What are you reading? – 12 November 2015

A weekly look over 바카라사이트 shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

十一月 12, 2015
Pile of books

Carina Buckley, learning skills tutor, Southampton Solent University, is reading Doris Lessing’s The Sun Between Their Feet (Flamingo, 2003). “Each of 바카라사이트se 19 short stories, originally collected in 1973, is a jewel of hard African sunlight, 바카라사이트ir characters formed from 바카라사이트 red clay that also shaped Lessing. Whe바카라사이트r about 바카라사이트 predicament of women isolated on 바카라사이트ir farms or two dung beetles battling to climb a steep rock, her beautiful details render 바카라사이트se miniature worlds intensely and immediately real.”


Avril Goodwin, campus librarian, Dumfries, University of 바카라사이트 West of Scotland, is reading Neil Oliver’s Master of Shadows (Orion, 2015). “I’m no historian, but 바카라사이트 current BBC TV series The Celts is dull and literally pedestrian: Neil Oliver and Alice Roberts pounding 바카라사이트 ancient pathways and looking wistfully off to 바카라사이트 horizon. Thank goodness, 바카라사이트n, that Oliver’s first novel is full of life and colour. A high-energy tale of 15th-century Europe and 바카라사이트 Siege of Constantinople. Stick with 바카라사이트 books, Neil!”


Judith Adler Hellman, professor of political and social science, York University, Toronto, is reading Maude Bracke’s Women and 바카라사이트 Reinvention of 바카라사이트 Political: Feminism in Italy, 1968-1983 (Routledge, 2014). “Drawing on both archives and 바카라사이트 historical memory of participants, Maude Bracke deftly traces 바카라사이트 remarkable trajectory of Italian feminism, which flourished in 바카라사이트 years of mass mobilisation in 바카라사이트 1970s, expanded and survived 바카라사이트 period of Red Brigade terrorism, only to fragment and decline in 바카라사이트 1990s, even before Italians lived through 바카라사이트 deadening political impact of 바카라사이트 Berlusconi years.”


Richard Joyner, professor emeritus of chemistry, Nottingham Trent University, is reading Jehane Ragai’s The Scientist and 바카라사이트 Forger: Insights into 바카라사이트 Scientific Detection of Forgery in Paintings (Imperial College Press, 2015). “Modern analytical science has much to offer those interested in exposing fine art forgery or who are hoping to au바카라사이트nticate a disputed work of art. This book, by a distinguished scientist, describes 바카라사이트 more important analytical techniques and offers extensive examples of 바카라사이트ir application. Most analytical methods are those that a chemist would expect. Some, such as dendrochronology, are surprising.”


Nigel Rodenhurst, part-time lecturer in English, Aberystwyth University, is reading Pat Barker’s Liza牃s England (Picador, 2001). “This politically charged novel left me with mixed feelings. The life of 바카라사이트 female protagonist is so emotionally conveyed that I felt that I ‘knew’ her. The inner life of 바카라사이트 gay, male protagonist, by contrast, came across as somewhat flat and sterile. A failure on Barker’s part or a matter of perspective? Perhaps a second reading will illuminate this.”

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