![]() I had several long discussions with her about the divide in the world that had resulted in my public resignation from DragonCon as the Assistant Director of the Fantasy Literature Track. …I have known Faith for many years, moderated her on panels and advocated for her to be a guest at JordanCon when I was still the director of the Writing Track. (The text is also posted on Facebook, where there are many comments.) Richard Fife’s blog post “Faith Hunter Assaulted Me” relates what happened. Hunter, whose fantasy works include the Rogue Mage series, the Jane Yellowrock series, and the Soulwood series, apparently decided to pull out of cons after the developments of JordanCon weekend, however, the reasons had not been made known. ![]() JordanCon 2022 was held April 22-24 in Atlanta. ![]() Following Richard Fife’s publication today that “Faith Hunter Assaulted Me” at JordanCon 2022 in April, fantasy author Faith Hunter issued an apology on Facebook, and announced that she has removed herself from JordanCon permanently and cancelled all her con appearances for the year. ![]()
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By Sigourney Cross, DPT, PHRC Walnut CreekĪ rectocele, also known as a posterior wall prolapse, is one of the main types of pelvic organ prolapse (POP). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam,let alone get good jobs. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they havebeen duped. A treat.”-Janet Maslin, The New York Times Mark, Todd, and Zolacame to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. Grisham writes in such an inventive spirit. The Rooster Bar: A NovelBOOK DETAILPaperback: 416 pages Publisher: Dell Reprint edition (June 19, 2018) Language: English ISBN-10: 1101967706 ISBN-13: 978-1101967706Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 1 x 7.5 inches Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Customer Reviews: 3.8 out of 5stars6,716 customer ratingsBook Description#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham’s newest legal thriller takes you inside a law firm that’s on shaky ground. ![]() ![]() My parents sat me down to tell me the news. The one about your own life, complete with melodramatic soundtrack and golden light lancing through car windows. You just can’t stop telling yourself the story. Or maybe, like me, you’re a hopeless romantic. Maybe your fatal flaw is that you don’t use turn signals. ![]() Only now, upon realizing you didn’t get what you didn’t know you wanted, you’re barreling down the highway in a midlife-crisis-mobile with a suitcase full of cash and a man named Stan in your trunk. So, to avoid disappointment, you learned never to ask yourself what you truly wanted. Maybe, for example, you didn’t have much control over your life as a kid. Or at least that makes it easier for me when I’m writing-building my heroines and heroes up around this one self-sabotaging trait, hinging everything that happens to them on a specific characteristic: the thing they learned to do to protect themselves and can’t let go of, even when it stops serving them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Why is it bleeped?! What type of shit can this person move? The blurb! X-MEN! Superheroes! Is it going to be insanely bonkers?! I hope so! I need something fun amidst all the dark & heavy & stabby & BRUTAL FUCKING SHIT I NORMALLY READ! I mean. ALL THE THOUGHTS with regards to this before starting. The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind is quite the title, isn’t it? It certainly drew me in! I had just. ![]() Right now I’m so tired I’m not sure I can make it to the bedroom, let alone get my clothes off. If she can’t unravel the conspiracy in time, her hometown of Los Angeles will be in the crosshairs of an underground battle that’s on the brink of exploding… She’s got 24 hours to clear her name-and it’s not just her life at stake. But all she really wants to do is kick back, have a beer, and pretend she’s normal for once.īut then a body turns up at the site of her last job-murdered in a way that only someone like Teagan could have pulled off. Sure, she’s got telekinetic powers-a skill that the government is all too happy to make use of, sending her on secret break-in missions that no ordinary human could carry out. Teagan Frost is having a hard time keeping it together. Synopsis: For Teagan Frost, sh*t just got real. ![]() ![]() Pairing Maggie’s story with The Frog Prince felt natural to me. They’re all so impatient for her to ‘bounce back’ and don’t even want to acknowledge that what she’s been through may have irreversibly changed her. It’s not that Maggie isn’t strong, even in her broken state, it’s that no one around her is willing to give her space or time to heal or recover from the traumas she’s experienced. ![]() TS: When I decided to tell Maggie’s story in Break Me Like a Promise, I knew right away that it was going to be about the mismatch between the way the world perceived Maggie (So feisty! So Strong! Unbreakable!) and the way she was currently feeling (very, very broken!). MP: Break Me Like a Promise is the second book in your Once Upon a Crime Family series ? What was the specific inspiration for this story? What drew you to The Frog Prince as source material? Tiffany Schmidt is here today to talk about Break Me Like a Promise, the second book in her Once Upon a Crime Family series. It also wound up being one of the books I most needed to read. Break Me Like a Promise was one of my most-anticipated 2016 releases. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor. ![]() ![]() Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages? The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023: The Washington Post, Time, Esquire, Newsweek, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Elle, Salon, Lit Hub, Kirkus Reviews The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hunchback of Notre Dame publicity photo from the 1923 movie, by Wallace Worsley, via Wikimedia Commons Just a few of the most important characters are: Language, cultural norms, the countries and cultures themselves, the target audiences…really, the two versions share almost nothing except the story itself.īefore we look at the plot, let’s take a look at the main characters and how they differ between the original book and the Disney movie interpretation. With over 160 years passing between the book’s publication and the movie’s release, there are naturally bound to be some differences. Directors: Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale.Title: Notre-Dame de Paris (though also commonly known as the Hunchback of Notre Dame).Let’s start with the “no-duh” differences between the book and the movie. ![]() Illustration of the Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, via Wikimedia Commons So how does the Disney animated movie, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, differ from the original book by Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris? Obvious Differences That last one is the focus of our post today. They are generally neither true to history, like in the case of Pocahontas, nor to their original fictional source (see: The Little Mermaid, Peter Pan, Tarzan and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, among others). ![]() Despite their regular global success, Disney movies aren’t known for being particularly accurate. ![]() ![]() ![]() She received the king just as if she had been expecting him, and though he saw that she was very beautiful, she did not please him, and he could not look at her without an inward shudder. The king consented, because of the difficulty he was in, and the old woman led him into her little house, and there her daughter was sitting by the fire. "I have a daughter," said the old woman, "who is as fair as any in the world, and if you will take her for your bride, and make her queen, I will show you the way out of the wood." "Oh yes, my lord king," answered she, "certainly I can but I must make a condition, and if you do not fulfil it, you will never get out of the wood again, but die there of hunger." ![]() "My good woman," said he, "can you show me the way out of the wood?" Then all at once he saw an old woman with a nodding head coming up to him and it was a witch. When evening came he stood still, and looking round him he found that he had lost his way and seeking a path, he found none. Once on a time a king was hunting in a great wood, and he pursued a wild animal so eagerly that none of his people could follow him. ![]() ![]() ![]() At 654 pages, this biography begs to be called ''definitive," and it is. England's is more a literary culture than a music and dance one, and the English have an almost comical obsession with using the former to record the latter. Daneman writes as an insider, a graduate of London's Royal Ballet School, and now a novelist. ![]() That is the image Fonteyn wanted to project to the world, the porcelain-perfect princess more regal than real royalty.ĭaneman digs beneath the faade of the woman whose blossoming as an artist corresponded to the blossoming of classical dance in England, with the determined figure of Ninette de Valois transforming the Vic-Wells Ballet into the Sadler's Wells company and finally, triumphantly, into the Royal Ballet. Her face betrays no feelings whatsoever: She is utterly serene. ![]() There the great ballerina is, posed as Odette, the white swan of ''Swan Lake." Her ivory skin and dark features make her look like a geisha. The cover of Meredith Daneman's new biography of Margot Fonteyn is also a gentle cover-up. ![]() |