![]() Running Time: Approximately 2 hours 35 minutes including an intervalĬontent guidance: This production includes the use of very strong language, language reflective of historical attitudes around Mental Health, reference to drug use, sexual references, mention of suicide, flashing lights, pyrotechnics, loud sound effect explosions, and haze. Notes From A Small Island spent three years in The Sunday Times bestsellers list and sold over two million copies. ![]() ![]() How can the nation that produced Marmite, Gardener’s Question Time and people who say “Ooh lovely” at the sight of a cup of tea, hold such a special place in this American’s heart?Ī world premiere stage adaptation that celebrates one of the nation’s most beloved books and celebrates the quirks of our small island. ![]() Bill Bryson’s smash-hit memoir journeys to the stage for the first time in this World premiere.įrom Calais to Scotland, Bill travels the length and breadth of Britain. ![]()
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![]() Yet they agreed to a temporary marriage that could end only in disaster. To be sure, Max McCord was easy on the eyes, but he loved another woman and dreamed of a different life. But one thing about Jenny-she may steal, fight, curse, and spit, but she doesnt lie, and a promise means more to her than life. But when pressed to reveal her heart’s wish, she admits, ‘I want a baby.’ Not a husband, not a forced marriage to the proud man who drew the scratched marble and became honor bound to marry her. As scruffy and rootless as the other prospectors searching for gold in the Rockies, Low Down wanted nothing in return for nursing a raggedy bunch through the pox. /rebates/2fbook-search2fisbn2f97804466044132f&. Now meet the most irresistible and independent hero*ine of them all, a woman called Low Down, who never had anything good happen to her until the day she asked for the one thing that only a man could give her… ![]() Hailed as ‘one of the best writers in the business’ by Susan Elizabeth Phillips, multi award winning author Maggie Osborne delivers hilarious and heartrending tales of resilient women full of grit, pride, and dignity who shine through hard times. ![]() ![]() ![]() The plants are operated by Michael Schupbach, who merits a bow in the curtain call. The proceedings are boosted by the six-person, clearly adult cast, led by Jason Williams (as the beefy seventh grader) and Lance Rubin (as his nerdy fourth-grade brother). The exception is the jaunty “Plants Make Wonderful Pets,” which lands in a way that the other songs don’t. ![]() Songs are rhythmic and humorous but more functional than noteworthy. His work is perfectly capable here, although one suspects that his talents lie in a rather more sophisticated vein. Score and book for this “family rock” musical are by Joe Iconis, an up-and-coming NYU/Tisch grad who has received both the Ed Kleban and Jonathan Larson awards. The plot, such as it is, revolves around entering the plants in the local science fair. The good-natured parents want to get rid of the plants, but they nevertheless run out and buy socks wholesale. The messy kid’s plant (Stanley) is the one who eats dirty socks the neat kid’s pod (Fluffy) likes ’em freshly laundered. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Natalie Kinsey-Warnock is the author of many wonderful books for young readers. Could this be Celia's aunt? Will Quila have to give up Celia so Margaret can have her own family back? This is a gripping tale full of love, loss, and healing. Her sister's baby had never been found, either, she explains, and now she has no family of her own. Two years later, though, another stranger arrives, one who changes everything all over again: A woman named Margaret, come looking for the final resting place of her sister, whose ship had gone down in a storm two years before. She makes them a family again-and helps heal the hurt left by Quila's mother's passing. But the morning after a storm, something floats ashore that changes their lives forever: Two small mattresses strapped together, and inside, a baby! They name her Cecelia, which means "a gift from the sea," and call her Celia. ![]() They can't leave and almost no one ever comes to visit them. Quila MacFarlane is devastated by the death of her mother, especially now that it's just her and her father on Devils Rock where her father is the lighthouse keeper. Gifts from the Sea (English, Electronic book text, Kinsey-Warnock Natalie) Publisher Yearling Books Genre Juvenile Fiction ISBN 9780307527950, 0307527956. ![]() ![]() Notes dun (3): i.e., a dull brownish gray. My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:īut I know that my mistress walks only on the ground.Īnd yet, by heaven, I think my love as rareĪs any woman who has been misrepresented by ridiculous comparisons. That music hath a far more pleasing sound I love to hear her speak, yet well I know Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I have seen damask roses, red and white ,īut I do not see such colors in her cheeks Īnd in some perfumes is there more delight I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, If hairs are like wires, hers are black and not golden. ![]() If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. If snow is white, then her breasts are a brownish gray If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun My mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun Ĭoral is far more red than her lips' red My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ![]() Analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 - My mistress's eyes ![]() ![]() ![]() He also learned not so long ago that his family tree can be traced back to John Milton, author of Paradise Lost, which has no bearing on him whatsoever but it’s kind of interesting anyway. When he wasn’t travelling on his own, he spent his twenties touring with bands and seeing the UK and Europe from the back of a van. He writes for film and television, and has several projects in development.Ĭhris has travelled extensively round the world, having backpacked all over Europe and North America, Scandinavia, South East Asia, Japan and South Africa. Now thirty-nine, Chris has written over twenty books, which have been translated into twenty languages, won various awards and been published around the world. When he left university he began to write full-time, and he has been doing it professionally all his adult life. By nineteen he had signed his first book deal. He was sixteen when he completed his first. ![]() ![]() Chris Wooding grew up in a small town in Leicestershire, where not much of anything happened. ![]() ![]() ![]() She kidnaps her favorite writer, Paul Sheldon, feeds him full of drugs, leaves him to starve when she decides to take off, cuts off his foot and his thumb, and forces him to write yet another romance novel which he doesn’t want to write. On the one hand, King’s Annie is undeniably violent and coercive-a force one would certainly want to overcome. He wants to “quit” Annie, but she exerts a strong pull. Jack Wilhelmi of Screen Rant interprets King’s equation of Annie and cocaine as highlighting not only King’s personal “struggles with addiction” but also “the seductive quality of drugs and how it can make someone feel like they can accomplish something-like writing a novel-even under duress.” It does indeed seem as if King’s comment points toward a powerful ambivalence toward cocaine, and toward Annie. She was my number-one fan.” In his memoir, On Writing, King claims that the creation of Annie actually inspired him to quit drugs and alcohol: “Annie was coke, Annie was booze, and I decided I was tired of being Annie’s pet writer.” Like Paul Sheldon, King was able to jettison Annie from his life. King was a self-confessed “heavy user” of cocaine from about 1978 to 1986, and he famously confessed in an interview with Rolling Stone that “ Misery is a book about cocaine. ![]() Stephen King published Misery on June 8, 1987, and he has claimed that the novel is, first and foremost, about the compulsions of cocaine use. ![]() ![]() A lot to take in, but these are only the most active moments in a book whose main action is interior. Beth receives a ``hiding'' for embarrassing her husband in front of his friends, her daughter is raped and commits suicide, her young son is carted off to juvenile hall, and his older brother dies in a gang fight, but Beth finds strength by summoning up her tribal heritage and teaching it to others. Instead, the men's lives consist of beer, gangs, fights, and beating their wives. As far as Beth is concerned, the Maoris would not have become impoverished lackeys with very little self-esteem had they stayed close to their warrior roots. Relegated to government housing in an unnamed city, she lives just two vacant blocks away from whites whose homes offer tantalizing glimpses of a privileged existence she and her family will never have. Beth, a Maori mother, feels nothing but anger and disgust at her people, who accept second-class citizenship as a given. ![]() Upon its New Zealand publication in 1990, this controversial debut novel rocketed to the bestseller list. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is a massive neutron star in the science fiction/fantasy/graphic novel realm. Neil Gaiman is a man of whimsical and prodigious talents. Or three remarkable dwarfs will dance through the streets with flowerpots on their heads.” “If the same object from two different times touches itself, one of two things will happen. And then something odd happened.”įind out just how odd things get in this hilarious New York Timesbestselling story of time travel and breakfast cereal, expertly told by Newbery Medalist and bestselling author Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Skottie Young I looked up and saw a huge silver disc hovering in the air above Marshall Road.” “I walked out of the corner shop, and heard a noise like this: t h u m m t h u m m. Sort of like forks, only not as stabby.― Neil Gaiman, Fortunately, The Milk About ![]() Review Book Reviews A Tall Tale About Milk ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Trivia: Who said “We are getting short of a certain type of paper…!!!” ? Was it: Especially delightful was an interlude toward the middle of the book regarding the king of England desperately writing Allies to find out if anyone had any toilet paper they could send to the British embassy. Hard to imagine, huh? This book was a great comfort to me this week because 1) I love Erik Larson, and 2) it’s reassuring to remember that we’ve been through circumstances like this before, and we’ve always come out thriving on the other side. Completely unplanned, my first quarantine read was Erik Larson’s The Splendid and the Vile, a book about the time all of London was forced to stay indoors indefinitely by forces far beyond their control. Loooong time no see, Readers! Like everyone and their mother, I am hunkered down for the pandemic, so of course I’m catching up on my reading! It’s been a hell of a year and it’s only Wednesday, Lemon. ![]() |