![]() ![]() ![]() “It is hard to rewrite your own history.” - Unsettled Ground. In Unsettled Ground, award-winning author Claire Fuller masterfully builds a tale of sacrifice and hope, of homelessness and hardship, of love and survival, in which two marginalized and remarkable people uncover long-held family secrets and, in their own way, repair, recover, and begin again. And just when it seems there might be a way forward, a series of startling secrets from their mother's past come to the surface, forcing the twins to question who they are, and everything they know of their family's history. Seeing a new future, Julius becomes torn between the loyalty he feels towards his sister and his desire for independence, while Jeanie struggles to find work and a home for them both. The cottage they love, and the security it offered, is taken back by their landlord, exposing the twins to harsh truths and even harsher realities. To an outsider, it looks like poverty to them, it is home.īut when Dot dies unexpectedly, the world they've so carefully created begins to fall apart. ![]() Inside its walls, they make music, and in its garden, they grow everything they need to survive. The cottage they have shared their entire lives is their only protection against the modernizing world around them. At fifty-one years old, twins Jeanie and Julius still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation in the English countryside. ![]()
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To be honest, I wasn’t sure I was going to like it right from the start, especially after reading a lot of mixed reviews. I had to read a book a TV series was based on for a challenge and since I already had a copy of The 100 on my shelf I decided to just go ahead and read it. That was the thing with secrets – you had to carry them with you forever, no matter what the cost.” ![]() “The rain was only water, and there was no such thing as a clean start. ![]() ![]() 2023 Netgalley And Edelweiss Reading Challenge.2017 Netgalley And Edelweiss Reading Challenge. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On their bizarre road trip, they meet a feisty young woman (versatile Marissa Keltie), and a lyrical older woman (sympathetic Lura Dolas). ![]() Julian López-Morillas, Adam Burch, and Marissa Keltie López-Morillas’ confession in Act Two reaches shattering powerful heights. As the “blind” Grandfather, Lopez-Morillas drives the car, evoking a troublesome, comic, but eerily sympathetic old guy. Julian López-Morillas plays Alex’s foul-mouthed, cranky Grandfather who has been hiding a dreadful secret since the War. When Alex narrates, he is engaging and when he interacts with Jonathan and his own Grandfather, he is a convincing throwback to a harsher world. As Alex, Burch preens and leers in his shiny sports gear. Led by the comically verbose Ukranian translator Alex (mesmerizing Adam Burch) on a wild drive to Lviv, Jonathan discovers a world of suffering and hardship. Jeremy Kahn, Julian López-Morillas, & Adam Burch. Kahn does a great job playing the eager, naïve Jonathan Safran Foer. Jonathan believes that the woman, Augustine, saved his grandfather from the Nazis during WWII, enabling him to escape to New York and begin an American life. Jonathan (energetic Jeremy Kahn)-channeling a young, self-important Rick Moranis-arrives in Ukraine intent on finding a woman in an old family photograph. Foer articulates the urgent need for empathy, today. Simon Block’s adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Everything is Illuminated exposes the unfortunate ignorance that swirls around us. Millennial Notes Foer & Block Show Why History Matters ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In her section on motherhood, Doyle also employs a powerful mix of historical research, literary analysis, and gender criticism. Through an impeccably researched analysis of both the film and its cultural impact worldwide, Doyle shows us how a single movie depicting the monstrosity of an adolescent girl actually produced a notable rise in Catholic exorcisms. By highlighting the dichotomy between our cultural fantasies of fear and the actual violence wrought upon women in retaliation, Doyle shows that an awareness of these origins can help women understand the dangers they face when operating outside of patriarchal norms. 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I’m so excited about the anime adaptation! This review is for the manga version □ So this past year I’ve been reading a lot of manga! One of my favorites, which is available to read for free on Crunchyroll, is “Orange” - and a few days ago Crunchyroll announced they will be simul-casting the new anime based on the manga as well! I thought that makes it a good time to share my love of this series. I’m not as big of a reader as I used to be when I was younger, however, the last few seasons of anime have not held much to capture my interests, and being single again I find myself with too much spare time. ![]() |