![]() ![]() ![]() How do you think Megan felt when being torn between two groups of friends? Have you ever been in a situation like that? How did you handle it?ĩ. Did the mothers do the right thing by inviting Becca and her mother to join the book club, even though Becca has been intentionally mean to some of the members in the past?Ĩ. Do you think Becca Chadwick has changed from the first book? In what ways is she different? How is she the same?ħ. Do you prefer to work as part of a team, like Cassidy and her hockey team? Or would you rather be by yourself, like Emma when she takes skating lessons? Explain.Ħ. Are your fellow students competitive with one another? If so, why do you think that is?ĥ. Think of any extracurricular activities that you may be involved in at school, such as the school newspaper or sports. Do you have a place that you love like Half Moon Farm or Green Gables? Have you ever thought about naming a special place like Anne, and then Emma and Jess, did?Ĥ. ![]() Montgomery? If so, did you enjoy it? What did you like about it? If you haven’t read it, does Much Ado About Anne make you want to read it?ģ. Have you ever read Anne of Green Gables by L. Which of the girls changed the most from the first book, The Mother-Daughter Book Club, and how?Ģ. Book 2 in the The Mother-Daughter Book Club seriesġ. ![]()
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She received a degree in English from King's College in London in 1963. ![]() Susan Hill was born in Scarborough, United Kingdom on February 5, 1942. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He identifies many plants and animals by both their popular and scientific names, records in detail the color and clarity of different bodies of water, precisely dates and describes the freezing and thawing of the pond, and recounts his experiments to measure the depth and shape of the bottom of the supposedly "bottomless" Walden Pond. Thoreau makes precise scientific observations of nature as well as metaphorical and poetic uses of natural phenomena. ![]() Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and-to some degree-a manual for self-reliance. The text is a reflection upon the author's simple living in natural surroundings. Walden ( / ˈ w ɔː l d ən/ first published in 1854 as Walden or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. Original title page of Walden featuring a picture drawn by Thoreau's sister Sophia ![]() ![]() ![]() In the present we have the trials of a wife accompanying her much older husband as he teaches a course on a cruise ship in the Greek islands, and the harrowing story of a young husband whose wife and child mysteriously vanish on a holiday on a Croatian island. In the nineteenth century, we follow Chopin's heart as it makes the covert journey from Paris to Warsaw. ![]() From the eighteenth century, we have the story of a North African-born slave turned Austrian courtier stuffed and put on display after his death. From the seventeenth century, we have the story of the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen, who dissected and drew pictures of his own amputated leg. It interweaves travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. Flights, a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk's most ambitious to date. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1984, the Mitchell estate - by then two nephews - switched agents and tactics, deciding to authorize a novel rather than the movie sequel. In addition to various screenplays, one writer they hired, novelist/biographer Anne Edwards, actually wrote a 750-page manuscript novel, “Tara: The Continuation of Gone With the Wind.” The movie became bogged down in litigation and has never been made. In 1975, the estate contracted with producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown to create a sequel motion picture. With Rhett walking out the door, leaving Scarlett with the immortal line “My dear, I don’t give a damn,” (Hollywood added “frankly”), Mitchell believed she had written “a natural and proper ending” to her story.īut her heirs thought differently, pursuing an income-producing sequel - movie, book or both - before the estate’s copyright on the characters expired in 2011. ![]() Mitchell, who died in an automobile crash in 1949, never wanted her novel of the Civil War South to have a sequel. It topped the bestseller list for 15 weeks, even though reviewers - as the author anticipated - trashed it. As for Ripley’s project, her 823-page book, “Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell’s ‘Gone With the Wind,’ ” published in 1991 was translated into 18 languages and sold well more than 1 million copies. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In it, a rough-hewn trio of brothers-"shortish men with massive arses and brutally capable forearms"-whose nickname provides the story's title, arrive at a local pub for an evening of drinking. "The Alps," one of the collection's strongest entries, is noteworthy for the way Barrett subtly toys with readers' expectations. It's only up close it lets you down." The book begins there with a literal bang in "A Shooting in Rathreedane," as Sergeant Jackie Noonan is dispatched to the scene after a petty criminal has been gravely wounded by a local farmer who claims he acted in self-defense Noonan must try to save the trespasser's life. In these eight stories, Barrett offers glimpses of an assortment of characters for whom it seems life's richest rewards will always remain just out of reach.Īll of the stories save one in Homesickness are set in County Mayo, on Ireland's west coast-a region one character describes as "very presentable from a distance. Like novelist Sally Rooney, Barrett ( Young Skins) is well-attuned to the attitudes and preoccupations of mostly younger Irish men and women, though his subjects are markedly dissimilar to the highly educated, intensely verbal characters in Rooney's work. If there is any concern about the health of the short story in the next generation of Irish writers, Colin Barrett's Homesickness: Stories, his second collection, should help put that to rest. ![]() ![]() It’s a very interesting process, and particularly, nobody expected the global pandemic, so that certainly threw a little spanner in there. What preconceptions did you have going in that you ultimately had to let go of? Variety // Getty Images Tell me about the process of developing this series. Naomi Alderman at the premiere of The Power. and the election of President Donald Trump in the U.S.Īs The Power makes its second wave in the form of a TV series, which dropped its season 1 finale last night, Alderman spoke with about the challenges of adapting a story as the world changes her hopes for a second season and why she needed seven years to finish her next book, The Future. ![]() ![]() In particular, the manner in which Alderman reimagined women as the “dominant sex”-without stooping to the oversimplification and myopia of the girlboss era-spoke to an enflamed imagination felt across the country (and the globe) after Brexit in Alderman’s native U.K. The book, first published in 2016, was eventually named one of the “10 Best Books of 2017” by The New York Times for its speculative prowess. ![]() For others, it’s leverage-a means with which to reshape long-standing hierarchies and elevate their sex (and, depending on their motives, themselves). For some, this inexplicable power is a torment. In the Amazon Prime Video series The Power, adapted from Naomi Alderman’s novel of the same name, the status of women in society is forever shifted when electricity begins to bloom beneath their fingertips. ![]() ![]() ![]() At a certain point, Nietzsche gets a mention, “There’s nothing Nietzsche couldn’t teach yer about the raising of the wrist.” It starts with “Aristotle, Aristotle, was a bugger for the bottle and was very rarely sober”, the lyrics continue through a list of philosophers and their supposed drinking habits. Having established the protocol with the new staff member they go on to sing the Philosopher’s Drinking Song. For the sake of simplicity and to avoid confusion everyone on the teaching staff has to be called Bruce. There is a sketch in one episode featuring a fictional, (hopefully fictional) Australian University and the induction of a new member of staff. ![]() Some of us of a certain age and with a certain sense of humour have a great affection for Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche ![]() ![]() Still one of the ten bestselling books in Japan, No Longer Human is a powerful exploration of an individual’s alienation from society. The novel has come to “echo the sentiments of youth” (Hiroshi Ando, The Mainichi Daily News) from post-war Japan to the postmodern society of technology. Semi-autobiographical, No Longer Human is the final completed work of one of Japan’s most important writers, Osamu Dazai (1909-1948). ![]() Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness. 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