Monday, September 6, 2021

September 2021

 ‘The teeming Autumn big with rich increase…’ Where did the summer go? And now we head into September. As we in the northern hemisphere move indoors again, we musn’t forget our face masks and social distancing. Even though we’ve been vaccinated! Stay safe, everybody, the world needs all the Shakespeare lovers it can get!

As always, this promo for the book Shakespeare calling – the book. Indie authors like myself need support more than ever when we cannot arrange book signings and lectures. Therefore, sales are down drastically. I do so hope you will help me by ordering the book online. Thank you.

The book is available for those of you in Great Britain and parts of Europe on this site:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/9163782626/ref=tmm_hrd_new_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=new&qid=1514378301&sr=8-1

 

Also available on http://www.amazon.com/Shakespeare-Calling-book-Ruby-Jand/dp/9163782626/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1436073737&sr=1-1&keywords=Ruby+Jand+shakespeare+calling

Or in Sweden

http://www.bokus.com/bok/9789163782626/shakespeare-calling-the-book/

or Adlibris. Or contact the publisher info@vulkan.se

 

I would be thrilled to get an email from you if you bought the book. rubyjandshakespearecalling@gmail.com 

 

Shakespeare sightings:

  • Gifty tries to take part in the conversation of the boyfriend’s intellectual friends by explaining her research on addiction but it’s too scientific for them and they start talking about King Lear. Gifty hasn’t read Shakespeare since high school and falls silent. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi.
  • In the modern ghost/witch story Witch Hunt by Syd Moore Dan, who hovers between madness and psychic powers, quotes from The Tempest.
  • In Haruki Murakami’s novel Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage Tsukuru’s friend Haida likes to read Shakespeare. Hmmm, it would be fun to hear Shakespeare in Japanese, wouldn’t it?


Films with a Shakespeare connection seen this month - see reviews on https://rubyjandsfilmblog.blogspot.com/

 

  • Jaws – Richard Dreyfuss is in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Good-bye Girl, in which he plays an actor doing Richard III.
  • Wonderstruck - Michelle Williams is in A Thousand Acres, a spinoff of King Lear
  • The Omen - David Warner is in Star Trek the Undiscovered Country, a loose spinoff of various Shakespeare plays, and Love’s Labour’s Lost
  • Waterworld - Kevin Costner is in Postman about a wandering actor doing Shakespeare productions in a dystopian future.
  • Warm Bodies: The whole film, although I didn’t figure that out until the balcony scene.

 

 Further since last time:

  • Nothing special. It’s been a quiet Shakespeare month.

 

Posted this month:

  • This report

Shakespeare Calling – the book is promoted by http://shakespearesallskapet.se/

 

Read more about my alter ego’s books, in one of which Shakespeare appears live and in person, on:

 

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