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“With more household technology available, women could have found themselves with more time to spend outside the house. Moreover, the birth rate had declined. In 1800, white women had given birth to an average of 7 children each; in 1900, the average was 3.56; and in 1929, it was only 2.4. Women of all groups were having fewer children. Birth control was still controversial, and it was even illegal in many states, but middle-class women were able to get birth control devices from their private physicians, and in large cities some clinics opened to serve working-class women.

However, this still left many working-class women without birth control. And even when they could get birth control information, in an era before the Pill had been invented and when diaphragms and even condoms were not always readily available, they often found their husbands uncooperative. Yet, even though they continued to have more children than middle-class women, birth rates among the working class also declined. No sooner were there fewer children in the home, however, that experts began to agree that mothers should pay more attention to each one.

As advertisements for a laundromat in Muncie asked, “Isn’t Bobby more important than his clothes?” And one ad selling electricity declared of the “successful mother” that “she puts first things first. She does not give to sweeping the time that belongs to her children… The wise woman delegates to electricity all that electricity can do.” Women who were involved in charitable work, social and political service, and even wage work--despite the fact that most working mothers took paying jobs only out of dire need--were attacked as selfish, as taking jobs away from men who needed them to support families, and as undermining the stability of the home. It was argued that having a woman in the home would keep a child off the streets.

…In an economy built around gratification rather than thrift, women’s activism outside the home was taken as a sign of an unfulfilled life. Women did not cease, of course, to rely on other women for support and intimacy. As with politics, however, the range of tolerated behavior shrank, and what had been acceptable before the war now was questionable. Some young women even feared to share apartments with each other lest they be suspected of homosexuality. And, in the same way that new fears of radicalism split women’s political organizations in the 1920s, new fears of homosexuality made it harder for women to form women’s groups whose purpose was women’s equality and independence.

Women’s focus was not supposed to be other women. According to the advertisers and the new psychologists, their emphasis was supposed to be on how to attract men. Women could find fulfillment, the argument went, only through marriage. In the 19th century, marriage was supposed to involve self-denial and self-sacrifice by women. Now, particularly for the highly educated middle class, it was supposed to prove sexual satisfaction and self realization. Marriage was supposed to be the gateway to a fuller life, not just for women with low-paying monotonous jobs but also for college-educated women. Sexual fulfillment in marriage, not a career, was depicted as the ultimate fulfillment for women.

…Despite the increasing availability of birth control, a new focus on sexuality, and a redefined concept of housework, marriage had a hard time living up to its reputation. Not all women found marriage a way to a fuller life. Tensions rose around consumption. Raising children became more and more expensive, and working-class women continued to have less access to money and birth control. Fears of conceiving another child they could ill afford affected these women’s sexual pleasure. And expectations of a way of life that did not materialize led to disappointment.

In a 1920s study of Muncie, Indiana, when working-class women were asked what gave them the courage to go on life when they had become thoroughly discouraged, not one of the women mentioned her husband. In difficult times, husbands became not so much individuals as the focus of their wives’ problems and fears about jobs and conception. The divorce rate rose steeply. From 1870 to 1920, the number of divorces in the United States increased by a factor of 15. In 1924, one marriage in seven ended in divorce. More wives than ever before had done paid work during marriage. They knew they had options other than staying in an unsatisfactory marriage. Life was not easy for divorced women, but no longer was divorce the disgrace it had been in the previous century.”

- Sarah Jane Deutsch, “Fun, Fads, and Family.” in From Ballots to Breadlines: American Women, 1920-1940

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Excellent Speculative Fiction: The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie

Excellent Speculative Fiction: The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie @BlackstoneAudio @HenryLHerz

The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie, edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt, (March 2023, Blackstone Publishing), $18.99, ISBN: 9781665047036 Ages 12-17 An anthology that puts the science in science fiction, The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie brings together 20 stories by standout names – Jane Yolen, Scott Sigler, and Jonathan Maberry, to name a few – who spin dark stories about…

[sarahbethdurst]

Book Birthday for The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie

Happy book birthday to THE HITHERTO SECRET EXPERIMENTS OF MARIE CURIE!!!

I'm so thrilled to have a short story in this YA anthology, alongside a slew of awesome authors! It's a collection of stories and poems about teen Marie Curie's dark adventures, published by Blackstone Publishing and edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt and Henry Herz. In my story, “Experiments with Fire,” Marie Curie and the ghost of her sister Zofia confront a dragon. I had so much fun writing it, and I'm so happy it's out in the world!

Here's the full author list: - Mylo Carbia - G.P. Charles - Stacia Deutsch - Sarah Beth Durst - Henry L. Herz - Alethea Kontis - Susanne L. Lambdin - Dee Leone - Jonathan Maberry - Emily McCosh - Seanan McGuire - Steve Pantazis - Lissa Price - Bryan Thomas Schmidt - Scott Sigler - Christine Taylor-Butler - Jo Whittemore - Jane Yolen

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Books I Read in 2022

1. Beast Boy Loves Raven By Kami Garcia & Gabriel Picolo 2. Dear Girl By Aija Mayrock 3. A Fire Like You By Upile Chisala 4. Nectar By Upile Chisala 5. Soft Magic By Upile Chisala 6. As If On Cue By Marisa Kanter 7. Heartstopper Volume 4 By Alice Oseman 8. Address Unknown By Katherine Kressmann Taylor 9. Ariel By Sylvia Plath 10. Heart Talk By Cleo Wade 11. At Somerton: Cinders & Sapphires By Leila Rasheed 12. At Somerton: Diamonds & Deceit By Leila Rasheed 13. Unlock Your Storybook Heart By Amanda Lovelace 14. Instructions for Dancing By Nicola Yoon 15. Martita, I Remember You By Sandra Cisneros 16. Brown Girls By Daphne Palasi Andreades 17. Here's to Us By Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera 18. Counting by 7s By Holly Goldberg Sloan 19. The Summer I Turned Pretty By Jenny Han 20. It's Not Summer Without You By Jenny Han 21. We'll Always Have Summer By Jenny Han 22. Everything I Need to Know I Learned From Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood By Melissa Wagner & Fred Rogers 23. Gained a Daughter But Nearly Lost My Mind: How I Planned a Backyard Wedding During a Pandemic By Marlene Kern Fischer 24. At Somerton: Emeralds & Ashes By Leila Rasheed 25. Café Con Lychee By Emery Lee 26. The Book Tour By Andi Watson 27. God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian By Kurt Vonnegut 28. Yoga Pant Nation By Laurie Gelman 29. Mr. Malcolm's List By Suzanne Allain 30. Miss Lattimore's Letter By Suzanne Allain 31. The Road Between By Courtney Peppernell 32. Enough Rope By Dorothy Parker 33. My Favorite Half-Night Stand By Christina Lauren 34. Smells Like Tween Spirit By Laurie Gelman 35. How to Be a Wallflower By Eloisa James 36. Be Like the Moon By Levi Welton 37. Morality for Muggles: Ethics in the Bible and the World of Harry Potter By Moshe Rosenberg 38. 84, Charing Cross Road By Helene Hanff 39. Josh & Hazel's Guide to Not Dating By Christina Lauren 40. The Matchmaker By Thornton Wilder 41. The Cheat Sheet By Sarah Adams 42. All-of-a-Kind Family By Sydney Taylor (Re-read) 43. Shadow Angel Book One By Leia Stone & Julie Hall 44. Spooky America: The Ghostly Tales of Sleepy Hollow By Jessa Dean 45. Needle & Thread By David Pinckney, Ennun Ana Iurov, Micah Myers 46. Good Game, Well Played By Rachael Smith, Katherine Lobo, Justin Birch 47. Home Sick Pilots By Dan Walters & Caspar Wijngaard 48. Beyond the Wand: The Magic & Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard By Tom Felton 49. Legends and Lore of Sleepy Hollow and the Hudson Valley By Jonathan Kruk 50. Heartless Prince By Leigh Dragoon 51. A Contract with God By Will Eisner 52. Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American By Laura Gao 53. Blackwater By Jeannette Arroyo and Ren Graham 54. Woman World By Aminder Dhaliwal 55. In Real Life By Cory Doctorow & Jen Wang 56. Lore Olympus Volume 1 By Rachel Smythe 57. Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword By Barry Deutsch 58. Persuasion By Jane Austen 59. Devil in Disguise By Lisa Kleypas 60. Shadow Angel Book Two By Leia Stone & Julie Hall 61. Lore Olympus Volume 2 By Rachel Smythe 62. Talk to My Back By Yamada Murasaki 63. How I Saved Hanukkah By Amy Goldman Koss 64. Haven Jacobs Saves the Planet By Barbara Dee 65. Shadow Angel Book Three By Leia Stone & Julie Hall 66. The Matzah Ball By Jean Meltzer 67. Canción By Eduardo Halfon 68. Leopoldstadt By Tom Stoppard 69. Say Yes to the Duke By Eloisa James 70. Winter Roses after Fall By Robert M. Drake & r.h. Sin 71. Roomies By Christina Lauren 72. Falling Toward the Moon By Robert M. Darake & r.h. Sin 73. Empty Bottles Full of Stories By Robert M. Drake & r.h. Sin

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Review: The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie (Anthology)

Editor: Bryan Thomas Schmidt, Henry HerzAuthors: Seanan McGuire, Stacia Deutsch, Sarah Beth Durst, Jane Yolen, Aletha Kontis, Scott Sigler, Lissa Price, Jonathan Maberry, Christine Taylor-Butler, Jo Whittemore, Mylo Carbia, G.P. Charles, Susanne L. Lambdin, Emily McCosh, Dee Leone, Steve PantazisPublisher: Blackstone PublishingReleased: April 11, 2023Received: NetGalley Goodreads | More…

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List of Book about “Alltagsgeschichte”(everyday history)

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books about everyday life in different times

English

Judith Flanders The Victorian City Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain The Making of Home: The 500-year story of how our houses became homes

Ruth Goodman How to be a Victorian How to be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Everyday Life How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts

Sarah Seaton "Childhood & Death in Victorian England" Margaret MacMillan "Women of the Raj" (British India, 1858 to 1947) (Essay Collection) "Eating with the victorians" Pamela Horn "Ladies of the Manor" (Women of the country houses during victorian and edwardian time) Tony Robinson "The worst Jobs in History" Ian Mortimer "The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century" Alberto Angela "A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome" (Trajans Reign: 98 to 117) Daniel Pool "What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew" (England, 19th century) Lucy Worsley "If walls could talk" (history of the different rooms through the time) Roy & Lesley Adkins "Jane Austen's England" (Georgian and Regency) Dan Cruickshank "The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital" (Prostition)

German Martina Winkelhofer "Das Leben adeliger Frauen"  (noble women in Austria-Hungary (1867-1918)) Leonhard Horowski "Das Europa der Könige" (17th-18th century,kings and nobles) Bruno Preisendörfer "Als unser Deutsch erfunden wurde - Reise in die Lutherzeit" "Als Deutschland noch nicht Deutschland war: Eine Reise in die Goethezeit" "Als die Musik in Deutschland spielte: Reise in die Bachzeit" Tillmann Bendikowski "Ein Jahr im Mittelalter: Essen und Feiern, Reisen und Kämpfen, Herrschen und Strafen, Glauben und Lieben"

Alberto Angelo (Books which were apparently translated into german but not into english) "Der faszinierende Alltag im Römischen Reich: Kaiser, Huren, Legionäre" (Trajans reign: 98 to 117) "Pompeji: Die größte Tragödie der Antike"

[profeminist]

“So Donnie Deutsch-apparently now an MSNBC host?-just said that while he found Warren "delightful," she didn't have what it takes to stand on a stage & face off against Trump. Lawrence O'Donnell challenged him & Deutsch got angry, braying about his 30 years studying human behavior 

So here's how Deutsch, the Jane Goodall of cable news analysis, described Sarah Palin in 08: As a new "feminist ideal," appealing because she did what HRC did not--"put a skirt on." "I want her watching my kids," Deutsch said of Palin then. "I want her laying next to me in bed."

Really worth going to the tape here. Again, Deutsch is now an MSNBC host who just authoritatively told viewers that Elizabeth Warren doesn't have what it takes to beat Trump & then bristled when questioned on that assertion because HE KNOWS HUMAN BEHAVIOR:

I had forgotten, before rewatching this cursed video, that he also said "Women want to be her, men want to mate with her" so I guess he really is Jane Goodall.”

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Well said Rebecca Traister! I saw him say this last night and my reaction was:

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Schätzing, Frank: Der Schwarm

Schäuble, Martin: Endland

Schlink, Bernhard: Der Vorleser

Schnarch, David: Die Psychologie sexueller Leidenschaft

Schweblin, Samanta: Hundert Augen

Seifert, Nicole: Frauenliteratur: abgewertet, vergessen, wiederentdeckt (2024)

Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein

Shpancer, Noam: Der gute Psychologe

Simsion, Graeme: Das Rosie-Projekt Simsion, Graeme: Der Rosie-Effekt

Stevenson, Robert Louis: Der seltsame Fall des Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde

Stoker, Bram: Dracula

Stokowski, Margarete: Untenrum frei Stokowski, Margarete: Die letzten Tage des Patriarchats

Süskind, Patrick: Das Parfum

Swann, Leonie: Gray; Swann, Leonie: Glennkill

Taha, Karosh: Beschreibung einer Krabbenwanderung

Tlusty, Ann-Kristin: Süß - eine feministische Kritik (2023)

Ulitzkaja, Ljudmila: Eine Seuche in der Stadt

Watson, S. J.: Ich. Darf. Nicht. Schlafen.

Weiler, Jan: Drachensaat

Yudkin, John: Pur, weiß, tödlich.: Warum der Zucker uns umbringt – und wie wir das verhindern können

Zeh, Juli: Nullzeit

Zehrer, Klaus Cäsar: Das Genie

Zusak, Markus: Die Bücherdiebin

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Bernemann, Dirk: Vogelstimmen; Vom Aushalten ausfallender Umarmungen; Ich hab die Unschuld kotzen sehen

Boyle, T.C.: Sind wir nicht Menschen: Stories

Fuchs, Kirsten: Eine Frau spürt so was nicht

Kreißler, Lisa: Das vergessene Fest

Leitfaden für britische Soldaten in Deutschland 1944

Lelord, François: Hectors Reise oder die Suche nach dem Glück

Precht, Richard David: Wer bin ich - und wenn ja wie viele? Eine philosophische Reise

Saint-Exupery, Antoine de: The Little Prince

[dwellordream]

“The Great Depression reached into every corner of the country, but it did not affect all people equally. For many middle-class women of all races, the depression required certain changes in spending patterns: buying cheaper cuts of meat, feeding the homeless men who stopped at the back door, and doing without new clothes. Some of these women continued to do community volunteer work, raising money for the unemployed. They saw the food lines, but they did not have to join them.

Among women workers, race played an important role. The fierce competition for jobs fueled racial resentments. Mexican-American and African-American women were the first to lose their jobs and the last to get relief from welfare agencies. Often, they were already living on the margin of survival. Before 1933, when the Prohibition amendment making the manufacture or sale of alcoholic beverages illegal was repealed, many of these women turned to bootlegging, making their own beer or liquor and selling it.

…Even relatively prosperous farm women--owners, not tenants--in general produced as much as 70 percent of what their families consumed in clothing, toys, and food. They not only gardened but raised poultry. During the depression, women increased the size of their gardens and the number of their hens. They made more butter from their dairy cows and sold it. They cut up the sacks that held large amounts of flour and sewed them into underwear. In the previous decade, they had proudly begun to participate in a culture of store-bought goods. Now they began to can food again. Government agents dragged huge canning kettles across the mountains of northern New Mexico and eastern Tennessee so that women in remote farming villages could preserve their food.

Even with all this work, rural children suffered from malnutrition, and rural women faced childbirth without a doctor or midwife because they could afford neither the medical fees nor the gasoline for transportation. The women resented their declining standards of living, particularly those from better-off farm families who owned their own farms and had, during the 1920s, aspired to participate in the new domestic technology of indoor bath-rooms, modern stoves and heating, and super cleanliness.

…In 1936, a federal appeals court overruled an earlier law that had classified birth control information as obscene and thus illegal to dispense. That decision still left state laws intact, however. The number of birth control clinics nationwide rose from 55 in 1930 to 300 by 1938, but in some states and in many rural areas women still had no access to birth control. In 1937, North Carolina became the first state to provide contraceptives with tax dollar, and six others soon followed. Ironically, North Carolina’s reasoning was not that birth control was a human right but that birth control would reduce the black population.

Despite statistics showing that black women had fewer babies than white women with similar incomes and living situations, many white southern officials in states with large black populations feared a black population explosion. In 1939, the Birth Control Federation of American responded to eager southern state governments by developing “The Negro Project,” a program to disseminate birth control information, which they carefully staffed with local black community leaders. Whatever the logic, one quarter of all women in the United States in their 20s during the depression never bore children. This was the highest rate of childlessness for any decade. Many people simply decided not to get married, and marriage rates fell.

…In the mass media women seemed to be receiving mixed messages. On the one hand, in 1930, the Ladies’ Home Journal featured a former career woman confessing, “I know now without any hesitation… that [my husband’s job] must come first.” In 1931, the popular magazine Outlook and Independent quoted the dean of Barnard College, a women’s college in New York City, telling her students that “perhaps the greatest service that you can render to the community… is to have the courage to refuse to work for gain.” And on its front page in 1935, the New York Times reported that women “suffering from masculine psychological states” and an “aversion to marriage” were being “cured” by the removal of their adrenal gland. In this atmosphere, not only were women workers under fire, but women who centered their lives on women rather than on men came under attack. Lesbianism was no longer chic. Lesbian bars almost disappeared. Homosexuality was now seen by many people as just one more threat to the family.

On the other hand, movie houses showed zany screwball comedies with more complicated lessons. Often deliciously ditsy, incompetent women were rescued by sensible, capable men. Yet, the men in these movies were frequently portrayed as bumbling or slower-witted than the women. Sometimes the men were people who needed joy and whimsy restored to their lives, not an unexpected theme for a nation in the throes of an economic depression. In other movies, however, women were by no means incompetent. The women portrayed by Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, and Joan Crawford in the 1930s were often intelligent but needed men alternately to tame and to soften them.”

- Sarah Jane Deutsch, “Making Do with Disaster.” in From Ballots to Breadlines: American Women, 1920-1940

[moonymanon]

Herr der Ringe – Hobbit Mittelerde

Mittelerde entdecken

In welchem Land liegt Auckland?

Tolkien und gilt als der Klassiker der Fantasy-Literatur. Im englischen Original in drei Bänden in den Jahren 1954 und 1955 herausgekommen, erschien die erste deutsche Übersetzung von Margaret Carroux 1969/1970 (ebenfalls in drei Bänden).

Jahrhunderts zu rekonstruieren, benötigte der Regisseur Steven Spielberg eine besondere Kulisse. So viel sogar, dass unsere georgianische und viktorianische Architektur als Kulisse für diese Jane-Austen-Filmbiographie genutzt wurde. Die prächtige Eleganz und das weitläufige Anwesen von Castle Coole sind nicht weniger verführerisch. Der Film wurde teilweise in Rostrevor und Killyleagh, Grafschaft Down gedreht und bietet einen ehrlichen Einblick in das Leben im alten Irland. Die atmosphärischen nordirischen Drehorte wie Tollymore Forest Park, Mount Stewart House und Strangford sorgen für ein episches Filmerlebnis. Read more about campervan hire New Zealand here. Hierzu gehört beispielsweise die Schweizer Filmproduktion The Ring Thing. Eine der bekanntesten Parodien auf den Film gab es bei den MTV Movie Awards 2002, bei der Elronds Rat in Bruchtal u. mit Jack Black und Sarah Michelle Gellar parodiert wurde. Diese Parodie findet man als sogenanntes Easter Egg auch auf der DVD-Veröffentlichung zu Die Gefährten. Eine weitere Parodie gab es im Rahmen der britischen Serie French & Saunders, bei der in einem Osterspecial 2002 ebenfalls Teile aus dem ersten Teil der Verfilmung parodiert wurden.

Bekannt aus…

„Die Hobbits schätzen ihr Essen und ihr Bier“, sagt Farmbesitzer Russell Alexander, der seinem Bruder die Schafzucht überlassen und sich ganz auf den Tourismus konzentriert hat.

So gilt die Tongariro Alpine Crossing als eine der besten Tageswanderungen weltweit.

Gedreht wurde das Meisterwerk von Peter Jackson am anderen Ende der Welt, in Neuseeland.

Dass das gan­ze für die Ewig­keit gebaut zu sein scheint, macht durch­aus Sinn, kom­men doch jähr­lich seit der Eröff­nung 2001 mitt­ler­wei­le 450.000 Besu­cher!

Zudem führen sie das Attentat nicht wie im Buch aus, indem sie sich heimlich durch das Fenster ins Schlafzimmer der Hobbits schleichen, sondern dringen im Film mit roher Gewalt frontal in das Gasthaus ein. Auch hier weist Jacksons Film Parallelen zu Bakshis Zeichentrickverfilmung auf.

Wann wurde der Herr der Ringe gedreht?

Hobbits oder Halblinge sind fiktive, 60 bis 120 cm große menschenähnliche Wesen in der von J. R. R. Tolkien geschaffenen Fantasiewelt Mittelerde. Sie spielen in den Romanen Der Hobbit und Der Herr der Ringe eine tragende Rolle, ebenso in den Verfilmungen Der Hobbit und Der Herr der Ringe von Peter Jackson.

Die karge Vulkanlandschaft bietet immer wieder spektakuläre Aussichtspunkte und ist ein fantastisches Wandergebiet. So gilt die Tongariro Alpine Crossing als eine der besten Tageswanderungen weltweit. Sie zeigt, dass der Tongariro National Park abwechslungsreicher ist als er auf den ersten Blick zu sein scheint. Von dem am nördlichen Ende des Lake Wakatipu gelegenen Dorf Glenorchyaus sind die nordwestlichen Hänge des Mount Earnslwa sichtbar, die in der Eröffnungsszene von Die zwei Türme gezeigt werden. Von Glenorchy aus ist auch Lothlórien nicht weit – der mystisch anmutende Buchenwald an der Straße nach Paradise. Eingebettet in das Hochland des Ashburton Districts liegt der Mount Sunday – ein karger Hügel, der als Kulisse für Edoras, die Hauptstadt der Bewohner von Rohan diente. Für umgerechnet 50 Euro werden Fans durch das Dorf Hobbiton auf der Nordinsel geführt. 60 Meter unter der Erde herrscht eine ätherische Stimmung. "Wir sollten den Tod in unser Leben lassen" Monika Schmid-Geier begleitet Menschen beim Sterben. Im Interview spricht sie über letzte Wünsche, Loslassen und was wir von Sterbenden lernen können. Diese bringt Sie wenig später zu einer weiteren Linksabbiegung auf die Takaro Road. Ob es im neuseeländischen Pendant zum Fangorn-Wald auch sprechende Ents gibt, sollten Sie selbst herausfinden! Als Drehort wurden Wälder in der Nähe der Kleinstadt Te Anau, ganz im Südwesten Neuseelands, genutzt.

[sarahbethdurst]

Cover Reveal for THE HITHERTO SECRET EXPERIMENTS OF MARIE CURIE

Cover reveal!!

I'm so excited to have a story coming out in the upcoming Young Adult horror anthology THE HITHERTO SECRET EXPERIMENTS OF MARIE CURIE (Blackstone Publishing, 4/11/23). The stories imagine mischief Marie might have gotten into had she taken a dark turn in high school.

In my story, Marie Curie encounters a dragon... It was so much fun to write! 

The anthology was edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt and Henry Herz, and it features stories by:

Mylo Carbia G.P. Charles Stacia Deutsch Sarah Beth Durst Henry L. Herz Alethea Kontis Susanne L. Lambdin Dee Leone Jonathan Maberry Emily McCosh Seanan McGuire Steve Pantazis Lissa Price Bryan Thomas Schmidt Scott Sigler Christine Taylor-Butler Jo Whittemore Jane Yolen

If you're interested, here's more info: https://www.blackstonepublishing.com/the-hitherto-secret-experiments-of-marie-curie-efya.html#541=1939506

It will be out in April 2023!

[kajaono]

An alle deutschen Whovians! Die Sarah Jane Adventures sind endlich auch in deutsch erhältlich 

[missbookiverse]

Neuerscheinungen im Juli 2022

Just Like Home von Sarah Gailey Als ihre Mutter sie darum bittet, kehrt Vera nach Hause zurück, in das Haus, in dem ihr Serienkiller-Vater seine Leichen verbuddelt hat. Dort begegnet ihr neben ihrer Mutter ein Künstler, der ihre Kindheit auseinander nimmt und jemand hinterlässt Zettel in der Handschrift von Veras Vater. Creepy? Absurd? Her damit!

Life Ceremony von Sayaka Murata Die japanische Autorin hat sich mit Die Ladenhüterin und Das Seidenraupenzimmer bei mir beliebt gemacht. Nun wurden ihre Kurzgeschichten ins Englische übersetzt (im September kommt die deutsche Ausgabe unter dem Titel Zeremonie des Lebens). In den 12 Geschichten geht es um Außenseiter*innen, die Hinterfragung der gesellschaftlichen Norm, Freundschaft, Familie, Zugehörigkeit und Individualität.

Not Safe For Work von Isabel Kaplan Nach dem College bekommt die Protagonistin einen Traumjob bei einem großen Fernsehsender, obwohl sie als Tochter eine feministischen Staranwältin eigentlich weit entfernt von der TV-Industrie aufgewachsen ist. Schnell wird sie mit der se.xistischen Realität konfrontiert: damit, dass ihre männlichen Kollegen ernster genommen werden und auch mit se.xuellen Übergriffen am Arbeitsplatz. Nun muss sie sich entscheiden, ob sie schweigt oder kämpft.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow von Gabrielle Zevin Seit The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry und Young Jane Young bin ich großer Fan der Autorin und auch ihr neuer Roman hat gute Chancen sich in diese Erfolgssträhne einzureihen. Über eine Zeitspanne von 30 Jahren wird die Geschichte von Sam und Sadie erzählt. Die beiden Kindheitsfreund*innen kreieren in ihren Zwanzigern zusammen ein erfolgreiches Videospiel und müssen sich anschließend mit ihrem Erfolg, Reichtum und ihren Ambitionen auseinandersetzen.

The Pink Hotel von Liska Jacobs Keith und Kit sind frisch verheiratet und machen Urlaub in Beverly Hills. Als in der Umgebung Wildfeuer und Unruhen ausbrechen, schließt das Hotel, in dem sie hausen seine Pforten und das Paar sieht sich mit den exzentrischen, wohlhabenden Gästen konfrontiert.

Dark Earth von Rebecca Stott Britannien nach der Herrschaft durch das Römische Reich. Die Schwestern Isla und Blue führen ein freies Leben im Schatten der verlassenen Stadt Londinium. Doch als ihr Vater stirbt, müssen sie vor der Versklavung fliehen und finden Schutz bei einer Frauengemeinschaft. Schnell begreifen sie, dass sie sich nicht ewig verstecken können, sondern den Männern, die sie jagen, entgegentreten müssen – am besten mit Hilfe ihrer magischen Fähigkeiten.

The Book of Gothel von Mary McMyne Diese Neuerzählung des Märchens Rapunzel widmet sich Rapunzels Wärterin. Die junge Haelewise wird aufgrund ihrer Andersartigkeit von ihrer Dorfgemeinschaft ausgestoßen und sucht Unterschlupft im legendären Turm Gothel. Dort trifft sie auf Rika, die ihre eigenen Geheimnisse über uralte Zaubersprüche und mordende Nobelmenschen verbirgt. Scheint mal nicht die geradlinige Nacherzählung des bekannten Stoffs zu sein.

Wake the Bones von Elizabeth Kilcoyne Nachdem sie das College abbricht, möchte Laurel eigentlich nur ihr Leben als Tierpräparatorin weiterführen, doch dann taucht ein Teufel aus ihrer Vergangenheit auf, um sie zu umwerben. Deshalb sieht Laural sich dazu gezwungen, das beängstigende Vermächtnis ihrer Mutter zu konfrontieren und sich ihrer eigenen Magie zu stellen.

Ebenfalls vielversprechend

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau: Silvia Moreno-Garcias Retelling von H.G. Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau

[ao3feed-lokiangst]

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Loki (and Captain America)

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by aeiodeehrt

Sam and Bucky are taking a seductive vacation to Hawaii when an unexpected visitor pops up out of nowhere seeking the Falcon’s assistance. Something, something multiverse.

Words: 2482, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of The Walcon and the Finter Soldier

Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Loki (TV 2021), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Multi

Characters: Sam Wilson (Marvel), James "Bucky" Barnes, Redwing (Marvel), Loki (Marvel), Charles Xavier, Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter, Howard Stark, Johann Schmidt

Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Sam Wilson, James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson, James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson, Loki/Charles Xavier, Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers, Steve Rogers/Howard Stark, Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers/Howard Stark

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[dweemeister]

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

In the early 1950s, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) had reached the peak of the studio’s powers, becoming the de facto home of the American movie musical. Its recent releases read like an honor roll: In the Good Old Summertime (1949), On the Town (1949), Annie Get Your Gun (1950), An American in Paris (1951), and Singin’ in the Rain (1952). For 1954, MGM needed to juggle two future additions to that list: Brigadoon and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. The former starred Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse, was directed by Vincente Minnelli (1944′s Meet Me in St. Louis, An American in Paris), and produced by the famed Arthur Freed unit. The Freed unit produced all of MGM’s A-list musicals, so the studio relegated Seven Brides for Seven Brothers as a “B” picture – cutting its production budget, slashing advertising expenditures. Stanley Donen’s (Singin’ in the Rain, 1955′s It’s Always Fair Weather) movie came dangerously close to being permanently shelved by MGM, but production did commence. In the end, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers outperformed Brigadoon in almost all metrics. And despite its very politically incorrect premise, it has held up better than Brigadoon as well as most musical films from that decade.

It is 1850 in Oregon Territory. Adam Pontipee (Howard Keel) has come down from the mountains – chest forward, masculinity erect for all the villagers to see – to announce he is here to find a bride. After eavesdropping on Milly (Jane Powell) and noting her sassiness and dedication to finishing her chores, he proposes, and she accepts without much question or resistance. Believing she is going home with Adam and only Adam, she is surprised that he also lives with six younger brothers – Benjamin (Jeff Richards), Caleb (Matt Mattox), Daniel (Marc Platt), Ephraim (Jacques d’Ambroise), Frank (Tommy Rall), and Gideon (Russ Tamblyn) – all of whom are ill-mannered slobs, are conveniently colored-coded by the costume design, and most of the six younger Pontipee brother actors are dancers (explained below). Furious at Adam, Milly demands an explanation. He responds that living in the backwoods requires men and women depending on each other to thrive. In time, Milly decides to teach the seven brothers proper etiquette and how to clean up after themselves.

I would be remiss without mentioning the six other women who become the brides (in alphabetical order with who they are hitched with, from Benjamin to Gideon): Dorcas (Julie Newmar), Ruth (Ruta Kilmonis), Martha (Norma Doggett), Liza (Virginia Gibson), Sarah (Betty Carr), and Alice (Nancy Kilgas). 

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is based on “The Sobbin’ Women” by  Stephen Vincent Benét – a parody of the Roman mythological tale of the Rape of the Sabine Women. Wait! One quick explanation, please! Regarding the Rape of the Sabine Women, the word “rape” in the classical context refers to the Latin word “raptio”, which means abduction rather than the contemporary definition of rape. But this means the six other brides will be abducted by the Pontipee siblings – setting up the film’s frantic, comedic finale. A piece of modern feminism Seven Brides is not. Yet viewers need to consider that the seven men in the film have lived their lives in the Oregonian forests, with only Adam having infrequent contact with women and society at the most. The six younger Pontipee brothers might never have met women in a social context; their only understanding of women is through the Greek/Roman myths that Milly has read to them (considering the Rape of Sabine Women and Zeus/Jupiter’s behavior, you are right to be a bit horrified).

The Pontipees know nothing of physical boundaries, being respectful of women, and believe that they – perhaps not necessarily as men, but as individuals – should have what they want. Do you really expect them to not behave like lechers? Through the musical score, Seven Brides positions itself as a satire (and, especially in a scene where the younger Pontipees are trying not to knock other men’s lights out, often a hilarious one), never endorsing the behaviors of the Pontipee brothers. This tale of frontier courtship integrates Stockholm Syndrome (a psychological condition in which a hostage develops sympathetic feelings for their captor; also a narrative trope that has been abused by numerous artistic mediums). This is the point where the film’s screenplay by Albert Hackett (The Thin Man series), Frances Goodrich (Hackett’s spouse and co-writer), and Dorothy Kingsley (numerous Esther Williams movies including 1953′s Dangerous When Wet). As entertaining as Seven Brides is from its opening minutes, the women just seem too forgiving of the Pontipee brothers. Milly, in her active and open resistance to all that Adam is teaching his younger siblings, turns a one-sided argument into a battle of the sexes – making this a far more watchable film than it might otherwise have been.

For the musical team of supervisor Saul Chaplin (1961′s West Side Story), score composer Adolph Deutsch (1960′s The Apartment), song composer Gene de Paul, lyricist Johnny Mercer (maybe the best English-language lyricist from the 1930s-50s), and orchestrators Leo Arnaud (a longtime MGM contractee best known for “Bugler’s Dream”, a theme for American television’s presentation of the Olympics) and Alexander Courage (also a long-serving MGM contractee, but best known for his theme to Star Trek: The Original Series), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers’ musical score is spectacular from the very first song.

That first song? “Bless Your Beautiful Hide”, sung by Howard Keel in the opening minutes. The catchiest song in the film, it also serves as burning a hole through any expectations of clumsy or overlong exposition that can ruin a musical. In two-and-a-half minutes of Keel’s accented, blustering, unusually expressive bass-baritone, “Bless Your Beautiful Hide” has successfully introduced Adam Pontipee – that he is searching for a woman to sling over his shoulder, that she be at least conventionally pretty and not fat, can do work around the house, and someone who is “SASSY as can be!” One could not ask for a better introductory song than this. The song, “When You’re In Love” is a demonstration of Milly’s more refined nature against the rugged Adam. It is the song’s reprise – sung by Adam? – that poses problems. Keel also objected to the reprise’s placement in the film, saying that Adam did not understand what love is the moment he reprises the song (one could interpret it as Adam parroting Milly’s song, not fully understanding the lyrics, but I am not of that camp). Other highlights include Jane Powell singing “Goin’ Courtin’” a few scenes before Adam counters with “Sobbin’ Women” – recounting the story of the Rape of the Sabine Women, and setting the film’s resolution in motion. Seven Brides might not have the most memorable score, but it’s musically fascinating and I can’t label any of its de Paul and Mercer songs – okay, maybe “Wonderful, Wonderful Day” – as a dud.

But we haven’t gotten to the film’s ultimate musical accomplishment yet. Enter the barn dance sequence – an inspired composition by Adolph Deutsch and choreographer Michael Kidd (1953′s The Band Wagon, It’s Always Fair Weather). Alongside the excellent orchestration by Arnaud and Courage, the cue that accompanies this scene is just as fun to listen to within the film as well as when removed from it. Based heavily on “Bless Your Beautiful Hide”, the melody is passed back between strings and woodwinds with infectious zest. Infectious Western-styled themes; string-crossing; finger-numbing runs from the string section set the pace; and, when timed to the athletic, rather than balletic, choreography (the actors who played the six younger Pontipee brothers, the women, and the other suitors are all magnificent dancers), epitomizes the peak of the 1950s MGM musical. Because of the technical footwork, Donen sought to cast six dancers as the younger Pontipee brothers. Three weeks of rehearsal were needed just to record these several minutes of breathtaking movement.

Why resort to fisticuffs when things can be settled with a dance-off? Instrumentalists, dancers, and those who just love a good musical number will be left in awe here. For those who wanted to see a cartoonish brawl ensue, don’t feel deflated. This film will fulfill your wishes a few minutes after this, too!

Because of the film’s lack of support from MGM executives, the original plans to shoot on-location in Oregon fell through. The screenplay calls for the depiction of all four seasons, which would require a year-round shoot that MGM did not want to cough up for a “B” picture. Thus, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers would be shot almost entirely on the MGM backlot in a soundstage – which allows for some glaringly artificial painted backdrops and foliage that the viewer needs to overlook to enjoy such an electric musical. With production design as clunky as the Yellow Brick Road backdrops in The Wizard of Oz (1939), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers feels like it could have been made decades earlier. But don’t think Seven Brides is stuck in a previous decade. The film was shot on CinemaScope (a widescreen screen aspect format, though not represented in the video provided for the barn raising sequence, that had been introduced the previous year) as well as the then-industry standard 4:3 format – not all theaters had the technology to present CinemaScope or other widescreen formats yet. As a result, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers was shot in and exists in two different formats: a CinemaScope and a 4:3 version. This review was based on the CinemaScope version shown on Turner Classic Movies (TCM), and it is also the print I recommend you watch.

This is a musical movie I had been holding off on for years, for insubstantial reasons. In the end, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers – because of its depiction of men asserting their own gendered primacy – may not appeal to all audiences, and I will not quarrel with anyone who has given Donen’s film a mindful look. The film is hampered by the nature of its narrative and external, business-side limitations. Those aspects should not define it. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers’ gorgeous musical score culminates in a stunning dance scene and contains an unexpectedly thoughtful look on how a single person can inspire change in another (not exclusively in terms of “fixing” them), making this a splendid addition to the best musical lineup produced by any Hollywood studio.

My rating: 8.5/10

^ Based on my personal imdb rating. Half-points are always rounded down. My interpretation of that ratings system can be found here.