![]() ![]() These are the eight that make up the main characters in The List. The four prettiest and the four ugliest girls, a pair from each grade at Washington High are declared with the list at the beginning of every year. At 332 pages, each character averages 40 pages, unless their paths overlap, which doesn’t happen all that much because they all hail from different social circles. That gives it a semblance of consistency, even though it still felt like I was juggling eight points-of-view as I read the book. At least the narrative is in third person. There are a whole lot of main characters to keep track of in The List! Eight of them, to be exact. This is the story of eight girls, freshman to senior, “pretty” and “ugly.” And it's also the story of how we see ourselves, and how other people see us, and the tangled connection of the two. ![]() The damage is done the minute it goes up. A list is posted, and one girl from each grade is chosen as the prettiest, and another is chosen as the ugliest. classified as Contemporary, Young Adult Īn intense look at the rules of high school attraction-and the price that's paid for them. ![]()
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Rupi Kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present and the potential of the self. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like many dramas during the turbulent ’60s-especially those set in the South-the film explores themes of alienation and racism as its outsider characters struggle to communicate with each other and find their place in society.ĭave Grusin had mostly television credits when he scored The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, and the project was a feature-film breakthrough that produced one of his signature scores-Grusin is renowned for his works for contemporary adult dramas that blend orchestral, pop and keyboard elements and this was more or less the first. There he touches the lives of a group of disparate people, including a sensitive teenage girl (Locke) whose family has money problems a proud black physician (Percy Rodrigues) at odds with his daughter (Cicely Tyson) and a self-pitying, troublemaking drunk (Stacy Keach Jr.). The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter stars Arkin as John Singer, a deaf-mute who moves to a small town while trying to become the legal guardian of a fellow deaf-mute (played by Chuck McCann) who has been institutionalized. One of the finest dramatic scores of the 1960s-and an important early work of Dave Grusin-gets a deluxe CD treatment from Film Score Monthly: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968), for the acclaimed adaptation of Carson McCullers’s popular Southern novel starring Alan Arkin and Sondra Locke. Film Score Monthly CD: Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, TheĢ50 Golden and Silver Age Classics on CD from 1996-2013! 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I have Cameron, and I love him so damn much. ![]() While he’s been pining after Lucian, one of the Masters in his kink community, for several years, I’ve been depressingly in love with my former stepdad, KC, who happens to be a sadistic Daddy Dom. I won’t tell my boyfriend this, but I don’t believe in absolute happiness. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe just a few fun examples: “Remote control of the home is a popular fantasy among technologists. They remain true forever.” - Donald A Norman The principles, the examples, and the lessons of The Design of Everyday Things come from an understanding of people. “Technology may change rapidly, but people change slowly. However, I believe that Donald Norman’s underlying design principles are still relevant and applicable to present day design. True, some of the content in this book is rather dated. Still feeling clumsy or is it the product? As Norman explains: “User error is really a problem of bad design.”. 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