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I wanted to see shows that represented me, that represented the women I knew, that showed women in various stages of being competitive or angry or dark or joyful. Creator Shonda Rhimes told CNN, “I really wanted to make shows that I wanted to watch. When “Scandal” debuted on ABC, it became the first network drama to present a Black female lead since the ’70s, with Kerry Washington as DC fixer Olivia Pope. Kerry Washington in 'Scandal.' Richard Cartwright/Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty Images (HBO and CNN are both part of Warner Bros. “Thrones” still had issues – like the series finale and that Starbucks cup cameo – and the violence and nudity at times felt gratuitous, but the ensemble cast led by Clarke, Kit Harington, Lena Headey, Peter Dinklage, Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams swept viewers through an unforgettable eight seasons. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” book series, the weekly release of episodes prompted a return to appointment viewing, and the sprawling budget provided viewers with visually stunning hour-long episodes that felt truly cinematic. “Thrones” became one of HBO’s biggest shows of all time, inspiring a resurgence of content in the fantasy genre and breeding a number of “Thrones” spinoff series. HBO’s big swing at fantasy soared through the entire decade in a manner akin to Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) and her dragon doing, well… you know what they did. (From left) Emilia Clarke and Kit Harington in 'Game of Thrones.' Helen Sloan/Courtesy of HBO And with a feral guardian half-god, Gisele's sinister fiancé, and an overeager junior detective on Vanja's tail, she'll have to pull the biggest grift yet to save her own life. Vanja has just two weeks to figure out how to break her curse and make her getaway. Then, one heist away from freedom, Vanja crosses the wrong god and is cursed to an untimely end: turning into jewels, stone by stone, for her greed. Now, Vanja leads a lonely but lucrative double life as princess and jewel thief, charming nobility while emptying their coffers to fund her great escape. The real Gisele is left a penniless nobody while Vanja uses an enchanted string of pearls to take her place. That was when Vanja's otherworldly mothers demanded a terrible price for their care, and Vanja decided to steal her future back. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago. Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother's love-and she's on the hook for one hell of a debt. Once upon a time, there was a horrible girl. Published by Henry Holt & Company on October 19, 2021 Little Thieves (Little Thieves, #1) by Margaret Owen OctoMichelle Book Briefs Blog Tours, Reviews, Young Adult 3 Perry’s novel recasts women in the titular roles: Helen Franklin, a translator based in Prague, comes across a mysterious folder containing a sheaf of historic letters, all describing the same black-clad female figure. The novel takes its cue from Melmoth the Wanderer-an arcane horror story written by an Irish clergyman in 1820, in which a man, having traded his soul for a longer life, is doomed to spend it wandering the earth. Perry’s new novel, Melmoth, is another Gothic romp, but one more likely to perplex than enchant. Sarah Perry’s bestselling second novel The Essex Serpent was one of those books that plucked you from your seat in a couple of sentences and deposited you somewhere damp, Gothic and rather magical. Part of the front cover of Sarah Perry's Melmoth And what begins as a trip to escape her problems quickly becomes a way for Kimi to learn more about the mother she left behind, and to figure out where her own heart lies. She loses herself in the city's outdoor markets, art installations, and cherry blossom festival - and meets Akira, a cute aspiring med student who moonlights as a costumed mochi mascot. When she arrives in Japan, she's met with a culture both familiar and completely foreign to her. So when a surprise letter comes in the mail from Kimi's estranged grandparents, inviting her to Kyoto for spring break, she seizes the opportunity to get away from the disaster of her life. But her mother disapproves, and when they get into an explosive fight, Kimi's entire future seems on the verge of falling apart. She's obsessed with transforming everyday ephemera into Kimi Originals: bold outfits that make her and her friends feel like the Ultimate versions of themselves. As the lady herself once put it, "properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either."Įlizabeth Zimmermann (1910-1999) was born near London, England, and attended art school in Lausanne, Switzerland, and Munich, Germany, before immigrating to the U.S. This classic and influential book is poised to inspire a whole new generation of knitters who have yet to discover the joys and comforts of knitting. Hooded garter-stitch jackets for babies.In Knitting Without Tears, you'll find elegant designs for: From Elizabeth Zimmermann, who "revolutionized the art of knitting" ( New York Times ), the classic knitting bible that removes the frustration and puts the fun back into knitting with easy-to-follow instructions and timeless designs.ĭo you love to knit-and hate to purl? Have you ever started a sweater without enough yarn from the same dye lot to finish it? When you cast on, do you end up with a tail of yarn that's maddeningly too long or too short? Elizabeth Zimmermann comes to the rescue with clever solutions to frustrating problems and step-by-step instructions for brilliant, timeless designs. You read the last page of books first-don’t make that face, Stephens.” He cracks a smile in one corner of his mouth. If someone insults one of your clients, those fancy kid gloves of yours come off, and you carry your own pen at all times, because if you’re going to have to write anything, it might as well look good. You’re not the kind of woman who only works hard when it feels good, or only shows up when it’s convenient. “You’re not the person who buys the stationary bike as part of a New Year’s resolution, then uses it as a coatrack for three years. You don’t start anything you can’t finish. You don’t do anything you’re not going to do one hundred percent. “About everything.” His arms tighten around me. “I think you work that hard because you care ten times more than the average person.” “I think you love your job,” he says softly. Touching him feels so good, so strangely uncomplicated, like he’s the exception to every rule. It sucks that some of the shine has been taken off Holy Grail by its own overwhelming ubiquity. Stars: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Connie Booth Here are the best comedies on Netflix as of May 2023. Again, for the purpose of these rankings I’m looking at how funny a movie is alongside how well made it is-meaning you might see some absolutely hilarious comedies that aren’t that well respected by critics coming in higher than better reviewed, more technically proficient films. Let’s take a quick trip through the funniest movies on Netflix right now. It might not be as deep of a roster as it was five years ago, but there’s still a great variety of comedies to choose from.Īnyway. To Netflix’s credit, they’ve been slowly building up a roster of legitimately good Netflix exclusives like The Mitchells vs. At this point we might have to sit through every one of those Adam Sandler movies to see if any are actually good enough to recommend. At one point this list had 50 movies on it every month now it’s usually less than 30 movies deep. You’ll see a lot of Netflix originals on the list below, but not enough to make up for all the classics that have fallen out of rotation over the last few years. Netflix’s focus on original content is really starting to impact its lineup of movies. These tools were all built to target and define a mass audience in the public sphere through dominant images, ideologies, and language. Anderson analyzes the written word, a tool used by churches, authors, and media companies (notably books, newspapers, and magazines), as well as governmental tools such as the map, the census, and the museum. : 6–7Īnderson focuses on the way media creates imagined communities, especially the power of print media in shaping an individual's social psyche. Anderson depicts a nation as a socially-constructed community, imagined by the people who perceive themselves as part of a group. For the book, see Imagined Communities.Īn imagined community is a concept developed by Benedict Anderson in his 1983 book Imagined Communities to analyze nationalism. No conclusion emerges more certainly from Gordon S. They pronounced 1776 a major event in world history, one that "enlightened mankind in the art of government" but at home, as David Ramsay of South Carolina wrote in 1794, the revolution brought no "sensible alteration in the circumstances of the people." Even 18th-century Americans seemed at times to agree. Historians have also done their part: a generation ago many pronounced ours a peculiarly "conservative revolution" that sought only to protect an already liberal society from the threat of change. No doubt our own discomfort with revolution (and who could be at ease with revolution so defined?) has contributed to the problem. That honor goes instead to revolutions that shed more blood, brought greater chaos and culminated in dictatorships - in short, to those that failed. IT is surely one of the greatest curiosities of human history that the American Revolution, which accomplished its mission of liberation, should be so often considered no revolution at all. THE RADICALISM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONīy Gordon S. |