Reeling Her In

Reeling Her In
Author: Mellanie Szereto
Publisher: Amatoria Press
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2018-04-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1942522126

Reeling

Reeling
Author: Lola Lafon
Publisher: Europa Editions
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2022-03-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1609457323

“The deep relevance and the nuanced portrayal of the myriad effects of abuse on [the characters] lives are skillfully done. Layered and disquieting.” —Kirkus Reviews Award-winning author Lola Lafon continues her exploration of the psyches of young girls–their fragility, their resilience. Fontenay, a Parisian suburb, 1984. Cléo is twelve when her parents prod her into taking ballet classes. She drops out after a long year of feeling lost, not classy nor graceful enough, and undoubtedly not as rich as the other kids. By chance, she signs up for Modern Jazz class at a MJC–a state funded organization whose mission is to provide access to art and culture to all children. Modern Jazz is her calling, and soon Cléo is transformed, working out constantly, dreaming of becoming a professional dancer. That’s when she catches the attention of Cathy, an elegant middle-aged woman, who is a talent scout for Galatée–a foundation that gives fellowships to exceptionally gifted teenagers. Fascinated by Cathy and the many gifts with which this providential “godmother” is showering her, Cléo introduces her to her parents, receiving their blessing to spend more time with her, ultimately falling prey to Galatée’s trap. “The great strength of Reeling is the way Lafon weaves together social failures that, on the surface, seem quite disparate.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “An immersive, captivating story.” —Buzz magazine, UK “An impassioned novel on the consequences of sexual exploitation and the dead ends of forgiveness.” —Pages of Hackney, London “Lola Lafon writes for all those who have stayed in the shadows, all those whose voices cannot be heard, shaking off the contemporary mythology of powerful women.” —France-Amerique

Reeling

Reeling
Author: Pauline Kael
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
Total Pages: 497
Release: 1977
Genre: Motion pictures
ISBN: 9780714525822

Reeling

Reeling
Author: Sarah Stonich
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2021-09-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1452963045

RayAnne’s next adventure takes our intrepid heroine, haunted by her beloved grandmother’s death, to New Zealand to film a new season of her all-women fishing talk show What stage of grief is it when your grandmother’s ghost keeps popping up on your electronic devices? Denial? For RayAnne that seems to be the stage for launching the second season of Fishing!—in New Zealand. Ready or not, she is taking public television’s first all-women fishing talk show on the road, putting the cold Minnesota winter in the rearview mirror—which, it turns out, Gran is haunting, too. After a challenging first season, and RayAnne’s serendipitous ascension to host, there’s a lot at stake. With camera-wielding twins Rongo and Rangi along as crew and tour guides, RayAnne and her indefatigable producer Cassi set out across New Zealand in search of noteworthy women who fish: a skipjack boat captain navigating sexist harbors; a writer of historical suffragette fiction, which is, apparently, a thing; a reclusive Māori octogenarian who ties fishing flies for dignitaries. Their stories, and a good dose of the country’s history, are almost enough to take the edge off RayAnne’s homesickness and grief, to say nothing of jetlag—and it doesn’t hurt to discover a bird dog who fishes, an anti-fashionista, a pair of sisters fishing their way through recovery, and . . . a Hobbit? Meanwhile, the romantic and family entanglements she left behind at home haven’t exactly come untangled in her absence. Those who met RayAnne in Fishing!, Sarah Stonich’s first outing with the intrepid, accidental talk-show host, will encounter familiar and unexpected pleasures in her latest antics—and a story whose lighthearted surface and surprising depths will charm readers who now find her for the first time.

Getting Out

Getting Out
Author: Ann Goetting
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1999
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780231116480

Inspiring, real-life examples reveal what it takes for women to leave their abusers, offering hope to those seeking answers about their own abuse or that of people they love.

Reeling in Love

Reeling in Love
Author: Gloria Herrmann
Publisher:
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2017-03-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781786861306

Finding the perfect cup of coffee in Seattle is easy. Finding a guy, not so much--unless that guy finds you...in the most unexpected way. Snap. Click. Snap. Molly steers clear of anything that doesn't have her behind the lens of her trusty camera. That is her passion, her love and her life. Being an award-winning photographer who creates countless book covers for authors all over the world has its perks--half-naked men, for starters. Always looking but never touching--mixing business with pleasure is a big no-no in her line of work. Molly never could picture herself having a happily ever after like the romance novels where her cover shots are featured. There are plenty of fish in the sea, but what happens when you get clobbered by one--literally? Molly finds herself being the catch of the day in Seattle's Pike Place Fish Market. After meeting Owen, a sexy fisherman with stormy-gray eyes, everything changes. Not ready to take the plunge and dive into this romance, Molly finds herself barely keeping above water as she swims in a sea of new emotions and wild love. She isn't so sure she is cut out for this relationship, but Owen sets out to prove that fate has him Reeling in Love. Will Owen and Molly sail off into the sunset or will Molly be the one that got away, only to stay...Single in Seattle?

Reeling Through Life

Reeling Through Life
Author: Tara Ison
Publisher: Catapult
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1619025140

Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies looks at how film shapes identity. Through ten cleverly constructed essays, Ison explores how a lifetime of movie-watching has, for better or worse, taught her how to navigate the world and how to grapple with issues of career, family, faith, illness, sex, and love. Cinema is a universal cultural experience, one that floods our senses with images and sounds, a powerful force that influences our perspective on the world around us. Ison discusses the universal aspects of film as she makes them personal, looking at how certain films across time shaped and molded who she has become. Drawing on a wide ranging catalog of films, both cult and classic, popular and art-house, Reeling Through Life examines how cinema shapes our views on how to make love, how to deal with mental illness, how to be Jewish, how to be a woman, how to be a drunk, and how to die with style. Rather than being a means of escape or object of mere entertainment, Ison posits that cinema is a more engaging form of art, a way to slip into other identities and inhabit other realities. A way to orient oneself into the world. Reeling Though Life is a compelling look at one popular art form and how it has influenced our identities in provocative and important ways.

Vampires in the Lemon Grove

Vampires in the Lemon Grove
Author: Karen Russell
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2013
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307957233

A collection of stories features a pair of centuries-old vampires whose relationship is tested by a sudden fear of flying, a dejected teen who communicates with the universe, and a massage therapist who heals a tattooed veteran by manipulating the imageson his body.

Kentucky Keepers

Kentucky Keepers
Author: Lynn A. Coleman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781597890830

Four women find themselves wading into unexpected love at four fishing tournaments. Can these women come away with the biggest catch of their lives?

Valeria's Last Stand

Valeria's Last Stand
Author: Marc Fitten
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2009-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 140880316X

A sparkling, debut novel celebrating late-flowering love in a Hungarian village 'There's a bit of Chocolat ... a little Anita Brookner ... even some Peter Mayle ... The book is written like a fairy tale.' Observer In sixty-eight years, Valeria has never minced her words. Harrumphing through her isolated little village deep in the Hungarian steppes, she clutches her shopping basket like a battering ram and leaves nothing uncriticised - flaccid vegetables at the market; idle farmers carousing in Ibolya's Nonstop Tavern; that gauche chimpanzee of a mayor and his flashy, leggy wife; people who whistle. But one day, her spinster's heart is struck by an unlikely arrow: the village potter, with his decisive hands and solid gaze. Valeria finds herself suddenly dressing in florals and touching her hair, and what's more, smiling at people in the street. The potter makes her the most beautiful vase she has ever seen. The farmers buy a celebratory round. The problem with all this is that Ibolya (herself at least fifty-eight) has been romancing the potter for months and vows to win him back. And then there's Ferenc, the sugar beet farmer, red-headed and married but all the same hopelessly in love with Ibolya. Meanwhile the mayor has his own problems, mostly involving foreign investors and a non-existent railway. And then a roving chimney sweep arrives in the village, to make a quick buck and bring some good luck - or perhaps bad luck; no one can really decide. All anyone knows is, there's never been such a hullabaloo, which just goes to show it's never too late to try something new.