When I wrote it, I never thought about music in the background, but now I put the music on sometimes when I clean the house.” The first time I saw it without music it had a very different feel, and it took a while to get used to the soundtrack. I would be sorting socks on the bed and get calls like, Barbra Streisand wants to do the movie, and I’d just say, sure, and then Cher ended up playing the mother. “It was wonderful and a bit overwhelming. Here’s what Patty Dann had to say about the process of adapting her novel: The movie came out shortly after in 1990. Mermaids, written by Patty Dann, was published in 1986. A book that I haven’t read! I had to rectify that immediately. And I’ve continued watching it, again and again, over the years. So imagine my surprise when I recently discovered that my beloved Mermaids is actually based on a book. I remember watching it as a kid, I think I may have even seen it in the theater with my mom. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen the movie Mermaids.
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Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. 'The most gifted cricket essayist of his generation' - Richard Williams 'The world's greatest living cricket writer' - The Guardian 'Australia's finest writer on cricket' - The Times 'The finest cricket writer alive' - The Australian 'The Bradman of cricket writing' - Sunday Telegraph Grace to Don Bradman, from Bodyline to Laker's Match, from Botham's Miracle at Headingley to the phenomena of Patrick Cummins and Ben Stokes, today's Ashes captains.įrom over three decades of covering The Ashes, Gideon has brought together an enduring vision of this timeless contest between Australia and England-the world's oldest sporting rivalry-from the colonial era to the present day. In On The Ashes, Gideon Haigh, today's pre-eminent cricket writer, has captured over a century and half of Anglo-Australian cricket, from W. The Ashes is where hope, expectation, magic and chagrin flourish in equal measure, and performance is permanently burnished. The Ashes is always coming, even when it is finished. The master cricket writer on the greatest sporting contest of them all. Kate Messner is the beloved author of numerous award-winning books for young readers, including Over and Under the Pond, The Brilliant Deep, Breakout, and the Ranger in Time series. Kate Messner is passionately curious and writes books that encourage kids to wonder, too. Kate Messner’s beautiful book helps parents and kids relax into dreamland with a sense of peace, safety, and belonging. Sloth Wasn’t Sleepy does more than provide a sweet bedtime story-kids will join Sloth to learn mindfulness practices such as “shrinking down” fears in their mind and calming their body through breath and simple visualizations. But Mama Sloth knows the secrets for calming worried minds and getting to sleep-and as she shares them with her daughter, young readers will learn valuable relaxation skills that last a lifetime. “We will have to let them go.”Ī tough day, a bad dream, a scary noise … these are just a few of the things that can keep kids wide awake and frightened after dark. “What if I worry when I try to fall asleep?” Sloth said. One night at bedtime, Sloth wasn’t sleepy. Tune in on our Instagram Sloth Wasn't Sleepy:įor any child having trouble getting to sleep, the most lovable animal in the rain forest is here to help. Join us for an Instagram Live bedtime story with award-winning author Kate Messner! Kate will read from her newest book Sloth Wasn't Sleepy, and do some counting breaths and imagery from the book. It opens being deliberately coy about the events of a barbecue that took place several months previously. But Truly Madly Guilty lacks some grit some drama. It was easy to imagine them as real people. She knows her characters well and they feel convincing. I have to give credit where it's due - Moriarty seems in tune with human nature. I'm almost always left thinking “seriously, is that it?" The secrets are anticlimactic, leaving a "meh" sensation in their wake. The Husband's Secret, Big Little Lies, Truly Madly Guilty - secrets, lies and guilt, you say? Bring it on!Įxcept her stories rarely venture outside of middle class soirées. I'm starting to realize that Moriarty's novels are given titles and descriptions that make them sound so much more dramatic and mysterious than they really are. Perhaps I do expect the wrong things, but I don't think that's completely my fault. This is the third of her books that I've tried and once again I’m overcome by the slowness, the lack of pull… the sheer dullness of the characters. Maybe I'm just spoiled by domestic thriller authors like Gillian Flynn and Megan Abbott, maybe I want all the wrong things from Moriarty, but whatever the reason, her books never pull me in. Whatever you’re ignoring will be there to be reckoned with until you reckon with it. Whatever you’re ignoring is only going to get worse. And I think that whatever you are ignoring is not going to go away. And you may not want to go into that basement, but if you really don’t go into that basement, it’s at your own peril. And the work is never done.Īnd that’s what our country is like. Isabel Wilkerson: Our country is like a really old house. The Great Migration gave the world a bounty of brilliance - from Michelle Obama and James Baldwin, to Diana Ross and John Coltrane - while also planting harder foundations that continue to touch on every American in some way. She is herself a product of one of the most underreported stories of the 20th century which she chronicles - the exodus or Great Migration of six million African Americans from the south to the north of the United States. It’s a carrier of histories, stories, truths that help make sense of human and social challenges newly visible at the heart of our life together. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson points this out as she reflects on her epic book, The Warmth of Other Suns. Krista Tippett, host: You go to the doctor for anything, and they won’t begin to treat you without taking your history - and not just yours, but that of your parents and grandparents before you. Learn more about my work with Randy Wicker here: /randywickerĪlso discussed, click here to see "Out in Evansville: An LGBTQ+ History of River City" by Kelley Coures: Learn more about the LGBT Community Center's National History Archive here: /archives Lisa has essays published all over the place-including one titled "The Butch as Drag Artiste: Greenwich Village in the Roaring Forties" in Joan Nestle's book "The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader." Lisa was also a teacher in New York at what she calls "SUNY CUNY LUNY."Īs discussed in the episode, check out Julie Enszer's lesbian journal "Sinister Wisdom" here: Įxplore the Lesbian Herstory Archives here: In today’s Mattachine Meeting, we’ll talk about how she discovered these stories. "Under the Mink" tells the story of drag kings & queens who worked in the mafia’s Village nightclubs in the 1940s, who Lisa got to know personally. "Undercover Girl" follows the true story of Angela Calomiris, a lesbian photographer in the Village who was undercover in the Communist Party, secretly working as an informant for the FBI. Lisa Davis has written two books-UNDERCOVER GIRL and UNDER THE MINK (available wherever books are sold). Images can preserve things as they once were, and simultaneously, preserve how their creator once saw their subject. In this sense, every image embodies what Berger calls "a way of seeing": a record of how its creator saw the world. To do so is to create an image: "an image is a sight which has been recreated or reproduced." In so doing, we remove the image from the original circumstances under which it was seen. Likewise, we can attempt to capture what we see, reproducing or recreating it for others so that they can try to understand how we perceive the world. Our understanding of what we see doesn't generally align with the objective facts of what we're seeing: for example, we see the sun set every night, while we know that it isn't really "setting," but rather, the earth is simply revolving away from it. Thus begins Ways of Seeing, drawing our attention to the fraught relationship between vision, images, words, and meaning. Perception is an ongoing reality-we are always taking in the world, and only after the fact do we name it. When we inhabit the world, we are constantly seeing. Agent: Ammi-Joan Paquette, Erin Murphy Literary Agency. As the architect of her family’s freedom, Gerta memorably demonstrates that survival is possible even in the bleakest of circumstances. Nielsen ( Mark of the Thief) evokes the constant unease of life in a divided Berlin through Gerta’s sober narration, as she struggles with death, lying to survive, and underground obstacles like burst pipes, but the family never loses sight of the power of humility and forgiveness. Like Anne Frank before her, Gerta is small but mighty, a hardheaded heroine who dreams up big ideas and refuses to give up in the face of adversity and danger. Four years later, the Berlin Wall has become a harsh reality, but a secret message from her father, hidden in a silly dance, gives Gerta hope and a plan for escape: tunneling to freedom. Scholastic Press, 16.99 (336p) ISBN 978-2-8 Eight-year-old Gerta awakens one morning to a fence cleaving her family in twoher father and one. Eight-year-old Gerta awakens one morning to a fence cleaving her family in two-her father and one of her brothers were on a trip to West Berlin while the rest of the family became trapped in the East. We are limited to Lib’s perspective, which was excellent in how it was both enlightened and flawed. There was a shift, but it was not what I was expecting. While it was clear that the story was quite grounded in reality, I suspected that since Lib was immediately so skeptical a shift toward elements of the unknown might be on the way. She immediately assumes the whole thing is a con of some sort, and while it would surely reduce her pay, she foresees putting an end to it rather quickly. Having trained under Nightingale, Lib approaches the issue very sensibly from the get-go too. I went in knowing very little about it, so I wasn’t sure what approach it was going to take with the “miracle” of this fasting child. I liked how much this book had me guessing when I first started reading it. Lib’s job, working in shifts with a nun, is to continuously watch the girl for two weeks to see if she is indeed a miraculous child or merely conning her community and the people at large who flock to see her. She and her family claim that through God’s will she can live without eating, and has supposedly done so for three months already. She is brought to rural Ireland at the request of a committee of locals to act as sentinel to an 11-year-old girl named Anna O’Donnell. Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder is a historical novel following Lib Wright, an English nurse and trainee of the famous Florence Nightingale (the pioneer of modern nursing). First is Maren, a villager who loses her Father, her fiancee, and her brother to the storm. We view this specific time period through the eyes of two different women. These suspicions quickly morph into hysteria, building into the 1621 Vardo Witch Trials. In a situation all too familiar to our modern society, the indigenous people, The Sami, are treated with disdain and suspicion by the Christians, and their religious focus on nature is deemed dangerous. Three years later the kingdom sends a menacing figure to help spread the word of God, and push back against the pagan traditions practiced in secret. This novel begins on Christmas Eve 1617, in the northern islands of Norway as a violent storm descends upon a tiny fishing village, killing all 40 men, leaving only women and a few young boys to fend for themselves for the rest of the winter. It’s also based on a true story, which again, appeals to me, because I like the idea of learning something about the past while I enjoy a work of fiction that’s been crafted to entertain. I don’t read a lot of historical fiction, although I do like to dabble every once in awhile, and The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave caught my eye because it deals with witches, at least, the idea of them. |