![]() ![]() All praises be to our fearless network, we shall endeavor not to screw it up.” The writing staff of Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire is honored, humbled, and hungry to add more stamps to our vamps’ passport books. ![]() There are several Rice books that make up The Vampire Chronicles about Louis, Lestat, and others who enter their orbit…but based on the below quote from showrunner Rolin Jones, also from the press release, it looks like the seven-episode season 1 won’t even finish the events of the first book: “Bulgaria. ![]() ![]() “We will happily walk through the doorway that AMC has so kindly opened for us and deliver a season 2 that takes full advantage of the wonders bestowed upon us by Anne Rice.” What will season 2 be about? “The opportunity to revisit the passionate and shocking world of Louis, Lestat, and Claudia is irresistible,” said producer Mark Johnson in the official press release announcing Interview With the Vampire’s renewal. They are committed to Louis and Lestat’s relationship, y’all. AMC renewed Interview With the Vampire for season 2 ahead of the series premiere. Spit it out! Is Interview With the Vampire getting a season 2? ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() By the time the two inmates are caught, Nora realizes that life will never be simple for her again…but that it has gotten a whole lot more interesting. Elidee, an African American girl whose brother is in the prison, has experiences at school and in town that highlight some differences between being a black and a white resident of Wolf Creek. As events unfold, Nora begins to see that her town is not as idyllic as she first thought. ![]() The story is told in texts, letters, news articles, and other materials mostly created by Nora, her best friend Lizzie, and new girl Elidee. But when two inmates escape from the prison housed in Wolf Creek, everything changes. Summary: When the seventh graders at Wolf Creek Middle School are given the assignment to submit their writing to be put in the town’s time capsule, Nora expects to write about field day and the Fourth of July cookout. ![]() ![]() He was a man who suffered from surges of misery, yet expressed in his verse many breathtaking impressions of electric joy and love. He converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a sixteen-year-old girl without her father’s consent, struggled to feed a family of ten children, and was often ill and in pain. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, a member of Parliament-and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, and Literary Hubįrom the standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death. Winner of the 2022 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography PrizeĪ Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of 2022Ī New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction ![]() ![]() ![]() It features a grumpy farmer, a no-nonsense social media influencer, a small town of busybodies, and four very cute kittens. In the Weeds is a sweet and steamy second-chance romance about finding your happiness. It has absolutely nothing to do with the hot farmer she spent two incredible nights with-nothing at all. She returns to the last place she was happy, Lovelight Farms and the tiny town of Inglewild. When she disappears again, Beckett resolves to finally forget her and move on.įeeling disconnected from her work and increasingly unhappy, she’s trying to find her way back to something real. He had no idea that the sweet and sexy woman he met at a bar is actually a global phenomenon: social media influencer Evelyn St. So when she suddenly appears on his farm as part of a social media contest, he is confused. He can’t stop thinking about her laugh, her hand pressed flat against his chest, her smiling mouth at his neck, her eyes, her legs. ![]() But Evie wove some sort of magic over him during their tumble in the sheets. He’s not unfamiliar with hot and heavy flings. One incredible weekend in Maine, and Beckett Porter is officially a distracted man. ![]() ![]() I’ll work out a way to compile and share these letters in the near future, assuming I can get the necessary permission. And I’ll be replying to as many of you as humanly possible. It might become a permanent home for suggestions. I’ll be keeping this discussion open indefinitely. A letter is a letter is a letter, and I’m here for them all. It can be profound, silly, heartbreaking, long, short. It can be a letter from a published collection of correspondence or a biography, or even a letter you’ve sent/received yourself. It could be a letter I’ve previously shared, or, better still, a letter I’m yet to mention. Paste a couple of lines or just point me to the right book or website or source and I’ll try my best to find it. Let me/all of us know in the comments below. So I thought I’d try something a bit different with one of these open threads, which I’ve also never tried, and ask you very simply: ![]() For fourteen years I’ve been harping on about the correspondence that grabs me, building up a hefty following of likeminded individuals along the way, and I’ve largely kept it one-sided, and in doing so I’ve probably, in fact definitely, missed out on countless opportunities to broaden my horizons. It occurred to me this morning that I have never, as far as I can remember, asked you-the devoted readers of Letters of Note-about your favourite letters, which seems even more absurd as I type it out. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like several of Poe's stories, and in keeping with the 19th-century fascination with the subject, the narrative revolves around a person being buried alive – in this case, by immurement.Īs in "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart", Poe conveys the story through the murderer's perspective. The story is set in a nameless European city in an unspecified year (possibly sometime during the eighteenth century) and concerns the deadly revenge taken by the narrator on a friend who he claims has insulted him. "The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque of Amontillado") is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in the November 1846 issue of "Godey's Lady's Book". "infobox Book " name The Cask of Amontillado image image caption BookSurge Classics cover author Edgar Allen Poe country America language English genre Gothic publisher BookSurge Classics release date 1846 media type Short Story, Paperback pages 20 isbn 1594561869 ![]() ![]() Although there’s been many films since, most “Ryanverse” fans would still cite The Hunt for Red October as the best film in the franchise.Īmazon’s Jack Ryan has made many bold attempts to modernize the material to fit within the global political context of the 21st century, and John Krasinski’s interpretation of the titular character is quite different from Baldwin’s. He succeeded in making a taught, intense thriller that balances the various perspectives and emphasizes strategy over spectacle. Predator and Die Hard director John McTiernan was tasked with bringing The Hunt For Red October to life. ![]() ![]() It didn’t take long for Hollywood to take an interest in Clancy’s stories. The Hunt For Red October was Clancy’s first “Ryanverse” novel the themes of a potential nuclear conflict with Russia were particularly timely during the height of the Cold War, and the novel was praised for its detailed depiction of combat and delicacy in handling political topics. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The two versions differ in several ways – two of those differences are major. The details of the slander are restated by way of reminder at 19bc in an immediate preliminary to his detailed defense: "Socrates does wrong and is concerned with inquiring about what's in the heavens and below the earth and to make the weaker argument appear to be the stronger and to teach these same things to others." At 18bc he says these accusations are that "there is a certain Socrates, a wise man, who thinks about what's in the heavens and who has investigated all things below the earth and who makes the weaker argument appear to be the stronger." He immediately adds that people "believe that those who inquire about such topics don't believe in the gods." That is, atheism is thought by the Athenian public to be a consequence of the activities of which he has been 'accused'. ![]() He specifies the informal 'charges' at three different places in the text. In fact, he claims (18b-e) that the most important and most difficult part of his defense will be making a persuasive response to those long-standing prejudices. ![]() (18b1) He treats that "slander" as he calls it (19a2), as if it were a legally filed charge, as if it constituted an official accusation. In Plato's Apology, Socrates, after his opening remarks, tells the jury that not only will he reply to the charges on which he has been brought before the court, but must also speak to the prejudices about him which have been accumulating "for a long time now". ![]() ![]() ![]() Since birth, Jing-Mei has been separated from her twin sisters and hopes to meet them one day. The main event of the book hinges around Jing-Mei, who is one of the daughters. It is up to the daughters to learn to accept their heritage and up to the mothers to understand. Topics such as interracial marriages, a struggle to uphold expectations, and language impediments begin to surface. However, with this generational and cultural barrier comes problems. Since the mothers all grew up in traditional households, they hope to force that way of life upon their American-born daughters. Throughout sixteen intertwined stories, Tan covers the daughters’ early life till adulthood as well as changes within the mother-daughter relationships. The Joy Luck Club is a “club” founded in 1939 in which four Chinese mothers gossip about their children while playing mah-jong. Together, they grapple with cultural differences, language barriers, and a struggle to maintain connection to their heritage. ![]() ![]() Each daughter has their own interests and each mother remains unwilling to relinquish their traditional upbringings. The Joy Luck Club is a carefully crafted story that highlights the relationships between four Chinese-American daughters and their immigrant parents. This was only one of many powerful quotes within Amy Tan’s debut novel, The Joy Luck Club. “I made a promise to myself: I would always remember my parents’ wishes, but I would never forget myself.” ![]() ![]() ![]() And then on a hot summer's night, one bad decision is made. It's a dangerous, explosive season of drinking, driving, parties, and kids who want to let loose. But senior year of high school tests them all. Jude does everything to keep her kids out of harm's way. Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable. Lexi, a former foster child with a dark past, quickly becomes Mia's best friend. When Lexi Baill moves into their small, close-knit community, no one is more welcoming than Jude. "A rich, multilayered reading experience, and an easy recommendation for book clubs." -Library Journal (starred review)įor eighteen years, Jude Farraday has put her children's needs above her own, and it shows-her twins, Mia and Zach, are bright and happy teenagers. Vivid, universal, and emotionally complex, Kristin Hannah's Night Road raises profound questions about motherhood, identity, love, and forgiveness. ![]() |