Women Crime Writers
Even the whitest of picket fences can hide a twisting darkness. And that very pressure could itself serve as one of the most complex themes of noir — that of dreams deferred and decisions made with extreme regret.
1954
The year of 1954 CE.
Some facts about 1954:
- Toronto opens Canada’s first subway line
- Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai is released
- Sarah Mae Flemming is expelled from a bus in South Carolina
- JRR Tolkien published The Fellowship of the Ring
- Elvis Presley’s first single is released
- William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies is published in London
- Gojira (Godzilla) premieres in Tokyo
- The TV dinner is invented
- Ernest Hemmingway wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Aprill 11th is the most boring day in the 20th Century
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Contempt
In essence, the book is about a man named Molteni who is a screenwriter to makes ends meet. Molteni believes that his wife Emilia has ceased to love him and nothing will convince him of the contrary.
A Child’s Christmas in Wales
I intentionally saved Dylan Thomas’ A Child’s Christmas in Wales for Christmas Day because it has become my favourite Christmas story over the years (or, at the very least, it sits in a firm tie with Dickens’ A Christmas Carol).
The Judge and His Hangman
I can go ahead and admit that I have a problem. I collect kitty-cat knickknacks. This is a review of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Judge and His Hangman.