ![]() As an example one has only to take the deception of Benedick into the belief that Beatrice loves him: a scene that I have known reduce audiences to helpless laughter. You can't help wondering why Earl Jones's Benedick is a boon companion to the youthful Claudio or why Redgrave's Beatrice, however youthful in spirit, appears to be older than her uncle.īut what is hard to credit is the general incompetence of the staging. But Rylance's idea of showing a group of American troops billeted in rural England in 1944 does nothing to explain the casting. Over the years I've seen it set perfectly plausibly during the unification of Italy, the revolution in Mexico and the Raj in India. But Much Ado, which largely concerns the gulling of two dedicated singletons into marriage, is one of Shakespeare's most socially realistic comedies. In some Shakespeare plays, such as The Tempest, age is almost irrelevant. But casting them as Beatrice and Benedick is another matter and results, in Mark Rylance's hands, in one of the most senseless Shakespearean productions I have seen in a long time. I also hold Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones in high regard and thought their performances in Driving Miss Daisy were magical. I am the last person to complain about senior citizens being given free rein. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibited future discrimination but did nothing to reverse residential patterns that had become deeply embedded. ![]() A groundbreaking, "virtually indispensable" study that has already transformed our understanding of twentieth-century urban history (Chicago Daily Observer), The Color of Law forces us to face the obligation to remedy our unconstitutional past. Finally, Rothstein shows how police and prosecutors brutally upheld these standards by supporting violent resistance to black families in white neighborhoods. Exploding the myth of de facto segregation arising from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces, Rothstein describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods. ![]() Widely heralded as a "masterful" (Washington Post) and "essential" (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law offers "the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation" (William Julius Wilson). Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America 16 likes Like As citizens in this democracy, weall of us, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, and othersbear a collective responsibility to enforce our Constitution and to rectify past violations whose effects endure. ![]() ![]() ![]() It could so easily been a tale of offbeat whimsy, and there’s nothing wrong with that. REVIEW: If you thoroughly enjoy Fantasy, particularly depictions of dragons along the lines of Anne McCaffrey and Robin Hobbs – but also like Victorian novels, especially those by Anthony Trollope, then Tooth and Claw is sheer delight. You have never read a novel like Tooth and Claw. In which the great and the good avail themselves of the privilege of killing and eating the weaker children, which they do with ceremony and relish, growing stronger thereby. Here is a world of politics and train stations, of churchmen and family retainers, of courtship and country houses… in which, on the death of an elder, family members gather to eat the body of the deceased. One daughter becomes involved in the abolition movement, while another sacrifices herself for her husband.Īnd everyone in the tale is a dragon, red in tooth and claw. Tooth and Claw won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 2004.īLURB: A tale of love, money, and family conflict – among Dragons.Ī family deals with the death of their father.Īnother son agonises over his father’s deathbed confession. ![]() Here are my thoughts about the first book of hers that I encountered… She continues to be one of my favourite authors. This review was posted on 4th November 2013, and I’m reposting it in honour of Jo Walton, whose writing and book covers I’m celebrating today. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yes, Batman can be the grim avenger or the charming ladies’ man or the camp crusader or the superhero or the urban vigilante or the world’s greatest detective or a swinging icon, but – in reading Morrison’s run – it felt too awkward to make Batman all of these at the same time. It felt a bit awkward and continuity-heavy – don’t get me wrong, I appreciated his attempt to tie together just about every aspect and iteration of Batman ever, but it just felt a bit too much. I didn’t love Grant Morrison’s tenure on Batman. Every Wednesday this month, we’ll have a Grant Morrison related review or retrospective. December is “Grant Morrison month” here at the m0vie blog, as we take the month to consider and reflect on one of the most critically acclaimed (and polarising) authors working in the medium. ![]() ![]() ![]() Michaelis referred to numerous interviews throughout Charles Schulz's life in which he talked about his own "melancholy" and anxieties. ![]() Michaelis said that he was surprised to hear how upset some members of the family were, but that "to their children fathers are always heroes, and very few families can see beyond that paterfamilias." After interviewing hundreds of people, going through every one of the 17,897 comic strips Schulz drew and doing extensive research, Michaelis said, "this was the man I found." ![]() "We were all really excited, thinking we were going to get to say things about our dad," she said, complaining that the children play a very small role in the book. "I think he wanted to write a book a certain way, and so he used our family." "The whole thing is completely wrong," she said from her home in Utah. His sister Amy Schulz Johnson felt the same. Monte Schulz ended up helping to persuade the rest of the Schulz clan to cooperate with Michaelis, granted full access to his father's papers and put aside his own novel writing to help him.īut Monte Schulz said that when he read Michaelis' manuscript in December, members of the family were shocked by the portrayal of a depressed, cold and bitter man who was constantly going after different women. Wyeth, and that Schulz's son Monte also liked the writer's work. It turned out that Schulz had read Michaelis' biography of N.C. Schulz seven years ago about writing a biography of Schulz, the creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip. David Michaelis first contacted the family of Charles M. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the train, Carrie meets Charles Drouet, a traveling salesman who is attracted to her because of her simple beauty and unspoiled manner. ![]() In late 1889, dissatisfied with life in Columbia City, Wisconsin, 18-year-old Caroline Meeber, "Sister Carrie" to her family, takes the train to Chicago, to live with her older sister Minnie and Minnie's husband. It has been called the "greatest of all American urban novels". She first becomes a mistress to men that she perceives as superior, but later becomes a famous actress. Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) about a young woman who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream. 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Earth is no longer humanity's only home new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. ![]() ![]() ![]() I will only write these scenes as a means to enhance certain plot/character arcs.ĭrafted! The book is fully drafted with several rounds of self-edits, is being beta read, and will be off for editing beginning October. All I ask is that you keep in mind the ’spice’ is not plot point for any book in this series and everyone’s sensitivity levels on this is very different. I anticipate there will be some level of this going forward in the series. It is NOT a spicy book, but rather a book with spice. I want to share updates with you along with what to expect in the next instalment of the Heir Comes to Rise series!Īs the series transitions from Young Adult to New Adult content I want to make my readers aware this third book includes some explicit scenes. 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