![]() ![]() A storyworld in which humans have become isolated from one another and living underground, communicating only through screens, offered an engaging space for reflection on perhaps the pitfalls of how our relationship with technology had been evolving. And it’s even more striking today than it was at the time-things like human contact and human touch becoming something that’s almost taboo, things that didn’t seem relevant back in 2016 but are really, really striking and even more relevant now.”Įsther Richardson, Artistic Director of Pilot Theatre, said: “When we produced The Machine Stops in 2016, it already seemed an eerily prescient piece of work. Forster’s 1909 short story is set in a futuristic, dystopian world where humans have retreated far underground and individuals live in isolation in ‘cells’, with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine.Īdapted by Neil Duffield, The Machine Stops premiered in the York Theatre Royal Studio on, before embarking on a national tour.ĭirector, Juliet Forster, said: “Over this last year, I have thought about this piece many times as the world around us seemed to grow more and more like the incredible world that E.M. York Theatre Royal and Pilot Theatre’s co-production of The Machine Stops will be available to watch online from Tuesday 23 March to Monday 5 April 2021.Į.M. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Making those changes will cost as much as $100 million, which is quite steep. However, after the cuts, it plans to use between $225 million and $275 million in cash in 2023, a sharp reduction from its $425 million it anticipates possibly using this year. ![]() It'll still retain most of its testing products in oncology, rare disease, and women's health. To get to that sum, it'll cut staff and lab space, close down operations in certain international markets, and stop offering certain tests that are driving up its cost of goods sold (COGS). If the cost reductions go as planned, the company could achieve as much as $326 million in annual savings in 2023. On July 18, the company announced a major new restructuring initiative intended to shore up its margins. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Why can’t they just get over it?” is the question that Michelle Good kept hearing in discussions of residential schools, and as someone who spent 14 years as a lawyer helping survivors with litigation, she has been party to many such discussions. The subject is residential schools, but not so much the experience itself as the lifelong effects it has on those who survived it. Teaching and healing are likewise central to Five Little Indians, the novel by Michelle Good (Red Pheasant Cree from Saskatchewan). There is a sense of mission among Indigenous authors, a sense that writing is there to do something and not merely to entertain. And wherever Indigenous authors gather to discuss their craft, the words “teaching” and “healing” come up incessantly. Look at any famous Indigenous author, whether that be Pauline Johnson or Richard Wagamese, and you’ll find that teaching and healing are central to their texts. Teaching and healing have always been important aspects to Indigenous writing in Canada. Toronto: HarperCollins Canada (Harper Perennial), 2020 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Like antiheroes, superheroines are dangerous threats to the status quo they challenge our stereotype about women and superheroes. “The ambitious woman and the heroine are strange monsters”, writes Simone De Beauvoir in Le Deuxieme Sexe. Even if they are objectified, drawn with hypersexualized bodies, provocative, with revealing clothes, superwomen always keep an antiheroic element, disruptive, potentially revolutionary – even monstrous when it appears in villainesses. ![]() In the superheroine “stereotype and innovation work together” concludes Robinson. However, at the same time, as superheroines, they should embody the values of the society they are protecting, that means they embody the status quo and confirm its stereotypes but in a prevalent male chauvinistic society, where men are in power and women must fight for their rights, how can they protect this kind of status quo? Thus, an ambiguous situation is created in which the status quo comes at once protected and questioned. “The female superhero originates in an act of criticism – a challenge to the masculinist world of superhero adventures”, writes Lillian S. Superheroines are paradoxical figures: they are empowering, and yet hypersexualized, strong and independent, and yet they fight for a society in which women are subordinate to men. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ”You’ll feel handcuffed to this book until you’ve finished-probably at 3 a.m. finds is a web of conspiracy-and explosive secrets hidden in the darkest places of all. One was behind the wheel of a Trans Am she liked to drive too fast. unravels the mystery of a battered and discarded woman, she moves through circles of the rich and the troubled, into the bitter home of a powerful Chicago family, into the pampered world of a TV star, and behind the razor wire of a women’s prison. In an instant, the lives of two women collided. Warshawski at last returns to the page in her first full. Warshawski, Sara Paretsky revisits the gritty urban landscape she illuminates with brilliant compassion and vivid color. Hard Time by Sara Paretsky ISBN 13: 9780241140178 ISBN 10: 024114017X Paperback London: Hamish Hamilton, 1999 ISBN-13: 978-0241140178 Among the first, and perhaps the most compelling, female private investigators of contemporary fiction, Sara Paretskys incomparable character V. ![]() In Hard Time, which heralds the triumphant return of the much-loved heroine V.I. Warshawski got out of her car to look at the woman she almost hit, she began a long, harrowing descent into a world of shadowy secrets and tangled lives-and into the darkest heart of her city. The other was lying in the road, dying an agonizing death. This book her best.”- The New York Times Book Review In an instant, the lives of two women collided. “When it comes to creating character, evoking place, and writing crackling and convincing dialogue, Sara Paretsky has no peer-and Hard Time proves it once again.”- Chicago Tribune “Terrific. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That alone in itself, is a lot to take in. Mixed race, a slave, his mother gets sold when he was just a boy, his white father owns the plantation of which Hiram works in and he doesn’t really have any parental figures, or have any close relationships with either of his parents. He is the protagonist and the narrator of this story. Let's talk about the characters in this book. But it’s all so delicious and leaves you wanting more. The amount of layers in this book is insane, and we are sort of thrown into Hiram’s life without any sort of warning. There was something exquisitely timeless about the way this book was written and I immediately felt that within reading a couple of chapters. You genuinely felt like this book was written in the mid-19th century, pre-civil war period. In The Water Dancer, you become completely transported into the past. All I knew is that I had to read it because Oprah said so, and she also said it’s probably on her top 5 favorite books ever! I have also heard amazing things about Coates as a writer, and now I get what the hype is all about. I did know that it had something to do with slavery but that was about it. ![]() A lot! I actually went into this book completely blind and I had no idea whatsoever what the book was about. I’m going to start off with saying that a lot happens in this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Their dangerous relationship plays out against an approaching war to the death between humankind and the vampire clans. Her only protector is the Greyfriar, a mysterious hero who fights the vampires from deep within their territory. But her quest turns black when she becomes the target of a merciless vampire clan. ![]() She is eager for an adventure before she settles into a life of duty and political marriage to a man she does not know. She is quick with her wit as well as with a sword or gun. Princess Adele is heir to the Empire Equatoria, a remnant of the old tropical British Empire. It is now 2020 and a bloody reckoning is coming. They brought technology and a feverish drive to reestablish their shattered societies of steam and iron amid the mosques of Alexandria, the torrid quietude of Panama, or the green temples of Malaya. Human refugees fled south to the tropics because vampires could not tolerate the constant heat there. Within two years, once-great cities were shrouded by the grey empire of the vampire clans. Millions more died of disease and famine due to the havoc that followed. In the year 1870, a horrible plague of vampires swept over the northern regions of the world. Princess Adele makes a great role model for tween and teen girls – not to mention some adults – and the Greyfriar is everything a steampunk hero should be." RT Book Reviews "Great writing, intriguing antagonists and one scrappy heroine make this a worthy addition to the steampunk genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Fleischman has two sons and a stepdaughter, and he lives in his hometown of Monterey, California, with his wife. Several of his other novels, including Seedfolks, have been adapted into plays. Like Joyful Noise, booth I Am Phoenix: Poems for Two Voices and Big Talk: Poems for Four Voices are intended to be read out loud by multiple readers. This is one of several of Fleischman’s novels that reflects his love of music he’s said that as a child, he wanted to write music for orchestras rather than write books. He won the 1989 Newbery Medal for Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices. Fleischman wrote his first novels while he was still in college, though it was the books he wrote in the 1980s that earned him major accolades. He then went on to attend the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of New Mexico. When Fleischman was 19, he bicycled cross-country and spent several years living in an 18th-century house in New Hampshire, an experience that influenced many of his historical fiction novels. Both of Paul’s parents inspired Seedfolks: his father because he kept a hobby garden to take breaks from writing, and his mother because she volunteered in immigrant communities as well as community and therapeutic gardens. He’s the son of Sid Fleischman, who is also a renowned children’s author. Fleischman was born in Monterey, California. ![]() ![]() ![]() It left left me feeling lost a couple of times. Too many people in too many places doing too many things at once. ![]() Chris Heimerdinger sure can write one gripping, elaborate story. ![]() I love seeing valiant, righteous heroes from the Book of Mormon come to life. It’s so intricate and incredibly thought out and plotted. There is some romance, actually some great romance that I love and makes my heart melt, especially Apollus *swoon*, but the romance parts aren’t very often. I sometimes wish we could just stay with one character or group, and then move to the next group that’s in a completely different time and story. ![]() So you’re reading three or four different stories, that may connect in the end (or will just carry to the next book and connect somehow there), and it’s several chapters later that you get back to a certain story. There are several different groups of main characters and points of views. Pretty much every page has someone running from someone who wants to kill them, or they’re running to save someone they love, or there’s fighting and battles and lies and murders and attempted murders. One problem with these books though is that there’s just so much happening in the story. It is so incredible and well written and grips me utterly, but it’s more the knowledge of who the two people fighting are that captivates me and makes me flip the pages eagerly. And this book, Kingdoms and Conquerors, has probably the most epic fight scene I’ve ever read. ![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t always want to tackle traumatic moments just before I fall asleep at night. ![]() The reason I wasn’t sure I was interested in this book was because the girls’ mother left them. Fanfiction is just a fun way to keep characters alive once the author finishes telling their story. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett have been up. I’ve even read a few stories online about the further happenings of Harry Potter. I have absolutely nothing against fanfiction. This didn’t just reach out to grab and shake me around saying READ ME!ĭon’t get me wrong. The first real paragraph on the inside jacket said it was a story about a pair of twins who got through their mother leaving them to live with their father by writing fanfiction. (This is my first book recommendation since completing NaNoWriMo…YEAH! I CAN READ AGAIN!)įangirl by Rainbow Rowell is the kind of book I didn’t think I wanted to read. ![]() |