(timely little post from Linda Malcolm–) The Windsor Knot by S. J. Bennett As she nears her 90th birthday, Queen Elizabeth II is enjoying some time at Windsor Castle. Prince Charles has arranged a “dine and sleep” for a few dozen friends, complete with entertainment by a handsome Russian pianist (who also dances a mean tango.) By morning, however, the young pianist is dead and
Jennifer Doudna is the recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, along with her assistant Emmanuelle Charpentier, and their work helped lay the groundwork for the development of the Covid-19 vaccine. Just remember that, if your daughters or granddaughters aspire to be chemists. Doudna’s high school counselor told her that girls do not become chemists. Not an awful lot of girls become chemists, true,
Anyone who lived in Atlanta in the 50’s and 60’s was very familiar with Memorial Drive. During those decades, Atlanta was still a city, barely on the cusp of becoming the metropolis it is today, and people were familiar with the many neighborhoods spiraling outward from the gold-plated Capitol dome. Memorial Drive was a vital east-west corridor linking East Lake, Kirkwood, Edgewood, Grant Park, Cabbagetown,
BOOK 1 Bill Gates has been promoting his newest book entitled How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. You may have seen his appearance on “60 Minutes”, which aired February 14, 2020. On the TV program and in the book, Gates claims that the world needs to get to zero carbon emmissions by 2050 in order to avoid a climate disaster. To accomplish this goal, Gates
PBS provided a great deal of hype for it’s new adaptation of James Herriot’s books about his time as a veternarian in the Yorkshire countryside. Some viewers, however, do not appreciate the new version of All Creatures Great and Small. Have you watched the series? Did you read the books? What do you think? James Herriott, whose actual name was James Alfred Wight, was a
Sea Marsh Book Club books for 2021: Meeting Date Book Author Host Monday, November 16, 2020 Another Brooklyn Jennifer Woodson Lois Monday, December 14, 2020 Such A Fun Age Kiley Reid Laura Monday, January 18, 2021 The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett Judy Monday, February 22, 2021 Pope Joan: A Novel Donna Woolfolk Cross Marti/Madeleine Monday, March 15, 2021 A Woman of No Importance Sonia Purnell
What It’s Like to be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds are Doing, and Why Author: David Allen Sibley Reviewer: Cindy Perry If you’re a backyard birder or if you’re simply interested in learning more about the rich array of shorebirds, songbirds, vultures, waterbirds, or other interesting birds, consider David Allen Sibley’s artistic and research-driven book, What It’s Like to be
The Classics Revisited First, there was Madeline Miller’s Song of Achilles followed by her Circe (currently on the NY Times bestseller list). Both books look back to the Homerian sagas, The Iliad and The Odyssey and expand on those tales to imagine a deeper story about the action and characters we know from the classic tales. Natalie Haynes’ new book, A Thousand Ships, follows that
Valentine’s Day is only one week away. Want to read a book about love? Not romantic love, but the love a mother has for a child, a librarian has for books and a farmer has for the land. Want to read a book that came out in February, the month for love? Choose one or more of the books featured in this article to not
