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Attending college for the first time can be an exciting yet stressful time for anyone.
Many students come to College and have never shared a room, a TV, or a bathroom.
Since many students have not shared these things, their time in a residence hall
can be challenging at first. The Office of Residence Life and Housing hopes that
this page will help you to understand what concerns might be out there and how we
can be empowered to make good decisions and respectfully confront issues.
Living in a community with 50 – 100 other students can also be an opportunity to
learn, grow and develop outside of the classroom. Recognizing what is an appropriate
noise level and learning how to confront your neighbor is critical. Knowing your
neighbors on your hall and being able to talk to them respectfully is something
that the Office of Residence Life and Housing hopes that you will convey to your
student. We also hope that you will talk with your student about vandalism and how
it demonstrates disrespect for their peers and the College. When vandalism occurs
in the hall and no one can be found responsible, the entire hall community is charged
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Arts and Sciences BASc 3 years
The three-year programme of core courses, major and minor pathway and internship.
Arts and Sciences with Study Abroad BASc 4 years
The three-year programme plus an additional year abroad.
|Mr Carl Gombrich, Programme Director
Carl has degrees in Maths, Physics and Philosophy and was a professional opera singer before joining UCL in 2002. He enjoys making interdisciplinary links between all these areas (and more!) and has taught maths, physics, music and philosophy at a number of institutions in the UK and privately. Carl was the Principal of UCL's international preparatory certificates before being appointed to Programme Director, Arts and Sciences (BASc) in September 2010.
Carl says: "I am delighted to have the opportunity to take forward such an exciting programme and to share with students the value of interdisciplinary learning. I believe this value will stay with them for life and will be an asset to them in all future employment. I am also delighted to head up such a strong team of academics and interdisciplinarians who are contributing to this flagship initiative. The intellectual excitement that these colleagues bring from their own high-profile work, interests and engagements is a valuable asset to students on this unique and forward-looking degree."
|Dr Chiara Ambrosio, Pathway Representative for Cultures
Chiara Ambrosio is a Teaching Fellow in Philosophy of Science at the Department of Science and Technology Studies. Her research interests include the relations between science and the visual arts in the early 20th century, American Pragmatism and the philosophy of Charles S. Peirce, scientific discovery, and general history and philosophy of science, with a particular focus on scientific representations.
Chiara has lectured extensively on visual history and the connections between art, science and philosophy in the 19th and 20th century. She is currently writing a book entitled: "Beyond Resemblance: A Philosophical History of Representative Practices, 1880-1914".
Dr Simon Banks, Pathway Representative for Sciences and Engineering
Simon received an MSci degree in Chemistry from UCL, subsequently moving into the field of statistical physics for his PhD. After a period as British Ramsay Memorial Fellow at the University of Oxford, Simon returned to the Department of Chemistry at UCL where he is currently Departmental Tutor and Deputy Head of Department (Teaching).
Simon's research interests span a range of fields from
quantum reaction dynamics to frustrated magnetism and the statistics of highly
correlated systems. These fields may be used to understand the behaviour of a
broad spectrum of complex phenomena beyond chemistry and physics, touching on
areas as diverse as migration, musical appreciation and natural disasters.
Interdisciplinarity plays an important role in driving this research.
Dr Geraldine Brodie, Pathway Representative for Cultures
Geraldine is the Convenor of the MA module in Translation Studies in the Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry and the Supervisor of the SELCS Writing Lab, a UCL initiative supporting student writing. She also devised and co-convenes the UCL Translation in History Lecture Series and the UCL Theatre Translation Forum, and is co-editor of the international journal New Voices in Translation Studies. Geraldine has a first degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford, where she specialised in Old and Middle English and Old French. She then trained as a Chartered Accountant, and worked in Audit, Recruitment and Tax departments (qualifying as a Chartered Tax Advisor) before moving into industry.
Geraldine continued to pursue her interests in languages and theatre during this time, and subsequently returned to academia, receiving an MA in Comparative Literature from UCL, followed by a PhD in Translation Studies (investigating the role of the translator on the London stage) in 2012. Geraldine's career is a testament to her commitment to interdisciplinarity and life-long learning and she is delighted to be joining the BASc project at UCL, an environment which has done so much to support her own interdisciplinary activities.
Dr Vassilis Georgiadis, Pathway Representative for Health and Environment
Vassilis Georgiadis is a British Heart Foundation New Horizons Research Associate at the UCL Rayne Institute/Institute of Child Health. As a molecular biologist, he works on interdisciplinary cardiac tissue engineering projects involving the design of advanced strategies for heart therapy that bring together experts from the fields of biology, engineering, physics and computer science. He obtained his DPhil in Cell Biology from the University of Sussex and during his career has carried out research in fields ranging from skeletal muscle regeneration to inner ear molecular genetics, before joining UCL in 2012. He is an avid proponent of cross-disciplinarity and believes that academic education should be equally about understanding our strengths and the way we each process knowledge as much as it is about mastering the principles of our chosen subjects of interest.
About the ethos of BASc he says: "This is a degree programme that asks you to be committed as much as it asks you to take the initiative and to collaborate and interact with your fellow students and mentors. In our digital age, people can access information instantly and therefore the key requirement is no longer mere assimilation of knowledge but optimal use of it. Integration across disciplines and schools of thought is the key element to making the best use of the vast amounts of information that is so readily available to all of us".
|Dr Federica Mazzara, Pathway Representative for Cultures
Federica is the Convenor of the UCL MA in
Gender, Society and Representation and of the BA in Language and Culture. She
is Teaching and Research Fellow at the School of European Languages, Culture
and Society. Federica studied comparative literature as an undergraduate and
did her PhD in Italy.
She joined UCL in 2009 as an Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in contemporary Italian studies. Her research focuses primarily on the relationship between literature and other arts and on cultural productions in migratory contexts, which she analyses in relation to political, social and juridical frameworks.
|Dr Richard Mole, Pathway Representative for Societies
|Richard Mole is a Political Sociologist at UCL's School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES). He studied modern languages as a undergraduate, before switching to social sciences for his MPhil and PhD. His research, which focuses primarily on the relationship between identity and power with reference to nationalism, ethnic conflict, migration and gender/sexuality, has always been explicitly interdisciplinary, crossing the boundaries of Political Sociology, International Relations, Social Psychology, Socio-Linguistics and Health Studies. He came to UCL in 2003 as an Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow and was offered a permanent position at SSEES the following year.
|Professor Stephen Price, Pathway Representative for Sciences and Engineering
Steve Price is a member of the Chemistry Department working on the study of the reactions of highly energetic atoms and molecules in the gas-phase and on surfaces. This research involves Physics, Chemistry and Materials Science. Steve was educated, as an Undergraduate and Graduate student, at Oxford University and then worked in the Joint Laboratory for Astrophysics at the University of Colorado before arriving at UCL in 1993. Steve's varied research interests have made him a strong advocate of interdisciplinarity across both the sciences and more generally. Away from UCL, as he is now too old to play hockey, he is a keen climber, cyclist and hill walker with a strong interest in both opera and the psychology of leadership and decision making.
|Professor Vincent Walsh, Pathway Representative for Health and Environment
Vincent Walsh is Professor of Human Brain Research in the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. He works on many aspects of perception and memory and is currently investigating lifelong learning and plasticity using behavioural, brain imaging and human brain stimulation methods. He obtained a PhD in Visual Neuroscience from Manchester before spending 10 years in Oxford as a Royal Society University Research Fellow and joining UCL in 2002. He collaborates widely and especially on all aspects of human brain stimulation which requires integration with medical and engineering sciences as well as with manufacturers and patient support groups.
About the interdisciplinary nature of the BASc he says: "The 21st century challenges for humanity require people to think across traditional subject boundaries. The ability to integrate across disciplines is what makes the difference between the merely intelligent and the intellectual. We need to begin to educate a healthy disrespect for boundaries"
Sara Wingate-Gray, Pathway Representative for Societies
Wingate Gray is a Teaching Fellow at UCL and a doctoral candidate in the
Department of Information Studies. Her research focuses on the library, archive
and information studies domains, in particular public libraries, the philosophy
of librarianship, digitisation, ephemera and special collections.
Prior to
joining UCL she was a Visiting Research Scholar at San Francisco State
University, working with The Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives to
create a new digital archive of its historic collection of poetry recordings.
In 2010 she was an International Librarianship Fellow working with IREX and the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation researching public librarianship in Romania.
She has a first degree in English Literature and Creative Writing and an MA in
Creative Writing, and is co-founder of a digi-tech startup and founder of an
international public library of poetry.
Sara is especially committed to the interdisciplinary nature of the BASc due to her own wide-ranging professional background, which has also included youth work, radio broadcasting, journalism, publishing, performance and poetry.
|Dr Graham Woodgate, Departmental Tutor and Pathway Representative for Societies
Graham completed a six-year technical apprenticeship and gained a National Diploma in Forestry before entering high education and has maintained a keen interest in trees, forests and forest-dependent people ever since. He has a PhD in political ecology for which he carried out field research among the Mazahua people of Central Mexico. In the 1990s, Graham coordinated a British Council Higher Education Link Programme between UK universities and Mexican farming systems research institutions. He has held lectureships and senior lectureships at a number of institutions of the University of London. Whilst at Wye and later Imperial College he became involved with postgraduate distance learning programmes in sustainable rural development and continues to work in this area, most recently coordinating the writing of a sustainable forest management module for the Centre for Development, Environment and Policy at SOAS.
Graham says: "I am fascinated by all aspects of nature-society relations, which has led to my involvement in the production of a series of edited volumes in environmental sociology. More recently I have become involved in the emerging field of agroecology, a transdisciplinary intellectual endeavour that is particularly strongly rooted in the Americas and encompasses scientific research, agricultural practice and agrarian social movements. I use the term 'transdisciplinary' to describe my research, because as well as focusing on issues that fall between conventional disciplinary boundaries, my approach to those issues incorporates elements from a wide range of disciplines".
Graham joined UCL in 2012 as a founder member of the Institute of the Americas. In addition to his academic work he undertakes environmental consultancies, carries out forest management certification audits to FSC Forest Stewardship principles and criteria, and manages his own smallholding in Kent.
Ms Amanda Cater, Administrative Manager
Amanda Cater joined UCL in 1999, first as Administrator in the Department of Greek and Latin before joining the Arts and Sciences programme in 2011. She was also an undergraduate at UCL in Classics then took MA Classics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver as well as a PGCE in Classics at Cambridge.
Please contact Amanda if you have any queries about the Arts and Sciences degree programme.
|Owain Evans, International and Affiliates Officer
Owain Evans is our most recent addition to the BASc team, having joined us in August 2013. Before joining UCL, Owain worked in the Study Abroad & Internships Office and in departmental positions for the Schools of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at King's College London.
He was a Biological Sciences undergraduate at the University of Exeter and developed a keen interest in travelling from various adventures before, during and after University in the South West. It was this interest in other countries and cultures which attracted him to working in international education.
If you have any questions or queries about studying abroad as part of your BASc degree, please contact Owain.
Cristy Meadows, Departmental Administrator
Cristy completed a Business Studies degree from London South Bank University and it was her industrial placement year that created her interest in working in the HE sector.
Rochelle Symons, Placements and Vacancies Manager
Since October 2010 Rochelle has been employed by UCL
Careers firstly as an Employer Services & Events Officer and currently
as Placements & Vacancies Manager. She is responsible for managing the
internship/placements services offered by UCL Careers which includes developing
and maintaining relationships with employers, and engaging with students
needing internships as part of their UCL studies (primarily BASc students and
BBSRC PhD students). Prior to this Rochelle organised employer-led skills
development events for UCL students, in particular postgraduates.
Rochelle managed a bioscience internship and training programme at the
Royal Veterinary College and worked in the Faculty of Lifelong Learning at
Birkbeck College. With a Masters in Arts Management from Birkbeck, Rochelle has
previously worked in events management and project co-ordination roles within
the arts and not-for-profit sectors.
When not at UCL Rochelle enjoys spending her time refurbishing her house, cultivating her garden and trying to create art!


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Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris
Ace • $27.95 • ISBN 9780425263150
on sale May 6, 2014
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Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse series—immortalized on screen as the HBO series "True Blood"—concluded in May of 2012. Like most epic, beloved series, it had a finale that was somewhat controversial, but it also left fans eager to see what Harris would turn her hand to next.
Turns out, she's moving to Texas. Midnight Crossroad is the first in a trilogy set in a the small town of Midnight, Texas, which is shaken up by the arrival of psychic Manfred Bermardo, whom longtime Harris fans will remember from the Harper Connelly mysteries. Skinny, pale and pierced, Manfred is the sort of person who might stand out in a place like midnight, but what really worries the people of Midnight is his profession. After all, a small town is the perfect place to start over if you have a past . . . and you can't hide secrets from a psychic.
Fiji's lips tightened. "Listen, I know you're not a computer person, but Google his name, okay? You know how to Google, don't you?
"I just put my lipst together and blow?" Bobo said.
Fiji caught the reference, but she wasn't in the mood for jollity. "Bobo, he's the real deal." She wriggled uneasily in her hard wooden rocker. "He'll know stuff."
"You saying I have secrets he might reveal?" Bobo was still smiling, but the fun had gone out of his eyes. He combed his longish blond hair back with both hands.
"We all have secrets," Fiji said.
"Even you, Feej?"
She shrugged. "A few."
"You think I do, too?" He regarded her steadily.
She met his eyes. "I know you do. Otherwise, why would you be here?"
What are you reading this week?
ALSO IN BOOKPAGE: Read an interview with Charlaine Harris about book 10 in the Southern Vampire series.
Love and Other Foreign Words by Erin McCahan
Dial • $17.99 • ISBN 9780803740518
Ages 12 and up • Published May 1
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Erin McCahan's second novel for teen readers, Love and Other Foreign Words, would've been an easy favorite for my 12-year-old self. It stars an over-analytical, brilliant 17-year-old named Josie who can't keep her hilarious and too-astute commentary (and enormous vocabulary) to herself—and thank goodness she can't. The precocious teen approaches the world around her as an outsider, observing and translating the communication styles of others. The pattern and familiarty of language—from math to the "language of beautiful girls"—make sense to her, unlike the language of romantic love, an area where Josie's brillance offers no insight. So when her older sister Kate plans to marry the insufferable Geoff, Josie is determined to break them up.
Naturally, this doesn't go as planned, and Josie ends up learning a bit more about love than she expected. Read on for an excerpt, when she first starts considering the possibility of falling in love and makes a list of her potential guy's necessary critera:
"Okay. He has to be older than I am. And taller. Preferably handsome but not so gorgeous that he knows it. And smart in a way that makes me just want to sit and listen to him talk."
"About what?" she asks.
"Just—everything interesting. We have to be able to have marathon conversations. But we also need to be comfortable being quiet together." He will appreciate the value of self-possessed silence and practice it judiciously, I want to add, but don't.
"He should play some instrument too," I say. "Preferable guitar or piano, but I wouldn't mind a woodwind. Bagpipes would be my first choice, but percussion is out of the questions."
"Bag—? Josie," Sophie says.
"Well, he has to be able to do things I can't do that don't drive me crazy so that I stay interested."
"Like walking a straight line without falling over?" Stu asks.
"Yeah. Like that," I agree, pointing at Stu and shaming a smile.
"Stop listening to us," Sophie orders him. "Just go back to driving."
"You realize I haven't stopped driving," he says.
"Be quiet," she says. To me, she asks, "What else?"
There's more. There's lots more.
He will never ask me to eat gray, slimy, gelatinous food nor will he tousle my hair. Not that he could tousle it since I wear it daily in a neat and tidy ponytail, but there are times—showering, blow-drying—when my hair is, in fact, tousle-able. I'd prefer it if he just never touches my head or touches it only with my permission, which I will grant on special occasions such as Arbor Day, poor, neglected holiday that it is, but never on my birthday.
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The Cold Song by Linn Ullmann (translated by Barbara J. Haveland)
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Norwegian author Linn Ullmann's The Cold Song was a hit with readers and critics when it was first published in Norway in 2011. Lucky for us, an English edition (translated by Barbara J. Haveland) has just arrived stateside. Set in an elegant house on the coast of Norway, the novel takes a peek into the lives of married couple Siri and Jon, and their family. Siri is a super-busy and successful chef with her own restaurant to run. Jon is a novelist struggling with his current book.
The Cold Song doesn't so much unfold as it revolves, around the sudden disappearance of Milla, the young and beautiful summer nanny hired to take care of Siri and Jon's two children. The real "meat" of the novel rests in its keen and unflinching exposure of the inner lives of its characters, revealed in brief spurts of narrative that shift back and forth in time. The result is riveting. Here's an excerpt:
Jon Dreyer had fooled everyone.
He was in the attic room at Mailund, that dilapidated white turn-of-the-century house, where the Dreyer-Brodal family spent their summers. He was looking at Milla.
The room was small and bright and dusty with a view of the meadow and the woods and of Milla picking flowers with his children. His wife, she of the asymmetric back (a little kink in her waist, that's all), owned a restaurant in the center of town, in the old bakery. Siri was her name.
Siri was at work.
He was at work too.
His work was right here. He had his desk, his computer, this is where he was left in peace. He had a book to finish.
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Above by Isla Morley
Gallery • $24.99 • ISBN 9781476731520
published March 4
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With the shallowest of breaths, I ask, "How long have you been planning this?"
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This is what he says: "The part regarding you, about two years, give or take. All the rest, eighteen years."
"How long . . .?"
"Well, I just told you."
I shake my head. "How long are you going to keep me here?"
He shrugs, looks away.
It must be asked. "Forever?"
The monster sucks me all the way down to the bottom of the silo. It is a long way down, just as Dobbs said, but I still manage to hear every last word. "We are the Remnant, Blythe. After the End, you and I will rise up together. You and me—we will one day seed the new world."
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My Wish List by Grégoire Delacourt
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Whether you actually play or not, you have probably imagined, just once, how your life could change if you won the lottery. It's also common to wonder, at midlife, how the life you have built measures up to the life you dreamed about when you were just starting out. French novelist Grégoire Delacourt takes this premise for his new novel, My Wish List, which was a #1 bestseller in France. His heroine, Jocelyne, owns a fabric shop and is happy with her 21-year marriage and her two children. But she can't help but think about how her life falls short of the life she imagined when she was in school.
Then Jocelyne wins 18 million euros in the lottery, and has the ability to make any dream come true. Faced with the reality of changing her life, she starts to wonder: Does she really want to?
Being rich means seeing all that's ugly and having the arrogance to think you can change things. All you have to do is pay for it.
But I'm not as rich as all that. I just happen to have a cheque for eighteen million five hundred and forty-seven thousand, three hundred and one euros and twenty-eight centimes, folded eight times and hidden inside a shoe. All I have is the temptation. A possible new life. A new house. A new TV set. Lots of new things.
But nothing really different.
Later, I rejoin my husband in the hotel restaurant. He has ordered a bottle of wine. We drink to each other. Let's hope nothing changes and we go on as we are, he says. Nothing really different.
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Mind of Winter by Laura Kasischke
Harper • $24.99 • ISBN 9780062284396
On sale March 25
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Ooh, creepy moms and their even creepier children.
It doesn't get more psychological than Laura Kasischke's new thriller, Mind of Winter. Holly Judge wakes on Christmas morning, seized with paranoia and convinced that "something had followed them home from Siberia" when she and her husband adopted their Russian daughter Tatiana 13 years ago.
When Holly's husband leaves the house to pick up his parents from the airport, a snowstorm traps Holly and teenager Tatiana together in the house—just the two of them. As the day progresses, Holly's paranoia skyrockets. Kasischke, a National Books Critics Circle Award-winning poet, slowly draws readers into this twisty, stream-of-consciousness narrative, and readers discover layers upon layers of guilt and denial as reality gives way to the tricks of the mind.
From the opening chapter, it's clear that Holly is not a narrator we can trust. She comes off a little (OK, very) crazy, but we still want to believe that she hasn't completely lost her marbles. She might not be particularly likable, but once you get used to Kasischke's writing style, Mind of Winter is nearly impossible to put down. Read on for an excerpt:
Something had followed them home from Russia!
It was the explanation for so many things!
The cat, crawling off. Her back legs, her tail.
And her husband. The bump on the back of his hand, like a tiny third fist—a homunculus's!—growing. They'd said it was benign, but how could such a thing be benign? They'd said to ignore it, but how? Something was bearing fruit inside her husband, or trying to claw its way out. How were they to ignore it?
(Although, to be fair to Dr. Fujimura, they had learned to ignore it, and it had eventually stopped growing, just as she'd said it would.)
And Aunt Rose. How her language had changed. How she'd begun to speak in a foreign language. How Holly'd had to stop making her calls because she couldn't stand it anymore, and how angry her cousins had been, saying She loved to talk to you. You were her favorite. You abandoned her when she was dying.
And then the hens. Ganging up on the other one, on the hen she'd so stupidly, so cavalierly, named Sally. Six weeks, and then—
Don't think about Sally. Never think of that hen and her horrible name again.
And the water stain over the dining room table in the shape of a shadowy face—although they could never find anywhere that water would have seeped through their skintight, warranty-guaranteed roof. The roof company men had stood around in their filthy boots and stared up at it, refusing to take any blame.
Also, without explanation, the wallpaper had curled away in the bathroom. Just that one edge. You could never do anything to keep it in place. They'd tried every adhesive on the market, but the daisy wallpaper would stick fast for exactly three days and nights before it peeled away again.
Holly needed to write down these things, this evidence! The cat, Aunt Rose, the bump on her husband's hand, the hens, the water stain, the wallpaper—along with the clue provided to her by the dream:
Something had followed them home from Russia.
Who's up for some creepy reading? Anyone else going to check out Mind of Winter?
You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Grand Central • $26 • ISBN 9781455599493
on sale March 18, 2014
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Jean Hanff Korelitz's You Should Have Known is so full of smoldering suspense that I devoured all 450 pages of it in two sittings. Grace Reinhart Sachs has the perfect life: a thriving career as a psychologist; her first book—a relationship-focused, self-help book called, you guessed it, You Should Have Known—on the verge of publication with lots of pre-pub buzz; Henry, her sweet, intelligent 12-year-old son, who attends an exclusive Manhattan prep school, her own alma mater; a comfortable "classic six" on the Upper East Side, the very apartment she grew up in; and Jonathan, her saintly, charming, pediatric oncologist husband of 18 years.
Of course, we all know that things aren't always what they seem from the outside, but sometimes they aren't what they seem from the inside, either . . . as Grace soon finds out. A violent death sends her community reeling, but the shocking crime is only a prelude to the gut-wrenching, gob-smacking truths about to be exposed in this supremely entertaining page-turner. In this excerpt from the beginning of the book—to whet your appetite—Grace is being photographed for a Vogue article about her forthcoming book:
Grace leaned forward. The lens seemed so close, only inches away. She wondered if she could look through it and see his eye on the other side; she peered deep into it, but there was only the glassy dark surface and the thunderous clicking noise; no one was in there. Then she wondered if she would feel the same if it were Jonathan holding the camera, but she actually couldn't remember a single time when Jonathan had held a camera, Click, let alone a camera this close to her face. She was the default photographer in her family, though with none of the bells and whistles currently on display in her little office, and with none of Ron's evident skill, and with no passion at all for the form. She was the one who took the birthday pictures and the camp visiting-weekend pictures, Click, the photo of Henry asleep in his Beethoven costume, and Click, the photo of him playing chess with his grandfather, Click, her own favorite picture of Jonathan, minues after finishing a Memorial Day road race up at the lake, with a cup of water thrown over his face and an expression of unmistakable pride and just distinguishable lust. Or was it only in retrospect, Grace thought, Click, that she had always seen lust in that picture, because later, running the numbers, she had realized that Henry was about to be conceived, just hours after it was taken. After Jonathan had eaten a bit and stood for a long time under a hot shower, after he had taken her to her own childhood bed and, Click, saying her name again and again, and she remembered feeling so happy, and, Click, so utterly lucky, and not because they were in the act of making the child she wanted so badly, but because at that specific moment even the possibility of that did not matter to her, nothing but him and, Click, them and this, and now the memory of this, rushing up to the surface: the eye and the other eye through the lense that must be looking back.
"That's nice," Ron said, lowering the camera. Now she could see his eye again: brown, after all, and utterly unremarkable. Grace nearly laughed in embarrassment. "No, it was good," he said, misunderstanding. "And you're done."
Done, indeed. Will you be checking out You Should Have Known? What are you reading this week?
So here at BookPage, we've been working hard to reinstate March as the month to read the books you've always meant to read (see the original post for full details, and read Cat's follow up). Now it's my turn to share the books that I've moving up to the top of my TBR list this month. So far, so good—I'm already halfway through #1.
Seating Arrangements
By Maggie Shipstead
I'm ashamed to admit that I thought I knew what to expect from a fiction debut about a wealthy family staging their daughter's wedding on Cape Cod. But after looking at Shipstead's upcoming release Astonish Me, I realized she was not the sort of writer one should underestimate—or make assumptions about, aside from the fact that anything she writes will be impeccably observed and surprising. Now is the time to go back and rectify that 2012 mistake!
White Is for Witching
By Helen Oyeyemi
Oyeyemi is one of the most interesting authors around, and her latest, Boy, Snow, Bird, is one of the best books I've read this year. Yet I have been sitting on my copy of this 2009 novel about four generations of women whose huge, canavorous home in Dover holds decades of secrets. (Confession: I have a fear of running out of books by authors I love, which is pretty irrational given that my job allows me to discover great new authors just about every day.) No longer! Let's just hope I can fall asleep after reading this one, which The Austin Chronicle compared to the best of Shirley Jackson.
The Thing Around Your Neck
By Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
Ah, 2013: the year I stopped being intimidated by Adichie's triple name and fell in love with her work. Since then, I've been working my way through her backlist, starting with Half of a Yellow Sun. Next up is this 2009 story collection, which I expect to enjoy just as much as every one of her other books.
Are you joining us in unofficially designating March as "Read the Books You've Always Meant to Read" month? Share your list in the comments!
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
FSG Originals • $13 • ISBN 9780374104092
published on February 4, 2014
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A psychologist, surveyor, biologist and anthropologist go into the woods . . . well, not the woods, exactly. The premise of Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation—the first in his Southern Reach trilogy, all due out this year—is oh-so-intriguing. The aforementioned quartet make up the 12th expedition into a place called Area X, the site of a former environmental disaster that's oddly teeming with lushness and wildlife. The fates of the members of the first 11 expeditions—murder, suicide, cancer—will send a shiver up your spine, and the mounting sense of foreboding in the first couple of chapters is outweighed only (though greatly) by an overwhelming curiosity to find out how this expeditions unfolds . . . or unravels. The imprint chosen for Annihilation—FSG Originals—couldn't be more perfect for this intense, unpredictable, clever thriller. Here's an excerpt from the beginning of the book:
There were four of us: a biologist, an anthropologist, a surveyor, and a psychologist. I was the biologist. All of us were women this time, chosen as part of the complex set of variables that governed sending the expeditions. The psychologist, who was older than the rest of us, served as the expedition's leader. She had put us all under hypnosis to cross the border, to make sure we remained calm. It took five days of hard hiking after crossing the border to reach the coast.
Our mission was simple: to continue the government's investigation into the mysteries of Area X, slowly working our way out from base camp.
The expedition could last days, months, or even years, depending on various stimuli and conditions. We had supplies with us for four months, and another two years' worth of supplies had already been stored at the base camp. We had also been assured that it was safe to live off the land if necessary. All of our food stuffs were smoked or canned or in packets. Our most outlandish equipment consisted of a measuring device that had been issued to each of us, which hung from a strap on our belts: a small rectangle of black metal with a glass-covered hole in the middle. If the hole glowed red, we had thirty minutes to remove ourselves to "a safe place." We were not told what the device measured or why we should be afraid should it glow red. After the first few hours, I had grown so used to it that I hadn't looked at it again. We had been forbidden watches and compasses.
What do you think? Will you be checking out Annihilation? What are you reading this week?
Last week, BookPage Associate Editor Joelle announced March as the month to read books "you've always meant to read" and moved three books to the top of her TBR stack. (Read all about it here.) This week, it's my turn.
So, no more excuses. *Raises right hand.* By the name of Gutenberg, I swear I will no longer put off reading these books:
Hope: A Tragedy
By Shalom Auslander
I had a hunch that once I'd read Auslander's debut, he'd instantly become one of my new favorites. Our reviewer promised "echoes of Kurt Vonnegut, Philip Roth and even Franz Kafka," and Auslander hooked me with his riotous book trailer series, The Attic Calls, in which he calls up his friends and asks if they will hide him during any future Holocausts. And, of course, there's the plot itself: A Jewish man in Stockton, New York, finds Anne Frank hiding in his attic. I finally picked it up last week and found it to be everything I'd hoped it would be.
Men We Reaped
By Jesmyn Ward
Last summer, I finally dug into Ward's debut novel, the National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones (2011), and fell madly in love. (There's nothing like a graphic pit bull birthing scene to make for great summer reading . . . in my opinion, at least.) And like all great loves, it took a while for me to recover after it was over. The time has come to let Ward break my heart again, and it sounds like last year's memoir will be even tougher, as she probes the "why" of the deaths of five young men in her life.
The Postmistress
By Sarah Blake
My mom gave me this book almost three years ago, and it's about time I was a good daughter and actually read it. (Oops.) I'm looking forward to being transported back to 1940s, on the eve of America's entrance into World War II, through the stories of three very different women. It sounds tender and poignant, but more importantly, I got completely sucked into Blake's poems about Kanye West last week, so now I definitely have to read her novel, even if I doubt Kanye will make an appearance.
Hey, readers: Join in! This month, move a book to the top of your TBR pile, and tell us all about it in the comments.


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It was a beautiful day for God until Saint Peter lost his key to open the Heaven
and it was taken by the evil demons who began to destroy all they found in their way.
It's time for God to get ready and face these waves of demons with his angels and flowers and with the help of his mighty powers before the Heaven become an infernal chaos.
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I think you forgot to metion that you used waterflame's -Whatever!- at the beginning stage of the game.
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Fun little game, a pretty typical tower defense gameplay wise but with a less common story.
However, I found a glitch that breaks the game immediately. When you pick up your angel and place him on a square he attacks immediately. The cooldown for the attack is not global and will be ignored when you do this. So if you spam click on the square the angel is on he will attack constantly. Might want to fix that as it breaks the game entirely.
Other than that glitch, I found nothing wrong with the game and had a fun time playing it. Nice work.
Rated 5 / 5 stars June 22, 2012
So, i am god? Heh, heh.
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Watch Drake sing 'Let It Go' as boxer Manny Pacquiao
Drake shared with the world his rendition of "Let It Go" at ESPN's ESPY awards last night, but in the voice of boxer Manny Pacquiao.
Pharrell, Minaj and Alsina included among 2014 BET award winners
R&B star Pharrell, rapper Nicki Minaj and newcomer August Alsina led the winners at the Black Entertainment Television (BET) awards on Sunday, which also honored veteran soul singer Lionel Richie.
Future gets 'Honest' about Ciara, Kimye and his brand new son
"'Honest' is a timeless album," says Future (not so humbly) about his latest. "People are going to look back like 'Man, he had so many classics on there."
Drake disses Jay Z during Nets-Raptors playoff game
It's not exactly Biggie vs. Tupac, but Drake seems to be starting a bit of a feud with Jay Z.
Chris Brown's bodyguard talks altercation: 'I punched him — not Chris'
A bodyguard forChris Brown told police that it was he, not Brown, who punched a man in the face outside a hotel in Washington last year.
Drake celebrates in Kentucky locker room after Final Four win
We're not entirely sure why, but apparently Drake is a huge Kentucky basketball fan.
Bad bromance? Guy makes romantic music video of unwitting friends
Redditor AsleepAtTheWhale pulled the ultimate prank on his two heterosexual bros, Pat and Jason: He edited a romantic, slow-mo music video of them and set it to "Coming Home" by Drake.
Rihanna goes steady with Drake
Meanwhile, Rihanna's ex-boyfriend Chris Brown is back in jail.
Philip Seymour Hoffman bumps Drake off Rolling Stone cover: Drake mad!
Drake has sworn off magazine interviews after he claims Rolling Stone tossed his cover for Philip Seymour Hoffman — and misquoted him regarding Kanye West.
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NetJets (Booth No. 170), the largest player in the fractional-jet-share business, has signed an agreement to purchase 50 Phenom 300 light jets from Embraer, the Brazilian aircraft manufacturer. The Berkshire Hathaway-owned NetJets, based in Columbus, Ohio, has an option to buy 75 additional Phenom 300s, which could bring the deal's total value to more than $1 billion (U.S.) at current list prices, according to Embraer. NetJets chairman and CEO David Sokol wouldn't say when his company will make a decision regarding the optioned jets but declared, "It is our hope to buy them all."
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This frame from Rules of the Game (1939) perfectly captures the gifts of director Jean Renoir.
Deep focus, foreground and background movement, and mise en scene that directs you to the center of this frame even as it seems to go on into the distance.
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I've mentioned this a few times, but when I was overseas ('06-'07), I had a Batman rank made for my ACU's.
I would even wear this on the 9mm range as a joke, while at Ft. McCoy in WI.
The higher ups would say "What rank is that, Soldier?"and I would say "It's Superhero, Sir."then they would ask "So…what's the pay grade with that?"and I would reply "Duh, billionaire. Sir."
It was always received with smiles and some chuckles. Majors, Lt Colonels, Colonels, Captains…none of them were negative about it.
Then the E1 - E3's would say to me "I-I don't know how to address you."So I would tell them, "It's OK, I'm Batman."
I always carried this with me, anyone in my unit can verify that this was, and is, in fact, mine. I can at any time prove this is mine also. Hector can also verify.
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EvCC Gets Good News at the White House: $1.5 million grant
Everett Community College will receive a $1.5 million share of a nearly $10 million grant awarded through the U.S. Department of Labor's Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) awarded Sept. 28 by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden at the White House. Vice President Biden was joined by U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan during the announcement. Two hundred seventy community colleges will receive $450 million to expand job-driven training partnerships between community colleges and employers as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The grantees will partner with 400 employers.
Donate Blood at EvCC Oct. 13-14
Everett Community College's Student LIFE office and the Puget Sound Blood Center are hosting a blood drive at EvCC Oct. 13 and 14. The blood drive is from 8:30 a.m-2:30 p.m. in EvCC's Henry M. Jackson Center Wilderness Auditorium. The event is sponsored by the Student LIFE Health & Wellness program. To make an appointment to donate, sign up at the Student LIFE office in Parks Hall, room 209, or call Student LIFE at 425-388-9561. Walk-in donors are also welcome.
Achieving the Dream Names EvCC as a National Student Success Leader
Everett Community College was recognized Sept. 24 as one of the nationwide leaders in student success by Achieving the Dream for its commitment to student completion and closing achievement gaps. "EvCC faculty and staff have worked hard to improve student completion in the past three years, and we are tremendously honored to be selected as a student success leader," said EvCC President David Beyer. "But our work isn't done. We are committed to streamlining the path to success for every student." EvCC was one of 16 community colleges selected this year as an Achieving the Dream leader college. Achieving the Dream has 32 leader colleges nationwide, including six in Washington.
EvCC Hosts "CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections" Oct. 16
Everett Community College is hosting "CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections," 4-8 p.m. Oct. 16 at EvCC's Henry M. Jackson Conference Center. The event will start with a live webcast talk by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and will be followed by a presentation about eco-villages and the environmental impact of China's urban growth by Melinda Herrold-Menzies, associate professor of environmental analysis at Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif. Following Herrold-Menzies' speech and time for questions and answers, a recorded version of Carter's earlier address will be replayed, followed by more community discussion. Participants can submit questions online as part of the national conversation and ask questions and share their thoughts as part of the local discussion.
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Everett Community College is asking students to participate in an online survey between Sept. 22 and Nov. 14. Participants will be entered into a drawing to win a $150 Amazon gift certificate.
EvCC's Advanced Manufacturing Education & Training Center Grand Opening Oct. 1
Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee will join Everett Community College in celebrating the opening of EvCC's new Advanced Manufacturing Education & Training Center (AMTEC) at 2 p.m. Oct. 1 at the center, 909 N. Broadway. The 37,000-square-foot center is located in a remodeled college-owned warehouse on the east side of EvCC's Broadway campus at 2000 Tower St. AMTEC opens for fall classes Sept. 22. The $3.75 million remodel of the building started in May 2014, including creating classrooms, computer labs, faculty and staff offices and abundant shop space.


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Pakistan: North Waziristan internally displaced people (IDPs)
14 July 2014 -- The total number of displaced poeople is 929 859 individuals and 80 302 families (74% are women and children). The health of these people are at a high risk due to overcrowding, poor living conditions, insecurity, psychosocial distress and exposure to new environment and risk factors. The disease early warning system has reported an increase of Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD) cases from 29% to 41%, Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI) cases have shown a gradual decrease but Fever cases have increased by 6% since the influx. There is a dire need for Diarrhea Treatment Centers (DTCs).
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Don't miss your chance to take advantage of this limited time offer from Chihuly Gallery!
For the month of September only the Gallery, located at Gallery Row at The Shops at Crystals, is pleased to offer a complimentary limited first edition of the Chihuly Garden Installations book (a $300 retail value), signed by the artist, with a purchase of a Studio Edition by Dale Chihuly.
GOLD celebrates the best in local live musical entertainment with a performance from Vegas lounge sensation The Jeremy Cornwell Project. Try something special as you change up your nightlife routine, and experience live music at GOLD.
The weekend is about to go down early and HAZE is the place to be to get the festivities started STAT!
Originally known as Route 91, the three-day event takes its name from the iconic Las Vegas Boulevard as the first country music festival ever to launch in Las Vegas.
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On Fridays we give you a dose of DJ Loczi in the booth giving you the best in House and EDM music.
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Sage will unite with Hardy Spirits for an unforgettable cognac pairing dinner Thursday, Oct. 9 at 6:00 p.m. The event will tantalize taste buds with a five-course menu created by Executive Chef Richard Camarota.
This year's wine-tasting and music festival will be a high-energy, interactive experience that revolutionizes the way wine is presented, perceived and enjoyed. The venue will be transformed into a sublime slice of wine country featuring more than 60 wineries, 150 wines and 20 craft beers. Additional highlights include a hidden speakeasy, barrel tasting, grape stomping, libation lounge and a wide-variety of food truck options.


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Netting & O'Connor article chosen as the JSWE Best Conceptual Article of 2008
Drs. F. Ellen Netting and Mary Katherine O'Connor's recent article, "Teaching Policy Analysis as Research: Consideration and Extension of Options," which appeared in the Fall 2008 issue of the Journal of Social Work Education (JSWE), has been chosen as the JSWE Best Conceptual Article of 2008.
The criteria for choosing the best article include the importance and timeliness of the content; originality of thought; innovative conceptualization of the topic; and presentation of conclusions and/or recommendations that add significantly to the professional knowledge base and to social work education. JSWE Best Article Award winners will be honored at the Council on Social Work Education 2009 Annual Program Meeting in San Antonio, TX, in November.
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My GPS is broken
Okay, first – I started this blog at the request (badgering) of a friend, and for a while I felt like I was talking to myself (which I was – which is okay except that it proves that I'm weird because I just said that it was okay, and because people who talk to themselves are weird, unless they are in solitary confinement in prison and then it's just required), and then today I felt a little "inspired" and decide to converse with myself and HOLY SHIT, I come here and find that someone actually viewed my blog. WTF? So, now I'm freaking out a little, because NOW I don't really feel like I'm talking to myself – I feel like I'm talking to YOU, only I don't know who you are, so it's like there are people evesdropping on me and I'm cool with it. Okay, I AM weird.
Now, on to the inspiration. See, I titled my blog the way I did, because at some point after I turned *cough cough* 40 *cough cough*, I found that every time someone told me to take the "high road", I wanted to karate chop them in the jugular. If I'm being honest, I normally refer to the road I'm on now as the Fuck You Highway, but I figured I'd tame it down in case someone wanted to google search me. Okay, to be completely honest, it was in case my MOTHER decided to google search me. Whatever.
So, this past week, I've been hauling ass down Fuck You Highway. I think I actually even made up a few curse words along the way to hurl at people who pissed me off. I've completely lost my filter. My mouth opens and the shit that is in my head comes out before I can stop it. And I lose zero sleep as a result. When I was younger, I chose my words carefully. Now, my words chose to come out and out and out.
Here's the thing – I can't even FIND the High Road anymore. My GPS must be broken. OR, I'm finally finding me. I choose to think the latter is more accurate. Let me clarify, I don't attack people who are not deserving. I don't stomp on kittens or make fun of fat people. I'm not mean. Okay, that last part may not be true. I could be a little mean, but I'm not a "mean girl". I don't ever just lash out at someone. What I do, is never hesitate to tell someone when they are being a total idiot.
I won't give you the gory details into what exactly spiraled me into this abyss of "fuck you's", but I will tell you this. I am a mother. If you are one of these too, then you get it. Hurt my kid and face my wrath. So that's what took me there, and now that I am there, I'm there to stay. I also blame PMS. But why not? PMS deserves at least some of the credit – unless you are a guy then SUCK IT because you don't have ovaries.
Is there a point here? YES (sort of). My point is that I am not the least bit ashamed of my ability to stand up for what I believe in, to go toe to toe with a douchebag who deserves it, or to tell someone to their face that they suck. I don't do it behind their back, they don't have to question where I stand, and you can bet your ass they will know what I think. Because although I could look down on them from the High Road, I chose to be eye to eye with them. Right here on the Fuck You Highway. Traffic is terrible here.


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There's a lot to like about this novel, the first in the Night Angel trilogy, by Brent Weeks. The plot is wonderfully elaborate and full of Dickensian connections between characters; the narrative portions of the story are told well, with an adept writing style that keeps this long and complex story moving.
If one has read this sort of Medieval fantasy novel before, one will find that the author has not built a particularly original world, but rather uses one that is already somewhat shopworn. There is a heart-breakingly poor part of town called the Warrens, contrasted against the noble life in the royal castle and among a secretive group that manipulates events from behind the scenes. Bridging the two worlds are a seer, a sorcerer (of course) and the Assassin's guild (isn't it always the thieves guild or the assassin's guild? Just once, I'd like to see one of these novels feature the baker's guild). Fans who take delight in the details of original world building a la Ursula LeGuin or Tanith Lee aren't going to find the same here; on the other hand, genre fans are going to find themselves immediately comfortable and understanding of this world, and ready to step right into the delightfully busy and textured plot. Also, if there is little originality in the overall structure of the world, there is much originality and delight to be found in details, characterization, and twisting narrative pathways as the book develops.
The other place where the writing is weak is in the dialogue, which sometimes sounds unnatural. Fortunately, this unnatural aspect drops away at moments of crisis, and so it doesn't get in the way when most critical. However, it is something one notices, especially as the book renders scenes on the upper levels of society. One is almost thankful when characters curse and shout. Overall, one would like to see a subtler and more natural touch with dialogue.
The plot kicks off when a child of the Warrens, seeking coins in the crawlspace under a tavern, encounters a famous member of the assassin's guild -- actually, a sort of Platonic distillation of the perfect assassin called a "wetboy," who is one of the more interesting characters in the novel. The boy, Azoth, contrives, as a way out of his poverty, to apprentice himself to this master killer, and thus begins a journey which takes him out of the Warrens to all levels of society.
Overall, there is much that is rewarding in this novel, and I highly recommend it to fans of the fantasy genre. For fans, the twists and turns of the dramatic plot, the many colorful and detailed characters, and the journey of the main character will definitely outweigh the negatives and make this book a fine, fun read.
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The Way of Shadows -- For The Fantasy Fan
5 comments:
- NJ said...
Sounds awesome. Once I am done with the Serpeantwar Saga by Feist, I will start with this. Always love fantasy trils.
- January 31, 2009 at 1:12 PM
- KindleDude said...
Thanks for stopping by, NJ! I'd love to know what you think, feel free to come back and drop a comment when you're done.
- January 31, 2009 at 10:04 PM
- Dragonblogger said...
Looks right up my alley, I will have to find out if they make this series on Audiobook.
- February 1, 2009 at 11:58 AM
- KindleDude said...
Let us know, Dragonblogger!
- February 1, 2009 at 9:26 PM
- Elvgren fan said...
I've just finished a very enjoyable read, 'The Way of Shadows' by a new to me author, Brent Weeks.
The strong point to Week's writing is his development of characters, which in this first book of a trilogy, firmly sets them into your memory.
The romantic relationship between Azoth and Doll Girl builds throughout the story and I hope continues into the next two books.
Taken as a whole the book is a fine first novel by someone who I think will soon be added to your list of authors who's work you automatically buy.
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