Reading FCW vs. Chelsea FCW, WSL: Preview, team news, how to watch
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Nearly a month has passed since the Blues stepped on the pitch to complete a two-leg drubbing of SL Benfica in the Champions League. And most recently, we have had a week of drama in the WSL surrounding disregarded COVID protocols that has led to multiple suspended matches.
Fortunately for the (well-behaved) Blues, their match against Reading goes on as planned. The Blues find themselves in third place in the table but with two matches in hand, fate remains in Chelsea’s hands. A win against Reading Women FC on Sunday would keep pressure firmly on Manchester United and Arsenal at the top of the table.
Pitts: Reading only works by women pays off By Leonard Pitts
Share: Leonard Pitts Jr. is a columnist for the Miami Herald. Reach him at lpitts@herald.com. Photo
I don’t mind admitting that I could really go for a good fist fight just now.
Or a race against time to foil a terrorist plot.
Or a zombie apocalypse. A zombie apocalypse would definitely hit the spot.
As some of you will recall, I gave up those and other literary pleasures a year ago, bidding farewell to the likes of Robert B. Parker, Tom Clancy and Stephen King.
Before we knew all the awful things that 2020 would be The Year of Pandemic, The Year of Racial Reckoning, The Year of Endless Election I stood at this podium and put my own stamp on it: 2020 would be The Year of Reading Women, I said.
Leonard Pitts
Or a race against time to foil a terrorist plot.
Or a zombie apocalypse. A zombie apocalypse would definitely hit the spot.
As some of you will recall, I gave up those and other literary pleasures a year ago, bidding farewell to the likes of Robert B. Parker, Tom Clancy and Stephen King. Before we knew all the awful things that 2020 would be The Year of Pandemic, The Year of Racial Reckoning, The Year of Endless Election I stood at this podium and put my own stamp on it: 2020 would be The Year of Reading Women, I said. This, after realizing that I, avowed feminist and voracious reader that I am, seldom read female authors that for years, I had been unconsciously but consistently ignoring them.
The Old Drift (Hogarth Press, 2020), taken from Vigil s
The Aeneid, briefly narrates the story of a diverse civilisation thriving on the banks of Lethe, the river of forgetfulness that somnolently drifts past a populous throng of spirits. In Namwali Serphell s novel, the civilisation is Zambia, the Lethe s amnesia is the passage of time, and the spirits are a swarm of prophetic mosquitoes.
An intergenerational saga leaping from colonial to modern to a near-future Zambia set in 2024,
The Old Drift tells the story of the country through the eyes of three generations: The Grandmothers, The Mothers, and The Children. Although Zambia s colonial past gets lost in the riverine passage of time as symbolised by the Lethe, indelible imprints of that past remain on the present, on the beginnings of the three generations stories, and the interracial social fabric uniting them. At the end of each character s story, a swarm of mosquitoes narrates a summary and predict the characters fat