READ MORE: Irishman tries to hire hitman to kill wife's online friends after finding 'intimate' messagesĪt the sentence hearing last month, the court heard that Leech and Kennedy knew each other as their children went to the same school. The threats were made to Kennedy and his wife. Leech, of Loftus Hall Apartments, Hazelbrook Square, Churchtown, Dublin 14, pleaded guilty to demanding money with menaces on three occasions during January 2020. A Dublin man who was solicited by an acquaintance to kill his wife's friends has been jailed for two years for extortion.Īlan Leech (38) was described during an earlier sentence hearing last month as an opportunistic “local junkie” who had milked his acquaintance Bryan Kennedy "like a cash cow” when Kennedy approached him about murdering the women his wife had met online.
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This will give you extra picture to the sides of the screen, showing images that you won’t see in any other format. I’d wager that a dual-laser IMAX setup will be the best possible presentation for Guardians 3.Īs a blockbuster film, Guardians 3 is showing in ScreenX in select locations. Again, this is where 48fps helps as your eye gets twice as much information a second compared to 24fps, which makes the image appear brighter, even if the projector doesn’t have a higher lumens output. I would also not that I found that the image was a touch on the dark side. That said, once I got used to it, and my brain got dialed in, as it were to seeing 3D 24fps it did not overly bother me again, even over the long two and half hour run time of the film. I’d have to say that for a 3D movie that’s a technical feature that I wish was no standard. In terms of the 3D effect, I did note that I was immediately aware of the 24fps motion blur – something that was palpably absent when viewing the 3D 48fps version of Avatar: The Way of Water. 3, in IMAX 3D format in a theater with a “single laser” projector, and I would rate the image quality as very good. I have already had a chance to take in Guardian of the Galaxy Vol. This stunning performance (and splashy ending!) will have readers clapping for more! FOR THE LOVE OF THE DANCE: For children and adults who share a passion for ballet, jazz, tap, Irish Step, or any form of dance, the joyful Flora books offer an engaging, hands-on reading experience that celebrates the magic of movement. An innovative wordless picture book with interactive flaps, Flora and the Flamingo is full of humor and heart. and with a twist, a turn, and even a flop, these unlikely friends learn at last how to dance together in perfect harmony. Endearing Flora in swimsuit, bathing cap, and flippers admires a pink flamingo. Every little ballerina dreams of her turn as a dancing diva. In this magical Caldecott Honor-winning picture book, Flora and her graceful flamingo friend wordlessly explore the trials and joys of friendship through an elaborate synchronized dance. This book provides a great overview of The Beatles' story for young readers. They, too will endorse it with a hearty YEAH,YEAH, YEAH! I just love it! This is a book I would happily give to young readers. No doubt it will be a treasured possession. Wonderful for all ages and just the right gift for that young Beatle fan. That would not have happened - Paul was the only left handed guitarist in the Beatles. On page 77 John is drawn playing guitar with this left hand. George is drawn playing his famous lead with his left hand and Paul is drawn playing his Hofner bass with his right hand. Another picture that jumps out at fans is on page 60. I just love it!īeatle fans will catch a picture of Paul writing with his right hand on page 14 since Paul was left handed, the pen would have been in his left hand. The drawings are just delightful and my favorites were of young George Harrison and another of Olivia and George with their young Beatle coiffed son, Dhani. This book provides a plethora of information about each Beatle's boyhood the inception of the band the meteoric rise of the world's greatest band and their ultimate parting of company. This is an ideal companion book to "Brilliant Brits," another excellent beginner's book about the Beatles. I also think this is the ideal book for young Beatle fans as well as just the right spark to ignite a flaming love for them. I absolutely love the Beatles and think this is an ideal book to introduce young readers to them. Behind closed doors or with his friends, he breaks character a little bit. He is also very determined and exudes this intense cool cat exterior. Moses is this cool guy who appears to be very laid back as if nothing will touch him, until he has fully reunited with Magnolia. Magnolia is one of my favorite heroines that I’ve read in a while. Magnolia has not had an easy life, but everything she did, she did for a greater purpose. She was simply power poured into a pencil skirt and a stunning exterior. Magnolia is intense, fierce, tough, determined, gorgeous and strongly independent. Him intentionally, her unintentionally and ready to clean out the trash and memories. I never guessed that’d be so damn sexy or my greatest weakness.”įast forward fifteen years and these once former pals are meeting again. “A beautiful woman who plays chess like a master. It may not have been long in time frame but it was intense. To say these two had a past is a wee bit of an understatement. Psst…Meghan, thanks for the memories! □□ Our main characters are, Magnolia and Moses. The sights and sounds that describe within brought me right back to my time in New Orleans. I was sucked in and engrossed from beginning to end.Ĭreole Kingpin is set in good ole NOLA. So, it’s been a little bit of a hot minute since I read a Meghan March book and all I have to say is, ‘why did it take me so long to read another one of her books?’ I was intrigued and shook by all that was happening in this book. When they arrive at Crown Electric, Elvis questions Gary about who he is. When he sees a newspaper on the floor dated July 3, 1954, Gary realizes that the trucker actually is Presley and that it is two days before he will record his first single. He thumbs for a ride, and is picked up by a trucker who resembles Elvis. He took her back to his hotel room and said some strange things, such as that he was not really Elvis and that someone was after him.Īs Gary is driving home, he gets in an accident with a crazed driver. Sandra mentions that she met the real Elvis when she was a teenager, after he picked her out of an audience. Gary is unsatisfied with this, and vents his frustration over his music career having degraded into lounge performances. Gary Pitkin, an Elvis impersonator, is booked by his manager Sandra into a small hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. This segment follows an Elvis impersonator who inadvertently goes back in time and meets the real Elvis Presley on the eve of his breakthrough into the music industry. " The Once and Future King" is the first segment of the twenty-fifth episode, the first episode of the second season (1986–87) of the television series The Twilight Zone. 25th episode of the 2nd season of The Twilight Zone " The Once and Future King" Bonding over family, fitness, and cheesy pick-up lines, they just might have found her swolemate. In the lead up to their grandparents' wedding, Crystal discovers there’s a soft heart under Scott’s muscled exterior. But after a series of escalating jabs, the last thing they expect is to run into each other at their grandparents' engagement party. Sparks fly as these ultra-competitive foes battle for gym domination. After her recent breakup, she has little stamina left for men, instead finding solace in the gym – her place of power and positivity.Įnter firefighter Scott Ritchie, the smug new gym patron who routinely steals her favorite squat rack. SheReads' Best Romance Books Coming in 2022Ī gym nemesis pushes a fitness influencer to the max in Amy Lea’s steamy debut romantic comedy.Ĭurvy fitness influencer Crystal Chen built her career shattering gym stereotypes and mostly ignoring the trolls. This volume is a good sample of Riki’s work, beginning with a selection of her articles written for The Advocate magazine (, and other outlets), from 2000 through August, 2017, This is followed by selections from Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender (1997), a collection of early writings that highlights her developing theoretical critique of gender and the nature of binaries, illustrated by her experience in confronting life as a young genderqueer. Each of us got something from that first meeting-she an editor, and me an example of lived experience I could relate to, finally. I knew the moment I walked into her apartment that Riki was onto something I needed to know. Lynn Walker, the moderator of the group I first attended there, steered me to another informal group that met outside the Center. I met Riki in the fall of 1994 after I’d sought a trans-support group at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center in New York City. The Mortimers are powerful, beautiful, and treated a bit like Sawkill royalty. Here she has secured a job working for the Mortimer family. There are always three.Īfter the death of her father, Marion’s mom moves the family – herself, Marion, and Marion’s sister Charlotte – to the remote island of Sawkill Rock off of the coast of Massachusetts. Read Burn Down, Rise Up: Amazon | GoodreadsĪ girl with incredible strength. Written by a non-binary Afro-Latine author, this sapphic fantasy brings the Bronx to life and is one of the creepiest queer horror books for adults and teens alike. They must also play the Echo Game, a popular internet game and urban legend that seems to have unnerving consequences for the players, many of whom never return. To save both Cisco and her mami, Raquel and Charlize must team up, and they dive into the startling history of the Bronx. And now Cisco is missing.Ĭisco is just the latest in a long line of missing kids, most of whom the cops never bother looking for – except for the group of White kids who went missing a year ago and still haven’t returned. Raquel is devastated to learn that her mami, a nurse at the local hospital, has been placed in a coma after contracting a mysterious illness from an aggressive patient.īut she soon figures out that her mami was infected by none other than Cisco, who is the cousin of her crush, Charlize. I have found graphic novels to be an excellent medium for memoirs and depictions of history, allowing a personal narrative to come alive in moving artwork that creates a powerful and engaging read. Grass is a landmark graphic novel that makes personal the desperate cost of war and the importance of peace. The cartoonist Gendry-Kim’s interviews with Lee become an integral part of Grass, forming the heart and architecture of this powerful nonfiction graphic novel and offering a holistic view of how Lee’s wartime suffering changed her. Grass is painted in a black ink that flows with lavish details of the beautiful fields and farmland of Korea and uses heavy brushwork on the somber interiors of Lee’s memories. Keum Suk Gendry-Kim emphasizes Lee’s strength in overcoming the many forms of adversity she experienced. Grass is a powerful antiwar graphic novel, telling the life story of a Korean girl named Okseon Lee who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second World War-a disputed chapter in twentieth-century Asian history.īeginning in Lee’s childhood, Grass shows the lead-up to the war from a child’s vulnerable perspective, detailing how one person experienced the Japanese occupation and the widespread suffering it entailed for ordinary Koreans. This true story of a Korean comfort woman documents how the atrocity of war devastates women’s lives |