![]() ![]() ![]() The taste was that of the little piece of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray my aunt Léonie used to give me.” ![]() He goes on, saying, “And suddenly the memory revealed itself. “No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me,” he says. Having done so, he begins to remember snatches of his childhood spent in the countryside. In a famous scene from the French novel In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, the narrating character takes a bite out of a madeleine (a small, traditional French sponge cake) that he had previously dunked in a little tea. Share on Pinterest We rely on our ability to orient ourselves in space, but what do our guts have to do with it? ![]()
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7/8/2023 0 Comments Spare Parts by Paul Craddock![]() ![]() Bringing together philosophy, science and cultural history, Spare Parts explores how transplant surgery constantly tested the boundaries between human, animal, and machine, and continues to do so today. ![]() Paul Craddock takes us on a journey - from sixteenth-century skin grafting to contemporary stem cell transplants - uncovering stories of operations performed by unexpected people in unexpected places. But transplant surgery is as ancient as the pyramids, with a history more surprising than we might expect. We think of transplant surgery as one of the medical wonders of the modern world. Why did eighteenth-century dentists buy the live teeth of poor children?Īnd what role did a sausage skin and an enamel bath play in making kidney transplants a reality? How did an architect help pioneer blood transfusion in the 1660's? Paul Craddock's Spare Parts offers an original look at the history of medicine itself through the rich, compelling, and delightfully macabre story of transplant surgery from ancient times to the present day. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I just adore this series! The sweet chemistry, the endearing characters, all the charm and sincerity paired with humor and the complexity of growing up. He does some nice things but I wanted more. I felt super conflicted because cheating is a hard no for me, and Violet forgives him thinking he did. Why couldn’t she have just walked into his room? And you’re supposed to start liking him then but I kept thinking he’d be having sex with another girl right now if she didn’t walk in. They’re not together, sure, but literally minutes later he cares for her when she’s sick. When a story starts, I just want my MCs focused on each other and everything else in the past. I don’t like that she walks in on him hooking up with a girl. That *of course* the guy is always in love with the girl the whollleee time but sleeps around like crazy and *of course* the girl doesn’t date at all. I know the point is that she forgives him either way but we could have at least seen her find out he didn’t!! ![]() I had a feeling he didn’t but then you find out in the last like two minutes and we don’t even see Violet ever find out?! It’s such a huge deal I think we needed more. That you think he cheated the whole time. That they both have ambitions and other things going on besides romance We must be twins because I’ve always felt like an “Austen phony” too - I love all the adaptations but not the real books! □ ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Oathbound victoria mccombs![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Spiritual Content- Mentions of prayers & praying (some to the Sea King and one to the Fates, but for most of the prayers, who they are praying to is not mentioned) Mentions of sins (including Arn’s plans to commit more sins) A mention of “whatever afterlife awaited” for someone who died A couple mentions of miracles A mention of a building’s ceilings looking like a cathedral and that the devil himself would think twice about entering Series: Book #1 in the “The Royal Rose Chronicles” series. To ignore it is to invite peril of unimaginable destruction.Īs the adventure unfolds, the sea takes more than she expects and the sea gives more than he wants.” His obligations are tinged with betrayal, for his oathbind must be fulfilled. ![]() The pirate captain’s secrets are darker than the deep and threaten to kill them all. But the fates are cruel, and now a hidden sickness leads her to partner with pirates for the one thing that can save her-a cure on an island none are certain exists. The dangerous deep brings ruin to all.Įmme has spent her life avoiding anything to do with pirates. ![]() ![]() It’s about miracles, and it’s a complete inspiration.” - C A S S R. Brainscapes is a profoundly illuminating account of how the brain works - and of how the maps within our heads determine what we see, recognize, remember, and feel. $28.00 Higher in Canada “Rebecca Schwarzlose is a neuroscientist with a novelist’s literary flair. How Brain Maps Weigh Us Down and How We Rise Above Them Back Matter Acknowledgments Notes Index Back Flap Back Cover Spine Citation preview ![]() ![]() Maps as Portals: Mind Reading and Mind Writing with Brain Maps 12. Comprehending and Communicating with Brain Maps 11. Imagining, Remembering, and Paying Attention with Brain Maps 10. Knowing Again: Brain Maps for Recognition 9. Maps in the Making: How Brain Maps Develop and Adapt 8. Brain Maps and Codes for Taste and Smell 6. ![]() Out of the Ether: Brain Maps for Hearing 5. How Brain Maps Determine What We See and Feel 4. The Tyranny of Numbers: Why Brain Maps Exist 3. Table of contents : Front Cover Front Flap Front Matter Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction 1. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Shattered iron druid![]() I haven't read that one, but hey if thats your thing maybe you should check it out. Since the newest Star Wars just came out, I feel I should mention that author Kevin Hearne has also written a Star Wars book called Heir to the Jedi. I hope someday they make a movie out of one of these books, I think it would be a hit! If you like fantasy battles in a Lord of The Rings style but with a humorous twist, you will adore these books. ![]() The narrator and voice of Atticus in the audio book, Luke Daniels, is a perfect fit. If I catch my mind doing that and redirect it back however, I find that I was missing out on some pretty awesome stuff. That should be a good thing but my mind starts to wander after so many battles. My least favorite is that it can be so action packed. My favorite part of these books is the imaginative characters and the witty remarks Oberon makes. In Hounded, Atticus and his hilarious dog Oberon (who chats with him through a telepathic link only they share) ally themselves with and oppose both gods and witches in a very action packed saga where Atticus has a knack for getting into trouble even as he is escaping it. As an Iron Druid he is more or less a wizard, charged with the protection of the Earth. ![]() ![]() Atticus O’Sullivan is the last of the Iron Druids. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Lola carlyle reveals all![]() ![]() ![]() Our heroine, Georgeanne, is a Texas belle engaged to be married to the manager of the Chinooks hockey team. It actually kind of reminds me of IT HAD TO BE YOU by Susan Elizabeth Phillips in many ways, which was another sports themed chick-lit/romance crossover book from the 1990s that I read recently and had issues with. SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE is also surreal.and not necessarily in a good way. I barely remember what the book was about, only that the experience of reading it was surreal.and not necessarily in a good way. One of these books was called LOLA CARLYLE REVEALS ALL by Rachel Gibson. ![]() I went through a chick-lit phrase during my first two years of college, during which time I devoured any book I could find as long as it had a pink cover. For more info about what this is, click here. I read this book for the Unapologetic Romance Readers' New Years 2017 Reading Challenge. ![]() ![]() ![]() The major chip on Jules’s shoulder doesn’t help. Life keeps getting worse as her working student abandons her, a promising horse turns out to be suffering from an apparent psychosis, and a disastrous show experience starts sucking her clients away-and sending them to Morrison. ![]() ![]() Working herself nearly to death on a shoestring, she’s furious to be shut out for a prestigious grant by rich-guy Peter Morrison. Juliet (Jules) wants most of all to beat the big riders in the dangerous and highly competitive world of eventing. Warned Off, by Richard Pitman and Joe McNally (mystery/thriller) REVIEWS Review of Natalie Keller Reinert’s Ambition ![]() Hill (mystery/suspense)Ĭold Burn, by Kit Ehrman (mystery/suspense) Dead Man’s Touch, by Kit Ehrman (mystery/suspense) Decider, by Dick Francis (mystery/suspense)Įleanor McGraw, a Pony Named Mouse, and a Boy Called Fire, by Katharina Marcus (YA romance) Kickback, by Damien Boyd (mystery/police procedural) Lady Joe, by Mark Saha (humor) Learning to Fall, by Anne Clermont (romance) (NEW!) The Mare, by Mary Gaitskill Silks and Sins by Clare O’Beara (romance) Outside Chance, by Lyndon Stacey (mystery/thriller) Welcome to the page where I’ll post my reviews of books from the world of horses that I’ve enjoyed! If you like my reviews, I’d love a review of one of my books! Ambition, by Natalie Keller Reinert (romance) Backstretch Baby, by Bev Pettersen (romance) Blind Switch, by John McEvoy (suspense, humor)īloodstock, by A. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Howard Cosell by Mark Ribowsky![]() ![]() ![]() The main reason I decided to undertake this work was to fill a vacuum that has existed for the last two decades since his final, and surprisingly quiet, exit from the stage. If, in the modern vernacular, Wall Street is too big to fail, Howard Cosell was exactly the opposite-he was too big to not fail, which is why this biography isn’t merely an examination of the media phenomenon called Howard Cosell but something of a modern fable, complete with shadings of Greek tragedy. Indeed, the more Cosell’s detractors twitted him, the bigger he became. Yet nobody laughed more than Howard Cosell did himself, knowing full well the hold he had on the media-driven culture he had helped define and cannily exploited for thirty or so years. During those heady times, especially during the late 1960s and 1970s, it was hard, in fact, to find someone who didn’t take a whack at the world’s most inflated ego. It may be surprising to those who were not alive then, or were too young to know, but his presence so dominated popular American culture that it was virtually impossible not to know who he was. In endless variations and permutations, jokes about Howard Cosell’s outsized ego and nonstop verbosity proliferated during much of his lifetime. ![]() ![]() ![]() But as it turns out, Donal isn't traveling solo: Herman the German has decided to fly the coop with him. After one contretemps too many, Kate packs him back to the authorities in Montana on the next Greyhound. She henpecks her good-natured husband, Herman the German, and Donal can't seem to get on her good side either. There Donal is in for a rude surprise: Aunt Kate-bossy, opinionated, argumentative, and tyrannical-is nothing like her sister. But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin. ![]() Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Ivan Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. Named a Best Book of the Year by the Seattle Times and Kirkus Review The final novel from a great American storyteller. ![]() |