Cat on a Got Tin Roof presents an audience with three main themes: sex, desire, the American Dream, and deception or “mendacity”. Tennessee Williams’ characters are presented as somewhat two-dimensional stereotypes; Margaret and Brick are both examples ‘the American Dream’, both are beautiful, Maggie with her long neck and graceful arms, and Brick, the glorious All-American sports hero. Their ‘in-laws’, Mae and Gooper seem farcical copies of this perfect couple, with their five “no-neck mon...

Fama&Calliope - Watership Down, by Richard Adams Apart from perhaps, LoTR and Tracy Chevalier's marvellous books, there cannot possibly be a better book than this. The story of Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig, Dandelion and the rest of the travelling rabbits touched my heart from the very first page I read, all of five years ago. I simply couldn't put it down, and read it seven times in a row, not wanting the story to be over. Now, after such a long time, I finally found the time to give the book...

Fama&Calliope - The Bell, by Iris Murdoch Never before have I been so captivated by the characters of a story. They are vibrant, splendid, shimmering with life and an almost tangible vitality. We first experience the lay community at Imber through the eyes of Dora Greenfield, an "erring wife" returning to her tyrranical husbad. Murdoch captures the very aura of the countryside, with its lush grasses and dense trees. With water that trickles through streams, and with the thick glassy ...

Calliope,Erato&Polyhymnia - The Fire and the Rose, by Abby and Anne On fanfiction.net (FFN), they are known as Rhosmedre and MetroVampire, the authors of various Harry Potter based fanfics: Abby's The Other Side of Darkness and its sequel Survivals and Remembrances, as well as the lemony The Fourth Unforgivable and her latest story, Rondo Veneziano. Anne's two offerings are the Midnight series: Around Midnight and After Midnight . Together, having teamed up in 2002, they wrote one of t...