![]() You use the knife carefully, because you know it doesn't care who it cuts. It's like a knife in the mind.Art is a localized illness, usually benign - creative people tend to live a long time - sometimes terribly malignant. The arts are obsessional, and obsession is dangerous.There are madmen and madwomen in padded cells the world over who are not so lucky. I didn't write them for money I wrote them because it occurred to me to write them.I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle. ![]() The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. In the stories that follow you will encounter all manner of night creatures vampires, demon lovers, a thing that lives in the closet, all sorts of other terrors. That sort of thing doesn't happen, of course, and we all know that. Because if a cool hand ever reached out from under the bed and grasped my ankle, I might scream. I'm not a child any more but.I don't like to sleep with one leg sticking out. ![]() We'll talk about the way the good fabric of things sometimes has a way of unraveling with shocking suddenness. ![]() We won't raise our voices and we won't scream we'll talk rationally, you and I. Let's talk very rationally about moving to the rim of madness.and perhaps over the edge. But for now it's on, and so let's talk very honestly about fear. Sometimes when the wind blows the way it's blowing now, we lose the power. The house is empty as I write this a cold February rain is falling outside. ![]()
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He starts to ask some people whether they know something about the key or the word Black. ![]() The key doesn’t look familiar to Oscar, it’s larger and longer than a normal key. When Oscar cleans up the broken vase he finds an envelope with on the front the word Black and inside a strange key. One day a blue vase fell of the cupboard into shards when he was searching. ![]() He loves to listen to his dad’s voice and search through his belongings. Oscar has hidden the tape with these records, so his mother doesn’t get angry because he didn’t answer the phone. Before Thomas died he called several times to his house, no one took the phone so he left some messages behind on the answering machine. His grandfather left her when she was pregnant of his dad. Now he lives with his mom and her new friend Ron, he doesn’t like him at all. Oscar lost his dad, Thomas, with the horrible attack at the World Trade Center. The wonderful book Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close immediately starts with the thoughts of Oscar Shell, a 9 year old boy. ![]() ![]() Pachinko is the second novel by Lee, who is Korean American and, several decades ago, became fascinated by the struggles of Korean immigrants in Japan in the 20th century. “ Pachinko is a first, and we don’t want it to be an only.” Bringing Korean History to Hollywood “Right now, stories about diverse people are largely relegated to a certain budget level,” says Kang-Lowe. Pachinko’s ability to find viewers could have a ripple effect on whether similar concepts are greenlit for years to come. ![]() ![]() While Pachinko could ride this larger wave of global representation to success, the show is still a precarious risk for Apple TV+ and its filmmakers: it’s a trilingual, big-budget period piece that hopes to attract audiences without superheroes, sex, or dramatic action sequences. ![]() ![]() What is there to say about a book that is almost perfect, or an author that many already know is amazing? My review can never live up to the book, but I'll give it my best shot- just know that this is a book I highly recommend to any historical romance fan out there!Ĭontinuing her popular Hathaway series, Kleypas brings us another touching romance, this time between the “plain” Catherine Marks, companion to the Hathaway sisters, and the roguish Leo Hathaway. 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