The Book Club Chronicles - Part Five - Hamlet

The Book Club Chronicles - Part Five - Hamlet

Author: Joan H. Parks

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2016-07-30

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 1532002912

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It is early fall when the ladies reconvened their book club. At Katherines suggestion they continued with Shakespeare and studied Hamlet using the text and the version filmed with Sir Patrick Stewart as Claudius as their base. Surprised at their reaction to the characters in Act 1, they quickly realized that seen through the filter of their age and gender that they were the ones most able to mount a defense of Gertrude. They added the Sir Kenneth Branagh version of Hamlet as contrast. Their study of the play is reflected in the talks with the males in their lives: Claire is newly married and her Henry isdetermined to hold on to his corner office; Annies husband, Bill, is facing theend of his career which will effect her in unpredictable ways; Franny, slowly recovering with the help of her therapist, wants to reconcile with Sam and her children; Katherine is convinced that her liaison with Mark will not endure and is determined to enjoy her remaining time with him. A new member, welcomed gingerly into the book club, turns out to be a good addition. The ladies struggled with both the play and with the awareness that because of their age, they and all their friends and mates were seen as obsolete.


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Download or read book The Book Club Chronicles - Part Five - Hamlet written by Joan H. Parks and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-07-30 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is early fall when the ladies reconvened their book club. At Katherines suggestion they continued with Shakespeare and studied Hamlet using the text and the version filmed with Sir Patrick Stewart as Claudius as their base. Surprised at their reaction to the characters in Act 1, they quickly realized that seen through the filter of their age and gender that they were the ones most able to mount a defense of Gertrude. They added the Sir Kenneth Branagh version of Hamlet as contrast. Their study of the play is reflected in the talks with the males in their lives: Claire is newly married and her Henry isdetermined to hold on to his corner office; Annies husband, Bill, is facing theend of his career which will effect her in unpredictable ways; Franny, slowly recovering with the help of her therapist, wants to reconcile with Sam and her children; Katherine is convinced that her liaison with Mark will not endure and is determined to enjoy her remaining time with him. A new member, welcomed gingerly into the book club, turns out to be a good addition. The ladies struggled with both the play and with the awareness that because of their age, they and all their friends and mates were seen as obsolete.

The Book Club Chronicles—Part Six—The Tempest

The Book Club Chronicles—Part Six—The Tempest

Author: Joan H. Parks

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2018-03-28

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 1532045964

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The storms of autumn arrive, and the storms of their lives continue. The ladies decide to study Shakespeares The Tempest, wrongly thinking that a comedy will be easier than another of the big tragedies. Finding a suitable filmed version is difficult; reading the text is even more difficult. They struggle, seeing in this late play parts that mirror their own experiences. Claire and Henry struggle in their late-life marriage with the debris and assumptions from their earlier marriages. Annie fights against the physical constraints that come with her aging as Bill wrestles with what he will do after retirement. Katherine is haunted by her past and her brush with cancer and has trouble accepting that Mark is in her life for the duration. Frannie now has grandchildren and a measure of happiness because she has faced the demons of her upbringing. The new members of the book club, Sally and Clarissa, have their own issues as their long-standing friendship shatters. Clarissa is rejuvenated by one new passion and one old passion. All this occurs and is illuminated by their reading of the glorious music and the strange plots of The Tempest.


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Download or read book The Book Club Chronicles—Part Six—The Tempest written by Joan H. Parks and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The storms of autumn arrive, and the storms of their lives continue. The ladies decide to study Shakespeares The Tempest, wrongly thinking that a comedy will be easier than another of the big tragedies. Finding a suitable filmed version is difficult; reading the text is even more difficult. They struggle, seeing in this late play parts that mirror their own experiences. Claire and Henry struggle in their late-life marriage with the debris and assumptions from their earlier marriages. Annie fights against the physical constraints that come with her aging as Bill wrestles with what he will do after retirement. Katherine is haunted by her past and her brush with cancer and has trouble accepting that Mark is in her life for the duration. Frannie now has grandchildren and a measure of happiness because she has faced the demons of her upbringing. The new members of the book club, Sally and Clarissa, have their own issues as their long-standing friendship shatters. Clarissa is rejuvenated by one new passion and one old passion. All this occurs and is illuminated by their reading of the glorious music and the strange plots of The Tempest.

The Book Club Chronicles

The Book Club Chronicles

Author: Joan H. Parks

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2023-08-08

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1663255008

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As the ladies study A Midsummer Night’s Dream, they discover yet again the complexities of Shakespeare’s play. They discover that under the glorious poetry, A Midsummer Night’s Dream has a complicated structure. The plot, what there is of it is about lovers: lovers being parted by tyrannical fathers, lovers being won in combat, lovers being wooed, lovers moaning about unrequited love, fairy lovers squabbling and disturbing all life around them. Then there are the famous mechanicals who are a counterpoint to the over-the-top love stories. Penelope a very old lady has been invited into the book club. She inadvertently stirs up an old hurt and her own past comes back to haunt and entertain her. Clarissa, known as the kid, for she is merely in her mid-fifties, is conflicted about Steve who has returned to her. What is his place in her heretofore simple life? Hovering over them are Shakespeare’s imaginary characters who challenges their intellects, as well as their emotions. They, as always, wrestle with their own love stories, late life marriages, as they struggle to make sense of this beloved play.


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Download or read book The Book Club Chronicles written by Joan H. Parks and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the ladies study A Midsummer Night’s Dream, they discover yet again the complexities of Shakespeare’s play. They discover that under the glorious poetry, A Midsummer Night’s Dream has a complicated structure. The plot, what there is of it is about lovers: lovers being parted by tyrannical fathers, lovers being won in combat, lovers being wooed, lovers moaning about unrequited love, fairy lovers squabbling and disturbing all life around them. Then there are the famous mechanicals who are a counterpoint to the over-the-top love stories. Penelope a very old lady has been invited into the book club. She inadvertently stirs up an old hurt and her own past comes back to haunt and entertain her. Clarissa, known as the kid, for she is merely in her mid-fifties, is conflicted about Steve who has returned to her. What is his place in her heretofore simple life? Hovering over them are Shakespeare’s imaginary characters who challenges their intellects, as well as their emotions. They, as always, wrestle with their own love stories, late life marriages, as they struggle to make sense of this beloved play.

Sigrid

Sigrid

Author: Joan H. Parks

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2024-05-17

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 1663262853

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Sigrid, a Healer, after enduring rapes and beatings in her captivity cannot bear to be touched, until an Egyptian soldier wins her trust. This volume again meditates on the nature of heroism, how myths are made, and how this small tribe survives and attracts the talented in the midst of the tumult of their time.


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Download or read book Sigrid written by Joan H. Parks and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sigrid, a Healer, after enduring rapes and beatings in her captivity cannot bear to be touched, until an Egyptian soldier wins her trust. This volume again meditates on the nature of heroism, how myths are made, and how this small tribe survives and attracts the talented in the midst of the tumult of their time.

Trygve

Trygve

Author: Joan H. Parks

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2022-08-01

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13: 1663242860

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Part 10 of the Late Bronze Age Stores has the kin near the great trade route in what today is Northern Lebanon. Times are desperate. Predators attack from both sea and land. Trygve of the Northerners has to decide about joining with the Kin. The leaders of the Kin have to decide about joining with Trygve and his people. Dalil, the storyteller, has returned to the Kin after many years of roaming. The two groups learn each other’s languages and stories, as they prepare for what may be another great migration.


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Download or read book Trygve written by Joan H. Parks and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 10 of the Late Bronze Age Stores has the kin near the great trade route in what today is Northern Lebanon. Times are desperate. Predators attack from both sea and land. Trygve of the Northerners has to decide about joining with the Kin. The leaders of the Kin have to decide about joining with Trygve and his people. Dalil, the storyteller, has returned to the Kin after many years of roaming. The two groups learn each other’s languages and stories, as they prepare for what may be another great migration.

Two Brothers

Two Brothers

Author: Joan H. Parks

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2021-05-12

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 1663223068

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Part Nine of the Late Bronze Age Stories has the brothers, Diripi and Arudara, returning to the kin in the season of storms acquire a mysterious passenger. Diripi knowing himself to belong on the sea wonders if loneliness is his fate. Arudara, a gifted artist as well as a sailor and trader, needs to spend time on his art. Maeve, from the north country, is conflicted by her haunting past and her present duty. At the close of the bronze age all is in flux, trade routes are destroyed, empires are being dismembered, danger and bloodshed is everywhere, trust is dangerous. How does the kin survive in these hard times? How can Diripi, Arudara and Maeve make a living and live their lives?


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Download or read book Two Brothers written by Joan H. Parks and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part Nine of the Late Bronze Age Stories has the brothers, Diripi and Arudara, returning to the kin in the season of storms acquire a mysterious passenger. Diripi knowing himself to belong on the sea wonders if loneliness is his fate. Arudara, a gifted artist as well as a sailor and trader, needs to spend time on his art. Maeve, from the north country, is conflicted by her haunting past and her present duty. At the close of the bronze age all is in flux, trade routes are destroyed, empires are being dismembered, danger and bloodshed is everywhere, trust is dangerous. How does the kin survive in these hard times? How can Diripi, Arudara and Maeve make a living and live their lives?

Amarna

Amarna

Author: Joan H Parks

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2019-01-26

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 1532067356

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Part Eight of the Late Bronze Age Stories has Nahid, driven by prophetic dreams, leaving the hills above the Great Green Sea. With Bakiri and his band of protectors, he sets out for Egypt, Bakiri’s home, and then to Amarna, where their ancestor Thutmose created his greatest work. Amarna was dismantled when the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten died, but Nahid is sure that a treasure still exists for him to find. Bakiri’s daughter, Rabiah, and Nahid fall in love, and they meld his jewelry and her linen garments. He has found his mate, and perhaps the treasure he was meant to find. She insists on being a part of the trip to Amarna. In the course of finding the treasure, Rabiah is put in great danger, and they have to flee Amarna to save Rabiah. Nahid further matures into a wise and protective mate to Rabiah. All are astonished at the secrets revealed by their quick journey to Amarna. The artists will forever have the images of the great art they have witnessed, in their minds and hearts.


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Download or read book Amarna written by Joan H Parks and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-01-26 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part Eight of the Late Bronze Age Stories has Nahid, driven by prophetic dreams, leaving the hills above the Great Green Sea. With Bakiri and his band of protectors, he sets out for Egypt, Bakiri’s home, and then to Amarna, where their ancestor Thutmose created his greatest work. Amarna was dismantled when the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten died, but Nahid is sure that a treasure still exists for him to find. Bakiri’s daughter, Rabiah, and Nahid fall in love, and they meld his jewelry and her linen garments. He has found his mate, and perhaps the treasure he was meant to find. She insists on being a part of the trip to Amarna. In the course of finding the treasure, Rabiah is put in great danger, and they have to flee Amarna to save Rabiah. Nahid further matures into a wise and protective mate to Rabiah. All are astonished at the secrets revealed by their quick journey to Amarna. The artists will forever have the images of the great art they have witnessed, in their minds and hearts.

Nahid

Nahid

Author: Joan H. Parks

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2017-07-11

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1532027869

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The Late Bronze Age Stories part seven, Nahid, continues the story of this family who are descended from Thutmose, the eighteenth dynasty Egyptian artist. It is unsafe for the kin to remain in northern Mesopotamia for a tribe led by an ambitious man threatens their very existence. Petros the Wise and Kaliq have devised an intricate strategy to move the outnumbered kin to a safer place, but because they have a traitor in their midst, they can tell no one of their plans. Nahid, a young jeweler, sets out along the trade route to locate and bring back lapis. Will his great gifts for jewelry be damaged by the violence he sees? Much is changed during the course of the adventures. Nahid matures as a man and as an artist. The Bedouin and Serena thrown together by his injury become closer, their lives forever intertwined. The kin have to decide whether to honor the traditions of their kin or succumb to the surrounding violence and chaos.


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Download or read book Nahid written by Joan H. Parks and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Late Bronze Age Stories part seven, Nahid, continues the story of this family who are descended from Thutmose, the eighteenth dynasty Egyptian artist. It is unsafe for the kin to remain in northern Mesopotamia for a tribe led by an ambitious man threatens their very existence. Petros the Wise and Kaliq have devised an intricate strategy to move the outnumbered kin to a safer place, but because they have a traitor in their midst, they can tell no one of their plans. Nahid, a young jeweler, sets out along the trade route to locate and bring back lapis. Will his great gifts for jewelry be damaged by the violence he sees? Much is changed during the course of the adventures. Nahid matures as a man and as an artist. The Bedouin and Serena thrown together by his injury become closer, their lives forever intertwined. The kin have to decide whether to honor the traditions of their kin or succumb to the surrounding violence and chaos.

Three Rotten Eggs

Three Rotten Eggs

Author: Gregory Maguire

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2005-01-18

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 0060546573

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With themes ranging from the ethics of gene splicing and nature-versus-nurture, this fifth installment of the Hamlet Chronicles explores dark territory. Illustrations.


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Download or read book Three Rotten Eggs written by Gregory Maguire and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-01-18 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With themes ranging from the ethics of gene splicing and nature-versus-nurture, this fifth installment of the Hamlet Chronicles explores dark territory. Illustrations.

Seven Spiders Spinning

Seven Spiders Spinning

Author: Gregory Maguire

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1995-08-04

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 0064405958

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Seven prehistoric spiders that had been trapped in ice for thousands of years bring excitement to rural Vermont and briefly unite two rival clubs at a local elementary school.


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Download or read book Seven Spiders Spinning written by Gregory Maguire and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1995-08-04 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven prehistoric spiders that had been trapped in ice for thousands of years bring excitement to rural Vermont and briefly unite two rival clubs at a local elementary school.