![]() ![]() They were primarily focused on the role of bacteria in causing illnesses and not much else. Two hundred years ago, scientists thought of microbes as a disease-causing agent. Yong goes on to discuss the difficulty in replicating his findings, as no one else could see what he saw. He explains that it’s been difficult to study them because they’re so small and hard to see, but he describes the history of microbiology, starting with Anton van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch lens maker who discovered that there were animalcules everywhere. Yong talks about how microbes affect humans. It was originally published in 2016 this guide is based on the 2018 paperback edition. Ed Yong, who has written for many publications such as The New Yorker, Wired, The New York Times, and Nature wrote this book. ![]() I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life is an in-depth introduction to the microbiome and how it interacts with humans. 1-Page Summary of I Contain Multitudes Overall Summary ![]()
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![]() It was in this paperback, too, that I first discovered how prose could rise to poetry as Joyce described the snow falling on the grave of Michael Furey and “all the living and the dead.”Įver since then I have been a fan of the short novel. ![]() Hatch and marvel at how Porter could bring him to hated life in just a few pages. ![]() To this day I remember the loathsomely evil Mr. When I was in eighth grade, our English class read a squat, almost square-shaped Dell paperback titled “Six Great Modern Short Novels.” It contained Nikolai Gogol’s “The Overcoat,” Herman Melville’s “Billy Budd,” James Joyce’s “The Dead,” William Faulkner’s “The Bear,” Glenway Wescott’s “The Pilgrim Hawk” and Katherine Anne Porter’s “Noon Wine.” Each of these masterpieces, and they are all that, could be read in an evening, and each of them packed an intense emotional wallop. ![]() ![]() There is no way to punish the child into her usual obedience. And the child has reasoned there is no need for her to explain anything - she says so, and watches the astonishment on the woman's face. ![]() One woman approaches her, Annabel, who demands to know why she is alone, sulking different. The child is angry and rebels against the women with whom she feels she can share nothing - they withhold the secret of men from her. They live in an iron-barred cage in a bunker, patrolled around the clock by three guards on changing shifts. There is nothing flashy, extraneous or dramatical - although there are disturbing and emotional events.įrom the beginning our narrator is different, because she is the only child held as a prisoner with 39 women. I always respond well to intellect driven narratives. I particularly liked the beginning which follows the developing mind of our narrator, the child, and later the unnamed woman. For me the straightforward sentences reflect accurately the ability of our narrator, who writes this story at the end of her life. ![]() ![]() In 2003, the American Film Institute voted Atticus Finch, as portrayed in an Academy Award-winning performance by Gregory Peck in the 1962 film adaptation, as the greatest hero of all American cinema. Book magazine's list of The 100 Best Characters in Fiction Since 1900 names Finch as the seventh best fictional character of 20th-century literature. Lee based the character on her own father, Amasa Coleman Lee, an Alabama lawyer, who, like Atticus, represented black defendants in a highly publicized criminal trial. He represents the African-American man Tom Robinson in his trial where he is charged with rape of Mayella Ewell. Atticus is a lawyer and resident of the fictional Maycomb County, Alabama, and the father of Jeremy "Jem" Finch and Jean Louise "Scout" Finch. A preliminary version of the character also appears in the novel Go Set a Watchman, written in the mid-1950s but not published until 2015. ![]() Lawyer, Member of the Alabama LegislatureĪtticus Finch is a fictional character in Harper Lee's Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel of 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird. ![]() Gregory Peck as Finch in the 1962 film adaptation ![]() ![]() ![]() She proves to have great talent for magic, as well as being taught to read and write. Abandoned at birth, she is found and raised by the local witch in rural England. The pre-prequel to “Practical Magic”, this book takes us to the 1600s and the life of Maria Owens. ![]() Magic Lessons is a “heartbreaking and heart-healing” ( BookPage) celebration of life and love and a showcase of Alice Hoffman’s masterful storytelling. And it’s here that she learns the rules of magic and the lesson that she will carry with her for the rest of her life. Here she invokes the curse that will haunt her family. When Maria is abandoned by the man who has declared his love for her, she follows him to Salem, Massachusetts. It is here that she learns her first important lesson: Always love someone who will love you back. Under the care of Hannah Owens, Maria learns about the “Nameless Arts.” Hannah recognizes that Maria has a gift and she teaches the girl all she knows. ![]() Where does the story of the Owens bloodline begin? With Maria Owens, in the 1600s, when she’s abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby. In this “ bewitching” ( The New York Times Book Review) novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, beloved author Alice Hoffman unveils the story of Maria Owens, accused of witchcraft in Salem, and matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men featured in Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Already feels like an American coming of age classic' RED 'The best novel I've read in years' CHRIS CLEAVE 'Wise and wildly entertaining. The bestselling author of A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW and RULES OF CIVILITY and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America. Two runaways from the youth work farm, Duchess and Wolly, have followed Emmett all the way to Nebraska with a plan of their own, one that will take the four of them on an unexpected and fateful journey in the opposite direction - to New York City. They are getting ready to leave their old life behind and head out to sunny California. in which the miles fly by and the pages turn fast' ANN PATCHETT In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett returns home to his younger brother Billy after serving fifteen months in a juvenile facility for involuntary manslaughter. ![]() ![]() It spent two years on the New York Times bestsellers list and wow, what a hard accomplishment to follow. Towles’ previous book A Gentleman in Moscow published in 2016I loved that novel and thought it was such a warmhearted tale. As soon as I finished it, I wanted to read it again' TANA FRENCH 'Welcome to the enormous pleasure that is The Lincoln Highway. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles is a big work of fiction about the complicated journey of adulthood. THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF RULES OF CIVILITY AND A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW 'Deserves a place alongside Kerouac, Steinbeck and Wolfe as the very best of the genre' OBSERVER 'An absolute beauty of a book. ![]() ![]() ![]() I know this book was not intended as a serious ethnography or case study, but the author (and the reader) would have beneï¬ted from some of the rigor of either of these approaches. But the proï¬les often feel strangely incomplete. Super Chefs may have accomplished what the author intended: to give a glimpse of the business empires of the super chefs. Whatever the reason, this section is the highlight of the book. ![]() Perhaps the âToo Hot Tamalesâ were more open than their male counterparts maybe the interviewer/interviewee chemistry was better or possibly the writer was more interested in this story. Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of Americaīut their story is brought out with candor and compassion, making it by far the most absorbing story of the quintet, certainly much more satisfying than the rote recital of accomplishments found in other chapters. ![]() ![]() Some of the big set pieces I designed, for example, I have no appetite for. You know, where I can go back to some of the scenes that were left out. Not only to scale it down somehow, but because back then I was trying to bridge the scale of it with elements that would make it go through the studio machinery." He adds more on how he'd scale things down this time, saying: "I can go to a far more esoteric, weirder, smaller version of it. Guillermo del Toro once again spoke about the project, this time revealing that he plans to rewrite his original script, saying: "The thing with Mountains is, the screenplay I co-wrote fifteen years ago is not the screenplay I would do now, so I need to do a rewrite. ![]() ![]() There's no word or update on this project otherwise, so it's likely still dead, but it's cool to get an idea on what might've been. Guillermo del Toro joined Instagram recently and shared some old CG test footage from this project that has never been seen before. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dazzling meta-textual experiment or Choose Your Own Adventure knock-off? We’ll have to wait and see. The seventh issue of the series, due in February 2015, will take place in “our” universe, in that whoever reads the comic will find themselves cast as the hero in the story. These realms include one where all DC’s iconic superheroes are supercute Japanese chibi characters, and one where Santa Claus is real (or at least as real as Green Lantern, the space cop with a magic wishing ring).Įver since he wrote himself into DC’s Animal Man series in 1990, Morrison has been the poster-boy for postmodern experiments in comics and he’s got a doozy up his sleeve here. The first issue of The Multiversity, an ambitious nine-issue mini-series Morrison has been talking up since 2009, deliberately sidesteps the familiar faces of the Justice League to spotlight Calvin Ellis, the black president Superman of Earth-23, and Captain Carrot, a volatile bunny in a cape, as they battle encroaching baddies The Gentry across 52 universes. ![]() ![]() (Her first husband was Gerard Da Cunha, whom she met while in college. Roy wrote and starred in the film In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones, and she wrote the script for Electric Moon, directed by her second husband, Pradip Krishen. She eventually wrote several film scripts, which are recognized for their complex structure and biting social commentary. After graduating, Roy supported herself by teaching aerobics while honing her writing skills. She spent her teenage years at boarding school in Southern India, after which she earned her degree from the School of Planning and Architecture in Delhi. ![]() Through her persistence, the Supreme Court granted Christian women in Kerala the right to have an inheritance. Mary Roy, a political activist, won an unprecedented victory for women's rights in Kerala. She has been reluctant to discuss her father publicly, having spent very little time with him during her lifetime Roy instead focuses on her mother's influence in her life. Roy's mother, Mary Roy, homeschooled her until the age of ten, when she began attending regular classes. ![]() She spent her childhood in Aymanam in Kerala, which serves as the setting for her first novel, The God of Small Things (under the name "Ayemenem"). ![]() Arundhati Roy was born in 1961 in the Northeastern Indian region of Bengal, to a Christian mother and Hindu father. ![]() |