Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child by Bob Spitz | Book Review
Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child by Bob Spitz Genres: Biography, Food Original Publication Date: 2012 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Goodreads, Amazon The definitive biography of Julia Child. Bob Spitz takes us beyond the image of Child as the tall, eccentric woman with a funny voice who taught America how to cook. He establishes her as a genuine rebel and beloved icon, a woman who redefined herself in middle age, and helped to change the role of women in America, set the standard for how to create a public personality in the modern media world, and altered the way America eats and thinks…
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn | Book Review
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Genres: American Literature, Fiction Original Publication Date: 2012 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Facebook, Goodreads, Amazon, Instagram Is Amy a gone girl? On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy’s diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under…
Leave A Light On For Me
We Need Some Light The last several weeks have been difficult in the New Jersey and New York areas as we recover from the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. After two major storms last year, Hurricane Irene and the weird Snowtober storm, I learned my lesson and made sure that I did not have too many perishables in the refrigerator. On the night of the storm, the lights stayed on for longer than we had hoped. But then the lights started flickering and finally, around 9 p.m. the lights went off and we were plunged into total darkness. Since the lights did not come back until Friday, we mostly subsisted on…
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot | Book Review
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Genres: Biography, Illness, Medicine, Science Original Publication Date: 2010 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Facebook, Goodreads, Amazon, Instagram Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine: The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, which are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses,…
To Autumn by John Keats (1820)
To Autumn by John Keats Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells. Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a…
