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Why, at the present rate will we have to wait in Britain until 2069 for the gender pay gap to disappear? Why, in 2015, did 11% of women lose their jobs due to pregnancy discrimination? Why, globally, has 1 in 3 women experienced physical or sexual violence? On the 100th anniversary of women getting the vote, Helen Pankhurst – great-granddaughter of suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst and a leading women's rights campaigner – charts how women's lives have changed over the last century, and offers a powerful and positive argument for a new way forward.ĭespite huge progress since the suffragette campaigns and wave after wave of feminism, women are still fighting for equality. The lecture is fully booked but you can join the waiting list by emailing Pankhurst in conversation with Professor June Purvis (University of Portsmouth) Please note that this event has been postponed until 4th April 2018 Shaw resented the universal adulation of Shakespeare, and set his Caesar and Cleopatra against Antony and Cleopatra, claiming that his characters were ‘real’ whereas Shakespeare's were ‘love-obsessed’. Victorious over Ptolemy's troops, Caesar leaves for Rome, appointing a Roman general as governor and consoling Cleopatra with the promise of sending Mark Antony to her.Ī: George Bernard Shaw W: 1898 Pf: 1906, Berlin, then New York Pb: 1901 G: Drama in 5 acts and a prologue S: Egypt, 48 bc C: 26m, 4f, extras This causes a new revolt to erupt, which Caesar once more suppresses. To Caesar's horror, Cleopatra secretly orders Pothinus' execution. Later, with order re-established, Pothinus warns Caesar that Cleopatra is not to be trusted as queen. Cleopatra is smuggled to him in a carpet. In order to quell a revolt, Caesar occupies the lighthouse. In Alexandria her young brother, the boy-king Ptolemy, is dependent on his Roman guardian Pothinus, who organizes resistance to Cleopatra's claim to the throne. Timidly encountering a strange ‘old gentleman’, Cleopatra is encouraged by him to assert her authority as rightful queen and then discovers that he is in fact Caesar. In an Alternative Prologue we learn that Caesar is victorious in Egypt. A: George Bernard Shaw W: 1898 Pf: 1906, Berlin, then New York Pb: 1901 G: Drama in 5 acts and a prologue S: Egypt, 48 bc C: 26m, 4f, extrasIn a Prologue Ra cynically comments on Caesar and Cleopatra, asserting that human nature has not changed. Strasser's skill at ratcheting up the tension is, if anything, exceeded by his ability to conjure midcentury ways of thinking-and a vanished culture in which aspirational fathers drank Dubonnet, beatniks were a present-tense curiosity, and children were amazed at the very idea of homosexuality. There's not a word out of place in this evocative book, which toggles between the ever-more-dire predicament of the people in the overfilled bunker and the placid neighborhood during the weeks before the crisis. In "Fallout" (Candlewick, 258 pages, $16.99), however, the Russians really do drop the bomb, and when the sirens wail, Scott Porter and his parents and little brother, rushing to their homemade bunker, are almost overwhelmed by neighbors frantic to gain refuge in the area's only fallout shelter. Memory here has given rise to a gripping and superbly constructed novel for sophisticated young readers ages 10 and older. An authors note shows the inspiration for the. The novelist Todd Strasser, who was a boy at the time, and whose family preparations for nuclear war included building a bomb shelter under their suburban ranch house, has evidently not forgotten the intensity of 1962. The shelter details are harrowing, realistic, and disturbing but integral to the plot and not at all gratuitous. It is all too easy, half a century on, to regard the coruscating terror of ordinary Americans during the Cuban Missile Crisis as a dry historical fact rather than a traumatic lived experience. Her medical records-from a month-long hospital stay of which she had no memory-showed psychosis, violence, and dangerous instability. One day, Susannah Cahalan woke up in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. Wish us luck!Ī gripping memoir and medical suspense story about a young New York Post reporter’s struggle with a rare and terrifying disease, opening a new window into the fascinating world of brain science. Tomorrow, Ana will post her Dare, Gossip of the Forest by Sara Maitland (about the intertwined relationship between fairy tales and actual forests). Thea takes on Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan (a memoir/medical thriller about a young journalist recounting the months of illness and diagnosis of a rare autoimmune disorder). This time, in a true testament of strength, we’ve both agreed to review a category completely outside of our comfort zones: nonfiction. Today, the dare is a little bit different. For no real reason, we stopped doing those until we decided to bring it back this year. Years ago, we had a regular feature called The Dare (and its sibling, the Guest Dare) in which we dared each other to read books outside of our comfort zone. The last episode of the Poppy stories, poppy and ereth is a rousing adventure befitting one of the great heroines of children's literature as well as a final, heartwarming celebration of the life, love, and friendship of two most unlikely companions. Meanwhile, Ereth, left to his own devices, manages to convince himself that Poppy has died and, as only the old porcupine can do, sets about to give her the best memorial service the forest has ever known. Suddenly, swooped up by Luci the bat, Poppy is flying high over the forest and unexpectedly embarks on her greatest adventure. As the ground begins to thaw, life returns to Dimwood Forest and Poppy ventures out in search of excitement. "Dancing doorknobs," Ereth mutters to no one in particular, "how can she not want to see me?" As he waddles back to his log, Ereth fears he may have lost his dear friend forever.īut Ereth has not lost Poppy, at least not yet. But when a swirl of bitter winter storms buries Dimwood Forest in snow and Poppy's husband, Rye, dies suddenly, all Poppy wants is some privacy. Ocax, Poppy and Ereth have enjoyed many happy adventures together. An unstoppable pair ever since they defeated the tyrannical owl, Mr. Poppy, a deer mouse, and Ereth, a grumbling porcupine, have been the best of friends for as long as the animals of Dimwood Forest can remember. We Sophotechs will not interfere with such decisions. About such judgments even reasonable men can differ. The assessment of whether or not a certain risk is worth taking depends on subjective value-judgments. While life continues, it cannot be made to be without risk. “Is that another hint? Are you saying I’m destroying my life? People at the party, twice now, have said or implied that I’m going to endanger the Oecumene itself. It is yours to damage or ruin as you wish.” Your life has exactly the value you yourself place on it. “You are thinking we should use force to defend you against yourself against your will? That is hardly a thought worth thinking, sir. “That’s not what I’m thinking of, and you know it.” “We answer every question our resources and instruction parameters allow we are more than happy to advise you, when and if we are asked.” “(.) You Sophotechs are smarter than I am why did you let me do such a foolish thing?” Nancy Whitman, a willowy teen with black-and-white-streaked hair and an eerie air about her, is the latest admission to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children, a boarding school run by the enigmatic Ms. Tight and tautly told, Every Heart grabs one of speculative fiction's most enduring tropes - the portal fantasy, where a person slips from the real world into a magical realm somewhere beyond - and wrings it for all the poignancy, dark humor, and head-spinning twists it can get. Rather, she's doubled down - and in half the number of pages. That hasn't changed in her new novella, Every Heart a Doorway. Seanan McGuire's award-winning novels and short stories have been testing the parameters of genre fiction for years now, but always with a deep love of horror and fantasy. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Every Heart a Doorway Author Seanan McGuire I learned a lot from it, but I’ll probably forget a lot too-and that’s fine. It’s more textbook than summer-read-on-the-deck, more reference read than cover-to-cover read. I can’t really summarize this book because it is so information dense. If you have questions about white people, this book probably has answers. Historian Nell Irvin Painter has clearly Done the Research necessary to present a truly detailed, monumental look at the history of whiteness as a concept, an identity, a label. Between these covers, however, is a book that is far from minimalist. So too does the cover of my edition: pure white with a black circle in the centre containing the title and author in white block letters nothing else on the front cover, blurbs pushed to the back and even to the spine. The History of White People is minimalist in this sense: the title says it all. This is a small thing, but I feel like it’s rare these days for a non-fiction book to lack a subtitle. Igraine, the eventual wife of Uther Pendragon and the mother of King Arthur, is miserable and it’s hard to blame her. Yes, it’s the lazy way but this is already a very long post.Ĭharacter-wise - I love the strong women. If you want a more detailed description, I give you this. It closely follows with the generally known legend and all the characters are there. It may be a little disjointed but I’ll try to pull it back together at the end when I finish up this little experiment.įirst, for those unfamiliar with this book, The Mists of Avalon is a re-telling of Arthurian legend from the perspective of the women. Over the course of the seven weeks I spent reading The Mists of Avalon, I started writing down what I liked/didn’t like about this book and a few thoughts that I didn’t want to slip away. |