#Belinda du maurier

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Hannibal Crack-Cannons: aka Incorrect Quotes:

@myers-meadow-selfship @iloveslasher @the-limp-linguine

Hannibal:

Despite what you think, Hannibal IS a himbo…

Now hear me out. He’s obviously very educated, but when it comes to being a person he is CLUELESS.

Like Hannibal never expects someone to actually get close to him, and when they do, he panics. And he makes a bunch of clumsy little social mistakes, that frankly, are adorable.

He’s a friendship himbo and I stand by that!

S/O: *touches Hannibal’s hand in public, unprovoked*

Hannibal who is not used to genuine affection: *staring at them* why?

S/O: *facepalming*

William:

But if we wanna talk real Himbos….

Cause bro! Wtf are you doing? Homeboy is a MESS.

The only thought in Will’s head is that tik tok audio that’s like “I don’t know what’s going on, and frankly, I don’t wanna know” and he likes it like that.

Will on his 4th cup of coffee of the day: *pushes a door that CLEARLY says pull*

S/O: For your sake, I’m going to pretend I didn’t see that *holds open door for him, smiling at how adorable he is when he gets flustered*

Jack:

This man is a FREAK!

Look me in the eyes and tell me you don’t think he’s into a lot of kinky shit in the bedroom. Man is a respectful switch!

Will: *seeing his boss by rope and duct tape at the corner store*

Jack: it’s not what it looks like-

Alana:

BI WIFE ENERGY, SHE HAS BI WIFE ENERGY!

I think Alana is also a switch, don’t know when this became a NSFW post but we’re rolling with it 🤪

But I totally see her letting men be dominate cause she doesn’t want to hurt their fragile little egos. But with a woman, oh boy! Alana cannot keep her hands to herself, and she doesn’t pretend to want to.

This woman is a flirt by nature. She will Gaslight, Gatekeeper and Girlboss her way into your heart. She’s a smooth motherfucker and you’ll never see her coming… I mean… unless you want to 👀 then by all means 😉

She totally humble brags about you latter.

Beverly:

A Roxy kinnie, prove me wrong!

That’s it, that’s the whole headcannon. If you know, you know!

Abigail:

Abigail is just Violet Harmon in a different universe, and thank god she never met her Tate. Oh dear god, what a night mare that would be!

Abigail with S/O:

Frederick:

There’s not even a headcannon here, just like, imagine if Fred was played by this motherfucker…

Instead of this motherfucker…

Also have this video of Fred’s actor being iconic, this is just Frederick when he’s alone 😂.

So I guess the headcannon is that Frederick is a musical theatre kid confirmed!

Belinda:

Wine Mom confirmed!

Freddie:

As we fucking should!

Mason:

This is just a shameless way for me to promote one of my old videos. I was proud of this meme and more people should see it!

Brian:

Drinks respect boyfriend juice!

But I also hope you like being a third wheel on dates, cause where Brian goes, Jimmy will be there. Good thing they’re both cute 😉

Jimmy:

Jimbo texting his S/O:

And anyone who gets a glimpse at these text is instantly terrified and convinced you’re both doing some sort of seance through the phone. But it’s just you’re average Tuesday.

Margo Verger as a lesbian icon:

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2018 in books

Reread Don’t bother Yes, bother *Nobel Winner*

Every time you see Margaret Atwood, do a shot.

Fiction

We Need to Talk About Kevin- Lionel Shriver

Questions of Travel- Michelle de Kretser

Fingersmith- Sarah Waters

The Dog Stars- Peter Heller

Hag-Seed - Margaret Atwood

MaddAdam- Margaret Atwood

Moral Disorder- Margaret Atwood

Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer

Authority- Jeff VanderMeer

The Strange Bird- Jeff VanderMeer

The River- Rumer Godden

Always Coming Home- Ursula K. Le Guin

Left Hand of Darkness- Ursula K. Le Guin

The Figure in the Carpet- Henry James

The Glass-Blowers- Daphne du Maurier

Ancillary Justice- Ann Leckie

Ancillary Sword- Ann Leckie

Ancillary Mercy- Ann Leckie

Moon Tiger- Penelope Lively

C.- Tom McCarthy

Black Girl, White Girl- Joyce Carol Oates

Wide Sargasso Sea- Jean Rhys

Snap- Belinda Bauer

Stay With Me- Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

The Essex Serpent- Sarah Perry

Short Stories

The Beijing of Possibilities: Stories - Jonathan Tel

Till September Petronella - Jean Rhys

Wilderness Tips: Short Stories- Margaret Atwood

Delicate, Edible Birds- Lauren Groff

Attrib and other stories- Eley Williams

Murder in the Dark- Margaret Atwood

What it Means When a Man Falls from the Sky- Lesley Nneka Arimah

Angela Carter’s Book of Fairy Tales- ed. Angela Carter

Non-Fiction

To A Mountain in Tibet- Colin Thubron

Other Minds: The Octopus, The Sea and the Deep Origins of Consciousness- Peter Godfrey-Smith

In Translation

Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Memorias de mis putas tristes)-Gabriel García Márquez [Colombian Spanish]

The Elephant Vanishes ( Zō no shōmetsu )- Haruki Murakami [Japanese]

Without Blood (Senza sangue) - Alessandro Baricco [Italian]

Lust, Caution (Sik Gaai) - Eileen Chang [Cantonese]

The Vegetarian (Chaesikjuuija) - Han Kang [Korean]

The Flea Palace (Bit Palas) - Elif Shafak [Turkish]

The Castle of Crossed Destinies ( Il castello dei destini incrociati) - Italo Calvino [Italian]

Three Japanese Short Stories - Akutagawa and Others [Japanese]

Eva Luna- Isabel Allende [Chilean Spanish]

From the Mouth of the Whale (Rökkurbýsnir)- Sjón [Icelandic]

Bonjour Tristesse- Françoise Sagan [French]

Fo’ Da Youth (technically; young is a state of mind)

The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage- Phillip Pullman 

The Book with No Pictures- BJ Novak

Stuck- Oliver Jeffers

Poetry

Poems, New and Collected- Wisława Szymborska* [trans from Polish]

Comics and Graphic Novels

Saga, Vol 1. - Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples

Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir- Malik Sajad

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Grip-Lit: Five Elements Your Story Must Include If You’re Writing the Next Gone Girl

However you feel about the literary term “Grip-Lit,” there’s no doubt that readers have embraced this type of psychological thriller and publishers are clamoring for its next big hit.

Novels such as Gone Girl, Before I Go to Sleep and The Girl on the Train put female characters in danger but also, crucially, in the driver’s seat. Instead of passive victims, these heroines are calculating, complex and compelling.

They also have flaws, which threaten them as much as any foe. And their problems could be our problems: marital breakdown, domestic violence, treacherous friends. The moral of the Grip-Lit story is: there, but for the grace of God, go I.

Writers of “Grip-Lit” must simultaneously satisfy and twist the reader’s expectations. Nail these five elements of the genre, and you’ll get a grip on Grip-Lit.

This guest post is by Jo Furniss. Furniss is the author of the psychological thriller ALL THE LITTLE CHILDREN (Lake Union, September 2017). Originally from the UK, Jo is a former BBC journalist who has lived in Cameroon and Switzerland, and now resides with her family in Singapore.

1. Make it Compulsive

Take a look at the reviews for the most successful Grip-Lit titles. Notice how many times readers say they “couldn’t stop thinking about this book.” Or found a novel “unputdownable.” It’s a badge of honor if it keeps them “awake into the small hours.”

No one wants dull-lit or snooze-lit or we’ll-get-to-the-good-part-soon-lit. People like to be absorbed and feel every synapse firing. So put them close to the action; many Grip-Lit novels are written in first person. Imagine being the one friend that the troubled main character confides in—that’s the position the reader should occupy.

Consider switching between narrators, whose accounts complement or contradict each other. This has the benefit of upping the pace while the plot divulges clues, layers information and even misleads.

The reader must be left asking questions and predicting answers: What do we believe? Who do we believe? If the reader thinks she has pre-empted a twist, turn her in another direction in a way that feels inevitable but surprising.

2. Create Trust Issues

A particularly compulsive element of Grip-Lit is the ubiquitous unreliable narrator. There’s nothing more compelling than the sense that someone is withholding information—or downright lying. Add to the mix dubious husbands, mysterious neighbors, crazed relatives, fickle friends and spooky children, and the typical Grip-Lit has a cast list made up of suspects.

For me, Grip-Lit is essentially a modern kind of gothic. In her recent Reith Lectures for the BBC, the author Hilary Mantel defined gothic as an isolated woman who can’t trust anyone and starts questioning the evidence of her own senses until she wonders if she’s mad. Mantel’s description could just as well apply to Grip-Lit.

The reader may even question whether there’s been a crime at all—another common element in the genre. Gone Girl asks whether Amy Dunne has gone missing. The eponymous Woman in Cabin 10 witnesses an impossible disappearance. Christine, in SJ Watson’s Before I Go to Sleep, can’t recall yesterday, never mind a crime. These slipperiest of plots leave a reader clinging on for dear life to every page.

3. Keep It Real

Grip-Lit is defined from other psychological thrillers by the way it performs a post-mortem on domesticity. Gone Girl dissects a marriage. Ruth Ware’s In a Dark, Dark Wood picks apart love rivalry. The heroine of Belinda Bauer’s The Beautiful Dead cares for an ailing parent.

By grounding the main character in reality, the reader sympathizes and thinks, “This could happen to me.” The closer the reader sides with the protagonist, the more the novel will fulfill its aim: to grip.

4. Killer instinct

In The Beautiful Dead, Bauer also carefully humanizes an adversary who is on the Hannibal Lecter scale of psychos. In a taut chapter of only a few pages, she spins a backstory of childhood trauma, creating a degree of sympathy for a cold-blooded killer. His reality makes him all the more frightening.

It’s not enough to say someone kills “because s/he’s crazy”: that’s like saying sharks kill because they’re sharks. Yes, it’s scary to a degree, but I don’t lie in bed at night gripped by a fear of sharks. Readers want to get inside the scarred mind of the characters, and let them get inside theirs.

5. Go into Dark Territory

Some of the finest examples of contemporary Grip-Lit are set in locations that work hard to create the necessary mood of dread. In Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects, the decaying hometown of the main character isolates her; SK Tremayne uses a barren island to similar effect in The Ice Twins.

The Good Widow forces a bereaved woman to re-tread her dead husband’s final steps in the honeymoon capital of Maui, while The Girl on the Train foregrounds Rachel’s untethered emotional state by keeping her constantly on the move.

Finally, don’t underestimate Grip-Lit because it’s been given a fancy name by the marketing department. As author Sophie Hannah points out in her piece for The Guardian, the genre is rooted in deep literary tradition; Agatha Christie ventured into Grip-Lit, as well as PD James, Ruth Rendell, and Daphne du Maurier. It takes craft to produce a suspense thriller and a character calculating enough to grip our hearts and minds.

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My Cousin Rachel Free Full HD watch online & movie trailer

Release Year: 2017

Critic's Score: /100

Director: Roger Michell

Stars: Sam Claflin, Rachel Weisz, Iain Glen

Storyline A young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.

Writers: Daphne Du Maurier, Roger Michell, Sam Claflin, Rachel Weisz, Iain Glen, Sam Claflin, Rachel Weisz, Iain Glen, Holliday Grainger, Poppy Lee Friar, Andrew Knott, Andrew Havill, Vicki Pepperdine, Katherine Pearce, Louis Suc, Harrie Hayes, Attila G. Kerekes, Austin Taylor, Tristram Davies, Stuart Davidson, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Cast: Sam Claflin –

Philip

Rachel Weisz –

Rachel Ashley

Iain Glen –

Holliday Grainger –

Louise Kendall

Poppy Lee Friar –

Mary Pascoe

Andrew Knott –

Joshua

Andrew Havill –

Parson Pascoe

Vicki Pepperdine –

Mrs. Pascoe

Katherine Pearce –

Belinda Pascoe

Louis Suc –

Philip (12 yrs)

Harrie Hayes –

Tess

Attila G. Kerekes –

Villager

Austin Taylor –

Philip ( 9 yrs )

Tristram Davies –

Wellington

Stuart Davidson –

Farmer

Country: UK, USA

Language: English

Release Date: 3 Jan 2017

Technical Specs

Runtime: 106 min

Did You Know?

Trivia: Sam Claflin and Holliday Grainger have previously appeared together in The Riot Club (2014) and the TV mini-series Any Human Heart (2010). See more »

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Hannibal House:

Hannibal:

Slytherin 100%

Will:

Surprise, surprise, he too is a Slytherin.

Beverly:

Ravenclaw, and she won’t let anyone forget it!

Abigail:

She’s on the fence, but I’m thinking Ravenpuff.

Mason:

Gryffindor through and through, and we hate him for it!

Margo:

She is a Slytherin and would have been head girl!

Alana:

It pains me to say, but my wife is a Gryffindor. But like the Hermione Granger kind, not the Harry Potter kind.

Belinda:

Another proud Ravenclaw girl! But she totally breaks into the Slytherin house all the time, just to prove to them that their password isn’t as secure as they think it is .

Jack:

Head Gryffindor… tis why we do not get along 😭

Jimmy:

My sweet baby boy is a Hufflepuff, no doubt about it!

Brain:

He too belongs to Hufflepuff and he bunks with his boyfriend 🥺

Freddie:

Oh look, another Gryffindor 💀 but she totally gaslight the staff into thinking she was a Slytherin for a whole month so she could get closer to Hannibal for ✨surveillance✨

Frederick:

Got kicked out of school before he even placed…

He’s a Horned Serpent.