5/13/2023 0 Comments King shawshank redemption![]() ![]() The actors give two of the best performances of their careers as a pair of inmates struggling to hold onto hope in a place that seems designed to extinguish it. ![]() The resulting film is one that manages to find the sublime in even the dourest places.īut it’s Robbins and Freeman who emerge as the heart and soul of The Shawshank Redemption. Roger Deakins’ cinematography is masterful but never overly stylized, substituting a vibrant color palette for a heavy emphasis on shadow and light. Despite boasting an intimidating 142-minute runtime, it moves along at a measured and controlled pace. He quickly strikes up a friendship with a fellow inmate, Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman), and the film charts the course of their bond as they struggle to come to terms with their lives at Shawshank.įrom a technical standpoint, the film is a masterclass in visual storytelling. The film begins in the late 1940s and follows Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) after he’s arrested and sentenced to serve two life sentences at Shawshank State Prison for the murder of his wife and her lover. ![]() The Shawshank Redemption tells a fairly simple story. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Being Mortal by Atul Gawande![]() ![]() Yet Atul and his parents - all three of them doctors - weren't sure what.Īmericans are optimists, and what place does death have in a culture of optimism? We focus on cures, not comfort. After a middle-of-the-night fall that left Atmaram unhurt but unable to get up, it became clear that something had to be done. Chemotherapy was of no benefit at this point, and the side effects of it would be miserable. He had experienced some neck pain and some numbness in his hand, which was starting to interfere with his urology practice.Ī combination of strong medical care, thoughtful decision-making and luck had allowed Atmaram Gawande to live several good years, but eventually the disease led to paralysis and pain that was more than he could tolerate safely. The diagnosis came, as all such diagnoses do, as a shock. Atmaram Gawande was in his early 70s when a tumor was discovered in his spinal cord. Three-quarters of the way through "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End," Atul Gawande pulls back his carefully stitched curtain of reporting and research to relate the story of his father's decline and eventual death. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As he struggles to reach Dyerville and avoid official notice, past and present begin to blur as Vince pours through his grandfather’s stories of a life shaped by a witch’s curse. Vince hadn’t seen his grandfather Vincent in years, not since his grandfather used to watch him as a little boy before his senility grew worse. Included with the funeral notification was a book of his frandfather’s dictated stories.ĭenied the opportunity to go to his grandfather’s funeral, Vince escapes from the orphanage with the help of one of the other boys there and a caretaker. His grandfather’s funeral would be held there in a week’s time. The arrival of a package sparked hope anew in Vince’s heart, the first package he’d received since coming to the Obern House, a package out of Dyerville. Eventually, even the power of Vince’s stories waned as he could no longer find the heart to keep watching for his father. His father’s body was never found, so Vince always hoped his father somehow survived. Tales kept his hope alive and shuttered out despair after the tragic, fiery death of his parents. His stories enraptured the other children at the Obern House Orphanage. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Goliath onyebuchi![]() ![]() 222 By NYPL Podcasts AugWelcome to The Librarian Is In, The New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. Brick by brick, their houses are sent to the colonies, what was once a home now a quaint reminder for the colonists of the world that they wrecked.Ī primal biblical epic flung into the future, Goliath weaves together disparate narratives-a space-dweller looking at New Haven, Connecticut as a chance to reconnect with his spiraling lover a group of laborers attempting to renew the promises of Earth’s crumbling cities a journalist attempting to capture the violence of the streets a marshal trying to solve a kidnapping-into a richly urgent mosaic about race, class, gentrification, and who is allowed to be the hero of any history.Ī Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com. Book Club: Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi, Ep. ![]() As they eke out an existence, their neighborhoods are being cannibalized. ![]() Those left behind salvage what they can from the collapsing infrastructure. Those with the means and the privilege have departed the great cities of the United States for the more comfortable confines of space colonies. In his adult novel debut, Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and NAACP Image Award finalist and ALA Alex and New England Book Award winner Tochi Onyebuchi delivers a sweeping science fiction epic in the vein of Samuel R. Riveting, disturbing, and rendered in masterful detail.”-Leigh Bardugo “Onyebuchi sets fire to the boundary between fiction and reality, and brings a crumbling city and an all too plausible future to vibrant life. "A diverse cast of narrators provides glimpses of a near-future Earth devastated by climate change, nuclear disaster, and disease."- AudioFile Magazine ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Harry truman david mccullough![]() ![]() Morley Safer: Why do you use this as opposed to a computer?ĭavid McCullough: I can't press the wrong button and eliminate a month's work.įrom his trusty Royal have come books about the Johnstown flood, the Brooklyn bridge, the Panama Canal and the Revolutionary War. ![]() An eight-by-twelve foot sanctuary in his back yard on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. Some of you may recognize it as a typewriter.ĭavid McCullough: I bought it when I was embarking on my first book in the mid, early 1960s. And do things that aren't popular.ĭavid McCullough's books have all come from a machine invented about the time Abe Lincoln was president. And then he paused and he said, "Too bad old Harry isn't still in the White House." And that's what we want. And he was telling me all about how the world's going to hell and the country's going to hell, I'd heard this so much in my life. Well, 30-some years later, I was back home. I said, "Dad, Dad, who won?" And he said (grimacing) "Truman." Like it was the end of the world. So the next morning I got up and my father was in the bathroom shaving. And the night of the '48 election, I couldn't stay awake. David McCullough: I grew up in a Republican family. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Oathbringer goodreads![]() ![]() And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of Alethkar was too narrow in scope. Nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified. ![]() ![]() Dalinar Kholin’s Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Breaking character by lee winter![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. 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We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Book review black cake![]() Now they’re in a lawyer’s office, being forced to pay attention to their late mum’s words and work out when (and whether!) to share the last black cake she made for them.įor their mum, the recipe for black cake was the only thing she took with her from her original life. And just why are they expected to be so perfect? Byron’s angry with Benny as he’s over-achieved and pushed through his career, but at the expense perhaps of the freedom and love he sees Benny grasping. In short, you became Byron Bennett.īrother and sister Byron and Benny haven’t seen each other since Benny walked out after a family row about what their parents saw as her lifestyle choices and she saw as her own ways of loving and arranging her life. ![]() If you were born to Bert and Eleanor, you banked on your university degrees, you built your influence, you accumulated wealth, you quashed all vulnerability. ![]() ![]() I’m doing well with my NetGalley reading this month – well I wasn’t able to download “Girl Transcending” before it vanished and I didn’t get on with “Influenced Love” but I’ve read and reviewed three of the others with this one and am currently reading Monica Ali’s “Love Marriage”. I’d been looking forward to reading this novel about family ties and ruptures since I downloaded it in September I do tend to like to read books around their publication date. ![]() ![]() Graeme is a rugged warrior with a voice so deep and powerful that his new bride can hear it, and hands and kisses so tender and skilled that he stirs her deepest passions. But when an arranged marriage into a rival clan makes Graeme Montgomery her husband, Eveline accepts her duty-unprepared for the delights to come. Content with her life of seclusion, Eveline has taught herself to read lips and allows the outside world to view her as daft. No one, not even her family, knows that she cannot hear. ![]() ![]() Never Seduce a Scot (The Montgomerys and Armstrongs #1) Eveline Armstrong is fiercely loved and protected by her powerful clan, but outsiders consider her “touched.” Beautiful, fey, with a level, intent gaze, she doesn’t speak. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Reef romesh![]() ![]() He finds one in Kairo, who is “vaulting towards” his teens while simultaneously waiting for “childhood’s demons to die.” ![]() Here he is Jay, a wealthy boy with an unusual vocabulary and a penchant for violence as indicated by the bowie knife hanging from his belt, who is on the lookout for an acolyte. ![]() Soon after that, Ravi emigrates with his family to America and vanishes from the pages of “Reef.” But a version of him reappears in “Suncatcher,” Gunesekera’s latest novel, set in 1964 in Ceylon (as Sri Lanka was then known). “Once he got me in the head: a good quarter-inch of nail into my skull making a hole I can still feel in moments of stress,” Triton says. Ravi introduces Triton to the American Wild West, cages parrots and mynas in his house and shoots arrows tipped with flattened nails. In Romesh Gunesekera’s 1994 novel “Reef,” we catch a fleeting glimpse of a boy named Ravi, who lives next door to the book’s protagonist, Triton. ![]() |