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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…
Directors: Seth Gordon, Raama Mosley, Adam Arkin, Guy Ferland, Millicent Shelton This new series destroyed my sleep during the bank holiday weekend, but I am grateful it was a holiday at least so I did not have to go to work having not slept. I started to watch it on Saturday and did not let…
Author: Emily Edwards This book was part of reading for the school’s book club I formed with colleagues as part of the #WECAN project. It is indeed one of the most thought-provoking books we read as part of the book club due to the moral, ethical and behavioural questions it opens. In the book, we…
Libby Page A new book by Libby Page arrived on Friday bringing weekend captivation and saying nope to writing my own (academic) book. It was also one of those rare occasions when I pre-ordered the book. I don’t get passionate or excited about authors often even if I like what they wrote. But this is…
Author: Sally Page This book was recommended by a member of the project book club I formed for the #WECAN project. It came as a recommendation because I said I loved books by Libby Page and want to find an author who writes similarly since I read everything she wrote. By similar, I mean stories…
Maya Angelou As part of the #WECAN project’s book club, our next book to discuss is Maya Angelou’s famous book ‘I know why the caged bird sings’, which I heard about but never read. If you ever wondered why the Black Lives Matter movement is kicking off, this book will tell you why. I knew…
Author: Libby Page I reviewed other two books by Libby Page before, the Island Home and the 24-hour Café. Accidentally, I worked my way through her books in the reverse order so now I read her first book The Lido. As with the other two books, I loved it and once again, Page thrills me…