![]() ![]() These people are sick and shouldn't have to go to such great lengths to attempt to be healthy. Without beating people over the head we show that a group of senior citizens and one sick young woman need to go to Canada in order to get their prescription meds. One of the things I like about the film is that it's not preachy. Is this an issue you feel strongly about? The film also touches on the healthcare system in America and how a lot of people can't afford the drugs they need. ![]() I was afraid that I couldn't pull off playing Maggie. I'm pretty shy and not entirely comfortable with the kind of attention you get when you focus on your sexual side. I'm much happier talking with people than I am flirting with them. ![]() How eloquent of me! It was the sexuality of the character. You've said you always choose scripts with at least one element that "scares the bejesus out of you". ![]()
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![]() Every chapter is solidly entertaining standouts include Saladin Ahmed’s “Meathooks on Ice,” Christopher Rowe’s “The Apotheosis of Todd Taszycki,” and Mary Anne Mohanraj’s “A Beautiful Facade,” all of which allow their protagonists plenty of room for growth and change. It’s up to the immortal John Nighthawk and the fan-favorite Sleeper-currently capable of temporal manipulation-to rescue them before history is irrevocably altered. An accident during a high-stakes poker game leaves many of its participants-including shape-shifting assassin Lilith, half-tiger bodyguard Khan, and power-mimicking Abigail-stranded in various moments in Chicago’s past. In the upbeat 26th installment (after Mississippi Roll) of the anthology series exploring an alternate history where an alien virus accidentally released in 1946 transforms its survivors into supervillainous jokers, superheroic aces, or a combination thereof, eight authors introduce a new wrinkle: time travel. ![]() ![]() Haunted by lost opportunities, he seeks solace through every possible means - literature, travel, friendship, drugs, politics, sex and love. In 1935 England, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend Robbie Turner, and she becomes the victim of her own imagination, which leads her on a lifelong search for truth and absolution. ![]() Twenty-five years later, as the radiation from the Chernobyl disaster spreads across Europe, Roland’s wife mysteriously vanishes and he is forced to confront the reality of his rootless existence and look for answers in his family history.įrom the fall of the Berlin Wall to the Covid pandemic and climate change, Roland sometimes rides with the tide of history but more often struggles against it. Publisher : Anchor Books Language : eng ISBN-10 : 6867 ISBN-13 : 9780385721790. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines’s life is turned upside down. On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Lessons is an intimate yet universal story of love, regret and a restless search for answers. ![]() Discover the Sunday Times bestselling new novel from Ian McEwan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alert the medics and have my bed prepared for our arrival. The world tilts and steadies all at once. Take me back, I tell him, shifting, just a little. I haven’t gone deaf.Īll at once the noise disappears. I’ve been shot, Delalieu, I manage to say. They keep shouting Sir! as if they’re still waiting for me to give them orders, as if they have no idea what to do without my instruction. Several people are shouting and too many of them are touching me, and I want their hands surgically removed. I have to squeeze my eyes shut, grit my teeth, and force myself to pay attention. Torture is roaring through my right arm and making it difficult for me to focus. My skin is cold and clammy I’m making a herculean effort to breathe. And, as it turns out, a bullet wound is even more uncomfortable than I had imagined. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite a few unprofitable digressions, Diamant succeeds admirably in depicting the lives of women in the age that engendered our civilization and our most enduring values. After several nonfiction works on Judaism (Living a Jewish Life, etc.), Diamant's fiction debut links the passions of the early Israelites to the ongoing traditions of modern Jews, while the red tent of her title (where women retreat for menstruation, childbirth and illness) becomes a resonant symbol of womanly strength, love and wisdom. Familiar passages from the Bible come alive as Dinah fills in what the Bible leaves out concerning Jacob's courtship of Rachel and Leah, her own ill-fated sojourn in the city of Sechem and her half-brother Joseph's rise to fame and fortune in Egypt. ![]() Most important, Dinah learns and preserves the stories and traditions of her family, which she shares with the reader in touchingly intimate detail. She learns from her Aunt Rachel the mysteries of midwifery and from her other aunts the art of homemaking. The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant To distinguish between Bible and Midrash (a task that requires us to turn again and again to the biblical text) To examine and. The only surviving daughter of Jacob and Leah, Dinah occupies a far different world from the flocks and business deals of her brothers. A minor character from the book of Genesis tells her life story in this vivid evocation of the world of Old Testament women. ![]() |