Week beginning 2 April 2025

Bonnie Garmus Lessons in Chemistry Penguin, Kindle edition, 2024. Bonnie Garmus has skilfully woven together comedy, whimsy, engaging characters, and a story line that draws attention to a series of notions that, seemingly relatively benign initially, reach their logical conclusion with the terror of sexual harassment and a well-argued case that discrimination against women isContinue reading “Week beginning 2 April 2025”

Week beginning 25 January 2023

Michelle McSweeney OK Bloomsbury Academic, January 2023. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Object Lessons is a fun series – and more. Items, and in this case a word, gain a different dimension under the writers who lead us into the history, the political ramifications, and social dimensions ofContinue reading “Week beginning 25 January 2023”