![]() ![]() The old Melinda was plenty sadistic towards hubby Vic, but she immediately began plotting her escape once it was clear that she could be married to a serial killer. ‘Falcon Lake’ Review: Heartbreak - and Possibly Ghosts - Lurk Under a Melancholy Summer Romance Magorium’s Wonder Emporium” writer-director Zach Helm - is galvanized by the suggestion that she gets off on the idea of her husband’s crimes. Which isn’t to say that Melinda Van Allen was innocent in Highsmith’s version, only that Lyne’s faithful but slyly transformative adaptation - its script credited to the MadLibs-worthy duo of “Euphoria” creator Sam Levinson and “Mr. ![]() ![]() The distinction is subtle until the moment it’s not. Adrian Lyne’s “Deep Water” is a 2022 Hulu movie about a smart man in a soured marriage who grows so mad with jealousy over the affairs that his wife keeps flaunting in front of his face - and so resentful toward the reliable boorishness of her lovers - that he starts murdering her boy-toys with the same brazenness that she took them into her bed… and it makes his wife horny as hell. Patricia Highsmith’s “ Deep Water” is a 1957 novel about a smart man in a soured marriage who grows so mad with jealousy over the affairs that his wife keeps flaunting in front of his face - and so resentful toward the reliable boorishness of her lovers - that he starts murdering her boy-toys with the same brazenness that she took them into her bed. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Mix bananas, vegetable oil, eggs and sugar together in a large mixing bowl.Instructions – Banana Bread with Oil Recipe (No Butter Banana Bread) You Can Also Make Variations such as Chocolate Chip No Butter Banana Bread This email newsletter covers my newest recipes & more! Subscribe to Bread Dad’s free recipe newsletter. Optional – Add 1 Cup of Chocolate Chips (170 grams) or Fresh Cranberries (100 grams) or Chopped Walnuts (115 grams), etc.Įquipment Needed – Measuring cup & spoons, mixing bowl, long wooden spoon, 9 by 5 bread pan, oven mitts, silicon spatula, cooling rack and an oven. ![]() 1 Teaspoon – Baking Powder (aluminum free) – 4 grams.1 Teaspoon – Vanilla Extract – 5 milliliters.2 Cups – Flour (all purpose flour) – 240 grams.See our tips section for more information. 1 Cup – White Granulated Sugar – 200 grams – Some visitors prefer to use 1 cup of light brown sugar ( 215 grams).1/2 Cup – Vegetable Oil – 115 milliliters – Use a neutral tasting vegetable oil such as corn or canola.3 – Bananas (ripe & large sized) – 345 grams – Use 1 1/2 cups of mashed bananas to be exact.Ingredients – Banana Bread with Oil Recipe (No Butter Banana Bread) You will find a printable and “pin-able” recipe at the bottom of this page. Please be aware that this is an oven-baked banana bread recipe. This no butter banana bread recipe takes me about 10 minutes to prepare and clean up. ![]() ![]() The final chapter of Triplanetary tells of the discovery of the inertialess drive that allows faster than light travel. These tales were inserted into the novel following the serialized release, along with chapters covering members of the Kinnison line in World Wars One, Two and Three. The initial chapters cover the Kinnison genetic line during the fall of Atlantis and Nero's (Gharlane of Eddore) reign in Rome. ![]() This alien race is breeding two genetic lines to become the ultimate weapon in Arisia's cosmic war with their arch enemy, the Eddore. ![]() The novel covers several episodes in an eons-long eugenics project of the super-intelligences of the Arisia. It was put into Gutenberg just last year. ![]() He added six new chapters, doubling it in size and it's really a different book from the serialized novel, being published 14 years after the first. After the Lensman series became popular, Smith took his Triplanetary story and turned it into the first of the Lensman series, using it as a prequel to give the back story for the protaganists in the Lensmen series. Triplanetary was first serialized in Amazing Stories in 1934. ![]() ![]() ![]() Told over one summer, THE TAXIDERMIST’S DAUGHTER is the haunting new novel from the bestselling author of LABYRINTH, SEPULCHRE, CITADEL and THE WINTER GHOSTS. Is Constantia who she seems – is she the victim of circumstances or are more sinister forces at work? And what is the secret that lies at the heart of Gifford House, hidden among the bell jars of her father’s workshop? While the village braces itself against rising waters and the highest tide of the season, Connie struggles to discover who is responsible, but finds herself under suspicion. As the last notes fade into the dark, a woman lies dead. No one sees the gloved hand pick up a flint. The bell begins to toll and all eyes are fixed on the church. The stuffed animals that used to grace every parlour are out of fashion, leaving Gifford a disgraced and bitter man. At 17, Constantia Gifford lives with her father in a decaying house: it is all that is left of Gifford’s once world-famous museum of taxidermy. ![]() ![]() Standing alone is the taxidermist’s daughter. Here, where the estuary leads out to the sea, superstitions still hold sway. In a churchyard, villagers gather on the night when the ghosts of those who will die in the coming year are thought to be seen. Kate Mosse is the author of nine novels & short story collections, including the No 1, multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy - Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel - and No 1 bestselling Gothic fiction including The Winter Ghosts and The Taxidermist's Daughter, which she is currently adapting for the stage. ![]() ![]() The protagonist of this quirky science fiction thriller is Londonite Charlotte Pudding. I recently read the science-fiction novel Engines of Empathy (Drakeforth Series, #1) by New-Zealand born author Paul Mannering. ![]() In a world that runs on peace and harmony, Charlotte is about to discover just how far some people are prepared to go to maintain tranquillity Nevertheless, having her routine disrupted by a shadowy corporation, a man who claims to be a retired god, and the secrets of her own family history isn’t a walk in the park, either.Ĭharlotte’s quest for answers will lead her on a perilous journey into a religion based on quantum physics, a hunt for unexpectedly rare plant oil, and a fight to the shame against a black-belt in sarcasm. Charlotte Pudding, computer psychologist and recent orphan, is not precisely thrilled with her lot in life (and not just because of the ‘orphan’ bit). ![]() ![]() ![]() Local police, who know the deceased only as Pete, tell Frank that Abel Haney allowed Pete to live in an abandoned shack on the Holiday Home property. ![]() Nestled in the snow is the body of a vagrant, frozen to death after being knocked out by a blow to the head. While Frank, Sam, and Mel clear branches and toss out dusty old ornaments, Davey and Frank go out into the woods and find something a little hard to discard. Making it a full-on family affair, her new husband, Sam, and her sons, Davey and Kevin, come along to help with the refurbishment. Melanie, whose five champion standard poodles are between shows, agrees to help. ![]() Next thing you know, Frank, who already has his hands full running The Bean Counter, the coffee shop he co-owns with Melanie’s ex-husband, Bob, is scurrying to get the shop ready for the Christmas season. Only the acres of evergreens surrounding the clapboard building remained in pristine condition, and it was these beautiful trees that tempted impulsive Frank Turnbull to bid on the property at auction. But once owner Abel Haney died, the cozy storefront fell into disrepair. Haney’s Holiday Home used to be one of Wilton’s premier attractions. Connecticut dog breeder Melanie Travis ( Murder at the Puppy Fest, 2017, etc.) finds a sleighful of trouble when her brother buys an abandoned Christmas tree farm. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first Seal edition (with the cover in which Rilla looks a bit like a vampire) used the plates of the American Reprint Company edition, which had silently abridged the text by about 4% (about 4,500 words, or 20 pages) in the 1970s the second Seal edition, the one that's still in print today, reset the same text. Benjamin Lefebvre is the editor of both of these books: "Yes, there are a number of differences between the Seal edition of Rilla of Ingleside and the Viking Canada edition Andrea McKenzie and I edited. The only original-text books published recently, to our knowledge, are The Blythes Are Quoted (the unabridged version of The Road to Yesterday) and Rilla of Ingleside, both published by Viking Canada, 20.ĭr. All reprints since then, especially paperbacks and current editions, appear to have used edited texts, in spite of claims printed on the inner pages of some of the books. ![]() NOVELS - Note: The only truly unabridged books are the Montgomery books published before the 1940s (and possibly 1950s) which used the text from the original plates. ![]() ![]() His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. ![]() Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. ![]() Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. ![]() The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. ![]() ![]() ![]() Buttaci has lectured on Sicilian-American pride and conducted poetry workshops and readings." A retired teacher and professor, he was the recipient of the $500 Cyber-wit Poetry Award in 2007. Today, The Writer, Cats Magazine, and widely elsewhere in America and overseas. "The poems, letters, and stories of Salvatore Buttaci have been published in The New York Times, Newsday, U.S.A. Here's a blurb from the Amazon page of one his books, Flashing My Shorts: 76, he was living in West Virginia at the time of his death. He taught at various levels, middle school, high school and college. Born in Brooklyn, he received a BA from Seton Hall and an MBA from Rutgers. We shared the same publisher, All Things That Matter Press. We communicated via email and social media. ![]() To my regret, I never met Sal Buttaci in person. ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘ huge ambitious Wheel of Time series helped redefine the genre’ George R. ‘With the Wheel of Time, Jordan has come to dominate the world that Tolkien began to reveal’ New York Times With every passing day the Dark One grows in strength and strives to shatter his ancient prison, to break the Wheel, to bring an end to Time and sunder the weave of the Pattern. The Prophecies are being fulfilled – but Rand al’Thor, the shepherd the Aes Sedai have proclaimed as the Dragon Reborn, desperately seeks to escape his destiny. It was published by Tor Books and released on November 15, 1990. ![]() The Forsaken are loose, the Horn of Valere has been found and the Dead are rising from their dreamless sleep. The Great Hunt is a fantasy novel by American author Robert Jordan, the second book of The Wheel of Time series. The second novel in the Wheel of Time series – one of the most influential and popular fantasy epics ever published. ![]() |