The Nightingales of Troy

Welcome to The Nightingales of Troy...


BLOG ONE WEDNESDAY JUNE 1ST-ARYANA
First Week Team Leader Blogger Question for Discussion is,“Time is one of the book’s large themes. ‘And though my children were sleeping the sleep of the just, I half believed my unvoiced thoughts would reach them across that room full of twentieth-century light,’ Mamie thinks at the end of the first story. What do her thoughts suggest about time?”
(remember we have a week to respond, but be courteous to your team leader's prompt address of the question)

BLOG 2 WEDNESDAY JUNE 8TH-TANYA
Week 2 Team Leader Blogger Question for Discussion is,“Alice Fulton has called the past ‘the ultimate foreign country.’ The Nightingales of Troy covers a century with remarkable attention to detail. It’s full of fascinating period objects and artifacts, from cosmetics to medical equipment. How do these cultural objects and markers deepen your sense of the past?”

Meeting Wednesday, June 16th from 4-6ish in room CC3345. We will do the book vote around 5:30 pm. Those of you who cannot make it to the book vote can vote via email. I will send you packets of the selections and then you can email me back with your picks. Let me know if you are interested!

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

great cry of frustration

Just wrote a long post, saw it save over and over. Now it does not show up.

Here's the cliff's note version:
Fulton presents her characters in chronological order in keeping with the given era.
  • Mamie sees the emerging century as magic
  • Peg is stuck in old ideas of right-relations for an aging woman...not in step with the move towards liberation/votes for women
  • Charlotte generates sweets to please her man but diets to be Flapper thin, encounters Ray's Orientalist mother
Not nearly as nuanced and interesting as the original post. But...well, I've used up my allotted time for this project.
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