bobbygw

Views on culture, a bit of this, of that & always a big dollop of the other. Like Winnie the Pooh, I'm a 'Bear of very Little Brain, & long Words bother me.' Blog: http://bit.ly/pyaUrw

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The Glutton is a tour de force of lyrical, historical fiction and the uncanny.

Set in the 18th century, mostly in rural peasant France, before, during and after the Revolution, it will appeal to all those who were enthralled by Süskind’s modern classic, Perfume, for its magisterial, remarkable and intense ability to capture and portray an unfathomable…

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You Should Come with Me Now: Stories of Ghosts by M. John Harrison

Full marks for Harrison’s imaginative power and steely intellect, which shine through in every story. Click/touch the cover to buy the paperback from Bookshop.org But now brace yourself, because he’s placed all that talent in the service of creating lifeless ghost stories – mind you, ghosts are, of course…yay. Ahem. – leaving us absolutely indifferent. Worse, they are also relentlessly…

You Should Come with Me Now: Stories of Ghosts by M. John Harrison

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Sadly, The Lamb is more fat than meat

Click/touch the bookcover to buy the novel from Bookshop US A compelling start to this literally visceral, dark and repulsively themed tale promises a new talent in horror with this debut novel. (And a shout-out for the book’s beautiful, stunning cover, designed by Dan Jackson, and with photography by Frederica Landi. It’d make for an excellent framed poster.)  First excited thoughts on reading…

Sadly, The Lamb is more fat than meat

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The author, most recently, of “They Eat Puppies, Don’t They?” says his favorite writer is Evelyn Waugh, “even though he so despised Americans that, if he were alive to hear this compliment, he would swat it back across the net.”

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So the gist of this article in Slate is that two white privileged, middle class CEO women don’t like the word ‘feminism’, and and other women, young and old, those not informed or misinformed never educated about the history of feminism think it’s unnecessary or negative and man-hating. And if successful women like Mayer at Yahoo dislikes feminism and being called a feminist and Sandberg thinks mentoring younger women is “therapy” (What's the difference between that ignorant/sexist statement coming from a woman instead of a guy? Answer: no difference at all!), then that means feminism / feminist must be wrong or outdated or about women with chips on their shoulders (how nice to have so much money to disparage other women) as terms and exclude them. This is blindness and ignorance. It is precisely only thanks to the countless women over hundreds of years who have fought for women’s rights that Sandberg and Mayer are able to be where they are now. Without feminism they wouldn’t have had access to education or any other kind of power. The other irritating thing about the article is that the author and citing Mayer and Sandberg think equality of the sexes is a given. There’s also no mention of impact of those in poverty, on impact of the double bind of racism coupled with gender, of challenges to access quality education, of violence against women everywhere (irrespective of class, sexuality, race or views; and of all types: physical and sexual and racist assault, psychological, and killing), of the everyday sexism women and girls face everywhere: home, at work, school, travelling, on public transport. There's no reflection in the article or by Mayer or Sandberg of women having to deal with and fight against the pressures of right wing, conservative sexist politics that deny all women full health care choices and the many challenges that involves and - well, the list goes on. Ignorance is bliss, clearly, for those too privileged to care about the majority of women not having equality compared to men with regard to freedom of choice, political or gender or race or sexuality or environment or economic circumstances or a conflation of these dynamics.

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Article on the some of the recent dangers and threats of Facebook, exposing fans to the potential loss of privacy and data theft. Is it about time you closed your account? Is it just a matter of time before you find your password hacked and thieves have a gateway key into all your other linked website accounts?

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Remember National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) back in November? You all used the opportunity to take a swing at churning out a 50,000-word novel on your blogs in only one month — some with...