![]() But because of the way those scenes are stitched together, that impact sometimes gets muffled by the sprawling fabric of the whole. Samuel Finnix (Michael Keaton), a doctor who works in a small mining town in Virginia, and Betsy Mallum (Kaitlyn Dever), a miner and a patient of Finnix’s who gets hooked on Oxy - often have real impact. Individual scenes that focus on those supporting players - particularly those that involve Dr. In Dopesick, Ox圜ontin functions like the unspoken protagonist, with all the characters serving as supporting players in its origin story. ![]() But its vastness eventually becomes its Achilles’ heel.Ĭreated by Danny Strong, who wrote and directed multiple episodes, Dopesick tries to address so many aspects of the rise of Ox圜ontin that it becomes unwieldy at times, exacerbated by its tendency to hopscotch between time periods - a ticker on the screen is constantly reminding us whether it’s 1999, 2003, or some other year. Hulu’s Dopesick, a new limited series based on Beth Macy’s book Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America, attempts to dig into all of it, with often moving results. The saga of the opioid crisis in this country, the how and why behind the pharmaceutical epidemic that tore through American communities and resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands, is a huge narrative. Samuel Finnix (Michael Keaton) is a key player in one of Dopesick’s more successful narrative threads. ![]()
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Lauren Groff’s fourth novel, her highly anticipated follow-up to Fates and Furies (2015), takes place almost 800 years ago, yet it feels both current and timely. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her brother, Henry, is in and out of Narcotics Anonymous, in a relationship with Catherine, “a weird mix of hard-edged and hippie-minded”. Lizzie’s husband, Ben, did a classics degree but now designs educational computer games her son, Eli, asks her difficult questions and at the school gates she can’t stop thinking about “how big this school is or how small he is”. Weather, Offill’s third novel, at first feels on familiar ground, telling the tale of Lizzie Benson, a mother and librarian in an unnamed New York borough who “used to have plans! 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Now with Temple of a Thousand Faces, he brings to life the legendary temple of Angkor Wat, an unrivaled marvel of ornately carved towers and stone statues. In his international bestseller Beneath a Marble Sky, John Shors wrote about the ancient passion, beauty, and brilliance that inspired the building of the Taj Mahal. ![]() ![]() Now, Stella and Lyndy must go from future spouses to amateur sleuths as they team up to search for the truth-and prevent an unbridled criminal from destroying their new life together right out of the gate. With culture clashes mounting between families, a scandalous murder case hangs over Morrington Hall. until they find the vicar who was to marry them dead in the library. The unlikely pair could actually be on the right track with each other. Yet despite a rough start, there's something intriguing about her groom-to-be, the roguish Viscount "Lyndy" Lyndhurst. Stella refuses to be sold off like a prized pony. But once she arrives at the lush Morrington Hall estate, her cold and ambitious father confesses that he won't only give away his best racehorses as gifts-he has also arranged to give away his daughter as bride to the Earl of Atherly's financially strapped son. Spring, 1905: Free-spirited like the Thoroughbreds she rides across the Kentucky countryside, Stella takes adventure by the reins when she's asked to attend a mysterious wedding in rural England. ![]() ![]() But when the lively aspiring equine trainer tangles with British aristocracy, she meets her match-and a murderer. Stella Kendrick is an all-American heiress who can't be tamed. 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In Israel, the organization is commonly called Etzel, based on its Hebrew acronym. ![]() The Revolt ( Hebrew: המרד), also published as Revolt, The Revolt: Inside Story of the Irgun and The Revolt: the Dramatic Inside Story of the Irgun, is a book about the militant Zionist organization Irgun Zvai Leumi, by one of its principal leaders, Menachem Begin. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They never lose the feel of Shakespeares language and the tales are classic literature in their own right. Charles and Mary Lamb vividly bring to life the power of Hamlet and Othello, and the fun of As You Like It. ![]() The following Tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare, for which purpose his words are used whenever it seemed possible to bring them in and in whatever has been added to give them the regular form of a connected story, diligent care has been taken to select such words as might least interrupt the effect of the beautiful English tongue in which he wrote: therefore, words introduced into our language since his time have been as far as possible avoided. Tales from Shakespeare Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE is a perfect introduction to Shakespeares greatest plays. Download cover art Download CD case insert Tales from ShakespeareĬharles Lamb (1775 - 1834) and Mary Lamb (1764 - 1847) ![]() ![]() The RPG elements were good but not nearly enough to overcome the bad writing and lack of plot. Poorly written with really flat characters. Unfortunately, it's really disappointing. After a lot of research I picked AlterWorld because it's the highest-rated book in the genre and has the largest pool of ratings. ![]() I really wanted to try more in this genre since I enjoyed Ready Player One and Sword Art Online. ![]() The first two novels of the Play to Live series - AlterWorld and The Clan - have been translated into English, and talks are under way to have the rest of the series published on Amazon. Rus has been nominated for Start, one of Russia's prestigious literary prizes for the best debut science fiction novel. The five books of the series have created a huge following as more authors followed suit, making LitRPG the latest bestselling Russian genre that merges science fiction, fantasy and gaming conventions. Set in the virtual reality of MMORPG - Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games - his books tell stories of real people who'd become stuck in the game and are forced to follow its rules while preserving their intergrity and fighting to make their new world a better place. AlterWorld - the first novel of his Play to Live series - made him a bestselling author overnight as critics now credit him with single-handedly creating a new science fiction genre: LitRPG. ![]() ![]() Rus is a young Russian author whose books took the Russian literary market by storm in 2013. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book has a significantly slower pace and a much more traditional style of storytelling than modern readers will be used to. Given its considerable age, however, it is not surprising that elements of the writing are now dated. Luckily they are all given places at the Children's Academy of Dancing and Stage Training and soon start to earn their own way as child performers on the stage.įirst published in 1936, Ballet Shoes has stood the test of time remarkably well and remains an enjoyable read almost eighty years on. Brought to 1930s London as babies by an eccentric explorer (Great Uncle Matthew, otherwise known as Gum), the girls have a comfortable life until the family begin to run out of money. ![]() Recommended for girls between the ages of around eight and twelve.īallet Shoes tells the story of three adopted orphans – Pauline, Petrova and Posy Fossil. ![]() Summary: A children's classic that remains an enjoyable read almost eighty years after first publication. ![]() |