
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel
The long grass rustles at your feet as the White Rabbit hurries by. The frightened Mouse splashes his way through …
paranoia, ya, l'environnement, sapphic romance, possibly not in that order. can't speak french™ but pretend to flip through the odd french book
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The long grass rustles at your feet as the White Rabbit hurries by. The frightened Mouse splashes his way through …
"The natives, they are all dead of small Poxe," John Winthrop wrote when he arrived in New England in 1630: "the Lord hathe cleared our title to what we possess."
— These Truths by Jill Lepore (Page 20)
Citing Alfred Crosby, "Ecological Imperialism: Biological Expansion of Europe," Cambridge University Press, 1986
I've been making my way through a cultural history of Russia, but for the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, I'm adding These Truths to my current shelf. Truth is an elusive goal that no human never reaches, but this history of America is impressively documented and likely much closer to Truth than what American kids like me were taught in school, or ever will be.
Why does fashion hold so much power over us? Most of us care about how we dress and how we …
In the span of 320 pages, Mona Chollet takes readers on a historical journey that covers how witches have been …
In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion icon, activist, and worldwide superstar Janelle Monáe …
From a New York Times investigative reporter, this “authoritative and devastating account of the impacts of social media” (New York …
@unnamedau this has been on my tbr pile for soooo long
Even though the subtitle promised me 30 unforgettable journeys, I was still unprepared for how many overnight trains the authors had unearthed, nor for how far they went (think Arctic Circle).
A bit breathlessly cheerleader, this book is still one I'll keep for the next time I need a novel trip idea.
It is World Toilet Day. Until I picked up this book, I didn't appreciate just how much of the world doesn't have safe toilets, nor the safety hazard that walking to a shared toilet presents, particularly for women.
A chapter of this book discusses "sky dancers," colorful inflated vertical tubes used for roadside advertisements. My partner got me a greeting card with a drawing of two of them and a quip, "totally tubular!". I've never seen them in real life and had to search the internet to get the reference. The phrase still conjures up only Valley Girls.
The house from the Thriller video. Abandoned missile control sites. The graves of Carole Lombard and Clark Gable… and their lovers. The steps down which Laurel and Hardy dropped a piano.
This is not your Fodor's L.A. With lots of offbeat sites - A street steeper than Lombard! Dine with cops! A fiberglass chicken! - there's something in here to interest any L.A. unbeliever.
Worth the trip? Don't know. But the book got me thinking seriously about whether L.A. could be fun, and that's a 5-star lift.
Few of us give much thought to computer code or how it comes to be. The very word “code” makes …