Massive science stuff happening . I ordered Professor Dugatskin book. The well Connected animal! https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo212549914.html
On a side note
Here’s one for you I think you will find fascinating and quite enjoyable and relatable.
I like the authors playful but candid style of writing.
Camilla Pang, a computational biologist, cancer researcher and writer :)
Reading Well for Dementia launched in public libraries in England and Wales
"[We] believe that this unique, new, quality-assured book-based resource...could play an important role in supporting the wider community affected by #dementia.”
#Bookstodon challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. *No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 2:
I’ll be brief: Christopher Pike’s books were my introduction to thrillers and scarier books. Fall Into Darkness was the first book I read of his, probably around 7th grade. #books
Drusilla's father leaves her, at age 6, to be fostered by Julia Felix in Pompeii. She's lost her mother in the 62 AD earthquake, and now her father's disappearing as well -- because he doesn't want to be hampered by a little girl while he establishes a new business (and life) in nearby, wealthy Herculaneum. Drusilla's only companion for the moment is Invictus, her puppy ... but she becomes friends with Julia's daughter Claudia. Still, she's effectively orphaned for convenience.
A new review on BookBub: "Another fun read... With sister Jen, IT wizard Mackenzie, and the Coffee Shop Irregulars, they tackle both tasks with ingenuity and humour. This charming series hits the spot for me. I’m looking forward to the next one." https://www.bookbub.com/reviews/2188239803 @bookstodon#mystery#books
A new review on Bookbub: "Another fun read... With sister Jen, IT wizard Mackenzie, and the Coffee Shop Irregulars, they tackle both tasks with ingenuity and humour. This charming series hits the spot for me. I’m looking forward to the next one." https://www.bookbub.com/reviews/2188239803 @bookstadon#books#mystery
If you look carefully, you will see that the bottom half is an open book, with an illustration on the left and text on the right. The top half are two different pieces. Using various manipulations, I blended common elements, that give it a bit more unity.
The book is an interesting curiosity, that somehow ended up in my collection from previous generations. It is a Russian 1928 edition of Dominion by J F Rutherford ~ early Jehovah Witness proselytizing.
Beautifully bound with an #EmbossedCover, and colour #BookPlate#Illustrations. I’ve been tempted to use it for altered book art, but for now, just scans for collage work.
Travis Rieder's new book, Catastrophe Ethics, "aims to advise the well-intentioned, morally anxious & philosophically curious person" confronting the questions about whether our personal choices about the environment, technology, & justice matter.
#WordWeavers 20: How did you settle on your antagonists' appearances?
In "Pompeii Fire," my antagonist is an actual, documented person: Stephanus, the fuller. Now, he may have been the nicest guy in town for all any of us know ... but not in my book. He's way older than my female protagonist (he's her father's age), and wants to marry her. He's not particularly good-looking, and he's always trying to hide that his hair is thinning. But the worst part of him really is his odious personality.
Lilith by Eric Rickstad has been in my mountainous tbr ever since I first heard about it. I’m nearing the end of Under the Dome, so when it came ready from the library, I jumped on it.
PS. The strawberries have nothing to do with anything other than they make for a lovely contrast & they are the latest haul from my garden. #books#photography#fiction
Dionysus in Wisconsin won third place at the New England Romance Writers Readers' Choice awards in the fantasy/paranormal category. I am definitely going to be cool about this and not use it as an excuse to call myself an AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR at every turn because that would be obnoxious.
Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
However, there are six additional sonnets that Shakespeare wrote and included in the plays Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and Love's Labour's Lost. There is also a partial sonnet found in the play Edward III. The sonnets are almost all constructed using three quatrains followed by a final couplet. The rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac was born #OTD in 1799.
He is best known for his magnum opus, "La Comédie Humaine", a vast collection of interlinked novels and stories that provide a detailed panorama of French society in the first half of the 19th century. The series is divided into three major parts: "Études de Mœurs", "Études Philosophiques", and "Études Analytiques".
The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction by Matthew B. Crawford, 2015
We often complain about our fractured mental lives and feel beset by outside forces that destroy our focus and disrupt our peace of mind. Any defense against this, Crawford argues, requires that we reckon with the way attention sculpts the self.