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October 29, 2020

REVIEW: Bones: Inside and Out by Roy A. Meals, MD

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsanimals / anthropology / culture / Doctor / evolution / fossils / History / medicine / non-fiction / paleontology2 Comments

Recommended Read

A lively, illustrated exploration of the 500-million-year history of bone, a touchstone for understanding vertebrate life and human culture. Human bone is versatile and entirely unique: it repairs itself without scarring, it’s lightweight but responds to stresses, and it’s durable enough to survive for millennia. In Bones, orthopedic surgeon Roy ... more >

August 23, 2016

REVIEW: WTF: What the French?! by Olivier Magny

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsculture / France / non-fiction2 Comments

With Stuff Parisians Like, Olivier Magny shared his hilarious insights into the fervently held opinions of his fellow Parisians. Now he moves beyond the City of Light to skewer the many idiosyncrasies that make modern France so very unique. In France, the simple act of eating bread is an exercise ... more >

April 25, 2016

Monday News: World Book Day, Apple stops services in China, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and American hypocrisy with “ethnic food”

JanetPublishing NewsApple / censorship / China / culture / food / India / Libraries / Viet Thanh Nguyen / World Book Day12 Comments

World Book Day: century-old library distributes 50,000 books – World Book and Copyright Day was created by UNESCO is held on April 23rd (the birth and death date for some prominent authors including Shakespeare and Maurice Druon). The day is designed as a tribute to books and authors, and aims to ... more >

July 16, 2015

Thursday News: A book a day, genre labels, English photography collection, and a not-so Prime Day

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / audiobooks / culture / genre labels / History / photography / reading6 Comments

5 tips to read a book a day every day -I get that most people don’t read more than a handful of books a year, if that, but do we really want to be encouraging people to put away a book a day? Yes, reading can help people become “better ... more >

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June 24, 2015

Wednesday News: NAL merges with Berkley, big data & advertising, Disney’s Pocahontas, and the Simpsons honor Hayao Miyazaki

JanetPublishing NewsAdvertising / anime / big data / culture / Disney / History / media / Penguin Random House / publishing / reorganization / television2 Comments

People: NAL Is Merged Into Realigned Berkley Publishing Group – Well, this is unfortunate. Berkley and NAL (New American Library) are being merged into a “new” Berkley Publishing Group, and also reorganized, with NAL focusing on non-fiction and Berkley focused on fiction, and what looks like a significant number of firings, ... more >

October 14, 2014

The Isolated Romance Heroine

JanetLetters of Opinionculture / family / female friendship / gender / genre critique / heroine / isolation / romantic conflict36 Comments

A few weeks ago I wrote a post on Romance and life philosophies, and during the vibrant ensuing discussion, Liz Mc2 made a great point about how the more Romance novels narrow their focus to just the couple, the less we see of their interaction and engagement with the outside ... more >

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