![]() ![]() It is often considered to be one of the worst films ever made. Despite receiving mostly negative reviews from critics, the film's perceived bizarre script and highly charged acting, particularly Dunaway's, have brought a cult following to the film as an " unintentional comedy". ![]() The film was a box office disappointment, grossing just over $19 million in North America from a $10 million budget. The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures, the only one of the Big Eight film studios for which Crawford had never appeared in a feature film. The executive producers were Christina's husband, David Koontz, and Terry O'Neill, Dunaway's then-boyfriend and soon-to-be husband. Starring Faye Dunaway, Mara Hobel, and Diana Scarwid, the film was adapted for the screen by Robert Getchell, Tracy Hotchner, Frank Perry, and Frank Yablans from Christina's 1978 autobiography of the same name. The film depicts Christina Crawford's adoptive mother, actress Joan Crawford, as an abusive, controlling and manipulative mother. Mommie Dearest is a 1981 American biographical psychological drama film directed by Frank Perry. ![]()
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![]() Thorn is everything Victoria isn't - confident, impossibly kind, and so handsome he leaves her speechless. Her magic may be the most powerful on the team, but she's the wrong image the boss wants to send their new client, Laertes Thorn, a renowned goldminer determined to reach an untouched gold supply deep in the jungle. When the boss denies Victoria the promotion that was promised to her in favour of Dean, her backstabbing ex, Victoria is determined to prove herself. ![]() Kidnapped at the age of six and manipulated by the Exotic Lands Touring Company, she's worked as a tour guide ever since with a team of fellow Wildbloods who take turns using their magic to protect travellers in a jungle teeming with all the ghostly monsters of Jamaican legend. ![]() ![]() A thrilling Jamaican inspired fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blackwood!Ī Most Anticipated Book of 2023 By Readers on Goodreads!Ī thrilling Jamaican inspired fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Lauren BlackwoodĮighteen-year-old Victoria is a Wildblood. ![]() ![]() ![]() Weaving the details of her own experiences as a caregiver through stories of her patients, their families, and their distinctive lives, Dr. In With the End in Mind, she shares beautifully crafted stories from a lifetime of caring for the dying, and makes a compelling case for the therapeutic power of approaching death not with trepidation, but with openness, clarity, and understanding. Kathryn Mannix has studied and practiced palliative care for thirty years. ![]() Once a familiar, peaceful, and gentle - if sorrowful - transition, death has come to be something from which we shield our eyes, as we prefer to fight desperately against it rather than accept its inevitability.ĭr. But with changes in the way we understand medicine come changes in the way we understand death. And for the most part, that is good news. ![]() Modern medical technology is allowing us to live longer and fuller lives than ever before. For readers of Atul Gawande and Paul Kalanithi, a palliative care doctor’s breathtaking stories from 30 years spent caring for the dying. ![]() ![]() ![]() The werewolves become defenders of the weak and the life force is expressed through family and lifelong love and the dignified acceptance of the inevitability of death. The Fey embody the impersonal malevolence that chews up the people we love. ‘Dead Heat’ is a modern fairytale and, like the old fairytales, it takes real hopes and fears and dresses them up to be things that we can handle from a distance. ![]() In some ways, the impact of the book on my mood is similar to the impact that Anna has as an Omega on the werewolves around here: she quiets their angry hunger and brings them peace. ![]() While I read this, I was able to let go of the anxiety and the anger and give myself up to a different version of the world, one where the monsters are more compassionate than the people we elect into power. So it was a relief to feel myself slipping into a book and just relaxing. As the pandemic grinds on, Brexit starts to bite and the venal incompetence and fundamental inhumanity of our leadership starts to be accepted as normal as part of that it-could-be-worse coping mechanism the English use as an alternative to political struggle, I’ve been losing the struggle for serenity (Is that an oxymoron or a statement that I’m not doing it right?). ![]() ![]() ![]() The second chapter-especially when you include all the exercises at the end of the chapter-is an essential reference for one-dimensional quantum mechanics, a topic that's growing in relevance with increasing experimental capacity to engineer effectively one-dimensional systems such as solid state quantum wires or tight optical waveguides for ultracold atoms. ![]() I've taught the second edition several times and found that the impedance matching between the content and previous student knowledge allows clear signal transmission. As well as discussing quantum physics, we cover the practical aspects of cloud-based Quantum Computers and what can be achieved today through circuit design. ![]() I would argue that if you want to teach a waves-first course, there is no better starting place than the first two chapters of the book, lightly revised and improved from the previous edition. The Griffiths and Schroeter (G&S) text falls squarely in the waves-first camp. Full Book Name:Introduction to Quantum Mechanics Author Name:David J. He taught at Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, and Trinity College. Roughly speaking, there are two main approaches to teaching undergraduate quantum mechanics: waves-first or spins-first (other approaches include historical (an especially good fit for sophomore-level modern physics classes) and formalism-first (perhaps better for graduate quantum courses)). ![]() ![]() ![]() In Anathem, a stunning sprawl of a novel set on the planet Arbre, clever new solutions to the problem spring up in every paragraph, on every page - without which not a single line of dialogue, a single character study, would convince the reader one iota. From the hip nearish future of Snow Crash to the nanotech-encrusted The Diamond Age, and even in such historical novels as Cryptonomicon and the three volumes of the Baroque Cycle, Stephenson's challenge has been making the alien real enough so that he can then explore the implications of various philosophical or technological issues, providing entertainment to the reader at the same time as he engages in a complex dialog about our present and our future. ANATHEM is a serious piece of science fiction - a vast, dense novel full of philosophy, maths and quantum physics that develops a novel ontological theory from. In his previous novels, Neal Stephenson has faced this test while attempting to convey an amazingly deep array of ideas and situations. Any writer who wants to create a sense of verisimilitude about an imaginary setting must wrestle with how to convey both the similarities and differences between the created milieu and the real world. ![]() A multi-cast recording, this program also features a cameo by the author and original music inspired by the story.The Barnes & Noble Review Anathem.an aut by which an incorrigible fraa or suur is ejected from the math and his or her work sequestered (hence the Fluccish word Anathema meaning intolerable statements or ideas). ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() So my question is, can anyone point me toward Lorraine Heath books more like She Tempts the Duke and Lord of Temptation and less like Lord of Wicked Intentions? Does she have any books interconnected to the Lost Lords of Pembrook series? For example, does the jilted groom in Lord of Temptation have a book? Or the artist named Leo that’s mentioned in She Tempts the Duke? ![]() I wasn’t going to read any other Lorraine Heath books but the little tidbits about the older brothers in Lord of Wicked Intentions peaked my curiosity and I ended up reading the previous two books in the series over a weekend and… I really liked them!! I liked all the characters so much more, the plots were more interesting and action-y, and I didn’t notice anything particularly objectionable in the writing. I thought the plot was boring and repetitive and didn’t think it was especially well-written. ![]() I started with the Lord of Wicked Intentions because I really like mistress/courtesan heroines, but I really disliked it! I didn’t like either main character (FMC because she was so painfully naive to the point of being stupid and the MMC because he was cold to the point of being cruel). ![]() ![]() I just read Lorraine Heath’s Lost Lords of Pembrook series. ![]() ![]() ![]() I reworked it with their comments, making it longer, returning to it between drafts of the goose girl. ![]() Both agreed-“Um, nice, but it doesn’t quite work.” I showed it to my husband, I showed it to my friend Rosi. How did it turn out? I won’t tell, but it wasn’t the same ending you’ll find in austenland. So I wrote a story called “Ostensibly Jane,” about a woman named Lydia, a wealthy business woman who takes a vacation at an Austen-themed estate and winds up finding unexpected romance. After the anguish I endured completing a first draft of a novel, I wasn’t eager to return to novel-land again in a hurry. It had been bubbling inside me for a few years, and I thought it might make a nice short story. I was already a fairly obsessive writer, used to having my daily time of computer torture, so I looked for an in-between project. I sent it off to a writer friend to read and suddenly found myself with no immediate writing project. In fall 2000, after over a year of on-again, off-again writing of a novel that would become the goose girl, I finally had a complete draft worth showing. ![]() ![]() ![]() There was no law, no lighting, bedbugs and fleas. ![]() "Most people in London at that time didn't know the East End - they pushed it aside. "So many of those great characters have stayed with me," she said on the publication of Call the Midwife. A strong personality, Jennifer was dynamic and determined, and her lively imagination is apparent in the books.Īfter her retirement from nursing, with the East End she had known long gone, she decided to put her reminiscences down in writing, so as to preserve the old ways of life, the people and the poverty. Reissued in 2007 by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, it became a bestseller, as did the subsequent volumes Shadows of the Workhouse (2005 reissued 2008) and Farewell to the East End (2009). The first volume, Call the Midwife, was originally published in 2002. Jennifer Worth, who has died of cancer aged 75, was the author of the Call the Midwife trilogy, based on her experiences as a nurse in the East End of London in the 1950s. ![]() |