David winds up executing everyone, including his son, only to discover a terrible twist. As they drive, they can see that the world is filling with monsters and the decision is reached that it's better to die than to keep fighting. Trapped in a local supermarket with other people from his town, Drayton faces not only the dangerous creatures, but a growing tension among the survivors that threatens to turn neighbor against neighbor.Īt the end of the film - and yes, we are about to get into spoilers - David is in a car with a few other survivors. As a quiet mist rolls into town, it brings with it ever increasing hordes of otherworldly beasts. The Mist stars Thomas Jane as David Drayton, a father living with his eight-year-old son in a small Maine town that becomes the source of a horrific disturbance in the fabric of reality itself. And it was so anti-Hollywood - anti-everything, really! It was nihilistic. When Frank said that he wanted to do the ending that he was going to do, I was totally down with that. When Frank was interested in The Mist, one of the things that he insisted on was that it would have some kind of an ending, which the story doesn't have - it just sort of peters off into nothing, where these people are stuck in the mist, and they're out of gas, and the monsters are around, and you don't know what's going to happen next.
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Safety for refugees: Thanks to former President Jimmy Carter, a Christian group rooted in faith and compassion has hosted thousands of refugees in rural Georgia.Īllison Salerno reports that story for the Christian Science Monitor. The victims were people of strong faith with the children characterized as “feisty” and a “shining light,” according to an Associated Press team, including Nashville-based religion news editor Holly Meyer.ģ. The adults who died were Mike Hill, 61 Katherine Koonce, 60 and Cynthia Peak, 61. The children who died were Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney and Hallie Scruggs, all 9 years old. Three children, three adults slain: Once again, a mass shooting at a school shocked all of us and surprised none of us.Īt a Wednesday night vigil in Nashville, “Each speaker echoed the names of those who did not return home earlier this week.” Surely this will be my team’s best season ever!īut first, we focus on the week’s big, sad news from Nashville, Tennessee, a city close to my heart. My beloved Texas Rangers open the 2023 season against the Philadelphia Phillies this afternoon. I’m doing Plug-in a day early because I’m headed to Arlington, Texas, for Opening Day, and I’ll be tied up with that important national holiday. at Good morning, Weekend Plug-in readers! Got feedback or ideas? Email Bobby Ross Jr. Subscribe now to get this newsletter delivered straight to your inbox. Editor’s note: Every Friday, “Weekend Plug-in” features analysis, fact checking and top headlines from the world of faith. Originally published in 1948, The Heart of the Matter is the unforgettable portrait of one man-flawed yet heroic, destroyed and redeemed by a terrible conflict of passion and faith. When Scobie falls in love with the young widow Helen, he finds vital passion again yielding to pity, integrity giving way to deceit and dishonor-a vortex leading directly to murder.Īs Scobie's world crumbles, his personal crisis develops the foundation of a story by turns suspenseful, fascinating, and, finally, tragic. Scobie is bound by strict integrity to his role as assistant police commissioner and by severe responsibility to his wife, Louise, for whom he cares with a fatal pity. Graham Greene's masterpiece, The Heart of the Matter, tells the story of a good man enmeshed in love, intrigue, and evil in a West African coastal town. Wilson sat on the balcony of the Bedford Hotel with his bald pink knees thrust against the ironwork. The book details a life-changing moral crisis for Henry Scobie. The Heart of the Matter (1948) is a novel by English author Graham Greene. (Book 551 from 1001 books) - The Heart of The Matter, Graham Greene But when the Miracle Submarine mysteriously explodes, killing two people, a dramatic murder trial upends the Yoos’ small community. The book starts off with the day that will change so many lives in a small Virginia town. Young and Pak Yoo run an experimental medical treatment device known as the Miracle Submarine―a pressurized oxygen chamber that patients enter for therapeutic “dives” with the hopes of curing issues like autism or infertility. While I feel my review could just say over and over-read this book!!!-let’s take a closer look at it. Part mystery, riveting courtroom drama, character study, a focus of the complicated dynamic between mothers and children, an examination of the immigrant process to the U.S.–there’s so many layers. And it met my expectations and beyond- I was absolutely blown away by this novel. And I kept seeing more and more buzz for it so my excitement grew. I first read about Miracle Creek about a year ago and instantly had a feeling it was special. However, if he goes out in “a black hoodie, baseball cap and trainers”, his blackness rises to 7.6. He knows that if he wears “a tie, wing-tipped shoes, smiled constantly… and kept his hands strapped and calm at his sides, he could get his blackness as low as a 4.0”. Speaking to a possible future employer on the phone, he code-switches his voice to “1.5 on a 10-point scale” of blackness, which won’t be possible when seen face to face. A young man called Emmanuel talks about dialling his blackness up or down according to the situation. The opening story, The Finkelstein 5, is one of the most topical and devastating. Adjei-Brenyah’s stories are equally ingenious, but through a male lens and, like Ross, they’re so daring and mind-bending that you haven’t a clue where he’s going to take you. It’s not surprising because his dark and strange tales are so inventive and stirring that they read as the male counterpart to Leone Ross’s recent first collection, Come Let Us Sing Anyway, with its amazing realist and magic realist concoctions around black women’s lives. N ana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Friday Black made the New York Times bestseller list recently, an astonishing feat for a debut collection of short stories. I'm just incredibly grateful to portray one of Rick's characters. But in the meantime, we'll be busy enjoying all of Rick Riordan's updates and behind-the-scenes stories.Īt Disney's D23 expo on Saturday, September 10, Walker shared a few additional details on his character and what fans can expect, saying, "Percy is funny, he's witty. According to Deadline, the series should arrive sometime in 2024. Since filming just began this summer, it may be quite some time before the series actually makes it to our screens. The official Percy Jackson and the Olympians Twitter account also shared an update, sharing a shot of the clapboard and writing: “First day of camp vibes.” That same day, Rick's wife and collaborator Becky Riordan also confirmed that filming had started in a tweet, sharing that the first day of filming involved a scene with Grover and Percy in Episode 1. On June 2, Rick Riordan confirmed that production on Percy Jackson and the Olympians had officially begun! Rick posted an Instagram photo of a director's chair with his name on it underneath a production tent, captioning the post: “Excuse me, is anyone sitting here?” When Will Percy Jackson and the Olympians Air? According to ScreenRant, Rick has previously stated that he hopes the new series could have a total of five seasons - we assume each full season would then cover an entire book of the five-novel series. Thanks to Tonya Mosley and Dave Davies for keeping things together on the air while I was out sick. When we spoke last Thursday, I had a cold or a virus or something that wasn't COVID, and my voice was really hoarse, but I didn't want to miss doing this interview. His Newbery Medal-winning book, "The Crossover," has been adapted into a Disney+ series on which he serves as an executive producer and writer. He's best-known for his children's books, which include "The Undefeated," for which he won a Caldecott Medal. Kwame Alexander's new memoir is called "Why Fathers Cry At Night," and it's told in the form of prose, poems, letters and recipes. His mother was an educator who became a principal. His father was a Baptist preacher of Black liberation theology who assigned books to Alexander and then quizzed him on them, which made Alexander hate books until he later found the books he loved. We also learn on the first page that by the time he was 2, he was dressed in a dashiki. Overnight, I was barefoot on Mount Everest," unquote. Within two years, our eldest would pack her belongings, clothes, books, heart and leave home and leave us. They would eventually become impassable canyons. Within a month, the cracks in my marriage emerged. On the opening page of Kwame Alexander's beautifully written new memoir, he writes, "my mother died on September 1, 2017. He dives deeply into Mala's family history, uncovering years of trauma passed down through generations and - staggeringly, beautifully - the love that has survived through it all. This is Mala's story, and an appeal to find Asha, told in Tyler's words. Despite Mala's muteness, she manages to communicate with Tyler about her missing sister, Asha. Here she meets Tyler, the only openly queer person on the island of Lantanacamara with whom she feels an affinity as an outsider. But with no body, no evidence and no witnesses, Mala is sent to an Alms House as a madwoman instead of prison. 'A Caribbean classic' Monique Roffey, author of The Mermaid of Black ConchĮveryone in Paradise thinks Mala Ramchandin is a murderer. It is Gandhi’s home state - the site of his ashram and the historic Salt March - and has been ruled for the last decade by the Hindu nationalist BJP, which styles itself as the defender of traditional Indian values. Slightly more surprising was the state of Gujarat’s decision to ban the book. Its most recent target was Rohinton Mistry’s novel Such A Long Journey, which it deemed insufficiently reverent of Maharashtra and Marathi culture. This is no surprise the nativist Shiv Sena is very strong in Mumbai, and the party periodically riles up its base with condemnations of books that have offended its sensibilities. The tamasha started the usual way: Maharashtra threatened to ban the book. “I’m surprised to find myself at the center of one because I think this is a very careful book, and I consider myself a friend of India,” he told the New York Times. Lelyveld he had treated the information very sensitively in the text and was surprised that he was caught up in what Indians called a “tamasha” - a spectacle. The controversy is over reports that the book depicts Gandhi as bisexual, particularly in its description of the Mahatma’s relationship with a German architect. Follow few words today on the tempest brewed up this week in the social-media teacup over Joseph Lelyveld’s new biography of Mohandas K. If any one of those three components is missing, then the behavior won’t happen.” “Behavior happens when three things come together at the same moment: Motivation, Ability and Prompt. BJ had long had the technical ability to write a book, and he was constantly being prompted to write the book, but now, the final piece of the equation slipped into place: BJ had motivation. The thought that remained with him long after that night was his gut reaction of deep, deep regret that he had never shared his work in a way that would help people outside of his classroom. However, his priorities changed when he had a terrifying dream where he was about to die in a plane crash. When he began teaching the concepts of Tiny Habits as far back as 2011, he was frequently asked when the book would come out-but unfortunately for his students, BJ wasn’t writing a book. Many authors once dreamed of writing a book, but BJ can state unequivocally that this book exists because of a dream. BJ’s new book, Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything, he examines the fundamentals of what it takes to modify our habits and lays out a framework for individuals to make small adjustments that lead to lasting change. Our guest on the podcast today is BJ Fogg, world-renowned behavioral scientist and the founder of Stanford’s behavior design lab. |