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theblankgarden.com
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| | | | Dear Maria, In Belinda (first published in 1801, revised in 1810), we can almost feel the double-edged sword you are playing with: while championing the idea that women are able to make reasoned choices and, thus, to exercise freedom, you also seem to be making a strong case for the idea that women can only... | |
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margot-kin-berg.com
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| | | | It's said that when you marry someone, you also marry that someone's family. The stakes can be high, too, as it's much easier for a couple to build a life together if each gets along with the other's family. That's why meeting your partner's family can be so stressful. Sometimes it goes well, and in-laws... | |
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www.richardhughestherapy.com
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| | | | The one novel I return to again and again is Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. The opening dream sequence draws the reader into a lost Garden of Eden, choked with malevolent ivy and twisted rhododendrons, from which the protagonists have been expelled and cannot return. And so, we find ourselves looking up at the blackened walls of Manderley, wondering what happened there. It is a gripping story, a twisted Cinderella tale, in which the reader ends up colluding with the melodrama in such a way that th | |
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www.coolasscinema.com
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| | All images: Google images This is a slight departure from what's normally found here on Cool Ass Cinema. It's not a total deviation, thoug... |