#Emma Carroll

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118. The Little Match Girl Strikes Back, by Emma Carroll

Owned: No, library Page count: 189 My summary: Bridie is a match girl - a seller of matches on the streets of London. Her mother works long hours in the match factory, and her brother makes matchboxes at home. Every penny counts when you're as poor as Bridie's family. But Bridie dares to dream of a brighter future, and after one bad day, she finds herself wondering. What might happen if she dares to light just one match? My rating: 3/5

I keep seeing this book in the junior section when I walk past. Hey, 'tis the season, right? Well, for you it is. I'm writing this on the 22nd of November, but never mind. This is a take on the Little Match Girl story, bringing in the real-life history both of street children and women who worked in match factories in the 1800s. It was a horrible, dangerous job. The women worked around white phosphorous without any protection, leading to health issues including a problem known as 'phossy jaw', where toothaches and gum swelling led to necrosis of the jaw. In 1888 in London, a group of matchgirls working for a company called Bryant and May went out on strike over their poor conditions; fourteen hour days, bad pay, getting fined for anything, and health concerns. A matchgirl was fired, so 1400 women and girls working in the factory went on strike, refusing to work until they were given better conditions. The Union of Women Matchmakers was formed from this strike, and conditions improved for the matchgirls. Now, our protagonist is not one of these matchgirls (she sells matches, rather than making them) but her mother is, and the story meshes together the Hans Christian Andersen story of the Little Match Girl and this strike.

The thing with this book is that it's not exactly subtle with its messaging, but that's to be expected from a book for children. Bridie's story has two aims - one, to educate kids about the conditions for workers in Victorian London, and two, to give the Little Match Girl a better ending. And it achieves both! The strike, here inspired by Bridie's chance meeting with historical figure Annie Besant and led largely by Bridie, is covered in detail. And, of course, Bridie does not freeze to death in the snow; rather, the matches she lights show her visions of the future, of what it would be like to be rich, of a future where her family is doing better, of the means by which she can inspire revolution. I would have liked a bit more character work happening, because once Bridie is in the alley lighting the matches it turns more into Strike Action 101, but I didn't necessarily mind that - it's a good thing for kids to learn about socialist history! And, of course, this story needs to be a power fantasy for kids. So Bridie leads the strike; though, in fairness, many of the real strikers wouldn't have been that much older than her. She's given a fair bit of characterisation as a plucky and determined little girl in the Matilda vein. I think kids would really like this book, and I did too!

Next, a young woman becomes a bloodmaid in the House of Hunger.

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Title: Girl Who Walked On Air | Author: Emma Carroll | Publisher: Faber & Faber (2014)

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The Ghost Garden, by Emma Carroll

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so that character in cabaret’s name is cliff bradshaw huh? *narrows eyes at Emma caroll*

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Just found this jewel of a book back in my shelf...

I remember loving it in 6th grade and I'm so hyped on rereading it soon!

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The three perfect things this year to keep me living much much more.

Armored Core VI Fires of Rubicon - From Software

I have a soft spot for games where “you” start so low: a corpse, an addict cop fell from grace, a drained bounty hunter sent to a planet alone to get her soul eaten by somehow gentle parasites.��

Armored Core 6 puts you in a body bag and promises to give you a meaning.

The game makes you feel in pain, both physically and mentally, yet you dance the fastest legs exquisitely, while the voices in your brain implants seem to notice you, to worry about you, to tell you you're an artist that can crave for even more.

You choose a how to see if you’re still here. And so, you fly high the miserable sky.

The Boy and the Heron - Studio Ghibli

I’ve read a lot of words about The Boy and the Heron by this point, looking to praise it by finding hidden sources, mysterious meanings and cultural roots behind its attributed “unorthodox” narrative. But I doubt this given depth was THAT intentional.

To me, this film might be the peak of Hayao Miyazaki’s philosophy for process and creation which is well known that doesn’t allow a glimpse of restraint. First and foremost, dealing with a canonical script.

A choice that brings freedom and obsession. A way to live, instead a way to create, to be the stories we tell ourselves. I strongly believe this is what the film exhales. Depth and meaning by making brilliant collaborators invested with the nurtured concepts in his brain. Depth and meaning by making us fall for the intense personality of such a hard work overall.

To grasp a gap in the system you have to be so bold. And I can't wait for what comes next.

A Guest in the House - Emily Carroll

As dear homie Sloane Leong says in her quote, a Guest in the House is a very sophisticated character study coded as a horror tale, with exquisite art, prose and pacing. 100% Emily’s trademark.

Personally, I still can't stop smiling at how it philosophically reads as an essay about evasion. On how skipping reality can be empowering and healing, and more than anything, romantic; even if, you know, it takes you to the grou… Please don't mind me.

Hide from hideous, grasp a glimpse of justice, make the self you want to be, legit. Toxic. The knight or the ghost. In Emily’s safe HUB, the guts spill into refined erotic scenarios that make the average the most dreadful place to be.

Anyway. You don't do a book on this scale alone, to save the day. The accurate craft still feels like a scream. It's the kind of work that saves the medium by making creators unsafe. Please consider reading it and support it. Emily’s writing truly is precious.

She also did a beautiful Bloodborne short out of love this year. For the fans!

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A promotional image of Rory Fleck Byrne as Gerry Carroll with his Tony Bartuccio Dancers from Decision 87 🌟

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It still brings me so much joy that our second season opened up with a song and dance number. Watching Gerry and his dancers sing and dance to Aretha Franklin and George Michael's 'I Knew You Were Waiting For Me' was a joyous way to welcome in the season, after waiting two years for it. I now cannot listen to the song without thinking about Gerry!

Did you know that we weren't initially going to have a song and dance number to open the season? In a tweet that Michael Lucas wrote on the day Decision 87 first aired, he mentions that it wasn't present in early drafts of the episode script, however it was the suggestion to include the line "please thank the Tony Bartuccio Dancers" as an off-screen announcement from Emma Freeman that allowed for this nerdy joy to escalate beautifully! If you enjoyed the musical number, you have Emma Freeman to thank. What a legend! 👸🏻

It just happened to be a perfect nod to some real Australian pop culture history too. The variety show host Don Lane used to have the Tony Bartuccio Dancers on his Don Lane show, which went from 1975 to 1983. In this picture (a screengrab from a video uploaded by Oz Kitsch on their Twitter and Tik Tok pages) you can see Don with the dancers in his rendition of Billy Joel's 'Tell Her About It' from 1983. Look at that Lycra costuming glory! I love it! 😂

There are a few similarities between Gerry Carroll and Don Lane (1933 - 2009); both entertainers living in Australia who came from overseas, Gerry from Ireland and Don from America. They both host variety shows in the 1980s and they both love to include song and dance numbers in their programmes! The more you dig into Australian pop culture and history from the 1980s, the more you realise how bloody clever the showmakers of The Newsreader have been in their commitment to the era. Locate a cheesy 80s song and dance number to listen to today! 😉💖🎶🌟📺

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Nancy Drew (2007) Andrew Fleming

June 23rd 2024

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this probably won't reach anyone because i'm not even sure if this 10 year old show even has any active followers of it but to anyone who loved the following, did anyone actually watch series 3? this was one of my favourite shows in the world but i never saw the final season because one half of my fav died in the series 2 finale & i know the other died at some point during the 3rd season. would anyone recommend finishing the show properly?

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just read A Guest in the House! I want to eat E. M. Carroll's art style

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The cast celebrating the show's 150th episode.

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American Horror Story: Cult (2011- ) tv series

-(started) watchin' Season 7- 11/7/2024- on Hulu (FX)

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Title: The Tale of Truthwater Lake | Author: Emma Carroll | Publisher: Faber & Faber (2022)

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Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011) Review – Exploring the Past

TL;DR –.  While it is showing its age in places, it revels in the chaos of the moment and the power of relationships. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3.5 out of 5. Post-Credit Scene – There is no Post-Credit Scene Disclosure – I paid for the Stan service that viewed this film. Crazy, Stupid, Love Review – I have been sick this week, and what I tend to do is fall back into that realm of comfort films to help…

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21 giugno … ricordiamo …

21 giugno … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2022: Elettra Romani, attrice teatrale, comica e cabarettista italiana. Nel 1949 esordì come ballerina di avanspettacolo, poi soubrette, e infine attrice sia drammatica che brillante. Nel 1959 si unì professionalmente e sentimentalmente al comico Alfonso Tomas con cui svolse tournée di avanspettacolo: i due poi nel 1980 formarono il “Duo Tomas”, coppia comica cabarettistica. Nel 1990 lavora in…

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Sansa Stark┃the living painting

John Millais. The Martyr of the Solway. 1871. │ Gabriel von Max. Young woman with flowers in her hair. │ Sophie Gengembre Anderson. Portrait of a Young Girl. │ James Carroll Beckwith. The Embroiderer. │ Arthur Hughes. Juliet and her Nurse. 1867–1872. │ Thomas Benjamin Kennington. Contemplation. │ Alexandre Cabanel. Fallen Angel. 1847. │ Frederick Sandys. Helen of Troy. 1867. │ Ruth Sanderson. Arthur and Guinevere. │ Paul Delaroche. The Execution of Lady Jane Grey. 1833. │ Johannes Vermeer. Girl with a Pearl Earring. 1665. │ Stephen Phillips. Nancy Price as Calypso in Ulysses. 1902. │ P. J. Lynch. Eithlinn, Daughter of Balor. 2000. │ Charles Allen Winter. Portrait of a Woman. 1919. │ William Oxer. Amor Aeternus. 2022. │ George Romney. Emma Hart as Miranda. 1786. │ Bertalan Székely. Red Haired Girl. 1875. │ John Roddam Spencer Stanhope. Thoughts of the Past. 1859. │ Jean-Jacques Henner. Head Of A Young Girl In A Blue Dress. │ John William Waterhouse. Ophelia. 1910. │ Rudolf Kosow, Geheimnisvoll. │