Nick and June Were Here by Shalanda Stanley ⭐⭐⭐ An ill-advised final twist squanders any limited goodwill the reader might’ve managed to scrounge up, and the result is that I’ll probably forget this book entirely except to retain a lingering sense of disappointment. The characters are deeply unlikable, but without the interesting complexity required to make readers care about them. It centers around a deeply codependent, toxic relationship that it ultimately seems to romanticize. We Told Six Lies is like a young adult version of Gone Girl, except without Gone Girl‘s nuance. I unfortunately still read a lot of books that were, for me, one or two stars thankfully I rounded those out with some rereads of old favorites. I’m still behind on my overall reading goal, but at least I read better books this quarter than I did last (last quarter was kind of a bummer). This year has been flying and it’s time for another rundown of what I’ve been reading and watching. Most of it went towards reading War and Peace. Somehow we’re already 3/4 done with 2009.
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He stayed in bed for 3 days, but he didn’t sleep. One morning two weeks before he was due to go back to the UK, he woke up realising something was terribly wrong. This is the heartfelt story of someone who has lived through the worst of times, but found a way through.Īt 24, Matt was living in Ibiza with his girlfriend. The first thing I feel I need to make clear is that this isn’t a self-help book, not that I have a particular problem with self-help books, but because this is so much more than that. It is the story of Matt Haig, the crisis that struck him in his early twenties, how he came through that and how he has continued to triumph over the mental illness that almost destroyed him and how, despite all this he has learnt to live joyfully again. I am all too aware that I may have trouble condensing my admiration for this book so do bear with me. The difference between these quotes and the usual crop of plaudits that adorn many books is that they all seem to say something valuable, very much like the book itself. The Cover features quotes from various celebrity readers and newspapers. I remember reading reviews about this book by Matt Haig when it was published last year but it was only after hearing Matt speak at the Quick Reads event I attended recently I realised I needed to read it. The collection contains ten stories: "The Bloody Chamber", "The Courtship of Mr Lyon", "The Tiger's Bride", "Puss-in-Boots", "The Erl-King", "The Snow Child", "The Lady of the House of Love", "The Werewolf", "The Company of Wolves" and "Wolf-Alice". My intention was not to do 'versions' or, as the American edition of the book said, horribly, 'adult' fairy tales, but to extract the latent content from the traditional stories. The stories share a theme of being closely based upon fairytales or folk tales. 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Misery is a broadway play directed by Will Frears, from a book by William Goldman. The stubborn female may thing she's gotten the best of him, but what this situation calls for is a little hands-on negotiating. He must have been drunk when he signed that blasted contract. It's right there in the contract's fine print: No Tomfoolery.Ĭarver Danforthe has a reputation for beautiful mistresses, cutting remarks, and shirking his responsibilities-not for indulging the ambitions of his sister's maid. But becoming his mistress is not a part of their arrangement. And if it means her own dress shop, proper Molly will make a deal with the devil himself-the notoriously naughty Earl of Everscham. Her unique dress designs have caught the eye of London's elite. Molly Robbins is finally stepping into the spotlight. 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Now, in China: The Novel, Rutherfurd takes readers into the rich and fascinating milieu of the Middle Kingdom. The “unparalleled master of the historical saga" ( Newsweek) and internationally bestselling author of Paris and New York takes on an exhilarating new world with his trademark epic style in China: The NovelĮdward Rutherfurd has enthralled millions of readers with his grand, sweeping historical sagas that tell the history of a famous place over multiple generations. But what Summers deals out to Sinatra is nothing compared to his treatment of the Kennedys. On the basis of his witnesses, Summers draws a disparaging picture of Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra. Many make statements about Monroe and her lovers that are absurd to those who knew her. Many of Summers’ witnesses are sleazy characters-hookers and hustlers and private detectives. “Goddess” reeks with the sort of gossip that some will find delicious and others nasty. On his evidence, Monroe must have been the most compulsive nymphomaniac since Messalina. Summers is less interested in Monroe the complicated human being than he is in the myth. And he has discovered and published a photograph of Monroe after the autopsy, a photograph that is the ultimate horror. He has made Monroe’s private life public, recounting alleged amours with the famous and the infamous, and the final maelstrom of alcohol and sleeping pills. A biographer with an investigative reporter’s sensibility and infinite patience, Summers has tracked down more than 600 witnesses and delved into government files and other untapped sources. Twenty-three years after her death, she is impersonated by Theresa Russell in “Insignificance,” imitated by Madonna in the “Material Girl” video, reincarnated as Miranda Richardson in “Dance With a Stranger,” and now cruelly dissected by Anthony Summers in “Goddess.” This is the best of Monroe books, it is the worst of Monroe books. Like a restless spirit, Marilyn Monroe keeps returning. GODDESS: THE SECRET LIVES OF MARILYN MONROE by Anthony Summers. Here, the only possible First Plot Point in sight is John and Savannah’s first kiss-and the subsequent launching of their “official” relationship as a couple. However, we still get a turning point halfway through the First Act when John and Savannah go out on their first date.įirst Plot Point: One of the pitfalls of using up your story’s big moments too early (i.e., opening with the Inciting Event instead of allowing it to be the First Act turning point) is that you can run out of juice too soon. The Inciting Event here is the meeting of the two lead characters (as it almost always is in love stories), when on-leave Special Forces soldier John jumps off a pier to fish spring-breaker Savannah’s bag out of the water. However, unlike Princess Mononoke, it doesn’t work nearly as well here-and for that very reason: it doesn’t allow any setup. Inciting Event: Here’s another example of a story that pretty much begins with its Inciting Event right off the bat (after a brief flashforward prologue), without allowing for any setup of the characters or their situations. |