I’ve been looking for a play to teach in my fall class, and I wanted something that wasn’t merely a classic Greek or Roman play or a very western-European-focused play such as an Ibsen. A little digging led me to David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly. While Hwang is an American playright, he purposefully focuses on deconstructing myths of the “Orient,” using Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly, a true story of a disgraced French diplomat, and turning those myths on their head through a discussion of gender […]
The evil that men do goes on and on…….
I’ve got some Scottish writers I enjoy reading, like Michel Faber and Denise Mina, and am on the lookout for more. I am new to Val Mc Dermid. I’ve seen some of the PBS series Wire in the Blood, but knew this was a stand alone book, so I didn’t know what to expect from this novel. The story moves from Edinburgh, to Oxford and Croatia, and involves serveral different points of view. There are two investigations: one conducted by Scottish police into the murder of a man […]
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Man, I am just not having a good run here. Thankfully I didn’t pay anything for this kindle edition of the book, thanks to BookBub. I generally enjoy reading memoirs, getting inside somebody else’s skin, going places I never could. How could I go wrong with her tale: Spending her early childhood in Africa, then London in the swinging sixties, the tumultuous lives of artists, musicians and household names sounded like fun. All that shagging, drugs and rock and roll, right? Well technically that stuff […]
Urrh! Arrhh! Uhnn-grrguuh…….[BLAMM]*
* Actual dialogue from book Joe and Anthony Russo are directors, writers and producers known for their work on the television shows Arrested Development, Community and Happy Endings. They also directed the excellent Marvel movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier. I figured I couldn’t go wrong with this gritty graphic novel. Sigh. The artwork by Fernando Leon Gonzalez refined and dirty at the same time, using a good mix of wide angle movie type shots and close up, fine line work. For such a violent […]