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Kelly Jensen
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Cia lives in Five Lakes colony, the region of the country that used to be the Great Lakes, but is now a blighted region thanks to the Seven Stages War, a terrible conflict that killed millions and left most of the world environmentally destroyed. The United Commonwealth is now focused on revitalizing the country, clearing out the deadly toxins from the water and forcing the Earth to grow food... Read more of this blog post »
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The Real Deal: A VOYA Guide to Contemporary Fiction for Young Adult Readers
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Service Learning: Linking Library Education and Practice
by Loriene Roy, Alex Hershey Meyers, Kelly Jensen (Goodreads Author) — published 2009 |
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― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
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― Franz Kafka
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― Franz Kafka
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― Franz Kafka
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― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
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May 12, 2013 07:41am
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Hi Kelly :) thanks for accepting! I love reading your blog and following you around on twitter. Looking forward to chatting with you x
Here you go (taken from this article on Turner Classic Movies):"Even though Breakfast at Tiffany's was a success and nominated for five Academy Awards, the one person who was not happy with the film was author Truman Capote. He was outspoken in his disapproval of what had been done with his book. He was unhappy with everything: the tone, the casting, the director. He felt betrayed by Paramount. "I had lots of offers for that book, from practically everybody," he said, "and I sold it to this group at Paramount because they promised things, they made a list of everything, and they didn't keep a single one." Capote was unhappy with the casting. "It was the most miscast film I've ever seen," he said. "Holly Golightly was real-a tough character, not an Audrey Hepburn type at all. The film became a mawkish valentine to New York City and Holly, and, as a result, was thin and pretty, whereas it should have been rich and ugly. It bore as much resemblance to my work as the Rockettes do to Ulanova."
After the release of the film version of Breakfast at Tiffany's, author Truman Capote was very vocal about his disdain for the film, and especially the casting of Audrey Hepburn as Holly, a role that he hoped would go to his friend, Marilyn Monroe.
Truman Capote later said that he considered actress Jodie Foster the perfect person to play Holly Golightly as he originally wrote her."
