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For Years, a Literary Villain Made Joe Ide Wary of Nurses
Credit.Jillian Tamaki
Published Feb. 18, 2021Updated Feb. 23, 2021
“Ratched is prim, soft-spoken, her smile placid, even serene,” says the mystery writer (whose new novel is “Smoke”), “yet she’s as scary as your grandmother with blacked-out eyes and a bloody hypodermic needle.”
You’re organizing a literary dinner party. Which three writers, dead or alive, do you invite?
Gore Vidal, Truman Capote and Ernest Hemingway. Vidal hated Capote and Hemingway. Hemingway hated Capote and Vidal. Capote probably hated Hemingway and Vidal. I like lively conversation.
What’s the most interesting thing you learned from a book recently?
Ames Library Notes: Monsters in books and film
Ashley Wilson, Ames Public Library
Special to the Ames Tribune
In either movies or books, a well-presented monster will always win me over. Dragons are my favorite, vampires next, followed by any manifestation of a creature of the deep, then aliens. In my opinion ghosts and paranormal activity do not really count as monsters, and werewolves are just okay; You can try to change my mind on this one, but I have yet to encounter a truly convincing werewolf shapeshifter narrative. Plus, I’m not too keen on the howling.
Dragons take the top prize for me because regardless of their assumed or presented size, they never fail to capture the imagination. “Temeraire” by Naomi Novik is a fan favorite alternative history featuring a captain serving in the Royal Aerial Corps with a dragon as his preferred form of flight. The wyverns in Sarah J. Maas’ “Throne of Glass” series are both clever and fierce, but lend a tenderness to their ot
IN the weeks to come The Star’s Newspaper-in-Education (Star-NiE) programme will present a collection of stories donated by The Straits Times newspaper of Singapore for use by teachers and students in the classroom.
The stories chosen are classic legends, myths, fables and folklore from around the world rewritten as modern news or feature stories.
Young readers and adults will enjoy reading the likes of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Hamlet, and Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein in a modern news format. But these stories are not just good yarns.
They touch the soul, nourish the mind, and give readers a better sense of their place in the world. By studying the plots and characters, readers can make the stories a part of their lives.The tale behind the story
Emma Stone, Yorgo Lanthimos re-teaming for Frankenstein-esque film
February 2, 2021 by:
THE FAVOURITE, Yorgo Lanthimos is reteaming with Oscar-winner Emma Stone for
Poor Things, an adaptation of the Alasdair Gray novel that promises something sinister indeed. According to The Film Stage, Gray s novel reworks Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein creation myth, but not in any way that you would expect. The way we ve heard it,
Poor Things will follow Stone as Bella Baxter, “a volatile, oversexed, emancipated woman and a female Frankenstein.” After drowning herself to escape her abusive husband, Bella’s brain is replaced by that of her unborn child. Once she is reborn, Bella is out for vengeance, and ready to take her new life by the throat and squeeze.