![]() ![]() The couple had planned to exchange rings in St. TMZ says that Griffin abandoned the couple’s wedding plans a week before the celebration because Cameron wouldn’t sign a prenup. The article announcing the happy couple mentioned that Griffin and Cameron had split in July 2017. US Weekly first reported in October 2017 that Griffin was dating Kendall Jenner. ![]() Griffin joined the Pistons in January 2018 in a contract that’s expected to net him $170 over the next five-years. That number was later disputed by TMZ, how reported that Griffin was in reality being forced to pay $32,000. In August 2018, Radar Online reported that Griffin was being forced to pay $258,000 in child support payments to Cameron. After all, Griffin had no problem trading Brynn Cameron, his former fiancee, and the mother of this two children, for reality TV star, Kendall Jenner.” The lawsuit has been filed by Bryan Freedman and is thought to be demanding millions of dollars. ![]() The lawsuit includes a line that appears to directly dig at Griffin’s career saying, “Griffin himself, however, knows very well what breaching promises is all about. The lawsuit depicts Griffin as being coldhearted to Brynn Cameron and her children since he hitched up with Kendall Jenner. ![]() Now, according to TMZ, Griffin’s ex-girlfriend and mother to his children, has filed a lawsuit against the former Rookie of the Year. After a bright start, Detroit has lost their last three. Things have not been going so good for Blake Griffin lately, either on or off the court. ![]()
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![]() Plus, I not only got enlightened on so many topics, but I had a lot of fun while doing so-which isn't really a common feeling for me with these kind of collections. ![]() Presenting a broad world of women coming from all eras, countries, backgrounds, races, and ethnicities, this collection left me wanting to educate myself more and more on these spectacular women. Like the author said best, “The short essays are meant to whet your appetite for exploring more on your own.” This was exactly the kind of book I’ve been looking for: short and concise essays on each historical figure, along with splendidly eye-catching illustrations. Thankfully, though, that was not the case with Bad Girls Throughout History. with little to no life sparkled throughout. This book is a noteworthy collection about 100 remarkable women who changed the world, featuring spectacular watercolours illustrations for each and everyone. I did go in a bit hesitant since I've tried my hand at similar collections to this one, such as Rejected Princesses by Jason Porath, but they untimely failed in capturing my interest because of the length of the essays that read like Wikipedia entries i.e. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Everything we’ve gained has been hard-won by a woman who was willing to be bad in the best sense of the word.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The father, Ronald Lisbon, is a math teacher at the local high school. The Lisbons are a Catholic family living in the suburb of Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s. The novel was adapted into a 1999 movie by director Sofia Coppola, and starred Kirsten Dunst.Īs an ambulance arrives for the body of Mary Lisbon, the last Lisbon sister to die, a group of anonymous adolescent neighborhood boys recalls the events leading up to her death. The novel's first chapter appeared in The Paris Review in 1990, and won the 1991 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction. The novel is written in first person plural from the perspective of an anonymous group of teenage boys who struggle to find an explanation for the Lisbons' deaths. ![]() The fictional story, which is set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s, centers on the lives of five doomed sisters, the Lisbon girls. The Virgin Suicides is a 1993 debut novel by the American author Jeffrey Eugenides. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A gold-tipped fountain pen is to most writers' lives as Monet's haystacks are to piles of dirt.Ī similar kind of romanticizing - but of historians, not writers - is on display in Elizabeth Kostova's first novel, "The Historian," about an Oxford professor, his advisee and the advisee's daughter, who are all, at different times, in search of Dracula's tomb. In part, it's the self-consciousness and fetishism that ticks me off. (And I know you will.) Any time I see a movie that has more than three extreme close-ups of a gold-tipped fountain pen skritching across a piece of paper - or any time I read a text that relies heavily on the words "writings" or "scrivenings" - I know I'm in for a healthy dose of the Romance of the Literary Life, and suddenly I feel irritable and restless and ready to skin a small animal. ![]() ![]() ![]() This isn’t your typical friendship story about two boys that will do anything for each other these boys are different. ![]() (Kind of like the last book I recommended, We’ll Fly Away by Bryan Bliss I suppose I have a type.) If you are also interested in these sad tales, please note that while both recommendations are tough books to read, this one will really get you. This is an emotional book a harrowing story of friendship and abuse. ![]() As soon as I opened the cover, Robin Roe’s eloquent writing made me never want to put it down. I hadn’t heard of the author before, so I decided to give it a chance. Usually, a book rated as such goes right on my list after grazing some of the reviews. ![]() A List of Cages has a 4.29 out of 5 star average with over 18,000 votes. I initially picked up this book for the phenomenal rating it has on Goodreads. Then the doctor asks him to track down the troubled freshman who keeps dodging her, and Adam discovers that the boy is Julian-the foster brother he hasn’t seen in five years.” Sure, it means a lot of sitting around, which isn’t easy for a guy with ADHD, but he can’t complain, since he gets to spend the period texting all his friends. Synopsis: “ When Adam Blake lands the best elective ever in his senior year, serving as an aide to the school psychologist, he thinks he’s got it made. Part of a Series?: No, this is a standalone novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Billions of trees gone in the span of a single generation. So many, people like to say, a squirrel could go from New England to Georgia leaping chestnut to chestnut without ever touching the ground.īut then an invasive fungus wiped them out. One of these trees could grow over 100 feet tall and 12 feet wide. The American chestnut towered over these canopies a little over a century ago. But there’s a key player that’s missing, the American chestnut. And a disaster scientist takes on the new movie Don’t Look Up.īut first, if you’ve ever hiked around the forests of the eastern US, you might have noticed all the oaks and the pines and the maples. Later in the hour, we’ll talk about the surfing electrons that contribute to dramatic Northern Light displays. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This has made me want to re-read the Sophoclean original.with some ideas. But for me the more important piece of Antigone's development is that she will not renounce what she believes in, even if given the chance to live. Clearly this is influenced by Brecht's views on the role of theatre, and also the time he is writing for. View of Rhythm and Structure: Brecht’s Antigone in performance Performance Philosophy. 3.3 Detail of Brecht's Antigone production in Chur 1948 (colour pictures taken by Ruth Berlau) 139 3.4 Detail of Brecht's Antigone production in Chur 1948. For me, this breezes over the important philosophical argument, to reach the political argument. Brecht focuses on the politics of the story contrasting the Elders' blind faith in Kreon with Antigone's action to honour her brother. And she stays with this choice, even when offered the opportunity to declaim her actions and save her life.īrecht's interpretation, translated by Judith Molina, is an interesting update of the story. At her core, Antigone is a woman who does what she ought to and not what she is told by convention her defiance of expectation to do what she thinks is right echoes through later heroines in theatre history. At performances of Antigone presented throughout Europe during the dynamic years of 19, spectators were meant to see with new eyes the incendiary struggles taking place outside the theatre. I have felt a connection to the story of Antigone for some time. ![]() ![]() ![]() But right now, meet my friend and author Emily Freeman!Įmily is a writer, speaker, and listener. This book brings freedom from its clutch.īe sure to enter below for your chance to win a copy of this book & a Starbucks gift card to go along with it. It is FABULOUS! (and is the reason my dishes currently sit unwashed and in a pile!) I relate too well to living the ‘try-hard’ life. (Ever wish you could push ‘pause’ on life so you could finish a book without stopping?) Anyway, you will LOVE Grace for the Good Girl Letting Go of the Try Hard Life. My copy currently migrates from my night stand to my tote bag to my back deck as I try to get it finished. One of my favorite new friends (whom I met at our our She Speaks conference a few years back when we sat together at lunch) just wrote her first book. Whether it is through this site, at a conference or retreat or even while out running errands around my small town, I love making new friends. (Yes! I now have an assistant and I can’t wait for you to meet her very soon!) Ladies, send your home address (along with what it is you won) to my assistant at. Congrats to the winners from the weekend’s post!Ĭindy (comment left 8/25 at 2:12 pm with a recipe for blackberry cobbler) wins the signed copy of A Life That Says Welcome & the winner of the Fresh & Fruity package is Debbie Genua. ![]() ![]() ![]() That's what I'm after, that kind of curious "no man's land" when an ordinary citizen moves into the limelight and into - in front of 2,000 people and thrills them. And the minute he was off he was morose and still. JOHN LAHR, AUTHOR "NOTES ON A COWARDLY LION": Well, I guess it's a mystery that I'm, you know, I'm drawn to, because the thing that I could never quite understand about my father was how incredibly glorious he was onstage andĪnimated. Do you feel you understand the connection, having written about five books about - about people who were professionally funny? In writing about your book, Geoffrey Wolff (ph) said that you explore the way sadness speaks to comic genius. S: I spoke with Bert Lahr's son, John, in 1992. I command each thing the official power (ph) ![]() Hn Lahr, is theater critic for "The New Yorker" and author of a book about his father.īefore we here from John Lahr, let's listen to Bert Lahr as the cowardly lion. The cowardly lion was portrayed by Bert Lahr, a star of burlesque, vaudeville theater and film. "The Wizard Of Oz" returned to movie theaters today digitally restored and remastered. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not only does the baby seem to direct her thoughts, behaviors, and speech, as well as render her body ripe with the smell of rotting meat, but at a rehearsal the baby “hijacks fingers” until she concedes and plays a piece the baby approves of.Īfter realizing that her career will need to be put on hold for some time-she can’t risk performing, plus her stench makes being in public a challenge-Tiny becomes totally consumed by caring for the owlet. A professional musician, Tiny is attuned to the fact that the creature gestating inside her can’t possibly be human. From the very first line, we know we’re in an unreal reality, yet Tiny’s question to her unborn child-”How could such a thing come to pass between woman and owl?”-echoes with a sense of wonder and possibility. Right away, Oshetsky asks us to suspend our disbelief. Through her experience we see motherhood and associated notions of sacrifice, compassion, and belonging upended and redefined. ![]() For Tiny is not with child per se-not a human child, but rather an owlet, the offspring of an affair she has with a wild female owl in a dream. Equal parts magical realist and radical feminist, the novel follows the plight of Tiny, a woman whose journey through pregnancy and motherhood vies with the most dramatic of Hollywood depictions. ![]() If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, then Claire Oshetsky’s delightfully disturbing novel, Chouette, offers a nonplanetary paradigm through which to view the female experience: the bestial. ![]() |