Lisa does a lot of reading, since she travels so much, and writes really insightful and interesting book reviews, as well as participating in other book events. I get a lot of great ideas for what I want to read, by keeping up with her. [...]
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Scientists need to communicate, too, if they are ever to get an audience. They have to stop appealing strictly to the head, and start pulling responses from the heart and the gut as well. [...] A lovely book about awakening, self-acceptance, and independence [...] That itself may be part of the message of the story: that we live, have an influence, then move on while the story continues without us. [...] I’ve heard that the they’re making a new detective series from Mark Billingham’s books about Detective Inspector Tom Thorne. If they’re really doing that, I hope they start with this story. [...] He argues that we should neither be in such a rush to eliminate physical paper books, nor should bookish people look down their noses at digitized books and e-readers. We are not confronted with an either-or situation, says Darnton, despite what people on both sides of the divide believe. [...] Perhaps not what you’d consider soothing bedtime reading, but I couldn’t put it down till about 12:30 a.m. the night I finished it. [...] I wasn’t sure at first that I was the “target audience” for E. Lynn Harris’s I Say A Little Prayer, especially in the early chapters [...] It builds slowly, but you can feel the hair lifting gradually on the back of your neck as it does. … [...] And that close family at the reunion? May just be descended from the mating of a human woman and the Celtic horned god. At least, judging by the antlers that the men tend to manifest when they get, um, horny. … [...] |
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