![]() ![]() King’s novel and the 1984 film both start in medias res, after DSI agents finally track down the McGee family and force Andy and Charlie to go on the run. ![]() And their young daughter, Charlie (Armstrong), treats her pyrokinetic abilities like a mental illness, using breathing exercises and self-soothing techniques to keep them at bay. Vicky (Lemmon) refuses to use her ill-defined powers at all. Andy can psychically “push” people into doing things, a skill he’s using to cure nicotine addictions for cash in an early scene. Where the new version actually surpasses the ’84 movie is that in this case, at least a couple of those names deliver.Įfron stars alongside Sydney Lemmon ( Helstrom, Fear the Walking Dead) and Ryan Kiera Armstrong ( Anne with an E, Black Widow) as Andy McGee, patriarch of a small clan burdened with destructive psychic powers coveted by a CIA-esque government agency known as the DSI. ![]() As with the 1984 film version of Firestarter - widely acknowledged as one of the worst King adaptations - the cast and crew of the 2022 Firestarter features names that seem too high-profile for this particular project. Every once in a while, while watching it, the thought appears unbidden, as if it was placed by one of the film’s psychic protagonists: Oh yeah, Zac Efron is in this. Zac Efron isn’t terrible in Peacock’s adaptation of Stephen King’s 1980 novel Firestarter, but he is distracting. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Mamiverse: Please tell us what inspired this novel? Dueñas: The first thing I thought of was geography. The chance appearance of a particular handsome-faced customer sets Sira on a life course that begins to blend seamlessly with the history and social climate of the time (from the Spanish Civil War until the end of World War II), not only exploring the behavior, psyche, and worldview of a woman on a journey-but also providing an authentic view into what Dueñas feels is “an almost forgotten piece of Spanish history.” Dueñas shares her author journey with Mamiverse. ![]() In The Time in Between, readers enter the world of Sira, a young working-class woman in the 1930s who toils at her mother’s seamstress shop in Madrid, ensconced in the worlds of fabrics and patterns. Just like the story’s protagonist, a talented seamstress named Sira Quiroga-Dueñas herself weaves together the elements of history, politics, psychological drama, and high fashion to creatively and sensually bring a unique moment in history to life. ![]() ![]() Spanish professor and author, María Dueñas, makes her American literary debut with The Time in Between, a book that is as textured and sumptuous as it is difficult to categorize. ![]() ![]() ![]() One is the heir to the thrown for Chief of Medicine and the other is the current Chief of Surgery. She makes Harper and Flannery sound goofy. ![]() It is most noticeable with the main character, Gina. I actually set the speed to 1.25 thinking that would help. Why on earth would you have her record the fourth book when all the reviews slam her narration? McKinney speaks so slow at times, I thought I had my app set at 0.75 speed. Paige McKinney did an awful job on the third book. What kills this audiobook is the narration. I was beginning to wonder when Carrie would find someone. This is a good addition to the Rivers series. But then a life altering event brings them together. Instant attraction but they’re both afraid. Straightforward formula: Woman hurt by love, swears never to love again, new woman appears on the scene with a broken heart of her own. Started reading Radclyffe last summer and became an instant fan. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Searching for a way to the sea, he makes his way to the only landmark of note, a hill, beyond which he finds a chasm. It is a mire of black mud, lifeless and undulating, reeking from the stench of decaying fish, perhaps thrown up from the sea floor. When his ship is captured by an Imperial German sea-raider, he escapes in a lifeboat, but with little idea of where he is, he drifts aimlessly until he suddenly awakes to find himself on land again, but not land he has ever seen. ![]() This is written as the last testament of an ex-sailor driven to drugs by a strange encounter in the Pacific during his service in the Great War. Lovecraft, or rather to one of Lovecraft’s earliest stories, ‘Dagon’. Lovecraft's Dagon for Beginning Readers does is bring both the prose style and the art style of Theodor Seuss Geisel-or Dr. Lovecraft's Dagon for Beginning Readers uses the form of the children’s book to retell a tale of cosmic horror whose conclusion might be a legitimate response to the cosmic horror at its heart, it is a conclusion that is highly unsuitable for younger readers. Unlike the various Call of Cthulhu ABC books to the delightful Where’s My Shoggoth? which have successfully melded the Cosmic Horror of Lovecraft’s fiction with the children’s author of your choice in a format which can be enjoyed by children, H.P. Lovecraft's Dagon for Beginning Readers would suggest that it is a book for children. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu for beginning readers, the cartoon cartoon artwork and simple prose of H.P. ![]() ![]() For instance, we might crave the feeling a clean and refreshed mouth, which will lead us to go through the routine of brushing our teeth when we get the cue of waking up. For example, waking up in the morning might be the cue that drives the routine of brushing our teeth, which yields the reward of having a clean and refreshed feeling in our mouth. Habits are a simple action loop that consists of a cue, a routine, and a reward. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.” “This is how new habits are created: by putting together a cue, a routine, and a reward, and then cultivating a craving that drives the loop.” Left to its own devices, the brain will try to make almost any routine into a habit, because habits allow our minds to ramp down more often.”īiologically, we form habits to save energy, so anything we do regularly will become a habit. “Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort. ![]() This book will give you the foundational understanding required to create new habits that will drive your success and break old habits that are limiting your life.Īccess My Searchable Collection of 100+ Book Notes Key Takeaways Habits exist to save our brains effort ![]() The power of habit is a digestible and informed examination of why habits exist, how they work, and how you can change them. ![]() ![]() ![]() He’d been in his private study at the heart of the State Building, sitting on his divan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Martinįirst there was a man named Winston Duarte. "Interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be written." -George R. And on the Rocinante, James Holden and his crew struggle to build a future for humanity out of the shards and ruins of all that has come before.Īs nearly unimaginable forces prepare to annihilate all human life, Holden and a group of unlikely allies discover a last, desperate chance to unite all of humanity, with the promise of a vast galactic civilization free from wars, factions, lies, and secrets if they win.īut the price of victory may be worse than the cost of defeat. Through the wide-flung systems of humanity, Colonel Aliana Tanaka hunts for Duarte’s missing daughter. In the dead system of Adro, Elvi Okoye leads a desperate scientific mission to understand what the gate builders were and what destroyed them, even if it means compromising herself and the half-alien children who bear the weight of her investigation. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again. The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. “An all-time genre classic.” – Publishers Weekly (starred review) Corey’s Hugo-award winning space opera that inspired the Prime Original series. The biggest science fiction series of the decade comes to an incredible conclusion in the ninth and final novel in James S.A. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is also friends with Nyssa and Natalie. In " The Perfectionists", Julie is stated to be one of the most popular girls in her school, alongside Parker Duval, her best friend. She has brown eyes, pale skin, with perfect white teeth and long, lithe legs. ![]() Julie is a slim eighteen-year-old young woman with long, straight hair of an auburn-red color. After being placed in a mental institution to receive intense therapy, she was diagnosed officially with multiple personality disorder. She was later shown to be cunning, manipulative, and secretive, able to cover her tracks when she harmed or killed people (as her other personality Parker Duval). She disliked Nolan Hotchkiss due to his bullying people but never intervened. Originally portrayed as the popular, friendly Queen Bee, Julie was friends with almost everyone. Because of her mother’s illness, Julie never has anyone over–except for Parker, who stays with her frequently. Her mother is now a hoarder to the worst degree and it’s a wonder to see how clean and organized Julie is compared to her. ![]() ![]() Only a few years ago that Julie and her mother moved to Beacon Heights. Julie was constantly bullied because of the state she lived in by the other children around her. Julie only realized how worse her mother's condition was when they were evicted from their former house. The mental health of her mother, who was once as crisp and perfect-looking as Julie, began to deteriorate as her hoarding compiled. Julie once lived in California with her parents, happy until her father left them. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not in the sense of falsehoods, but in the sense of founding narratives a culture tells itself. Prior to the Reformation, i.e., when the Bible had not yet been translated into vernacular languages and literacy was far from widespread, people nevertheless knew these stories. Large numbers of pre-literate children and illiterate adults know them. Reading the Bible is not a prerequisite for learning these stories. Plenty of people all over the world, including people who are not even nominally Christian, know stories that appear in the Bible: for example, that Jesus was born in a manger, or that he was crucified, or that he raised Lazarus from the dead. We learn the stories of the Iliad and the Odyssey in the same way that we learn Bible stories. What does "knowledge of the Iliad" mean? How does one gain knowledge about the stories told in these two epics? This comment is spot-on, and gets to the heart of the matter. I suspect that the Odyssey doesn't require knowledge of the Iliad. These were originally oral traditions rather than written books. ![]() On the nature of myth (hand-wavy background stuff) ![]() ![]() ![]() ⇻ He's so nasty to the people who care about him - Brian, Devin, and Becca. His mom isn't even asking him to pay her back! She just won't be giving him spending money anymore! ![]() ⇻ Noah literally runs up a $400 credit card charge in one week and is annoyed at the fact that his parents froze his card and made him get a job so he could have spending money. Did you pay it off?" I'd be writing this review from the afterlife. My family is pretty well-off and I grew up very comfortably, but if I, at the age of 16, had called my mom up to tell her, "My credit card isn't working. This was one of my most-anticipated reads for 2021.īut I could just not get behind Noah as a main character. I'd have liked this book about 200% more if Devin was the main character honestly. ![]() I appreciate the discussion of trans experiences in this book, and to be honest - I really did love the character Devin. ![]() ![]() ![]() I can accept comics hero stories by different writers, and pulp heroes frequently had different writers under a house name, so. This Lancer series is the one I read while growing up, so I'm all for it. ![]() Many people believe that only Howard's original versions of the complete stories are acceptable, and many believe that the Lancer series with the original Frazetta covers (this one has my favorite Frazetta) are canon, and then there are those who accept or reject the Bantam titles, the Robert Jordan series (and/or/or not the other Tor titles), the comics versions, and on and on and on. Sprague de Camp, with the help of Lin Carter, expanded Howard's original Conan stories and edited them into chronological sequence in a twelve-volume series in the late 1960's, and the controversy has never quite died off completely. ![]() (It was the first to be printed but is the fifth chronologically.) L. This is the fifth volume of Lancer's editions of the Conan saga. ![]() |