![]() Every change should exist in service to translating the original work to the new medium in a way that enriches it within that medium. The question isn’t whether changes should be made, but what kind of changes and why. Again, these choices are going to please some and enrage others.īut I think it’s fair to suggest that when adapting any work, some degree of faithfulness and fidelity to the source material should be at the very least a guiding principle. When adapting something as vague and open-ended as Tolkien’s Second Age, many gaps will have to be filled in to create a narrative fit for a multi-season television show. What works on the page won’t necessarily work on a screen. These will never please everyone, of course, but a new medium demands it. When adapting an established work from one medium to another, changes will invariably be made. Morfydd Clark (Galadriel), Charles Edwards (Celebrimbor) Ben Rothstein/Prime Video ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Ben Barnes is very fun to watch.Īnd then there are the stories where the commoner pretends to be royal like in Monte Carlo with Selena Gomez impersonating British heiress Cordelia Winthrop Scott I’m even a big fan of Chronicles of Narnia-Prince Caspian. And how about the Prince of Persia with Jake Gyllenhal. ![]() Personally, I loved the Princess Protection Program with Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato. There will always be a special interest in royalty and we have Disney to thank for keeping that dream alive, most recently with Frozen and the song Let it Go. Or is a commoner thrown into the world of the royal like in Princess Diaries and Prince and Me. Doesn’t everyone have a secret desire to be royal or at least mix with the privileged class? I am always drawn to movies with a prince or princess, especially when the person is plucked out of their natural habitat like Princess Jasmine in Aladdin, ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite the necessary corrections they make to their original text based on this more recent scholarship, the authors maintain the contemporary relevance of their research as the American healthcare system is still profit-driven. The introduction also explains the lack of scholarship which was available to the authors in the 1970s as well as the contribution their treatise made to the development of feminist scholarship as a legitimate academic field. It explains the political and social context which drove Ehrenreich and English to pen the original manuscript and presents their hypothesis that women have been systematically disempowered when it comes to both their traditional roles as healers and their understanding of their own bodies. This introduction contextualizes the original manuscript, written in the 1970s, and updates some of the authors’ initial assertions based on more recent scholarship. ![]() The 2010 edition of Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (WMN) opens with a new introduction by the authors. Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers. The following version of the book was used to create this study guide: Ehrenreich, Barbara and Deidre English. ![]() ![]() ![]() Overall, for what it is, and how short it was, I wasn’t mad I read it, but it wasn’t anything great. ![]() The book does try to throw some curve balls at you to take you off the path, but not enough to convince you to change your mind. I was a bit disappointed by this, because I was very much looking forward to a supernatural book, but was given what felt like a bait and switch. ![]() As someone else pointed out, the book starts off as a supernatural type book, and then changes gears to a thriller. When the action and or suspense is going on, this book is a real page turner (even if you figure it out early). A lot of unnecessary details or conversations, or descriptions of things, and then the last two pages of the chapter would start to pick and just when you are hooked, the chapter ends and it’s back to the same formula. ![]() You would start a chapter, and it would be long and drawn out. The book itself seemed to have a pattern, and imo an annoying one at that. A short read, but I was able to figure it out The Whodunit very quickly and the book itself reveals whodunit if you will well before the book is over. A lot of 5 star reviews on this one, so I figured I would give it a go. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel sold over 2.3 million copies in its first four years of publication. The first publisher on her list, Avon, quickly purchased the novel and arranged an initial 500,000 print run. ![]() Rather than follow the advice of the rejection letters and rewrite the novel, she instead submitted it to paperback publishers. The Flame and the Flower was rejected by agents and hardcover publishers, who deemed it as "too long" at 600 pages. The novel revolutionized mainstream publishing, featuring an epic historical romance with a strong heroine and impassioned sex scenes. She is credited with the invention of the modern historical romance novel: In 1972 she released The Flame and the Flower, an instant New York Times bestseller that created a literary precedent. She wrote her first book in longhand while living at a military outpost in Japan. Air Force Second Lieutenant Ross Eugene Woodiwiss at a dance, and they married the following year. She long relished creating original narratives, and by age 6 was telling herself stories at night to help herself fall asleep. ![]() ![]() Kathleen Erin Hogg was born on June 3, 1939, in Alexandria, Louisiana, she was the youngest of eight siblings by Gladys (Coker) and Charles Wingrove Hogg, a disabled World War I veteran. ![]() ![]() On consulting with Andrea Motley Crabtree, the first female U.S. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. while also making it credible that she actually becomes a diver? And in a way, what came to my rescue was the fact that it was wartime and all kinds of things were happening then that would not happen at a normal time."Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title Manhattan Beach Author Jennifer Egan She says, "One of the big technical challenges of my storytelling was: How can I do justice to what I know would've been a very, very poisonous atmosphere. ![]() The daughter, Anna, becomes the first woman to work as a deep-sea diver at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which presented a particular kind of challenge for Egan: In reality, there were no women divers at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It follows a father, his daughter and a gangster whose lives intersect in New York around World War II. ![]() ![]() Her new novel, Manhattan Beach, is the result of that research. Years before that book came out, Egan had begun researching the 1930s and '40s in New York City. In 2011, Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, A Visit From The Goon Squad. Jennifer Egan's new book follows a woman who works the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II. ![]() Roosevelt sails down the East River after leaving the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1945. ![]() ![]() ![]() Layla races against time while navigating twists and turns before her dark past catches up to her and her family becomes a target. Now Layla must keep her secret safe from her family, and find the people who shot the man who rescued her from living on the streets and who turned her into a professional hitwoman. ![]() "Layla is a devoted mother and wife, but when someone from her past is gunned down and left for dead, she returns to her previous life that her family knows nothing about.
![]() ![]() She grapples with the decision to leave and I actually rooted for her to leave, because sometimes leaving home is what we need to grow. Harley was not an complete innocent naive flower at the beginning of the novel, she was ready to be her true self, but her parents were holding her back. While it is not fully a light, fluffy story (otherwise it wouldn’t be a novel) this is more a coming of age story of a young woman on the mark of adulthood who decides to take charge of her life and handles the consequences of a very adult decision. Review: Akemi Dawn Bowman is known for writing deep, heart wrenching novels and “Harley in the Sky” is actually a change of pace for her. But at the same time, Harley must come to terms with the truth of her family and her past-and reckon with the sacrifices she made and the people she hurt in order to follow her dreams. ![]() There, she is thrust into a world that is both brutal and beautiful, where she learns the value of hard work, passion and collaboration. ![]() With parents who run a famous circus in Las Vegas, she spends almost every night in the big top watching their lead aerialist perform, wishing with all her soul that she could be up there herself one day.Īfter a huge fight with her parents, who continue to insist she go to school instead, Harley leaves home, betrays her family and joins the rival traveling circus Maison du Mystère. Summary: Harley Milano has dreamed of being a trapeze artist for as long as she can remember. ![]() ![]() ![]() Other international release dates were as follows: Belgium, Greece, Luxembourg, New Zealand and The Netherlands (March 2020), France and Norway (April 2020), and Finland (December 2020). Is this too the work of the witches of The Pale Horse, and does this mean he is next on their list? Or can he find a rational explanation and identify the killer before they catch up with him? The Pale Horse premiered on BBC One in the UK in February 2020, and on Amazon Prime in the US in March 2020. ![]() Miss Marple is shocked when she receives a note from an old friend,Father Gorman only to read in the newspaper the very same day that he was murdered. Seeking justice, she becomes entangled in an organization centered around an inn run by purported witches. Word has it that the witches can do away with a rich relative, by supernatural means alone…ĭespite Mark’s scepticism of the paranormal, he cannot help but be consumed by the increasingly strange and extraordinary things that begin to happen around him. Miss Marple's priest friend is battered to death after visiting a dying woman. The Pale Horse tells the story of Mark’s investigation into how and why his name came to appear on the list an investigation that leads him to the peculiar home of a trio of rumoured witches, The Pale Horse, in the beautiful village of Much Deeping. One of those named, is widowed antique dealer, Mark Easterbrook, who despite having found love again, with new wife Hermia, is still haunted by the tragic death of his first wife, Delphine. ![]() Who wrote the list, and who do these names refer to? When a murder investigation is launched into the death of a young woman, a mysterious list of names is discovered in her shoe, prompting an inquiry not only to find the killer, but also to understand the list of names. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wheeler spent the next decade and a half in India where he severed in the External Affairs Department, the Ministry of Information and General Staff Army Headquarters. In 1926 Wheeler served in Mashhad, Iran as the British Military Attaché and he was stationed in Iraq from 1928 to 1931. From 1919 to 1925 he was attached to General Staff as an intelligence officer covering India, Palestine and Malta. He initially served in the 1/ 6th Gurkha Rifles, and later in the 7th Rajput Regiment. ![]() In 1918 he transferred to the Indian army. Wheeler followed in the footsteps of his father, an infantry officer, and was commissioned into the Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment in 1915 as a second lieutenant, and he reached the rank of captain before the end of the war. Geoffrey Edleston Wheeler was born in Bromley, Kent, England to Owen Wheeler, a Captain Army Reserve Officer, and his wife Eugenie. Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Edleston Wheeler CIE (22 June 1897 – 1 February 1990) was a British soldier and an historian of Central Asia. Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire ![]() |