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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The official book launch for Sexual Violence Against Children in Britain Since 1965: Trailing Abuse featured introductory comments from Professor Joanna Bourke, reflections from Professors Adrian Bingham and Rachel Hope Cleves, a reading from the author, and an open panel discussion, including questions from a diverse audience of practitioners working in the field of child sexual abuse, academics, survivor-activists and interested members of the public. Nick was joined in conversation by host Professor Joanna Bourke (Principal Investigator at SHaME) and guests Professor Adrian Bingham (Sheffield) and Professor Rachel Hope Cleves (Victoria). On 14 December 2021, SHaME closed its 2021 Events Calendar with the official book launch of Dr Nick Basannavar’s Sexual Violence Against Children in Britain Since 1965: Trailing Abuse (Palgrave Macmillan). ![]() ![]() (1993) finds the remaining Alpha Zetas returning from World War II and facing a new set of challenges in a changed world. (1990) introduces Richard "Willie" Wilson and his diverse Alpha Zeta fraternity brothers, who are beginning their senior year at "the University" as war in Europe looms on the horizon. The novels are set in a different fictional timeline from Drury's 1959 novel Advise and Consent, which earned him a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. ![]() ![]() Drury graduated from Stanford University in 1939, and his experiences there provided the basis for the series. ![]() Allen Drury's University series is a trio of novels written by political novelist Allen Drury between 19, which follow a group of university fraternity brothers for a span of over 60 years from 1938 to 2001. ![]() ![]() Under Michigan is the first book for young readers about the geologic history of the state and the structure scientists call the Michigan Basin. ![]() Within these layers of rock rest all sorts of ancient fossils and minerals that date back to the eras when tropical seas spread across Michigan and hot volcanoes flung molten rock into its skies-long before mile-thick glaciers bulldozed over Michigan and plowed through ancient river valleys to form the Great Lakes. Michigan rests on sedimentary rocks that reach down into the earth’s crust more than fourteen thousand feet-a depth three-and-a-half times deeper than the Grand Canyon. Underneath the earth’s surface, however, is equally distinctive evidence of an exciting history. ![]() ![]() Most people recognize Michigan by its mitten-shaped Lower Peninsula and the Great Lakes embracing the state. ![]() ![]() But then she gets a phone call she never wanted to receive, and she must return home for the first time in a decade to help her family bury her beloved father.įor ten years, she’s run from the town that never understood her, and even though she misses the sound of a warm Southern night and her eccentric, loving family and their funeral parlor, she can’t bring herself to stay. ![]() When her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man, won’t give her an extension on her book deadline, Florence prepares to kiss her career goodbye. Keep on reading to find out more about The Dead Romantics and my thoughts!Ī disillusioned millennial ghostwriter who, quite literally, has some ghosts of her own, has to find her way back home in this sparkling adult debut from national bestselling author Ashley Poston.įlorence Day is the ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem-after a terrible breakup, she no longer believes in love. ![]() So when Berkley approached me to read and review this one I couldn’t say now! This book released last week, so if you’re still wondering about this book this post may help you out. ![]() ![]() The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston is a book that’s been on my radar since the author announced it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Most of the nuance was lost in the pillow, but I interpreted Ian’s comment as ‘answer the fucking phone’, which was pretty much what I was thinking myself. ![]() I leaned out of bed at a dangerous angle, raking the carpet with my fingers, trying to get to it. ![]() The bonus was that now it was a little bit harder to reach. It fell face down in the carpet, still ringing, the sound now slightly muffled. Fumbling for it in the dark, I sideswiped it and managed to push it off the table. It resolved into a low rattle that was my phone vibrating crossly on the bedside table along with the high-pitched shrill of the most annoying ring tone I could have chosen. I came up from miles below the surface and opened an eye as one part of my brain tried to work out what had disturbed me and another part focused on how to make the noise stop. I didn’t know where I was or what I was doing when the phone rang I didn’t even know that it was the phone that had woken me. ![]() ![]() UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: I'm underpaid, but it beats not having a job at all. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: You believe that you're fairly paid? ![]() OBAMA: It was the first time anyone had really bothered to ask ordinary people directly what work was like for them. What you want to find - I suppose the word is quintessential truth, the essence of a truth. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: There is no one way to begin. Which was a chronicle of people from every walk of life and what it was like for them to work. ![]() NINA SIMONE: (Singing) Oh, sinner man, where you going to run to? ![]() One of them, which came out in 1974, was called "Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day And How They Feel About What They Do." Several years later, one of the readers of that book was a young man named Barack Obama.īARACK OBAMA: Sometime in college, I came across this book called "Working" by Studs Terkel. He wrote several best-selling books built around these conversations. He interviewed people but became famous not by interviewing the rich and famous, but by talking and listening to ordinary folks. Our TV critic David Bianculli has seen all four episodes and has a review.ĭAVID BIANCULLI, BYLINE: Studs Terkel came out of Chicago as host of a long-running radio show. Tomorrow Netflix premieres a new four-part documentary series called "Working: What We Do All Day." It's a modern take on Studs Terkel's influential 1970s book of interviews, also called "Working." This TV version is hosted and narrated by Barack Obama. ![]() ![]() Weatherford conveys not only information but context and emotion. Every sentence and every phrase are on the mark. This book is an impressive example of just such writing. The mark of a truly gifted writer is to be able to make us feel emotions and gain understaning with few words. ![]() ![]() Weatherford’s lyrical prose packs a great deal of imagery and information into few words at every point throughout the book. Instead, this book (beautifully and evocatively illustrated by Raul Colón) tells the story of a little girl who had a talent that turned into a dream, neatly encapsulating her amazing career and life without writing her biography. To recount all of them in a single children’s book would be impossible, and Weatherford has thankfully not tried to do that. Leontyne Price’s accomplishments are as impressive as she is. Perhaps this feeling is one I have shared with Carole Boston Weatherford. ![]() Quite the contrary- I kept feeling that there was no way I could do it justice. It’s not that I didn’t love it more each time I looked at it. That’s because ever since my review copy arrived, I have been taking it out and looking at it, and then putting it away. I confess, it has taken me a lot longer to do this review than I think it should have. ![]() ![]() “The John Coltrane, the Charlie Parker-their technique was phenomenal. . . . In one scene, he’s asked to sign a wall at his old high school, where he proceeds to fret for a few minutes before finally deciding on “Go for what you love and practice, practice, practice.” Yet who among us thinks only of practice while listening to, say, Sonny Rollins or Dexter Gordon? When the talk-show host Charlie Rose asked Gorelick if he was influenced by any of the great saxophonists-beloved legends of jazz, his supposed spiritual forefathers-he demurred. We are treated to footage of him meticulously preparing an apple pie, meticulously laundering a pair of white pants, meticulously tweaking his golf swing, and meticulously tooting his horn. ![]() Throughout the film, Gorelick frequently reminds viewers that he prizes hard work and discipline above all. He scrambles to course-correct: “I guess, for me, when I listen to music, I think about the musicians, and I just think about what it takes to make that music, and how much they had to practice and how good they had to be.” ![]() As he says it, Kenny G-born Kenneth Gorelick, in Seattle, in 1956-seems to realize that this was maybe not the most prudent thing to admit. “I don’t know if I love music that much,” the saxophonist Kenny G gamely admits in “ Listening to Kenny G,” a new documentary directed by Penny Lane that premièred last week on HBO. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first book in the acclaimed Tales of Alvin Maker series, by one of the world’s best-loved SF/fantasy authors. Somewhere out there is a power that will do anything to prevent him growing up … In an alternate version of frontier America, young Alvin is the seventh son of a seventh son, and such a birth is powerful. But even in the loving safety of his home, dark forces reach out to destroy him. Young Alvin is the seventh son, and such a boy is destined to become great – perhaps even a man with the enormous powers of a Maker. ‘Card has uncovered a rich vein of folklore and magic here, to which his assured handling of old time religion and manifest love of children is admirably suited: an appealing and intriguing effort.’ – Kirkus Reviewsįrom the primal depth’s of the world’s greatest myths comes this gripping fantasy of a boy, born to be a Maker, whose dangerous journey towards knowledge and power makes history …Īmid the deep woods where the Red Man still holds sway, a very special child is born. ![]() |