![]() ![]() Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn's story near its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique's own in tragic and irreversible ways. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the '80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Summoned to Evelyn's luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Monique is not exactly on top of the world. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. From the author of Daisy Jones & The Six in which a legendary film actress reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the risks she took, the loves she lost, and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine.Īging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Our love for each other is reflected in Abbi and Ilana, Issa and Molly, #squadgoals, the acclaim of Girls Trip and Big Little Lies, and Galentine’s Day. In Text Me When You Get Home, journalist Kayleen Schaefer interviews more than one hundred women about their BFFs, soulmates, girl gangs, and queens while tracing this cultural shift through the lens of pop culture. But we are rejecting those stereotypes and reclaiming the power of female friendship. It's high time that we start seeing it that way."-NPR, 2018's Great ReadsĪ personal and sociological examination-and ultimately a celebration-of the evolution of female friendship in pop culture and modern societyįor too long, women have been told that we are terrible at being friends, that we can’t help being cruel or competitive, or that we inevitably abandon each other for romantic partners. If you're lucky, friends will be the protagonists in these multiple love stories. " Text Me has the thrills and laughs of a romantic comedy, but with an inverted message: 'There just isn't only one love story in our lives,' Schaefer writes. ![]() ![]() ![]() “What were you thinking, coming out to the boonies at this hour?” he asked himself. Clay cursed and slammed his fists on the steering wheel, sending a sharp pain up his elbows. Outside his Chevy Malibu, white swirls of snow whisked across open farm fields, making visibility impossible. That’s what Clay Fisher got for being an idiot. Despite a lifetime of disappointing holidays, Clay hopes that this soldier is finally coming home for Christmas. The weight of past wounds and the scars of war might make their reunion awkward, but Clay is willing to take the risk to win back his lost love. All hope of seeing Daniel is lost–until a mysterious old man named Nick offers Clay a ride. But a blizzard strikes and Clay wrecks his car. ![]() Impulsively, he sets out for Daniel’s hometown of Gilead, Ohio–where Daniel is now the mayor–to surprise him with a visit. Twenty-five years later, they’ve reconnected on Facebook, and Clay finds out Daniel will be alone on Christmas Eve. After Clay’s convoy was ambushed, PTSD changed him, and their relationship ended in a horrible fight on Christmas Eve. Clay and Daniel fell in love as enlisted men during Desert Shield, but Don’t Ask Don’t Tell meant they had to keep it secret. ![]() ![]() ![]() He published more than four hundred short stories, sketches and vignettes by the age of ![]() He assumed financial responsibility for the family and whileĪttending classes at Moscow State University, he wrote and sold a large number of humorous stories and vignettes ofĬontemporary Russian life. Medical school and he joined his family in Moscow. Out in several of Chekhov's stories including Vanka, The Steppe, and Sleepy. Chekhov is considered anĮxemplar author in the genre of Realism. He sent any money he could spare money to his family in Moscow. Paid for his tuition by catching and selling goldfinches and dispensing private tutoring lessons, and selling short Chekhov stayed behind for three more years to finish school. The family and fled to Moscow to escape creditors. Chekhov, like Dickens, was no stranger to financial hardship and in 1875 his father took Mercurial temperament who "thrashed" his children and was likely emotionally abusive to his wife. His father was a grocer, painter and religious fanatic with a Pen Name: Anton Chekhov Born: JanuDied: July 15, 1904Īnton Pavlovich Chekhov (Jul 15, 1904) was a Russian physician and supreme short story writer and ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The volume is the result of two decades of his research and teaching, gathering together his essays and chapters on various aspects of Bergson's thought, with one new chapter written especially for this volume. By offering a lively reading of Bergson's texts and providing scholarly explorations of connections, influences, comparisons, and potential further contributions, Keith Ansell-Pearson fulfills both of these goals. In his introduction to the remarkable new Quadrige/PUF collection of critical editions of Henri Bergson's works in French, Frédéric Worms rightly suggests that, like all philosophical classics, Bergson's oeuvre deserves to be both read with fresh eyes, as if it has just appeared, and studied with the help of scholarly tools equal to its importance and influence. ![]() ![]() ![]() This queering of Chilean history breaks down the myth of Chile's supposed strong man.įrom the very beginning, we meet La Loca del Frente, a key character that aids the rebel group in their attempt to plan and carry out their attack on Pinochet and his government. Lemebel's retelling of the attempt on Pinochet positions the former dictator in a precarious position in which he is not as in control as he would have had everyone believe. Lemebel shows us a new perspective in which despite Pinochet's attempts to keep queer figures out of his military and out of Chile, they surround him at every corner and influence his decisions whether he realizes it or not. ![]() I examine Pedro Lemebel's Tengo miedo torero, in which the author creates a queered version of the attempt on Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. My essay examines how new historical novels offer a new look at history from perspectives possibly not included in official versions of history. ![]() ![]() ![]() She runs away to her mother Sadie, who sets up a job cleaning for another brothel in the Harlem section of New York. When she returns to her aunt's house, she is home alone and is raped by a man who followed her home from the brothel. ![]() In a flashback to 1928, Billie is working as a housekeeper in a brothel in Baltimore. Billie Holiday, is arrested on a drug charge. In 1936 New York City, Eleanora Fagan, a.k.a. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards in 1973, including Best Actress in a Leading Role for Diana Ross. Diana Ross, in her feature film debut, portrayed Holiday, alongside a cast including Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, James T. It was produced by Motown Productions for Paramount Pictures. ![]() Furie about jazz singer Billie Holiday, loosely based on her 1956 autobiography which, in turn, took its title from Holiday's song. Lady Sings the Blues is a 1972 American biographical drama film directed by Sidney J. ![]() ![]() His twelve year old daughter Alanna has never seen him, and he’s starting to think that coming to Bethlehem to meet her could be the second biggest mistake of his life. Ben Foster has been called many things except father. It’ll take a miracle to make a family of them all…īut as one enigmatic young woman knows, Bethlehem has no small supply of miracles. But haunted by the shattered life he left behind, J.D. Her buttoned down suit and tough as nails professionalism can’t hide the vulnerable woman inside. Then he finds himself looking forward to Kelsey’s home visits too much. The kids barely talk to him and they won’t eat his home cooked meals. Now he has to convince twelve year old Caleb, fierce guardian of his younger brothers and sister and then pass muster with Kelsey Malone, Bethlehem’s newly arrived social worker. But a persuasive and mysterious young woman insists he’s exactly what the children need. ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s just not sure that one man is parent enough for four young children not if he is that one man. Grayson agrees that the Brown kids, abandoned by their parents, deserve a loving home. ![]() ![]() Some terrific descriptiveness of rolling countryside, (clearly the author knows that part of the world), coupled with some memorable and likable characters. It's one heck of a roller coaster that doesn't let up. We have assassinations, a scary ruthless hitman, people keeping secrets and dodgy police officers. What follows is an action filled paced thriller that leaves London and heads to Jack's hometown, Turners Fold, where events rapidly take on unexpected twists all over the place. ![]() Whilst some of it is that, it becomes a whole lot more. Initially, I thought it was going to be a straightforward who is the shooter and that's it. Enter stage left David Watts, a top English footballer at the top of his game and career who begins to receive spooky phone calls from the shooter telling him to confess to crimes he supposedly got away with in the past. ![]() The story begins with premiership footballers being shot for what seems like no apparent reason. And we have Laura McGanity a DC who knows Jack well, sometimes helping each other out, passing information on etc. ![]() What starts off as what I thought would be a good whodunnit turned into an action packed thriller with whodunnit elements and a good revelation at the end, which I should have seen, and didn't!!! Doh!īasically we have Jack Garrett, a freelance crime reporter hailing from rural Lancashire but now living in London. This is the first of Neil White's that I have read and I will be reading more. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What had once been rich farmland was left as little more than desert. ![]() As the drought continued year-after-year, a large percentage of the population was forced to migrate away from the effected States. The soil blew upwards and eastwards, forming great clouds that traveled across the continent, sometimes blanketing Chicago, New York and Washington. However, after the war ended, a time of drought hit the Western part of the continent and the soil dried out to become dust. Sod was turned upside down and wheat grew as never before. The First World War had made many farmers wealthy as the price of wheat soared, and as it did so, millions of acres of new sod was broken throughout the Plains. Sponsor Show Your Support Become a Patron ![]() |