https://padlet.com/magictopian/researchreview Made with a creative frenzy en-us 2019-01-30 14:02:44 UTC 2019-02-05 15:27:14 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Apple.png https://padlet.com/magictopian/researchreview/wish/325859151 "I was literally just talking to my agent about it," he said during a recent interview with Variety, per Entertainment Tonight. "The amount of time I’ve spent moisturizing, I am ready to play 17 at a moment’s notice. Ready! I've got the Botox out! I can do it," he added jokingly, when asked about if he would star in another Twilight installation. And, with a little hindsight, Rob is totally proud of the work he created during the franchise, and he loves that fans are so into it. “Whenever anyone says [Twilight]’s their guilty pleasure, it’s like, you say guilty, what you really mean is just pleasure,” he told Variety.]]> 2019-01-30 14:58:09 UTC https://padlet.com/magictopian/researchreview/wish/325859151 tritt2001 https://padlet.com/magictopian/researchreview/wish/325861929 ''I didn’t like how Ezio introduced himself to people though: “I am Auditore, Ezio.” I never once read him introduce himself as “Ezio Auditor da Firenze” which has been in the games and trailers; there were also slightly more sexual innuendo and connotations than in the game and a LOT more foul language.''

''Speaking in terms of the writing style, it was well written but did have a few times jumps with barely any indication that the time period had changed except for a few small hints here and there.  I loved Leonardo’s character in the game and I thought that Bowden portrayed him well in this book also.  Ezio was also well portrayed but there were a few changes in the book that didn’t line up with the storyline in the game which put me off a little bit.'' 

''I did like the book and I liked all the characters but I’m too stuck on the visual appeal of the game itself to be able to warrant the book anything more than an “I liked it” 3 stars. I’ve already seen how everything looked in that period and heard how the accents were supposed to sound.  Admittedly, I did like seeing the spellings for the Italian words and names of places.''  

''I liked the way that Oliver Bowden has written the characters – they are just how they are in the game and they didn’t differ overmuch which is a plus for me.  The setting and scenery once again was pretty much like the game, however, I felt that perhaps there could have been a bit more fleshing out of the primary and secondary characters and could have done with a bit more fleshing out in terms of the areas that Ezio visited.'']]> 2019-01-30 15:03:42 UTC https://padlet.com/magictopian/researchreview/wish/325861929 https://padlet.com/magictopian/researchreview/wish/325866703 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15842439-warm-bodies]]> 2019-01-30 15:11:40 UTC https://padlet.com/magictopian/researchreview/wish/325866703 https://padlet.com/magictopian/researchreview/wish/325869604 2019-01-30 15:16:17 UTC https://padlet.com/magictopian/researchreview/wish/325869604 https://padlet.com/magictopian/researchreview/wish/325870403 2019-01-30 15:17:34 UTC https://padlet.com/magictopian/researchreview/wish/325870403 tritt2001 https://padlet.com/magictopian/researchreview/wish/327298252 aguilar de nerha: played by michael fassbender.  master assassin and eventual mentor of the spanish brotherhood of the assassins during the late 15th and 16th century.

cal lynch: played by michael fassbender, and angus brown. cal lynch is a modern day member of the assassins brotherhood and a descendant of the 15th century spanish assassin aguilar de nerha as well as the 18th century French-Austrian assassin amo dorian. 


]]> 2019-02-04 14:09:33 UTC https://padlet.com/magictopian/researchreview/wish/327298252 https://padlet.com/magictopian/researchreview/wish/327306068 ''found that federal prison wasn't all that bad. In fact, she made good friends doing her time'' .''Kerman, at 34, was a “self-surrender” at the prison: quickly she had to learn the endless rules, like frequent humiliating strip searches and head''. counts; navigate relationships with the other “campers” and unnerving guards; and concoct ways to fill the endless days by working as an electrician and running on the track. She was not a typical prisoner, as she was white, blue-eyed, and blonde (nicknamed “the All-American Girl”), well educated, and the lucky recipient of literature daily from her fiancé, Larry, and family and friends. Kerman's account radiates warmly from her skillful depiction of the personalities she befriended in prison, such as the Russian gangster's wife who ruled the kitchen; Pop, the Spanish mami ; lovelorn lesbians like Crazy Eyes; and the aged pacifist, Sister Platte. Kerman's ordeal indeed proved life altering. (Apr.)''.

DETAILS

]]> 2019-02-04 14:22:44 UTC https://padlet.com/magictopian/researchreview/wish/327306068 https://padlet.com/magictopian/researchreview/wish/327340496 http://mentalfloss.com/article/509085/10-sharp-facts-about-true-blood

facts:  true blood first aired on September 7th, 2008.

]]> 2019-02-04 15:16:08 UTC https://padlet.com/magictopian/researchreview/wish/327340496 https://padlet.com/magictopian/researchreview/wish/327798433 https://bookpage.com/the-book-case/13570-another-side-blind-side#.XFmlHVVKhdg
- If you saw this holiday season's hit movie The Blind Side, you may think you know all about Michael Oher, the young black man who was taken in by a well-off white family and eventually became a star left tackle on his high school football team, then for Ole Miss, and now for the Baltimore Ravens. If you read Michael Lewis' book of the same name (you can read an excerpt on the NYT website), you'll learn more about both Oher and the couple who adopted him, Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/magazine/24football.html
As he drove into Memphis in March 2004, Tom Lemming thought that everything about Michael Oher, including his surname, was odd. He played for a small private school, the Briarcrest Christian School, with no history of generating Division I college football talent. The Briarcrest Christian School team didn’t have many black players either, and Michael Oher was black. But what made Michael Oher especially peculiar was that no one in Memphis had anything to say about him. Lemming had plenty of experience “discovering” great players. Each year he drove 50,000 to 60,000 miles and met, and grilled, between 1,500 and 2,000 high-school juniors while selecting All-American teams for ESPN and College Sports TV. He got inside their heads months before the college recruiters were allowed to shake their hands. Lemming had made some calls and found that the coaches in and around Memphis either didn’t know who Michael Oher was or didn’t think he was any good. He hadn’t made so much as the third-string all-city team. He hadn’t had his name or picture in any newspaper. Had Lemming Googled him, “Oher” would have yielded nothing on Michael. The only proof of his existence was a grainy videotape some coach had sent him out of the blue. Michael Oher’s athletic ability and his body.

https://www.npr.org/2009/11/16/114401192/the-blind-side-when-a-true-story-is-hard-to-tell

by Michael Lewis, is a book I really loved. It was one that I told everyone about, couldn't shut up about, wouldn't stop recommending.
The centerpiece of The Blind Side -- though not the whole thing -- is the truly incredible story of Michael Oher, who now plays for the Baltimore Ravens. Oher had a very, very hard childhood and was eventually adopted by a family that had a daughter at the school he wound up attending, and ... it's a very involved, very involving story about this kid who just had every possible thing operating against him, who had to start from scratch in the sense of "practically no identifying documents, school records, or anything that would demonstrate on paper that he existed," whose life changed completely because a whole pack of people, particularly his adoptive mom, voluntarily assumed responsibility for him.
Of course, one of the challenges they faced is the centerpiece of that poster: his adoptive mom, Leigh Anne Tuohy, is a fairly small white lady, and Michael was, even as a ninth-grader when they met, a very big African-American kid (the combination of speed and size is how he became a great offensive tackle).

]]> 2019-02-05 14:53:38 UTC https://padlet.com/magictopian/researchreview/wish/327798433