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The 14th century is the right shit show to compare too. This is the rare history book that is so engrossing it’s competing and winning against the Terry Pratchett I’m reading (Maskerade) for bedtime escapist relaxation. Next pandemic live read, Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror, a history of the 14th century through the life of a single minor nobleman whose life was coextensive with the main events, especially the Black Death. I have a bunch of threads on Twitter that are probably suitable for this sort of light-touch blogification. I’ve linked a selection of those to these notes.Īside: if you like this format, let me know. This is also a book that benefits from a lot of Wikipedia bunnytrailing on the side, and I found myself doing a lot of reading about characters and events mentioned in passing. I was going to try and reshape my live-tweeting into an actual longform review/summary, but people seemed to like the live/fresh feel of the livetweeting, so I decided to just clean up and post the thread here as notes, with some light editing, linking, and addition of a few post-twitter. Now that I got my feet wet, I’m going to keep at it. I’ve been working in television for twenty years but I never had the desire to direct episodic TV. I have always wanted to direct but I like the indy vibe. GEORGE: If by awhile you mean since childhood, yes. NFF: What was the decision around directing for the first time? Was it something you've been thinking about for awhile? It was my way of initiating film production in DC, a longtime goal of mine. I decided to do three more and make it a feature anthology film. GEORGE: I had adapted and produced a short, THE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT (directed by Stephen Kinigopoulos), based on one of my short stories and I liked the experience. NFF: Can you talk a little about the adaptation process, and why/how you wanted to make these stories into film? Stoker also worked for the Irish civil service, much like his father had done. After years of correspondence, Stoker finally met Whitman in 1884, and he met him again a few more times, the last time in 1887. It appears that Stoker was always interested in writing because, for a time, he worked as a drama critic additionally, the author whom he most admired was Walt Whitman, whose controversial book of poetry, Leaves of Grass, Stoker publicly defended. He is referred to by biographer Farson as a "red-haired giant." As a student at Trinity College in Dublin, Stoker graduated with honors in science, and he later returned to the college for an M.A. Sickly and bedridden as a child, Stoker eventually grew to well over six feet in height and became athletic and muscular, crowned with a head of thick, red hair. We know that Bram Stoker was born in Dublin, Ireland, on November 8, 1847, the third son of seven children. Most biographers have had to rely on public records to determine the interests and life of the author, thus prompting Daniel Farson, Stoker's grandnephew and also one of his biographers, to write: "Stoker has long remained one of the least known authors of one of the best-known books ever written." Many of the events of Bram Stoker's life are still a mystery and are open to speculation. There is a natural temptation to compare “Lovecraft Country” to “Watchmen” - which also put Black heroes and Black history at the center of a genre piece - and, because Jordan Peele is an executive producer (along with J.J. Loewen’s study “Sundown Towns,” as in “get out by.” (Ruff is white series developer Misha Green, who previously wrote for the sci-fi series “Heroes” and “Helix” and created “Underground,” as in Railroad, is Black.) Matt Ruff, on whose 2016 novel the series is based - sometimes closely, sometimes loosely - was inspired in part by Pam Noles’ 2006 essay “Shame,” about the unbearable whiteness of sci-fi and the difficulties it presents to what she calls a “FoP,” as in, “Fan of Pigment,” and in its particulars by “The Negro Motorist Green-Book” and by James W. 16 on HBO, has something to say about the ordinary horrors of racism as well as the cosmic ones of fantastic fiction is mixed into its foundation. That “Lovecraft Country,” which premieres Aug. Dreams so wonderful and tangible that the second I woke up and realized they were just that-dreams-the terribleness of reality came crashing in on me all over again. The problem is, it’s hard to fall asleep when deep down there’s a part of you that desperately doesn’t want to ever again.īecause sleep brought on dreams of Daniel. I’d been willing myself not to check the time every few minutes, not to count down how many hours of rest I could still get before morning-if I could just fall asleep in the first place. without even needing to glance at the dim red numbers of my alarm clock. I’d rolled over and sat up in my bed when the howls started only a few minutes before. The high, mournful wolf’s cry that filled my bedroom now sounded like he was just outside my window-but I knew it came from deep in the forest. I knew it was the white wolf without being able to see him. I wish I could say that I’d been asleep when the howling started. He’s going to get himself in real trouble if he doesn’t stop. I blinked several times and read the message again: You need to do something, gracie. I’d been staring at the black void between my bed and my ceiling for so long it was hard to focus my vision-and my mind-on the incoming text. My eyes squinted involuntarily at my phone’s screen, illuminated too bright in the dark of my bedroom. A silver bullet explodes from the chamber. “All you have to do is want to kill me, and you’ll lose yourself.” Will they help each other to survive, or will they destroy one another?Ĭarve the Mark is Veronica Roth’s stunning portrayal of the power of friendship - and love - in a galaxy filled with unexpected gifts. The Akos is thrust into Cyra’s world, and the enmity between their countries and families seems insurmountable. Once Akos and his brother are captured by enemy Shotet soldiers, Akos is desperate to get this brother out alive - no matter what the cost. Protected by his unusual currentgift, Akos is generous in spirit, and his loyalty to his family is limitless. But Cyra is much more than just a blade in her brother’s hand: she is resilient, quick on her feet, and smarter than he knows.Īkos is the son of a farmer and an oracle from the frozen nation-planet of Thuvhe. Cyra’s currentgift gives her pain and power - something her brother exploits, using her to torture his enemies. In a galaxy powered by the current, everyone has a gift.Ĭyra is the sister of the brutal tyrant who rules the Shotet people. Genre: Young adult, science fiction, fantasy But after nearly half a century, denouncing brutality becomes a fairly circular enterprise. It has been 42 years since the publication of The Bluest Eye (1970), her groundbreaking first novel about self-hatred and incestuous rape in the black community. The nobility and necessity of the enterprise does not quite offset the sense of weariness that comes from that "another instalment", and Updike had a point: exposure of infamies and hardship is a fairly limited artistic ambition.Īt Morrison's best, in novels such as Beloved (1987) and Song of Solomon (1977), she did much more than expose: she sang, excoriated, harrowed, educated, mythologised and uplifted. R eviewing Toni Morrison's last novel, A Mercy (2008), in the New Yorker, John Updike referred to it as "another instalment of her noble and necessary fictional project of exposing the infamies of slavery and the hardships of being African-American". Many of the excursions were written into the companion book, though not all, allegedly due to Adams' notorious writing delays. Many of these excursions became the basis for the BBC Radio 4 series of the same name. Later this developed into several journeys to find various species, including the Komodo dragon on the island of Komodo in Indonesia, gorillas and white rhinoceroses in Zaire, Kakapos in New Zealand, the Yangtze River Dolphin in China, Rodrigues fruit bats ( megabat) on the island of Rodrigues, and various other species in these locations. The " Observer Colour Magazine" initiated moves in 1985 to send a zoologist, Mark Carwardine, and a writer, Douglas Adams, to Madagascar, to search for the aye-aye, a nearly extinct lemur. The theme of documentary was to feature animal species which were endangered or threatened with extinction. The book "Last Chance to See" by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine was first published in 1990, as a companion to the BBC radio series of the same name. |