I've not counted for quite a while, but there are over 1,000 letters on the site. That’s such a wonderful, personal story! Now, since that first Disney letter, how many have you published on the site, roughly? The first letter I put on the site was a rejection letter from Walt Disney to a young woman who wanted to become an animator. Then in 2009, while I was working as a copywriter, a client project led me to letters again, and I decided to start the website. At that point, I became acutely aware of the power of letter writing and knew one day I'd look into the whole concept further. The result was that we fell in love through handwritten correspondence. A couple of weeks after we started dating, she moved to Spain for a year, and for some reason, we decided to keep in touch mainly by letter. How and when did you start the Letters to Note site? Was there one letter that began it all?Ībout 12 years ago, I met my now-wife. We spoke with Usher before his selected shorts event next week about that daunting project and what first sparked his letter love. Now, Usher has published the crème de la crème of his finds in an incomparable print collection (which happens to make a perfect gift book for just about anyone). And one of the best places to find them is Shaun Usher’s online trove, Letters of Note, where he collects some of the most remarkable correspondence ever penned. From the Women of Letters storytelling show to the much-anticipated new collection of Langston Hughes’s letters, epistles seem to be all the rage right now.
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The other mice criticize him for being lazy, but Frederick insists that what he's doing is important : he's collecting words and colors.Once the winter finally settles in, the food Frederick's family gathered sustains them for a while, but soon the food runs out and it is Frederick's vivid memories of the colors of spring, as well as his poems and stories, that take the other mice's minds off their troubles and get them through the winter. While the other field mice are preparing for the coming winter and gather grains, nuts, wheat and berries, Frederick sits around observing. After just one reading, we all fell in love with this sweet little field mouse, whose creativity and poetry help his friends through the rough winter.įrederick is poetic and imaginative little mouse. Two months ago, I came across " Frederick", a book written and illustrated by Leo Lionni. When she discovers him talking to a speck of dust clinging to a clover, she uses this to incite the rest of the jungle community to ostracise him. The self-proclaimed Mayor of the Jungle of Nool, a nasty Kangaroo (Carol Burnett), doesn’t like Horton or his imaginative ways. This will ensure that the Whos can live as happily and safely as they have since the beginning of Who history. Horton makes a promise to the Mayor of Whoville (Steve Carell) that he will do all that he can to see that the speck is deposited in the safest place possible. They live in a town called Whoville and are blissfully unaware that their world could, at any second, be entirely destroyed. Using his extra large ears, he is able to hear what others can’t and soon discovers that the speck is home to a microscopic community of Whos. One day, he hears a cry for help on a tiny speck of dust and decides to do what he can to assist. Horton (voiced by Jim Carrey) is a friendly, compassionate elephant who acts as a ‘school teacher’ to an assortment of young animals in the Jungle of Nool. From the previous crimes of important people in the government to the decades-old cold case, the mystery of a famous yet mysterious assassin seems to slowly unravel itself as the detective and his companion seek to restore the trust in the police force and bring an end to this story once and for all.Īlternatively: Watch me improvise the mystery as I go! _〆(・∀・) Language: English Words: 100,793 Chapters: 26/? Kudos: 16 Hits: 270 However, what was at first considered a mere failed assassination attempt on an important political figure, turns out to be something much more scandalous. in ten years i will die cringing at thisĪfter an assassination attempt occurs in broad daylight, Niccolo Machiavelli, a senior inspector, is tasked with figuring out who is behind this shameless attempt at murder. vague barely existing attempts at humor.the author never touched a keyboard before.Henry "Billy the Kid" McCarty (Nicholas Flamel).Nicholas Flamel/Perenelle Flamel (Nicholas Flamel).John Dee/The Morrigan (Nicholas Flamel).Niccolò Machiavelli/Henry "Billy the Kid" McCarty (Nicholas Flamel). This part of the story is narrated in a very Homeric way, weaving in much of the Greek pantheon who come to the aid of Cat and Griffith. Soon they are knee deep into the opening battles of the war that is to be forged to win the last stronghold they need in order to create a united Thalyria. Then off to the ice plains Cat and Griffith go to seek the magic that Cat needs in order to confront and defeat her mother. Fortunately, it does have a silver lining in revealing some long-hidden truths to Cat, as well as taking her further on her path to self-discovery.įirst to the Ippotane to seek protection for their new borders sealing that alliance with Cat’s sister and the Ippotane alpha. Poor Griffith and Kaia, both of whom witness this event in heartbreak. Piers unexpectedly calls upon Ares to take Cat away and free his brother and family from her influence. The first comes shortly after the story opens when Cat and Griffith encounter his brother and sister on the road. This last book in the series continues in the same intense vein, as they face new and different challenges. The adventure continues as Cat, Griffith, and their companions now set their sights on the toughest challenge yet: Cat’s mother. Romantic Fantasy published by Sourcebooks Casablanca 02 Jan 18 Veena’s review of Heart On Fire (Kingmaker Chronicles, Book 3) by Amanda Bouchet This retelling is chock-full of droll, playful dialogue and lively pacing the bird friends in particular are given more characterization than in some versions. In the end, Chicken Little and his avian friends go trotting right into the open jaws of Foxy Loxy, but they are mercifully saved when Foxy Loxy sneezes, sending the feathered friends flying out of his mouth in a feather-filled two-page foldout. He was very excitable and prone to foolishness.” That’s for sure: after getting clobbered in the head by an acorn, Chicken Little goes about spreading hysteria through the barnyard masses, telling his coop-mates that the sky is falling and urging them to follow him with nary a plan for where he is leading them. “Chicken Little,” the story explains at its beginning, “was not the brightest chicken in the coop. The classic story of Chicken Little is treated with an abundant dose of wit and an explosion of colorful chaos in this collaboration between father Ed and daughter Rebecca Emberley. If I stormed into your home and burned all your books, you could just run out the back door and re-download them onto your phone and read them all again anyway, and you could really care less about a fireman.”īut at the same time, Bahrani didn’t want to entirely eliminate physical books from the film. “It had stayed in my mind as something that could be good to reimagine in modern times, mainly because of the growth of technology specifically, the internet and social media. When Bahrani first pitched the idea of adapting “Fahrenheit 451” to HBO, he was excited about how he could update the story from a ’50s version of the future to a 2018 look at what’s next. Not Just Burning Books, But Smashing Hard Drives A later essay addresses the paradox of the explicit sexualization of black women’s bodies and the cultural expectation that black women must be ashamed of their own sexuality in order to be taken seriously in a white world. This marks the first of many times that Jerkins asserts that a black woman’s survival depends on her ability to assimilate to white culture. But also, my blackness is an honor, and as long as I continue to live, I will always esteem it as such.” In her opening essay, Jerkins recounts the moment the division between black girls and white girls became clear to her, when she was told by a fellow black girl that “they don’t accept monkeys like you” after Jerkins failed to make the all-white cheerleading squad. Her writing is personal, inviting, and fearless as she explores the racism and sexism black women face in America: “Blackness is a label that I do not have a choice in rejecting as long as systemic barriers exist in this country. Jerkins’s debut collection of essays forces readers to reckon with the humanity black women have consistently been denied. The former intelligence analyst uses all her skills and experience of human nature to tell her story. But these facts are now largely ignored by historians for failing to meet Hollywood’s ‘American Dream’ presentation of the country’s westward expansion with intrepid, noble settlers opening up a fruitful new land. Some resorted to cannibalism – and of the 87 members of the party, only 48 survived.Īlma Katsu’s slow-moving, but brilliantly brutal and chilling recreation of the facts is tense, gripping and at times deeply disturbing. A group of pioneers who set out for California in a waggon train in May 1846 were delayed by mishaps and mistakes, spending the winter of 1846-47 snowbound in the Sierra Nevadas. The story of the Donner Party is one of the most tragic and disturbing tales of the opening up of the American West. If you write about someone eke, you can stretch the truth from here to Finland. The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. CHAPTER 1 - WHY WRITE WHEN YOU CAN TELEGRAPH YOUR PUNCHES? 21ĬHAPTER 3 - HOME IS WHERE YOU HANG YOUR HEAD 34ĬHAPTER 4 - OUT ON A LIMB OF MY FAMILY TREE 38ĬHAPTER 5 - MY YOUTH-AND YOU CAN HAVE IT 42ĬHAPTER 7 - THE FIRST ACT IS THE HARDEST 57ĬHAPTER 9 - A SLIGHT CASE OF AUTO-EROTICISM 73ĬHAPTER 10 - TANK TOWNS, PTOMAINE AND TOMFOOLERY 82ĬHAPTER 11 - A HOMEY ESSAY ON HOUSEMANSHIP 90ĬHAPTER 12 - SOME CLOWNING THAT WASN’T IN THE ACT 94ĬHAPTER 13 - OUT OF OUR LITTLE MINDS AND INTO THE BIG TIME 100ĬHAPTER 15 - HOW I STARRED IN THE FOLLIES OF 1929 121ĬHAPTER 16 - WHITE NIGHTS, WHY ARE YOU BLUE? 127ĬHAPTER 17 - MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE RANCH HOUSE 131ĬHAPTER 18 - THEY CALL IT THE GOLDEN STATE 136ĬHAPTER 21 - WHY DO THEY CALL IT LOVE WHEN THEY MEAN SEX? 162ĬHAPTER 24 - YO HEAVE HO, AND OVER THE RAIL 181ĬHAPTER 27 - WHAT PRICE PUMPERNICKEL? 197ĬHAPTER 1 - WHY WRITE WHEN YOU CAN TELEGRAPH YOUR PUNCHES? |