While Love and Forgetting was in my stack of current reads, I listened to the World Book Club's podcast edition of a discussion of Albert Camus' The Outsider. Camus is someone whose work I associate with formal study, not pleasure, but Harriet Gilbert's interviews draw me into subjects I don't
In my family, you didn't have to buy diet books. It wasn't that we weren't shopping at Stuckey's and Coyle's: we did so, in bulk. But someone else in the family was guaranteed to have bought whatever new diet book was making waves, so you could borrow their dogeared paperback.
Less than a penny. That's how much it costs to read a single letter of DNA. Between 2000 and 2003, the cost fell from $1.50 to less than a single cent. "Suddenly DNA was mass-market." Random House Canada, 2013 Carolyn Abraham hadn't been saving her pennies for this
** Below, there's an opportunity to win your own copy of A Complicated Marriage ** [Edit: Now complete.] The sound of high heels clicking. The spill of Miles Davis and Charlie Parker's music. A paisley-draped foam couch. Smoking a Pall Mall. Drinking a gin and tonic. A handkerchief kitchen.
Is it still a radical idea? The notion that the world can no longer afford to oppress half its population. Apparently so. Random House Canada, 2013 Sally Armstrong's work considers the ways in which the world's largest problems -- poverty, conflict and violence -- are being addressed via efforts
