Ingmar bergman strawberry5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() What Bergman does so well is to offer us, the audience, a kind of blatant truth with his filmmaking. All along the line, there's nothing but cold and death and loneliness. And Evald is growing just as lonely, cold, and dead. And this is her son, and there are light-years between them. An old woman, cold as ice, more forbidding than death. ![]() In this scene, the similarities between the three generations become all too clear, and Marianne proclaims: ![]() During their exchange, his daughter-in-law Marianne observes a sense of emotional detachment, recognizable too in Isak and her own husband, Evald. Bergman then offers us an exquisitely dreamlike transition into the past, revealing that Evald has refused Marianne a child, providing her with a cruel ultimatum. There are evident parallels to be drawn here with the conversation had between Isak Borg and his daughter-in-law Marianne, played by Ingrid Thulin. Towards the end of their journey, Isak visits his 98-year-old Mother. ![]()
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The coldest winter ever barnes and noble5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Damage was most significant to agriculture, as major losses occurred to citrus fruits and tender vegetables. No snow had ever been reported in southeastern Florida before or since. Most notably, the weather system brought snow flurries (seen in the air, but not on the ground) as far south as Homestead on January 19. ![]() As a result, cold air moved far to the south across Florida, causing both snow flurries and record low temperatures. It occurred following the passage of a strong cold front, in combination with a high-pressure area situated over the Mississippi River Valley. The cold wave of January 1977 produced the only known trace of snow in the greater Miami area of Florida ever reported. A weather map on Janushowing the high-pressure system impacting FloridaĢ inches (51 mm) along Interstate 4 between Tampa and Orlando ![]() Somewhere Only We Know by Maurene Goo5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two cats. She is the author of Since You Asked, I Believe in a Thing Called Love, and The Way You Make Me Feel. ![]() ![]() With her trademark humour and voice, Maurene Goo delivers a sparkling story of taking a chance on love - and finding yourself along the way. Maurene Goo studied communication at UC San Diego and then later received a Masters in publishing, writing, and literature at Emerson College. He's maybe curious.ġ2:00 a.m.: Nothing will ever be the same. On his way out of the hotel, he runs into a girl wearing slippers, a girl who is single-mindedly determined to find a hamburger. But right now? She's in her fancy hotel, trying to fall asleep but dying for a hamburger.ġ1:00 p.m.: Jack is sneaking into a fancy hotel, on assignment for his tabloid job that he keeps secret from his parents. She's about to debut on The Tonight Show in America, hopefully a breakout performance for her career. Soon to be a Netflix feature-film.ġ0:00 p.m.: Lucky is the biggest K-pop star on the scene, and she's just performed her hit song "Heartbeat" in Hong Kong to thousands of adoring fans. Perfect for fans of To All the Boys I've Loved Before and The Kissing Booth. YA Books You Absolutely Must Read This Spring Sparks fly between a K pop starlet and a tabloid reporter in this heartwarming rom-com from Maurene Goo. ![]() Be prepared to swoon in this irresistible rom-com about taking a chance on love and finding yourself along the way. ![]() Lies by Michael Grant5/21/2023 ![]() Sam knows that something is not right about Caine. ![]() Sam, Quinn, Edilio, Astrid, and Little Pete are thrown together for survival. Some of these rules are actually valid, others are meant to prevent people from gaining power to oppose Caine. People are dying because his sheriff and gang of bullies keep beating people up who break the rules imposed on them by Caine. The kids from Coates Academy come down to the town of Perdido Beach and Caine appoints himself as leader. Sam is running out of time before he turns fourteen and disappears too. Some kids have also developed strange powers. There are strange mutations in the animals seagulls with talons, winged snakes, and talking coyotes. The wall is impassable and burns you if you touch it. ![]() There's a dome surrounding the land within a ten-mile radius from the nuclear plant. Everyone else disappears on their fourteenth birthday. Plot Summary:Everyone over the age of fourteen disappears. With the whole population under 14 years old the world begins to fall apart. Readers Annotation: Sam is sitting in class when all of a sudden the teacher disappears before their eyes. ![]() Love you more gardner5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() On Tuesday night he attended the New York Knicks playoff game against the Miami Heat with new teammate Sauce Gardner. And he has spent the last week in public being photographed at sporting events. Rodgers did not burst into dust when confronted by a gaggle of New York-based newspeople at his introductory press conference. If you're a concerned Jets fan, don't worry. It will certainly be interesting to see his reaction if his name ends up being used in a pun-centric headline on the back page of one of the two daily newspapers in town. Does he have thoughts on things? Maybe we'll find out this year when the dreaded NYC MEDIA gets a shot at him. Most people had never seen him with his helmet off or heard his voice until he walked into the Jets training facility in slow motion last week. Rodgers famously avoided the media for more than a decade in Green Bay. Unlike when he was in the rural paradise of Green Bay, Wisconsin where they haven't even invented the printing press yet. Which means he'll have to deal with the New York media. I mean, technically, he'll play in New Jersey, but it's very close to New York. Aaron Rodgers will play football in New York this year. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After decades of looking for them they all started turning up with increasing frequency and all at very affordable prices. I managed to acquire five of Avallone’s private eye novels featuring Ed Noon in my various book store hunts this year. Some writers are even lucky enough (if lucky is the right word) to get an entire chapter to themselves in the Gun in Cheek books. I read them years before I learned they all ended up both celebrated and disparaged in one or the other of Pronzini’s books. Ludicrous plots, wacky detective work, far-fetched murder methods, and some atrocious writing are all in great supply in each one of those books. They may be bad, but we love them all the more because of their very badness. Pettee, and Murder on the Palisades by Will Levinrew are three outrageous examples of the kind of book discerning readers of crime fiction now call alternative classics. Cassidy by William Targ, The Palgrave Mummy by Florence M. Before I had even heard of Pronzini’s books or heard of the term I had stumbled across more than my fair share of alternative classics. 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The only thing it has going for it is a chance proximity to more popular worlds, making it a decent stopover for ships traveling between the wormholes that keep the Galactic Commons connected. ![]() Read / Download The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)ĭESCRIPTION BOOK : Return to the sprawling, Hugo Award-winning universe of the Galactic Commons to explore another corner of the cosmos?one often mentioned, but not yet explored?in this absorbing entry in the Wayfarers series, which blends heart-warming characters and imaginative adventure.With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. ![]() The Indigo Spell by Richelle Mead5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() But this book is very Syndey/Adrian focused, which if you like their romance is a great thing. ![]() The previous two books are told from Sydney's POV, just like this one, but there is a lot of Jilly, Eddie, and the other Moroi/Dhampirs. If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be? She is a decent narrator, not my favorite, but far from my least favorite. What about Emily Shaffer’s performance did you like? Magic takes a center stage in Indigo Spell, so maybe a Discover of Witches? There is the whole forbidden love between a vampire and witch thing going on. While they are spin-offs of the Vampire Academy books, the farther into the series, the less like the VA books they are. What other book might you compare The Indigo Spell to and why? ![]() If you have enjoyed the series so far, then Indigo Spell is a great addition :-) Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why? ![]() ![]() ![]() I found myself reading a ton of these whilst my (f) wife (also f) suggested I might get something out of reading queer fiction. Incredibly formulaic story lines and mf pairings but quickly familiar characters. One of them was the Mills & Boon “Virgin River” series by Robyn Carr. I mention this because I initially got into reading via a couple of series of books. I suspect it’s in part because I’m an academic so I spend most of my day reading, and didn’t much fancy the same to be said of my evenings. I’ve only recently (say, in the last year or so) gotten back into reading after having been a childhood bookworm. I don’t have much experience in the way of writing book reviews (as you’ll be able to tell from the extended personal context setting before I eventually get to it) but wanted to share this here and hope that doesn’t break any community rules. ![]() This week I read The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite. ![]() |