![]() ![]() OK, so who owns what? Reese Witherspoon beat the rest of Hollywood to the Gone Girl punch she optioned it more than a year ago. ![]() Simply put: There are insanely meaty heroine roles in all three of these stories. And Sharp Objects is about a troubled reporter returning to her hometown to investigate the killing of two young girls. Dark Places is a novel about the lonely survivor of a horrific family murder reassessing her take on the massacre for the first time. Which is which again? Gone Girl is the book that absolutely exploded last summer-about a missing wife, a husband slowly going crazy as he looks for her, and their twisted backstory. ![]() ![]() Here's a cheat sheet to help you keep all the Flynn-tastic productions straight. Then there's Sharp Objects, which you probably haven't heard a peep about, but stuff is happening, I promise you. But at the same time, the big-screen version of another Gillian Flynn book, Dark Places, has been quietly taking shape-with some seriously big names in the mix. You guys know we've been breathlessly following the Gone Girl movie frenzy pretty much since the second we put the book down. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |a In a moment of fright, Sylvester the donkey asks his magic pebble to turn him into a rock but then can not hold the pebble to wish himself back to normal again. |a 36 unnumbered pages : |b illustrations |c 28 cm |a New York : |b Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, |c c1969. |a Sylvester and the magic pebble / |c by William Steig. RLD Woodland Park Easy Children's Fiction Lake County Juvenile Easy Readers Fiction Children's books with the pebbles or other types of rocks as the main subject. ![]() ![]() In addition to supporting the COSO framework. ![]() IT governance therefore enables an enterprise to take full advantage of its information, thereby maximizing benefits, capitalizing on opportunities, and gaining a competitive advantage. COBIT provides controls that address operational and compliance objectives related directly to financial reporting. Furthermore, IT governance integrates and institutionalizes good practices to ensure that an enterprise’s IT organization supports business objectives. IT governance is the responsibility of executives and the board of directors, and consists of the leadership, organizational structures and processes that ensure that the enterprise’s IT sustains and extend the organization’s strategies and objectives. In addition to supporting the COSO framework, and hence Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, the COBIT framework addresses IT governance more broadly. ![]() ![]() COBIT provides controls that address operational and compliance objectives related directly to financial reporting. Additional details regarding IT control considerations can be found in COBIT, a control framework published by the IT Governance Institute. The latest COBIT version 5 came out in April 2012 and consolidated the principles of COBIT 4.1, Risk IT Frameworks, and Val IT 2.0. The Committee of the Sponsoring Organizations (COSO) provides a high-level view of the components of an IT control framework necessary for meeting SOX compliance however, it does not provide details on how to execute the framework. ![]() ![]() ![]() Working together to give Jamie and Darcy’s grandmother’s house the makeover it needs so they can sell it, tension builds up and sparks start flying. Then, upon coming home one night, Tom is on Darcy’s porch and single for the first time in 8 years. No other man in Darcy’s life has ever been able to live up to Tom Valeska and so Darcy has never let any other man too close. Only problem: he was her twin brother Jamie’s best friend. There were a few issues with some of the language used and some lowkey misogynistic parts that I was hoping would be improved upon in 99% Mine, but unfortunately I think this book is actually worse.ĭarcy Barrett met her dream man when she was 8 years old. I read Sally Thorne’s debut novel, The Hating Game, earlier in the year and thought it was okay. ![]() I received an advance copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest reviewĩ9% Mine is a book I was sceptically anticipating. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Vigneron Jean-Paul Martel naively favors science over superstition, and he certainly doesn’t endorse the locals’ belief in witches. And the vineyard she was destined to inherit is now in the possession of a handsome stranger. Now, after breaking the spell that confined her to the shallows of a marshland and weakened her magic, Elena is struggling to return to her former life. ![]() ![]() Then the skill of divining harvests fell into ruin when sorcière Elena Boureanu was blindsided by a curse. Here’s the publisher’s description:Ī young witch emerges from a curse to find her world upended in this gripping fantasy set in turn-of-the-century France.įor centuries, the vineyards at Château Renard have depended on the talent of their vine witches, whose spells help create the world-renowned wine of the Chanceaux Valley. Smith is joining us today with her novel The Vine Witch. ![]() ![]() “I got back with a very abrupt and probably hostile reply telling him that I’d thought that Warner Brothers were aware that they, nor any of their employees, shouldn’t contact me again for any reason,” he explained.Ĭlearly not a fan of the studios, Moore wasn’t interested in helping adapt his work. ‘Can you at least tell us how to pronounce “Ozymandias”?’” It went on through a lot of, what seemed to me to be, neurotic rambling. Moore, I am one of the bastards currently destroying Watchmen.’ That wasn’t the best opener. “But the letter, I think it opened with, ‘Dear Mr. “ a frank letter from the showrunner of the Watchmen television adaptation, which I hadn’t heard was a thing at that point,” said Moore. The package was an attempt from a Watchmen showrunner - believed to be Damon Lindelof - to reach out to Moore for help. It turned out to contain a powder blue barbecue apron with a hydrogen symbol on the front.” “I received a bulky parcel, through Federal Express, that arrived here in my sedate little living room. “There was an incident - probably a concluding incident, for me,” said Moore. This extends to the recent Watchmen TV series, and Moore had some stern words for the television execs who dared to reach out to him about the project. Moore famously hates all of the Hollywood adaptations of his work, including Zack Snyder’s Watchmen and the dystopian classic, V for Vendetta. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here’s what’s on my reading list:ġ) Several People are Typing by Calvin Kasulke – This book has been on my radar for awhile and I’m excited to dive in! It’s written entirely in Slack messages and blurbed by Carmen Maria Machado, so I have high hopes.Ģ) Future Feeling by Joss Lake – When I saw that this novel is about a dog walker obsessed with a social media influencer and accidentally curses someone, I immediately placed it on hold at the library.ģ) The Bride was a Boy by Chii – I’ve been reading more manga lately and was thrilled to discover this autobiographical manga about a trans woman getting ready for her wedding. ![]() For the fundraising component, I’ll be donating 10 cents per page read to the Transgender Law Center. If you decide to participate, be sure to fill out the Trans Rights Readathon Survey. I’ll be joining the readathon next week and wanted to share my reading list in case you’d like to join too! The goal is to read and uplift trans authors and stories and to donate to a cause based on how many pages, chapters, or books you read. To show support for trans people and raise funds for trans rights organizations, author Sim Kern organized a Trans Rights Readathon that runs March 20-March 27. ![]() 2023 has seen a massive and terrifying rise in anti-trans rhetoric and legislation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shortly thereafter, Jodorowsky became attached to direct the adaptation of the famous Frank Herbert sci-fi epic novel Dune. He directed several cult films, namely the infamous El Topo, a Midnight movie favorite. The 1970s saw him transition into the world of film where he quickly put a defining stamp on all his cinematic works. This innovative artistic movement allowed him to creatively participate in over a 100 theater productions. In the 1960s, Jodorowsky ventured further into the world of theater, creating in Mexico, the Panic Movement. He traveled with a pantomime troupe in the 1950s, and within a couple years had made his way to Paris where he collaborated with the world-renowned mime Marcel Marceau. Jodorowsky was multi-talented from an early age, becoming skilled in puppetry and mime, in addition to writing, by his late teens. ![]() Born February 7th, 1929, in Tocopilla, Chile, of a Jewish Ukrainian immigrant family. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thompson's razor-sharp insight and crystal clarity capture the crazy, hypocritical, degenerate, and redeeming aspects of the explosive and colorful '60s and '70s. From this essay a new journalistic movement sprang which would change the shape of American letters. Thompson piece to be dubbed "gonzo"-"The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved," which appeared in Scanlan's Monthly in 1970. Ranging in date from the National Observer days to the era of Rolling Stone, The Great Shark Hunt offers myriad, highly charged entries, including the first Hunter S. These essays offer brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in signature Thompson style. Thompson, in full Hunter Stockton Thompson, (born July 18, 1937, Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. ![]() Thompson's largest and, arguably, most important work, covering Nixon to napalm, Las Vegas to Watergate, Carter to cocaine. Originally published in 1979, the first volume of the bestselling "Gonzo Papers" is now back in print. Thompson's bestselling Gonzo Papers offers brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in his signature style. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Hello, Cherryderry,” she said, as their dear old butler opened the door. She stomped up the front steps girding her loins for battle, as her father himself would have said. It was fueled by humiliation, and despair, and the absolute certainty that her father must be turning in his grave. ![]() It was the self-loathing of someone who can’t quite bring herself to leave home and have done with it. It was being relegated to a chamber in the attic, with faded furnishings that advertised her relative worth in the household. It was the pitying glances she had from acquaintances who never met her at dinner anymore. ![]() Anger was watching her father’s money be poured into new gowns and bonnets and frilly things…so numerous that her stepmother and stepsister couldn’t find days enough in the year to wear them all. Anger was watching the crops wilt and the hedges overgrow because her stepmother begrudged the money needed to maintain the estate. Daltry – who had held that title for a matter of mere months – started ruling the roost, that Kate really learned the meaning of anger.Īnger was watching tenants on the estate be forced to pay double the rent or leave cottages where they’d lived their whole lives. But it wasn’t until he was gone, and the new Mrs. Before her father died seven years earlier, she found herself sometimes irritated with her new stepmother. It should be said that the condition wasn’t unfamiliar to her. Miss Katherine Daltry, known to almost all as Kate, got down from her horse seething with rage. ![]() |