![]() ![]() Travel to the Carolinas to a tall white inn, tippy as a cake with balconies, shutters, netting, and flutter, where crystal chandeliers bejewel every room and on the bedside table a swan carafe of water on the pillow, chocolates in foil. They should pack tonight, take the train tomorrow. They’ve sold the house the estate is settled. They are simply happier than they have been in a long, long time. Probably they have been happy together before, but Julia is often melancholy and Claire is pessimistic, so it has been a long time since- or never!ĭon’t be ridiculous, Julia says. The river beneath them is tan, not brown, and the sky overhead is true blue. The sisters wear matching dot dresses, green ground for Claire for Julia, brown. How cheerful they appear against the passing scene in navy, gray, or khaki. Swipe her away stay with the girls on the bridge in the high wind in the summer of 1970. Their father abandoned them years ago their mother rages past, shrill ghost. In the windy city they sway on a bridge and let the wind get under their dresses, Claire and Julia, happy. Christine Schutt's previous books include Florida, a National Book Award finalist, and All Souls, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The 18 stories center around corrupt familial love, intimacy, longing, and danger. ![]() The following is from Christine Schutt's story collection, Pure Hollywood. ![]()
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![]() Politically active, Anne Lister door-stepped her tenants at the 1835 Election to vote Tory. The diaries were included on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2011.Jill Liddington's classic edition of the diaries tells the story of how Anne Lister wooed and seduced neighbouring heiress Ann Walker, who moved in to live with Anne and her family in 1834. Her extraordinary diaries, running to 4-5 million words, were partly written in her own secret code and recorded her love affairs with startling candour. She was an impressive scholar, fearless traveller and successful businesswoman, even developing her own coalmines. Sally Wainwright, creator of Gentleman Jack Female Fortune is the book which inspired Sally Wainwright to write Gentleman Jack, now a major drama series for the BBC and HBO.Lesbian landowner Anne Lister inherited Shibden Hall in 1826. ![]() ![]() 'A unique and thrilling insight into the brilliant mind of Anne Lister' ![]() ![]() ![]() In this process, the heavy atom effect of Hg(2+) can be blocked by further coordination of a water molecule and resulted in the revival of the fluorescence emission of L/Hg(2+) complex. Interestingly, the quenched fluorescence emission can be successfully revived upon the addition of water. Thus, L can be utilized as a highly selective and sensitive fluorescent chemosensor for Hg(2+) with a detection limit in the nM level. L exhibited a significant fluorescence quenching response to Hg(2+) in CH3CN solution, which was unaffected by the coexistence of other competitive metal cations. Upper rim pyrene-functionalized hexahomotrioxacalixarene L was synthesized via Click chemistry, and its fluorescence behaviors toward several common metal cations were investigated. ![]() ![]() 'Even though they're gone from the world, they're never gone from me.' The Doctor is many things - curious, funny, brave, protective of her friends.and a shameless namedropper.
![]() I did think Gladys’s parents were a little over the top they were more than clueless about their daughter’s talents and wishes, and seemed completely self-absorbed. Taking first her next door neighbor into her confidence and then her school friend Parm (who couldn’t be more different, since she eats nothing but cold cereal with milk and plain spaghetti), Gladys devises first one and then another plan to get into the city to sample the restaurant’s wares so she can write her first professional review. What a scrumptious debut! Gladys is a bright, resourceful, tenacious girl who will not let a few setbacks (like being grounded and not having any money) thwart her plans to succeed. She only has to figure out how to sneak into the city and sample enough cakes, pies, tarts and custards to write a good review. Somehow that essay gets to the food editor for the New York Standard, who thinks it is written by an adult, and Gladys suddenly has a freelance assignment to write a review of New York’s hottest new dessert bistro. When her teacher assigns an essay on “my future” Gladys writes about how she wants to be a restaurant critic. ![]() ![]() But her parents – who think microwaving tater tots is cooking, and prefer fast food takeout in any case – just don’t understand their daughter’s obsession with food and cooking. ![]() If her parents had given her the minitorch Gladys Gatsby asked last Christmas she wouldn’t have set the kitchen curtains on fire with her father’s blow torch while making crème brulee. ![]() ![]() Yet as the competition-and the ovens-heat up, Rosaline starts to realize the most delicious bakes come from the heart. Rosaline fears falling for Harry is a guaranteed recipe for disaster. ![]() ![]() Suave, well-educated, and parent-approved Alain Pope knows all the right moves to sweep her off her feet, but it's shy electrician Harry Dobson who makes Rosaline question her long-held beliefs-about herself, her family, and her desires. However, more than collapsing trifles stand between Rosaline and sweet, sweet victory. Winning the prize money would give her daughter the life she deserves-and Rosaline is determined to stick to the instructions. This scrumptious romance from a dizzyingly talented writer (Entertainment Weekly) is recommended for fans of Casey McQuiston: Single mom Rosaline has. and Rosaline has just landed a spot on the nation's most beloved baking show. ![]() Now, with a paycheck as useful as greaseproof paper and a house crumbling faster than biscuits in tea, she's teetering on the edge of financial disaster. Rosaline Palmer has always lived by those rules-well, except for when she dropped out of college to raise her daughter, Amelie. ![]() We Are Bookish: Spring Releases to Have on Your Radarįollowing the recipe is the key to a successful bake. LGBTQ Reads: Most Anticipated Adult LGBTQAP Fiction 2021 Fans of Casey McQuiston, Christina Lauren, and Abby Jimenez will love this scrumptious and sweet romantic comedy from the "dizzyingly talented writer" of Boyfriend Material ( Entertainment Weekly) ![]() ![]() It really showed Madeline in a positive light as she truly cared about Miss Clavel and the other girls and it showed how responsible she was in handling the chores around the house. ![]() Ludwig Bemelmans has done it again with writing a heartwarming and magical story that involves our favorite cute little red-haired heroine! I loved the way that Ludwig Bemelmans wrote Madeline in this story as Madeline was truly helpful in trying to take care of the other girls and Miss Clavel when they were ill. But during that same night, a mysterious rug merchant comes and pays Madeline a visit and even though he gives Madeline his rugs, it turns out that the rug merchant is much more than he seems. In this story, when all the little girls and Miss Clavel ended up being sick on Christmas Eve, it is up to Madeline to take care of everyone. ![]() If you have noticed, I am a huge fan of Ludwig Bemelmans’ classic children’s series “Madeline” and I had basically read almost every book from the “Madeline” series! Well, I finally stumbled upon another “Madeline” book called “Madeline’s Christmas” and boy, was it a true holiday treat to read! ![]() ![]() ![]() Between keeping Robbie's secret and saving him from taking his life, Tristan is given the final call: sacrifice his dream for a brother he barely knows, or pursue his own path. As their season progresses and friends turn out to be enemies, Robbie finds solace in an online stranger known only as "Jimmy2416". Robbie's future in the NHL is plagued by anxiety and the mounting pressure from their dad, coach, and scouts, while Tristan desperately fights to create his own future, not as a hockey player, but a musical theatre performer. Tristan starts seeing his twin not as a hockey star whose shadow Tristan can't escape, but a struggling gay teen terrified about coming out in the professional sports world. Forced to share a room to prevent Robbie from hurting himself, the brothers begin to feel the weight of each other's lives, on the ice and off. Even though they're identical, Tristan isn't close to his twin Robbie at all - until Robbie tries to kill himself. ![]() ![]() He made his first aerial survey for the Michigan State Highway Department in September of 1925 using aerial cameras that he himself developed. He left the airline industry and founded Abrams Aerial Survey Corporation in 1923. ![]() He married and started the ABC Airline (Always Be Carful) in 1922. His lifelong interests in aviation centered on experimental aircraft, commercial airline services and aerial photography.Ībrams served in the Aviation Section, United States Marine Corps, and the United States Air Corps from 1917-1919 during and after World War I. Talbert "Ted" Abrams was born in Tekonsha, Michigan on August 17, 1895. Science Innovation Hall of Fame Awards (SIHOF). ![]() Daughters of the Sky: The Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII. ![]() ![]() Glaspell is not a poet like most writers I present, but this short scene is from what remains her most famous work: a still effective short play about two women who have accompanied their husbands who are charged with investigating a murder* in a remote 1900 Iowa farmhouse. I wanted to do something special for this project’s 500 th audio piece, and I decided to try to use some words from my distant relative who was herself a figure in the Modernist revolution of the early 20 th Century that I mine for many of the pieces used here. The bold-faced titles are links to the original post that introduced the piece in case you want to read what I wrote then.ġ0 Trifles – I Know What Stillness Is by Susan Glaspell. Which ones did the Parlando Project readers and listeners most connect with?Īs we usually do, this is a countdown, so we start with the 10 th most listened to and liked piece, and then over the next few posts we’ll move on to the most popular this winter. ![]() ![]() It may be a bit strange to revisit a winter we are glad to be emerging from, but poetry is about remembrance of all kinds of emotions and experiences. ![]() I’ve been tardy in many things for this project lately - but let me get on to recounting which pieces were most liked and listened to during the past quarter. ![]() |