This book makes us question everything we think we know about our world. Circumstances force a young woman photographer named Cassie to take an unlikely assignment in Egypt, where a diary mysteriously appears in her camera case. It gradually becomes clear that understanding the secrets that underlie our world and these civilizations is not just a stop on a tour bus, but rather it is essential to battling the forces of darkness, ignorance, fear, and separation that threaten our very planet.
Both heartfelt and intense, the book shows us what is at stake at this critical point in time. Paperback , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Keeper of the Diary , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about The Keeper of the Diary.
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Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. May 08, LeighAnn rated it really liked it. Cassie is a photographer who ends up going to Egypt for a job. While there, a diary ends up mysteriously in her possession. She is determined to find out who the diary belongs to and return it but after reading it she realizes that this diary was meant to be in her hands. There are people who would kill to get this book from her and she quickly realizes that this diary has put her in danger. Her main focus now is to unlock the mystery within these pages and fulfill her destiny before it is too l Cassie is a photographer who ends up going to Egypt for a job.
Her main focus now is to unlock the mystery within these pages and fulfill her destiny before it is too late. This was a really interesting story. It was a lot of fun to be able to travel with Cassie to all of these sacred sites and learn more about them. That was probably the best part of the book for me. It felt like it took me forever and a day to finish this book but I really did enjoy it.
You get to read the contents of the diary, which I sometimes found to be a little long, but it really added even more to Cassie's story. This book has it all.
It's mysterious, mystical, mythical, and suspenseful. It has good vs. There is so much in this book but if I tried to add it all into this review it would be a book itself. You'll just have to read it for yourself! Dec 07, Lenore Webb rated it it was amazing. Judith Diana Winston is not only an author but a world traveler and photographer.
She has been in the shadow of many of the natural wonders of the world feeling the presence of greatness. This has led her to write The Keeper of the Diary where the main character, Cassie, follows many of the same steps Judith has taken. From there the story is born into a world wide mystery. I am finding myself not only learning of different sites but also falling deeper and deeper into the mystery.
I can not wai Judith Diana Winston is not only an author but a world traveler and photographer. I can not wait for each moment I get to crawl back into my book. This one is an epic story line. One that will take time for me to finish but at the same time takes me on an amazing journey within the pages. Aug 06, Kalix rated it it was amazing.
A very enlightning book! Tina rated it it was amazing Mar 07, Denise rated it really liked it Jan 13, Janelle Mandawe rated it it was amazing Apr 28, Danielle rated it really liked it May 13, Dramatic art which is a completely different creature is then introduced and it ruins everything.
I force myself to capture reality—pieces of reality, as pure as possible—which I then arrange in a certain order. Bloom essentially says that Shakespeare single-handedly brought a depth and psychology to character that simply did not exist in drama or literature before. I mean, THIS is how you set the scene for the start of a story: The street was the kind that people had once been proud to live on, but in the last few years it had lost its claim to pride.
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The houses had too many stories, too few windows, not enough paint. Their history was easy to guess: Even the palm trees that lined the street looked as if they had seen their best days and were starting to lose their hair. Situated on a cross street between the boulevards? The kind of street that has lost its pride. The houses have too many stories, too few windows, not enough paint.
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But I like his poetics: It pretty much epitomizes everything about that quote, too. Either that or I missed something. Would like to know if by chance he mentions it in the book! He is usually described as an austere, Jansenist catholic heavily into sin, predestination, the necessity of divine grace and the human inability to fully comprehend it. And other fun stuff like that. On a more mundane level, despite the studied simplicity of his style, Pickpocket has some very impressive scenes of the cannon practicing his trade.
And did you know American Gigolo is disguised remake? He does discuss his stories in terms of morality, but insofar his religious beliefs, any of that stuff is kept strictly to the biographical portions. But I can see why Scorsese holds him high on a pedestal; they seem cut from the same cloth, in some respects. The Bloom book is interesting but also irritating. It assumes not only an intimate familiarity with the plays but also with the thinkers and critics who have considered the plays, and too often his arguments are references to other works rather than straightforward points.
And while Hamlet and Falstaff are great, they are in the end only a finite number of words on the page. But his pitch for Will seems to be a whole lot broader and whole lot vaguer. Shakespeare may have had knowledge of the greats of the past but he was also a Renaissance writer; his audience, like the audiences of our time, had a different outlook, and different expectations. For some reason I always remember a Macdonald line about the LA freeway at night. Seems ripe for cinematic rediscovery. Maybe a series of Netflix movies. Naturally, I say all this and next month will be a sparkling new spin on the character by someone who found the right balance….
He wrote from the late fifties to the early seventies. And I think a series of movies retaining the time frame with the social shifts of that critical decade in the background could be great. Cloony and Pitt are getting on. They should think about it. The character is basically and deliberately, according to MacDonald a cypher. He never comes fully into focus. Which means that just about any good actor in decent shape between the ages of, say, 35 and 60, could probably play him. Clooney, though, could certainly do it.
MacDonald was gifted at math and trained for a time to be an engineer. This makes sense because his books are masterfully constructed most of them anyway. He definitely had a keener grasp of human psychology than Hammett or Chandler — keener, in fact, than most novelists I can think of. Almost everything he wrote in the sixties and early seventies is great. And he never had the ability, or maybe the desire, to create the sort of exaggerated but memorable characters that both Chandler and Hammett managed.
I know that some critic claimed that he basically wrote the same story twenty times. Troubled youth, present day trouble leading to uncovering of old crime and long buried family secrets. And that was kind of his template. But a number of the books are pretty great.
Wise ass is right. Newman is one actor who actually got better with age. He was doing fine, restrained work in the s when he felt the material was serious. Yes, he did get better. Hustler is a much better movie than Color of Money. But Newman was so assured in the sequel. I find the openings of the stories, the Watson intros, a bit odd. How to be Victorian, for research purposes.
And Rasputin by D. Even though I bought this for college, but never read it, it focuses on literary basics such as themes and motifs; literary models and narrative devices. It also relates to screenplays, so it was a two-for-one before I knew that I was even interested in writing. Her writing is so intriguing and her plot twists are unsuspecting.
I love the Inspector Rebus novels by Ian Rankin. He captures a seedy, cynical side of Edinburgh, Scotland. Having been beaten up there, I can relate. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt. I have this script… mr. Happy Birthday, young man! Tell your new bosses you have to check in here every 10 minutes. You gotta have priorities. AND I get to show up everyone by being so enthusiastic about everything!
I love induction days…. Have another upvote, a great day today, and tomorrow at your new job. Thanks for being such a loyal devotee to this site. I got some marzipan, I like marzipan, they had some good artisan sweets there. Everyone would quit their job and write full time if they could. If I would definitely love to be at a place where I could write and lounge full-time and have enough funds to still pay my bills.
I drew you a cake for your birthday. This story sounds mildly entertaining. Sounds like it begins strong, but honestly how entertaining is it going to be for an audience watch a guy go through publishing hurdles, when they already know in advance that the book does get out there and is a big hit? What matters most is the journey…. If the writers were successful in making that journey fun for any reason, you can get caught up in the story again and again. It keeps me at the edge of my seat every time. One could argue that the stakes added a lot of gravitas to the story.
I watched it only because I love the actors and ended up finding it extremely compelling. Not crazy about this sort of thing as a genre. What would we call them, meta dramas? Where the emotional resonance of the piece is at least partially dependent on our knowledge of this underlying tale.
Is there anything inherently fascinating about how the book got published? The father and his partner are dogged and determined and persistent and finally the fortieth publisher says yes. If the book were about the life cycle of fruit flies but the protags were equally passionate about it would we watch this movie for a minute? Perhaps there is more to the story than Carson is letting on. But even if the characterizations are very skillful and get us emotionally invested this still sounds like a pretty dull sit.
And I would add that these kind of productions always feel a bit of a cheat. Yes, the writers may have crafted a compelling story but, again, with the fact that the audience by-and-large knows the ending, what are the real stakes involved? And without any genuine risk of allowing the audience to go into uncharted territory, is this really the cinematic equivalent of comfort food?
And what exactly will compel audiences to see it? You would think none. I still kept thinking until the end — you guys can get through this! That is the power of good storytelling! Banks, both the script and the movie. I thought it was snubbed all sorts of Oscars it should have won. Did you know that the Curious George manuscripts were almost lost to the Nazis? It appeared to be a great true story.
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From the director of Sleuth, Thor and Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit comes a story you will always remember….. An uneven track record, sure, but even his lesser accomplishments had some interesting parts to them. Pretentious he is, and it shows in his work. Its tailormade for the American market. The writers cleverly, cynically, framed the historical events to turn the books English language publishing into a feat of American exceptionalism. The script ends with a quote by John F. I see it as a big gamble.
But a film about getting her diary published? I think it had better be low budget. He had a remarkable screen presence. In fairness to Branagh most of the blame must go to Harold Pinter who in some perverse desire to deconstruct the piece removed nearly everything clever and absolutely everything amusing about it.
Actually, Branagh would have made a better lead than Caine. I like the IDEA of him — but his coldness compared to say Peter Greenaway had no real aesthetic and his cleverness unlike Stoppard had little humor. His later works especially were an endurance test if there ever was one. They felt less like drama and more like masturbation. One of his more solid performances. A depressed detective who develops alzheimers. Gotta love those light hearted Scandinavian mystery shows. I have no idea what that hierarchy is though, so…?
A camera direction on every page would be a no-no.
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And they used to be VERY common, like almost every other bit of dialogue. Same goes for emphasizing with underlining or italics or capitals TOO many words of dialogue, even though I like to do it myself in these comments. In real speech, people in groups rarely preface their comments to a specific person by using his or her name. They direct it with a look.
It seems more organic. I suppose that when such things are of importance, it means you are getting old. How cool is that? Every writer should have a toddler of their own for inspiration and exasperation. The first rule of screenwriting is — there are no rules. The second rule of screenwriting is … Auh… Let me get back to you.
But definitely the first one. This is not the way to write a script. The director will film the scenes according to his vision and budget, and the actors will bring their own interpretation to the characters. Be suggestive, not descriptive. In those 21 pages there were 15 smears and 5 smudges. Talk about leaden prose. Get these guys a thesaurus, somebody. It attracted Sir Kenneth Branagh as director and star.
The martial arts scenes and Led Zep soundtrack just made it look silly. King Arthur should officially retire from the movies. Besides, no one is ever gonna top this version… https: Anyone have the 1st page of the script?
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Can they post it, since Carson references the first page twice in this article, and just had a First Page Thursday article? I just wanted to se what he was talking about and experience it myself. Always interesting to see what a script from screenwriters with heat on them reads like. But except for the formatting, this reads like a book, not a screenplay.
We know where the Nazis are going. Heart wrenching for sure, but we already know that. Still, the writers sold this in a biding war. More power to them. A previous poster today was right — there are no rules. Like so many in the camps, Anne died of typhus, a bacterial infection most doctors would never see in their careers today. It is interesting that as an unknown the use of flowery purple prose is so attacked, so hated, yet this script went into a huge bidding war and was sought after like crazy, yet if anyone who is unknown were to write this first page and put it up on AoW, they would get hammered and trashed so hard.
Skeletal branches of an chestnut tree dappled against the ruddy, grungy brickwork, a small atrium courtyard of ramshackle prewar townhouses, soot-flecked. Light washes in across her, silhouetting her, pressing her shadow over the jumbled, worn-out bed sheets, two cramped little mattresses on bare metal frames. The faintest wistful smile upon her lips.
She absently fusses with her long hair.