Drawing on Elinor's own experience as an unwell woman, this is a powerful and timely exposé of the medical world and woman's place within it. From the 'wandering womb' of ancient Greece to today's shifting understanding of hormones, menstruation and menopause, Unwell Women is the revolutionary story of women who have suffered, challenged and rewritten medical misogyny. In this ground-breaking history Elinor Cleghorn unpacks the roots of the perpetual misunderstanding, mystification and misdiagnosis of women's bodies, illness and pain. Medicine's history has always been, and is still being, rewritten by women's resistance, strength and incredible courage. But as doctors, researchers, campaigners and most of all as patients, women have continuously challenged medical orthodoxy. Over centuries, women's bodies have been demonised and demeaned until we feared them, felt ashamed of them, were humiliated by them. Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history.
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The fear is that, like so many biopics, the film will serve as vaguely sullied hagiography for a complicated public figure who, for better or worse, deserves to have his story told by an empathetic ear like Scorsese. Jamie Foxx: Yeah, he’s attached, and it’s-Mike Tyson’s life is one of the most amazing American stories.įoxx is correct in that Tyson's story offers innumerable pockets of thematic fascination, from the sheer spectacle of violence to athlete culture to spousal abuse and far beyond. Screen Rant: It’s a go? Martin Scorsese’s still attached? I know you were attached, what’s the update on that? Screen Rant: Speaking of getting punched, one of the most polarizing lives of the past thirty years has been Mike Tyson. Here's the exchange between Foxx and Screen Rant: “The story twists in unexpected ways, making it at times chilling but also hopeful.Wallach’s debut is.a literary Breakfast Club for a modern generation, and it will surprise readers expecting another clunky dystopian novel with its solid, realistic writing.” Andrew Smith, author of Winger, Grasshopper Jungle, and 100 Sideways Miles A glorious, wonderful, completely unforgettable novel.” It is at once troubling, uplifting, scary, and heart-wrenching, and written with so much compassion for our fragile hold on the fleeting here and now. “Tommy Wallach's We All Looked Up is a triumphant debut-this generation's The Stand. A thought-provoking story that will bring out readers' inner philosophers.” *“In this stunning debut.Wallach pierces his darkness with tenderness and humor. Instead, Postcards is more like a series of vignettes in the life of actress Susan Vale as she struggles toward sobriety. It’s a great shock, then, to read Postcards from the Edge in this modern context. It’s her most famous work as an author and it just so happens to be a thinly fictionalized version of Fisher’s own relationship with her mother. Author Carrie Fisher’s unexpected death (followed closely by her mother, Debbie Reynolds’ own passing) last December also gave the book a sort of notoriety. First of all, the movie adaptation is extremely well regarded and features sterling performances from Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine as a complicated mother and daughter in Hollywood. It’s difficult to come into Postcards from the Edge without a certain expectation. Things that I think should provoke a grin, like a great dog, or cute toddler twins stumbling around a sandbox like drunken pirates, or a rained-on person finally hailing a cab, won’t turn his frown upside down. It’s like it’s my job to turn his holiday scowl into a smile.Ī happy-looking face doesn’t come naturally to Dash. I can’t be happy unless Dash is miserable at Christmas. To all the readers who’ve made pilgrimages to the Strand The Australian Copyright Act 1968 (the Act) allows a maximum of one chapter or ten per cent of this book, whichever is the greater, to be photocopied by any educational institution for its educational purposes provided that the educational institution (or body that administers it) has given a remuneration notice to the Copyright Agency (Australia) under the Act.Ĭover art used under license from ShutterstockĬover design by Ray Shappell and Sandra Nobes No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. Copyright © Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, 2020Īll rights reserved. That was the sweetest thing ever! He made his fair share of mistakes in the book, but he’s a favorite hero of mine. I particularly loved all the notes he left for Kiera. Kellan remained the romantic and nearly perfect boyfriend. I received the answers (and reassurance) I was looking for and continued on the Kellan and Kiera journey. At one point I was begging my friend for spoilers because I was at a frustrating point (filled with angst) and I wanted to throw my Kindle across the room. Yes, she still made mistakes, and there were a few heart stopping moments that were filled with emotion and angst but it wasn’t nearly as bad as Thoughtless. I was pleasantly surprised to find a more mature Kiera. I didn’t think I could take another book of her indecisiveness. I enjoyed Kellan in the first book, but I wasn’t looking forward to Kiera in the second book. Then I started a phase of Rock Stars…and the same friend struck while I’m on this Rock Star kick to get me to read Effortless. But, I did enjoy Thoughtless (I ended up giving it 3 stars) and agreed (albeit reluctantly) to read Effortless. I don’t always enjoy reading books that are torture. I read Thoughtless because a friend kept badgering me to, and while it was enjoyable, it was also torture. Time to be honest…I didn’t want to read this book. Certainly he loves Hanna and feels some solidarity toward her, and he never fully stops loving her, though later he reduces communication drastically. Was it your intention, in his actions as a grown man, for him to exorcise some of that guilt?Ī: The guilt that Michael Berg feels is the guilt of keeping the secrets of those who committed the crimes of the Holocaust. In the case of Michael, it certainly felt that as a young adult he was attempting to shoulder the guilt for both his actions and Hanna's. Q: The guilt felt by all the characters, for their own varying reasons, is incredibly palatable. The Reader was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in 1999. Bernhard Schlink, author of The Reader, the book from which the movie was based, shares with his thoughts on Kate Winslet's Oscar®-winning performance and provides some insight to his stunning novel. Eventually, Sadow and his Sith forces invade Coruscant, only to be thwarted by the Jedi, banishing the villain to Yavin 4. Two competing Sith Lords, Naga Sadow and Ludo Kressh, duel over the fate of the two travelers, with Sadow seeing their arrival as an opportunity to control the larger universe. The two come across Korriban, a Sith home world where dark Jedi had been expelled to centuries prior. Since hyperspace flight was in its infancy, the larger universe has yet to be mapped, and pilots took great risk to pick a random spot on the uncharted map and jump to that region. The first two arcs ( Golden Age and Fall of the Sith Empire) are the earliest Tales of the Jedi books in the Star Wars timeline, focusing on the early days of hyperspace travel and two force-sensitive explorers called Gav and Jori Daragon. really how many people have accomplished more? in fact there are even tribute books written by other authors using his own creations. i think he has added a great deal to the genre. he's come up with his own locales, deities, heroes, books, artifacts, cults and alien races. he's picked a slice of lovecraft's mythos and created his own pantheon of the mythology from it. his stories are not quicky rewrites to make the anthology. most writers seem to toss out a cthulhu story just to be in a lovecraft book, whereas brian lumley seems to have lots of these concepts in his head. he's a very good writer, very creative,and he's one of the few that i think understand the lovecraftian way of composing a story and understands the mythology thoroughly. Really? i think lumley is perhaps the best of the bunch. When they started a few years ago she’d slip into my room and crawl into my bed, and I’d helplessly clutch her skinny, trembling body close as we listened to them hollering. I’d gotten good at distracting Caelyn from those. Still the late-night screaming matches she used to have with my drunk of a father were even more craptastic. Lately, Mom struggled to squeeze much of anything between all the extra shifts she took to cover the bills. Crystal desperately wants to win her share in order to help her mother afford the mortgage on the house they live in with her younger sister Caelyn.Įven though her mother is a surgical nurse at the local hospital, money has been tight ever since Crystal’s father left: The grand prize is three million dollars and even split five ways, it’s a serious amount of money. She and her five best friends are competing for the highest number of points that will allow all but one of them to continue to the state and then national championships. Crystal Donovan has already had to deal with a lot in her seventeen years, but right now her attention and efforts are laser-focused on the seemingly frivolous aim of making the team that will represent Vermont in the big MortalDusk video game competition. |