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What are you reading Chapter 4
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Rereading, actually listening to, Book 1 of Terry Brook's series "The Fall of Shannara" The Black Elfstone before starting Book 2, The Skaar Invasion.
Just downloaded the first 3 books of the series. They had it as a kindle special so I got all 3 for 1.99. Read them many years ago but wanted to revisit them.
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I'm reading The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks.
The life story of a black women from Southern America who cervical cancer cells (HeLa cells) are still growing in the lab to this day. I personally used her cells in my masters project last year, it has been a pleasure reading her life story. Her impact on modern science is really second to none, paved the way for a lot of modern medicine
The life story of a black women from Southern America who cervical cancer cells (HeLa cells) are still growing in the lab to this day. I personally used her cells in my masters project last year, it has been a pleasure reading her life story. Her impact on modern science is really second to none, paved the way for a lot of modern medicine
Rereading (listening to the Audible version) Terry Brooks, The Black Elfstone, book one of the Fall of Shannara series, before I read book two The Skaar Invasion.
It's really more like four short essays than anything else, but I have been enjoying this immensely so far:
The author was a classy gentleman with a lot of insight, even in sickness and death.
The author was a classy gentleman with a lot of insight, even in sickness and death.
A present from my kids, who know me too well. The Complete Calvin And Hobbes.
For some strange reason I'd never read any of Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant series until now. I finished Lord Foul's Bane a little while ago and now am in the middle of The Illearth War. I don't know why I waited so long to read these books.
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
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Brusatte traces the evolution of dinosaurs from their inauspicious start as small shadow dwellers—themselves the beneficiaries of a mass extinction caused by volcanic eruptions at the beginning of the Triassic period—into the dominant array of species every wide-eyed child memorizes today, T. rex,Triceratops, Brontosaurus, and more. This gifted scientist and writer re-creates the dinosaurs’ peak during the Jurassic and Cretaceous, when thousands of species thrived, and winged and feathered dinosaurs, the prehistoric ancestors of modern birds, emerged. The story continues to the end of the Cretaceous period, when a giant asteroid or comet struck the planet and nearly every dinosaur species (but not all) died out, in the most extraordinary extinction event in earth’s history, one full of lessons for today as we confront a “sixth extinction.”
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Brusatte traces the evolution of dinosaurs from their inauspicious start as small shadow dwellers—themselves the beneficiaries of a mass extinction caused by volcanic eruptions at the beginning of the Triassic period—into the dominant array of species every wide-eyed child memorizes today, T. rex,Triceratops, Brontosaurus, and more. This gifted scientist and writer re-creates the dinosaurs’ peak during the Jurassic and Cretaceous, when thousands of species thrived, and winged and feathered dinosaurs, the prehistoric ancestors of modern birds, emerged. The story continues to the end of the Cretaceous period, when a giant asteroid or comet struck the planet and nearly every dinosaur species (but not all) died out, in the most extraordinary extinction event in earth’s history, one full of lessons for today as we confront a “sixth extinction.”
Following on from Anthony Bourdain's excellent 'Kitchen Confidential', I picked up his two fictional books on Kindle...'Gone Bamboo' and 'The Bobby Gold Stories'.
I really enjoyed them...pretty light material, but well-written and fun reads.
I really enjoyed them...pretty light material, but well-written and fun reads.
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Bird Brain by Nathan Emery, about research on avian cerebral faculties. It's a larger book than I expected, and lavishly illustrated. Chapters are short, but present good accounts of various experiments with learning, problem solving, memory and tool use. Corvids and parrots are definitely in the Klever Klub.
