5/13/2023 0 Comments The beatles anthology netflix![]() ![]() "Free as a Bird" became The Beatles' 34th Top 10 hit in the U.S., winning the 1996 GRAMMY(R) Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. Upon their original release, Anthology, Volumes 1-3 topped charts and went multi-platinum in several countries around the world. The "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love" singles, from Anthology, Volume 1 and Anthology, Volume 2, respectively, were completed in 1995 by George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr from 1977 demos recorded by John Lennon. Originally released in 2CD volumes in 19, Anthology's three chronological collections of rare and previously unreleased Beatles recordings include studio outtakes and alternate versions. ![]() ![]() On April 4 at 12:01am local time, The Beatles' acclaimed Anthology, Volumes 1-3 music collections are available for streaming worldwide. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Feed by mira grant![]() Disney’s got a new film out, it’s called Reservoir Dogs. They wanted to start doing more things without worrying that mothers were going to say, “Oh, honey, look. So do you remember how back in the early ’90s Disney created Touchstone Pictures so that they could release R-rated movies? Basically there was a point where Disney wanted to diversify. You write fiction as both Seanan McGuire and as Mira Grant. Visit to listen to the entire interview and the rest of the show, in which the hosts discuss various geeky topics. ![]() ![]() ![]() This interview first appeared on ’s The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, which is hosted by John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and a five-time Hugo Award nominee, including four Hugo nominations this year. Her short fiction has appeared in Apex, Fantasy Magazine, Lightspeed, and in many anthologies, such as Home Improvement: Undead Edition, Other Worlds Than These, and The Living Dead 2. Seanan McGuire (a/k/a Mira Grant) is the author of the October Daye series, the InCryptid series, and the Newsflesh trilogy (consisting of Feed, Deadline, and Blackout). Series: The Tales of Gorlen Vizenfirthe.Series: From the Lost Travelers’ Tour Guide.People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Death of a salesman requiem![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even as Linda reassures him, he hears the laughter of The Woman, his mistress in Boston.Ĭharley comes over to see if Willy is okay. But under the questioning of his wife Linda, Willy admits that his commission from the trip was so small that they will hardly be able to pay all their bills, and that he is full of self-doubt. Charley and Bernard, in his view, lack the natural charisma that the Loman men possess, which Willy believes is the real determinant of success. He contrasts himself and his sons with his next door neighbor Charley, a successful businessman, and Charley's son Bernard, a serious student. But as Biff reveals to his younger brother Happy-an assistant to the assistant buyer at a department store-he feels more fulfilled by outdoor work than by his earlier attempts to work in an office.Īlone in his kitchen, Willy remembers an earlier return from a business trip, when Biff and Happy were young boys and looked up to him as a hero. ![]() Willy thinks Biff has not lived up to his potential. His son Biff, who has been laboring on farms and ranches throughout the West for more than a decade, has recently arrived home to figure out a new direction for his life. At the age of 63, he has lost his salary and is working only on commission, and on this trip has failed to sell anything. Willy Loman, a traveling salesman, returns home to Brooklyn early from a sales trip. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Die Young with Me by Rob Rufus![]() ![]() ![]() Somebody liked it, some guy I'd never heard of called Rob Rufus, and in his profile was promotional material for a book he had written about his own experience with a rare cancer. I posted a picture to instagram to celebrate, one of my hashtags was #cancer. Yesterday was my last day of chemotherapy for Hodgkin's lymphoma, a rare "young people only" cancer that attacks the lymph nodes and blood system of the body. But as Rob’s life diverges from his brother’s, he learns to find strength within himself and through his music. While Rob suffers through nightmarish treatments and debilitating surgery, Nat continues on their band’s road to success alone. ![]() Not only are his dreams of punk rock stardom completely shredded, there is a very real threat that this is one battle that can’t be won. When the brothers start their own band, their lives begin to change: they meet friends, they attract girls, and they finally get invited to join a national tour and get out of their rat box little town.īut their plans are cut short when Rob is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that has already progressed to Stage Four. But what can you expect when you’re the only punks in town? To them, school (and pretty much everything else) sucks. In fact, it blares constantly from the basement of Rob and Nat Rufus-identical twin brothers with spiked hair, black leather jackets, and the most kick-ass record collection in Appalachia. The true story of a teenager diagnosed with cancer and how music was the one thing that helped him get through his darkest days. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Stubby the war dog by ann bausum![]() ![]() Pam Ward is perfect as always narrating this moving and heartwarmingly stubby tail.or tale? lol p.s. I barely made it through the main narration. I was really looking forward to this story. What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment? It was highly distracting and occasionally infuriating. She almost sounded happy, like she was telling a joke, when reciting gruesome casualty numbers. She used a light, jovial, almost sing-song tone, entirely inappropriate for a story about a war. What didn’t you like about Pam Ward’s performance? Heart wrenching, personal, vulnerable, uplifting, and warm. The foreword, written by the grandson of Sgt Stubby's owner, who is himself a veteran suffering from PTSD, was probably the best part. What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting? And with hundreds of thousands of people dead, it's not an appropriate joke either. Yes, it's a story about WWI, we know that they are "literally" in the trenches. Multiple times the author over-sized the word "literally," and the narrator's obvious amusement over the weak-but-oft-repeated joke was infuriating. ![]() The narrator was distracting, using entirely the wrong tone for the serious topic. What disappointed you about Sergeant Stubby? Amazing historical story ruined by campy narration ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Harrow the ninth gideon![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you did not already buy in on the basis of book one, book two is unlikely to sell this world for you. Harrow builds on the mythology Gideon established in increasingly baroque directions, and even though I am fully on board the Gideon boat, I still found this new volume rough sailing at times. If, however, you did not care for Gideon and, particularly, for the density of its mythology, or you feel like perhaps skipping volume one and diving straight into volume two, I feel compelled to tell you for the love of god not to do it. And if you are the kind of person who loved Gideon the Ninth (lesbian necromancers in space! what’s not to like?), you’ll love Harrow too. Regardless, I loved Harrow the Ninth, loved it with my whole heart: its lush and velvety sentences, its wicked sense of humor, its sprawling cosmic world-building, the tragic love story at the center of it all. Confidently I poised my fingers over the keyboard, certain that this novel that is so exceedingly lovable, this novel that I had already read three times, with its necromantic saints and showy metafictional riffs and luridly gothic family saga, would be easy to write about.Īnd then it occurred to me: Did I have any idea what happened at the end? Not in a cliffhanger way, more in like a … basic plot mechanics way? I couldn’t tell that there was anything wrong with Tamsyn Muir’s Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to last year’s Gideon the Ninth, until I sat down to summarize it. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Tie me down melanie harlow![]() ![]() The Audio on this one is really great, with both voices perfect for the characters. Melanie writes the heck out of friends to lovers, and the way she writes the good guy, it’s next level good. I knew Beckett’s story was going to be a good one. There is something extra special about these characters. The Bellamy Creek Series is my favorite of Melanie Harlow’s. Like any cowboy, he’s good with a rope and knows exactly how to tie me up.Ī perfect ending to our travels through Bellamy Creek. Nothing has ever felt so right, but his past has taught him not to believe in happily-ever-after, and every perfect night I spend in his arms brings us closer to good-bye. And once we give into each other, we can’t stop. That’s not the only big thing he’s got - which I discover the night I finally sneak across the hall to his bedroom and shed my inhibitions right alongside my pajamas. I only returned to my hometown of Bellamy Creek to sell my late mother’s house, and he just invited me and my son to stay with him because he’s got a big heart. ![]() A lot.īut I’m a single mom trying to move on with my life, and he’s running that ranch single-handedly while taking care of his elderly father. ![]() He makes a girl sweat just looking at him.and I look. And who wouldn’t appreciate those strong hands, that massive chest, and the way he fills out a pair of Levis? Yes, I’ve had a secret crush on him since we were 17. Sure, he’s a hot cowboy who left Wall Street behind to take over his family’s ranch. That’s all Beckett Weaver and I have ever been. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Doing it by melvin burgess![]() ![]() In the US, Henry Holt published the novel in 1997 as Smack - another slang term for heroin. Junk also won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a similar award that authors may not win twice it is the latest of six books to win both awards. For the 70th anniversary of the Medal, in 2007, Junk was named one of the Top 10 winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite. īurgess won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British author. ![]() Yet it was unusually controversial at first, criticised negatively for its 'how-to' aspect, or its dark realism, or its moral relativism. ![]() Both critically and commercially, it is the best received of Burgess' novels. Set on the streets of Bristol, England, it features two runaway teenagers who join a group of squatters, where they fall into heroin addiction and embrace anarchism. Junk, known as Smack in the US, is a realistic novel for young adults, written by British author Melvin Burgess and published in 1996 by Andersen in the UK. ![]() ![]() ![]() This may not be news in the third wave of intersectional feminism, but in the 90s it’s clearly a radical idea, and Clover uses it as a jumping-off point to talk about the semiotics of a lot of different horror tropes. One of Clover’s central questions is: why are horror audiences mostly young men when popular wisdom of the time says that male viewers will only identify with male characters? (Unsurprisingly, nobody thought it was weird for female viewers to identify with male characters.) Spoiler: people can identify with characters of any gender. While I have to agree with my dog that Freud and psychoanalysis in general are over-used and often-unconvincing tools of critical theory, I’m still finding this book very enlightening.
5/13/2023 0 Comments The Other Alcott by Elise Hooper![]() ![]() ![]() While her sister Louisa crafts stories, May herself is a talented and dedicated artist, taking lessons in Boston, turning down a marriage proposal from a well-off suitor, and facing scorn for entering what is very much a man's profession. Stylish, outgoing, creative, May Alcott grows up longing to experience the wide world beyond Concord, Massachusetts. Now, it's time to learn the truth about the real "Amy", Louisa's sister, May. But while everyone cheers on Jo March, based on Louisa herself, Amy March is often the least favorite sister. We all know the story of the March sisters, heroines of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. " adventures illuminate the world of intrepid female artists in the late 1800s The Other Alcott comes alive in its development of the relationship between Louisa and May." -The New York TimesĮlise Hooper's debut novel conjures the fascinating, untold story of May Alcott-Louisa's youngest sister and an artist in her own right. ![]() |