5/11/2023 0 Comments Jack Davis by Jack Davis![]() Then one day there was a note under the door that said, ‘Please call Jack Nicholson at this number.’ I was, like, I can’t believe it! So I said, ‘Hello, Mr. He happened to know Jack Nicholson, and every single night Jack Nicholson had dinner with us. The “Thelma & Louise” star continued, “After ‘Tootsie,’ my modeling agent took me and a couple of other actor-slash-models to Hollywood to meet casting directors. I would love to, but it would ruin the sexual tension between us,'” Davis recalled Hoffman telling her about how to navigate a co-star’s lust. As a newly-minted actress, Davis channeled advice her co-star Hoffman had told her about becoming intimately involved with actors. ![]() Geena Davis steered clear of Jack Nicholson post-“ Tootsie” fame.ĭavis, who worked as a model before being cast in a bit part in “Tootsie” opposite Dustin Hoffman, revealed to The New Yorker that Nicholson propositioned her after a dinner with casting directors. ![]()
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5/11/2023 0 Comments Books by abby hanlon![]() What sparked the idea for Dory’s character?Īctually, the initial spark came at a dinner with my parents and two older siblings, after my husband asked my Dad if he could marry me. (Hint: the author didn’t have to look too far to find her!) Hanlon, who lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their eight-year-old twins, talked to PW about how Dory came to be. ![]() First-grader Dory makes an actual friend in a sequel, Dory and the Real True Friend, a July release from Dial. The illustrated chapter book made an immediate splash, receiving four starred reviews – including one from PW – and landing on five “best books of the year” lists. Nuggy, a gnomish man who announces he is her fairy godmother and turns her into a puppy. In last fall’s Dory Fantasmagory, Abby Hanlon introduced a six-year-old who calls on her vivid imagination when her older brother and sister refuse to play with her because she’s a “baby.” For companionship, Dory conjures up Mary, a monster friend, and Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mindfulness enhances awareness of the present moment, strengthens the ability to self-regulate and increases self-compassion, each of which are important skills for trauma recovery. On the one hand, mindfulness can be an extremely valuable resource for people experiencing traumatic stress. The relationship between mindfulness and traumatic stress, however, is not quite so straightforward. ![]() ![]() Given this, the assumption that anyone experiencing traumatic stress would automatically benefit from practising mindfulness is understandable. While trauma creates stress, mindfulness has been shown to reduce it.” In the words of David Treleaven, an educator and psychotherapist whose work focuses on the intersection of trauma and mindfulness “placed beside one another, mindfulness and trauma can seem like natural, even inevitable, allies. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Zenith the androma saga![]() As the Marauder hurtles toward the unknown, and Mirabel hangs in the balance, the only certainty is that in a galaxy run on lies and illusion, no one can be trusted. The pieces of her deadly plan are about to fall into place, unleashing a plot that will tear Mirabel in two.Īndi and her crew embark on a dangerous, soul-testing journey that could restore order to their ship or just as easily start a war that will devour worlds. ![]() Meanwhile, across the galaxy, a ruthless ruler waits in the shadows of the planet Xen Ptera, biding her time to exact revenge for the destruction of her people. To those aboard her glass starship, Marauder, however, she’s just Andi, their friend and fearless leader.īut when a routine mission goes awry, the Marauder’s all-girl crew is tested as they find themselves in a treacherous situation and at the mercy of a sadistic bounty hunter from Andi’s past. Most know Androma Racella as the Bloody Baroness, a powerful mercenary whose reign of terror stretches across the Mirabel Galaxy. ![]() Authors: Lindsay Cummings & Sasha Alsberg ![]() ![]() They are destined to expose every part of themselves, so the rest of us can know what it means to be human. They are the ones who live their lives not just as people but as examples of people. Then there are those who cannot put them on. And even if they wanted to, couldn't take them off. Most people, she writes, live their entire lives with their clothes on. Here's a sample of Heti's philosophy from this book. Sheila Heti seems to have done them one better in this book, making an ugly confessional novel both funny and pathetic, heroic and unassuming at the same time. Meanwhile, her painter friends up in Toronto are taking part in an ugly painting contest, trying to make the ugliest canvas the most talented of them can produce. She's trying to write a play and not doing all that well with it. ![]() The narrator, named after the author, creates an intensely personal and ribald and down and dirty investigation of her life as a writer, as a wife and then as a young divorced woman, as a lover and as a devoted, if sometimes disturbing, friend. A novel from life, as Sheila Heti calls it. ![]() ![]() It's called "How Should a Person Be?" Here's Alan Cheuse with our review.ĪLAN CHEUSE, BYLINE: Here's the most interesting, if ungainly, novel I've read recently. The young Toronto-based writer Sheila Heti has a new novel out. From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Hidden truths by jae![]() ![]() Just as Luke sets out on a dangerous trip to Fort Boise, a newcomer arrives on the ranch - Rika Aaldenberg, who traveled to Oregon as a mail-order bride, hiding that she's not the woman in the letters. But even with their loving foundation, a few fears and insecurities have Amy and Nattie hiding their own secrets. They have raised their daughters to become honest and hard-working young women. No one but her wife, Nora, knows she is not the man she appears to be. ![]() 2 Hidden Truths Jae Hidden Truths Jae Lesbian Fiction: Historical Fiction - Sequel to Backwards to Oregon - Commuter Novel - 19 hours reading - "Luke" Hamilton has been living as a husband and father for the past seventeen years. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Rebel by marie lu![]() ![]() ![]() To me, it’s a multicolored wonderlandas alien a place as the Colonies of America. How have they changed? How do their different lifestyles clash with each other? Can they find their way back to each other? These were all questions I knew I had but didn’t know that I wanted to explore until recently. Read Rebel online free by Marie Lu - Novel80 Rebel To people who have lived here all their lives, this is a completely normal neighborhood perched high in the sky. It’s been 10 years since the end of Champion. And I also wanted to explore my own thoughts for how they get back together, and how they find each other again, and whether they can reconnect. I wanted to see how they had changed and grown. ![]() “Good luck, don’t drink too much!” That was very much how I felt at the end of Champion. Not that I have a college-aged kid, but it felt like when you send your kids off to college. I didn’t actually know if they were going to reconnect again. That was how I left them in my head as well. They had met each other again, but I left it to the reader, what happened to them in the future. It was the same - a little intimidating! I left them in an open spot at the end of Champion. What was it like returning to those characters’ head-spaces, especially given the reader interest in their dynamic? ![]() ![]() Rehana Haque is an East Pakistani stuck on the other side of India in the wake of Mujib-ur-Rahman’s declaration of Bangladeshi independence from West Pakistan. Anam’s prose reads almost like poetry, melding together one of the most excruciating times in South-East Asian history and a mother’s blind love for her children. Readers don’t have to be even slightly inclined towards politics or history to get through this one. With its striking, bleeding characters and an increasingly engaging plot A Golden Age blends fact and fiction to a point of utter perfection. Tahmima Anam’s debut novel is a stunning start to t he trilogy set against the backdrop of the Bangladesh Liberation War and its aftermath which takes you on a harrowing yet breathtaking journey of a family torn apart by the hunger of war. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Nora roberts midnight bayou book![]() ![]() ![]() Only the companionship of alluring Angelina Simone can distract him from the mysterious happenings in the house, but Angelina too has her own surprising connection to Manet Hall-a connection that will help Declan uncover a secret that's been buried for a hundred years. ![]() Local legend has it that the house is haunted, and with every passing day Declan's belief in the ghostly presence grows. Nora met her second husband, Bruce Wilder. He is seeing visions of days from a century past, and experiencing sensations of terror and nearly unbearable grief-sensations not his own, but those of a stranger. Several manuscripts and rejections later, her first book, Irish Thoroughbred, was published by Silhouette in 1981. But the days spent in total isolation in the empty house take a toll. So when the opportunity to buy the house comes up, Declan jumps at the chance to live out a dream.ĭetermined to restore Manet Hall to its former splendor, Declan begins the daunting renovation room by room, relying on his own labor and skills. All he knew was that ever since he first saw Manet Hall, he'd been enchanted-and obsessed-with it. #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents a novel set deep in the bayou of Louisiana-where the only witness to a long-ago tragedy is a once-grand house…ĭeclan Fitzgerald had always been the family maverick, but even he couldn't understand his impulse to buy a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans. Please see our guide to book conditions for more details. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments The anubis gates movie![]() ![]() ![]() I would not have picked this book myself because I don’t read much horror, but I really enjoyed it. ![]() I love book clubs because of selections like this. Gibson’s dark vision of the future feels real. It’s striking how a book from 1986 still sets the tone for cyberpunk. This is a funny, honest, and touching collection of essays about fatherhood, exploring “the persistent and disturbing gap between what I was meant to feel what I actually felt.” Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood, Michael Lewis ![]() The Anubis Gates is pretty wild: Egyptian mythology, poets, time travel, magic, vicious Georgian beggar gangs…yet somehow it works and is extremely entertaining. It was good! So I decided to read another book by him. I read Tim Powers’s book On Stranger Tides last year because I heard it was good and I was curious how a pirate fantasy novel from the 80s turned into a movie franchise based on an amusement park ride. One simple thing from the book I practice is greeting my daughter with “I’m happy to see you” rather than “what did you do today” or something like that. I don’t always live up to the authors’ suggestions, but I try. This book has been inspiring for my approach to parenting. How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and How to Listen So Kids Will Talk, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish This is…a bit delayed, but here are my favorite books that I read in 2018 (from the distant remove of December 2019, anyway). ![]() |