![]() "From Felix's point of view, he'll want to get his career kickstarted and realise the potential everybody believed he had when he moved to Atletico from Benfica," he said. That could work in Chelsea's favour, argues Sutton. "The new owners have spent an absolute fortune but recruitment did not go well in the summer and most of the team are underperforming."įelix's career has stalled in Spain with the pragmatic Diego Simeone unable or unwilling to get the best out of the 23-year-old. "They are in disarray, a real mess and anybody decent who is available they are trying too hoover up. "He is available and he is a talented player but I'm not even sure he is a Graham Potter signing," Sutton told BBC Radio 5 Live's Football Daily podcast. Any information you publish in a comment, profile, work, or Content that you post or import onto AO3 including in summaries, notes and tags, will be accessible. The Portugal forward joined the Blues from Atletico Madrid on Wednesday but Sutton believes his arrival is another example of the muddled thinking at Stamford Bridge. ![]() Chelsea are "making it up as they go along", says their former striker Chris Sutton after they forked out £9.7m to sign Joao Felix on loan until the end of the season. ![]()
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6/8/2023 0 Comments The story doctor dolittle![]() When he grows up, he becomes a physician, and has a wife and two daughters. After John's dog is taken away, he is obviously not happy, and stops talking to animals for a long time. It seems that he can understand them, and they can understand him, but when his dad sees this, he thinks it's ridiculous. During his childhood, John Dolittle talks to animals. Afterwards, however, I certainly can't say that I think it's as bad as some do. Since I'm obviously not as easily amused as I was when I was twelve, and was aware that it generally wasn't considered that great, I didn't have very high expectations. ![]() After many years, I just decided to check it out again. ![]() I think I liked it a lot at the time, and watched it again a few months later. ![]() This version of "Doctor Dolittle" came into stores back when I was twelve years old, which was when I first saw it. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments A farewell to arms novel![]() The book, published in 1929, is a first-person account of American Frederic Henry, serving as a Lieutenant ("Tenente") in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army.Įrnest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American author and journalist. It is set in Europe during World War I, and its overall plot is based on the novel A farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway.Ī Farewell to Arms is a novel written by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World War I. This is a 1932 drama film directed by Frank Borzage. ![]() The publication of this, Hemingway's bleakest novel,Ĭemented his stature as a modern American writer, became his first best-seller, and is described by biographer Michael Reynolds as "the premier American war novel from Scottish, against the backdrop of the First World War, cynical soldiers, fighting and the displacement of populations. The title is taken from a poem by 16th century English dramatist George Peele.Ī Farewell to Arms focuses on a romance between the expatriate American Henry and Catherine Barkley, whose nationality is variously described as English or Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American serving as an ambulance driver in the Italian army during World War I. The novel is told through the point of view of ![]() A Farewell to Arms is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Ernest Hemingway, first published in 1929. ![]() ![]() You name it, he was there: launching the nonviolent student protest movement at the Nashville sit-ins, Freedom Riding through the Deep South, delivering the March on Washington’s most controversial speech, serving time in Mississippi’s infamously brutal Parchman prison, organizing the voter registration drive that brought Schwerner, Goodman, and Cheney to Mississippi, marching in Birmingham in 1963 and Selma in 1965. Lewis’s itinerary during the civil- rights movement reads like a highlight of its most significant moments. His adulthood is the quintessence of the struggle to break that oppression. ![]() This son of Alabama sharecroppers grew up in a rural shotgun shack, picked cotton, matriculated in a tumbledown one-room schoolhouse, and faced Jim Crow segregation on every trip to town. Lewis’s childhood was the quintessence of post-Reconstruction southern black life. ![]() Georgia congressman Lewis (with journalist D’Orso’s help) crafts a passionate, principled, and absorbing first-person account of the civil-rights movement-dramatic, well-paced history fired by moral purpose and backed by the authority of hard time in the trenches. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Boy and Bot by Ame Dyckman![]() ![]() I received a #SpotBot picture of BOY + BOT in chair #108 of what appears What is the most unusual place your book has been spotted so far? You ask your online followers to Bot-spot and notify you. But writing for children is my favorite job of all.Ĥ. I had a variety of fun jobs, including window display designer, costumed character, and brownie taste-tester. During the time before you remembered, what were you doing to keep On the Boy + Bot cover flap, you say that when you became a grown-up, you remembered that you wanted to write books when you grew up. The Inventor has a closet full of those blue lab coats. Does the Bot Inventor dye his shirt every day to exactly match his one-eyed pet light bulb? Alternatively, does he dye the light bulb to match his shirt? Why or why not? ![]() A one-eyed blue light bulb set on spider legs?Ģ. Does your own family contain any of the following units:Ĭ. Ame is known far and wide for her Minnie Mouse voice, her frequently-changing hair colors, and her big heart. It’s the Ame Dyckman interview!! Ame’s debut picture book, Boy + Bot, was just published by Knopf, and it’s about … Well, it’s about a boy and a bot, in’t it? Her next book, Tea Party Rules, won’t be far behind. Since both are one of my favorite people, I immediately said, “Yes”. Susan Brody sent me an e-mail asking me if I would post the interview she did with Ame Dyckman. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is currently enjoying the well-deserved 4.59 stars on Goodreads.Highlights (just a few because find out for yourselves, please!): ![]() And are reminded that romance writers can indeed produce books that don’t just entertain, delight and make you sign and sweat (bring all the heat, I say), but can do it in an exquisite way that leaves your romance-reading woman’s heart in absolute shambles! ![]() And I’m talking about the romance novels I genuinely like, give stars to, and often re-read.Īnd then you come across Forever Your Rogue by Erin Langston. I could be enjoying the book, liking it, keep reading but that lingering sense of lovely-but-not-THAT-special remains. It’s not actually true, for I possess no writing talents, but I feel like a book is just on this side of attainable: the words, the story, the feelings carry that slight sense of ordinary. I doubt I’ll ever be chosen for an ARC opportunity on account of being terrible at reviews, but I shall be gathering all my abilities to encourage you to read ĭo you ever get this smuggish “I could write this” feeling, when reading a romance novel? I often do. ![]() ![]() What is your overall agenda or literary aim as an essayist? What made me stay the course was finally a propensity to generate questions and try to come up with answers–experimentation, rather than certainty. ![]() I did not despair, but neither did I think when I was starting out in my twenties that I would ever be as successful as I have become. PHILLIP: I was in doubt from the first that I had enough talent or enough to say to be a successful writer, but I figured what the hell, let’s give it a shot. ![]() ![]() During this period, did you ever face any feelings of severe doubt or despair over your ability or progress as an artist, or was it mostly clear to you that you had enough talent and a momentum within the literary world, and you would find your way? You carried with you a creeping sense of insecurity about your ability as a poet, yet that community was receiving you, and you were publishing your writing. Monkey see, monkey do: I started reading and writing poetry. A few fiction writers, not a single nonfiction writer in the batch. PHILLIP: When I was an undergraduate at Columbia, my writer-friends were mostly poets. You say you had no ambitions toward writing poetry until you were a student at Columbia and suddenly doing it, kind of by accident. Your essay, The Poetry Years (from Portrait Inside My Head) looks back at where and how you started writing professionally. Debora Black Table for Two–An Interview with Philip Lopate categories: Cocktail Hour / Guest Columns / Table For Two: Interviews 6 comments ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, her high-profile debut calls attention to an underheralded tradition. The Nigerian American writer isn’t a pioneer, though. Adeyemi, whose Children of Blood and Bone is the first volume of a projected trilogy, is a 24-year-old newcomer to the thriving market of young-adult literature, where demands for greater diversity of authorship and subject matter have lately been loud and clear. The seven-figure book advance and movie deal bestowed a year ago on Tomi Adeyemi suggest the opposite: a convergence of themes likely to appeal to a very wide audience. I f a “Black Lives Matter–inspired fantasy novel” sounds like an ungainly hybrid-a pitch gone wrong-think again. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Varian johnson twins![]() ![]() Expect high demand from fans of comics like those by Svetlana Chmakova, Jerry Craft, and Raina Telgemeier." - School Library Journal, starred review ★ "A must-read for middle grade comics lovers. A touching, relatable story of identity, sisterhood, and friendship." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review ★ "The sibling bond is palpable and precious as each conflict and triumph pushes them apart or pulls them together. A beautiful reflection on sisterhood and coming of age that belongs in every collection." - Booklist, starred review ★ "Wright's artwork, crisp and colorful, does a masterful job of tracking the twins's emotional arcs through expressive composition, and Johnson's impeccable pacing keeps things moving while still making room for rich development. Mike Wieringo Comic Book Industry Award WinnerĪmerican Library Association Top 10 Best Graphic Novel for Children University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education Best Book for Young Readersīank Street College of Education Best Children's Book ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Anna of kleve alison weir![]() ![]() ![]() Humiliated, yet relieved to live independently with her divorce settlement, Anna is a much-loved figure, though forced to contend with court intrigue: manipulative Thomas Cawarden, her tenant who is knee-deep in conspiracies spies among her staff and court officials who accuse her of treason for supposedly favoring Elizabeth over the king’s rightful heir to the throne, Mary. All the while, Anna harbors a secret from before her marriage that would doom her-like her successor, Katheryn Howard, who was executed. ![]() Anna receives an extravagant welcome, but the marriage is never consummated Henry assures Anna he likes her, “but it seems that God does not intend that I should love you.” Obese and suffering from severe leg ulcers, it is suggested that Henry, 46, was impotent however, Anna’s much earlier annulled betrothal was contrived to legitimize Henry’s rejection and divorce of Anna. ![]() Anna, 24, was a princess from the German duchy of Kleve, chosen to ensure royal offspring and good will with her country. Weir’s fourth installment to the Six Tudor Queens series (after Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen) is a solid rendering of the often grim 16th-century travails of King Henry VIII’s fourth wife, Anna, who survived divorce and a backstabbing court. ![]() |