#William Smillie

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una "warburghiana" allo smithsonian museum: le fotografie di thomas smillie

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/smillie-smithsonian/ _

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Uncovering Curiosities: Caitlin Koller’s 30 MILES FROM NOWHERE

Uncovering Curiosities: Caitlin Koller’s 30 MILES FROM NOWHERE

When you see enough movies you get into the rhythm of certain genres and it’s often easy to guess what’s going to happen next. I can honestly say that director Caitlin Koller’s 30 Miles From Nowhere was a total surprise. You think you know where this comedy-thriller is going, but it takes many twists and turns and spins you around in such a way that you don’t know where the plot pointing. 30…

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400 Words on 30 MILES FROM NOWHERE ★½

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a filmmaker in possession of a cabin in the woods, must be in want of a horror movie to shoot there. Haunted cabin movies are such a prevalent part of the horror landscape that they’ve become a genre unto themselves, and on the surface, Caitlin Koller’s 30 Miles from Nowhere appears to follow their formula to a T: a group of old friends reunite in an isolated Wisconsin cabin to attend a friend’s funeral, things go awry, spooky things start happening, and bodies begin piling up. What sets 30 Miles apart is the unusual attention it gives to developing its characters. Unlike the traditional slasher victim fodder, Koller’s characters are no college-age teenyboppers—they’re all in their 30s and 40s with considerable histories of sadness and regret: there’s an alcoholic lesbian named Elaine (Seana Kofoed) who seems perpetually on the verge of a nervous breakdown—or the DTs; Bess, (Cathy Shim) a blissful housewife who’s left her hard-partying ways behind her…mostly; Paul, a quiet, kind psychiatrist (William Smillie); Larry (Rob Benedict), a douchebro jerk infamous for stealing his friends’ girlfriends in college; and Jack (Postell Pringle), another horndog with zero scruples about cheating on his girlfriend Amber (Marielle Scott) whom he brought with him to the funeral. Completing the ensemble is Sylvia (Carrie Preston), owner of the cabin and grief-stricken wife of their deceased friend. The first half of the film is less Cabin in the Woods than The Decline of the American Empire as we watch these people bicker, argue, and complain about sex, life, and their college years. Some hook up, most get drunk, and everyone starts wondering why Sylvia insisted they come and stay at this cabin in the middle of a brewing thunderstorm where no taxis will dare come at night. By the time the pipes start spraying blood and armies of cockroaches invade the bedrooms, we find ourselves wondering if any of these people liked each other in the first place. A film that uses slasher tropes to externalize the psychological crises of its bickering characters would certainly be a welcome one in this age of art-house horror, but Koller chooses instead to cling to the stereotypes of the genre for their own sake, transforming the film from unusual character study to boring thriller with second-rate scares and a third-rate twist.

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Science Saturday

Cacti along the U.S.-Mexican Border

From 1848 to 1855, the United States conducted a survey of the U.S.-Mexican border under the leadership of American surveyor and civil engineer William H. Emory. The survey established the border between the United States and Mexico as defined in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and the results were reported in this three-volume set, Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, published in Washington D.C. by government printer Cornelius Wendell from 1857-1859.

In addition to its documentation of the new boundary, the survey report was notable for its natural history content, including the most comprehensive vegetative investigation ever conducted on the 1,969 mile border between Mexico and the United States. Many botanists took part in different legs of the Survey, including the German-American botanist George Engelmann who wrote the section on Cactaceae.

The illustrations shown here, which include several species of cacti, are by the German-American artist and botanist Arthur Schott. The engravings were engraved by William Henry Dougal and James David Smillie. The chromolithograph of Tohono O'odham (Papago) women harvesting Organ Pipe Cactus fruit was printed by the New York firm of Sarony, Major & Knapp. 

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Fleet Admiral William Smillie: Starfleet Commander-in-Chief in 2293 during the Praxis Explosion and assassination of the Klingon Chancellor. With Captain Spock and Ambassador Sarek, directed overtures to Chancellor Gorkon after the explosion of Praxis, their key energy facility at the time. With the fallout of that explosion Smillie saw an opportunity to end the aggressive stance both races had maintained and sent Captain Kirk and the Enterprise to escort Gorkon for an historic meeting on Earth. After the assassination of Gorkon seemingly at the hands of Kirk and the Enterprise and the subsequent arrest of Kirk and Dr. McCoy Smillie brought forward to the Federation President a daring rescue mission (name Operation Retrieve) to get Kirk off of Rura Penthe, but the President did not want to risk a war over Kirk and McCoy. Smillie attended the Kithomer Conference, and discovered that the Klingon “assassin” that had been killed there was in fact Colonel West of Starfleet.

Admiral Smillie appeared in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. His last name is from the novelization by J.M. Dillard. The events surrounding Operation Retrieve come from the Director’s Cut.

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So new show guys, FOX APB, at first, I honestly thought that this is some kind of parody of Tony Stark. Gideon Reeves is so similar with Stark in a sense that "billionaire-arrogant-genius-engineer" thing, plus Reeves (Justin Kirk) voice sounds kinda like RDJ when acting up as Stark, so there's that. Even just based on the synopsis alone, I know this show will get me that’s why I gave it a try and yep, I’m hook XD

With regards to other characters, so far I love Ada and Goss :D Still warming up with Brandt, Cobb and Sgt Conrad. And another thing, I saw Lionel Fusco for a moment, damn I miss POI, he's playing the character of Capt. Hauser, I don't know if he'll be acting as a significant character like in POI cause he only appeared for a moment.

Well, this is all just based on the 1st episode so I'm hoping for awesome character and storyline development.

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Thomas Smillie, Marshall Islands Navigation Chart, 1913. "Curved sticks show where swells are deflected by an island; short, straight strips often indicate currents near islands; longer strips may indicate the direction in which certain islands are to be found; and cowry shells represent the islands themselves." "Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1843, Thomas William Smillie documented important events and research trips, created reproductions for use as printing illustrations, performed chemical experiments for Smithsonian scientific researchers, and later acted as the head and curator of the photography lab. Smillie’s documentation of each Smithsonian exhibition and installation resulted in an informal record of all of the institution’s art and artifacts. In 1913 Smillie mounted an exhibition on the history of photography to showcase the remarkable advancements that had been made in the field but which he feared had already been forgotten." https://www.instagram.com/p/CM0B5Q0gCBl/?igshid=yf41hbxt4t5d

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'I've never seen or heard of attacks': scientists baffled by orcas harassing boats

Susan Smillie - September 13, 2020

Reports of orcas striking sailing boats in the Straits of Gibraltar have left sailors and scientists confused. Just what is causing such unusually aggressive behaviour?  

When nine killer whales surrounded the 46ft boat that Victoria Morris was crewing in Spain on the afternoon of 29 July, she was elated. The biology graduate taught sailing in New Zealand and is used to friendly orca encounters. But the atmosphere quickly changed when they started ramming the hull, spinning the boat 180 degrees, disabling the autohelm and engine. The 23-year-old watched broken bits of the rudder float off, leaving the four-person crew without steering, drifting into the Gibraltar Straits shipping lane between Cape Trafalgar and the small town of Barbate.

The pod rammed the boat for more than an hour, during which time the crew were too busy getting the sails in, readying the life raft and radioing a mayday – “Orca attack!” – to feel fear. The moment fear kicked in, Morris says, was when she went below deck to prepare a grab bag – the stuff you take when abandoning ship. “The noise was really scary. They were ramming the keel, there was this horrible echo, I thought they could capsize the boat. And this deafening noise as they communicated, whistling to each other. It was so loud that we had to shout.” It felt, she says, “totally orchestrated”.

The crew waited a tense hour and a half for rescue – perhaps understandably, the coastguard took time to comprehend (“You are saying you are under attack from orca?”). To say this is unusual is to massively understate it. By the time help arrived, the orcas were gone. The boat was towed to Barbate, where it was lifted to reveal the rudder missing its bottom third and outer layer, and teeth marks along the underside.

Rocío Espada works with the marine biology laboratory at the University of Seville and has observed this migratory population of orca in the Gibraltar Straits for years. She was astonished. “For killer whales to take out a piece of a fibreglass rudder is crazy,” she says. “I’ve seen these orcas grow from babies, I know their life stories, I’ve never seen or heard of attacks.”

Highly intelligent, social mammals, orcas are the largest of the dolphin family, and behave in a similar way. It is normal, she says, that orcas will follow close to the propeller. Even holding the rudder is not unheard of: “Sometimes they will bite the rudder, get dragged behind as a game.” But never with enough force to break it. This ramming, Espada says, indicates stress. The Straits is full of nets and long lines; perhaps a calf got caught.

But Morris’s was only one of several encounters between late July and August. Six days earlier, Alfonso Gomez-Jordana Martin, a 31-year-old from Alicante, was crewing a delivery boat near Barbate for the same company, Reliance Yacht Management. They were proceeding under engine when a pod of four orcas brought their 40ft Beneteau to a halt. He filmed them – it looks more like excitement and curiosity than aggression – but even this bumping damaged the rudder. And the force increased, he says, over 50 minutes. “Once we were stopped, they came in faster: 10-15 knots, from a distance of about 25m,” he remembers. “The impact tipped the boat sideways.”

The skipper’s report to the port authority said the force “nearly dislocated the helmsman’s shoulder and spun the whole yacht through 120 degrees”.

At 11.30pm the previous night, 22 July, Beverly Harris, a retired nurse from Derbyshire, and her partner, Kevin Large, were motor-sailing their 50ft boat, Kailani, just off Barbate at eight knots, when they came to a sudden standstill. It was flat calm, pitch black. They thought they’d hit a net. “I scrambled for a torch and was like, ��Bloody hell, they’re orcas,’” says Harris. The couple checked their position and found the boat pointing the opposite way. They tried to correct several times, but the orcas kept spinning them back. “I had this weird sensation,” Harris says, “like they were trying to lift the boat.” It lasted about 20 minutes, but felt longer. “We thought, ‘We’ve sailed across the Atlantic, surely we’re not going to sink now!’” Their rudder was damaged but got them to La Línea. It was a long night. “Kevin said I should get some sleep. I said, ‘Are you joking? I’m having a gin and tonic,’” recalls Harris.

While enjoying her drink, Harris could have spared a thought for Nick Giles, having a sleepless night alone after an almost identical encounter off Barbate just two and a half hours earlier. He was motor-sailing, and playing music when he heard a sudden bang “like a sledgehammer”. The wheel was “turning with incredible force” as the vessel spun 180 degrees, dislodging the autohelm and steering cables. “The boat lifted up half a foot and I was pushed by a second whale from behind,” he says. While resetting the cables, the orca hit again, “nearly chopping off my fingers in the mechanism”. He was pushed around without steering for about 15 minutes before they left him.

Catastrophic encounters between whales and boats are not unknown – the best-known events all took place in the Pacific. In 1972 the Robertson family from Staffordshire were shipwrecked off the Galapagos Islands after an orca strike (their book, Survive the Savage Sea became a classic). The following year, also on the way to those islands, Maurice and Maralyn Bailey’s 31ft boat was holed by a sperm whale. In 1989 William and Simone Butler lost their boat as a huge pod of pilot whales rammed them. In these and all other known cases, the mammals ignored the humans who took to life rafts; it was the boats that attracted their ire. More usually in encounters, the whale is left dead or injured. The International Whaling Commission records these strikes – more collisions are occurring with private boats as technological advances increase performance speeds.

The encounters described around Barbate were certainly frightening for the crew, who understandably felt targeted, but it’s unlikely they were meant as aggressive attacks. At least two other boats had harmless encounters. On 20 July Martin Chambers, a yacht master for Allabroad Sailing Academy, was unconcerned when they were joined by a pod near Barbate. One individual “had hold of the rudder and stopped us moving the boat”, he says. “That’s the first time I’ve seen them do that.” It seems the encounters increased in intensity, but it’s also worth considering that different boat constructions can suffer different outcomes – rudders on some modern boats can be quite fragile.

“These are very strange events,” says Ezequiel Andréu Cazalla, a cetacean researcher who talked to Morris. “But I don’t think they’re attacks.” Orca specialists around the world are equally surprised, agreeing the behaviour is “highly unusual”, but are cautious, given that the accounts are not from trained researchers. Most agree that something is stressing the orcas. And when it comes to sources of stress, there are plenty to choose from.

“The lack of tuna has led these orca to the very edge with only 30 adults left”

The Gibraltar orcas are endangered – there are fewer than 50 individuals left, with a continuing decline projected – adults and juveniles are sustaining injuries, suffering food scarcity and pollution. Their calves rarely survive. The Gibraltar Straits is, Cazalla points out, “the worst place for orcas to live”. This narrow stretch of water is a major shipping route. And the presence of orcas attracts more marine traffic – highly profitable whale-watching. Theoretically, it is regulated, but some operators flout rules about speed and distance to chase the animals. Constant harassment by boats affects the orcas’ ability to hunt. Which brings us to the biggest stress of all: fishing.

The orcas return to this noisy, polluted stretch of water for one reason – to feed. They specialise in hunting bluefin tuna, also highly prized by humans. The near collapse of bluefin tuna between 2005 and 2010 “has led this orca population to the very edge, with about 30 adults left”, says Pauline Gauffier, who has studied them.

The Straits is an important migratory route for the tuna. It has been economically crucial to this region for thousands of years – the Romans produced coins in Cadiz depicting the once bountiful fish. Local fisheries still use an ancient technique – almadraba, a complex system of trap nets. Each spring, the bluefin arrive to spawn in the Med; many find their way into the nets instead. In July and August, as the tuna leave for the Atlantic, the fishermen switch to drop lines – baited with fish and lowered with rocks. These artisanal techniques are far less harmful than trawling, purse seining or driftnets – and than the reckless sport-fishing boats speeding at 10 knots, trailing long lines.

“They target the orca, because they think there must be tuna under the pods,” says Jörn Selling, a marine biologist for Firmm whale watching and research foundation with 17 years’ experience in the Straits. “They go right through the pods, their hooks cutting the dorsal fins”.

In the past, the orca chased the bluefin to exhaustion, but with fewer and smaller fish available, and the pressures from human activity, some have adapted. As a result, there now exists what biologists call “depradation” – a complex balance between the orca, tuna, and humans – and what the fishermen call “stealing”.

Since 1999, two of the Straits’ five pods have learned to take tuna from the drop lines, leaving the fishermen pulling up the tuna head alone. It’s infuriating for the fishermen, but for the orca, this is high risk. Several have sustained serious injuries. “We see marks caused by fishing lines,” says Selling. “We hear about young orca getting hooked.” There are two females with severed flippers – “Lucia”, Selling says “lost her baby together with her flipper, due to the interaction with tuna fishermen”. Gauffier points out that “there is little the fishermen can do to avoid line or hook injuries” when orca interact; and it’s not known what caused the injuries. But many conservationists suspect some fishermen retaliate violently.

“The fishermen hate the killer whales,” says Selling. The orca are protected, but “unobserved, the fishermen do what they want. They see them as competitors.”

Stories persist of fishermen stunning orca with electric prods, throwing lit petrol cans, cutting dorsal fins. Cazalla has seen two orca with recent injuries (Morris thinks there was an injured individual at her boat). “One has a significant scar – you can see white tissue so it’s deep.” This, he thinks, is unlikely to be from a propeller, which would cause multiple scars.

Selling points out that the orca interact with the almadraba as well as drop-line fishing, and talks of a male which worked out how to navigate the labyrinth of submarine nets to take tuna in Barbate years ago. This orca was later observed with serious injury to its dorsal fin. It hasn’t been seen since.

But the orca have endured harassment for decades. What explains the new behaviour? Was there reduced noise during the Covid lockdown? Selling says yes. “No big game fishing, no whale watching or sailing boats, no fast ferries, fewer merchant ships.” He’s intrigued by the idea that the orca had two months with reduced noise – “Something most of them probably never experienced before” – and considers the possibility they felt angry as the noise restarted (Gauffier thinks this unlikely, but notes that the Barbate pod still actively chases tuna, “for which they need a quieter environment”).

There is one very unscientific phrase I hear repeatedly from several researchers: “Pissed off”. Some speculate that the multitude of stresses these highly sentient cetaceans have endured – years of grieving lost calves, injuries, competition for fish, coupled with a pause and reintroduction of human activity, could have affected their behaviour. There is a great deal we don’t yet know about orca, which, like us, have evolved complex cultures and different languages around the world. A couple of years ago Ken Balcomb from the Center for Whale Research talked about endangered orca being dependent on scarce chinook salmon in the Pacific Northwest. “I’ve seen them look at boats hauling fish. I think they know that humans are somehow related to the scarcity of food. And I think they know that the scarcity of food is causing them physical distress, and also causing them to lose babies.”

Sounds like anthropomorphising? Lori Marino, neuroscientist and president of the Whale Sanctuary Project found in orca brains an astounding capacity for intelligence. “If we are talking about whether killer whales have the wherewithal and the cognitive capacity to intentionally strike out at someone, or to be angry, or to really know what they are doing, I would have to say the answer is yes. They are likely defending a territory or resources.”

Meanwhile, Nick Irving from Reliance is wondering if he should send clients’ boats out after the last three sustained damage: “Is it reckless?” Neither of us say it, but we’re both thinking he doesn’t want to be the mayor in Jaws – the obvious, if lazy stereotype that comes to mind. Word is starting to get out, frustrating Espada. Friends call, asking about the “attacks”, if it’s safe to swim. “Are you mad?” she asks. “Of course it’s safe!” As shark conservationists know all too well, it’s difficult to protect endangered animals with a bad image.

This tiny population’s presence is of huge importance, and if human activity is affecting their behaviour, human activity must be regulated. Gauffier has presented the Spanish Environment Agency with a conservation plan proposing that in the Barbate area, “activities producing underwater noise should be reduced to a minimum”. This is the very least that should happen. Each sailor I spoke to was concerned that their activities had stressed the orca. Victoria Morris, who has been searching for a specialist subject when she returns to study marine biology in autumn has found her topic. The Gibraltar orca has one more ally – which is good because these majestic, beleaguered mammals need all the help they can get.

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On the Ausable, James David Smillie, 1869, American Paintings and Sculpture

Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. J. William Middendorf II Gift, 1967 Size: 9 1/2 x 12 7/8 in. (24.1 x 32.7 cm) Medium: Watercolor and gouache on green-gray wove paper

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/12610

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Books Read in 2019

I read 71 books in 2019!! Add me on goodreads here. I never expected to read this many! Honestly not sure if I can do this again, but this year really helped me remember how much I enjoy reading! I have included every book I read this year - the good, the bad (although I stopped reading some books partway through so they’re not on this list), and even textbooks.

I put a star beside the books I highly recommend! If I didn’t put a star beside a book it can mean that I liked the book but didn’t love it, I liked the book but had a major issue with one part of it, or that I didn’t like the book at all. I definitely recommend checking out the reviews on goodreads before picking up a book to make sure it’s right for you, because life is too short to read books you don’t like!

*Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens

Nine Perfect Strangers - Liane Moriarty

*An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness - Kay Redfield Jamison

*Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain - Oliver Sacks

Drugs and Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Pharmacology - William McKim, Stephanie Hancock

*On Being a Therapist - Jeffrey Kottler

*Mental Disorder: Anthropological Insights - Nichola Khan

*How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence - Michael Pollan

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? - Mindy Kaling

*Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan

*Love’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy - Irvin Yalom

*The Alice Network - Kate Quinn

*An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales - Oliver Sacks

*The Clockmaker’s Daughter - Kate Morton

*Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman

Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil - Paul Bloom

It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle - Mark Wolynn

*Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience - Michael Gazzaniga

*Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny - Kate Manne

The Sellout - Paul Beatty

*A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman

*Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men - Lundy Bancroft

*Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body - Roxane Gay

8Blink: The Power of Thinking - Malcolm Gladwell

*How Can I Help? A Week in My Life as a Psychiatrist - David Goldbloom, Pier Bryden

The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time - Alex Korb

*Speak No Evil - Uzodinma Iweala

*Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture - Roxane Gay

Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit - John Douglas, Mark Olshaker

*The Other Side of Normal: How Biology is Providing the Clues to Unlock the Secrets of Normal and Abnormal Behaviour - Jordan Smoller

*Turtles All The Way Down - John Green

The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir - Alexandria Marazano-Lesnevich

Honeybee - Trista Mateer

The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry - Gary Greenberg

*Between Shades of Grey - Ruta Sepetys

The Island of the Colorblind - Oliver Sacks

*I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou

*Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City - Matthew Desmond

*Show Me All Your Scars: True Stories of Living with Mental Illness - Lee Gutkind

*Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge

*The Myth of the Untroubled Therapist: Private Life, Professional Practice - Marie Adams

*Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction - Judith Grisel

*She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity - Carl Zimmer

What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures - Malcolm Gladwell

*Miracle Creek - Angie Kim

*Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity - Katherine Boo

*The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity - Nadine Burke Harris

Final Girls - Riley Sager

Evil: The Science Behind Humanity’s Dark Side - Julia Shaw

Discovering Statistics Using R - Andy Field

Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology - Jeffrey Kreutzer, John DeLuca, Bruce Caplan

*Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life - Marshall Rosenberg

The Incendiaries - R. O. Kwon

*Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing - Suzanne Methot

*Beartown - Fredrik Backman

Body Image: Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men, Women, and Children - Sarah Grogan

*In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind - Eric Kandel

*Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay

*I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - Malala Yousafzai

*Once More We Saw Stars - Jayson Greene

Biopsychology - John Pinel, Steven Barnes

Stories of Culture and Place: An Introduction to Anthropology - Michael Kenny, Kirsten Smillie

Mental Health Issues and the Media: An Introduction for Health Professionals - Gary Morris

*Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men - Caroline Criado-Perez

*The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness - Elyn Saks

*Beloved - Toni Morrison

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know - Malcolm Gladwell

*Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry - Jeffrey Lieberman, Ogi Ogas

Things My Son Needs to Know About the World - Fredrik Backman

*Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Grownup - Gillian Flynn

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What They Had (2018) Review

What They Had (2018) Review

Bridget must return back home to Chicago to help her brother Nick and father Burt as they struggle to deal with how Ruth is declining in her battle with Alzheimer’s.

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Review: 30 MILES FROM NOWHERE Is Full Of Surprises

Review: 30 MILES FROM NOWHERE Is Full Of Surprises

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When you see enough movies you get into the rhythm of certain genres and it’s often easy to guess what’s going to happen next. I can honestly say that director Caitlin Koller’s 30 Miles From Nowherewas a total surprise. You think you know where this comedy-thriller is going, but it takes many twists and turns and spins you around in such a way that you don’t know where…

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"APB" zapowiedź odcinka S01E12: Ricochet

“APB” zapowiedź odcinka S01E12: Ricochet

W następnym odcinku “APB”…

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