![]() ![]() ![]() Patricia Highsmith author of the novel The Price of Salt. / Source: ellmaker However, Carol’s husband (Kyle Chandler) will ask her to choose between keeping her affair with Therese going or the shared custody of their daughter. After they start to regularly meet each other, Carol's flirtatiousness makes Therese become intoxicated with her. Department store clerk and amateur photographer Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara) finds herself attracted to a beautiful and generous customer, Carol (Cate Blanchett). Although it is easy to see the love affair between the two co-protagonists and the conservative patriarchal society as the main topics in the story, resonating universal human emotions are the underlying message. Adapted from a novel from Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) originally known as The Price of Salt (1952), Carol (2015) comes back to life, this time on the big screen, more than half a century later. ![]()
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![]() ![]() His watercolors are in private collections in the US, Canada, Iceland, and Switzerland. His watercolor Browns Head Light Vinalhaven was Best in Show at the Port Clyde (Maine) Art Gallery Third Annual Invitational 10 x 10 Show in 2017. His 2018 Winter Olympics curling watercolors were a two-page feature in the Maine Sunday Telegram Arts Section. McMillan's watercolor art has been in numerous juried shows in New England and Iceland. In 2006, he was honored by the Maine Library Association with the Katahdin Award honoring his outstanding body of work of children's literature in Maine. He has published three genres of children's picture books - concept books, nonfiction, and fiction. His interest in biology is often reflected in his books' topics. In addition to his 45 children's books, seven of them set in Iceland, he has authored two books of humor, Punography, featured in Life magazine, and Punography Too. ![]() He received a degree in biology from the University of Maine. Born in Massachusetts, he grew up in Bangor, and Kennebunk, Maine. Bruce McMillan (May 10, 1947- ) is a contemporary American author of children books, photo-illustrator and watercolor artist living in Shapleigh, Maine. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some people are set out into the world with those that combination of things that makes you put work above everything else in a certain mad way. And I make this point in the book that there are other people who if you’re a poetry professor, you probably don’t need to single these out they’re probably already coming at you in these moments.īut, you know maybe it’s obvious by the fact that I’ve written my eighth book. ![]() Because I live in so much poetry that it’s hard for me personally. And people do ask me this question, and I always find myself weirdly unprepared for it. Jennifer Michael Hecht: You know, there are different things that come to mind. ![]() Can you give an example of a particular situation in your life where you’ll combine ritual and poetry and maybe aspects of the religion that you came up in or religions that you’ve absorbed in your adult life. Subscribe and download the episode, wherever you get your podcasts!īrad Listi: I’d be curious to hear you talk about a specific way in which you yourself use the methodology that you’re laying out in this book. Her new book The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives, is out now from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My Heart and Other Black Holes had so much potential-a lot of novel accurately described what it feels like to be depressed. I came really close to DNFing this book at 96% on principle alone because I was fed one thing in the beginning of the novel, only to be force fed something entirely different by the end. Except that Roman may not be so easy to convince. Ultimately, she must choose between wanting to die or trying to convince Roman to live so they can discover the potential of their energy together. But as their suicide pact becomes more concrete, Aysel begins to question whether she really wants to go through with it. But once she discovers a website with a section called Suicide Partners, Aysel’s convinced she’s found her solution: a teen boy with the username FrozenRobot (aka Roman) who’s haunted by a family tragedy is looking for a partner.Įven though Aysel and Roman have nothing in common, they slowly start to fill in each other’s broken lives. ![]() There’s only one problem: she’s not sure she has the courage to do it alone. With a mother who can barely look at her without wincing, classmates who whisper behind her back, and a father whose violent crime rocked her small town, Aysel is ready to turn her potential energy into nothingness. Sixteen-year-old physics nerd Aysel is obsessed with plotting her own death. ![]() ![]() She seemed to quiet a bit while I held her hands in mine. They tried to order me out but Fanny cried out for me again. Oh, Jane, her pretty hands are like claws. ![]() Of course, I did not look like myself in the mask, but at last she knew my voice and gripped my hands with her thin fingers. She wears one every time she goes near Fan. I wanted to hug her but Aunt would not let me get close until I put on a mask. She stared at me with big glassy eyes and called out, "Fee. The worst moment, almost, was when I came to her bedside and she did not know me. I marched right past Aunt, who was doing her best to stop me in my tracks. They said I must not go in but Fanny fixed that by calling out my name in a hoarse voice. I pushed her out of the way, Jane, and rushed up to our room. "I am sorry to have to tell you this, Fiona, but you need to be prepared," she began. ![]() Next Fanny would start choking on phlegm and come down with pneumonia. Grandmother, who likes to make things sound as bad as possible, told me this and added that the doctor said fever was the first stage of the Flu. But Fanny got feverish a few days after she arrived home. She got brought home from Aunt Jessica's a week or so ago because their son George caught the Flu and was sent home from university. ![]() ![]() ![]() His conscious will perhaps but it is the unconscious Will that is the author of the play. The unconscious does do reasoning, however, if of a different and superior kind. ![]() Logic is a prerogative of conscious thinking. The unconscious mind knows nothing of logic, he says. Murdoch’s favourite word to describe the human condition occurs. The friend’s seducing wife asks if he thinks women of her age have an urge. The main character quotes King Lear on being tormented by his friend’s wife that his ex-wife will tell his friend how awful the marriage was. He shares a mannerism with his author of duplicating ‘etc’ when the first means ‘and all the rest’ already. In response to the daughter’s asking if he thought all women at a certain age feel the urge to commit adultery, he simply says no. He says of his friend he was trying to take over the world by emptying himself over it like scented bath water. I laughed at his and his author friend’s groaning at the latter’s daughter’s saying she’s decided to be a writer. His isn’t capable of that so far as he can know. ![]() He claims reportage isn’t art, though it can be if the reporter’s artistic will has set up what is then reported. He cites Kierkegaard as saying a virtuous man looks like an inspector of taxes, as he himself was. In her play of The Black Prince, Murdoch uses the good theatrical device of the soliloquy in place of the principal character’s narration. ![]() ![]() Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart. Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek-the man she never thought she’d have to live without.įor six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books-medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her-Percy and Sam had been inseparable. ![]() Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. ![]() ![]() And maybe something as small as a warm donut is powerful enough to break a curse as vast as the California coastline.Īs the lives of these three women become entangled by chance and fate, a story of magic, identity, curses, and hope begins, and a family worth crossing the universe for is found. Shizuka doesn't have time for crushes or coffee dates, what with her very soul on the line, but Lan's kind smile and eyes like stars might just redefine a soul's worth. She's found her final candidate.īut in a donut shop off a bustling highway in the San Gabriel Valley, Shizuka meets Lan Tran, retired starship captain, interstellar refugee, and mother of four. ![]() ![]() When Katrina Nguyen, a young transgender runaway, catches Shizuka's ear with her wild talent, Shizuka can almost feel the curse lifting. Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. ![]() ![]() An adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() By observing megacities in detail himself, Gehl develops methods and strategies for bringing significant positive change to dysfunctional and inhospitable urban landscapes. He bases himself on insights that he has gained through many years of studying city situations in various countries. The event was organized in collaboration with the Alfred-Herrhausen-Society to present the first German edition of Gehl’s international bestseller Cities for People ( Städte für Menschen).įor more than 40 years, the architect and city planner Jan Gehl has been involved in redesigning or creating new designs for squares, streets, even entire city districts, for the benefit of the residents. He presented numerous international projects that have integrated these principles-among others his hometown Copenhagen. On February 18 the Danish architect and city planner Jan Gehl talked about his principles in urban planning, which focus on the human scale. ![]() ![]() When Finch’s mood shifts from mania to depression, Violet attempts to assist him however, Finch feels that he is beyond help and ultimately kills himself. Finch helps Violet overcome her trauma and encourages her to reengage with life. ![]() During this time, they become friends and then lovers. The two characters form an unlikely partnership and embark upon a tour of sights in their home state of Indiana to fulfill the course requirements of their US geography class. However, given Finch’s lifelong difficulties, everyone assumes that Violet climbed the tower to save him, and he does not dispel this assumption. Using gentle, therapeutic language, Finch talks Violet off the ledge. Violet, formerly a high-functioning cheerleader, honor student, and all-around model teenager, is suffering survivor’s guilt following the auto-related death of her sister, Eleanor, the previous year. ![]() Finch, brilliant, ostracized by most of his peers, abused by his father, and suffering from untreated bipolar disorder, has fought suicidal impulses for many years. ![]() The characters first meet at the top of their high school bell tower, where both are contemplating suicide. Niven tells the story from two different voices, those of high school students Theodore Finch (who goes by “Finch”) and Violet Markey. ![]() |