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December 27, 2019
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 | Little Women-The Movie Writer-director Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) has crafted a Little Women that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott, and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March, reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters-four young women each determined to live life on her own terms-is both timeless and timely. To sketch out the world of Concord, Mass., in the 1860s where the March family lives, Gerwig studied paintings by Winslow Homer, Lilly Martin Spencer and Seymour Joseph Guy. "Paintings are helpful in a way that most photographs aren't," she said. In the Civil War era, "you could paint a scene from life in a way that you couldn't photograph a scene from life. You could get a moment." Learn more and check out these titles |
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 | Alice Blanchard Alice Blanchard is an award-winning author. She has received a PEN Award, a New Letters Literary Award, and a Centrum Fellowship. "Trace of Evil” was awarded an Indie Next Pick, a Loanstars Most Anticipated Books Pick, and an Amazon Best Mysteries/Thrillers for December 2019. "Darkness Peering" was a New York Times' Notable Book and a Barnes & Noble Best Mystery. Her thriller "The Breathtaker" was an official selection of NBC's Today Show Book Club. "Trace of Evil" is the first novel in the Natalie Lockhart series, which follows a female rookie detective investigating the death of a popular high school teacher that has eerie ties to the murder of a teenage girl 20 years ago. The series will unearth an even darker story involving a history of witch accusation and obsession with black magic deep in the woods of the idyllic suburban community of Burning Lake, New York. "My goal is to write fiction that marries the sweeping scope of the thriller with the more personal epiphanies of the short story."Check out her titles here. |
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 | 5 Books Bill Gates Wants You to Read This Winter Tech pioneer, co-founder of Microsoft, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and author Bill Gates is an avid reader who has become known for his excellent book recommendations. For his annual list, Bill Gates reflected on several of the best works he came across in 2019. Check them out here |
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| Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.-Charles Lamb
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