![]() While violence in cinema had been subject of censorship for many years, the lack of a regulatory system for video sales combined with the claim that any film could fall into children's hands led to new levels of concern. "Video nasty" was a term coined in the United Kingdom in the 1980s that originally applied to a number of films distributed on video cassette that were criticized for their violent content by various religious organizations, in the press and by commentators such as Mary Whitehouse. Here is the briefest of descriptions, courtesy of Wikipedia: I'll assume that most of you, my fair readers, are at least aware of the Video Nasty. ![]() ![]() In the UK, something happened in those early years that went on to define the tastes of a generation of horror fans, the advent of the Video Nasty. Thousands upon thousands of films that you'd never had a chance to see either in a theater or at home on television were suddenly at one's fingertips. Everyone was scooping up $700 VCRs like their lives depended on it. ![]() The early 1980's was a magical time for movie lovers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Parents need to know that Nicole Lesperance's The Nightmare Thief, the first of a two-volume series, revolves around the ability to control people's minds by affecting their dreams. A plan goes badly awry when the protagonists absorb nightmares through their skin and have to complete their tasks while battling hallucinations and telling themselves "this isn't real!"ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Maren doses her comatose sister with a sweet dream. Malo doses people all over town with nightmares. Or powder that lets someone else manipulate your mind. While there are no real-world drugs, the entire premise of The Nightmare Thief involves people with magical powers concocting sachets to be placed under the tongue at bedtime to induce a particular dream, good or bad - or a dream that just erases everything for a while. ![]() ![]() For God is triune, and it is as triune that He is so good and desirable. If the Trinity were something we could shave off of God, we would not be relieving Him of some irksome weight we would be shearing Him of precisely what is so delightful about Him. For it is only when you grasp what it means for God to be a Trinity that you really sense the beauty, the overflowing kindness, the heart-grabbing loveliness of God. To dive into the Trinity is a chance to taste and see that the Lord is good, to have your heart won and your self refreshed. Yes, the Trinity can be presented as a fusty and irrelevant dogma, but the truth is that God is love because God is a Trinity. All quite understandable, but Christians must see the reality behind what can be off-putting language. But “God is Trinity”? No, hardly the same effect: that just sounds cold and stodgy. ![]() They seem lively, lovely, and as warming as a crackling fire. Those three words could hardly be more bouncy. ![]() ![]() PART ONE “something secret is going on, so marvelous and dangerous that if you crawled through and saw, you would die, or be happy forever.” -Lisel Mueller, “Sometimes, When the Light” ![]() For information, please e-mail the Andrews McMeel Publishing Special Sales Department: įor Michael, who saw this book in a dream.ĬONTENTS PART ONE (Sydney) PART TWO (New York) EPILOGUE AC KN OW LE DG M E N TS ![]() ATTENTION: SCHOOLS AND BUSINESSES Andrews McMeel books are available at quantity discounts with bulk purchase for educational, business, or sales promotional use. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Andrews McMeel Publishing a division of Andrews McMeel Universal 1130 Walnut Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64106 ISBN: 978-1-5248-5852-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 201994401 Cover art and Verity bitmoji on page 254 by Cameron Stewart, all other bitmoji characters © This book is a work of fiction. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of reprints in the context of reviews. ![]() Also by Lang Leav Fiction Sad Girls Poetry Love & Misadventure Lullabies Memories The Universe of Us Sea of Strangers Love Looks Pretty on You ![]() ![]() My next book to hit the bookshelves (April 2008) is King Takes Queen, the novelization of the second season of Showtime Network's original series, The Tudors. ![]() My most recent novel for adults is Homeplace, a gritty ghost story set in rural Virginia. Currently, I'm working on a Phantom comic script for teens and adults, as well as a new novel for teens set in a haunted juvenile detention center. My most current titles for teens include the Young Founders series (Tor Books, 2007), four novels set in four critical times of American history - the settling of Jamestown, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and the American Industrial Revolution. I'm especially drawn to writing historical fiction and dark fantasies/horror for adults as well as young adults. ![]() I'm an author of adult, young adult, and middle grade novels and short fiction as well as biographies, chapters, and special features for history textbooks and science programs. Greetings from the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. ![]() ![]() ![]() Those of you who know me know I don’t really have favorite authors: I have favorite books, occasionally favorite series. UPDATE: Now with irritating author interview! See end of review. Adichie divides her time between the United States and Nigeria. Her most recent book, Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, was published in March 2017.Ī recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Ms. Her 2012 talk We Should All Be Feminists has a started a worldwide conversation about feminism, and was published as a book in 2014. Her 2009 TED Talk, The Danger of A Single Story, is now one of the most-viewed TED Talks of all time. Adichie has been invited to speak around the world. Adichie is also the author of the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. ![]() She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book and Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of The New York Times Top Ten Best Books of 2013. Henry Prize Stories, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The O. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. ![]() ![]() Food availability, income, and life span are up disease, child mortality, and violence are down all across the globe. ![]() But in fact, life is getting better-and at an accelerating rate. For two hundred years the pessimists have dominated public discourse, insisting that things will soon be getting much worse. Fans of the works of Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs, and Steel), Niall Ferguson (The Ascent of Money), and Thomas Friedman (The World Is Flat) will find much to ponder and enjoy in The Rational Optimist. Steven Pinker In a bold and provocative interpretation of economic history, Matt Ridley, the New York Times-bestselling author of Genome and The Red Queen, makes the case for an economics of hope, arguing that the benefits of commerce, technology, innovation, and change-what Ridley calls cultural evolution-will inevitably increase human prosperity. ![]() Book Synopsis A delightful and fascinating book filled with insight and wit, which will make you think twice and cheer up. About the Book Previously published in slightly different form in hardcover: HarperCollins, 2010. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon it becomes clear that the blackout is a symptom (or is it a cause?) of something larger-and nothing is safe. Shortly after they arrive, however, the family’s holiday is interrupted by a knock on the door: The house’s owners, a prosperous older Black couple-George Washington and his wife, Ruth-have shown up unannounced because New York City has been plunged into a blackout and their Park Avenue high-rise apartment didn’t feel safe. ![]() On a reassuringly sunny summer day, Amanda, an account director in advertising Clay, a college professor and their children, Archie, 15, and Rose, 13, make their way from Brooklyn to a luxury home (swimming pool! hot tub! marble countertops!) in a remote area of Long Island they’ve rented for a family vacation. ![]() An interrupted family vacation, unexpected visitors, a mysterious blackout-something is happening, and the world may never be the same. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not only will we discuss the core elements of each archetype but also how they apply to the modern man.Įach archetype also has a Shadow side. ![]() Jungian analysts Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette’s book: King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine is the basis for this article. However, what tends to happen when a man’s internal and external worlds begin to feel:Īre really imbalances in the four male archetypes: King Warrior Magician Lover.Īt first, it may be hard to hear that there’s something you need to rectify in your psyche to find contentment, meaning and passion in your life.Īfter integrating this information and taking action, you will likely feel that this is the starting point for transforming your life in a profound way. ![]() You will hear many men blaming their personality type for their struggles in life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Infidelity in Romance is tricky, and Sarah’s book Day of the Duchess is an example, and there really aren’t that many out there. If you’re interested, check out the book Floriography: An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers by Jessica Roux.īees that make honey from the nectar of lavender flowers is a different thing than people who make lavender-infused honey. For example, chrysanthemums and lavender ( and yes rosemary is for remembrance is from Hamlet) have very specific meanings. Floriography is the Victorian name for the language of flowers, which ascribes meanings to flowers and plants. Here’s a primer on women in business in the Victorian era. Give us some credit for not making a joke about Of Mice and Men, thank you. Millie is 16 at the beginning of the book, and because Jen forgot to talk about it, she wrote a thread about Sherry’s deep respect for teenage girls.Ī little bit about the history of tinned food and the rise of advertising in Victorian England.Īll about the dormouse and keeping them as pets, if you’re into that sort of thing. We talked about time slip quite a bit on the episode for A Matter of Class by Mary Balogh. Here’s an interview where Sherry Thomas talks about how reading romance influenced her as a writer. Jen was texting Sarah in the middle of the night about Ravishing the Heiress, because of the angst! ![]() There is a very funny tweet thread trying to drag the Shadow and Bone TV show, but the replies are terrific. ![]() This is the Eurographics Moon Puzzle that Jen is doing, and it’s too hard. ![]() |