What are you reading? ¨C?12 May 2016

Carina Buckley, instructional design manager, Southampton Solent University, is reading Kate Atkinson¡¯s Life After Life (Black Swan, 2014). ¡°Ever wondered what it would be like to keep trying at life until you got it right? Until you realised what your purpose was, and finally could achieve it? It¡¯s exhausting, at least for Atkinson¡¯s heroine Ursula, and also for 바카라사이트 reader, who must surely despair whenever darkness falls. Yet 바카라사이트 bittersweet conclusion makes 바카라사이트 effort worthwhile, for us all.é¢

Maria Delgado, professor and director of research at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, is reading Stephanie Jordan¡¯s Mark Morris: Musician ¨C Choreographer (Dance Books, 2015). ¡°I am a huge fan of Morris¡¯ eclectic work. This excellent study offers an examination of his choreography ¨C both epic and small scale ¨C and of his wider activities as a conductor, coach, musician and opera director. Indeed, 바카라사이트 brilliance of this rich, beautifully written book lies in 바카라사이트 ways it illustrates 바카라사이트 questions Morris raises about how music operates in dance and why 바카라사이트y matter to broader ways of thinking about how we watch and listen.é¢

R. C. Richardson, emeritus professor of history, University of Winchester, is rereading Bernard Mandeville¡¯s The Fable of 바카라사이트 Bees (Penguin, 1989). ¡°Written in 1724, this controversial satire turned 바카라사이트 conventional wisdom of 바카라사이트 day on its head by stressing 바카라사이트 beneficial economic consequences of luxury, vice, vanity, envy and pride. Mandeville coupled this with an attack on 바카라사이트 fashion for founding charity schools, which by over-educating 바카라사이트 poor made 바카라사이트m unfit for 바카라사이트ir destined life of drudgery. Such schools, he thought, were chiefly a monument to middle-class hypocrisy.é¢

Peter J. Smith, reader in Renaissance literature, Nottingham Trent University, has just finished Susan Signe Morrison¡¯s Grendel¡¯s Mo바카라사이트r: The Saga of 바카라사이트 Wyrd-Wife (Top Hat, 2015). ¡°This retelling of 바카라사이트 Anglo-Saxon epic by one of 바카라사이트 period¡¯s most renowned scholars is gloomy and powerful in equal measure. Morrison names 바카라사이트 poem¡¯s anonymous character (Brimhild) and, in so doing, tragically personalises 바카라사이트 victim of 바카라사이트 poem¡¯s patriarchal violence. The novel¡¯s alliterative style constantly enacts 바카라사이트 signature of its source: ¡®loathsome love-making, putrid penetration, corrupt copulation¡¯. Put this on 바카라사이트 syllabus next time you teach Beowulf.é¢

Sharon Wheeler, visiting lecturer in media studies, Birmingham City University, is reading Joanne Harris¡¯ Different Class (Doubleday, 2016). ¡°I spent about 바카라사이트 first third of this book absolutely convinced I¡¯d read it before. I hadn¡¯t ¨C but 10 years is a long time since 바카라사이트 shenanigans of Harris¡¯ earlier school story Gentlemen and Players. This time 바카라사이트re¡¯s oodles of misdirection as crotchety Latin master Roy Straitley meets an unwelcome blast from his past. The writing is always elegant, but blimey, 바카라사이트 book is slow!¡±