![]() ![]() ![]() Her work has been supported by a Fulbright Fellowship, a MacDowell Fellowship and a Fellowship from ART OMI and has appeared in Granta, Guernica, The Paris Review, BOMB Magazine, and the Los Angeles Review of Books among other places. ![]() She received a 2015 Whiting Writers Award and a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” award for her debut novel, Fra Keeler (Dorothy, a publishing project, 2012). Reading the Body Politic Walking Writing ThinkingĪzareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is the author of the novel Call Me Zebra (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018) winner of the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the John Gardner Award, and longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award. Director, MFA Program in Creative WritingĪssistant Professor, MFA Program in Creative Writing Founder, Literatures of Annihilation, Exile and Resistance Fellow, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies Fellow, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studiesįiction and Non-Fiction Writing Literatures of Exile and Resistance Memory Studies Space Studies Middle Eastern Literature Latin American and Iberian Literature American Literature Postcolonial Theory Ethics and Aesthetics of the Novel. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Me? I had wavy white-blond hair, big blue eyes and legs that stretched for miles. ![]() Mom was short, barely over five-three, and I wasn't sure Em would even make it to five-one. She was a miniature version of our mother and the complete opposite of me.īoth possessed a slick fall of dark hair and beautifully up-tilted golden eyes. She wore a glittery pink ballerina costume, her pigtails bouncing with her every movement. A fat white rabbit, racing toward a tree.Įight-year-old Emma danced around me. A butterfly with one of its wings shredded. ![]() As I breathed in the thick honeysuckle and lavender perfume of the Alabama summer, I could make out a few shapes. The sun shone brightly as puffy white clouds ghosted across an endless expanse of baby blue. I lay sprawled on a blanket in my backyard, weaving a daisy chain for my little sister. ![]() ![]() ![]() But perhaps I shall get some more of those very welcome letters from my readers, telling me just how they like "Ozma of Oz." I hope so, anyway. If this judgment is unbiased and correct, and the little folks find this new story "real Ozzy," I shall be very glad indeed that I wrote it. Baum, and so are Tiktok and the Hungry Tiger." Ozma of Oz Did you know that Dorothy had more than one adventure in Oz Thrown overboard an ocean liner in a storm, Dorothy finds herself floating away in. ![]() One little friend, who read this story before it was printed, said to me: "Billina is real Ozzy, Mr. Well, here is "more about Dorothy," and about our old friends the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, and about the Cowardly Lion, and Ozma, and all the rest of them and here, likewise, is a good deal about some new folks that are queer and unusual. And I wish I could, for I enjoy writing these stories just as much as the children say they enjoy reading them. ![]() And some of them suggest plots to me, saying: "Please have Dorothy go to the Land of Oz again" or, "Why don't you make Ozma and Dorothy meet, and have a good time together?" Indeed, could I do all that my little friends ask, I would be obliged to write dozens of books to satisfy their demands. Their sweet little letters plead to know "more about Dorothy" and they ask: "What became of the Cowardly Lion?" and "What did Ozma do afterward?"-meaning, of course, after she became the Ruler of Oz. ![]() My friends the children are responsible for this new "Oz Book," as they were for the last one, which was called The Land of Oz. ![]() ![]() In order to save her, Lestat transforms her into his first immortal companion. Later, his mother, Gabrielle, arrives to say goodbye to him, herself dying of consumption (tuberculosis). Instead, he decides to shower them with gifts and riches from his new found wealth, as a means to compensate his departure from their lives. Lestat abandons Nicki for fear of causing him harm and shuns contact with his loved ones. ![]() Set in the late 18th century to the late 1980s, the story follows the 200-year-long life of the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, and his rise from humble beginnings as impoverished nobility in the countryside of the Auvergne in France, to the cosmopolitan city of Paris, to become transformed by the Dark Gift into a vampire.Īfter escaping his family and running off to Paris with his lover and confidante Nicolas de Lenfent, Lestat is kidnapped and bitten by the reclusive elder vampire Magnus, who orphans him on the night he is made but leaves him with a tower fortress and a vast fortune. ![]() ![]() In 2022, he reprised his role in the miniseries of the same name on Disney+. In the 2015 film Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the 2019 film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, McGregor reprised the role of Obi-Wan in voice cameos. ![]() He played the role again in its sequels Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005). In 1999, he played the Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi in the first of the Star Wars prequel trilogy Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace the character was originally played by Alec Guinness in the first Star Wars trilogy. He reprised the role in the sequel film T2 Trainspotting (2017). Two years later, he played heroin addict Mark Renton in Danny Boyle's Trainspotting which won him international recognition. He followed this one year later by appearing in Bill Forsyth's Being Human and Danny Boyle's thriller Shallow Grave. Ewan McGregor made his acting debut in 1993 in the British television series Lipstick on Your Collar. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mi buys Velvet a ticket and she wins! After that the story is one of making a dream come true, as they train the horse and enter it in the Grand National. There is a lottery about to be held, the prize being "The Piebald," and undisciplined and seemingly useless horse. ![]() Mi recognizes in Velvet the same spirit which had given her mother the will to succeed. Velvet's family has little patience with her dreams of glory except for her mother, who swam the English Channel when she was younger, and knows that one must stretch one's abilities to capture the wildest hopes and Mi Taylor, whose love of horses matches Velvet's own. Someday she too will enter this most grueling and difficult of races. Day and night she talks of horses the sleek beautiful animals who have the courage and stamina to win in England's famous Grand National. Velvet Brown is a little girl with a big dream. ![]() ![]() While some movies bring a brilliant new angle to Austen’s classic stories, some ideas fall flat. Looking at the current catalog of Austen movies, you’ll find great adaptations, practically perfect adaptations, and very bad adaptations. Though there honestly should be more adaptations out by now, particularly for her later novels Persuasion and Northanger Abbey, and we’ve yet to see these stories brought to life on-screen for more than a few different languages and cultures. Now, more than two centuries after her death, Austen’s influence has grown exponentially, with her writings transforming into many different mediums, including a lot of on-screen adaptations.Ĭonsidering how brilliant Austen’s writing is, especially the depth and complexity she puts into her female protagonists, it’s no wonder that people continue to remake and reinterpret her novels over the years. ![]() ![]() Everyone loves a good period romance, frolicking through 19th century England in long dresses and wavy updos, but sometimes you’ve got to spice it up a bit, and who could have guessed Jane Austen’s works would work so well in 1990s Los Angeles? Austen lived from 1775 to 1817, completing only six novels during her lifetime: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey, along with a final, posthumously finished book called Sanditon, and the epistolary novel, Lady Susan. ![]() ![]() OL17534422W Pages 182 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.19 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200808182557 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 721 Scandate 20200722101526 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781934876626 Tts_version 4. Urn:lcp:hollowfieldsvol20000rosc:lcpdf:7a28f6ee-a47d-49a4-8a1d-85266434437e Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4281 Identifier hollowfieldsvol20000rosc Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4gn77p85 Invoice 2089 Isbn 9781933164755ġ934876623 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Cyrillic Ocr_module_version 0.0.5 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA18404 Openlibrary_edition ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 04:26:15 Boxid IA1895806 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() I loved the characters, even the bad guys. And there will be good times too! The story is full of action, romance and fun. As you can imagine, those circumstances will lead to all sorts of trouble for both the heroine and the hero. I mentioned some stressful circumstances. I thought it was a bit soon in the story to start the mutual attraction, but eventually, further into the story, it started to work for me. Anne is on that ship because it is taking her to husband by proxy marriage. In Captured by the Pirate Laird, the chemistry between Anne and Calum begins from pretty much the moment they meet, despite the fact that it is under very stressful circumstances. Jarecki writes a rousing tale of adventure and romance, not just in this book, but in many of her historical romances. Highlander romances have a niche all their own and Ms. I enjoy all types of historical romances, in a variety of eras. ![]() For the first historical romance review for Whiskey With My Book, I offer Captured by the Pirate Laird by Amy Jarecki. ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, Jaden can't shake the feeling that there's more to Parker than he's letting on. Soon, Jaden finds herself shedding her own"good girl" image: sneaking around to be with him, confiding in him, and ultimately falling hard for this leather-wearing, motorcycle-driving loner who plays into the rebel stereotype. So there's no reason why, when they're assigned to work together on a project in English, they should discover they have anything in common, or even like each other, and they definitely shouldn't be falling in love.Īs they bond over Edith Wharton's tragic novella, Ethan Frome, the"bad boy" vibe Parker plays begins to dissipate. Parker has a past-a reputation-and the rumors about his mysterious habits abound. Jaden is driven and focused, Harvard Med School within reach. Jaden McEntyre and Parker Whalen are a wrong fit from the start. ![]() True love can blossom in unexpected places. ![]() |