Net Galley Challenge
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.
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Metaphors dont translate
In Telugu chukka (dot) means a star. Chukka also means drop like that of a drink.
go to town
go to town
Design your nut shell
bus wrap material used for cabinet.
Caviar pop art
www.livinginanutshell.com
Starck's Lou Lou chair , a tranparent chair is used as a nightstand. I do that all the time use chairs to hold stuff.
Caviar pop art
www.livinginanutshell.com
Starck's Lou Lou chair , a tranparent chair is used as a nightstand. I do that all the time use chairs to hold stuff.
Liquid chalk marker for Menu du Jour Mirror
Fabric removal gel on velvet makes negative pictures.
Paint by number paper topper
Chandelier Light box inspired from photographers light box with light from behind.
Doll house bookshelf
Chandelier Light box inspired from photographers light box with light from behind.
Doll house bookshelf
Hearken the history
At a preschool orientation, saw a kid trying to sort cylinders filled with different sound materials. I thought how we dont exercise the auditory skill too much.
Archaeoacoustics
Archaeoacoustics
Temiar people mimic cicadas sound in the beating of the bamboo poles.
Temiar music
Writing vedas is forbidden. I didnt know of it until I read this book but my husband knows it.
Recess in babri mosque for acoustic reasons.
Purandara mantapa musical pillars
Pocket park
How the other half lives
How Russia sounds?
Temiar music
Writing vedas is forbidden. I didnt know of it until I read this book but my husband knows it.
Recess in babri mosque for acoustic reasons.
Purandara mantapa musical pillars
Pocket park
How Russia sounds?
9 in 1 book
All in one were guide books for competitive exams. This book combines so many books into one. Just like Freelancer, a maximum of 50 bids or ads for free membership.
Soon after the publishing of this book, Trading assistant program has been terminated.
Drop shipping
Infinity board
Ice land
A friend told me about polar bears extincting. Mothers getting weaker. That ratcheted my interest in
The Melting world
Elevational Squeeze
PDO
Myths and misconceptions about polar bears. The mythbusting aint that much fun if you had no myth to begin with.
The Melting world
Elevational Squeeze
PDO
Myths and misconceptions about polar bears. The mythbusting aint that much fun if you had no myth to begin with.
and closer to the glaciers:
Hiking Alaska with babies. In Small Feet Big land, the hiking family begins with Cook inlet and so does this novel Glaciers
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