Somehow, he sensed that things were tense.” “He said at the luncheon, ‘This story has to be told now’,” Wolper recalled. Haley had read and approved the completed screenplay and Erman and Wolper were deep into pre-production by that time. “This show interestingly enough is coming out at a time where there are enormous racial problems between blacks and whites.” “ ‘Roots” was important at that time because there had been no show that had been done to talk to the history of black America,” said “Queen” producer Mark Wolper. Halle Berry plays Queen Danny Glover, Ann-Margret, Jasmine Guy, Martin Sheen and Timothy Daly are among the featured stars. Throughout her life, Queen had to battle racism and poverty and ultimately, mental illness. “Queen” explores the origins and life of Haley’s paternal grandmother, who was born out of a love affair between a slave and a plantation owner before the Civil War. Sixteen years ago, the late Alex Haley tapped into the American consciousness with his landmark ABC miniseries “Roots.” More than 100 million people tuned into the 12 hour-drama, based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1976 best-seller, which chronicled Haley’s maternal ancestors’ origins from Africa and their passage from slavery to freedom in America.Īudiences will see a far different family story depicted in “Alex Haley’s Queen,” the lavish, six-hour miniseries that begins Sunday on CBS.
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Drawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new ideas into the market, he describes the areas in which technology is already helping to reduce emissions, where and how the current technology can be made to function more effectively, where breakthrough technologies are needed, and who is working on these essential innovations. He gives us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide toward certain environmental disaster. In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe.īill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. At just over twenty, Hatshepsut out-maneuvered the mother of Thutmose III, the infant king, for a seat on the throne, and ascended to the rank of pharaoh.Shrewdly operating the levers of power to emerge as Egypt's second female pharaoh, Hatshepsut was a master strategist, cloaking her political power plays in the veil of piety and sexual reinvention. Her failure to produce a male heir, however, paved the way for her improbable rule as a cross-dressing king. Hatshepsut-the daughter of a general who usurped Egypt's throne-was expected to bear the sons who would legitimize the reign of her father’s family. An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power. Because in my opinion this is one of the surprising, emotional, humorous, smart, remarkable books of the year!!! Upgraded review: this book is a real gem and I wish it got nomination from best romance category. And what really lies beneath his rough exterior… And why he never shows his art to anyone. Like why he clearly resents Chloe’s wealthy background. Just the teeniest, tiniest bit.īut when she enlists Red in her mission to rebel, she learns things about him that no spy session could teach her. He’s also an artist who paints at night and hides his work in the light of day, which Chloe knows because she spies on him occasionally. Redford ‘Red’ Morgan is a handyman with tattoos, a motorcycle, and more sex appeal than ten-thousand Hollywood heartthrobs. What Chloe needs is a teacher, and she knows just the man for the job.
Alice is happy to meander to Miss Yao’s teashop or to visit the children playing in the Square. She’d rather spend golden afternoons with her trusty camera or in her aunt Vivian’s lively salon, ignoring her sister’s wishes that she stop all that “nonsense” and become a “respectable” member of society. The 10th installment in the New York Times best-selling A TWISTED TALE series asks: What if Wonderland was in peril and Alice was very, very late?Īlice is different than other eighteen-year-old ladies in Kexford, which is perfectly fine with her. “Unbirthday takes our beloved Alice and throws her back into the world of Wonderland as an adult.” – the original character from the Dioxin Posse graphic novel – the duo work to take down the distributor of Snow Crash, the communications magnate and religious cult leader L. Aided by a “Kourier” named Yours Truly, or Y.T. The plot of the book focuses on the aptly named Hiro Protagonist, a katana-wielding computer hacker working as the “Deliverator” – i.e., a pizza delivery guy – who stumbles upon a plot to distribute the drug/virus/religion "Snow Crash" to every individual in both the real world and the Metaverse. Edited by Jennifer Hershey on famed sci-fi editor Lou Aronica’s team at Bantam Spectra, Stephenson’s vision of a hyper-capitalist, post-national, arch-libertarian future might be fiction, but it anticipated – and in many ways served as the source code for – much of our contemporary world, from the metaverse to cryptocurrency, mobile computing to augmented reality, and much more. Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash is considered, along with William Gibson’s Neuromancer, one of the pillars of the cyberpunk genre and one of the most important works of modern science fiction. “When the computer crashed and wrote gibberish into the bitmap, the result was something that looked vaguely like static on a broken television set – a “snow crash.” Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning…was the Command Line, p. THE ORIGINAL REVISED TYPESETTING MANUSCRIPT FOR SNOW CRASH, WITH NEAL STEPHENSON’S ABUNDANT NOTATIONS, REVISIONS, AND CHANGES ALONGSIDE THOSE OF HIS EDITORS I read nearly all of May Sarton’s journals. (With thanks once again to Open Road Media for making e-books of many of Sarton’s works available through NetGalley.) They are such cozy reading for me I’ll have to ration myself so I don’t run out of them too soon. It is a low form of creation.” Yet I think the journals are fantastic. Indeed, she questions the autobiographical pursuit, even as she engages with it: “I find the journal suspect because it is almost too easy. Poetry was always foremost for her, followed by fiction, followed at some distance by memoir. “Every artist lives in a constant state of self-criticism, self-doubt, and in near despair a good deal of the time,” Sarton writes. As always, though, there are wise words about the sanctity of everyday life (“the immense joys of having time to think, to be quiet, to live along in a sedate routine, that routine that for me releases the imagination”) and the absolute importance of time alone for a creator. Journal of a Solitude is still my favorite, and I slightly prefer At Eighty-Two to this one. I’ve been reading Sarton’s journals at random, rather than in chronological order. Sarton was recovering physically from surgery for breast cancer and emotionally from the end of a 30-year relationship with Judy Matlack, a former lover who was in a nursing home, declining gradually from Alzheimer’s. (3.5) This journal covers January to November 1979. Tolkien was a professor at the Universities of Leeds and Oxford for almost forty years, teaching Old and Middle English, as well as Old Norse and Gothic. He illustrated many scenes from The Silmarillion, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, sometimes drawing or painting as he was writing in order to visualize the imagined scene more clearly. He excelled at landscapes and often drew inspiration from his own stories. Tolkien was an accomplished amateur artist who painted for pleasure and relaxation. Through this secondary world Tolkien writes perceptively of universal human concerns – love and loss, courage and betrayal, humility and pride – giving his books a wide and enduring appeal. Tolkien’s most popular works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set in Middle-earth, an imagined world with strangely familiar settings inhabited by ancient and extraordinary peoples. His creativity, confined to his spare time, found its outlet in fantasy works, stories for children, poetry, illustration and invented languages and alphabets. Known to millions around the world as the author of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien spent most of his life teaching at the University of Oxford where he was a distinguished academic in the fields of Old and Middle English and Old Norse. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien: writer, artist, scholar, linguist. Still, this sophomore effort is striking enough to continue McBride’s forging of a daring career. Skinful under all our skin.” The story (especially when Stephen’s backstory hijacks the narrative) isn’t full enough to sustain McBride’s style, which comes to seem less and less an accurate shorthand for first love. The breathtaking new novel from Eimear McBride, about an extraordinary, all-consuming love affair. But the real focus is McBride’s stream-of-consciousness prose, in which drinking is rendered as “pints turning telescope,” “the lightless hall sings sanctuary from the frenzy” of a violent encounter, and a night of youthful debauchery leaves the revelers with “Satan under every skin. Initially meeting without names, they embark on a tempestuous relationship that reveals the worst in both while offering Stephen a chance at redemption and Eily a future. There, caught in whirl of excess and the shadow of IRA terrorism, she is mostly assigned stereotypically Irish bit parts, but finds herself captivated by a much older actor named Stephen, an ex-junkie estranged from his family and young daughter. Set between 19, it follows 18-year-old Eily, a boozy ingénue, as she leaves her native Ireland to attend drama school in London. McBride’s second novel is more ambitious than her acclaimed debut, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, and it retains the uncompromisingly Joycean brogue and diary-like intimations of adolescence that made that first novel such a success. I grew to love him through the book and I was genuinely moved at the end when he died. It's a beautiful character study of his old rabbi, 'The Reb' and for this reason gets the four stars. Albom relates the Reb's story, and thoughts on life, against the back drop of the struggling Henry, querying issues like forgiveness, doubt and faith. At the same time Mitch becomes involved with a pastor in Detroit called Henry, a reformed drug dealer, who is preaching from an old, run-down church with no power, no heat and a hole in its roof. What then develops is an eight year friendship as Albom continues to regularly meet with the Reb, who was obviously stronger than he looked, discussing life and religion and death and love. Thinking that he must be close to death Albom reluctantly agrees, but decides to meet with 'the Reb' to try to get to know him better as a man first. One day, Mitch Albom's eighty-two year old rabbi asks him to write his eulogy. Summary: Not preachy, just a gentle, involving character study of a good, kind man that I found both moving and thought-provoking. |