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Production: Popping Orange Communications The Sociologist’s Wife is a short film, 21 minutes long, that I watched as part of my participation at the annual conference of the British Sociological Association, which I have been regularly attending for many years. The Sociologist’s Wife was broadcast as part of the conference participation, but it is also…
Author: Stephanie Butland The Lost for Words Bookshop is another beautiful story of community, support, friendship, and love. However, this story is more than that because it is also a story of domestic abuse. What is more, it is also a story of early socialization and how it impacts adult life. It is well known…
Author: Bella Osborne The Library is a book by Bella Osborne, a British author who turned up for me in searches when I was googling about British authors who write about communities following my enthusiasm for books by Libby Page and Sally Page. A few of us decided to form a book club in the…
I finished watching Apple’s Severance series, which was a very interesting experience. The series opens so many questions on ethics, wellbeing, work-life balance, and humanity, and I am probably forgetting something. Severance tackles a dystopian world in which a large corporation is conducting surgeries on people’s brains in a way that makes people only remember…
Author: Sally Page One of the reasons why I started to love British authors is because they write about friendships and communities, and a lot of this happens in my beautiful London, which is indeed a place where you can meet friends and find communities through random encounters in cafes, shops and community areas such…
Long and last, I finally managed to watch the second season of the Mindhunter series. I loved the first season (see here), not surprisingly since the focus of it is the creation of the behavioral unit in the FBI and the struggle they had in getting themselves recognized and established. On top of that, there…
Author: Leah Myers It will surprise no one that I joined a book club (and proposed one too but more on that in future blogs). The book club I joined is run by the Women and Gender Resource Center at the University of Alabama. The first book upon my expression of interest on the reading…
Author: Hanya Yanagihara To Paradise is likely the first time I really got frustrated after reading a book and the reason for that is not that it is not compellingly written because it is, but because it is unfinished and not just once. In other words, this book consists of three books put in one…
Young Sheldon is not the best series for those who did not watch The Big Bang Theory and loved Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) as its main character. I obviously loved the Big Bang Theory and Sheldon was my favourite. A bloke with two doctorates who does not drive and needs to be chauffeured everywhere, what…
Rating: 5/5 (film 1), 4/5 (film 2) Director, film 1 (2016): Scott Derrickson Director, film 2 (2022): Sam Raimi Can you imagine a world dressed in femininity where the feminine leadership style of compassion, empathy and selflessness dominates and opposes any individualism and having personal power other than for bringing people together to defend the…
Author: Marina Lewycka A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian was recommended by Sarah Whittle for the #WECAN book club in honour of her Ukrainian heritage. It would be an understatement to say I was initially shocked by the suggestion thinking we will have to read about how tractors were invented or something daft. It…
Director: Nora Fingscheidt I watched The Unforgivable when it was first released (2021) but did not blog during the pandemic, courtesy of excessive and abnormal isolation in the UK that lasted too many years and caused me immense stress plus an increased workload. The Unforgivable is not just another Sandra Bullock film (and we know…
Author: Eva St John The Great Deceiver or book five of the Quantum Curators series ended this part of the series I’ve been reading and enjoying enormously. I misunderstood the author’s recent newsletter announcement about the story’s finale and thought this series sadly ends here so I savoured it and read it slowly, but a…
Author: Roisin Meaney I recommended Two Fridays in April as part of the book club originally formed for the #WECAN project. When I first started to read it, I ended up annoyed because it looked like a soppy love story with Dafne, a widowed real estate agent meeting Tom who is trying to sell a…
Author: Eva St John I read book 4 of this time travel series, which was as lovely as the other books. The story flows naturally and the book is an easy read since one already knows the characters and the story. You can read the previous reviews here here and here This book focuses on…
Author: Eva St John The Quantum Curators series by Eva St John has five books and this blog is about book 3, so it has been a while since I have followed the adventures of Julius and Neith and it is my favourite genre, so you can guess I loved this book. I love the…
Author: Caroline Criado Perez Invisible Women book was gifted to me by my dear colleague, Robert Minton-Taylor but as workload would have it I only read it now because it was recommended by a member of a #WECAN project book club so I said yes seeing an opportunity to finally read the piece. Throughout the…
Author: Bonnie Garmus If you loved Rona Jaffe’s book ‘The Best of Everything’ or Nikil Saval’s Cubed, you will also love Lessons in Chemistry. In general, if you like reading novels or popular literature based on resembling historical realities, this is a book for you because it tackles sexism in the workplace in the United…
Author: M. E. Thomas As part of our school’s book club, which we initially formed as part of the #WECAN project, albeit we just do it for fun and engagement now, we read this book about a sociopath, which I proposed due to my love of popular literature and behavioural research interest. After I read…
FOOD MATTERS: SUSTAINABILITY, EATING HABITS AND THE ROLE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS IN THE WORLD OF CLIMATE CHANGE Editors: Dr Martina TopićThe University of AlabamaCollege of Communication and Information SciencesDepartment of Advertising and PRmtopic@ua.edu / martinahr@gmail.com Dr Marija Geiger ZemanIvo Pilar Institute of Social SciencesZagreb, CroatiaMarija.GeigerZeman@pilar.hr RATIONALE AND THE CALL FOR PAPERS Sustainability is…
Author: Michelle Obama I follow US politics and the media quite a lot because of the nature of the work I do, i.e., studying mass communications industries. I knew about Barack Obama’s presidency and some of the initiatives he launched and how he tried to change the US. But what I did not know was…