![]() ![]() The major social comment is a newspaper headline that calls him The Great White Dope. Hope’s boxing career doesn’t resonate the way Dempsey’s, Frazier’s, or Tyson’s did. When the coach and his chastened pupil go to battle in Las Vegas for what may be the biggest fight of Billy's life, we want to be there with them to witness it all, even if we already know what will happen next. Southpaw is a maudlin depiction of an arrested-adolescent celebrity lurching toward maturity and salvation. He and McAdams share a great chemistry, and he clicks with Whitaker, too - a crucial element in this genre. See the movie for Gyllenhaal alone, though it helps that nearly all of his co-stars are also in fine form. He's ferocious and vulnerable and believable, sometimes all at once. With a movie that relies heavily on its cliched genre, Southpaw suffers more from its darkness rather than its redemption into the light for our character Hope. They're all part of this movie, and we've seen them all before.Īnd yet Southpaw is a tour-de-force, thanks in large part to outstanding performances from the cast, most notably an utterly transformed Gyllenhaal. ![]() ![]() Southpaw even features a hard-driving hip-hop soundtrack that meshes perfectly with jump-roping scenes and footwork-and-punching practice - shot beautifully by director Antoine Fuqua - and the requisite encouraging speech that inspires one man to dig deep for one last shot at redemption. Far from original, SOUTHPAW ticks off every boxing film standard: Everyman fighter, ultra-supportive wife, Phoenix-rising-from-the-ashes story line culminating in the fight of the century. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hickory Dickory Dock was first published in the UK in six abridged instalments in John Bull magazine, from May to July 1955. This is the first book to launch straight into the first chapter without any preamble since Sparkling Cyanide in 1945. However, even that book started with a foreword. This is the first book written by Christie to bear no dedication since Crooked House was published in 1949. As usual, if you haven’t read the book yet, don’t worry, I promise not to reveal whodunit! But when the thefts turn into deaths, his job is to discover who is behind a series of very serious crimes and prevent more murders from taking place. In which Hercule Poirot is brought into make sense of some strange thefts and minor acts of vandalism at a students’ hostel managed by his secretary, Miss Lemon,’s sister, Mrs Hubbard. ![]() ![]() ![]() To survive, Fie must unravel not only Rhusana's plot, but ancient secrets of the Crows-secrets that could save her people, or set the world ablaze. ![]() But inside the royal palace, the only difference between a conqueror and a thief is an army. However, they're all running out of time before the Crows starve in exile and Sabor is lost forever.Ī desperate Fie calls on old allies to help take Rhusana down from within her own walls. With the witch queen using the deadly plague to unite the nation of Sabor against Crows-and add numbers to her monstrous army-Fie and her band are forced to go into hiding, leaving the country to be ravaged by the plague. Still she’s hopeful that Prince Jasimir will fulfill his oath to protect her fellow Crows. As the new chieftain of the Crows, Fie knows better than to expect a royal to keep his word. But then black smoke fills the sky, signaling the death of King Surimir and the beginning of Queen Rhusana's merciless bid for the throne. Kings become outcasts and lovers become foes in The Faithless Hawk, the thrilling sequel to Margaret Owen's The Merciful Crow. ![]() Still she's hopeful that Prince Jasimir will fulfill his oath to protect her fellow Crows. Kings become outcasts and lovers become foes in The Faithless Hawk, the thrilling sequel to Margaret Owen's The Merciful Crow.Īs the new chieftain of the Crows, Fie knows better than to expect a royal to keep his word. Kings become outcasts and lovers become foes in the thrilling sequel to Margaret Owen’s The Merciful Crow. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whenever you encounter any doubts, you just need to highlight the text and click right click to search the same on Doubtnut and find solutions in self-explanatory video solutions or simple text solutions.Ģ. It is a simple yet very effective tool to resolve your doubt while reading or studying on the internet.ġ. With millions of video & text solutions, the Doubtnut extension gives you a direct channel to clear your doubts while studying or browsing online. 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Yes, even on a good day, I could browse through the DSM and slot myself into a whole bunch of disorders (today for instance, sluggish cognitive tempo disorder, otherwise known as lack of motivation). Maybe it was a bad idea to read DSM4 when you’re not a trained professional… ![]() It makes for very compelling reading, as Jon Ronson discovered in his exploration of psychopathy, The Psychopath Test. Each ‘disorder’ is described using a number of diagnostic criteria, risk factors, cultural and gender considerations, differential diagnoses and so on. Have you ever looked at a copy of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (commonly referred to as the ‘ DSM‘)? It’s a reference book published by the American Psychiatric Association, and it is used by clinicians for diagnosing mental illness. ![]() ![]() ![]() To protect her family and village, she will risk everything to return to the Empire–and burn once more. And unknown to Gilene, he also wants to reclaim the birthright of his clan. Gilene’s sacrifice protects all the other young women of her village, and her secret to staying alive lies with the magic only she possesses.Īzarion, the Empire’s most famous gladiator, has somehow seen through her illusion–and is set on blackmailing Gilene into using her abilities to help him escape his life of slavery. ![]() ![]() For the last five years, one small village’s tithe has been the same woman. Draven’s writing is always top notch and I’m curious about the next book, which follows a different couple.Ī woman with power over fire and illusion and an enslaved son of a chieftain battle a corrupt empire in this powerful and deeply emotional romantic fantasy from the USA Todaybestselling author of Radiance.Įvery year, each village is required to send a young woman to the Empire’s capital–her fate to be burned alive for the entertainment of the masses. 2) It’s dense and the slow burn is quite slow. Phoenix Unbound by Grace Draven is $1.99! I gave this one a C-, but I’d still recommend it with large caveats. ![]() ![]() ![]() And indeed, their world is very set, having existed under a dome for several generations after a world calamity made the surface unlivable. As a coal miner, next to the lowest of the low in this structured society, she is shunned in most public places above ground and people of her status rarely marry outside of their class. ![]() Set under a large dome somewhere in Wales, UK over what once was a large coal deposit, Wren MacAvoy struggles to fit in, to make her grandfather proud, and to unravel the hidden reasons for a friend’s death. Ashes of Twilight captures that same feel, but without being a duplicate of this classic. There were many things I liked about them, including the characters’ needs to live beyond their assigned roles and years. I grew up with Logan’s Run, first the movie and then the series. Who I Recommend This To: If you are a fan of Logan’s Run and YA, then this book has a lot for you. ![]() Where I Got It: From the publisher via Audiobook Jukebox (thanks!) Why I Read It: I like reading about confined folks who got issues, whether it’s in space or under a dome on ruined Earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There is no first moment no single word or place from which this or any other story springs. Tags age art austen bible c bronte childhood christianity class conformity dad death depression dickens divorce education ethnicity family fantasy faulkner feminism film france gay gender geo eliot god gothic happiness him history horror identity islam isolation justice ksa life language lawrence lesbian library life love magic marriage mental health misogyny mom murder music mystery mythology nature nature love north carolina politics psychology racism rape religion sex sexuality shakespeare society suicide teaching television the closet the ex united kingdom united states victorian w collins work world war i world war iiĬlive Barker writes such beautiful horror.Įven this, one of his earliest novel-length stories, moves me to tears. ![]() ![]() His eponymous character Asso di Picche (Ace of Spades) was a success, mainly in Argentina, where Pratt was invited in 1949. The magazine scored some success and published works by young talents, including Dino Battaglia. Their magazine Asso di Picche, launched in 1945, concentrated on adventure comics. Later Pratt joined the 'Venice Group' with other Italian cartoonists, including Alberto Ongaro and Mario Faustinelli. The same year, Hugo Pratt and his mother were interned in a prison camp at Dirédaoua, and later was sent back to Italy by the Red Cross.Īfter the war, Pratt moved to Venice where he organized entertainment for the Allied troops. Pratt's father was captured in 1941 by British troops and, in late 1942, died from disease as a prisoner of war. In 1937, Pratt moved with his mother to Abyssinia (Ethiopia), joining his father who had moved there following the conquest of that country by Italy. ![]() He was also related to actor Boris Karloff (né William Henry Pratt). ![]() ![]() Born in Rimini, Italy to Rolando Prat and Evelina Genero, Hugo Pratt spent most of his childhood in Venice in a very cosmopolitan family environment. ![]() ![]() ![]() For her work as a children's writer she received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1966. The next two books, Comet in Moominland and Finn Family Moomintroll, published in 19 respectively, were highly successful in sales, adding to sales of the first book. Jansson wrote the Moomin books for children, starting in 1945 with The Moomins and the Great Flood. ![]() ![]() She continued to work as an artist and a writer for the rest of her life. At the same time, she was writing short stories and articles for publication, as well as creating the graphics for book covers and other purposes. Her first solo art exhibition was in 1943. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Stockholm, Helsinki and Paris. Tove Marika Jansson (Finland Swedish pronunciation: (listen) 9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. ![]() |