Furies: Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 15 bestselling, award-winning authors

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A couple of the stories weren't my thing (Siren felt a touch heavy-handed, as though Atwood needed you to know how much she was rolling her eyes), but I either learned from them or learned about my likes and dislikes in the process. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. When Alex Morris loses her fiancé in dreadful circumstances, she moves from London to Edinburgh to make a break with the past. is a deeply empathetic, completely unsentimental account of a woman trying to make her way around the world.

Truth be told, there were some of these words that I’d be happy to take on and acknowledge – Warrior, Fury, Tygress and of course Virago – but some which still hold associations long used to put down women.To celebrate Virago's fiftieth birthday, fifteen award-winning, bestselling authors have written original stories embodying the spirit of Virago: feminist, fearless, fun, wild and defiant of convention. Excellent read that did truly get to the heart of me – and a heads up, if you are lucky enough to have a copy with the added bonus of a short essay from Ms Haynes as an afterword talking about why the Greek Tragedies are perfect in conjunction with todays teenagers then make sure you give that a read when you are done.

About the Author: Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty works, including fiction, poetry and critical essays, and her books have been published in over thirty-five countries. But the undeniable truth is that if I had made even the slightest effort to look outwards at these children, instead of inwards, I could have changed everything that happened. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. There’s a feeling, with terms of abuse, that if they’re reclaimed from the oppressors, re-appropriated and used by those abused, the words lose their power; certainly that’s often been the case with the N-word, which has been taken back and used by those of colour. She decides to teach her class of problematic fifteen-year-olds about Greek drama and in a series of distinctly improbable conversations that takes up most of the first hundred pages, they discuss plays plays by Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides.Only when it’s too late does she realize what has been unleashed by the volatile mixture of troubled teens and themes of vengeance, justice and fate. She finds the going tough but at least she can put the past behind her, or more accurately try to be so busy that it does not intrude. Of the eight books incoming in March this year I have now abandoned two and read and reviewed four, with one not reviewed on here yet, and one in the Reading With Emma pile. Collection of 15 short stories, ranging from sassy story college-like Siren on roles on seducing man, to a sex worker whose also a mum, a woman in Victorian era gotta gave up her independence just to get married, and a man who ran because his dead wife decided to haunt him because he forced her to get pregnant and she died.

Flock, now a journalist, did not report the rape to the police because she “did not think they would help me. If the sisterhood were an idea that could be compressed into the shape and size of a book, it would be Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed. i do wish there had been more about the other classes she was teaching, just as a sort of contrast point, or even more about the students in the class that was the focus.She then proceeds to select Greek tragedies for a literature class of fifteen year olds with histories of violence, abuse, challenging behaviour - a very dangerous choice for such a class. A cracking, fizzing, furious and fun collection of stories by some starry authors, each titled with a gendered insult, such as Hussy, Wench, Dragon, She-Devil, Termagent, and Vituperator. There's a feel-good epilogue that I really, really could have done without -- it's like one of those dreadful happy endings producers insist directors tack on to movies because everyone knows we're all too infantile to cope with sadness.

Adopted as a baby, he’s never quite felt at home with the family that treats him more as a curious pet than a son. An atmospheric, disturbing, even scary tale that touches on otherworldliness' THE TIMES 'Too-cool-for-school teenage girls, an outsider welcomed into their fold, and murder. A celebration of womanhood through short stories centered on women with a mix of historic, tale, and of course magic, voices.Her burgeoning womanhood, the glorious body, a physical shape that enthralled and terrified her, attracting and enticing men and women and those in the many betweens: she revelled in her body, revealed it to herself and sometimes to them.