But I was curious and checked her list of possible authors, I discovered there a scifi author I have meant to read. I didn’t even know he was Welsh! “Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a policeman of sorts, and one of the best. His force is Panoply, and his beat is the multi-faceted ...
What has really changed though, is the way of speaking. Huymans uses the vocabulary of the working class and it’s been a really long time since I read a French book with so many words I didn’t know. I guessed their meaning thanks to the context but still.Rigolbocher,soussouillefaubou...
By analyzing vocal sequences from 16 whale species and comparing them with 51 human languages, Dr. Youngblood found that many whales “compress” their calls to maximize efficiency, similarly to how humans do when speaking. Eleven species exhibit Menzerath’s law, meaning longer vocal sequences ar...
What has really changed though, is the way of speaking. Huymans uses the vocabulary of the working class and it’s been a really long time since I read a French book with so many words I didn’t know. I guessed their meaning thanks to the context but still.Rigolbocher,soussouillefaubou...
“Holi Hai” is the predominant saying, meaning It’s Holi. In India, neighborhoods celebrate the holiday, drinking, eating fried pastries and throwing colored powder. Here, on Long Island, celebrations are more intimate. “Over in India, everybody in every neighborhood is celebrating,“ said ...
Continue Reading → November 6, 2024 0 Review: The Book of Atrix Wolfe by Patricia McKillip Y'all, I've been meaning to read this book forever, and so when the 30th Anniversary Edition popped up on my NetGalley radar, I immediately requested it, because what better time than the ...
(TBG) initiatives are a couple, but recently the Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) program made notable progress. After a series of setbacks, Lockheed Martin’s AGM-183A ARRW completed its booster experiments following another successful trial on July 12, meaning that all-up-round ...
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Ah, now we’re coming to it. I’ve reached the essay in which Nick Hornby includes a novel calledHousekeepingby Marilynne Robinson in his list of books he purchased that month. This is bound to be theHousekeepingthat takes on The Dirt in the title of his essay collection. But I don’...
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted byThe Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic isTop Ten Books On My Winter TBR. Some of these came out this year; others are due out by the end of February. I also have a lot of older books on my want-to-read list, but decided...