Walking like a fox. Slowing down to natures pace.
Net Galley Challenge
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Saving birds
Guinea pigs are the experimented. But so are pigs. Earlier explorers left pigs on uninhabited islands to see how well they fared before trying to inhabit it themselves.
Monday, December 3, 2012
The tales beneath the board
An article
The first part is about the incident that changed the author's life like Bethany Hamilton's.
The later part of the book talks about the acute senses of Great white shark. They dont do well in captivity.
The first part is about the incident that changed the author's life like Bethany Hamilton's.
The later part of the book talks about the acute senses of Great white shark. They dont do well in captivity.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
The wonder of the cosmos
Reading this book I wonder how are stars measured.
Twinkle Twinkle little star
How I wonder what you weigh
How are new planets found?
The author compares the stars in the sky to fish. I once dreamt that the constellations actually looked like the form we imagine them.
Waiting for new objects in the sky seems much like waiting for fish with a rod.
Monday, November 26, 2012
Life as a cadaver
This book is like 'The natural history of senses' by Diane Ackerman in its reach of all things core topic.
Author Mary Roach 's new book:
Blooming thinking of flowers
In How to learn to love Poetry, Natasha Tretheway says that children look at broccoli as trees. Wow.
After Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane poem was tweeted. Its not until you reach this poem, that you get to a solid poem. But wait what was that about counting leaves in Foolishness? No its not crazy but beautiful. Poet Mary Oliver is busy praising nature.
Percy seems familiar.
In 'The Mockingbird', she calls him 'the thief of other sounds'.
In 'The way of the world, a wondrous fish 'In its silver scales / it seemed dressed for a wedding'.
On Traveling to beautiful places, the poet says we are all on this only ship. In Stiff, Mary Roach likens a cadaver to being on a cruise lying on the back and brain blank.
Cook in the dshwasher
picnic indoors.
Eat using only hands. How else would you eat? my husband explains it mans without using cutlery.
How to cook something in the dishwasher. So instead of scaring the child with soapy water for bad words, you just riddle their wrapped food with holes?
Walk on the same path for 30 days and notice the changes.
Friday, November 23, 2012
Good review
A good review of a book is to me the one that brings out the role of the book in the bigger picture of literature. Yes the whats and hows of the book would be expected but thats a catalogue and a reading can decide on that easily. Multiple reviews that contradict on the content leave us where we start.
Reading many books
at once is like playing Musical chairs. You read further into each book to decide which one gets eliminated. If a book has promise, it is kept aside to be savoured. This game can go as long as the library allows or does not interrupt with holds from other such players who think your book might jazz up their game.
The Joys of Reading many Books
The Joys of Reading many Books
To think of the less travelled path
Jeremy seal
An article
Another article
Beycesultan Mound with ducts for heating 1000 years before we know of it.
The writing about the travel along the meander in an inflatable canoe along with the stories from the maps of the past is like Rephotography.
One thing that kept rearing up in the book is the pristinity of a foreigner as a stranger with a possibility of medicinal knowledge, different ways of grooming and the xenophobe's horror. In the current global world, people can ease into a culture by reading up on it before hand.
Strangers in the villages he stops for the night treat him with green almonds.
Randomized field trial
Can government run an experiment by providing stimulus to a smaller section of people to see how far it stimulates the economy?
Instead of only traditional market research, moving on to trials.
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
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