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Voices of TodayNow We Are Six SampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
Now We Are Six
By A. A. Milne
This collection of 35 short poems was first published in 1927, and is a sequel to When We Were Very Young, which was the first anthology of verse dealing with the domestic adventures of Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh.
As the author explains in the introduction: “We have been nearly three years writing this book. We began it when we were very young ... and now we are six. So, of course, bits of it seem rather baby-ish to us, almost as if they ha...2024-01-1603 min
Christian Faith and FictionEpisode 121: What I want to read in November and December (2022)These are the Christian fiction books I’d like to read before the end of the year.
Which books do you most want to read in November and December?
You can watch the video here: https://youtu.be/GwOBG4wp3fw
You can comment on the blog post here: https://louallenwriter.wordpress.com/2022/11/06/november-and-december-tbr-christian-fiction-books-i-want-to-read-before-the-end-of-this-year/
Books mentioned:
Fawkes by Nadine Brandes
Keeping Christmas Volume 1 by Chautona Havig, Cathe Swanson, Olivia Talbott, Kathleen J. Robison, Denise L Barela, Marguerite Martin Gray and Naomi Craig.
Keeping Christmas Volume 2 by Chautona Havig, Tabitha Bo...2023-12-1109 minChristian Faith and FictionEpisode 111: New Christian fiction and nonfiction books releasing in August 2022Here are some Christian fiction and Christian nonfiction books that I could find that release in August 2022.
You can watch the video here: https://youtu.be/HSJ8BWIK0ew
You can comment on the blog post and find more information about the books and their Goodreads page links here:
Christian fiction books: https://louallenwriter.wordpress.com/2022/07/27/christian-fiction-books-releasing-in-august-2022/
Christian nonfiction books: https://louallenwriter.wordpress.com/2022/07/27/christian-nonfiction-books-releasing-in-august-2022/
Which books would you like to read?
Books Mentioned:
Lifemark by Chris Fabry
By Way of the Moonlight by Elizabeth Musser
Sold on Love...2023-12-0614 min
Capital ReviewerSWEAT & HARMSweat, a benign take on a Polish fitness motivator, hits the big screen (Curzon Cinemas) on June 25th whilst the one-woman play Harm (Bush Theatre until June 26th) takes a different slant on the socially influenced. Kathleen Bondar appreciates the former; Susan Gray unravels the latter.
2021-06-0720 min
Capital ReviewerAGAR, HOCKNEY, ARMITAGEReviews of London exhibitions 2021 as lockdown restrictions ease. Including Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy and Phantoms of Surrealism at the Whitechapel Gallery; David Hockney: The Arrival of Spring and Michael Armitage: Paradise Edict, both showing at the Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly. Reviewed by editors Kathleen Bondar & Susan Gray with star guest Juliet Rix.2021-05-2233 min
Capital ReviewerHYMNReviewing the play HYMN by Lolita Chakrabarti at the Almeida Theatre, London N1. Directed by Blanche McIntyre with Andrian Lester and Danny Sapani whose characters discover at the grand age of 50 that they are brothers by the same father. HYMN is being live streamed until Sunday, the 21st of February 2021 without an audience due to lockdown restrictions in the UK prohibiting group gatherings and the opening of theatres. Promisingly, the play will be on demand and broadcast by BBC at some later date.2021-02-1921 min
Capital ReviewerARTEMISIAReviewing the National Gallery's autumn 2020 exhibition ARTEMISIA. Artemisia Gentileschi was one of the most significant Baroque artists of the seventeenth century, who painted her first masterpiece at the age of seventeen, the same year she was raped by Agostino Tassi, suffered judicial torture and fled to Florence after a swift marriage of convenience to a minor artist. She was patronised by the Medici family and the first woman accepted into the Academia. Her celebrity was matched by her tumultuous personal life. Only one of her five children survived her and she left her husband for another lover. Describing herself...2020-10-2300 min
Ben Franklin's World286 Elections in Early America: Native SovereigntyWho is American democracy for and who could participate in early American democracy?Women and African Americans were often barred from voting in colonial and early republic elections. But what about Native Americans? Could Native Americans participate in early American democracy?Julie Reed, an Assistant Professor of History at the Pennsylvania State University, and Kathleen DuVal, the Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, join us to investigate how the sovereignty of native nations fits within the sovereignty of the United States and...2020-10-2057 min
Capital ReviewerYOUNG AHMEDYoung Ahmed, winner of Best Director at Cannes, directed by the Dardenne brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, tells the story of fourteen-year-old Ahmed played with detached precision by Idir Ben Addi. Ahmed is a fatherless Muslim swept along by a charismatic, radical Iman at the local mosque. He ends up in juvenile detention after attempting to kill his teacher. Ironically, the apostate is his redeemer. 2020-08-1503 min
Capital ReviewerSAINT FRANCESWriter and lead, Kelly O’Sullivan, plays Bridget in this unsentimental, humorous, American indie movie. Bridget is a thirty-four-year-old, intelligent, low-achiever with a top sense of humour who packs in her waitressing job to care for a six-year-old whilst navigating a hapless love life which results in a tricky abortion. Directed by Alex Thompson.2020-08-1503 min
Capital ReviewerPARASITE IN BLACK & WHITEOscar, Cannes and BAFTA award winning Parasite returns in Black & White. The underclass Kims deceive the entitled Parks in this Korean noir-comedy of passion and violence. Directed by Bong Joon Ho. Reviewed in conversation by Kathleen Bondar and Susan Gray.2020-07-2915 min
Capital ReviewerLYNN & LUCYBFI production Lynn & Lucy, directed by Fyzal Boulifa, featuring Roxanne Scrimshaw and Nichola Burley as working class mums on a London council estate. When Lucy’s newborn baby dies under suspicious circumstances the reignited friendship rapidly deteriorates. Reviewed in conversation by Kathleen Bondar and Susan Gray.2020-07-1917 minCapital ReviewerONLY THE ANIMALSONLY THE ANIMALS directed by Dominic Moll featuring Denis Menochet as a farmer trawling the internet for love and Valeria Bruno Tedeschi as Evelyn a middle class housewife who goes missing. Reviewed by Kathleen Bondar.2020-06-1902 min
Life Caraphrased005-Reader-Chat with Carrie Booth SchmidtWho-whheee! We had fun today. Here is my best version of a list of all the lovely author/bloggers/books that we talked about.
These links are affiliate links. They won't cost you anymore, and help you find the right author. Enjoy the reading.
Names are listed in the order we mentioned them in the above podcast and by genre:
Contemporary: Becky Wade, Catherine West, Pepper Basham, Kara Issac, Katherine Reay, Courtney Walsh, Crystal Walton, Sarah Monson, Rachel Hauck, Melanie Dobson, Michelle Phoenix, Heidi Chiavaroli, Jamie Jo Wright, Melissa Tagg, Susan May Warren, Cynthia Ruchti,
Suspense/Thriller/Mystery: Dani P...2017-12-1900 min