![]() ![]() My first questions is about research: you do a lot of it! (I’ve seen the reading list !) How much of the research is to ensure accuracy, and how much is out of a love of history? When given the chance to chat with her, I knew I absolutely had to talk about the history and research that went into this book it was obvious they were foundational to its creation. Her website and Twitter feed are woven throughout with historical facts and ruminations about everything from Mughal portraiture to the latest Medieval-inspired meals she has cooked for her family. ![]() It’s a beautifully diverse story, deeply ingrained in actual history and the copious amounts of research Chakraborty poured into the book, which truly bring its characters, settings, and story to vibrant life.Ĭhakraborty is a self-described history buff, so it’s no surprise that much of the book is based on history. Chakraborty is the debut author of The City of Brass, a sweeping and epic fantasy from Harper Voyager that brings to life much of Middle Eastern history and imagines a world in which djinn are reality. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The trilogy comprises the novels Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars which were originally published in 1992, 19 respectively. Of these works, the epic Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson is arguably the best known and most acclaimed. Since the findings about the red planet provided by the Mariner and Viking spacecraft, depictions of human colonies in SF took on a more realistic and scientifically-grounded approach. Because of the planet’s relative closeness to Earth, the presence of its atmosphere, and the existence of water ice on the surface, colonisation by humans has long been a tantalisingly plausible prospect. In particular, the idea of colonising Mars has fascinated writers for generations. From the lurid alien world of the Victorian and pulp eras, to the more grounded portrayals that followed the visit by Mariner 4 in the 1960s, to the contemporary realistic approach, Mars has been a staple of SF. It has worked its way into mythology, religion, scientific inquiry, and of course into science fiction. Because it is visible with the naked eye, and because of its striking colour, Mars has been directly observed by countless people. The “red planet” has had a powerful presence in the human imagination for thousands of years. ![]() ![]() When I talk to my readers, I try to encourage people to use fewer products. When it comes to cleaning products, fewer is better ![]() The last part of the Pantry Clean is that you have to figure out where everything is going to go back, if you need new storage solutions or if a certain way of organizing things isn't working for you. You really have to think about what you're keeping and not keeping. RS: Like going inside your toaster oven, for instance?įinally, the Pantry Clean. ![]() ![]() Then there's what I call the Full-Monty Hard Clean, which is even deeper - more than just surface-cleaning the appliances. The idea behind that is to take everything off of your counters, clean the counters, clean your appliances, wipe anything down that lives on your countertops and then put everything back. First is what I call the Hard Clean, which is more than your standard cleaning - more than just wiping down a counter. Jolie Kerr: I have three subsets for deep cleaning. You give a very particular method for deep cleaning in fact, you break it into three subsets. Rebecca Sheir: Your book starts with tackling the kitchen in terms of making it clean. Photo: kirstyokeeffe / iStock /Thinkstock There are actually 3 ways to deep clean a kitchen Kerr shares seven tips for cleaning kitchens.ġ. And Other Things You Can't Ask Martha and the weekly advice column, Ask a Clean Person, which appears on Deadspin. She would - she is the author of My Boyfriend Barfed In My Handbag. ![]() ![]() ![]() Je monte aussi le Vlog assorti qui arrivera demain. ![]() ![]() La Belle au bois dormant dort encore et est un peu en retard, je termine les détails du renard sur la lanterne et de sa robe et c'était beaucoup plus long que prévu. Il est ajouté sur Etsy ce soir lundi à 21h. The credits of the film maintain that Charles Perrault’s version, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, was the model for Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. Le prince charmant, épée sur le coté, faucon sur l'épaule et montre à la main est tout prêt pour réveiller La belle Au Bois Dormant. The Vlog is also getting edited it should be all cooked and ready tomorrow evening as well :) Sorry for the delay but it's a pretty big piece ! and it implies a pretty endless amount of details to finish. Sleeping Beauty will join him tomorrow evening, I still have finishes to do on the fox and the dress of sleeping beauty so she will arrive tomorrow. The prince is on his knees to wake up Sleeping Beauty and is arriving on Etsy today at 9pm Paris time. ![]() At the same moment, the hour of disenchantment having come, the princess awoke, and bestowed upon him a look more tender than a first glance might seem to warrant. "Trembling in his admiration he drew near and went on his knees beside her. This chapter focuses on fairy tale story written by Charles Perrault in 1696 entitled Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. ![]() ![]() ![]() It concerns the fates of Bryon, the novel’s sixteen-year-old narrator and his boyhood best friend and de facto brother, Mark. That Was The, This is Now treads familiar ground (and in fact Ponyboy even makes an appearance in this book). Plus, it gave me an excuse to read it 40 odd years later after my first go-around. So, when it came time to choose the novel I wanted to begin my first ever Young Adult Literature class with, I chose Hinton’s second book – mostly because I knew that although many students would be familiar with The Outsiders, they might not know this book. Then I read Hinton’s second novel, That Was Then, This is Now and I remember that it had a profound impact on me. It’s considered the seminal young adult novel and remains a classroom favourite almost 50 years after its publication. Written when Hinton was just sixteen and published around the time she graduated from high school, The Outsiders tells the story of the Curtis brothers Darry, Soda, and Ponyboy. ![]() Back in the day, there probably wasn’t a teenager alive who hadn’t read The Outsiders, S.E. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Nineteenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes 3 copies The Eighteenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes 6 copies The Seventeenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes 9 copies The Sixteenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes 3 copies The Fifteenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes 11 copies The Fourteenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes 10 copies The Thirteenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes 12 copies The Twelfth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes 7 copies ![]() The Eleventh Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes 10 copies The Tenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes 19 copies, 1 review The Ninth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes 22 copies The Eighth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories by Robert Aickman 37 copies The Seventh Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories by Robert Aickman 29 copies, 1 review The Sixth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories by Robert Aickman 42 copies, 1 review The Fifth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories by Robert Aickman 34 copies The Fourth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories by Robert Aickman 52 copies The Third Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories by Robert Aickman 50 copies ![]() ![]() The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories by Robert Aickman 56 copies, 1 review The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories by Robert Aickman 60 copies ![]() ![]() ![]() Nick started on the "Chrischarger" art before being given Spotlights, then more Spotlights (and a Devastation fill-in) before being given the Maximum Dinobots mini-series. ![]() Twenty minutes later there was an email back from Chris. A friend of Nick's by the name of Dave Hendrick sent IDW supremo Chris Ryall Nick's samples. Nick finally got his break into Transformers when IDW Publishing acquired the Transformers license. He pitched his work to Dreamwave Productions but had no response, something he's glad about in hindsight he notes "at the time, I'd have worked for free but it turns out everyone else at Dreamwave was doing that anyway". Having always been a massive Transformers fan, Roche's produced artwork for fan fiction, including the Transmasters UK (TMUK) group, and UK convention publications, gaining a healthy fanbase within the UK, but remaining almost entirely unknown outside of the tight-knit UK fandom. Nick Roche is a native of County Wexford, but currently resides in Dublin, Ireland. Nick Roche (born Septem) is an Irish comic book artist and writer for IDW Publishing. ![]() Trousers lie shattered in the background. ![]() ![]() ![]() Our main characters, Kami and Jared, have each grown up – in separate countries- with imaginary friends, who never went away as they grew older. While not every idea in the book was original, everything was done in it’s own unique way. I’ve read a couple of favorable reviews on Unspoken lately, so I decided to give it a try. Who is responsible for the bloody deeds in the depths of the woods? What is her own mother hiding? And now that her imaginary friend has become a real boy, does she still love him? Does she hate him? Can she trust him? Kami is not one to shy away from the unknown-in fact, she’s determined to find answers for all the questions Sorry-in-the-Vale is suddenly posing. The mysterious twin sisters who abandoned their ancestral home a generation ago are back, along with their teenage sons, Jared and Ash, one of whom is eerily familiar to Kami. ![]() The Lynburn family has owned the spectacular and sinister manor that overlooks Sorry-in-the-Vale for centuries. Her life is in order, just the way she likes it, despite the voice in her head.īut all that changes when the Lynburns return. She has a best friend, runs the school newspaper, and is only occasionally caught talking to herself. Still, Kami hasn’t suffered too much from not fitting in. She wasn’t silent about her imaginary friend during her childhood, and is thus a bit of an outsider in her sleepy English town of Sorry-in-the-Vale. ![]() a boy she’s talked to in her head ever since she was born. Kami Glass loves someone she’s never met. ![]() ![]() ![]() All three books in this latest Collection include a preface from Francine Rivers and discussion questions suitable for personal and group use. ![]() As Atretes sets out to return home with his infant son, only one thing stands in his way: Rizpah, a Christian widow who has cared for the baby since his birth. ![]() The trilogy concludes with As Sure as the Dawn, which follows Atretes, the high chief of a Germanic tribe who fought as a gladiator and won his freedom. As he continues to search for meaning and faith, he is led by a whispering voice from the past that could set him free from the darkness of his soul. In An Echo in the Darkness, Marcus, a wealthy Roman aristocrat touched by Hadassahs sincere belief, begins to wonder if theres more to this life. Though torn by her love for a handsome aristocrat, Hadassah becomes a shining beacon of light in the darkness and depravity around her. A Voice in the Wind, the first book in the trilogy, introduces readers to Hadassah, a young Jewish girl captured and sold into slavery but still holding firm to her faith in God. The three books in the Mark of the Lion series are packaged in a giftable boxed set. Travel to first-century Rome in this classic series and discover what has inspired millions of readers worldwide. The complete 3-book historical Christian fiction series by the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love and The Masterpiece. ![]() ![]() He brought in a new team and stayed true to his vision, the payoff clearly visible in the beautiful dreamlike quality present throughout the entire film. ![]() The SFX team declared the task "impossible," so Coopola fired them. He showed this to his SFX team, showing them what he wanted his movie to look like, saying that he didn't want to use any modern day computer generated or aided effects. ![]() He doesn't usually follow storyboards for his pictures, but did so here, going so far as to animating them and editing in scenes from the 1946 French version of Beauty and the Beast. ![]() Francis Ford Coopola saw this film as a true period piece and felt that the special effects and editing techniques should match those of the era he was emulating. I read up on the process of making this movie, something I don't usually do, but I found certain elements of it too compelling not to investigate further. On the other hand, you have Keanu Reeves. You'd be hard pressed to find another film adaptation of the novel that follows its source material so closely. On the one hand you have some absolutely lush visuals, its positively drenched in atmosphere, and has stellar performances from Gary Oldman, Anthony Hopkins, and Tom Waits. Let's cut right to it, Bram Stoker's Dracula is a polarizing movie, and it's not hard to see why. ![]() We've all become God's madmen, all of us. ![]() |