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Her cousin is comedian Alexander Armstrong. ![]() Her father, Arthur Dickson Wright, was a surgeon to the Royal Family, and her mother, Molly (née Bath), Who’s Who 2012 was an Australian heiress. Early lifeĬlarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Dickson Wright was born in St John’s Wood in London, the youngest of four children. Having trained as a lawyer, Dickson Wright is the youngest woman ever to be called to the Bar. Clarissa Dickson Wright (born 24 June 1947) is an English celebrity chef, television personality, businesswoman and formerly a barrister, who is best known as one half, along with the late Jennifer Paterson, of the Two Fat Ladies. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel follows the coming of age of three sisters who are orphaned following the sudden murder of their father. ![]() Her newest book “When We Were Sisters” was published October 2022 and was longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction 2022. Asghar explores so many different forms throughout the chapters of the novel that her narration never gets monotonous while the story flows rhythmically.įatimah Asghar is a Pakistani, Kashmiri, Muslim American writer. The rhythm in their prose elevates the delivery of the plot and takes the readers on an emotional roller coaster. When I think of books written by authors who were also poets, Ocean Vuong’s “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” and Sabahattin Ali’s “Madonna In a Fur Coat” are the first ones to come to mind. Recently, I read “When We Were Sisters” by Fatimah Asghar, who is known for her poetry collection “If They Should Come For Us.” The lyrical beauty of the book made it an extremely captivating read. Thus, it’s a whole different story when a poet writes a novel. Poems tell grand stories that tend to stick in the reader’s memory much longer than the entire plot of a novel. ![]() It has always been my favorite form of literature to consume because of its lyrical beauty and subsequent ability to deliver emotions, that too in just a few stanzas. ![]() ![]() ![]() This tone is not just built from Boethius himself, but also a host of muses that influence him. He is emotionally at the bottom of a pit and composes no way out. Such lack leads to an overbearing melancholic tone. This descent from a good life to suffering comes directly from fortune, more specifically the lack thereof. We learn that he began his life with much, which has fallen apart before his eyes as old age crept in. The Consolation opens with the first poem in which the speaker, Boethius, bemoans his outcast state. Why was Boethius swapping between two different modes of communication in his treatise? To at least try and answer this question, my group looked at the first and last poems, discerning their function with regard to their own content, and with regard to the rest of the work. ![]() Reading Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy for the first time, the interplay of prose and poetry immediately jumped out. Each person has their own section in which they compile their thoughts about the readings, as well as offer reflections on the ideas other members have brought up in their own posts. In the spirit of collaborative effort, our group has decided to write several pieces that build off one another in the style of a discussion board thread. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like Midnight Sun, fans have long waited for the next book in the series. Still, the countdown could be hinting at a sequel to Meyer’s sci-fi novel, The Host. James, started out as Twilight fanfiction, so it seemed like an obvious rip-off of Meyer’s original idea. The Fifty Shades of Grey novels, written by E.L. ![]() Meyer floated the idea of completing Midnight Sun in 2015 but abandoned the project once again after the announcement of Grey, a Fifty Shades of Grey re-telling told from Christian Grey’s perspective. “I feel too sad about what has happened to continue working on Midnight Sun, and so it is on hold indefinitely,” Meyer said at the time. It’s still available to download on her website. Meyer responded by halting the project and releasing her partial draft to the public. But in 2008, her unfinished manuscript was leaked online. A large portion of the manuscript had been completed at the time. ![]() ![]() Meyer initially had plans to publish Midnight Sun after the release of Breaking Dawn. Longtime Twi-hards know that Midnight Sun is a re-telling of Twilight, told through Edward Cullen’s perspective. If the reveal does have something to do with Midnight Sun, it’ll be massive news to fans. I have strong reason to believe it’s Midnight Sun. ![]() |