Yes, dear reader, you caught me-I’ve been a Tolkienite since age eight, when I got my hands on The Hobbit and it changed my little brain forever. What’s the best path for reading your way through, you ask? It’s a simple question, but one bound to rile up Tolkien fans, who love and study the author’s works with serious devotion. But The Lord of the Rings is just the tip of the iceberg Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium encompasses thousands of years and dozens of other works, meaning that if you dive in, it may be quite a long time before you make it there and back again. You’ll always remember the first time you encountered these moving, masterfully imagined epics about the struggle between good and evil, the delicate balance of death and immortality, and the addictive danger of power. If you haven’t read the series, how I envy you! Newcomers are in for an unforgettable reading experience. Now, with Amazon's Rings of Power closing the curtain on a successful Season One, a whole new generation of fans have discovered Middle-earth. Peter Jackson’s early aughts film adaptations have only compounded the series’ enduring popularity, inviting new fans into Tolkien’s fantastical world by way of Academy Awards, timeless memes, and astounding filmmaking. Tolkien’s sprawling magnum opus popularized the fantasy genre, galvanized a counterculture movement, and snowballed into a global pop culture phenomenon. It’s difficult to imagine a world without The Lord of the Rings.
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The screenplay will be written by Mark Heyman ( Black Swan), based on the original screenplay written by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. Savage is best known for directing the 2020 Shudder original film, Host. The project was brought back in 2021, with Rob Savage set to direct. Production came to a halt when the film was canceled in 2019, following Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox. Beck and Woods have been filmmaking partners for a while now, co-writing and executive producing films such as A Quiet Place, and writing and directing Haunt for producer Eli Roth. The project was initially announced in 2018, with Scott Beck and Bryan Woods co-writing the screenplay. The Boogeyman is not a new story, as it was first published in a 1973 issue of Cavalier magazine and later included in King’s 1978 short-story collection, “The Night Shift.” It is one of the latest to be announced as under development for a feature-length adaptation. The septuagenarian has been consistently pumping out new horror stories almost as often as he fires off politically-inclined tweets. There has been no shortage of Stephen King content in recent years. There’s six hours from campus to Charlie’s home, and not everyone is going to make it out of this ride alive…īut the “Please don’t do this” premise isn’t the only thing cinematic about Survive the Night: Charlie is a film buff, who makes sense of her precarious situation partially by drawing on lessons learned from films like Silence of the Lambs and Gaslight. Exactly the wrong thing to do with a serial killer on the loose. Wracked with grief, Charlie desperately wants to get away from campus-so much so, she accepts a ride from a tall, dark, handsome stranger. Charlie’s been through a lot in the last few months, including the murder of her best friend by the infamous (and at-large) Campus Killer. Riley Sager’s latest thriller, Survive the Night, starts with a humdinger of a “Please don’t do this” premise and then, right as you think you know the score, turns the story on its head to become something totally new and unexpected. A kid wanders into the basement where too many things have gone bump in the dark. There’s something I like to call the “Please don’t do this” premise, common to both thrillers and horror films: A girl walks home alone at night. As Kylie Owens uncovers the truth about who she is and what her own dark powers are, her aunt Franny comes to understand that she is ready to sacrifice everything for her family, and Sally Owens realizes that she is willing to give up everything for love. The younger generation discovers secrets that have been hidden from them in matters of both magic and love by Sally, their fiercely protective mother. Jet is not the only one in danger-the curse is already at work.Ī frantic attempt to save a young man’s life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and one long-lost brother, to use their unusual gifts to break the curse as they travel from Paris to London to the English countryside where their ancestor Maria Owens first practiced the Unnamed Art. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three-hundred years but all of that is about to change. Title/Author: The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, andĬhoose the ones that are most thought-provoking. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a bookĪnd to carry with us the author’s best ideas. 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What is it about Richard McGuire's Here? A simple-looking, black-and-white cartoon that first appeared in Raw magazine in 1989 - clocking in at a mere 36 panels - it's maintained its hold on comic artists' imaginations ever since. Here traces millenia of history - and prehistory - within the space of one large room. The research and information in this book is unprecedented, and as Roger Stone lived through it, he's the perfect person to bring it to everyone's attention. Unlimited Access blows the Clintons’ cover. With 2013 being the fiftieth anniversary of JFK's assassination, this is the perfect time for The Man Who Killed Kennedy to be available to readers. Now Gary Aldrich completes his story, with shocking new revelations, including the Clintons’ sadly successful attempt to turn parts of the FBI into their own personal political force. Political consultant, strategist, and Libertarian Roger Stone has gathered documents and used his firsthand knowledge to construct the ultimate tome to prove that LBJ was not only involved in JFK's assassination, but was in fact the mastermind. In The Man Who Killed Kennedy, you will find out how and why he did it. President Johnson, the thirty-sixth president of the United States, was the driving force behind a conspiracy to murder President John F. In the end, President Johnson would use power from his personal connections in Texas and from the underworld and from the government to escape an untimely end in politics and to seize even greater power. Lyndon Baines Johnson was a man of great ambition and enormous greed, both of which, in 1963, would threaten to destroy him. “A poignant testament to familial love and legacy. All that beauty is there in the eyes of her family.” In the end, the tale winds down from the mythical back to the personal with a simple family portrait. Eyes That Kiss in the Corners is a beautifully written and illustrated love letter that celebrates Asian eyes. ★ At the emotional height of the story, the poetic descriptions of her Asian eyes are mythic and affirming, and she appears amid grandiose illustrations of fantastical beasts and landscapes from Chinese culture. ★ “Expertly paired, the text and illustrations amplify each other superbly, in an important addition to every library serving young children and their families.” ★ “This tale of self-acceptance and respect for one’s roots is breathtaking.”
Some are major titles you can't miss ( Pramoedya Ananta Toer's " Buru Quartet" comes to mind) and some, like the Urban Poor Consortium’s anthology "Rakyat Miskin Kota Menulis Riwayatnya Sendiri" ("The Urban Poor Write Their Own Stories"), are more obscure titles that we think deserve to be read more widely if we are to have a more nuanced understanding of our story as a nation. We’ve selected 30 titles to get us started. This is not a definitive list, not a canon of the "best books" about Indonesia, or the "must-reads," or a list of "30 books about Indonesia you have to read before you die," but an invitation for all of us to think about what kind of stories we want to read – and the stories we want told – about our country. 8, at Maxx Coffee in Lippo Mall Kemang, South Jakarta, we're publishing this list of 30 books on Indonesian history, politics, economy, culture and literature that might help you gain a deeper understanding of the sprawling archipelago of more than 18,000 islands and 267 million people – and its long and complex story. As part of our Jakarta Globe Reading Club's "Reading Indonesia" event on Saturday, Sept. In 2011, IGN ranked Judge Dredd 35th among the top 100 comic book heroes of all time. Over the years, Judge Dredd has been hailed as one of the best satires of American and British culture with an uncanny ability to predict upcoming trends and events such as mass surveillance, the rise of populist leaders, and the COVID-19 pandemic. In Great Britain, the character of Dredd and his name are sometimes invoked in discussions of police states, authoritarianism, and the rule of law. He is a " street judge", empowered to summarily arrest, convict, sentence, and execute criminals. Judge Dredd is a law enforcement and judicial officer in the dystopian future city of Mega-City One, which covers most of the east coast of North America. He also appears in a number of film and video game adaptations. He is the magazine's longest-running character. He first appeared in the second issue of 2000 AD (1977), which is a British weekly anthology comic. Judge Joseph Dredd is a fictional character created by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra. |