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Elements A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe
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Theodore Gray
doowahditty
, September 24, 2015
I bought this book because chemistry has always been my livelihood. Never did I imagine that it would inspire my 8 yr old grandson to look at chemistry the same way! Not only did he find the elements' photos as beautiful, he now knows what atomic numbers and mass are all about. He now sleeps under a large chart of the Periodic Elements.
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Something More Than Night
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Ian Tregillis
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, October 21, 2014
Ian Tregillis, the author of the Milkweed Triptych, follows up that series with Something More Than Night. Defying genre description, Something More Than Night is part Raymond Chander noir, part angel mythology, and part quantum physics. Mixed together, this story is unlike anything I've read, the murder of the Angel Gabriel. "He wasn’t just lovely, he was the kind of lovely that could make a bishop stomp his miter and curse a long blue streak on Easter Sunday."
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Chat Noir Womens Knee Socks
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Sock It to Me
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, January 29, 2014
Who could ask for more than to wear Chat Noir socks to match your kitchen's Chat Noir wall print?
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The Beautiful Mystery: Chief Inspector Gamache 8
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Louise Penny
doowahditty
, January 01, 2013
A contemporary mystery by Louise Penny (Inspector Gamache) is presented in a modern medieval setting, the Monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups in Quebec. The monastery itself is a major character, described in such real terms that I could feel the stones and see the light ("The corridor was filled with rainbows. Giddy prisms. Bouncing off the hard stone walls. Pooling on the slate floors. They shifted and merged and separated as though alive") and the human lives within are all, as spiritual as one might expect, reveal the common virtues and flaws of us all.
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Gone Girl
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Gillian Flynn
doowahditty
, August 06, 2012
This is a fascinating suspense story as told by a husband (in real time) and a wife (told through journal entries.) All is NOT what it seems. Kept me hanging all the way!
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Iliad
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Homer, Robert Fagles
doowahditty
, September 04, 2011
The Iliad by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles, is undoubtedly wonderful poetry that makes you marvel at word choice and rhetorical construction. Yet it moves with the speed of an adventure novel. In other words, it exemplifies (as no other translation has for me) what scholars have been telling us about Homer for centuries. I don't understand classical Greek, so I can't read Homer in the original, but it seems Fagles has given me something very, very close indeed. In fact, Fagles' translations of Homer's "The Odyssey" and Virgil's "The Aenied" make a sublime trilogy of ancient myth. To hear it as Homer must have spoken it (it was first an oral composition, of course) I recommend the audiobook with Derek Jacobi's interpretation of "The Iliad" as translated by Fagles. Stupendous!
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Priests Graveyard
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Ted Dekker
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, September 01, 2011
After finishing "The Priest's Graveyard", I found myself stunned with both its darkness AND its light. It is the story of two lost souls, a priest with a violent past and a heroin addicted woman, and their individual searches for justice. There are moments of deep, penetrating insight into the human psyche; the author exposes, in a very cunning way, those pieces of us that none want exposed, pieces that we shove down deep, hoping that no one will ever find them.
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Cooking Up a Storm Recipes Lost & Found from the Times Picayune of New Orleans
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Marcelle Bienvenu
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, March 31, 2011
New Orleans is my hometown*, as much a part of me as my heartbeat, and Hurricane Katrina broke that heart. "Cooking Up a Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from the Times-Picayune of New Orleans" helped to heal me. I found recipes, of course, lost to me since childhood. Every time I use one of these fabulous recipes, the aromas of New Orleans fill my home, head, and heart. If you would like to experience the tastes, aroma, and spirit of New Orleans in your own home, I highly recommend this cookbook! *I moved to Portland a month before Katrina struck.
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Girl Who Played With Fire
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Stieg Larsson
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, January 01, 2011
Best of the Larsson Millennium Trilogy! Probably because Lisbeth Salander is front and center. Hers is a character that defies description.
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