Expecting - Anna McGrail, Daphne Metland

The relativity of Einstein's daughter

Advantages: Captivating fiction based on a historical fact
Disadvantages: The hypothesis is good but the probability is low

adapt as necessary. She is also driven by obsession, an obsession with beauty and youth. Anna McGrail portrays a sometimes-startling, often depressing but very real view of the twentieth century. We see a world where women are oppressed. Liserl in her quest for scientific advancement cannot get journals from the library herself but has to rely on a man to do it for her. A world where woman yield to societies demands and expectation in order to live. We see the prejudice and discrimination against the Jewish race during the Second World War and the all too real threat of the death camps (all so very significant this month with the anniversary of the release of prisoners from Auschwitz). We see man?s destructive potential with the testing of the nuclear bomb at Los Alamos where the entire world was put under threat ...

MAFARRIMOND 30.01.2005 · Read full review
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Daphne

Advantages: Highly fragrant flowers
Disadvantages: Poisonous berries

Highly prized for the fragrance of its flowers, Daphne come in both deciduous and evergreen forms. Originating from Europe, Asia and North Africa. The size of this winter-flowering shrub can vary in size from smaller dense shrubs to larger, upright plants suitable shrub borders. Varieties bholua 'Jacqueline Postill' - Semi evergreen strong upright bush 2m by 1m eventual size. Bunches of large rich purple fragrant flowers. Prefers shelter from North and East winds. x burkwoodii 'Somerset' - Semi evergreen, a dense dome-shaped shrub. 80 by 80cm eventual size. Branches are covered with sove mauve-pink flowers in clusters on short leafy shoots. cneorum - Evergreen prostate branched shrub. 1m by 1m eventual size. Close set branches bearing persistant narrow, deep green leaves. Fragrant rose pink flowers in close corymbs in May to ...

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Anna Karenina

Advantages: Beautifully written, complex characters, thought provoking
Disadvantages: Time consuming

Anna Karenina is one of Leo Tolstoy?s best known and best loved works. The novel enjoys continued influence in today?s society and although it was written almost two centuries ago, the continued relevance of its central themes makes the book as provocative now as the day it was written. The main theme of the novel seems to be that of happiness. Yet it does not simply deal with the shallow emotion but with human fulfilment of life. This idea is best shown through the sharply contrasting characters of Anna and Levin. The character of Anna has beauty, charm and wealth, yet finds her life to be completely unsatisfying. Her choice to begin an affair with the officer Vronsky is a decision to struggle against this feeling of emptiness. The consequences are heartbreaking with the happiness she so desperately seeks continually eluding her ...

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