![]() “Polished speech makes an enormous difference in the way others perceive you,” says Merchant. Think Poo from Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham, for whom “whaddevar” is a lifeline. It is part arrogance, rudeness and insouciance. ![]() ![]() Etiquette guru Sabira Merchant emphasises on why it is important to revive these courtesies.įor the youth today, attitude is all. This is the strain of thought of American author Jordan Christy explores in her book How to be a Hepburn in a Hilton World, emphasising the need to return to good values. ![]() With Paris Hilton, Jordan Katie Price, Sherlyn Chopra and Rakhi Sawant hogging public imagination, we’ve forgotten the charm of Madhubala. Now, more than ever, we are faced with the pressing need of positive female role models. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The flash of optical light (visible to the human eye) after the planet’s demise showed up in observations by the Caltech-led Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), an instrument based at Palomar Observatory in Southern California that looks for cosmic events that change in brightness rapidly, sometimes in a matter of hours. Recent observations show the star has returned to the size and brightness it was before merging with the planet. The transfer of energy caused the star to temporarily increase in size and become a few hundred times brighter. Drag from the atmosphere slowed the planet down, shrinking its orbit and eventually sending it below the star’s visible surface, like a meteor burning up in Earth’s atmosphere. ![]() The star is at the beginning of the final phase of its life – its red giant phase, which can last more than 100,000 years.Īs the star expanded, its outer atmosphere eventually surrounded the planet. The planet was likely about the size of Jupiter, with an orbit even closer to its star than Mercury’s is to our Sun. Researchers discovered the event – formally called ZTF SLRN-2020 – using multiple ground-based observatories and NASA’s NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer) spacecraft, which is managed by the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. ![]() ![]() ![]() But like anyone, I always want the next thing I do to be the best thing I’ve ever done. ![]() I don’t think I care much about being remembered, really. The book I’ d most like to be remembered for For the aesthete, however, Teju Cole’s beautiful Blind Spot is hard to beat. I try to choose gifts with an eye to what the recipient might like to receive, so there is no universal answer to this question. But I probably will feel a bit more contented once I have read them, which I hope will be soon. ![]() I’m not really ashamed that I haven’t read Tolstoy’s War and Peace or Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. The book I’ m most ashamed not to have read I don’t know why! Maybe I’ll try again another time. Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles. “They tell me in the village that she carries a beautiful egg, sir.” best friends from college now on the cusp of 30, grapple. Jeeves advises that last year’s winner is an odds-on favourite. Sally Rooney's New Book Tries To Find Meaning In An Increasingly Troubled World. ![]() PG Wodehouse’s The Inimitable Jeeves – the story “The Purity of the Turf”, in which Bertie is consulting Jeeves as to whether to lay a bet on the forthcoming Girls’ Open Egg and Spoon Race at the annual village school treat. (That was one of the back catalogue too). I recently shed a little tear at Philip Wakem’s letter to Maggie Tulliver near the end of George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss. Tom and Maggie in the flood in The Mill on the Floss. ![]() ![]() ![]() It sounds good but there are several problems, from linking the higher you rise to the lower your salary (a loyalty test) to the lack of anyone in the same species as you being around to date, down to the aliens believing that your job title, Acting Consul, means that you are just pretending to be a consul. I can see that this book was written as a standalone dating comedy set in a space station of the future and although it has since become a series, you can read this part without knowledge of the rest of the ‘on Union Station’ canon, which I haven’t leafed through yet.Imagine yourself as Earth’s Acting Consul on a cosmopolitan alien space station. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mays explained that the challenge of creating Harry and the Guinea Pig was finding the right story and an author and illustrator whose work reflects the spirit of the original books-and captures their humor. ![]() Their debut collaboration won a Caldecott Honor in 1952, an accolade the illustrator earned again the following year for The Storm Book, written by Charlotte Zolotow. Zion, inspired by a drawing that Graham made of children in an apple orchard, soon penned his first picture book, All Falling Down, which Graham illustrated and Harper & Row released. and Margret Rey, and the latter introduced Graham to Ursula Nordstrom at Harper & Row. ![]() The couple reportedly became friends with Curious George creators H.R. The two met while working as designers at Condé Nast after Graham moved to the city from her native Toronto in 1942, and they married in 1948. ![]() Zion and Graham were active on the New York City publishing scene during the mid-20th century. Harry the Dirty Dog has been recognized by the National Education Association as an all-time top-100 children’s book, and made a new splash this year, when actor Betty White’s reading of the story on “StorylineOnline” was viewed more than eight million times. All of the titles he headlines have remained in print, with combined sales of more than seven million copies worldwide. Despite the hiatus, Harry has retained a strong presence in the picture-book marketplace. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was broad where Lir was narrow, his muscles stacked like bricks where Lir’s were lean. The boy was barely a turn older than Lir, but his body told another story. ![]() Lir ground his teeth at the sudden lightness in his head and turned to survey the Bullets lining up behind him until his eyes found the one he searched for: Tassos. But he’d missed his last two doses and the lag was beginning to take its toll. He’d never felt this insistent surging of his blood or this erratic knocking of his heart. He’d never needed Silt this badly before. In spite of the cool air piped throughout the ship, sweat itched along his brow and he barely resisted the urge to tap his feet as he joined the long line of Bullets heading into the galley. The fire crawling through Lir’s veins had started hours ago and was only getting worse. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because when the truth gets lost in the lies, that’s when people start to die.Clown in a Cornfield was 2020’s Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel. ![]() Her only option is to go back into the cornfields, back where the nightmare began, to set the record straight the only way she knows how. It’s a deranged but relentless fantasy, and there’s nothing Quinn can do to get people to hear the truth-not even on her own campus or in her own dorm room.So when a murderous clown attacks Quinn at a frat party while another goes after her father in Kettle Springs at the same time, Quinn realizes that the facts alone are never going to save her. ![]() ![]() All she wants is to be normal again.But instead, Quinn finds that her past won’t leave her alone when she becomes the focus of online conspiracy theories that claim the Kettle Springs Massacre never happened. It’s an all-new horror classic about what happens when the truth is the last thing we want to believe, from Bram Stoker Award–winner and master of thrills and chills, horror legend Adam Cesare.After barely making it out of the Kettle Springs cornfields alive, Quinn’s first year away at college should be safe and easy. Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives By Adam Cesare ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The rulers most of the times never kept their promises, but, once made, the constitutions had an uncanny knack of staying alive in one form or the other. In reality, constitutions arose not exactly because the humanity had suddenly turned noble and democratic, but mainly because there were always wars and invasions looming and the rulers had to assure their citizens that if they won the war or frustrated the invaders, they would forever be good boys – and girls – and the written constitutions were sort of written bonds of such assurances. Whenever we think of a constitution, we think of noble ideas, the idea of liberty, fraternity and equality and the idea of the rule of law, the idea of individual freedom and the extent of it and several others. Normally such a book will make a turgid reading, but Linda’s style makes the book extremely interesting and readable. It is a one of its kind book and it speaks about the evolution of Constitutions all around the world. It has got some rave reviews, and deservedly so. The book’s name is The Gun, The Ship and the Pen written by Linda Colley. Today, I am going to talk about a book which has just come out. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is high-flown, heavily decorated and solemn, but its solemnity is thorough going, not a mere literary formality. The work is well done, and so much out of date as to be almost a positive quality. Poems was reviewed in 1917 in The Egoist, where the critic commented that "Seeger was serious about his work and spent pains over it. Poems was not a successful work, due perhaps, according to Eric Homberger, to its lofty idealism and language, qualities out of fashion in the early decades of the twentieth century. ![]() The poetry he wrote then and while he was at the front was not published until 1917, a year after his death. Seeger spent two years in the French Foreign Legion as an American citizen he could not join the French military, so he did the next best thing and joined the Legion, since the United States had not yet entered the war against the Central Powers.Īfter graduating from Harvard in 1910, Seeger lived for two years in Greenwich Village where he wrote poetry and enjoyed the life of a young bohemian. Six years later he had his rendezvous with death at Belloy-en-Santerre on July 4, 1916. Alan Seeger as a student at Harvard in 1910Īlan Seeger, born in 1888, was twenty-two when this photograph was taken while he was a student at Harvard. ![]() ![]() Yes, significant elements from the Kubrick film have made their way into Doctor Sleep because Flanagan knew fans, himself included, would be disappointed if the film didn't touch on Kubrick's film at all: So, you know, we certainly aren't trying to out Kubrick Kubrick – this is its own thing.įlanagan himself joked that there was no way to hide the truth from us considering that we were sitting in Room 237 and had already seen exacting recreations of the Overlook Hotel hallways. But it's impossible to argue that, that the Kubrick film is amazing. ![]() Because there's a lot of stuff that's absolutely, you know, Stephen King has opinions about the quality of the adaptation. ![]() We aren't trying to, you know, take custody of one party versus another in the Kubrick divorce. So our job is to thread the needle and take the best DNA for both of them and hopefully bring that to the audience today in a fun, engaging way. I speak for Mike as well when I say we are dearly in love with both for different reasons. There are key differences because as you all know that the universe, the literary universe of The Shining, is different than the cinematic universe. So the trick was this movie, in our humble estimation, is that we have to do justice to as a pretty faithful adaptation of the novel. ![]() |