#Emma Dibdin

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Antonio Velardo shares: 6 Podcasts About Lies, Scams and Con Artists by Emma Dibdin

By Emma Dibdin These shows, including “The Grift” and “The Perfect Scam,” will deepen your understanding of how liars and con artists operate. Published: December 19, 2023 at 05:01AM from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/6rYL8I5 via IFTTT

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Over the past week I’ve read Through His Eyes by Emma Dibdin and The Deviants by CJ Skuse. Both were brilliant and I’d recommend both to people.

Through His Eyes took a couple of chapters before it really got going, but I knew that this was to set the scene and was necessary for the story to make sense. Once it did start getting into it, it was intriguing and pulled me in to read more.

I’d decided to read The Deviants as I recently read a couple of other books by CJ Skuse and loved them. This certainly didn’t disappoint and I read it so quickly (especially for me). It had a good amount of suspense in it and kept drip feeding information, keeping me reading. I’m still not over the ending!

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By BY EMMA DIBDIN from Arts in the New York Times-https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/arts/podcasts-anxiety-covid.html?partner=IFTTT These shows will help you to navigate whatever complex feelings you’re having about the world reopening, and ease you back into society at your own pace. 7 Podcasts to Soothe Your Back-to-Normal Anxiety New York Times

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Meryl Streep Crashed Her Daughter's Gilded Age Party In The Most Charming Way

Meryl's daughter Louisa Jacobson stars in the new period drama from Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes.

By Emma Dibdin Jan 27, 2022 Just when you thought you couldn't love Meryl Streep any more, a video leaks of her crashing a party in the most charming way. Cynthia Nixon, who's in the cast of HBO's new period drama The Gilded Age, threw a party to celebrate the premiere this week, and shared some delightful footage of Meryl via Instagram.

Louisa Jacobson, Meryl's youngest daughter, stars in the series, and appears in the video alongside Nixon. As the pair raise glasses of champagne, a beaming Meryl sneaks past the camera, looking every inch the proud parent.

"Hi Meryl! Last night’s little @GildedAgeHBO hang with @Louisa_Jacobson, @DeneeBenton and @BenAhlers (and crashed by Louisa’s mom)," Nixon wrote in her caption to the post, which is unfortunately no longer available to watch.

The Gilded Age is the newest project from Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes. Set in the late 19th century, the show stars Jacobson as Marian Brook, a young woman who relocates from rural Pennsylvania to New York City to live with her wealthy aunts (Nixon and Christine Baranski), after the death of her father. She's accompanied by a young aspiring writer (Denée Benton) who's also seeking a fresh start.

As Marian is seduced by the promise of the city, she's also caught up in her aunts' battle with a railroad tycoon and his ambitious wife. Per the official synopsis, "exposed to a world on the brink of the modern age, will Marian follow the established rules of society, or forge her own path?"

The show's been in the works for almost a decade - Fellowes started working on the first iteration of it way back in 2012, and was at the time developing it for NBC. It ended up on the back burner for several years, and was finally greenlit in 2018 before ultimately moving to HBO.

The Gilded Age premiered this past Monday, January 24, on HBO and HBO Max.

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a38914603/meryl-streep-crashes-her-daughters-gilded-age/

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soo there actually was an update on the acotar tv show and my fears of it being cancelled have minimized lolol

Posted by Emma Dibdin on TownsndCountryMag.com on January 14,2022

You have my trust in your hands, Ron. I see what you’ve done for the Outlander books 📿🧎‍♀️

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    Today I’m thrilled to be on the blog tour for The Room by the Lake by Emma Dibdin and am sharing my review!

  About the Book

When Caitlin moved from London to New York, she thought she had left her problems behind: her alcoholic father, her dead mother, the pressure to succeed. But now, down to her last dollar in a foreign city, she is desperately lonely.

Then she meets Jake. Handsome, smart, slightly damaged Jake. He lives off-grid, in a lakeside commune whose members practise regular exercise and frequent group therapy. Before long, Caitlin has settled into her idyllic new home.

It looks like she has found the fresh start she longed for. But, as the commune tightens its grip on her freedom and her sanity, Caitlin realizes too late that she might become lost forever…

  My Thoughts

I can never resist books about cults, there is something about them that intrigues me and terrifies me in equal measure so I was thrilled when I was offered the chance to read and review The Room by the Lake. I had high hopes for this novel from the moment I first saw the stunning cover and I’m so happy to say that it didn’t disappoint!

Caitlin lost her mum to cancer a year ago and has struggled to come to terms with the complicated relationship they had had due to her mother’s schizophrenia. She’s also now struggling with her dad’s alcoholism and just feels like she has nowhere to turn. One night it comes to a head with her dad and she finds herself running away, getting on a plane and being in New York. I know that summarising this it may seem a bit far-fetched but in reading you really do feel for Caitlin. I remember when my mum died of cancer and I was just so lost. I didn’t want to be where I was and I had nowhere else to go. I was lucky in that fate seemed to intervene in a good way in my life and I met my husband later that year and life began to get better. Reading this novel made me blood run cold at times because I wanted to run away in those initial months and it’s scary to think how easily vulnerable young people can get manipulated by monstrous people who seem kind. I knew from the synopsis of this book that life was going to take a scary turn for Caitlin but when she meets Josh at a party I couldn’t help but hope he would be a force for good in her life. I wanted him to help her. Instead Caitlin is manipulated and taken to a house in the middle of nowhere, which on face value seems like a beautiful location to relax and recover from what she has been through. The place where Caitlin ends up is a cult but as with all cults she had no idea what was happening and very soon she finds that this lifestyle works for her. Until things begin to take a darker turn.

The people at the house Caitlin is taken to all seem very enmeshed in the running of things. They’re polite but distant to Caitlin at first but soon things begin to close in on her. The way the group eat and exercise seems to Caitlin as like a boot camp that may help her but it’s really a means of control. Something is a bit off about this place and it’s only when Caitlin begins therapy that the sinister atmosphere really begins to ramp up. It’s scary how quickly people can gain control over others by starting with small things and preying on our fears.

I thought The Room by the Lake was really cleverly done in the way that it is about a cult, which is fascinating, but it felt to me that it was more about Caitlin’s fear of her mother’s mental illness, and even more so her deepest darkest fear that the same thing could happen to her. I know from personal experience how terrifying it is when you think you’re losing your grip on reality so to have grown up with a parent who had a mental illness must heighten that to another level. The cult played on her fears and heightens them in such a cruel way. I honestly felt that Caitlin was healthy prior to ending up in the cult, she was grieving for her mum and she was so lonely. She just needed a good friend who she could trust who would make time to support her and to let her talk about her fears, and this is how she was pulled  into the cult. These people were the only people that she felt would listen to her. There are moments in the early part of the novel that could possibly be interpreted as the beginnings of Caitlin being mentally unwell but I felt it was grief. I think when grief is complex it is harder to work through and it seemed to me that Caitlin was just utterly mired in darkness – she’d hit her limit of what she could cope with and couldn’t take anymore. I could identify with how lost she felt, and how alone, and scarily for me I can see why she got caught up in the cult. This book gave me chills at times as I could see some of my younger self in Caitlin. 

I did begin to feel really unnerved by the various methods the cult used to exert control over Caitlin, it made me wonder if she would ever recover or if this might, ironically, end up being the thing that triggered mental illness in her. I keep finding myself wondering about her ever since I finished reading the book, she feels like a real person to me even though I know this is a work of fiction. Emma Dibdin’s writing really does get under your skin (in the best possible way!).

This is a novel that builds and builds all the way through. I read this in two sittings (and that’s only because I started reading late at night and I had to get some sleep but I picked it back up again in the morning!) as the writing just drew me in from the first page and it held me to the very end and beyond.

The Room by the Lake is a fascinating, intense psychological suspense novel that I highly recommend. It’s one of those books that really gets under your skin and haunts your thoughts. This will be a book that stays with me for a long time to come, I’m so glad I had the chance to read it and I’m already eagerly antipating whatever Emma Dibdin writes next!

The Room by the Lake is out now in Hardback, Audio and eBook.

I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

About the Author

Emma Dibdin is a journalist who writes about television and the arts.  She has been an editor at Hearst for four years, and her work has appeared in Esquire, Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Total Film, and Indiewire.  Born and raised in Oxford, she currently lives in New York City.

(Bio taken from unitedagents.co.uk)

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#BookReview: The Room by the Lake by Emma Dibdin @emmdib ‏@HoZ_Books ‏#blogtour Today I'm thrilled to be on the blog tour for The Room by the Lake by Emma Dibdin and am sharing my review!

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Pictures of Darren Criss from Esquire article by Emma Dibdin, Feb 7 2018

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Wait... So if Shiro was our LGBT rep from the start... Does that mean they wanted the bury your gays trope in VLD? wtf

I can’t say what the EPs were thinking. I, unfortunately, am not a telepath, but the evidence points that way. 

Further Reading:

“So very, very tired” by @sol1056 - Sol breaks down Shiro’s deaths in the series and his position as the character overloaded with misery. 

TV Writers Need to Stop Killing Off Their Gay Characters by Emma Dibdin on Marie Claire - 

And to be honest, I’m not sure Shiro’s out of the woods. As Dibdin writes - 

This latest slew of queer deaths is part of a long-standing trope dubbed “Bury Your Gays"—where gay characters are regularly killed off, often following a moment of happiness or the consummation of a same-sex relationship.

Yeah, Shiro and Adam broke up, but it appears that Shiro and Keith might get together. And once they do…

…yeah. I fear for Shiro. 

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Antonio Velardo shares: 6 Podcasts for the Spooky Season by Emma Dibdin

By Emma Dibdin These shows deliver disturbing true stories of everyday horror, lively recaps of scary movies and creepy scripted dramas about the supernatural. Published: October 3, 2023 at 05:02AM from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/0UmrHWc via IFTTT

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"6 Podcasts About the Dark Side of the Internet" by Emma Dibdin via NYT Arts https://ift.tt/BS6AlFs

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By BY EMMA DIBDIN from Arts in the New York Times-https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/arts/podcasts-trump-politics.html?partner=IFTTT In the wake of a most untraditional presidency, these shows will keep you up-to-date on what’s happening in Washington and our politically polarized country. 8 Podcasts to Help Make Sense of Post-Trump America New York Times

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"6 Podcasts About the Dark Side of the Internet" by BY EMMA DIBDIN via NYT Arts https://ift.tt/a5K1JnP

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"When It Comes to Wordle Strategies, It’s Personal" by Emma Dibdin via NYT Arts https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/arts/wordle-strategies.html?partner=IFTTT

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Antonio Velardo shares: 6 Podcasts About the Perils (and Joys) of Modern Dating by Emma Dibdin

By Emma Dibdin As you ride the relationship roller coaster, these shows offer useful advice from both experts and fellow daters. Published: September 5, 2023 at 05:01AM from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/eodTXB9 via IFTTT

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"6 Podcasts About the Dark Side of the Internet" by Emma Dibdin via NYT Arts https://ift.tt/a5K1JnP

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By BY EMMA DIBDIN from Arts in the New York Times-https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/arts/podcasts-binge.html?partner=IFTTT Whether you’re craving a thriller, a spy documentary or an exploration of an American musical icon, each of these limited series can be enjoyed in one big gulp. 7 Podcasts to Binge in a Day New York Times