Lauren Redniss has captured a fine review from the The New York Times with her new biography of Marie Curie:
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout
Click on the title above for the Amazon site and scroll down on the page to sample pages. They are very enticing.
Read The New York Times review by Dwight Garner: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/22/books/22book.html?ref=books
In the very beginning of the review, Garner does an excellent job of giving an explanation of the fuzzy, tentative status that graphic novels hold in the literary world, and general miasma rest-of-the-world, I guess.
thought for rough days:
Even Sheriff Brody took Dramamine before getting on Quint's boat, the Orca, in "Jaws".
Dear Reader,
I digitally removed his name. You should be advised that this is where visual journaling gets the "journaling" part. Generally journals are private and uncensored. But, being a visual journal, these pages wanted to be seen.
Sincerely,
The Librarian
P.S. Click to enlarge.
Sincerely,
The Librarian
P.S. Click to enlarge.
excerpt of the day:
As if by the very suggestion, she found her eyes dragged away from the river and up to the left of the porch, where the last hill before town blotted out the stars.
"Here," he said. "I hope these'll be all right--"
"Look at the Marsten House," she said.
He did. There was a light on up there.
--'Salem's Lot by Stephen King (Ch. 2, end section 6)
"Here," he said. "I hope these'll be all right--"
"Look at the Marsten House," she said.
He did. There was a light on up there.
--'Salem's Lot by Stephen King (Ch. 2, end section 6)
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