#kathryn reiss

[brightbeautifulthings]

Time Windows by Kathryn Reiss

"She was suddenly no longer sure if she was the observer or if she was the one being observed. Was there another dollhouse in another time? Was someone looking into her bedroom, watching her parents bend over her in concern? Was someone else, in fact, reminded of a seventeenth-century oil painting?"

Year Read: 2022

Rating: 3/5

About: Miranda and her parents have just moved into a big house in a small town. At first reluctant to leave New York City, she's soon captivated by the old house's secrets, particularly the dollhouse in the attic that is its exact miniature replica. She's shocked to discover that by peering through the windows of the dollhouse, she can watch the lives of the house's past inhabitants. But the magic is there for a reason, and Miranda may have been given this gift to stop a decades-old tragedy. Trigger warnings are beneath the cut, since they may include spoilers.

Thoughts: This made me so nostalgic for my elementary school library. I never read Time Windows when I was younger, but I'm guessing there are at least half a dozen magical dollhouse books from the 80s and 90s floating around out there and that almost every fourth-grade girl imprinted on one of them. Mine was When the Dolls Woke by Marjorie Filley Stover, which remains better in my mind, and I'm hesitant to take that theory into practice and ruin a beloved childhood book with current reality. All of that is to say that if you were one of those kids and you're in the mood for a bike ride down memory lane, this book is for you.

It's got some pacing problems, the biggest being that nearly 300 pages is just too long for the kind of story that's being told. A lot of the filler of Miranda's daily life and the repeats of what she sees in the dollhouse could have been streamlined or cut for a tighter story. There's also the problem that watching through a dollhouse is an inherently passive activity. However interesting the events there might be (sometimes they are, sometimes not), by its nature it places Miranda in the role of spectator instead of participant in her own story. There isn't a lot of action to be had inside or outside of the dollhouse.

However, what it does have is character and mystery, and I enjoyed both. Miranda's relationships with her parents are well-developed, and when she finally brings some of the neighbor kids in on the mystery, those add a dimension to the story too. Truly, for most of the book I just wanted to know why she calls her mom "Mither," a question that is never answered. The mystery within the dollhouse is slow to unfold, and it takes a while to discover why what Miranda is watching is even relevant. I enjoyed the little clues and the subtle but powerful ending. There's a horrific image at the heart of this novel, for what's otherwise a very un-scary book. I guessed it before it happened and then was horrified by it anyway, certain that it was much too grim for a children's book, but this is, after all, the genre of The Other Mother and Princess Mombi. That aside, though, it's more of a mystery with a single magical element than it is a horror novel.

Trigger warnings: child death, parent death, dead body (on-page), child abuse (verbal, physical), suffocation, starvation, train wrecks, fire, depression, illness, sexism.

[onlydylanobrien]

Kieran Culkin, Riley Keough, Lucy Liu, André Holland and Will Ferrell Join TheWrap’s Studio at the Sundance Film Festival

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Camila Cabello, David Schwimmer and Glen Powell are also on tap for TheWrap’s Interview and Portrait Studio presented by NFP

Wrap Staff January 18, 2024 @ 10:26 AM

TheWrap will be hosting top talent at its interview and portrait studio at the NFP Inspire Lounge on Main Street during the 2024 Sundance Film Festival from Jan. 19-23, presented by NFP.

Actors Kieran Culkin, Riley Keough, André Holland, Lucy Liu, Saoirse Ronan, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Will Ferrell, Camila Cabello, Andra Day, Jesse Eisenberg, Dylan O’Brien, Victoria Pedretti, Glen Powell, Kathryn Newton, Zach Galifianakis, David Schwimmer, Jena Malone, Justice Smith, Julia Fox, Will Sharpe, Jennifer Grey, Chris Sullivan, Alicia Silverstone, Emilia Jones and Retta are among those confirmed to attend.

Filmmakers set to join TheWrap’s studio include Chiwetel Ejiofor, Richard Linklater, Lucy Lawless, Yance Ford, Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, Megan Park, Susanna Fogel and Josh Greenbaum.

TheWrap’s Interview and Portrait Studio presented by NFP — where TheWrap creative director and photographer Jeff Vespa will be shooting talent — will feature in-person conversations with cast members and directors from the top movies premiering at Sundance. This year’s studio sponsor is NFP, a leading property and casualty broker, benefits consultant, wealth manager and retirement plan advisor.

“We’re thrilled to be back at Sundance with our robust team to offer readers an inside look at the forefront of independent film,” TheWrap’s co-executive editor Adam Chitwood said.

In addition to interviews and portraits, TheWrap will also be hosting two panels out of the NFP Inspire Lounge. “Producers’ Perspectives: Navigating Film Festivals in 2024” will take place on Saturday, Jan. 20 at 4:30 p.m., presented by the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and TheWrap and NFP. Dean Brian Kite will moderate the panel that includes Stacey Reiss, Mark Anker, Jess Devaney, Luke Kelly-Clyne and Jason Forest.

On Monday, Jan. 22 the panel “Championing Change: The Power of Inclusive Filmmaking” will take place at 9 a.m. with panelists Carla Gutierrez, Paola Mendoza, Henry Muñoz and Amber Sealey, moderated by Carla Renata and presented by UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and TheWrap and NFP.

Both panels will take place at TheWrap’s studio at 268 Main Street.

Source: thewrap.com

[dani-ellie03]

I am back with more miniatures! This time I did a room box (because I live in a 1-bedroom apartment with no space to keep amassing and displaying full houses, haha). Come with me and journey back to the late 90s!

What we have here is a teen girl's bedroom from the late 90s. CRT television! Tie-dye backpack! Titanic and Lisa Frank on the wall! Celine Dion and the Backstreet Boys in the CD changer! That alarm clock that literally everyone had! A Care Bear on the bed (because a 90s teen is also an 80s kid)!

The wallpaper is scrapbook paper and the carpet is felt.

Touches made by my own two hands:

-Any brightly colored books in the bookshelf are merely pieces of cardstock painted with acrylic and folded to look like books. -The paper-bag-book-cover look on the math book was created by covering a miniatures book I purchased with craft paper. The handwriting and doodles are mine. My microscopic handwriting came in handy! -The backpack is made from fabric strips I found at Dollar Tree and formed around a cotton ball. None of it is sewn; it's all Tacky Glue. -The Titanic and Lisa Frank posters are images I found online and resized to approximately 1:12 scale. I printed the images out in color and glued them to cardstock for stability. The frames are created from wood coffee stirrers. -The Celine and BSB CDs are made in a similar way, though the scale is slightly larger than 1:12. They're glued onto leftover stripwood I had from the dollhouse and cut to size. -The bedspread is cut from a fat quarter of fabric I found at Walmart with the edges Tacky Glued under to create a hem. The pillow is one I didn't use from the dollhouse recovered in the same fabric. I thought about ironing that crease out, as it's just left over from where the fabric was initially folded, but I kinda like it, so I left it. -The copies of Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn (on the nightstand) and Time Windows by Kathryn Reiss (on the bed) are images of the actual book covers resized and glued onto miniature books from Michaels.

[moononastring]

132 books! Holy moly. I know it would be asking A LOT but do you think you could post a list of all books? If you don’t want to it’s ok. But wow….

HAHA I know it's nuts but I always have a book on me so I reread in between any free moment. It also turns out that it's 130 books since I double-checked on GoodReads!

I initially had a reading goal of 75 books then bumped it to 100. Throughout this year I've realized, I pick and choose between hobbies so if I'm reading, I don't do any other things. So I sacrifice time to play on my switch/watch tv/write because reading takes first place. Also, GoodReads does count epilogues and webtoons as books so I do as well lol. Which is how I'm currently on the 131st book 😂 But sure! I love talking about books so I will list them under the read more!

Scandal in Spring (Wallflowers #4) by Lisa Kleypas- 5/5

Mafia Bride (The Dilustro Arrangement) by C.D. Reiss - 2/5

Anchored Hearts by Priscilla Oliveras - 3/5

By Any Other Name (ARC) by Lauren Kate - 4/5

#FollowMe for Murder (Trending Topics Mysteries #1) ARC by Sarah E. Burr - 3/5

Storm of Chaos and Shadows (SCAS #1) ARC by C.L. Briar - 3/5

You Had Me at Hola (Primas of Power #1) by Alexis Daria - 3.5/5

Great of Nothing by Joy McCullough - 2/5

How to Fake It in Hollywood (ARC) by Ava Wilder - 3/5

The Littlest Library by Poppy Alexander - 2/5

A Rouge by Any Other Name (The Rules of Scoundrels #1) by Sarah MacLean - 3.5/5 | Reread

One Good Earl Deserves a Lover (TROS #2) by Sarah MacLean - 5/5 | Reread

The Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana Zapata - 5/5 | Reread

Dream On (ARC) by Angie Hockman - 3.5/5

House of Earth and Blood (CC#1) by SJM- 4/5 | Reread

Good Girl Complex (Avalon Bay #1) by Elle Kennedy - 3/5

House of Sky and Breath (CC#2) by SJM - 4/5

The Viscount Who Loved Me (Bridgertons #2) by Julia Quinn - 4/5

The Viscount Who Loved Me Epilogue by Julia Quinn - 4/5

Just Like Magic (ARC) by Sarah Hogle - 4/5

FBAA #1 by JLA - 4/5 | Reread

From Lukov with Love by Mariana Zapata - 5/5 | Reread

The Un-Arranged Marriage (ARC) by Laura Brown - 2/5

KOFAF (FBAA #2) by JLA - 4/5 | Reread

TCOGB (FBAA#3) by JLA - 4.5/5 | Reread

TWOTQ (FBAA#4) by JLA - 4.5/5 | Reread

An Offer from a Gentleman (Bridgerton #3) by Julia Quinn - 5/5

An Offer from a Gentleman Epilogue by Julia Quinn - 4/5

Romancing Mr. Bridgerton (Bridgerton #4) - 3.5/5

Romancing Mr. Bridgerton Epilogue - 3.5/5

A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson - 4/5

An Encore of Roses by S.T. Gibson - 4/5

Bravely (ARC) by Maggie Stiefvater - 3/5

King of Battle and Blood by Scarlett St. Clair - 2.5-3/5

No Good Duke Goes Unpunished (TROS #3) by Sarah MacLean - 3/5

Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover (TROS#4) - 4/5

To Sir Phillip, With Love (Bridgerton #5) - 3.5/5

To Sir Phillip, With Love Epilogue - 3.5/5

The Bodyguard (ARC) by Katherine Center

ACOTAR #1 by SJM - 4/5 | Reread

The Italian Job (ARC) by Kathryn Freeman - 2/5

For Butter or Worse (ARC) by Erin La Rosa - 3/5

A Sign of Affection Vol. 6 - 3/5

A Sign of Affection Vol. 7 - 4/5

ACOMAF (ACOTAR #2) by SJM - 5/5 | Reread

When He Was Wicked (Bridgerton #6) - 5/5

When He Was Wicked Epilogue - 4/5

Book Lovers by Emily Henry - 5/5

ACOWAR (ACOTAR #3) by SJM - 4.5/5 | Reread

Booked on a Feeling (ARC) by Jayci Lee - 2/5

Something Wilder by Christian Lauren - 1.5-2/5

The Dragon's Bride (A Deal With a Demon #1) by Katee Robert - 3/5

The Fine Print (Dreamland Billionaires #1) by Lauren Asher - 4/5

Terms and Conditions (Dreamland Billionaires #2) - 2.5-3/5

ACOFAS (ACOTAR 3.5) by SJM - 3.5-4/5 | Reread

It's in His Kiss (Bridgerton #7) - 3.5/5

It's in His Kiss Epilogue - 3/5

Bad Girl Reputation (Avalon Bay #2) ARC by Elle Kennedy - 2/5

Gild (The Plated Prisoner #1) by Raven Kennedy - 3.5/5 | Reread

Glint (TPP #2) - 4/5 | Reread

Gleam (TPP#3) - 5/5 | Reread

Glow (TPP#4) - 5/5 | Reread

My Killer Vacation by Tessa Bailey - 5/5

Spy x Family Vol. 1 - 4/4

Spy x Family Vol. 2 - 4/5

On the Way to the Wedding (Bridgerton #8) - 3/5

On the Way to the Wedding Epilogue - 2/5

Violet in Bloom (Bridgerton 8.5) - 3/5

The Spanish Love Deception (#1) by Elena Armas - 4/5

The American Roommate Experiment (#2) - 4/5

ACOFS (ACOTAR #4) by SJM - 5/5 | Reread

Spy x Family Vol. 3 - 4/5

Spy x Family Vol. 4 - 4/5

By A Thread by Lucy Score - 3.5/5

Twisted Love (Twisted #1) by Ana Huang - 3.5/5

Twisted Games (Twisted #2) - 4/5

Twisted Hate (Twisted #3) - 4.5/5

Twisted Lies (Twisted #4) - 5/5

Thank You for Listening (ARC) by Julia Whelan - 3/5

The Fixer Upper (ARC) by Lauren Forsythe - 2/5

Spy x Family Vol. 5 - 4/5

Spy x Family Vol. 6 - 4/5

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones - 3/5

Belladonna (#1) ARC by Adalyn Grace - 4.5/5

The Risk (Mindf*ck #1) by S.T. Abby - 4.5

Sidetracked (Mindf*ck #2) - 3.5/5

Scarlet Angel (Mindf*ck #3) - 4/5

All the Lies (Mindf*ck #4) - 4/5

Paint it All Red (Mindf*ck #5) - 5/5

Spy x Family Vol. 7 - 4/5

Spy x Family Vol. 8 - 4/5

Flowers for the Devil by Vlad Kahany - 3.5/5

Blide Side by Kandi Steiner - 3/5

Fangirl Vol. 1: The Manga - 4/5

Fangirl Vol. 2: The Manga - 4/5

Things We Never Got Over (Knockemout #1) by Lucy Score - 5/5

The Enemy (It Happened in Charleston #2) by Sarah Adams - 2/5

Hat Trick Heart (Thunderclap #1) ARC by Ella Market - 3/5

Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match by Sally Thorne - 1/5

Brutal Prince (Brutal Birthright #1) by Sophie Lark - 3.5/5

Stolen Heir (Brutal Birthright #2) - 3.5/5

Savage Lover (Brutal Birthright #3) - 3.5/5

Blood Heart (Brutal Birthright #4) - 2/5

Broken Vow (Brutal Birthright #5) - 4/5

Heavy Crown (Brutal Birthright #6) - 2/5

Edith, Season 3 (Webtoon) - 3/5

Reunion (Webtoon) - 5/5

Kingdom of the Wicked (KOTW#1) by Kerri Maniscalco - 4/5 | Reread

Kingdom of the Cursed (KOTW #2) - 4/5 | Reread

Kingdom of the Feared (KOTW #3) - 4.5/5

The Maiden & the Unseen (ARC) by Jeanette Rose - 3/5

The Naughty or Nice Clause (ARC) by Kate Callaghan - 1/5

In A Jam by Kate Canterbary - 3.5/5

King of Wrath (Kings of Sin #1) by Ana Huang - 4/5

Spy x Family Vol. 9 - 5/5

Spy x Family Vol. 10 - 5/5

The Hating Game by Sally Thorne - 5/5 | Reread

The Bromance Book Club (#1) by Lyssa Kay Adams - 5/5 | Reread

Undercover Bromance (#2) - 4/5 | Reread x2

Crazy Stupid Bromance (#3) - 5/5 | Reread x2

Isn't It Bromantic? (#4) - 4/5 | Reread x2

A Very Merry Bromance (#5) - 4.5/5

Happenstance by Tessa Bailey - 3/5

Dating Dr. Dill (#1) by Nisha Sharma - 2/5

All Rhodes Lead Here by Mariana Zapata - 3/5

Tis the Season for Revenge by Morgan Elizabeth - 5/5

It ends up rounding out to 130 because I reread the Bromance books 1-4 twice this year lolol. Currently on my 131st read which is Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare!

[editorauthoranna]

SWEET MISS HONEYWELL’S REVENGE Book Review

By Kathryn Reiss

I had so much fun reading Sweet Miss Honeywell’s Revenge again!

When I was 13, I had an elective class in middle school as a Library Aid. One day, I was putting away some books for the librarian when this little gem caught my eye on the cart. I was already an avid reader, and I couldn’t resist stealing away a few minutes in the stacks to read the back and the first few pages of Reiss’s novel. I had never been the kid to read things like ghost stories or Goosebumps; I was a huge chicken and stayed far away from scary things. But this book made me curious, so instead of putting it away, I checked it out and spent the next few nights scaring myself to death reading it. It’s stuck with me all these years. (I still sometimes have nightmares involving disembodied hands. I am 27 as of writing this post in April of 2022.)

It’s unclear what year Sweet Miss Honeywell’s Revenge takes place in, but I think it’s safe to assume the early 2000s. Your main characters are four 12-year-old girls: one is spunky, one is anxious, one is daring, and the last is . . . mean? They do have some development, but each girl does have a predominant emotion that colors their actions/reactions.

Personally, I found the alternating chapters between 2000-something and 1919 to be really well done. The 1919 chapters were definitely my favorites as that’s where you get all the ghost story backstory! As a child, I didn’t question Miss Honeywell’s behavior as anything more than controlling-adult-hates-children-and-wants-them-to-suffer. As an adult myself, I think there was something much more wrong with Miss Honeywell than a basic villainous intent to further the plot. I think she was mentally ill. That doesn’t excuse her behaviors at all, but it does add some depth to the character that I appreciated.

The four girls do grow up a bit throughout the story too. There’s a bit of a “found family” story mixed in with the ghost story. The girls have to learn more about teamwork, loyalty, and how their past actions can affect the future. It’s a good way to make kids utilize their just-developing critical thinking skills.

Please keep in mind that this book was written for kids; you won’t find amazing zingers and pretty prose in these pages. It’s actually repetitive enough that I found the same adjectives used too close together a few times.

But really, if your preteen likes ghost stories, they will adore this book. And possibly be forever freaked out by porcelain dolls, if they aren’t already.

~ Anna

[pancreasnostalgia]

Riddle of the Prairie Bride, by Kathryn Reiss. First of all, I think that "riddle" wasn't the best word to use for the title. It sounds more like they were just trying to come up with synonyms for "mystery," but there weren't really any riddles involved.

There's a lot of talk about Henry Clay that did not sound accurate to me.

Spoiler that I'm not sure is also a TW: there's catfishing but it's not entirely, as the communications were from the genuine person. The end result was pretending to be that person. But at the same time, the two women were supposedly good friends, but the pretend one couldn't remember important information that she should have known.

Ida Kate blames her friend for filling her head with outrageous accusations, but it was really Ida Kate who came up with them in the first place.

Goodreads star rating: 3/5

[americangirlstar]

Julie BeForever Books

The Big Break by Megan McDonald

Soaring High by Megan McDonald

A Brighter Tomorrow by Megan McDonald

The Tangled Web by Kathryn Reiss

The Puzzle of the Paper Daughter by Kathryn Reiss

The Silver Guitar by Kathryn Reiss

Lost in the City by Kathleen O’Dell

Message in a Bottle by Kathryn Reiss

Illustrations by Juliana Kolesova, Michael Dworkin and Sergio Giovine

[dollplantcatlady]

Historical fiction for fans of American Girl/Dear America

Thinking back to the OC post I recently made... Some of the doll stories I’d like to see are related to my own life experiences, but not all of them! I’ve gotten a lot of inspiration and daydreams from other book series. (Example: The Dear America book “Color Me Dark” is the reason I would love to see a Great Migration doll.)

Historical fiction has always been my favorite genre since I was old enough to read. In the late 90s and early 2000s, there were so many educational series at the library to keep me entertained. (Though I absolutely had a Babysitters Club phase too.) I found a lot of discontinued books are still available digitally for Kindle/Nook or through Thriftbooks. If you want to find something new for your young reader (or yourself) or experience some nostalgia you might have forgotten, read on!

Dear Canada/My Story (UK)

Like the more well-known Dear America, each book is a diary written from the perspective of a young girl. I believe Australia and New Zealand have done the same, but I haven’t been able to find any of those books online for Americans to buy. A lot of the Dear Canada books are available for the Nook app (through Barnes & Noble) and My Story ebooks can be downloaded for Kindle. 

My personal favorites, copied from Wikipedia: (I love stories about “found family” and have always been fascinated by the TItanic)

Orphan at My Door: The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope, Guelph, Ontario, 1897

That Fatal Night: The Titanic Diary of Dorothy Wilton, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1912

To Stand on My Own: The Polio Epidemic Diary of Noreen Robertson, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1937

Pieces of the Past: The Holocaust Diary of Rose Rabinowitz, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1948

The Great Plague: The Diary of Alice Paynton, London, 1665–1666 (I read this one during covid lockdown)

Victorian Workhouse: The Diary of Edith Lorriner, London, 1871

Mysteries through History

An American Girl series that was discontinued in 2004. These books cover more mature, darker topics than the main series. The AG wiki recommends them for early teenagers rather than pre-teen girls. Quite a few are available on Amazon for Kindle. 

I haven’t read as many of these but I have enjoyed:

Mystery on Skull Island by Elizabeth McDavid Jones (Charleston, SC 1721)

The Strange Case of Baby H by Kathryn Reiss (San Francisco, 1906)

Girls of Many Lands

Another discontinued series from American Girl, these books covered historical events across the world, from Ireland to India. The only one I’ve read is Minuk: Ashes in the Pathway, which takes place in Alaska in 1890 when the main character meets American missionaries for the first time. (Just expand her story and move her over to the historical doll line, it’d be so good!) 

I found my copy at a library sale. These are easy to find at used bookstores, both online and off.

Journey to America by Clare Pastore

There are 3 books in this miniseries. I’ve read the first two and own the Irish one:

Fiona McGilray's Story: A Voyage from Ireland in 1849 

Aniela Kaminski's Story: A Voyage from Poland During World War II

Chantrea Conway's Story: A Voyage From Cambodia In 1975

The books aren’t available in digital form, but you can find copies under ~$5 on Thriftbooks or eBay. 

American Diaries by Kathleen Duey

I honestly can’t remember the quality or reading level of these books, but I distinctly remember the series being on the tip of my tongue for the longest time, before I came across one online. I remember child-me curled up in her favorite library chair, reading the Summer MacCleary one, which was about an indentured servant in colonial Virginia.

Some unique eras available on Thriftbooks: Puritan Massachusetts, a French/Shoshone girl in 1820s Idaho, California gold rush, Civil War Louisiana, reconstruction-era Mississippi, late-1800s Texas, 1920s Hollywood

American Sisters by Laurie Lawlor

Another series I can remember reading, but the details have escaped my mind. These stories focus on families rather than individual girls. Available cheaply on Thriftbooks. 

Some subjects include: Early 1700s Boston, late 1700s Kentucky, Civil War-era Colorado, 1900s Asian immigration to California

Betsy-Tacy Series by Maud Hart Lovelace

This book series isn’t quite the same format as the others, but I had to include it because it was my favorite series as a kid. Published in the 1940s, it revolves around the lives of Betsy and her two best friends as they grow up in Victorian/Edwardian Minnesota. (My home state!) A unique aspect of the series is how each book gets longer and more complex as Betsy ages. The first book starts when she’s 5 and the last ends when she marries in her early 20s. All are available for Kindle but I also have paperback copies. They were reprinted in the early 2000s so I’ve found some at thrift stores. 

Surprise surprise, the used dolls I bought to fix up will be turned into Betsy, Tacy, and Tib! I’m so excited to start working on them. 

[increasinglygeeky]

MY HOLLYWOOD LIVE ACTION ATTACK ON TITAN FANCAST

Alex Storm as Eren Yeager

Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Grisha Yeager

Holly Marie Combs as Carla Yeager

Kitty Chicha Amatayakul as Mikasa Ackerman

Sonoya Mizuno as Mikasa’s Mother

Tom Felton as Mikasa’s Father

Otto Farrant as Armin Arlert

Robert Englund as Armin’s Grandfather

Archie Renaux as Connie Springer

Cierra Ramirez as Sasha Braus

Julian Haig as Jean Kirshstein

Dane DeHaan as Levi Ackerman

Lizzy Caplan as Hange Zoe

Chris Evans as Erwin Smith

Shane Harper as Marco Bodt

Alexander Ludwig as Reiner Braun

Gus Birney as Annie Leonhart

Kathryn Newton as Historia “Christa Lenz” Reiss

Kawani Prenter as Ymir

Théodore Pellerin as Bertolt Hoover

Matthias Schoenarts as Erwin’s Father

Patrick Stewart as Commander Dot Pyxis

Elizabeth Debicki as Rico Brzenska

Emily Browning as Petra Raal

Misha Collins as Eld Guinn

Timothy Odmundson as Oluo Bozado

Ian Bohen as Gunther Schultz

Virginia Gardner as Isabel Magnolia

Leo Howard as Furlan Church

Johnny Depp as Kenny Ackerman

Rose McGowan as Kuchel Ackerman

William Zabka as Hannes

Jk Simmons as Keith Shadis

Joel Kinnaman as Mike Zacharias

Kristen Stewart as Nanaba

Camren Bicondova as Hitch Dreyse

Jason Mantzoukas as Gelgar

Peter Scanavino as Henning

Nathalie Emmanuel as Lynne

Andrew Garfield as Moblit Berner

John Boyega as Onyankopon

Mackenzie Davis as Yelena

Charlie Hunnam as Zeke Yeager

Harriet Cains as Pieck Finger

Tamlyn Tomita as Kiyomi Azumabito

Lou Wegner as Colt Grice

Flynn Curry as Falco Grice

Douglas Booth as Porco Galliard

Louis Partridge as Marcel Galliard

Peyton Elizabeth Lee as Gabi Braun

Hudson Yang as Udo

Miya Cech as Zofia

Matthew Gray Gubler as Uri Reiss

John Goodman as Rod Reiss

Alexxis Lemire as Frieda Reiss

Iain Armitage as Dirk Reiss

Zackary Arthur as Urklyn Reiss

Reagan Revord as Florian Reiss

Kitty Peterkin as Abel Reiss

Michelle Pfeiffer as Rod’s Wife

Will Poulter as Floch Forster

Isabella Gomez as Kaya

Skeet Ulrich as Eren Kruger

BD Wong as Tom Ksaver

Elizabeth Moss as Dina Fritz

Jeff Bridges as The Fake King Fritz

Brad Pitt as Willy Tybur

Helena Bonham Carter as Lara Tybur

Jason Beghe as Kitz Woermann

Jashaun St. John as Mina Carolina

Chuku Modu as Milieus Zeremski

Diego Tinoco as Nack Tierce

Ted Levine as Darius Zackly

Grant Show as Pastor Nick

Rudy Pankow as Thomas Wagner

Jacob Anderson as Marlowe Freudenberg

William Moseley as Daz

Kit Young as Samuel

Melissa Fumero as Nifa

Ramy Youssef as Rashad

Alia Shawkat as Lauda

Tony Thornburg as Keiji

Nico Mirallegro as Abel

Liza Soberano as Black-Haired Soldier

Brandon Flynn as Lima

Cillian Murphy as Dirk

Fo Porter as Marlene

Alan Ritchson as Klaus

Manish Dayal as Darius Baer-Varbrun

Neels Visser as Dita Ness

Barry Sloane as 11th Commander

Austin Bitikofer as Claude Duvalier

Jodie Comer as Traute Caven

Charlie Cox as Duran

Devon Sawa as Nile Dok

Drew Tanner as Franz Kafka

Abigail Cowen as Hannah Diamant

Till Lindemann ad Djel Sannes

Tim Curry as Wald

Veronica Ngo as Ilse Langnar

Kathy Bates as Jean’s Mother

Rob Raco as Flagon

Madelyn Cline as Carly Stratmann

Harish Patel as Annie’s Adopted Father

Dedee Pfeiffer as Karina Braun

Hector Elizondo as Reiner’s Father

Jessica Rothe as Louise

Oliver Platt as Reeves

Jason Genao as Lou

Javier Bardem as Magath

Lucas Till as Niccolo

Brad William Henke as Lobov

David Cross as Griez

Aryan Simhadri as Ramzi

Ritvik Sahore as Halil

Martin Sensmeier as Sumra

Alfred Molina as Koslow

Sonam Kapoor as Connie’s Mother

Nasser Hussain as Connie’s Father

Namit Shah as Martin Springer

Swayam Bhatia as Sunny Springer

Robert Patrick as Elliot Gurnberg Stratmann

Mia Talerico as Maria Fritz

Jophielle Love as Sina Fritz

Alyvia Alyn Lind as Rose Fritz

Jorge Enrique Abello as Artur Braus

Angie Cepeda as Lisa Braus

Lilian Bowden as Gabi’s Mother

Trent Garrett as Gabi’s Father

Sharon Stone as Grice Mother

Craig Fairbass as Muller

Lily Tomlin as Zeke's Grandma

Kevin Kline as Zeke's Grandpa

Ian Mckellen as 145th King Karl Fritz

Michael Fassbender as Karl Fritz

Amanda Seyfried as Adult Ymir Fritz

Brec Bassinger as Ymir Fritz

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February

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reviews Don’t Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones (4/5) Time Windows by Kathryn Reiss (3/5) Hadriana in All My Dreams by René Depestre, trans. Kaiama L. Glover (3/5) Where Echoes Die by Courtney Gould (2/5) Golem by P.D. Alleva (2/5) Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey (2/5)

rereads The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (5/5)

etcetera Readalikes: Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl & The Echo Room by Parker Peevyhouse TMST: Spring Reading Aesthetics: Shades of Rust and Ruin by A.G. Howard

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anonymous said : Could I reserve Jean Kirschtein & Historia Reiss from Attack on Titan for Snow and get some fc ideas please

sure thing , darling , jean kirschtein & historia reiss are now reserved for snow until 2/13 at 1:05pm est ! for fcs , maybe : miguel bernardeau , bright vachirawit , otto farrant , ben levin , aubrey joseph , froy gutierrez , jack mulhern , yamazaki kento , alex fitzalan , herman tommeraas , cha eunwoo , dacre montgomery , or jacob elordi for jean ; & aslihan malbora , kathryn newton , milena tscharntke , kristine froseth , leah lewis , elle fanning , haley lu richardson , anya chalotra , olivia holt , sofia bryant , natalia dyer , or virginia gardner for historia !

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On Time Windows, and Why It Is My Favorite Book Of All Time

(I wrote this up a bunch of years back in my LJ. It took me an inordinate amount of time to find it again so I’m moving it here because search features = the best.)

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As some of you may or may not know, my favorite book of all time is Time Windows by Kathryn Reiss. The book is about thirteen-year-old Miranda Browne, who moves with her mother and father from New York City to tiny, quaint (fictional) Garnet, Massachusetts. Miranda is at first ambivalent about the move, but things change when she discovers an old dollhouse in the attic that duplicates her new house in miniature. Even more surprising, she finds that when she looks through the windows of the dollhouse, she can see into the past and can watch the day-to-day activities of the families who lived in the house before her. Miranda's fascination turns to bewilderment when some scenes begin to repeat themselves within the different families--the same dialogue, sometimes verbatim, recited by different people, decades apart in time. The bewilderment turns to terror when her own loving mother begins to exhibit the same angry, bitter, abusive tendencies of the woman who lived in the house during the Victorian era. With the help of Dan Hooton, the fourteen-year-old boy who lives across the street, Miranda must not only solve a decades-old mystery but also figure out how to save her mother from the house's seemingly evil influence. I first read Time Windows at age thirteen. A friend and I were visiting her grandmother in Maine for a week, and we did a book swap for the trip. By the end of the week, I'd decided that I needed to have a copy of this book of my very own. The little paperback copy I purchased went everywhere with me: school, dance recitals, car trips, doctors' offices, the beach ... basically, any time I thought I'd be sitting long enough to open a book, Time Windows came along. By the time I reached college-age, one of the covers had torn off. I decided to purchase a replacement copy, and my dad convinced me to go for the hardcover. My sister then asked me what I was planning to do with the paperback. Upon being told that I was going to toss it, she told me she'd like to have it. If you skim through the customer reviews on Amazon or Goodreads, a good chunk of them are people who read the book as kids and still reread it to this day, or people who read it as teenagers and are now sharing it with their nieces/nephews/own children. So, clearly, it's not just me. But why? What is it about this one book that has touched so many people? And why should a book I read the summer after 7th grade still be my favorite book all these years later? Part of it is, at least for me, that this is the kind of adventure I always wanted to have as a kid. Well, I could do without the ghost possession and the finding-a-mummified-body stuff, but the rest of it? Oh, man, did I wish this story had actually happened to me. Maybe it's just because I grew up in an old house, but I always wondered who had lived in the house before me. Were they happy? What did they look like? How did they live their lives? Less philosophically, how did they decorate the rooms? How did they use the space? Was my dining room their dining room? And so on. Having the opportunity to see all of that would have been freakin' awesome. Another part of it is the story itself is completely up my alley. It's equal parts enchanted object story, ghost story, and mystery, along with a smattering of budding romance. It's a fantasy that's real-world-based, with the characters acknowledging how really freakin' bizarre everything is. It's a magical mystery that is so grounded that with very little suspension of disbelief, your average kid will want to believe that something like this could happen somewhere. The final, and I think most important, part of it is that you never once feel like Kathryn Reiss is dumbing down the story simply because she's writing it for kids. This is a very intricately-plotted and detailed story, focusing on three separate time periods that at the same time oppose and parallel each other. It has mystery, intrigue, romance, creepiness, and discussions on history and the effects of the past on the present. It deals with child abuse and the lengths some people will go to to attain their dreams and desires. It's filled with elements that your average kid is not going to pick up on. For instance, one of the characters is depicted taking off with a man who is not her husband. I understood, at 13, that the character was walking out on her husband and child, but it wasn't until a few years later that I glommed onto the fact that the character had been having an affair with Not-Husband. That was a very "Whoa!" moment for me, and I think it may have been the first time I realized that this book was more than just a teen ghost story. There's no denying that there's just something about Time Windows. I'd read plenty of books before it and I've read plenty of books after it, and I keep coming back to Time Windows. I reread it every year or so, even though I know the story so well that I really don't even need to read it anymore. And I've discovered, as I've looked critically at my own The Witch of November, that I've tried to inject it with what makes Time Windows so special to me: that sense of adventure, that sense of "maybe, just maybe, this could have happened." So, tl;dr version of above: Time Windows by Kathryn Reiss is nothing short of magic, and I highly recommend it.

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Best Movies Coming to Netflix in October 2021

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You feel that? There’s a sudden coolness in the air, and the smell of freshly fallen leaves out your window. If you listen closely, you can even hear the delight of passerbys as they realize everything suddenly tastes like pumpkins. Yep, spooky season is almost here, and that goes for Netflix too.

Ironically, the most popular streaming service in the world has chosen to play a bit of a trick on those users wanting a lot of new horror content. While the streamer is providing new original horror films and television programming from its in-house productions, most of the films Netflix is adding for the month of October are not scary at all. Nonetheless, many of them are still a treat. So here are the best movies to expect on Netflix in October….

A Knight’s Tale (2001)

October 1

In the grand tradition of The Princess Bride and Stardust (although this came out before the latter), Brian Helgeland’s A Knight’s Tale is an anachronistic fairy tale that works better than it has any right to. It stars Heath Ledger in one of his early heartthrob roles as a squire who pretends he’s a knight to compete in jousting tournaments around England. However, in truth this is really a ‘90s sports movie with all the clichés and trappings that entails—a fact the movie wears on its green sleeves.

As a film which begins with Queen music playing in Ye Olde England as crowds clap in beat with Freddie Mercury’s vocals, the film is a balancing act that somehow looks effortless in no small part because of its winsome cast, including Shannyn Sossamon, Mark Addy, Rufus Sewell, and a scene-stealing Paul Bettany as Geoffrey Chaucer, the famed poet and surprise wingman to Ledger’s Will Thatcher. And as Will, Ledger once again only hints at the deep reservoirs of talent and charisma we never saw fully realized.

An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

October 1

With the West Coast constantly on fire, the East Coast in danger of slipping beneath the Atlantic Ocean, and the rest of the country subject to extreme weather events on a constant basis, it’s a damn shame to realize that this powerful documentary—in which former Vice President Al Gore travels the country, speaking out about the dangers of climate change—is as necessary and vital as ever. It’s also jarring and depressing to understand that the United States still has not taken enough meaningful steps to stop this deepening crisis and even went backwards during the last four years.

Gore is much better here than he was on most of the 2000 campaign trail, weaving personal anecdotes and sentiments into the fascinating and sobering info dump that is the rest of the picture. If you haven’t seen it yet, An Inconvenient Truth (directed by Davis Guggenheim) is both moving and profound, and the kind of film one should share with one’s kids, if only out of respect for their future.

As Good as It Gets (1997)

October 1

Jack Nicholson won his third Academy Award (and second for Best Actor) while Helen Hunt won her first for Best Actress in this 1997 romantic comedy from director James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, The Mary Tyler Moore Show). Nicholson plays Melvin Udall, a wealthy novelist with obsessive-compulsive disorder whose misanthropic behavior turns off everyone he meets. But Melvin finds love and a family of sorts when he gets involved in the lives of a single mom and waitress (Hunt) and a gay artist (Greg Kinnear) who help him accept changes in his carefully controlled world.

Nicholson and Hunt richly deserved their Oscars, while Kinnear showed surprising range and emotion as the tormented Simon. Together, the three are a joy to watch as they begin to know and help each other. As Good as It Gets may dip occasionally (even frequently) into sentimentality, but watching Hunt and Nicholson win their hard-fought personal victories makes up for it.

Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)

October 1

Don’t Be a Menace to South Central and its unwieldy title is not necessarily what you’d call a great movie. It’s not even a good one, per se. But this early Wayans Brothers success is a genuinely hilarious flick—especially for young men who came of age in the 1990s when every Friday night offered another cautionary tale of “inner city life” at the multiplex. Yes, Don’t Be a Menace takes the piss out of great films about a distinctly Black American experience, such as John Singleton’s raw Boyz N the Hood (1991), as well as more heavy handed also-rans based in similar themes.

But at the end of the day, this is just a clever spoof on a once ubiquitous genre with moments of genuine comical brilliance displayed by Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans. From their riff on strapping young Laurence Fishburne as a father in Boyz to Shawn’s warning of the dire risk to young Black actors posed by rappers getting all the best roles in Hollywood, there’s still a lot to giggle about at this movie, particularly if you’ve never seen it.

Desperado (1995)

October 1

Robert Rodriguez’s first Hollywood movie is as much a remake of his career-making indie, El Mariachi (1992), as it is a sequel to it. With Antonio Banderas stepping into the role of the mysterious guitar-toting gunslinger, and his mission of revenge more or less repeating itself, Desperado feels like the movie Rodriguez wanted to make the first time. And if so, fair enough, because both flicks are a blast.

Indeed, Desperado is as stylish a mid-‘90s shoot ‘em up as you’re ever going to come across. With all the visual tricks and impossible angles that became Rodriguez’s trademark, and with Banderas at his most broodingly pouty, it’s a hard-R actioner that subtly plays like a comedy. The film also includes Salma Hayek’s breakout performance, which still sizzles to the touch 25 years later. Throw in terrific character work in the margins by Steve Buscemi, Cheech Marin, Joaquim de Almeida, Danny Trejo, and a cameoing Quentin Tarantino, and you have some fun Friday night fodder.

The DUFF (2015)

October 1

The teen rom-com heyday may have been in the 1990s and 2000s, but try telling that to Mae Whitman, who knocks it out of the park in 2015’s The DUFF, an adaptation of the 2010 novel of the same name. Whitman stars as Bianca, a high school senior who discovers she is viewed as “the DUFF,” aka the Designated Ugly Fat Friend by some of her (crueler) classmates. In an attempt to become cooler, Bianca makes a deal with her former childhood friend Wesley (Robbie Amell): she will help him pass science if he helps her un-DUFF. It’s a classic rom-com set-up, elevated by Whitman’s performance, her chemistry with co-star Amell, and the script’s savvy self-awareness.

Gladiator (2000)

October 1

When Gladiator was released, it came with some heavy cynicism from older critics who remembered the type of 1950s and ‘60s beefcake flicks it was emulating. What they didn’t get at the time—and which box office audiences and even Oscar voters eventually did—was Gladiator wasn’t trying to reinvent the wheel. Rather this a gorgeous and finely crafted distillation of those genre trapping in peak condition for modern audiences.

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As the father of a murdered son, and husband to a murdered wife, Russell Crowe is magnetic as Maximus, the Gladiator who defied an emperor. And as that emperor, Joaquin Phoenix gives a curiously both sympathetic and repellent performance, which is far more fascinating than the one he did win an Oscar for nearly 20 years later. And like both performers, the whole cast and director Ridley Scott are in top form at telling this story. Their efforts flirt with the pomp and regality of opera, yet the spectacle is at times as lurid as professional wrestling. Frankly, 20 years later we wish they still made ‘em like this.

The Holiday (2006)

October may be a little early for a Christmas movie, but Nancy Meyer’s The Holiday is good enough to watch year round. The 2006 rom-com stars Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz as two women from different countries who decide to swap their homes for the holidays. Winslet’s Iris falls in love with tinseltown, and Diaz’s Amanda falls in love with Iris’ brother. With Jack Black and Jude Law as the film’s charming love interests, and bit parts for Kathryn Hahn and John Krasinski, The Holiday is the gift that keeps on giving. Fifteen years following its relatively lackluster box office debut, it remains a part of many people’s Christmas movie must-watch list. 

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)

October 1

Most people remember Angelina Jolie‘s initial turn as Lara Croft fondly, but fewer talk about her follow-up feature appearance as the adventuring archaeologist in 2003’s Cradle of Life. The sequel didn’t do as well at the domestic box office as its predecessor, but it is arguably a more enjoyable film, pitting Jolie’s Croft against Ciaran Hinds’ Dr. Jonathan Reiss in a quest for Pandora’s Box (yes, literally) with a hunky Gerard Butler by her side. The pulpy plot is silly and fun, punctuated by some clever fight and action sequences from director Jan de Bont (Speed, Twister). From deep-sea diving to leaps from Shanghai skyscrapers, there’s never a dull moment with Lara Croft, and Jolie somehow makes it all work.

Léon: The Proessional (1994)

October 1

As the movie that made Natalie Portman a star, Léon or The Professional (depending on which continent you are on) has come under fair scrutiny in recent years for its intentionally bizarre and uncomfortable Bonnie & Clyde relationship between Jean Reno’s Léon, an immigrant who pays the bills by working as an assassin for the nice pizzeria proprietor down the street (the always fun Danny Aiello), and the little girl next door, Mathilda (Portman). Only 12-years-old, Portman’s precocious antiheroine clings to Léon for protection after a crooked cop (Gary Oldman) kills her family, and then pressures him to train her as an assassin so she can get revenge… all as she becomes infatuated with the grown man.

It’s a strange film that shouldn’t work, yet does thanks to a dreamlike atmosphere achieved by director Luc Besson at the height of his professional talent, and because of a genuinely superb cast. Despite being a killer, Reno brings such childlike innocence and obliviousness to his titular character that he may as well be a French Forrest Gump. Meanwhile Oldman hams it up to high heaven in one of his career best scenery-chews. Then there’s Portman who’s heartbreaking, tragic, and bleakly funny all before she was even a teenager. Somehow it’s an enchanting action movie fairy tale that works better than it has any right to.

Malcolm X (1992)

October 1

Denzel Washington didn’t win the Oscar for Malcom X but he should have. In fact, this absolute masterpiece deserved many more accolades and appreciation in its time. A passion project for writer-director Spike Lee, who had to campaign for the film after Norman Jewison had been hired to direct, Malcolm X is a breathtaking epic. It might run at a length of nearly three and a half hours, but Lee keeps the pace nimble and engrossing as we follow the man who’d become Malcolm X from the 1940s through his ascension in the Nation of Islam, and his eventual assassination after leaving the organization.

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The film features perhaps the most riveting and relentless performance of Washington’s career as he channels the righteousness and anger, as well as the humility and anguish, of Malcolm. Washington and Lee’s portrait is that of a mythic figure, but also a fallible one who spends his whole life growing, learning, and affecting his world for the better. It’s one of the best American films produced in the 1990s.

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

October 1

We’re aware that this Robin Hood movie has a checkered history. How could one not be when everyone recalls Kevin Costner’s “British” accent (or lack thereof)? Kevin Reynolds’ Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is certainly a flawed jaunt into Sherwood Forrest… but honestly it’s still a very entertaining one that’s better than you remember.

Thanks in no small part to Alan Rickman’s tremendous turn as the Sheriff of Nottingham, the movie soars while the English thespian redefines the term scene-stealing in his every walk-on. It earned him a BAFTA for his troubles. Almost as important, and less often cited, is the dynamic, thrilling score by the late great Michael Kamen, which in addition to providing one of the best adventure themes of the 1990s also led to the creation of the biggest song of ‘91, Bryan Adams’ “Everything I Do (I Do It For You).” Throw in some fast-paced action filmed on actual English locations and a seriously merry acting ensemble—including Michael McShane as Friar Tuck, Nick Brimble as the best onscreen Little John, and Sean Connery’s iconic cameo as King Richard the Lionheart—and you have what’s still the best Robin Hood movie of the last 40 or so years, at least.

Step Brothers (2008)

October 1

An admittedly acquired taste, Step Brothers might just be Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s masterpiece. The pair began their professional collaboration on Saturday Night Live before graduating to their first zeitgeist-grabbing Anchorman in 2004, with Ferrell starring, McKay directing, and both co-writing. Step Brothers is their third of four films together, but it’s also the most pure: a distillation of their disdain for a certain type of toxic and anti-intellectual entitlement which sprang to the forefront of white American life in the 21st century.

Embodying that man-child selfishness is Ferrell as Brennan and John C. Reilly as Dale, two 40-year-old men who still live at home with their single parents. That nightmarish scenario turns out to be an aphrodisiac for Dale’s Dad and Brennan’s Mom (Richard Jenkins and Mary Steenburgen), which forces these two petulant avatars of their age into sleeping under the same roof. Demented chaos ensues in a film where McKay, Ferrell, and Reilly are at last free from being forced to redeem the assholes they’re mocking.

Titanic (1997)

October 1

Beset by production problems and massive cost overruns, James Cameron’s epic retelling of the doomed 1912 maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic is undeniable populist entertainment, blending melodramatic romance with disaster movie dread and scale. Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio—in star-making performances—play a fictional couple who meet and fall in love on the voyage, escaping their class boundaries to spend just a precious few days together. And then that iceberg gets in the way.

The romance may test some viewers’ patience for the first half of this three-hour movie, but Cameron brings all his considerable skills to bear in its second half, making us see and feel each agonizing moment as the massive ocean liner goes down and takes 1,500 souls with it. Titanic is still one of the highest-grossing movies of all time, and there’s a reason for that: it’s an old-fashioned (except for the visual effects) Hollywood spectacle.

Zodiac (2007)

October 1

If you haven’t seen director David Fincher’s all-time masterpiece yet, what have you been waiting for? Fincher and his tremendous cast, including future Avengers Mark Ruffalo and Robert Downey Jr., plus Jake Gyllenhaal, Brian Cox, Chloe Sevigny, and more, trace in methodical fashion the long and fruitless search for Northern California’s infamous Zodiac Killer. Ruffalo’s detective and Gyllenhaal’s newspaper cartoonist take the search personally, too, becoming more obsessed the further their target seems to slip away.

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Fincher’s film is suffused with an eerie, mounting sense of dread that is compounded by the fact that it never truly pays off—aside from hearing his (unconfirmed) voice on the phone at one point, there’s never a real confrontation with the Zodiac, nor any sense of closure for anyone. The feeling that time, age, and death eventually wash away everything, even the best efforts of decent people to trap a monster, is perhaps the true horror at the heart of Zodiac, which may still be the best film of its decade.

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The Strange Case of Baby H, by Kathryn Reiss. This is one of those books that I really want to like, because I've always been interested in the Great San Francisco Earthquake. But the characters don't handle the mystery the way I think they should have. The best part is definitely the Looking Back section.

TW: kidnapping and drowning.

Goodreads star rating: 2/5

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Rebecca BeForever Books

The Sound of Applause by Jacqueline Greene

Lights, Camera, Rebecca! by Jacqueline Greene

The Glow of the Spotlight by Jacqueline Greene

Secrets at Camp Nokomis by Jacqueline Greene

A Bundle of Trouble by Kathryn Reiss

The Crystal Ball by Jacqueline Greene

A Growing Suspicion by Jacqueline Greene

Illustrations by Juliana Kolesova, Michael Dworkin and Jean Paul Tibbles

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Hội đồng hướng dẫn thuê NYC thảo luận về đóng băng thuê Giám đốc hành động vì cộng đồng vì căn hộ an toàn Sheila Garcia và luật sư Rosi & Estis Patti Stone (Bối cảnh của Bill Tompkins / Getty Images) Việc đóng băng tiền thuê đối với hầu hết những người thuê nhà ổn định tiền thuê có vẻ nhiều khả năng sau khi một trong hai đại diện chủ nhà ở Ban hướng dẫn thuê Thứ năm cho biết cô có thể thấy logic không tăng cho thuê một năm. Tuy nhiên, hai năm cho thuê là một câu chuyện khác. Patti Stone, một luật sư của Rosenberg & Estis, nói rằng cô ấy có thể hiểu được vị trí của nó trong 0 năm. Nhưng bà nói rằng việc cấm tăng tiền thuê hai năm đối với các căn hộ ổn định tiền thuê, bắt đầu từ tháng 10 năm 2020, sẽ đi quá xa. Chúng tôi không biết những gì sẽ xảy ra trong hai năm nữa, kể từ khi cô ấy nói trong một phiên điều trần hôm thứ Năm. Tại sao bạn lại yêu cầu chúng tôi trừng phạt chủ nhà trước? Hội đồng gồm chín thành viên, bao gồm hai chủ nhà và hai đại diện người thuê, được triệu tập lần thứ hai qua video để thảo luận về khảo sát thế chấp mới được ban hành và báo cáo về thu nhập và khả năng chi trả. Các thành viên cũng đã xem xét dữ liệu có sẵn về tác động của đại dịch coronavirus, bao gồm tăng 1.893 phần trăm trong số các đơn xin trợ cấp thất nghiệp tại thành phố New York (tổng cộng 624.277 yêu cầu) trong khoảng thời gian từ ngày 8 đến 18 tháng 4. Một trong những thành viên của hội đồng cộng đồng, Christian Gonzalez Rivera, nói rằng hội đồng quản trị nên tăng gánh nặng cho người thuê ít nhất trong năm tới và đóng băng tiền thuê cho những người thuê đó. Ông cho biết hai năm cho thuê có thể được khám phá riêng. Những người cảm thấy đau đớn nhất cũng là những người luôn cảm thấy đau đớn về kinh tế. Người dân New York có thu nhập thấp hơn, nhiều người trong số họ là người nhập cư, người da màu, ông nói. Những người thuê nhà ổn định tiền thuê đã bị tổn thương trước Covid thậm chí còn bị tổn thương nhiều hơn. Và có những người khác đã bị tổn thương trước Covid, người có khả năng bị tổn thương nhiều hơn bây giờ. Leah Goodridge, một luật sư giám sát của Dự án Nhà ở tại Huy động Công lý và là một trong những đại diện của người thuê nhà, đã đưa ra ý tưởng về một cho thuê lại, một cái gì đó mà những người ủng hộ đã thúc đẩy cho năm nay và năm ngoái. Mặc dù hội đồng quản trị đã cho thuê băng giá trong một năm cho thuê hai lần trong lịch sử của mình, nhưng nó chưa bao giờ quay trở lại. Các thành viên hội đồng đặt câu hỏi liệu họ có thể thiết lập mức tăng tiền thuê nhà bằng không trong năm đầu tiên của hợp đồng thuê hai năm và sau đó tăng phần trăm khác nhau cho lần thứ hai. David Reiss, chủ tịch, cho biết ông đã tìm kiếm tư vấn pháp lý về việc liệu hội đồng quản trị có linh hoạt trong việc thiết lập các điều khoản cho hợp đồng thuê hai năm hay không. Khi được đại diện chủ nhà Scott Walsh hỏi liệu hội đồng quản trị có thể thiết lập tăng trong sáu tháng tới và sau đó tái lập để quyết định phần còn lại của năm hay không, Andrew McLaughlin, giám đốc điều hành của Ban điều hành, cho biết luật pháp bang sẽ cho phép điều đó. Hội đồng quản trị dự kiến ​​sẽ tổ chức một phiên điều trần vào tuần tới và bỏ phiếu sơ bộ về những gì tăng tiền thuê nên được cho phép trên thành phố Lừa gần 1 triệu căn hộ ổn định tiền thuê. Nhà cái Chúng tôi không có bất kỳ cuộc trò chuyện nào về việc điều này sẽ ảnh hưởng lâu dài đến người thuê nhà. Chúng tôi không nghe thấy điều đó từ nhà nước; Chúng tôi không nghe tin đó từ chính phủ liên bang, ông cho biết Sheila Garcia, giám đốc Tổ chức Hành động Cộng đồng vì Căn hộ An toàn và đại diện người thuê thứ hai. Tôi hy vọng rằng hội đồng này đảm nhận trách nhiệm này, rằng chúng tôi thấy những người khác phải hành động và chúng tôi phải hành động, và chúng tôi không có lựa chọn nào khác ngoài hành động. Cho thuê một năm là phổ biến cho người thuê ổn định tiền thuê, nhưng một số tính toán đã chỉ ra rằng hơn 40 năm người thuê sẽ tiết kiệm được một khoản tiền đáng kể nếu họ có hợp đồng thuê hai năm, dựa trên các quyết định trước đây của Hội đồng Hướng dẫn thuê. Tuy nhiên, sự khác biệt đã giảm đáng kể từ giữa những năm 1990. Viết thư cho Kathryn Brenzel tại [email protected] [ad_2] Nguồn