![]() ![]() ![]() Three new people will disrupt their established beach routine. And when her dad surprises her with the news that his new girlfriend, Vicky, and her two sons, fourteen-year-old Ben and three-year-old Harris will be joining them for the week, things get even stranger. The place isn't as clean as it usually is, the food is different, and some of the furniture is in the wrong place. No one sneezes when they first open up the beach house, like her mom always did. Although she looks forward to having some quality time with her dad, everything just feels strange. For the first time in her ten years, she's spending her annual summer vacation at the Jersey Shore without her mom. ![]() The summer after her parents' divorce is a tough one for Lexie. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() But Gates’s most important proposals involve new technologies. He favours a green new deal, carbon pricing and heightened corporate responsibility. To achieve this, Gates provides a set of measures that could, if the UK government is listening, be transposed point by point into the formal agenda for the this year’s 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference, Cop26, in Glasgow. We would need to use more renewables and fewer fossil fuels (which would account for roughly 27% of the reduction needed in emissions), and change how we manufacture our goods (31%), grow our food (18%), travel (16%), and keep our buildings warm or cool (6%). Ever the technologist, Gates sets out a spreadsheet for getting rid of those 51bn tonnes of greenhouse gases and achieving net carbon zero emissions by 2050. ![]() ![]() ![]() Suddenly surrounded by people who not only know her secret, but accept her for it, Mika is dangerously close to getting attached, both to the girls she’s teaching and to their caretakers, including Jamie, the cute librarian who didn't want to send for her. Mika does, however, do one thing that skates the edges of propriety: She posts online videos in which she "pretends" to be a witch: "Witchcore.Not quite as popular as cottagecore or fairycore, but it's up there." Then she gets an interesting request in her DMs, and Mika finds herself at Nowhere House, an old country estate, teaching three orphaned children how to control their magic. At 31, she’s been raised to keep magic secret her sole contact with other witches is a small group she sees every three months, and she can't even text with them in between, as the group's leader thinks having too much magic in one place will draw unwanted attention. Mika Moon's parents died when she was a child, and she's spent her entire adult life moving every few months, never staying in one place for long or getting attached to anyone. A British witch takes a job as a magic tutor and finds the place she belongs. ![]() ![]() Standard fare for the target demographic, which included early 2010s middle-schooler me: talking animals, bad animation, and LOTS of potty humour. So, when I was a younger, there was this movie that I loved called Alpha and Omega. Several months of work a journey to make a childhood favourite not bad. A complete rebuild from the ground up, it's almost unrecognizable. ![]() November 21st Update: I am pleased to report that the screenplay came back from coverage with a largely positive review! Latest Discussions The Super Mario Bros Movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves John Wick: Chapter 4 Renfield Keanu Reeves Tobey Maguire The Big List of Movie-Related Subreddits.Our Full Rules and Wiki Filter Posts by Link FlairĬlick 'spoiler' after posting something to give it a spoiler tag! The post will then be hidden like this.įor leaked info about upcoming movies, twist endings, or anything else spoileresque, please use the following method: ![]() ![]() ![]() Here’s what the book covers of the Twilight series mean, including that of Midnight Sun.Īfter years with no updates on it, Meyer finally announced that Midnight Sun was going to see the light in August 2020. Stephenie Meyer didn’t go with the obvious for the covers of her books, so over the years she has had to offer some explanations, which along with the interpretations of fans, make the meaning behind them a bit more interesting. The book covers of the Twilight series have a red, black, and white color palette, and each has a different object that doesn’t hold any direct connection with Edward, Bella, Jacob, and the rest, but they do have a meaning. Related: Why Vampires Really Sparkle In Twilight However, the original designs can still be found (and might be more popular than the other versions), but not many are aware of the meaning behind such peculiar covers, as they don’t explicitly reflect what the novels are about. ![]() As it happens with many other books that expand to film, the covers were changed to target the audience brought by the movies, adding the faces of the actors and the films’ posters as covers. ![]() ![]() The Twilight Saga was released between 20, with the final novel, Breaking Dawn, being split into two films. The Twilight series became widely popular, and the fanbase only grew when the books made the jump to the big screen. ![]() ![]() ![]() Two-Face, meanwhile, has degenerated even further into madness as a result of Adams' therapy (sort of like shermans vandalism) she replaced his trademark coin with a six-sided die, and then with a tarot deck of cards, rendering him incapable of making simple decisions such as going to the bathroom.īatman is forced into a game of hide and seek, and told he has one hour to make his way through the maze-like corridors and find a way out before his old foes are sent to find him. ![]() The patients are led by The Joker, who kills a guard to spur Batman to obey his wishes. Among the hostages is a young woman named Pearl, who works in the kitchens the current Administrator, Dr. They're willing to release the hostages, but only if their one demand is met: Batman must be turned over to them, and become one of their own.Ĭommissioner Gordon informs Batman that the patients of Arkham Asylum have taken over the building, and will murder the staff unless Batman agrees to meet with them. The inmates of Arkham Asylum have taken over and seized control of the staff. The subtitle is taken from line 55 of the poem "Church Going", by Philip Larkin. It was originally published in the United States in both hardcover and softcover editions by DC Comics in 1989. Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth is a Batman graphic novel written by Grant Morrison and illustrated by Dave McKean. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is a graduate of the noted Clarion Writers Workshop (1989).Īlthough not a prolific author, having published only eleven short stories as of 2009, Chiang has to date won a string of prestigious speculative fiction awards for his works: a Nebula Award for "Tower of Babylon" (1990), the John W. He currently works as a technical writer in the software industry and resides in Bellevue, near Seattle, Washington. He graduated from Brown University with a Computer Science degree. Ted Chiang is an American speculative fiction writer. ![]() ![]() Piper doesn’t want any distractions, especially feelings for a man who sails off into the sunset for weeks at a time. ![]() The fun-loving socialite and the gruff fisherman are polar opposites, but there’s an undeniable attraction simmering between them. How bad could it really be? She’s determined to show her stepfather-and the hot, grumpy local-that she’s more than a pretty face.Įxcept it’s a small town and everywhere she turns, she bumps into Brendan. So what if Piper can’t do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. ![]() Piper hasn’t even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain Brendan, who thinks she won’t last a week outside of Beverly Hills. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father’s dive bar… in Washington. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. ![]() “ Tessa Bailey is back with a Schitt’s Creek-inspired rom-com about a Hollywood “It Girl” who’s cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town… where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn’t belong.Īs seen on E!Online, PopSugar, CNN, EliteDaily, Vulture, Buzzfeed, Bustle, the Nerd Daily, PARADE, LA Magazine, Country Living, USA Today, and more! It Happened One Summer Bellinger Sisters Book 1 ![]() ![]() One of Addams cartoons shows the Addams mansion with a sign at the front saying "Beware of the Thing". He first appeared in Addams's 1954 book Homebodies. ![]() Thing was the creation of Charles Addams, who drew the Addams Family cartoons in The New Yorker magazine, beginning in the 1930s. It is known as "Cosa" (Thing) in Spain, "Dedos" (Fingers) in Hispanic America, "Mano" (Hand) in Italy ,"La Chose" (the Thing) in French speaking countries, and "eiskaltes Händchen" (icecold hand) in German.Īppearances In The Addams Family media The Addamses called it "Thing" because it was something that could not be identified. Thing, often referred to as just Thing, is a fictional character in The Addams Family series. ![]() ![]() Thing (played by the right hand of Christopher Hart) as shown running on his fingertips in the 1991 feature film ![]() ![]() Through these two characters, the novel poses questions about individualism, masculinity, mental health, and how money conditions relationships. These concerns are always just below the surface in the novel, as Connell and Marianne negotiate the subtle shifts in power in their relationship, which evolves from romance to friendship and back again. ![]() Rooney likes to talk about the book in abstract, theoretical terms, referencing Marxist and feminist theory. When they arrive at Trinity, the formerly friendless Marianne finds herself at ease among the privileged crowd, while Connell finds that his childhood popularity has been displaced by a sense of alienation. The novel follows their relationship as they grow up and attend the prestigious Trinity College Dublin, which also happens to be Rooney’s alma mater. Two Irish teenagers, Connell and Marianne, meet at school and become close because Connell’s mother cleans the mansion where Marianne’s wealthy family lives. The plot of Sally Rooney’s second novel, Normal People, is deceptively simple, but behind a classic coming-of-age plot lies a complex commentary on class and gender. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. ![]() |