Deadly was, by all accounts, the master of the drying pitch. A worthy successor to Rhodes and Verity in the left-arm spin department. Never mind the bar (Verity, at least, was a one-pint man), I reckon right now all three are working out how Deadly would bowl to Bradman.
Deadly was, by all accounts, the master of the drying pitch. A worthy successor to Rhodes and Verity in the left-arm spin department. Never mind the bar (Verity, at least, was a one-pint man), I reckon right now all three are working out how Deadly would bowl to Bradman.
Deadly was almost slow medium pace rather than normal finger spin. He also had the advantage of having Alan Knott behind the stumps. His record was impressive because he would rarely, if ever. have first bite of the cherry against a poorer opposition.
Conservative activist Beverly LaHaye has died. She spent most of her life working outside the home for her organization Concerned Women for America, founded to promote the idea that women shouldn't work outside the home.
I was mildly surprised, on reading her Wikipedia page, to discover she co-wrote a sex manual.
Well, OK, it was a sex manual of a sort. Lots of gender and role stereotypes. Including the classic "men cannot control themselves, so the wives should satisfy them," and "women are much less sexual then men." There may be 3 books in my life that I have shredded and thrown into the garbage because I didn't want to risk anyone else reading them if I passed them on to a thrift store. This was one. It was NOT helpful to my husband and me at 23 years old launching into marriage from very repressed and conservative backgrounds.
I was mildly surprised, on reading her Wikipedia page, to discover she co-wrote a sex manual.
Surprised that someone who spent a lot of time and effort trying to control other people's sex lives wrote a book dictating how other people should pursue their sex lives? That seems very unsurprising to me.
I was mildly surprised, on reading her Wikipedia page, to discover she co-wrote a sex manual.
Well, OK, it was a sex manual of a sort. Lots of gender and role stereotypes. Including the classic "men cannot control themselves, so the wives should satisfy them," and "women are much less sexual then men." There may be 3 books in my life that I have shredded and thrown into the garbage because I didn't want to risk anyone else reading them if I passed them on to a thrift store. This was one. It was NOT helpful to my husband and me at 23 years old launching into marriage from very repressed and conservative backgrounds.
That book caused me so much harm. I literally needed therapy later. Very dangerous ideas indeed.
I was just coming to post about that. I fondly remember his rendition of the Major General's Song from Pirates of Penzance on one of his Last Nights of the Proms.
Andrew Davis - a great loss. A conductor of tremendous gifts but also a lovely man. In 1997 gave what many consider to be the best ever speech at the Last Night of the Proms, where he had to mark the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, Mother Teresa and Georg Solti in one paragraph, and did so with grace, dignity and brevity.
Andrew Davis - a great loss. A conductor of tremendous gifts but also a lovely man. In 1997 gave what many consider to be the best ever speech at the Last Night of the Proms, where he had to mark the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, Mother Teresa and Georg Solti in one paragraph, and did so with grace, dignity and brevity.
Never read anything by him, and, in fact, I only found out about him when an intellectually advanced middle-schooler of my acquaintance mentioned him to me back in the early 2010s. I'd be interested to hear the opinions of any Shipmates who have read him.
@stetson, I started to read Paul Auster with The New York Trilogy and then went on to The Music of Chance, Moon Palace and Travels in the Scriptorium, as well as his correspondence with JM Coetzee as a close friend. I read a moving piece about the death of his son (a drug overdose) with Lydia Davis in 2022, and I'm inclined to think of Lydia Davis as the greater writer although she does very short fictions. I have also read skilful novels on art and artists by Auster's second wife Siri Hustvedt. Time to revisist his work, perhaps. I keep seeing notices that claim he was very influenced by European post-modernism but he was also indebted to American Romantic Gothic and the work of Poe and Hawthorne.
I find it really difficult when a favourite author dies, realising that there will be no more books from them ever again and missing the joy that their particular take on writing offered.
Douglas Adams (Hitch Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy) and Reginald Hill (who wrote the Dalziel and Pascoe books, (especially the later ones where he played delightfully with words) stood out for me.
And just now, reading the Guardian I discovered that C J Sanson who wrote a totally brilliant series about Shardlake, a lawyer who worked for Thomas Cromwell, has died.
I find it really difficult when a favourite author dies, realising that there will be no more books from them ever again and missing the joy that their particular take on writing offered.
Douglas Adams (Hitch Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy) and Reginald Hill (who wrote the Dalziel and Pascoe books, (especially the later ones where he played delightfully with words) stood out for me.
I find it really difficult when a favourite author dies, realising that there will be no more books from them ever again and missing the joy that their particular take on writing offered.
Douglas Adams (Hitch Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy) and Reginald Hill (who wrote the Dalziel and Pascoe books, (especially the later ones where he played delightfully with words) stood out for me.
And just now, reading the Guardian I discovered that C J Sanson who wrote a totally brilliant series about Shardlake, a lawyer who worked for Thomas Cromwell, has died.
Kris Hallenga who founded the breast cancer charity Coppafeel has died at 38.
I had her on my list in the circus for several years but had removed her believing she was cancer free.
The only actor to appear in 2 films that have won a record 11 oscars
Great actor
Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the harp on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the deadwood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?
One of the greatest fiction writers, often compared to Chekhov. I have most of her short story collections and always find something new in them when I reread.
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Well, OK, it was a sex manual of a sort. Lots of gender and role stereotypes. Including the classic "men cannot control themselves, so the wives should satisfy them," and "women are much less sexual then men." There may be 3 books in my life that I have shredded and thrown into the garbage because I didn't want to risk anyone else reading them if I passed them on to a thrift store. This was one. It was NOT helpful to my husband and me at 23 years old launching into marriage from very repressed and conservative backgrounds.
Surprised that someone who spent a lot of time and effort trying to control other people's sex lives wrote a book dictating how other people should pursue their sex lives? That seems very unsurprising to me.
That book caused me so much harm. I literally needed therapy later. Very dangerous ideas indeed.
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RIP.
A brave man, almost seven years in captivity in Lebanon.
Seconded.
Never read anything by him, and, in fact, I only found out about him when an intellectually advanced middle-schooler of my acquaintance mentioned him to me back in the early 2010s. I'd be interested to hear the opinions of any Shipmates who have read him.
Douglas Adams (Hitch Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy) and Reginald Hill (who wrote the Dalziel and Pascoe books, (especially the later ones where he played delightfully with words) stood out for me.
And just now, reading the Guardian I discovered that C J Sanson who wrote a totally brilliant series about Shardlake, a lawyer who worked for Thomas Cromwell, has died.
I feel bereft,
Absolutely.
I have all the Cadfael novels, and still enjoy re-reading them from time to time.
Andy Dalziel was not a real Police officer but he should have been.
Sir Pterry for me.
The only actor to appear in 2 films that have won a record 11 oscars
Great actor
I had her on my list in the circus for several years but had removed her believing she was cancer free.
Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the harp on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the deadwood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?
He said *Gissa job!*, and they made him King of Rohan...
(FWIW, and I know this isn't the Tolkien thread, Bernard Hill did a very good job indeed as Theoden - exactly as I pictured him from the book).
https://louderthanwar.com/steve-albini-rip/
https://amp.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/14/alice-munro-nobel-winner-and-titan-of-the-short-story-dies-aged-92
One of the greatest fiction writers, often compared to Chekhov. I have most of her short story collections and always find something new in them when I reread.