![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While there are benefits to having a miracle man in the house, Philip soon discovers the downside of living with a father who psychically knows everything he is doing. Walking Through Walls is Philip Smith's astonishing memoir of growing up in a household where séances, talking spirits, and exorcisms were daily occurrences, and inexplicable psychic healings resulted in visitors suddenly discarding their crutches and wheelchairs or being cured of fatal diseases. For his son, Philip, watching his father transform himself, at a moment's notice, from gracious society decorator into a healer with supernatural powers was a bit like living with Clark Kent and Superman. Running with Scissors meets Bewitched in this irresistible memoir, as Philip Smith describes growing up in 1960s Miami with his decorator father, who one day discovers he has the miraculous power to talk to the dead and heal the sick.Īfter a full day of creating beautiful interiors for the rich and famous, Lew Smith would come home, take off his tie, and get down to his real work as a psychic healer who miraculously cured thousands of people. ![]()
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![]() ![]() We also cut King some slack and removed "The Lawnmower Man" from our watch list, since he fought to have his own name removed from the film and won. The sequels to King's work rarely have anything to do with the source material, so they're all disqualified (even though some, like Larry Cohen's prescient anti-fascist monster drama "A Return to Salem's Lot," are genuinely interesting). Cataloguing every adaptation might be a fool's errand, so we made some tough choices and decided to focus only on his theatrical releases.Īnd even then, there are so many King adaptations that it gets tricky. King's books and short stories quickly became hit movies, many of them celebrated in their time, and some flopped so hard that hardly anybody remembers them. ![]() The best King stories scare so many of us that we all feel connected, and even the worst are usually pretty fun. ![]() Stephen King isn't just an author by this point: He's an institution, a legacy of classic horror stories that capture our imaginations, fuel our nightmares, and speak - when he's at his best - to our shared experiences as flawed, emotional beings. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() The phantasmagorical, threatened Prague of this novel - its wainscots haunted by a Golem who is more like a psychic fog than an actual entity, and the false polder of its ghetto withering under the baleful light of a new century - makes THE GOLEM into a pure urban fantasy: a tale whose setting, like some vast subterranean edifice, seems literally alive, organic, all-encompassing, Gothic. Meyrink's first novel "prefigures that disastrous climax to a century of growth and change. 5-288, inserted frontispiece with uncredited drawing of the Golem (this plate does not appear in the UK issue), original purple cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained black, fore-edge untrimmed. ![]() ![]() ![]() During their conversations, Flory criticizes the British Empire as a vehicle for theft that is destroying the native culture this idea agitates the doctor, who is a staunch defender of the empire. Veraswami, the only person with whom Flory can speak frankly. Flory’s only friend is the Indian surgeon Dr. While Flory has a Burmese concubine, Ma Hla May, he is desperately lonely and longs for a European wife who will love the country as he does and who will save him from his horrible life. ![]() Flory’s progressive beliefs and love of Burmese culture mark him as an outsider, and the other club members, particularly the virulently racist Ellis, bully him. He spends three weeks of the month in his jungle camp overseeing the production of teak for export back to England and spends the remaining week in town, where his life centers on the club. Flory’s most notable feature is a large, crescent-shaped birthmark that runs across the left side of his face. ![]() ![]() Penny is a sympathetic and likeable character. I read straight through this suspenseful story. It’s exactly the opposite of her coddled former life, suddenly Penny’s got to fight to survive. When Penny finally gets the opportunity to live in the real world, her experience isn’t anything like her dreams. ![]() Unfortunately, that ensures that she never has any excuse to leave. Fortunately, her father’s business, organized crime involving organ donations, provides her with a medical clinic and a doctor on the premises. She dreams of going to New York City, but because of a rare blood disorder, she must be protected from the tiniest of bumps and bruises, and her parents refuse to let her leave the estate. The only thing she doesn’t have is freedom. She has parents who buy her whatever she fancies. She lives in a fancy walled estate with a pool, a conservatory, and a garden. ![]() ![]() ![]() He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his family. Mo began his career as a writer and animator for television, garnering 6 Emmy awards for his writing on Sesame Street, creating Nickelodeon's The Off-Beats, Cartoon Network’s Sheep in the Big City and head-writing Codename: Kids Next Door. Mo’s work books have been translated into a myriad of languages, spawned animated shorts and theatrical musical productions, and his illustrations, wire sculpture, and carved ceramics have been exhibited in galleries and museums across the nation. ![]() The New York Times Book Review called Mo “the biggest new talent to emerge thus far in the 00's." In addition to such picture books as Leonardo the Terrible Monster, Edwina the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct, and Time to Pee, Mo has created the Elephant and Piggie books, a series of early readers, and published You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When it Monsoons, an annotated cartoon journal sketched during a year-long voyage around the world in 1990-91. ![]() #1 New York Times Bestselling author and illustrator Mo Willems is best known for his Caldecott Honor winning picture books Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and Knuffle Bunny: a cautionary tale. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Abundant and juicy entertainment. ![]() It is bound to give much enjoyment and a good many thrills."- Times Literary Supplement (UK) ![]() "A rich and panoramic narrative full of gusto, sentimentality and compassion. Really good fictionalized history often gives closer reality to a period than do factual records."- Chicago Tribune ![]() " The Winthrop Woman is that rare literary accomplishment-living history. And so, as a response to this almost unmatched courage and vitality, Governor John Winthrop came to refer to this woman in the historical records of the time as his "unregenerate niece."Īnya Seton's riveting historical novel portrays the fortitude, humiliation, and ultimate triumph of the Winthrop woman, who believed in a concept of happiness transcending that of her own day. Against a background of rigidity and conformity she dared to befriend Anne Hutchinson at the moment of her banishment from the Massachusetts Bay Colony dared to challenge a determined army captain bent on the massacre of her friends the Siwanoy Indians and, above all, dared to love a man as her heart and her whole being commanded. In 1631 Elizabeth Winthrop, newly widowed with an infant daughter, set sail for the New World. Winthrop Women embraces a broad historical web, set in the 1600s (1617-1655) centered around the family of John Winthrop, a fanatical practitioner of the Puritan faith who became the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and his rebellious niece and daughter-in-law Elizabeth Fons. Colonial America holds friendship, hardship, and love for a bold woman in this classic historical romance from the bestselling author of Green Darkness. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are some big ideas about what it means to love somebody packed in there, which Lee and executive producer Alissa Nutting explore below. Hazel ends up deciding to drug Herb, bringing him (and his beloved "synthetic companion" Diane) to Byron's "Hub" without his knowledge so that he can be saved. In the season finale of the HBO Max sci-fi dramedy (that's also sometimes a little scary), Hazel ( Cristin Milioti) is finally able to confront her husband Byron ( Billy Magnussen) about the way he treated her, but her attempt to truly escape his control is thwarted when she learns about her father Herb's ( Ray Romano) terminal cancer. "So to have it out there, and to hear that people are liking it is a dream." "We've been working on this in the weirdest year possible - sometimes we felt, 'Is this really happening or is this only in our minds?'" showrunner Christina Lee said to Collider in a recent phone interview. One of the best aspects of Made for Love was the way it defied the limitations of genre, encompassing comedy, drama, science fiction, and even moments of horror in its first season. ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers who enjoyed Madeline Miller’s Circe will want to take a look. Haynes shines by twisting common perceptions of the Trojan War and its aftermath in order to capture the women’s experiences. ![]() Cassandra, cursed with prophesies no one will ever believe, struggles to function when she knows exactly what will become of her and her family after the war. There are also the royal heroines, such as Clytemnestra, who seeks revenge against Agamemnon for sacrificing their daughter and Helen, who is weary of being constantly blamed for her role in beginning the war and for plots and prophecies she has no power to stop. There is Calliope, the muse who resents the poets demanding she supply them with inspiration Andromache, who goes from princess to spoil of war when her husband, Hector, is killed by Achilles and Penelope, who writes biting letters to Odysseus, asking him why it is that he doesn’t feel any urge to come home to her and their son. Hopping through nearly a dozen perspectives, Haynes provides an enthralling reimagining of the lives of women from both Troy and Greek culture. ![]() Her non-fiction book about women in Greek Myth, Pandoras Jar, was a New York Times bestseller in 2022. She is the author of The Amber Fury, The Children of Jocasta, and Stone Blind, which was a Sunday Times bestseller in 2022. ![]() The women of the Trojan War take center stage in this excellent take on the Greek classics from Haynes ( The Ancient Guide to Modern Life). Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster. ![]() |