![]() ![]() Renoir shared these urges and took on this most challenging project at a time of personal crises in art and love, all the while facing issues of loyalty and the diverging styles that were tearing apart the Impressionist group. Parisians were bursting with a desire for pleasure and a yearning to create something extraordinary out of life. A wealthy painter, an art collector, an Italian journalist, a war hero, a celebrated actress, and Renoir's future wife, among others, share this moment of la vie moderne, a time when social constraints were loosening and Paris was healing after the Franco-Prussian War. Instantly recognizable, Auguste Renoir's masterpiece depicts a gathering of his real friends enjoying a summer Sunday on a café terrace along the Seine near Paris. Bestselling author Susan Vreeland returns with a vivid exploration of one of the most beloved Renoir paintings in the world ![]()
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![]() ![]() So I suppose it makes sense that Braga was scared of how Barker’s deeply literary surrealism would work on Hulu. ![]() There’s something about Barker that makes him incredibly hard to translate to other mediums-films like “Rawhead Rex” and “Lord of Illusions,” both based on Barker stories from Books of Blood bear this out even further. If they were part of a larger series that returned to Barker stories, they might fit in better, but here they feel like they have almost no connection to the anthology collection of Books of Blood, bearing little resemblance to the dark, twisted visions of Barker’s writing. The other two are original, reportedly conceived by Braga and Barker. ![]() In one of this production's strangest decisions, only one of these three stories is actually based on a Barker composition, and even that one (the actual story called “The Book of Blood” that opens the anthology) has been liberally altered. Would I judge this differently if it were three episodes sent to press for a new Hulu series instead of a complete feature? Maybe, but I’d still be nervous about where it was going next. If creator Brannon Braga had been allowed to expand this into the series it should have been, it might have worked, but it feels like a half-hearted project in every way in this form. Originally conceived as an anthology series, "Books of Blood" has now been reduced to an anthology film, three stories with loose connections in terms of plot but all about people who learn that they shouldn’t mess with the other side. ![]() ![]() ![]() She's prominently featured throughout the film, and it's this performance that's finally, fully won me over into the ranks of McKenzie-Marple fans. Of the three episodes shown so far in this series, this one is by far the best showcase for Julia McKenzie's take on the role of Miss Marple. When murder is the real-life plot twist during an amateur theater rehearsal on the estate, Miss Marple has to separate theatrical tricks from reality in an attempt to save Carrie Louise from the dire final act that awaits her. Miss Marple arrives to make some gentle inquiries and finds chilling danger lurking surprisingly close to home. Carrie Louise, a quirky philanthropist with a string of ex-husbands, runs a correctional facility for young men on her estate. Glamorous Ruth Van Rydock (Joan Collins) is convinced her sister Carrie Louise is in danger, and confesses her suspicion to Miss Marple over tea. Here's the story summary from the PBS website: ![]() ![]() ![]() :P They Do It With Mirrors was the third entry in this series, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Miss Marple and PBS's run of six Agatha Christie adaptations concluded this Sunday on Masterpiece Mystery, and due to a variety of reasons I am once again, way behind in blogging. ![]() ![]() I like to get wrapped up in his music and the music of some of his contemporaries, influences and the musicians that came after him and try to wonder what their motivations were, why they did that one thing at that one point in the song, and where their heads go to when they’re playing. But the more you listen to an artist like Rollins, the more you start to question things. Let Ambient 1: Music for Airports or a Stars of the Lid album wash over you. ![]() Not to get all Jewish guy talking about jazz, but listening to music doesn’t always have to be a passive experience. Books on jazz figures, like the art form the musicians being written about practice, are worth taking your time with. I just started reading Aidan Levy’s Saxophone Colossus The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins and I assume it’s one of those books I’ll take a bit of time with, not because of the number of pages, but because I really want to savor it. ![]() The thing is a damn doorstopper of a book that clocks in at under 800 pages, including a number of citations so healthy that t he publisher has a link on the book’s website to a Dropbox where you can go look at them for yourself. There’s a new-ish biography on Sonny Rollins that has sort of flown under the radar. ![]() ![]() ![]() The ones we go to whenever our parents are unreachable. We’ve always considered these guys our extended family. Boris, another guard in the close circle, would’ve joined us, too, but he’s apparently not in the house. We all sit for dinner, Kolya, Yan, and Ogla included. ![]() Moments of normalcy, of warmth, and peace.Įven if we’ll never be the conventional type. It’s moments like these that make me glad to be home. I run into his arms, and while they’re not as soothing as Mom’s, they’re safe, like a fortress. I’m lucky enough to be his daughter, so I’m never the subject of his wrath, but I know that people tremble at the prospect of being in that position.Īfter he hugs Jeremy in greeting, he regards me with a soft smile. Papa has an imposing, intimidating presence that calls for everyone’s attention whenever he walks into a room. “Let me go call them.” Jeremy has barely finished his sentence when Papa strolls into the kitchen with Kolya-his second-in-command-in tow. “In his office with Kolya.” Mom plants me on a seat and places my favorite salad in front of me. “Where’s Papa?” I ask Mom while I help Ogla fill plates that look no different than a feast for an army. ![]() ![]() ![]() Two brothers have been raised the same but are quite different. Review: A sharp contrast to her other books, The Droughlanders by Carrie Mac is a slowly developing story filled with secrets, two journeys and complex family relationships. As the brothers’ paths cross after some time has passed, both are irrevocably changed by their experiences. Though he approaches Seth to come with him, Seth threatens him and refuses because he is headed on his own path to becoming a Keyland guard. When she dies and Eli knows his own father is responsible, he finds his way into the Droughtlands to seek out his mother’s family and get some answers. ![]() After an incident involving the death of a Droughtlander circus performer, Eli starts asking questions and learns his mother Lisette is actually a former Droughtlander working to overthrow the Keylanders in a rebellion. Droughtlanders are those who live outside the walls of the Keylands, plagued by many sicknesses and long-term drought. Summary: Twins Eli and Seth Maddox are raised in the Keylands, a wealthy post-apocalyptic community with the power to control the weather and a lot of secrets. ![]() ![]() A history professor and director of the honors program at the College of New Rochelle in New York, she’s an expert on the intersection of race, sport, and society and a frequent contributor to Salon, Slate, and CNN, and she won an Emmy Award for her work as an NBC research supervisor during the 2012 Olympics. One Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game that Brought a Divided Town Together is Bass’ fourth book. “It’s an American story, and it’s one that I hope teaches us what we can learn and who we should be,” Bass said to a Bates audience on Wednesday, another stop on the Lewiston leg of her book tour that’s attracting widespread media attention, including a visit to Lewiston by the NBC Today Show. ![]() At a meet-and-greet at the Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services office, Amy Bass ’92 talks with Shobow Saban, one of the key figures in her new book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even today, long after science has ended such speculation, conspiracy theorists accuse NASA of covering up or ignoring evidence of a past civilization on the red planet. Whether through comics, books, television, or movies, a child’s first exposure to science fiction often involved a journey to or a visitor from Mars. Since the publication in 1895 of Percival Lowell’s Mars, wherein the astronomer suggested that the so-called ‘canals’ on that planet were proof that an ancient race had once inhabited the barren world, tales of Martians have abounded. ![]() This may be the adventure Gilbert always wished for. If only he can survive. But they sprint to Aoléon’s saucer and escape only to be pursued by the U.S. ![]() Farmer Johnson also investigates the strange light, and thinking that Gilbert and Aoléon are vandals, he chases them. ![]() A mysterious light sweeps over the night sky and awakens Farmer Johnson and Gilbert, the boy next door.Ĭurious, Gilbert ventures out to discover the source of the light and stumbles into a beautiful Martian girl sitting in a crop circle. Good Storyline and Excellent Artwork Lift a Text in Need of an EditorĪoléon The Martian Girl Part One: First ContactĬrop circles magically appear in Farmer Johnson’s field. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With his late wife, Barbara, Eric Carle cofounded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts in 2002. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, now considered a modern classic, has sold nearly fifty million copies and has been translated into sixty-five languages. ![]() He studied at the prestigious art school, the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, in Stuttgart, before returning to the United States, where he worked as a graphic designer for the New York Times and later as art director for an advertising agency. Born in Syracuse, New York, Eric Carle moved to Germany with his parents when he was six years old. Eric Carle is an internationally bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator of more than seventy books for very young children, including The Tiny Seed, Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me, and his most well-known title, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Without their crucial contributions to the war effort, the United States could not have won the war. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated units and performing unheralded but vital support jobs, only to be denied housing and educational opportunities on their return home. Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Clint Smith, #1 New York Times bestselling author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America Half American belongs firmly within the canon of indispensable World War II books.” ![]() Delmont’s book is filled with compelling narratives that outline with nuance, rigor, and complexity how Black Americans fought for this country abroad while simultaneously fighting for their rights here in the United States. The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont
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