This movie was bonkers. I was expecting something like MCU levels of explosions, fantasy/sc-fi explanations and gadgets, etc. I was not prepared.

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Two very different books set at rather different times!

I realized when I was reading Jhegaala that I have no idea what a jhegaala is like, and honestly...I'm still confused. All I'm clear on is the metamorphosis but um, I'm not even sure what the bodyplan is like. Some of the animals are just regular Earth animals, some are analogous, some are ( Read more... )

On Looking is an exploration of what the world looks like through different experts' eyes - the ability of one's perceptions and interests, training and background, shape how we see the same scene. Written by Alexandra Horowitz, an expert in dog cognition, she explores (mostly) the same block of NYC through many different people's eyes.

I picked up ( Read more... )

Published to rave reviews in 1993, Noah's Garden shows us how our landscape style of neat yards and gardens has devastated suburban ecology, wiping out entire communities of plants and animals by stripping bare their habitats and destroying their food supplies. When Stein realized what her intensive efforts at making a traditional garden had done, ( Read more... )

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So in the past few days I've read three Agatha Christie novels (and have downloaded from the library about...let me count...fifteen of her novels?) Oh my god I love them. I had a fairly long dry spell of reading no new books and then all of a sudden I read almost one a day.

GREAT HONKING SPOILERS UNDER CUTS.

I read Cards on the Table first.
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I saw Antman the other day!

*Whew, I'm glad there was humour. It's such a cracky premise that I'd have been disappointed if they went for Serious Film.

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(well, I composed this entry back in October, so I might as well post it before it becomes December, good grief. November is a month that is exhaustingly busy. Hello, flist, my old friends! I've come to talk to you again ( Read more... )