![]() The narrative is Lucy’s, five years after the fact. ![]() ![]() The longer the escapade continues, the more Lucy feels like a kidnapper. For 10 days, the two travel from Missouri to the U.S.-Canada border. It takes him longer to calm down than Lucy anticipates. Through temper-tantrums and manipulation, Ian has convinced Lucy (or she has convinced herself) that she should not call his fundamentalist Christian parents to tell them Ian has run away to the library, and that she should instead take him for a ride so he can calm down before returning home. ![]() How wonderful for Ian to have time away from home to sort things out.īut Ian’s parents have no idea where he is. How lovely for Lucy to have the freedom to take to the open roads and have time for self-reflection. The two have made an unusual connection, and both need this time away from work, home and school for different reasons - Ian to escape a world where his parents censor his reading material and send him to “anti-gay” classes, Lucy to escape the mundane world she has created for her 26-year-old self. ![]() Children’s librarian Lucy Hull is taking a spontaneous road trip with Ian Drake, a 10-year-old patron of the public library where she works. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She takes her lead, of course, from the likes of Euripides's The Trojan Women and Ovid's Heroides, but while those texts still centred the women in relation to the men, Barker looks well beyond her characters' roles as spoils of war, turning them into real people some terrified, some defiant, but each with their own story to tell. Barker's subjects are the women who flit around the edges of the tales that have been told about these legendary warriors. Skittish, inexperienced Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, sits with his father's men – "all intertwined and wriggling like worms in a horse's s-" – deep in the bowels of the wooden animal, the air around him thick with the stench of sweat and fear.Īs the title suggests though, this is not Pyrrhus's – or any man's – story. Take the magnificent opening chapter of her new novel, The Women of Troy, which takes us inside the Trojan Horse. Pat Barker – who won the 1995 Booker Prize for the final volume of her masterful Regeneration trilogy about the horrors of the First World War – has never been one to shy away from the nerve-shredding blood and guts of battle. ![]() ![]() SJV didn’t have one, but this church does. I’m new to crying rooms since I never sat in there as a kid. We arrived at church and took our usual seats in the crying room, 3rd mini pew, second from the back. This Sunday I had to work from 4-6 so we opted for the latest morning service at 11. (I volunteered to be a catechist last summer.) Finally, I like the music played at that service. During the academic year it coincided with the service for confirmation year 1 students. It gives us time to lounge around in the morning and not interrupt Xavi’s late morning nap. Normally, Sean, Xavi and I go to Sunday mass at 5 pm. ![]() Just memories that will become the kind of story that ends with “so that happened.” Occasionally there will be one without formal record. They’re captured in pictures and text messages filled with lots of exclamation points. Most of those firsts have been pleasant, awesome even. And we’ll look forward to ones we’ve yet to reach (without trying to rush the natural developmental process). There will be reminiscing over a year full of firsts and reaching milestones. There will be tears (mine, no doubt) and clichés (where did the past 12 months go? Can you believe he’s one?), a (Hulk, naturally) smash cake and lots of family and friends. In just four days Xavi will complete his first year of life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Using her trademark wit alongside pop-culture references galore, Robinson explores everything from why Lisa Bonet is "Queen. Now, she's ready to take these topics to the page-and she’s going to make you laugh as she’s doing it. white people music?") she's been called "uppity" for having an opinion in the workplace she's been followed around stores by security guards and yes, people do ask her whether they can touch her hair all. ![]() Comedian Phoebe Robinson has experienced her fair share over the years: she's been unceremoniously relegated to the role of "the black friend," as if she is somehow the authority on all things racial she's been questioned about her love of U2 and Billy Joel ("isn’t that. "A must-read…Phoebe Robinson discusses race and feminism in such a funny, real, and specific way, it penetrates your brain and stays with you." –Ilana Glazer, co-creator and co-star of Broad CityĪ hilarious and timely essay collection about race, gender, and pop culture from upcoming comedy superstar and 2 Dope Queens podcaster Phoebe Robinsonīeing a black woman in America means contending with old prejudices and fresh absurdities every day. ![]() |