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Bodily Fluids: Female Corporeality as Neo-Victorian Agency in Graham Swift's Waterland
A hallmark of neo-Victorian fiction is its preoccupation with recovering and reimagining lost voices from the past. The increased critical attention toward feminist neo-Victorian fiction in the late 1990s and early 2000s fuelled an ongoing debate
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Bodily Fluids: Female Corporeality as Neo-Victorian Agency in Graham Swift's Waterland Ashley Orr Graham Swift's Waterland (1983) creates a gendered hierarchy among modes of memory through its reliance on a male narrator, Tom Crick, who controls the narrative perspective at the expense of acknowledging women's embodied memories. This bias has been perpetuated in the bulk of criticism addressing the novel from a postmodern historiographic perspective, as this framework ignores the corporeal agency of Waterland 's female characters. As a result, women in Waterland are constructed as powerless puppets on the grand stage of man-made history. However, theorising the novel in light of the emergence of feminist neo-Victorian criticism in the late 1990s and early 2000s has the potential to redress this critical silence. In order to allow the bodies of Waterland 's women to "speak," I shif t the critical focus away from postmodern historiography toward a corporeal feminist reading of this foundational neo-Victorian novel. Applying such a theoretical framework redresses the silence toward female experience in both the novel and its criticism. This article , in focusing on Crick's wife Mary and his Victorian ancestor Sarah Atkinson, demonstrates the persistence of nineteenth-century gender ideology in the present, particularly in terms of how the boundaries between normative and pathological femininity are defined. I argue that a neo-Victorian reading of the novel shifts the focus from memory-as-story to memory-as-body, which, in turn, reveals the agency inherent in the bodily actions of Waterland 's female characters. A significant body of criticism on Waterland has thus far been reluctant to move beyond the ideological context of the novel's reception. Hayden White's work on postmodern history- iography and Linda Hutcheon's theory of historiographic metafiction both came to prom -inence in the 1980s, the decade of Waterland 's publication. Postmodern historiography challenges the nineteenth-century model of history as an objective process of discovery by emphasising the transformative role of narrative in shaping our understandings of the past (White 20). From a postmodern standpoint, history is multiple, contingent and devoid of any inherent meaning " because any given set of real events can be emplotted in a number of ways, can bear the weight of being told as any number of different kinds of stories " (White 20). Historiographic metafiction is also concerned with narrative as a means to know the past: it refers to novels – like Waterland – which "are both intensely self -reflexive and yet para-doxically also lay claim to historical events and personag es" ( Hutcheon 5). These theories continue to underpin critical approaches to the novel that probe its exploration of the fiction / history divide (or lack thereof) and the role of narrative in ordering discordant events from the past into a logical and coherent tale of progress. 1 For John Schad, "like post modernism, Waterland may not allow us even the consolation of an end to the "Grand Narrative" of history since, it is implied, there never was such a narrative" (912). However, such interpret-ations of Waterland , which rely on the 1980s ideological context of the narrative turn in history, promote a view of Crick as a victim of the circumstantial nature of history. In so doing, they obscure his complicity in silencing female voices. While the novel does indeed trouble the notion of history as a Grand Narrative, or a linear pursuit of progress, this does not deny Crick 's personal attachment to such models of the past. Ultimately, Waterland suggests that Crick's attempts to impose order on past events are futile. However, in making 1 For discussions on the relationship between fiction, narrative and history in Waterland see, for example, James Acheson (2005), John Brewer and Stella Tillyard (1985), Margrét Gunnarsdóttir Champion (2003), Robert K. Irish (1998), and Del Ivan Janik (1989). 86 Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies 21.1 (2016) 86 the attempt, he nonetheless silences women's histories in service of his quest for catharsis. The cathartic function of narrative is a key feature of more recent Waterland criticism, inspired by the move toward ethical reading practices and trauma theory in literary studies in the 1990s. However t his body of criticism tends to reproduce postmodern historiography's focus on Crick at the expense of examining the gendered dimensions of traumatic histories. Richard Rankin Russell ar gues for an ethical reading of the text in which the key to Crick's catharsis lies in confronting his role in past events and communicating this to his audience through the medium of storytelling. Similarly, Tamás Bényei and Eric Berlatsky both adopt a psy choanalytic framework in order to argue that Crick's narrative is driven by his desire for meaning and explanation. Berlatsky claims that Crick, "like his mother, embraces the necessity of narration as a therapeutic and comforting re-mapping of the chaotic and dis-quieting otherness of the past" (269). Nonetheless, such a process is only necessary insofar as Crick, wedded as he is to the patriarchal narrative of progress that demands forward move- ment, cannot accept Mary's stasis. While Stef Craps' s trauma-informed approach attends to Mary's rejection of story, she frames this as a retreat into fantasy, while Crick's curiosity is "is hailed as our greatest asset in search for an ethical way of being in the world" (103). Whether from a postmodern or trauma theory perspective, the continued emphasis on story-telling, curiosity, and catharsis denies the fact that the narrativisation of history in Waterland necessitates silencing less powerful groups in service of the dominant narrative. While there are a limited number of attempts to redress the scholarly silence toward women in the novel, such as Katrina Powell's critique of Swift's traditional representation of female sexuality and Pamela Cooper's analysis of Mary as a "placeholder" for male desire (385), thes e critiques focus on Mary's victimhood and thus fall short of accounting for embodied acts of resistance on the part of Waterland 's women. In contrast, an interdisciplinary approach combining neo-Victorian criticism, corporeal feminism, and a theory of embodied memory, enables the collapse of the victim/agent divide in favour of a more inclusive model that accounts for the embodied subjectivity of Waterland 's women. A significant body of criticism within neo- Victorian studies focuses on the genre's capacity to re-imagine Victorian gender ideology by representing female characters who embody non-traditional gender roles (Davies, Heilmann and Llewellyn, King, Llewellyn). Jeanette King provides a key scholarly intervention in this field by demonstrating that feminist writers engage with Victorian-era anxieties about the status of women not in order to highlight female oppression but, instead, to champion the oft-unrecognised expressions of agency by Victorian women and their modern-day counterparts (3). Similarly, Elizabeth Grosz's foundational work on corporeal feminism, Volatile Bodies (1993), problematises traditional understandings of gender by arguing that "misogynist thought has commonly found a convenient self -justification for women's secondary so cial positions by containing them within bodies that are represented, even constructed, as frail, imperfect, unruly, and unreliable, subject to various intrusions which are not under conscious control" (13). Combining King's approach to feminist neo -Victor ian fiction and Grosz's corporeal feminism thus enables a re - evaluation of Mary's various bodily "ailments" as markers of resistance – rather than capitulation – to patriarchal oppression. Crick's preoccupation with fashioning ordered and coherent narrati ves from the past elides the way in which Mary resists such narrative ordering and, instead, uses her body to express her relationship to the past. Crick's attempt to shape history, "to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty space, but the comforting marker-buoys and trail- signs of stories" (Swift 68), is emblematic of his desire for a Grand Narrative capable of conferring meaning on his Ashley Orr 87 87 experiences, though the novel suggests such a narrative does not exist. Grosz calls for an alternative vision of a ccounting for the past, whereby "a completely different set of per -spectives – this time based on women's specificities, experiences, positions, rather than on those of men, who hide themselves and their specificities under the banner of some universal humanity – is possible and needs to be explored" (xi). Turning our attention, as Grosz suggests, to the specificities of the female experience, we can read Mary's abortion as a challenge to Crick's universalising discourse. For Mary, the abortion exists not a s narrative, but as embodied memory, which she mobilises in service of her challenge to Crick's per - ception of women's bodies as sites of permeability and weakness. In her analysis of two neo - Victorian novels, Gail Jones' s Sixty Lights and Helen Humphreys' s Afterimage , Kate Mitchell asserts, "the body is engraved by time, etched with past experience. In this sense memory is carried with us bodily, not so much remembered as 'membered , ' or embodied" (162). In this way, the body "becomes a medium for the repet ition of the past, [and] its unbidden persistence in the present" (Mitchell 160). Mary's memory of the abortion, which is inscribed upon her flesh through her consequent infertility, offers a counter-narrative to Tom's representation of her history. In thi s sense, her body is not just a cataloguer of memory, but plays a pivotal role in memory-making and memory- re making. Since the 1980s, feminist scholars have sought to understand the historical association between the perceived weaknesses of the female body and the justification of patriarchal oppression. For Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, the madwoman figure in nineteenth century literature " is usually in some sense the author's double, an image of her own anxiety and rage" (78) . In Waterland , Tom performs a version of this doubling, by continually recalling the figures of Victorian madwoman Sarah Atkinson and seventh-century oracle St Gunnhilda in order to position Mary's madness as a form of gendered inheritance: In another age, in olden times, they might have called her holy (or else have burnt her as a witch). One who hears the voice of — One to whom — They might have allowed her the full scope of her mania: her anchorite's cell, her ascetic's lib erties, her visions and ravings . . . Now she gets benefit of psychiatry. (Swift 328) Crick casts his institutionalisation of Mary as an inevitable consequence of the inherent instability of the female psyche. As Jane Ussher argues, " the outspoken, difficult woman of the sixteenth century was castigated as a witch, and the same woman in the nineteenth century a hysteric, in the late-twentieth and twenty- first centuries, she is described as 'border - line' . . . All are irrevocably tied to what it means to be 'woman' at a particular point in history" (81). Far from being an intrinsic condition of the mind, madness is temporally, spatially, and culturally contingent. Far from being the result of any individual pathology, Mary's incarceration in the asylum is the result of her failure to produce a child and, by extension, to embody late-twentieth-century ideals of womanhood. In Waterland, the shifting meanings ascribed to women's embodied experiences mi rror the Fenland landscape that permeates the narrative. For Pamela Cooper, "porous as the Fenland itself, the woman's body signals through its enterability a general instability of boundaries" (387). However, we need to be alert to the way in which Crick actively constructs this affinity between women and water. He connects St Gunnhilda, Sarah and Mary not only to each other, but also to the land-reclamation project of his male ancestors and, in this way, "each of the key women [in Waterland ] becomes symbolically over-determined by the stories that attach to them " (Mitchell 87). For Crick, female bodies are fluid entities that, like the River Leem, "have a troublesome habit of bursting their banks, [and are troublingly prone to resisting male control] changing their course and every so often becoming choked with s ilt" 88 Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies 21.1 (2016) 88 (Swift 72) . Women's bodies, like the Fenland waters, require constant (male) observation and intervention. In this way, t he "sluices and staunches" built to control the flow" of the River Leem (Swift 75) are akin to the asylum and its gates, which Crick moves freely between after "deposit[ing] my wife, along with certain personal articles, pending psychiatric treatment" (Swift 326). Tom's investment in constructing these feminine lineages is driven by his need to displace responsibility for Mary's madn ess. His active participation in the patriarchal project of stemming the flow of women's embodied subjectivity belies his professed reverence for Natural History and its imperviousness to human intervention. Sarah Atkinson's bodily actions provide a counte r- narrative to Crick's presentation of her as the archetypal Victorian madwoman. In re- imagining the Victorian era as a "revolutionary, progressive phase" (Swift 334), Crick lauds the Atkinson men as "humble champions of Progress" while Sarah is relegated to the status of a "living fossil" (206). However, Sarah's embodied fluidity continually disrupts Crick's patriarchal desire to define her: she is at once "Guardian Angel, Holy Mother, Saint Gunnhilda -come- again" (99) and "stark - mad" (89). Like Crick, Sara h's husband Thomas Atkinson is motivated by guilt to pathologise his wife's experiences. Following his attack on Sarah, Atkinson attempts to restore his sense of control by seeking advice from a variety of (male) experts under the guise of curing her: And that the reply of the wizened occultist . . . drove the last rivet of grief into old Tom's soul: that Thomas Atkinson, as Thomas himself well knew, was only receiving the punish-ment he merited, and that, as for his wife, no magic in the world could bring her out of the state which she herself – had not Thomas looked closely enough into her eyes? – wished to remain in. (85-86) According to the occultist, Sarah's body contains an alternative account of her illness : one that is, in fact, not an illness at all, but rather a knowingly and deliberately undertaken vow of silence (Powell 70). Its power lies in denying Atkinson the salvation for his sins that he so desperately seeks. For Mitchell, "Sarah Atkinson impedes the onward and upward march of the Atkinson dynasty, and by extension, of Progress, indeed history itself, by subverting her husband's energies for expansion and redirecting them toward herself" (88). However, Crick remains deeply suspicious of the extent of Sarah's influence. He suspects her of poss essing "the gift to see and shape the future" (88), a talent she uses to undermine Atkinson's authority over his sons: "t o them indeed she imparted, perhaps in plain words, perhaps by some other mystical process of communication, wisdom and exhortation " (8 8). Despite Crick's attempt to emphasise the visible, audible actions of his male ancestors – Sarah's experiences are largely confined to a chapter titled "About the Rise of the Atkinsons" – her silent machin-ations continue to haunt his narrative of Progress. Crick emphasises the humane treatment of mental illness in the late-twentieth century by fram ing Mary's condition in the terminology of contemporary psychology. However, slipp -ages in his language and [word missing] in theorising Mary's malady indicate his attachment to Victorian discourses on madness and sexuality. Despite his reference to her condition as "schizophrenia" (152) and treatment by a "psychiatrist" (309) he cannot help but describe "the cloistered precincts of this asylum –" (which itsel f has allusions to the celibacy of cloistered nuns like St Gunnhilda ) before correcting himself "that is, hospital" (327). According to King, Victorian anxieties concerning female sexuality led to fears "that any apparent 'angel' could be harbouring a potential 'whore' if sufficient supervision were not exercised" (23). In Crick 's re -imagining of the Victorian past, his ancestor Sarah Atkinson's suspected adultery is punished first by a violent blow to the head, delivered by her husband Thomas, and, later, by institutionalisation at the hands of her sons (Swift 83, 100). Both Crick Ashley Orr 89 89 and Atkinson are threatened by their wives' sexual agency and alleged infidelity : Sarah and Mary (whom Crick suspects of sleeping with his brother) are "written and rewritten by a nd as male desire" (Mitchell 88). Though Crick invokes modern understandings of madness, he is driven by the same obsession for control as his ancestor: "Is this a case (like Thomas Atkinson?) of doting solicitude leading to jealous imaginings? For Mrs Cri ck, you'll have observed, children, even from those atrocious newspaper photographs, is a well-preserved woman" (132). Crick's tacit acknowledgement of the similarities between himself and Atkinson is part of "his subjective desire to present himself in the best possible light" (Acheson 91). In pathologising Mary's behaviour, he fashions himself as the doting husband charged with protecting the honour of his vulnerable wife. In the nineteenth century , "the greatest danger to a woman's mental health, and to her moral worth, came from her sex - uality" ( King 20- 21). However, the same is true in the novel's 1980s present, as Mary is punished for her multiple failings as " woman " : first her teenage promiscuity and later her failure to reproduce (Powell 65 ). As Tom leaves the institution in which he places Mary, "his historian's eye takes in . . . on the pink granite plinth . . . the word which modern preference for plain 'Hospital' or, begrudgingly, 'Mental Hospital , ' cannot . . . erase: '. . . Asylum'" (327). Though the terminology used to describe female madness shifts across the centuries, Tom's narrative indicates the persistence of Victorian era anxieties toward female sexual agency in the present. Crick struggles to tra nsform Mary's bodily memory of her abortion into a self -affirming and coherent narrative of male control over female reproductive rights and, for this, Mary is punished. For Mitchell, Mary's "abortion, which disrupts teleological history, marks too her rej ection of history, stories and things made to happen and the meaning that accrues to them" (81). This rejection of story elicits disappointment in Crick, who aligns Mary's mid -life return to religion with her behaviour after the abortion: "he knows that Ma ry locked herself away of her own free will. Though he does not know . . . whether God spoke to her (then too) as He spoke, above the howls of the demons, to St Gunnhilda; whether she found Salvation; whether, perhaps, she was visited by the ghost of Sarah Atkinson" (Swift 122 -23). While Crick seeks to emphasise the irrationality of female behaviour, the underlying issue here is that all three women in the novel voluntarily and deliberately employ strategies that place their bodies outside the reach of male influence: St Gunnhilda " surviv[es] on nothing but her prayers" (25), Sarah undertakes a vow of silence that "cannot be reclaimed" (85), and Mary retreats into religion , "drifting away" from Crick ( 133). Creating an affinity between Sarah and Mary legitim ises (to himself if no one else) Crick's institutionalisation of her through the rehearsal of a historical precedent of male intervention in female (in)sanity. However, it is important to note that he, not Mary, is descended from the Atkinson line. As such, the most salient similarity between these two women is the extent to which they resist their husbands' attempts to control them. Like Sarah, Mary engages in her own form of deception: in the asylum, she "stares, vigilantly and knowingly (the common ruse of the inmate: it's they who are mad, not me), at those frail, playground children" (328). This passage indicates not the ruse of the inmate, but the ruse of the narrator: Crick's con -struction of Mary as madwoman is self-serving and inaccurate. For Mary, the madhouse is a refuge – and an imperfect one at that – for the independent woman seeking an escape from patriarchal control. Tom considers Mary's madness to be a by-product of her inability to fashion the traumatic memories of her abortion into an ordered, coherent narrative. According to Craps, "the unassimilated event, which brings time to a halt, goes on happening in the world of the
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Washington, D.C. (March 24, 2022)— Ullico Inc.'s infrastructure fund announced on February 28, 2022 its participation in a consortium supporting the winning bid submitted by Invenergy Wind Offshore, LLC to secure one of six offshore leases awarded in the New York Bight Auction. Invenergy Wind Offshore, LLC, a development entity led by project sponsors Invenergy and energyRe, was named provisional winner for an 83,976-acre area of seabed by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM).
The winning bid of $645 million secured lease OCS-A 0542, one of the largest awarded in the New York Bight offshore wind lease sale. The project sponsors bring together decades of expertise in development, engineering, and construction of large-scale renewable generation projects. Invenergy will serve as lead developer of the project. The consortium of investors including the sponsors, Blackstone Infrastructure Partners (NYSE: BX), CDPQ, FirstLight Power, and Ullico Infrastructure Fund (UIF) will provide funding for the project.
Rohit Syal, head of acquisitions for UIF, commented, "Ullico's partnership with Invenergy, energyRe, and the investor group represents a significant and rare opportunity for UIF to diversify its clean energy investments and enter the offshore wind sector, which we view as a critical component of the nation's future energy supply mix and a key area of focus for our labor stakeholders."
"Ullico is excited to partner with Invenergy, energyRe, and the investor consortium on the successful pursuit and development of the New York Bight lease area," said Edward M. Smith, President and CEO of Ullico Inc. ("Ullico") "The investment demonstrates Ullico's commitment to support the development of projects that provide clean, sustainable energy across North America and creating jobs for skilled union workers."
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I wanted to question where the heart of a city was. Some say it is in the people, but people come and go. It might be in the industry and the associated culture, but these things do evolve. It struck me that lines of transport bring people and goods into the city and take away the products, just like the blood flowing through veins and arteries. In that case a good place to start is the railway station which acts as a central hub for transport in, around and out of the place – a pumping heart.
Another factor is the `da-da, da-da` rhythm from the wagon wheels which sounds so much like a heart beating. The station timetable represents an inevitable regularity to everything. The platform remains in quiet stasis, just the gentle murmur of people chatting, and then springs to life when a train comes in.
This sound piece represents the feeling of flow with a changing sound scape held together by a gentle heartbeat. Every sound is sourced from recordings of both air-carried sound and vibrations from the platforms of a local line.
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On Sunday, October 11th, Black Label Pro (BLP) presents Threat Level Noon. The initially titled Threat Level Midnight was being changed from the wee hours of the morning to midday brunch time. What makes this show so exciting are the names and faces involved in it. BLP recently put on a tremendous event with their Turbo Graps 16 tournament. It was a two-show event the same day.
However, this time, as part of the Collective 2020 series of shows, BLP looks to elevate the promotions stock and capture the attention of fans either in attendance or watching on FITE TV. Which match stands out to be the most notable? Upon further review, all of them! Here is Pro Wrestling Post's preview of Black Label Pro's Threat Level Noon.
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Blake Christian vs. JD Drake
If there is one match on the card with two talents on the complete opposite spectrum of styles, it would be this one. 'Air' Blake Christian and JD Drake couldn't be more different when it comes to their time in the ring against one another. For Christian, fans will note that he is known for his ability to sore through the air and around the mat with the greatest of ease.
In comparison, Drake, a former EVOLVE alumnus, is about as technically sound as anyone today. One of the coolest things to note about this match is that it marks a first. This would be the first time these two have faced each other (that has been documented) at any point in time. The objective for Drake is simple. He needs to slow down Christian. For Blake, he needs to catch Drake off guard in order to pick up the win.
The Bad Mother F*cker Scramble No Dq No Countout
Big Beef vs. Jody Threat vs. Matthew Justice vs. AJ Gray vs. Levi Everett vs. Joshua Bishop vs. Air Wolf vs. Gary Jay
As soon as someone announces a Scramble match is set to take place, the result is to keep your head on a swivel. With the eight contestants involved in the match, it is just as much to see who will match up with whom in this battle. During this time, let's look at those involved. Big Beef (who missed out on Turbo Grapes 16 a week ago) gets into this match looking to make an impression.
Canadian Jody Threat is hoping to show everyone why she is the Wild Child. It will be nothing more than Justice when Matthew comes in and hopes to wipe out the competition. AJ Gray is equally a threat to look out for as well. Between Everett, Bishop, Wolf, and Jay, they are all looking to stand out as the Baddest Motherf*cker around.
Alex Shelley vs. Antony Henry
As of the writing of this, there hasn't been any announcement (that we can see) that it will be for the BLP Midwest Championship. However, much like the unpredictability of wrestling as a whole, it wouldn't be a stretch. As he is coming off the heels of last week's Turbo Graps 16 win, current Shelley is certainly riding high. Both men come with noted experience and success in the ring.
For Henry, a pro of nearly twenty years, he stands to be the biggest challenge at the moment against Shelley. Much like his tag team partner JD Drake, Henry brings noted tag team championship experience through the US, including his time with EVOLVE. One can only hope the title is on the line here as its something fans would undoubtedly enjoy.
BLP Tag Team Championship
Besties in the World vs. Violence is Forever
It was bound to happen. When the most decorated team on the indies puts their title on the line against easily one of the stiffest duos in tag team wrestling on the independent circuit, the result could be destructive. Ku and Garrini know what the other one is thinking. They will put their chemistry to the test against Vega and Fitchett. This is the problem, however.
The Besties in the World's name isn't just a catchphrase or slogan. Vega and Fitchett are committed to proving that they are the Besties in the World for a reason. Their smooth teamwork and ability to capitalize on their opposition's errors often is enough to retain their titles. Violence is Forever hopes to end their reign on this night.
Josh Alexander vs. Leyla Hirsch
While this first statement may not initially read as a compliment, it is meant to be. If there were a physical specimen that was equivalent to the intensity and strength of Josh Alexander and was female, it would be Leyla Hirsch. She is called 'Legit' for a reason. This powerhouse has all the tools to muscle her way over her competition. While Hirsch has been competing since 2017, it was 2019, where she truly broke through.
This past year, while she has been quiet due to the pandemic, it began with a bang. This talented New Jersey native wrestled for Stardom this past January, competing in fourteen matches. Hirsch now stands across the ring from the Walking Weapon in Josh Alexander. The former IMPACT! Wrestling tag team champion is set to break bones and has Hirsch in his sights. It is sure to be a stiff match for sure!
'Filthy Tom Lawlor & Erick Stevens vs. Heath & Fred Rosser
These two teams consist of men that are familiar with their partners. In the case of Lawlor and Stevens, fans are aware that these two are allies in MLW. With the propensity to want to fight and their ability to back up what they claim to be, it is their opposition that best watch out. For Heath and Fred Rosser, they come together for the first time in years. Fans will recall that they were part of the WWE faction The Nexus.
At that time, both men had a different look and in-ring persona than what we see today. Both men went their separate ways but still were part of the WWE until recently. Will their lack of time together be what costs them in this match, or could Lawlor and Stevens take them lightly?
Killer Kelly vs. Killer Kylie
As we raise the level of threat, so does the level of…character! While noted Portuguese talent, Killer Kelly has earned a name for herself competing in the UK, and with promotions such as wXw and the WWE, today is different. Today, Kelly stands in front of another KILLER. This one is Killer Kylie…Rae. Rae recently lost her BLP Midwest Championship, but that loss has not deterred her in the least.
If its done anything is it motivated her to continue to push forward. Kylie faces someone that is all business, and in saying this, best be prepared that she will blitz right through Rae if need be. Is the threat level raised in this match? We certainly think so.
#1 Contenders Match for BLP Championship Match at Slamilton
Calvin Tankman vs Alex Zayne vs Ethan Page vs Isaias Velazquez
Regardless of who walks out of the main event for the championship, it is one of these four competitors that will face them at Slamilton. With the BLP Championship #1 contendership up for grabs, it is about looking at who among them may have the best chances of winning this match. For Calvin Tankman, fans are privy to a man that has held the title and contended for the championship.
He's been at the top, but he likely faces too many obstacles here to do so. Ethan Page and Isaias Velazquez were recently part of the Turbo Graps 16 tournament. They are both eager to walk away with the top spot to contend. However, the one person who likely flies under the radar here is Alex Zayne returning from injury.
Carlito & Chris Masters vs Gaytanic Panic
How does that song go? Reunited and it feels so good? When this match came about, and both Carlito and Chris Masters came together, that is likely what the bookers said. While it has been years since the duo has been a tandem in the WWE, they have certainly worked together since. In fact, since 2012, the 'Masters of Cool' have worked together quite a lot with the duo winning the Qatar Pro Wrestling Tag Team Championships this past January.
On the other end of the spectrum is a duo that have recently come together and is a lot of fun to watch. Gaytanic Panic consists of Danhausen and EFFY, and together the pair are breaking bones, hearts, and stereotypes, and they look to show their opposition that they may know what it's like to be cool that they are no match for these weapons of sass destruction.
BLP Championship
Jake Something (c) vs. WARHORSE
Two of the most prominent names on the independent wrestling scene come together on an unforgettable night. WARHORSE has been holding the Independent Wrestling Television Championship for more than a year. This time, however, it isn't his title on the line. Instead, it is WARHORSE that is challenging for on this night.
Across from the Heavymetal a**kicker stands the massive monster who asks others to Whats. His. Name? Jake Something will have his sights set on not only retaining the championship but slowing down the longstanding train known as WARHORSE. How will WARHORSE fair, and will this be the night when he walks away with more than once championship?
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Lions of Czech Film: Seven Ravens
Date: 12 October 2016 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, Venue: Avalon Theatre
The Avalon Theatre will feature Czech helmer Alice Nellis' film Seven Ravens (Sedmero krkavců) on October 12, at 8 pm. The fairytale focuses on a girl who who decides to save her brothers from a curse which was brought upon them by their mother.
Seven Ravens | Sedmero krkavců
2015, 97 min., in Czech with English subtitles
Directed by: Alice Nellis
The film is a tale of courage, strong will, the power of language and true love. The heroine, a girl named Bohdanka (Martha Issová), is born to a grief-stricken family of a baker, whose wife cursed their seven sons in an outburst of rage many years ago and turned them into ravens. The parents keep this tragedy a secret from Bohdanka. On the cusp of adulthood, Bohdanka learns about the family curse and decides to save her brothers. A local witch advises her to sew shirts for them. But not just any shirts—she has to pick nettles, process the fibers into fabric, and make every stitch herself. The girl sets out on a long journey to fulfill her mission and along the way she meets a stuttering prince who just might capture her heart. Will she save her brothers and in turn secure her own happiness?
The film is primarily based on a story by famed Czech writer Božena Němcová.
Awards: The film received Czech Lion Awards for Best Costumes, Best Set Design, and Best Makeup (2015).
The film is part of the Mutual Inspirations Festival 2016 - Martina Navrátilová.
About the Director: Alice Nellis is one of the top female directors from the Czech Republic. She initially studied flute at the Prague Conservatory and English and American Literature at Charles University. She also studied screenwriting at FAMU in Prague but did not complete her studies. For a period of time, she worked as a web designer, teacher, actress, and translator. In 2000, she directed and wrote her first feature Eeny Meeny (Ene bene, 2000). She won a Czech Lion for Best Screenwriting and the Critics' Award for her film Some Secrets (Výlet, 2002). Other successful films include Little Girl Blue (Tajnosti, 2007), Mamas & Papas (2010), and Revival (2013).
View the film trailer: https://vimeo.com/164142469
Date: October 12, 8 pm
Location: Avalon Theatre
5612 Connecticut Avenue
Tickets are available at the box office. They will also be available soon at www.theavalon.org.
This marks the tenth year of collaboration with the Avalon Theatre to present the Lions of Czech Film Series. This film series gives the Washington, DC, community an opportunity to view Czech films that are popular hits in Europe and have received numerous honors and awards at film festivals. Most of the films have received the prestigious Czech Lion Award, the Czech equivalent of an Academy Award. All of the films have limited distribution in the United States. The Lions of Czech Film Series offers an invaluable opportunity to see the best of Czech cinema in the nation's capital.


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What are the different ranks of honours?
Tom Pilgrim and Taz Ali, PA
11 June 2021, 5:30 pm ·3-min read
The efforts of people who make outstanding contributions to their communities and British society are regularly recognised by the bi-annual honours announcement.
The latest Queen's Birthday Honours list sees some 1,129 people being acknowledged, with another 360 in other categories such as the diplomatic service and overseas list.
Coming amid the enduring Covid-19 pandemic, it features a number of scientists and volunteers who supported the response to the virus outbreak.
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Here are the honours ranks in descending order and the numbers of people under each type:
– Companions of Honour (CH)
This highest accolade goes to those who have made a long-standing contribution to arts, science, medicine or government.
Sir Paul McCartney and his wife Nancy Shevell following an Investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace, London, where he was made a Companion of Honour (Steve Parsons/PA)
No-one is named under this rank in the latest list, with the honour previously going to the likes of Sir Elton John, JK Rowling and Sir Paul McCartney.
– Order of the Bath (DCB/KCB/CB)
These honours recognise the work of senior military officials and civil servants.
Brenda King (DCB), attorney general for Northern Ireland, and Edward Ollard (KCB), former Clerk of the Parliaments in the House of Lords, were honoured in Queen's Birthday list.
– Knighthood and damehood (Knight/DBE)
These are usually bestowed on people who have made a major contribution at national level and see those being honoured use the titles Dame and Sir.
There were 17 Knight Bachelors in the Queen's Birthday list and 14 Dame Commanders of the Order of the British Empire.
This included parliamentarians Tony Lloyd and Andrea Leadsom, actor Jonathan Pryce and former Strictly Come Dancing judge Arlene Phillips.
Earl Howe, deputy leader of the House of Lords, is made a Knight Grand Cross for his political and parliamentary service.
– Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
People are recognised under this honour if they have have a prominent but lesser role at national level, or a leading role at regional level.
It is also goes to those who make a distinguished, innovative contribution to any area.
British singer Lulu with her trophy after coming joint first in the Eurovision Song Contest with her song, Boom Bang-A-Bang (PA)
Overall, 90 people were made a CBE in the Queen's Birthday list including ex-England football team manager Roy Hodgson and veteran broadcaster Sue Barker for their services to sport and pop star and one-time Eurovision winner Lulu.
– Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
People are made Officer of the Order of the British Empire if they have a major local role in any activity, including people whose work has made them known nationally.
Kevin Sinfield (Dave Howarth/PA)
Among the 206 people who were honoured in this way in the Queen's Birthday list were cellist Julian Lloyd-Webber, brother of West End impresario Andrew Lloyd-Webber, and Leeds Rhinos director of rugby Kevin Sinfield.
– Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
This rank recognises outstanding achievements or service to the community which have had a long-term significant impact.
Amika George (Victoria Jones/PA)
A total of 457 people were made Member of the Order of the British Empire, including the youngest person on the list, 21-year-old Amika George, founder of the #FreePeriods Campaign, for services to education after campaigning against period poverty.
Manchester City footballer Raheem Sterling is also made an MBE for services to racial equality in sport.
– British Empire Medal (BEM)
The BEM was reintroduced in 2012 by then prime minister David Cameron as part of his bid to make the honours system "classless", saying too few people making a difference in their areas were made MBEs.
The medal went to 323 people in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
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This book argues that McCarthy's works convey a profound moral vision, and use intertextuality, moral philosophy, and questions of genre to advance that vision. It focuses upon the ways in which McCarthy's fiction is in ceaseless conversation with literary and philosophical tradition, examining McCarthy's investment in influential thinkers from Marcus Aurelius to Hannah Arendt, and poets, playwrights, and novelists from Dante and Shakespeare to Fyodor Dostoevsky and Antonio Machado. The book shows how McCarthy's fiction grapples with abiding moral and metaphysical issues: the nature and problem of evil; the idea of God or the transcendent; the credibility of heroism in the modern age; the question of moral choice and action; the possibility of faith, hope, love, and goodness; the meaning and limits of civilization; and the definition of what it is to be human. This study will appeal alike to readers, teachers, and scholars of Cormac McCarthy.


1. Lots of perfumes contain phthalates. DEP (Diethyl Phthalate) is commonly used in perfume as a solvent or fixative. The US FDA says "DEP does not pose known risks for human health as it is currently used in cosmetics and fragrances." However another US agency, the Consumer Product Safety Commisision (CPSC), which did its own tests to evaluate DEP's toxicity, says DEP can be considered "toxic" under the Federal Hazardous Substances Act. The Guardian newspaper has reported that DEP is a serious hormone disruptor which damages sperm and affects male reproductive development.
2. Perfumes advertised as containing natural oils may not be natural at all. In fact many brands talk about natural ingredients and show seductive images of them but these days few will even have 10% of naturals in their formula. The industry norm is closer to just 1%.
3. The majority of synthetic fragrance ingredients are petroleum derived. The Huffington Post and the Daily Mail reports synthetics in perfume can cause headaches, wheezing and asthma symptoms in people exposed to them long term.
4. Many natural essential oils such as lavender or frankincense are antimicrobial. They speed healing in wounds. Sandalwood tones the skin and makes it feel smooth. While generally cautioned against for skin contact in high concentration, when properly diluted many natural essential oils deliver marvellous health benefits as well as olfactory pleasure.
5. Finally many synthetic musks, a core ingredient of synthetic perfumes, are not biodegradable. Natural musk is outlawed because of the cruelty involved to animals in obtaining it. Synthetic musks play a structural role in a very high proportion of perfumes, and many consumers love the smell of them. But it stays in skin, body tissues and organs. According to a Greenpeace report synthetic musk is a huge problem for the environment, especially for marine life. It has been found in fish in japan and in rain water in Holland. It is widely used in fabric conditioner as it helps clothes smell almost permanently fresh.
So you might be wondering does 100% natural perfume work? Many natural perfumes simply don't deliver, according to industry critics. They don't last and lack shape. Luca Turin, a world-famous perfume critic who is rarely impressed by all-natural perfumes says, 'organic perfume is very hard to make. These guys [ie Prosody London] are very good at it". To see why Ft How to Spend It, Vogue and The independent and many other bloggers recommended Prosody London Organic perfumes, click here.
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In a world where patent and copyright trolls, trademark bullies, fraudsters, and IP and domain squatters abound, what can you do to protect your Internet business? Attendees will gain insight into the mindset and goals of these quasi-villains and learn practical advice and strategies for successfully battling with them – or avoiding them altogether.
David is a partner with Barnes & Thornburg LLP where he is a member of the Intellectual Property Department and Chairman of the Internet and Technology Law Group. His practice focuses on Internet law, technology, media, intellectual property counseling, risk management, prosecution, policing, and enforcement. He regularly advises clients on commercial and intellectual property matters, such as trademark, copyright, defamation, trade dress, advertising, right of publicity, trade secret, and unfair competition issues.
David advises a range of clients from start-ups to multinational corporations, including Internet businesses and online service providers, software developers, computer hardware and device manufacturers, toy manufacturers, media and publishing companies, automotive companies, clothing retailers, and financial institutions.
Born an artist, Sarah decided the best way to protect creative folk like herself was to become an attorney.
Sarah joined Etsy, Inc. in 2007 as their first in-house counsel and handles most legal matters, notably complying with the DMCA and policing and encouraging certain uses of Etsy's intellectual property. She played an integral part in Etsy's growth from an inconspicuous startup to a Certified B Corporation currently boasting over one million sellers and 30 million registered members.
Her unique background and passion for the handmade movement, startups, social entrepreneurism, alternative legal careers, feminism, social media, fashion law, and intellectual property law lead to international speaking and writing engagements. Sarah has been featured in Martha Stewart's Whole Living Magazine, IgniteNYC, and SXSW. Sarah's ebook, Copyright for Artists: Quick and Easy Copyright Protection, is now required reading in certain college and graduate level classes.


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Award Winning Books You'll Actually Want to Read!
I love the idea of finding my next favorite author by following the book awards. Unfortunately, the reality is a little different.
Most well-known book awards are published on unwieldy websites that are damn-near impossible to navigate.
In addition to being difficult to track down, the winning books are often selected by critics for critics. These are books that critics read and then congratulate each other for reading. They are just too unpleasant and pretentious to attract most readers.
I created this list in an effort to find the award winning books that people actually want to read. I started with the 30 most well-known book awards and narrowed the list to these eleven. Many of these awards are still listed on websites designed by MC Escher, but the books tend to be well rated and widely read.
Most of these awards have multiple categories, I am only listing the winners that are likely to appeal to readers of popular adult fiction.
Agatha Awards
The Agatha Awards honor the Traditional Mystery, books typified by the works of Agatha Christie. For our purposes, the genre is loosely defined as mysteries that contain no explicit sex, excessive gore or gratuitous violence, and are not classified as "hard-boiled." Full awards list and previous winners at Malice Domestic.
Long Call by Ann Cleeves
In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. Once loved and cherished, the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too.
Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a call from one of his team. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death.
The case calls Matthew back into the community he thought he had left behind, as deadly secrets hidden at its heart are revealed, and his past and present collide.
An astonishing new novel told with compassion and searing insight, The Long Call will captivate fans of Vera and Shetland, as well as new readers.
Awarded 05/03/2020
The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. The winning titles are selected from the previous year's publishing. The Alex Awards were first given annually beginning in 1998 and became an official ALA award in 2002. Full awards list and previous winners at American Library Association.
Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales?
When his mother became President of the United States, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius—his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with an actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex/Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse.
Heads of the family and state and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: Stage a truce between the two rivals. What at first begins as a fake, Instagrammable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Soon Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret romance with a surprisingly unstuffy Henry that could derail the presidential campaign and upend two nations. It raises the question: Can love save the world after all? Where do we find the courage, and the power, to be the people we are meant to ben? And how can we learn to let our true colors shine through? , how will history remember you?
Follow this link for the 2020 Alex Awards List.
Awarded 01/27/20
Each year the Audio Publishers Association honors the best titles in audio publishing at a gala awards ceremony. Awards were given in twenty-four categories including Audiobook of the Year. Full awards list and previous winners at Audio Publishers Association.
In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, from the fun-chasing showgirls to a sexy male actor, a grand-dame actress, a lady-killer writer, and no-nonsense stage manager. But when Vivian makes a personal mistake that results in professional scandal, it turns her new world upside down in ways that it will take her years to fully understand. Ultimately, though, it leads her to a new understanding of the kind of life she craves-and the kind of freedom it takes to pursue it. It will also lead to the love of her life, a love that stands out from all the rest.
Now ninety-five years old and telling her story at last, Vivian recalls how the events of those years altered the course of her life - and the gusto and autonomy with which she approached it.
Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. Written with a powerful wisdom about human desire and connection, City of Girls is a love story like no other.
Barnes and Noble Book of the Year
Selected by Barnes and Noble Book Sellers. Barnes & Noble booksellers from around the country nominated their top books from 2019, which were then narrowed down to eight titles by a selection committee, including Mr. Daunt. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse was voted on by booksellers as the 2019 Book of the Year. For a complete list of nominees visit Barnes and Noble.
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
A book of hope for uncertain times.
Enter the world of Charlie's four unlikely friends, discover their story and their most important life lessons.
The conversations of the boy, the mole, the fox and the horse have been shared thousands of times online, recreated in school art classes, hung on hospital walls and turned into tattoos. In Charlie's first book, you will find his most-loved illustrations and some new ones too.
The leading literary award in the English speaking world, which has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over 50 years. Awarded annually to the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK or Ireland. Full awards list and previous winners at Booker Prize.
Girl Woman Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Teeming with life and crackling with energy — a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood
Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years.
Joyfully polyphonic and vibrantly contemporary, this is a gloriously new kind of history, a novel of our times: celebratory, ever-dynamic and utterly irresistible.
Edgar Awards
Mystery Writers of America present the Edgar Awards, widely acknowledged to be the most prestigious awards in the genre. Full awards list and previous winners at Edgar Awards.
Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths
Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. A high school English teacher specializing in the Gothic writer R. M. Holland, she teaches a course on it every year. But when one of Clare's colleagues and closest friends is found dead, with a line from R. M. Holland's most famous story, "The Stranger," left by her body, Clare is horrified to see her life collide with the storylines of her favourite literature.
To make matters worse, the police suspect the killer is someone Clare knows. Unsure whom to trust, she turns to her closest confidant, her diary, the only outlet she has for her darkest suspicions and fears about the case. Then one day she notices something odd. Writing that isn't hers, left on the page of an old diary: "Hallo, Clare. You don't know me."
Clare becomes more certain than ever: "The Stranger" has come to terrifying life. But can the ending be rewritten in time?
Goodreads Choice Awards
Goodreads Choice Awards, the only major book awards decided by readers. Full awards list and previous winners at Goodreads.
Testaments by Margaret Atwood
When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison or death.
With The Testaments, the wait is over.
Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.
In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades.
Nebula Awards
The Nebula Awards® are voted on, and presented by, active members of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. Founded as the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1965 by Damon Knight, the organization began with a charter membership of 78 writers; it now has over 1,500 members, among them many of the leading writers of science fiction and fantasy. Full awards list and previous winners at Nebula.
Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker
In this captivating science fiction novel from an award-winning author, public gatherings are illegal making concerts impossible, except for those willing to break the law for the love of music, and for one chance at human connection.
In the Before, when the government didn't prohibit large public gatherings, Luce Cannon was on top of the world. One of her songs had just taken off and she was on her way to becoming a star. Now, in the After, terror attacks and deadly viruses have led the government to ban concerts, and Luce's connection to the world--her music, her purpose--is closed off forever. She does what she has to do: she performs in illegal concerts to a small but passionate community, always evading the law.
Rosemary Laws barely remembers the Before times. She spends her days in Hoodspace, helping customers order all of their goods online for drone delivery--no physical contact with humans needed. By lucky chance, she finds a new job and a new calling: discover amazing musicians and bring their concerts to everyone via virtual reality. The only catch is that she'll have to do something she's never done before and go out in public. Find the illegal concerts and bring musicians into the limelight they deserve. But when she sees how the world could actually be, that won't be enough.
For distinguished fiction published in book form during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. Full awards list and previous winners at Pulitzer Prize.
Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead
As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is a high school senior about to start classes at a local college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, whose mission statement says it provides "physical, intellectual and moral training" so the delinquent boys in their charge can become "honorable and honest men."
In reality, the Nickel Academy is a grotesque chamber of horrors. Stunned to find himself in such a vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold onto Dr. King's ringing assertion "Throw us in jail and we will still love you." His friend Turner thinks Elwood is worse than naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble.
The tension between Elwood's ideals and Turner's skepticism leads to a decision with repercussions that will echo down the decades. Formed in the crucible of the evils Jim Crow wrought, the boys' fates will be determined by what they endured at the Nickel Academy.
The book is based on the real story of a reform school in Florida that operated for one hundred and eleven years and warped the lives of thousands of children.
RITA Award
The RITA—the highest award of distinction in romance fiction—recognizes excellence in published romance novels and novellas. 13 Categories. Full awards list and previous winners at RITA Awards.
Long Shot by Kennedy Ryan
Think you know what it's like being a baller's girl?
You don't.
My fairy tale is upside down.
A happily never after.
I kissed the prince and he turned into a fraud.
I was a fool, and his love - fool's gold.
Now there's a new player in the game, August West.
One of the NBA's brightest stars.
Fine. Forbidden.
He wants me. I want him.
But my past, my fraudulent prince, just won't let me go.
Women's Prize for Fiction
Celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women's writing from throughout the world. Full awards list and previous winners at Women's Prize for Fiction.
American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Newlyweds, Celestial and Roy, are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is artist on the brink of an exciting career. They are settling into the routine of their life together, when they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding. As Roy's time in prison passes, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center. After five years, Roy's conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together.
This stirring love story is a deeply insightful look into the hearts and minds of three people who are at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control. An American Marriage is a masterpiece of storytelling, an intimate look into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward- with hope and pain- into the future.
Book Summaries from Goodreads.
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Several of these books are either on my to-be-read list or by authors that I have read and loved in the past. I am most excited for Red, White and Royal Blue, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, and American Marriage.
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Lu link
Great list! I will check them out. Thanks for sharing.
Let me know if you end up reading any of these!
Kalin link
All of these books sound amazing! I just started Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood so I'd love to read Testaments by her as well!
I know! I loved Handmaid's Tale! I think this will be just as great!
I always love these kinds of posts - I skip reading most award winning books because they rarely appeal to me, but always wonder just how many amazing books I'm missing out on. I've only read Red, White & Royal Blue so far (about a dozen times by now, I think), but I'm looking forward to trying the rest! Thanks for the list!
Hopefully this list will help everyone find the most enjoyable award winning books to read!
Roni link
Ooo I'd never actually thought to find my next read by looking at awards. I normally just browse amazon or waterstones! I will definitely try this next time
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Great! I hope you find one you love!
Beth link
I need to/have been meaning to read so many of these books!!!! Especially the testamnets and the boy...!!!! You are right, these are books I will actually want to read. Xxx
Haha! Let me know if you end up reading them!
Tiarna link
Ooo I definitely have to read a few of these! They all sound great! Fantastic post and I love your blog!
Thank you! I hope you find something to read from this list that you love!
Emmydaz link
Nice post. I really enjoyed it
Melinda link
I loved Girl Woman Other and now have a whole list of other books to read. Didn't know about Sarah Gilbert's new one so thank you for sharing!
Great! Let me know what you end up reading!
Sara Lili link
This is a great list filled with awesome books. Thank you so much
Great! I am glad you found it helpful!
Alex link
I didn't even know there were that many book awards! I can never keep track of all of them, thanks for this great list!
It's crazy! There are so many! Everyone does book awards!


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Contains Stem Majors
Total Degrees
Awarded in 2017
declining 24.8%
Median In-State
Public Tuition
Median Out-of-State
Average Wage
growing 8.76%
People in Workforce
growing 10.4%
Average Employee Age
The locations with the highest concentration of Drywall Installation degree recipients are Centralia, WA, Aberdeen, WA, and North Highlands, CA. The locations with a relatively high number of Drywall Installation degree recipients are Aberdeen, WA, Centralia, WA, and North Highlands, CA. The most common degree awarded to students studying Drywall Installation is a < 1 year postsecondary certificate.
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ConstructionConstruction Finishing, Management, & Inspection
Information about the types of higher education institutions that grant degrees in Drywall Installation and the types of students that study this field. Centralia College awards the most degrees in Drywall Installation in the US, but Grays Harbor College and Centralia College have the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Drywall Installation.
Tuition costs for Drywall Installation majors are, on average, $N/A for in-state public colleges, and $N/A for out of state private colleges.
The most common sector, by number of institutions, that offers Drywall Installation programs are Public, 4-year or above institutions (3 total). The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded, is Public, 4-year or above (106 completions).
Institution with the Most Degrees Awarded in Drywall Installation
Centralia College
Grays Harbor College
The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded in Drywall Installation, is Public, 4-year or above (106 completions).
The following chart shows the share of universities that offer Drywall Installation programs, by the total number of completions, colored and grouped by their sector.
Tuition Costs for Common Institutions
State TuitionOut Of State TuitionTotal Graduates
Median Out of State Private
Centralia College has the most Drywall Installation degree recipients, with 61 degrees awarded in 2017.
The following bar chart shows the state tuition for the top 5 institutions with the most degrees awarded in Drywall Installation.
Specialized Colleges
Highest Concentration Institution
Out of all institutions that offer Drywall Installation programs and have at least 5 graduates in those programs, Grays Harbor College and Centralia College have the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Drywall Installation, with 5.34% and 4.73%, respectively.
Degrees Awarded by County
Counties with the Most Degrees Awarded in Drywall Installation
Lewis County, WA
Grays Harbor County, WA
Sacramento County, CA
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest number of degrees awarded in Drywall Installation by year.
Growth in Awarded Degrees
Counties with the Fastest Growing Number of Degrees Awarded
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest growth in degrees awarded for Drywall Installation.
Information on the businesses and industries that employ Construction graduates and on wages and locations for those in the field.
The average salary for Construction majors is $96,343 and the most common occupations are Construction managers, Other managers, and Project management specialists.
The industry that employs the most Construction majors is Construction, though the highest paying industry, by average wage, is Real estate property managers, offices of real estate appraisers, and other activities related to real estate.
Yearly Income for Common Jobs
The closest comparable data for the 6 Digit Course Drywall Installation is from the 2 Digit Course Construction.
Average Wage in Workforce
This chart shows the average annual salaries of the most common occupations for Construction majors.
Highest Paying Locations
Highest Paying Pumas
Dane County (West) PUMA, WI
Winter Garden, Ocoee Cities & Oakland Town PUMA, FL
Broomfield, Jefferson (Northeast), Adams (Northwest) & Boulder (Southeast) Counties PUMA, CO
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States colored by the average salary of Construction majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Construction majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
The most common occupations Construction majors, by number of employees, are Construction managers, Other managers, and Project management specialists.
Compared to other majors, there are an unusually high number of Construction majors working as Construction managers, Cost estimators, and Construction & building inspectors.
The highest paid occupations by median income for Construction majors are Chief executives & legislators, Financial managers, and Sales managers.
2018 Workforce
The number of Construction graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 10.4%, from 106,947 in 2017 to 118,088 in 2018.
The largest single share of Construction graduates go on to work as Construction managers (27.6%). This chart shows the various jobs filled by those with a major in Construction by share of the total number of graduates.
The most common industries that employ Construction majors, by number of employees, are Construction, Architectural, engineering & related services, and Lessors of real estate, and offices of real estate agents and brokers.
The highest paying industries of Construction majors, by average wage, are Real estate property managers, offices of real estate appraisers, and other activities related to real estate, Furniture & related product manufacturing, and Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers.
Industries by Share
The industry which employs the most Construction graduates by share is Construction, followed by Architectural, engineering & related services. This visualization shows the industries that hire those who major in Construction.
Specialty Locations
PUMAS with a relatively high number of Construction majors
West Hollywood & Beverly Hills Cities PUMA, CA
Carr 2-Carr 111 PUMA, PR
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States where there are a relatively high population of Construction majors.
Demographic information on those who earn a degree in Construction in the US. The average age of a person in the workforce with a degree in Construction is 41, and the most common degree type these workers hold is a < 1 Year Postsecondary Certificate. Male employees are more likely to hold Construction degrees, and White students earn the majority (57) of the degrees.
Workforce Age
Average Age in 2018
± 0.853 Years
1 Year Change
This chart shows distribution of ages for employees with a degree in Construction. The most common ages of employees with this major are 33 and 34 years old, which represent 4.72% and 4.43% of the population, respectively.
Degrees Awarded
The most common degree types awarded to students graduating in Drywall Installation are < 1 Year Postsecondary Certificate, 1 to 2 Year Postsecondary Certificate, and Associates Degree.
Workforce Degrees
The most common degree types held by the working population in Construction are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Professional degree.
Gender Imbalance for Common Institutions
Male (100%)
Most Common Gender with a Degree in this Field
This chart shows the granted degrees by gender at the 5 institutions that graduate the most students in Drywall Installation.
Race & Ethnicity by Degrees Awarded
This chart shows the number of degrees awarded in Drywall Installation for each race & ethnicity. White students earned the largest share of the degrees with this major.
Most Common Race/Ethnicity and Gender Combination
This chart illustrates the differences by gender for each race & ethnicity of Bachelors Degree recipients in Drywall Installation. N/A students, who earn most of the degrees in this field, are the most common combination of race/ethnicity and gender.
People in WorkforcePeople in Workforce (RCA)
Most Common Countries of Origin
1,709 degree recipients
997 degree recipients
High Relative Number of Students
15.6 times more than expected
United Kingdom, not specified
7.38 times more than expected
There are a relatively high number of people that were born in Ireland that hold Construction degrees (15.6 times more than expected), and the most common country of origin by total numbers for non-US students earning a degree in this field is Mexico (1,709 degree recipients).
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Drywall Installation field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Drywall Installation majors need many skills, but most especially Coordination. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Drywall Installation majors need more than the average amount of Installation, Equipment Maintenance, and Equipment Selection.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Drywall Installation majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Installation is very distinctive for majors, but the Coordination, Critical Thinking, and Reading Comprehension are the three most important skills for people in the field.
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