I know it’s the end of summer vacation, yet I still want to share this combo of traveling and literature with you, maybe for your next vacation plans. Here are eight beautiful places that have been set in the world of words! Thanks to Tim Pile’s recommendation, plus one of my pocket list, here’s the eight literary books: Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (1994) by Louis de Bernieres The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald River of Time (1995) by Jon Swain Our Man in Havana (1958) by Graham Greene Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891) by Thomas Hardy Out of …
Do you remember how Ewan McGregor is going to star in Stephen King’s horror movie sequel Doctor Sleep? Now, we have another sparkling star who’s gonna shine in the film! Kyliegh Curran, the young actress in the musical The Lion King on Broadway and the movie I Can I Will I Did (2017), is confirmed to play Abra Stone, a powerful psychic in the Stephen King’s novel-based film Doctor Sleep. ImageVia IMDb According to Deadline, the production of Doctor Sleep, the cinematic sequel of The Shinning (1980), is directed and screen-scripted by Mike Flanagan and will star Ewan McGregor (as Danny Torrance), Carl Lumbly, Alex …
Do you remember the baby vampire girl in Twilight: Breaking Dawn Parts 1 and 2? Do you remember those innocent eyes of hers? Yes, she’s Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson)’s crystallization of love － Renesmee Cullen (Mackenzie Foy). She was about ten-years-old when she made her extraordinary acting debut. Now, she’s nineteen and about to star in the upcoming film adaptation of the classic story Nutcracker and the Four Realms. Image via t.wikipedia.org Image via thelist Directed by Lasse Hallström and Joe Johnston, the film Nutcracker and the Four Realms is based on the German author E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King and …
Both are amazing actresses, but there’s only one will star in the latest cinematic version of Louisa May Alcott’s class Little Women, directed by Greta Gerwig. According to Bollywoodlife, Emma Watson is in talks with director Greta Gerwig and the team to join in the production of Little Women, replacing Emma Stone who, according to Variety, is unable to commit to Little Women due to her promotional tour for The Favourite. Image via Sputnik International The new production of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women has become a hot issue since the news was released. There are three main reasons it is generating …
Something big lies behind something small; a name can speak for a whole island. As a history-embroidered island, Taiwan has been oppressed by the Chinese government for a long time: from United Nations, Olympic games, to any international events, the nationality of this beautiful island is always forced to be “Taiwan, China” or “Chinese Taipei” instead of its real and solid name－Taiwan. Again, the same thing happened this March when Taiwanese novel The Stolen Bicycle 單車失竊記 written by Professor Wu Ming-Yi 吳明益 was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize. While literature-lovers celebrated the first Taiwanese novel to be Man Booker-nominated, the organization, without warning, changed the …
