![]() ![]() ![]() What's been the hardest part of seeing the film come to life? The idea is not based on anyone or anything real - it came to me in a flash one day, asking to be written. Heidi's family, like a lot of families, is not the traditional mother, father, kids and a dog kind of family. You write that you create stories from what you know. Kids love that aspect of the book - I guess they feel the same way about candy as I do - but the jugyfruits didn't make it into the movie. In the book, the best way to calm Mama down when she got upset was to give her a jugyfruit. Is there anything from the book you wish made it to the screen? ![]() They are both such lovely, creative people and they treated my work with TLC and a lot of respect. I worked closely with Garry Williams, the screenwriter and Stephen Gyllenhaal, our director. I was absolutely thrilled that all these years later someone decided to turn it into a movie. What has been the process of seeing your book turn into a screenplay? I also teach writing to adults and children. My name is Sarah Weeks and I've been writing books for young readers for the past 30 years. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I peeked under the stall door and saw a pair of feet in strappy yellow sandals. For her, school had been nothing but a constant parade of stolen lunch money and nasty remarks. ![]() Felicia, on the other hand, was the class punching bag. And while I may have been a weirdo, people weren't mean to me they mostly just ignored me. There was a girl just like her at every school I'd ever been to (nineteen and counting). Besides, I'd developed a soft spot for Felicia. I'd left her alone before, figuring that it was every girl's right to cry in a public bathroom from time to time.īut tonight was prom night, and there was something really sad about sobbing in formal wear. ![]() She had a really distinctive sob, high and breathy like a little kid's, even though Felicia was eighteen, two years older than me. I knew it was her because in the three months I'd been going to Green Mountain High, I'd already seen Felicia crying in the bathroom twice. Felicia Miller was crying in the bathroom. ![]() ![]() ![]() Searching to make sense of the popular concept of the crazy artist, she finds inspiration from the lives and work of other artists and writers who suffered from mood disorders, including Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O’Keeffe, William Styron, and Sylvia Plath. Flagrantly manic and terrified that medications would cause her to lose creativity, she began a years-long struggle to find mental stability while retaining her passions and creativity. ![]() Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Cartoonist Ellen Forney explores the relationship between “crazy” and “creative” in this graphic memoir of her bipolar disorder, woven with stories of famous bipolar artists and writers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is evidenced by the fact that Bunce Island itself remained forgotten for generations. Nonetheless, Britain’s role in the slave trade is often glossed over or ignored. Half of all the millions of Africans carried into slavery in the eighteenth century were transported on British ships. ![]() Between 1618, which marked the rise of the British slave trade, and 1807, when the country abolished it, Britain was the premier slave-trading nation in the Atlantic. This island contains the ruins of a fortress that, for over a century, was at the heart of the British slave trade in Africa.įrom that fortress, tens of thousands of enslaved Africans were shipped to plantations in the Caribbean and the Americas. There’s an island at the mouth of the Sierra Leone River in West Africa called Bunce Island. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A behavior occurs - whether an example of humans at our best, worst, or somewhere in between. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful, but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: He starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs and then hops back in time from there in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy.Īnd so the first category of explanation is the neurobiological one. More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. ![]() ![]() ![]() Secrets and blood are spilled in equal quantities, as the Vought-American corporation prepares to make their move - and the truth behind a great American tragedy is finally revealed. ![]() 5: Herogasm An evil so profound it threatens all mankind The mightiest heroes on the planet uniting to defend us all A secret crisis of such utter finality that a countdown to civil or infinite war seems unavoidable But have you ever wondered what really happens during Crossovers? The Seven, Payback, Teenage Kix, Fantastico, and every other superhero on Earth team up for an annual event like no other - and where the superheroes go, can a certain "five complications and a dog" be far behind? But as the fun and games begin, it seems our heroes have set their sights on bigger game than usual. Garth Ennis, John McCrea, and Darick Robertson bring another tale from The Boys with The Boys, Vol. ![]() ![]() A total of 8893 patients (median: age 81, Q1–Q3: 71–87 years old) were included, in whom 9% had 30 day mortality and 17% had 90 day mortality. Comparisons were made with decision tree and multivariable logistic regression. Variables were ranked in the order of importance with a total score of 100 and used to build the frailty models. Gradient boosting, which is a supervised sequential ensemble learning algorithm with weak prediction submodels (typically decision trees), was applied to predict mortality. Age, sex, variables in the modified frailty index, Deyo's Charlson co‐morbidity index (≥2), neutrophil‐to‐lymphocyte ratio (NLR), and prognostic nutritional index at baseline were analysed. ![]() This was a retrospective observational study that included patients admitted to nine public hospitals for heart failure from Hong Kong between 20. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How the fight plays out between Sorin and Aden is genuinely thrilling, however.Įlsewhere, Mary Ann, Riley, and Tucker are trying to track down Aden’s parents and the people who knew the souls in his head before they died. Aden’s old mates at the home for troubled boys are brought back in a clever way but mostly wasted. It’s a fight to the death, but Victoria wants both pugilists to survive. Things at the homefront kick into gear when Victoria’s brother Sorin arrives to challenge Aden for the throne. She understands what’s happening, and she’s pretty good at working through her jealousy to pay attention to what’s really at risk. I particularly enjoyed the passages through Victoria’s POV. Aden is becoming colder, which helps him to rule the vampires, but it hurts their relationship as Victoria becomes more insecure. Aden’s not prepared to deal with the monster that lives in her head, nor is she suited to coping with the three souls that live in Aden’s. Namely, they’ve been swapping both powers and personalities. This isn’t too surprising considering Unraveled ended shortly after Aden, the hero, got stabbed through the heart.Īden’s survival has serious consequences for both him and his vampire girlfriend Victoria. ![]() Gena Showalter’s Intertwined series has never been light and fluffy, but Twisted takes some dark turns. Urban fantasy published by Harlequin Teen 30 Aug 11 Liviania’s review of Twisted (Intertwined, Book 3) by Gena Showalter ![]() ![]() This is a long review and contains little spoilers! But in this case, the confession could be much more destructive than the actual sin… All he would have to do to save their relationship is confess. The last thing Owen wants is to lose Auburn, but he can’t seem to convince her that truth is sometimes as subjective as art. The magnitude of his past threatens to destroy everything important to Auburn, and the only way to get her life back on track is to cut Owen out of it. But when she walks into a Dallas art studio in search of a job, she doesn’t expect to find a deep attraction to the enigmatic artist who works there, Owen Gentry.įor once, Auburn takes a risk and puts her heart in control, only to discover Owen is keeping major secrets from coming out. ![]() ![]() Her goals are in sight and there’s no room for mistakes. Auburn Reed has her entire life mapped out. ![]() ![]() ![]() It examines sections of Devendranath Tagore’s autobiography, written around 1856 – 58, before discussing the travelogues of Jaladhar Sen and Ramananda Bharati from the closing years of the nineteenth century. This paper examines changing conceptions of the Himalaya in nineteenth century Bengali travelogues from a sacred space to a spatial metaphor of a putative nation-space. ![]() When seafaring merchants invoked certain gods and patronised certain temples and cults, it led to the creation of Maritime Heritage. From Varuna to Ganga, from Matsya Avataar to Harsiddhi Mata, from Mazu to Avalokiteshwara, we study the evolution of these deities and cults and co-relate them to the corresponding growth in maritime activity in certain regions. It is especially true of India, which is blessed with a long coastline, plentiful rivers and abundant maritime activity. Man's relation to water bodies has been both, sacral and tinged with fear. In this paper, we take a look at some of the riverine and marine gods and goddesses that were venerated in ancient and medieval India and neighboring nations. Although the Indian religious traditions have largely been studied from a spiritual and cultural point of view, a lot remains to be said about its relation to commercial growth. Development of maritime trade through the ages is amply reflected not just in the archaeological remains of material culture but also mythology. ![]() |