Net Galley Challenge
Monday, December 23, 2013
Wedding platter
After looking at a friend's Nepali wedding platters, I am curious about all the food in there.
They had kaja roti.
They had kaja roti.
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Lonely Planet's Travel Writing
Accordion Theory of Time
A night with the ghosts of Greece
George Dunford suggests looking at your hometown through the eyes of a visitor.
A night with the ghosts of Greece
George Dunford suggests looking at your hometown through the eyes of a visitor.
Friday, December 20, 2013
Illustrated Greek Latin Dictionary
Came across this book 'The Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek lexicon: Forming a Glossary of all the words representing Visible Objects connected with Everyday Life of the Greeka and the Romans', while looking for Peplum.
Area referred to vacant land in 1500s.
Ansa Ostii is a door handle. Recently in an elevator, I noticed that the handle for the phone box was in the shape of a phone receiver. Canadian City outlaws Doorknobs.
Calculators were human.
How well do you know your clothes?
The above is a Peplum Color block Dress.
American Cloak and Suit Review Vol 21 describes a Peplum Godet...
Godet is when there's extra fabric according to the review. I have a Godet skirt in my wardrobe and maybe you too and only didnt know so.
cire and Moire- If you have ever wondered how hollow wax casts are made.
Thursday, December 19, 2013
When Eponyms collide
Paul de Chomedey,Sieur de Maisonneuve was the founder of Montreal after whom the above magazine is based.
Another Jules Germain Fracois Maisonneuve was a surgeon of fractures.
I didnt know Atlas was an Eponym too. But ya who better than him who carries the world on his nape, to know the details of the world.
The eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Another babyname book?
All about Oceanography
Somebody needs help in an Oceanography course and I wondered whats in the Syllabus.
Kudos Robert Stewart for your rights to learners.
Kudos Robert Stewart for your rights to learners.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
The Learning Curve
I have not read a professor student romance novel before. We, Romance novel readers love cocooning ourselves in the lives of the central pair. Practical Professor Cavanaugh and Emily Peterson who is catching up to the `eight ball' resuming college after six years of baby sitting her siblings.
University is a time and setting where paths cross a lot. So its not surprising that they bump into each other often at the mechanic's, cafeteria, part-time workplace and ofcourse the classroom where the introductory relation takes off and morphs.
Most of the times we end up identifying with the heroine, drowning the hero's voice but in this novel, I could switch easily into the hero's point of view too.
Given the hero's position we would expect that it would take another business magnate for sparks to fly. Kind of like the Darcy Vs Lawyer Counterpart, but in the end he goes for the opposite Bridget Jones.
Emily is none of that yuppie, go-getter while our professor is also a business man, which means he is like the Joe Fox of the movie You've Got Mail where a move is `not personal, its business'. Their dates too are semi-formal-informal. As in most Romance novels, there is a lot of trouble personal as well as professional created by both parties. Their learning curve goes through crest and troughs before they can reach the final destination of HEA
University is a time and setting where paths cross a lot. So its not surprising that they bump into each other often at the mechanic's, cafeteria, part-time workplace and ofcourse the classroom where the introductory relation takes off and morphs.
Most of the times we end up identifying with the heroine, drowning the hero's voice but in this novel, I could switch easily into the hero's point of view too.
Given the hero's position we would expect that it would take another business magnate for sparks to fly. Kind of like the Darcy Vs Lawyer Counterpart, but in the end he goes for the opposite Bridget Jones.
Emily is none of that yuppie, go-getter while our professor is also a business man, which means he is like the Joe Fox of the movie You've Got Mail where a move is `not personal, its business'. Their dates too are semi-formal-informal. As in most Romance novels, there is a lot of trouble personal as well as professional created by both parties. Their learning curve goes through crest and troughs before they can reach the final destination of HEA
I learnt a new idiom in this book neither hide nor hair. While writing this review, I looked online on how to review a Romance novel. How to Write Romance Novels helped me check to see and categorize the main elements of the novel.
Monday, December 16, 2013
Beautiful plates
Made in made in 1914 - truth in labeling law of Mckinley Tariff act
Depression glass
Flow blue
Crooksville Petite point house plate for cross stitch lovers
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Reading in Digital age
Marshall McLuhan
fishwrap journalism
Why we Read?
1. Of things we might not do - Drive a motorcycle like in 'Through Dust and Darkness'.
fishwrap journalism
Why we Read?
1. Of things we might not do - Drive a motorcycle like in 'Through Dust and Darkness'.
Stories
When I read of a case where a man knew that he was about to die in a week or so, I asked my husband if he knew of any such case, not having known one like that before. He told of a relative it happened to.
How David Isay started and kept on with Storycorps too is a touching story.
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