![]() ![]() And of all five of his westerns, A Fistful of Dollars doesn't offer much story to work with - for all its excessive shootouts, epic scope and piercing Morricone score, the narrative itself couldn't be more economical. Obviously, the biggest challenge of shoehorning this or any Sergio Leone film into a cash-in novelization that dropped eight years after the movie's debut is the inescapable lack of Sergio Leone. subsidiary) and also isn't 50 years old (it didn't materialize until 1972). Short of actually going out and shooting some Italian character actors, what better way to mark this occasion than to talk a little about the movie's novelization, which also didn't debut in America (it was published by Tandem, Universal Publishing's U.K. ![]() But 50 years ago the Man With No Name fired up Italian screens for the first time and his violent pistol opera swiftly become the country's highest grossing film to date, thus assuring its unshaven anti-hero's massive crossover success in the states and iconic status in the annals of action cinema. Due to protracted legal issues over Sergio Leone's liberal appropriation of plots 'n shots from Yojimbo, the pioneering spaghetti western wouldn't be ushered into western theaters until early 1967. ![]() Technically, today's 50th anniversary of A Fistful of Dollars is not an American celebration. Sergio leone, 1964 novelization by frank chandler NOVELIZATION APPRECIATION A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS ![]()
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![]() He also co-created How Loathsome with Tristan Crane, and illustrated two volumes of the videogame tie-in comic Death Junior with screenwriter Gary Whitta. Over the next few years, Ted wrote four volumes of Courtney Crumrin, plus a spin off book about her uncle. Nominated for an Eisner Award for best limited series, Courtney Crumrin’s success paved the way for Polly and the Pirates, another children’s book, this time about a prim and proper girl kidnapped by pirates convinced she was the daughter of their long-lost queen. ![]() After a successful run, Ted decided to strike out on his own, writing and drawing Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things, a spooky children’s fantasy series about a grumpy little girl and her adventures with her Warlock uncle. ![]() ![]() Ted Naifeh first appeared in the independent comics scene in 1999 as the artist for Gloomcookie, the goth romance comic he co-created with Serena Valentino for SLG Publishing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Through the eyes of thirteen-year-old Wendy, we gain entrance to the world rarely shown by those who documented the events of that one terrible day: a family's slow and terrible realization that Wendy's mother has died, and their struggle to go on with their lives in the face of such a crushing loss.Ībsent for years, Wendy's real father shows up without warning. ![]() An hour later comes the news: A plane has crashed into the World Trade Center-her mother's office building. Wendy is heading to school, eager to make plans with her best friend, worried about how she looks, mad at her mother for not letting her visit her father in California, impatient with her little brother and with the almost too-loving concern of her jazz musician stepfather. T's a Tuesday morning in Brooklyn-a perfect September day. ![]() Named One of the Best Books of the Year by the American Library Association. ![]() ![]() ![]() Paul Simon’s ‘There Goes Rhymin’ Simon’: American Tunes.‘What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?’: Soundtrack Review. ![]()
![]() ![]() Thus, she makes the decision to move to Washington, D. It is not until she is almost raped by the drunken husband of Jefferson's granddaughter that Harriet begins to contemplate what life might be like at Monticello after Jefferson dies. Other less fortunate members of the slave community urge her to make plans to take her freedom when she turns 21, a freedom that Jefferson has promised to all of the children of his supposed mistress, Sally Hemings. A very light-skinned slave, she is favored in the Monticello household where she feels secure and protected. The plot is revealed through Harriet's diary, a device that occasionally seems forced. ![]() While the character of Harriet is largely fictional, her story is set firmly within an authentic historical context. Grade 7-12- This historical novel explores the life of Harriet Hemings, one of Jefferson's household slaves and possibly his daughter. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Panda's Thumb by Stephen Jay GouldĢ8. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneĢ4. Prinzip Selbstverwirklichung by Richard K. Der Aufruhr der Engel by Anatole FranceĢ0. ![]() The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffmanġ7. The Triumph of the Embryo by Lewis Wolpertġ6. The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkinsġ5. The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician by Andre Weilġ4. Der alte Koenig in seinem Exil by Arno Geigerġ3. Der grosse Schwindel by Frederico Di Trocchioġ2. Mutters Courage/Insomnia/Weissmann und Rotgesicht by George Taboriġ1. Moerder ohne Gesicht by Henning Mankellħ. Well, let's see if I can beat myself this yearĭead tree copies for my own entertainment/edification:Ħ. I had the impression I'd read more than this, and maybe I would have accomplished more, but "The Tale of Genji" took a whooping 4 months to complete - a very long and surprisingly dense book. Last year my record shows that I read 66 books, 6 of them solos for librivox. ![]() ![]() But as he and Maeve grow closer, they both sense that they haven’t been completely forthcoming about their pasts. ![]() He’s a handsome country boy and a true southern gentleman. Thirty-three-year-old Gage Tennyson-who brings his mischievous yellow Lab, Gus, to whatever restoration job he is working on with Macey’s husband, Ben-loves Maeve with all his heart. Maeve enjoys being around the sundowners, as she calls them, helping them navigate their senior years-brightening a time that can be, all too often, a lonely, sad stage of life. ![]() Her older sister Macey thinks Maeve is the only human being on earth who can make working in a nursing home sound like fun. Thirty-four-year-old Maeve Lindstrom loves her job at Willow Pond Senior Care. ![]() In this heartwarming sequel to Promises of the Heart in the Savannah Skies series, USA Today bestselling author Nan Rossiter returns to Tybee Island off the Georgia coast to focus on beloved characters Maeve and Gage as their relationship is tested by secrets they are keeping from each other. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We loved the start of this book, instantly both wanting to live there in Garnet's house and go swimming in water that was too warm! That never happens in England! We enjoyed the characters and the tale of the coral bracelet and the library incident, the story felt like an autobiography. Ten year old Garnet lives on a farm in the the 1930s. Translated into many languages throughout the world, Elizabeth Enright's stories are for both the young and the young at heart. She taught creative writing at Barnard College. Enright also wrote short stories for adults, and her work was published in The New Yorker, The Ladies Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, The Yale Review, Harper's, and The Saturday Evening Post. Among her other beloved children's titles are her books about the Melendy family, including The Saturdays, published in 1941. Throughout her life, she won many awards, including the 1939 John Newbery Medal for Thimble Summer and a 1958 Newbery Honor for Gone-Away Lake. After creating her first book in 1935, she developed a taste, and quickly demonstrated a talent, for writing. Illustration was Enright's original career choice and she studied art in Greenwich, Connecticut Paris, France and New York City. Her mother was a magazine illustrator, while her father was a political cartoonist. Elizabeth Enright (1907-1968) was born in Oak Park, Illinois, but spent most of her life in or near New York City. ![]() ![]() As Offill explained in a recent interview: “The white spaces in the novel are meant to be resting places for the reader, stop-offs before the wife wheels off in another direction. In this slim, beautiful work, the short paragraphs read as a series of carefully crafted vignettes, linked yet strong enough to stand alone. As the story moves on, and as events shape her outlook, the authorial distance changes – moving from “I” to “the wife” (during the difficult years) to “we” – a hopeful touch at the end. ![]() We see everything from the point of view of our narrator – a woman who makes notes about “POV” in the margins of her students’ essays ( “Think about authorial distance! Who is speaking here?”). The novel is framed around the elements that define one marriage: a couple, a child, adultery, betrayal, hurt and the beginning of forgiveness. It’s not a happy situation: “After you left for work, I would stare at the door as if it might open again.” ![]() ![]() Early in the story, our narrator (a writer and teacher) is at home with her colicky baby daughter. ![]() ![]() In A Woman Makes a Plan, Maye shares experiences from her life conveying hard-earned wisdom and frank, practical advice on career, family, health, adventure, and more. But she made her way through it all with an indomitable spirit and a no-nonsense attitude to become a global success and an unexpected icon in what she calls the prime of her life. But things were not always so easy or glamorous-she became a single mom at thirty-one years old, struggling through poverty to provide for her three children dealt with weight issues as a plus-size model and overcame ageism in the modeling industry and established a lifelong career as a respected dietitian, all the while starting over in eight different cities across three countries and two continents. Maye Musk at seventy-one is a fashionable, charming, jet-setting supermodel and public speaker with a fascinating and tight-knit circle of family and friends. ![]() ![]() The international supermodel shares personal stories and lessons learned from a life of "living dangerously-carefully" ![]() |