I can't believe I forgot to mention this one last month!
- City Dog, Country Frog by Mo Willems
- I was so close to tears after reading this. So. Close. It's such a powerful book and you don't expect it - I mean, you expect part of it - which just kind of makes the story that much more of a punch in the gut. Read it, have tissues in hand, and weep. But also read it to everyone you know.
Tons of marine life in this one! I've briefly discussed #1 and 2 on the list, so I'll just add on to what I said last month about them.
- Spirals in Time by Helen Scales
- I was just clicking into one of Quanta magazine's articles about the rate of genetic mutation (and consequently evolution), and then I read about the studies on phytoplankton - specifically coccolithophores - that deal with whether and how these organisms will adapt to rising carbon dioxide levels in the oceans, and how it would simply be unrealistic to try to carry out the same experiment with larger species such as nautiluses because they take years to reach sexual maturity, and how genetic mutations (and therefore evolution) happens at a quicker rate in phytoplankton precisely because they reproduce in such short timeframes (p.276-277). The study ran over 1800 generations of the phytoplankton and found that they were able to adapt to rising carbon dioxide levels in testing conditions.
- The article actually talks about how if we look at RNA & DNA mutations over a much longer time period, the ACTG bases change multiple times (as they change quite quickly when viewed over short periods of time), which occasionally results in the bases changing back to their original nucleotide base (e.g. an A might change into a T, then a C, before changing back into a T, then skip along to become a G before finally returning to home base at A). In the long run then, genetic mutations happen at a much slower pace than previously understood; this means that we might be underestimating how old some things actually are (the example given in the article is when foamy viruses originated).
- It's not quite the same as what Scales is talking about in that chapter, though the title sure got me, but I feel like related subjects keep popping up right after I read about them and it's a wonderful thing. Most likely what's happening is that they happen independently of me anyway and I have simply become more sensitive to noticing these articles and other such pages popping up on my feeds because I've been primed to do so after reading about similar topics.
- Scales exhorts readers, in the end, to keep in mind all the various uses of molluscs and other creatures in the oceans, if even just for our own selfish uses (e.g. studying mollusc glues that make use of L-dopa; identifying conotoxins and using them for pharmaceutical purposes), by reducing the amount of pollution that we produce that reaches the oceans either directly (e.g. plastic bags, chemical waste) or indirectly (by way of CO2 that gets absorbed by the ocean) as well as making conscious choices in what we consume, both in terms of the beautiful shiny shells - less regulated than the mollusc food industry, decorative shells that are in good shape have most likely been taken from a living animal that was killed for the purposes of taking and selling their shell - and the molluscs we eat, for which we can choose to do a bit more research and purchase more environmentally friendly choices (e.g. rope-grown mussels).
- Spineless by Susan Middleton
- Go read it. The photography is beautiful and the essays help guide the way you view the invertebrates featured. There's also a spread of an octopus as it's changing colours, as well as one of the egg... I forget its name, but I believe it's a mollusc - anyway, it really does look like a black egg cracking open into the white, creamy contents (that are its flesh)!
- At the very end, there's also a character profile of each of the invertebrates featured in the photographs within the book, which is absolutely amazing! What a delightful addition to this volume, and what a way to end after the essays! The length and amount of information presented in each blurb ranges from a short paragraph to almost an entire page (for the hermit crab). This is a treasure trove! At first I was thinking I'd have to go back and review all the creatures I wanted to look into more, but honestly that's a daunting task because basically everything featured looked really interesting. That was when I stumbled upon the back species profiles, which gave me the extra information about each animal that maybe doesn't answer all my questions, but sates some of my curiosities along with fueling other ones. I didn't actually make my way through all of them since someone else was waiting for the book, but it's something I'd like to peruse in detail in the future!
- Sex, Drugs and Sea Slime by Ellen Prager
- One of the first things that Prager does in this books is set out definitions and introduce terms and creatures that the lay reader might not be completely familiar with, which is amazing! It should be pretty routine, but it isn't (Poison, I'm looking at you), so I really appreciate that Prager did it. For example - and this seemed very relevant to my interests at the moment because I started Sex, Drugs and Sea Slime immediately after finishing Spirals in Time, which did talk about coccolithophores in the later parts of the book - Prager details the three major types of phytoplankton (the copepods, coccolithophores and dinoflagellates), introduces zooplankton and krill, and a variety of other microscopic organisms that flood the oceans unseen.
- On the whole, I'm pretty disappointed in this book. Prager does feature a bunch of interesting and weird creatures, as well as covering sex habits of ocean critters that seem odd to us, briefly mentioning various venomous cocktails generated by other invertebrates (like the infamous cone snail) and describes copious amounts of sea slime. So she covers all three of the features of the title. But she doesn't go into enough detail for me to actually care much, and at some point, the one-liners about how these animals have sex or how much slime they produce kind of struck me as perfunctory mentions rather than actual points of interest. And for a book that purports to introduce the reader to the slimy, drug-infested waters filled with kinky sex, it really doesn't deliver. If this was the first book I had read about ocean creatures, I'm not so sure I would have gone down this rabbit hole.
- Most of the things mentioned in this book are pretty run of the mill: cone snails, octopuses, penguins, polar bears (which are neither particularly sexy, drug-addled, or slimy), some sharks and a couple of the whales. I'm not sure if there were any mentions that I hadn't read about in another book already, to be honest. In addition to which, it would have been pretty cool to mention beyond two words how killer whales work together to create a huge wave that slides seals off their ice floes. Or actually mention the scientific differences between dolphins and whales if you're going to say something about how teethed whales are essentially dolphins (I'm pretty sure the distinction has a bit more nuance than that).
- As for the writing itself, I'm going to have to say it was kind of poorly written. Some of the sentences strike me as run-on sentences, which is more distracting than I'd like to admit. Where a colon or two might have saved sentence construction, commas generally overrun the text. I'm being super nitpicky here - the information is interesting, and overall it's well written and engaging - and I'm sure that I commit many many errors of the sort as far as run-on sentences go, but it does detract from the text and makes me have to read a number of sentences over once more to make sure I'm reading them in the right tone or putting emphasis where it's supposed to go.
- ALSO. That part about Donald Trump's "You're fired", except it became "Your Fired"? I'm so confused! Was it a pun? Was it just not edited? What's going on??? In addition to which - ok, this was published 2011 - it strikes me as rather ironic that Prager is mentioning Trump in the "let's do our part to help reduce our ecological footprint and save the environment" section. She really didn't need to make that reference though, either way.
- The Magical Garden of Claude Monet by Laurence Anholt
- It's got flip-out flaps on that one spread! Nice intro to Monet's artwork, complete with a brief bio and interesting facts at the end. I did find it odd that the girl trusted the old man so quickly (to the point of what looks like sitting in his lap when he shows her the saplings), and rather serendipitous that Louie didn't trample on any of Monet's paintings lying around and only painted on the empty piece of paper... but it's a picture book. Quite lovely!
- The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
- This is such a sad story and I'm not sure whether to read it as a critique or as being a symbol of its times (published 1964), or even just a story of pure unconditional love. The great thing is that I think it can be interpreted in all of those ways, which opens up dialogue. Personally, I would prefer to read it as a critique of the expectation placed upon parents regarding their unconditional love towards their children (perhaps specifically placed upon the mother, since the tree is emphatically female), or even just upon women in general and how women are/were expected to sacrifice themselves for men. Either way, because of the openness to interpretation, I would definitely place this book among my list of recommended reads, though perhaps more for adults (or not - I could be being patronizing to children right now).
- Eugene's Story by Richard Scrimger
- So was it all a figment of Eugene's imagination? Or did he conjure up a new fantasy world in which to escape the brutality of reality that is his older sister and his own inability to cope with his inferiority to her?
- At first, while reading it, my impression was pretty "meh", but that ending was wholly unexpected and I'm not sure how to read it anymore. I still don't enjoy it to the extent that I would read it again, but it threw me for a loop, for sure.
- Me & Death: An Afterlife Adventure by Richard Scrimger
- I read this under the impression it was a junior novel, and was quite confused how many times there was relatively mature content featured for something in the J Fic category - until I realized I was just mistaken about the whole thing, because obviously this belongs in (and is correctly categorized as) YA Fic.
- Me & Death is quite a quick read, and Scrimger refuses to tie up all the relationships Jim has neatly - for example, him and his sister have found common ground, but it's not like everything's rainbows and butterflies now; and Raf and Jim no longer have the same perspective on things, and Jim realizes this after agreeing to help Raf out - and yet everything comes around full circle. Interesting throughout, the novel also tackles some of the grey areas of relationships, whether they be the mother-son ties, which are far from what might be considered ideal, or ties of the romantic sort, where Marcie and Jim have an overly simplified romantic encounter that you can probably already sense running into troubles down the line.
- The only thing is, it kind of felt like everything was oversimplified: it's not like everything in life can be resolved with an apology. That being said, Scrimger does a pretty great job introducing grey zones with the ghosts, since there's no mention of any possibility of redemption for them, as well as with Cap & Sparks and the fact that Jim couldn't make it up to Mr.K. Maybe it's just that everything goes so smoothly for Jim? That he wakes up and he actually does become a nicer person? It would have been interesting to see him wake up and continue on his way before realizing sometime later.
- The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, illustrated by Roberto Innocenti, translated by M. A. Murray
- IT'S ACTUALLY A SHARK. Who changed the original shark over to a whale in the first place??? Was it Disney? This is game-changing. The projected image in the Pinocchio ballet makes more sense now (although kind of not... it was more not-shark-fish-like than it should have been if they were aiming for an actual shark, besides which they referred to the creature as a whale in the ballet, too). Although I guess it's a mix in kind of the worst of ways, then, since it just befuddles the viewer altogether.
- So the driving motivation for Pinocchio trying to reform himself (albeit half-heartedly) throughout the story is actually not that he can become a real boy, so much as that he actually feels bad about disappointing Geppetto and the Blue Fairy, his stand-in mother (who, oddly enough, never really interacts at all with Geppetto). I found much of it incredibly odd, to be honest, and if the message is that children should be industrious, then I suppose it's pretty clear. In terms of teaching morals to children, though, I'm not too sure. (There are, I think, many curiously amoral fairy tales though, from what I understand, so this falls within that spectrum pretty well.)
- The Blue Fairy is also much less immediately forgiving of Pinocchio than is usually portrayed: she does punish him after each misdemeamour, even if she decides to once again place her trust in him.
- Lampwick totally gets ditched. Is he meant to represent children who are actually beyond all hope of reformation? Or is it that if not set on the right path early enough, it'll become impossible to correct them? Also, Funland continues to operate even after Pinocchio gets sold, so I suppose the danger lurks in the background anyway: the evil is never truly defeated.
- Les Amours Imaginaires (Heartbeats) (2010) by Xavier Dolan
- Whoa. That ending scene kind of made it seem like Marie & Francis go through the cycle all the time. And Francis' reaction to Nicholas one year later (even though Nico's reaction to Francis' confession was admittedly brutal) was pretty wild. Same goes for Marie. Besides which, if Nico didn't reply to your letter with the poems, even before you tried to explain yourself away, then his answer seems pretty obvious to me.
- Kimi no Na Wa (2016) directed by Shinkai Makoto
- First off: Shinkai's sceneries are always so incredibly beautiful! They glisten and shine like nothing else and it's instantly recognizable even if you don't see anything else in the movie. (Kind of like how I recognized the Ghibli hand in The Red Turtle from the trailer, even though it was so very un-Ghibli-like.)
- On a completely unrelated note, also: before the movie proper, there were trailers/commercials for upcoming movies re: 1)Renaisssance painters (one of the taglines was "travel back in time", and 2)the Devil's Mountain or whatever it's called, that really dangerous racing course where the narrow mountain roads snake around. And I mean, we got number 1 right away and its connection to the movie: there's time travel involved, so while that's a tenuous link, that can be explained away. Halfway through the movie, though, there was this shot of the mountains at Itomori, with the road winding around the mountains, and I got so excited because I realized why they must have suggested the other trailer to us! Anyway. The movie.
- Beautiful, as with the other movies directed by Shinkai Makoto that I've seen (Koto no Ha no Niwa and I believe I've also watched Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho), although this one featured a lot more light-hearted humour than I expected based on his other works. I also really wanted it to end differently, more similarly to 5cm per second from what I hear from my friends, in that everything working out kind of struck me as too serendipitous. When Taki saved Mitsuha and the other villagers by travelling back in time in the god's sacred space, I figured that the most important thing - their other halves - that they had left behind were their memories. And what god would be lenient enough to let them recognize each other? It would have been fine if they had gotten to know each other some other way - that's not really what I'm having an issue with! - but it wrapped everything up way too neatly for me. Also, it would have been such a beautiful place to end the movie when Taki realizes Mitsuha's been dead all that time, for the entire duration of their correspondence, and if he were to forget about her (as he did), but still have had his life changed by the experience, in ways he might not notice.
- I still did enjoy the film immensely, though the English subs could probably have been better/more consistent, but would probably recommend his other films more than I would this one.
- Kiss written by Guillermo Calderón
- I thought it was weird that the program didn't actually have any information about the play's contents. And when Bana (played by Dalal Badr) said that they hadn't actually gotten the rights to reproduce the play. But I was still completely taken for a ride - is it improv? is this scripted? I know they're actors and actresses, but man, their improv is good! and what looked like arguing on stage inserted into the dialogue of the "improv" bits really got me, too - which I think is a real testament to everyone involved in the production of this play, especially those on stage. The lighting was also a bit suspicious because of how on point it was even during the second half, but I felt that sort of "Oooohhhh man. They goofed so hard." after the interview (and during the interview because the questions were rather insensitive) all throughout until Ameera's sister came up on screen again. Amazing!
- I say more about it below in my blurb on White Tears.
- J'ai Tué Ma Mère (2009) by Xavier Dolan
- Things were made rather difficult by the lack of subtitles, so I was under the impression for the longest time that Hubert actually kills his mother (wikipedia later revealed that it's something his teacher said in response to his lie that his mother was dead). I watched Mommy (2014) a while ago, also by Dolan, and I wonder whether he has produced more films that deal with this turbulent type of relationship between mother and son. I feel as though all the relationships portrayed by Dolan in the films I've watched thus far have been pretty dysfunctional (though perhaps I'm judging based on stereotypical - and thus unattainable - notions of how relationships should function). Also, it kind of feels as though Niels Schneider is everywhere.
- Laurence, Anyways (2012) by Xavier Dolan
- Making my way through Dolan's works.
- Seeing Laurence and Fred change, as individuals and as a couple, was a slow kind of heartbreaking. You see the moments, you feel the fissures, and there are specific events (like the abortion, Fred not talking to Laurence about it at all before making her decision), but it's not even just their accumulation that destroys them. It's everything that happens: the stress, the loneliness, their inability to communicate as fully as they once did. And that they couldn't recover what they had - that Fred didn't see the beauty in that one couple's life that Laurence brought her to meet, and that she had planned all along for Laurence to only be a temporary blip in her life once more - is sad to see. All the same, Laurence flourishing as a woman, finding her place and being able to stand her ground as a woman, to leave Fred behind at the bar years later, was still a beautiful end.
- I also think this is the first time I've seen such a good relationship between mother and son in Dolan's films! Albeit one that started rather in a storm. The evolution of Laurence and her mother's relationship to one another, and their frankness with one another, was delightful to see, if a bit anxious for the viewer: "I always saw you as the woman who lived in the house. Never as my mother" "I never saw you as my son. But I see you as my daughter, now." (Not exact quotes.)
- White Tears by Hari Kunzru
- This is one of those novels you can read in a day, and I say this not because it's particularly short, so much as it's absolutely riveting and you can't tear yourself away.
- Wow. And immediately after watching Kiss (above), too, which explored the same topic of appropriating another culture's history, trying to insert yourself into their suffering when you aren't actually a part of it, and the inevitable dissonance that arises of that. In White Tears, this results in complete tragedy: the Wallaces fall, one after the other, for their part as well as in Carter's dogged pursuit of an authenticity that is beyond the reach of reality - an authenticity that, ironically, could only be created by creating a mashup of sounds and the recorded song, rather than be found already existing.
- A few quotes from the Kiss brochure/handout:
- "Transnational solidarity efforts can often serve as a racial alibi for white, Western privilege that is leveraged in support of those facing human rights emergencies in the global South, producing savior-victim narratives that can easily be mistaken for modern day forms of imperialism... in what ways can activism avoid paternalism? On what grounds can solidarity be achieved when these disparities limit activists' ability to understand the circumstances, cultural contexts, and lived experiences of those they seek to liberate? In other words: What are the ethics of taking on a political struggle that is not one's own?"
- Kunzru highlights this in an even starker light: Carter comes from a line of wealthy white people who used to own slaves, Charlie Shaw being one of them. In the same way, Leonie also struggles with her place of privilege within the arts sector that she has chosen to for herself; she can never be free of her mother's position within the arts as a collector.
- When Charlie Shaw takes on his revenge using Seth's body, even then there is a clear demarcation of race, as though to scream out Seth's white privilege: "If I'd been black they probably would have shot me, just put me down right there and then. Instead they hung a coat round my shoulders as they led me to the car."
- "... where the desire to be a good person doing good things is displaced by an uncomfortable and persistent sense of inadequacy and humility, knowing that one can never fully know"
- In the context of White Tears, Carter both recognizes and is unable to find a solution to this issue: Seth notes that there was a time when Carter wore a red, gold and green beanie hat, but that he now lived in fear should ever one of those photographs reemerge. They tried to hang out with the black students that fit their stereotype of what passed for authentic, only to find that they weren't quite "black" enough for them. They weren't "real", in the way that nobody could be, because in their desire to be part of the culture, to take on the history, they had already reduced black people to a stereotype.
- As Seth becomes further and further mired in his confusion, his tendency, as he noted even from the start, of becoming lost in the past, being dragged into decades past, the reader too gets more and more lost where exactly each chapter is: are we with Seth? with JumpinJim? is it the past come to haunt the present? But once Charlie Shaw takes over, everything calms; everything is, perhaps for the first time in the novel, absolutely clear. In the end, though, we can never be sure whether Seth has lost his mind, or if the past really has come to haunt him because of what Carter's interminable search for this song, this sound, set into action. But something that really struck me was when Seth went to Farish Street, and an old woman confronts him as he's being a tourist in the area, taking photographs: "Look, I had nothing to do with whatever happened to your neighborhood. I'm not the one to blame."
- Never Always Sometimes by Adi Alsaid
- Another YA, on recommendation after I mentioned how I would have liked to see Dante & Aristotle figure themselves out without being mutually in love with one another. She said things go in ways I never would have expected, and I'm so very glad Gretchen wasn't thrown into the mix just as a catalyst for Dave & Julia, but it didn't throw me for as much of a loop as I wish it did! Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place (YA Fic) for the type of thing I want to read (existential crises, unhappy endings...)
- I loved seeing the characters mature and realize their own contradictions (avoiding clichés to be unique, yet not realizing that that's just another type of cliché), and how Alsaid tackled the uncertain and ephemeral nature of relationships, even when the love is mutual. There were many grey areas in Dave & Julia's relationship, and that's part of what made them them (that they were kind of practically dating before they actually started dating), and Brett's interest in Julia was hinted at throughout though never acted upon (I thought for the longest time that the way the novel was going to throw me for a loop was actually that Julia was going to realize she loved Brett and Dave was going to have to be rejected outright and it was going to be a bit of a mess, but it didn't go that route). That not every character we get to know is paired up by the end of the novel is also rather refreshing!
- There's always something I'm unsatisfied with, though, and with Never Always Sometimes, I'm really kind of pissed at Dave, who is portrayed all around as the nicest human being around and yet cheats on Gretchen, and with how easily it's all resolved. I really wanted Gretchen to have responded with "I don't want him back" when Julia told her she could have him. It's as though that wasn't even an option, and it would've been great if Dave had been able to go to UCLA alone, and still have been able to live with himself (or not). The ending part was also a bit too cheesy for me, besides which it also makes it seem like Julia & Dave just hadn't learned their lesson and are reverting back to their old ways, although I'm not sure if Alsaid is playing on the whole clichéd theme or what in this case.
- Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey by Karen Wilkin
- Wilkin hit it on the head when she says in her essay that when you mention Edward Gorey, "you are most liekly to get one of two reactions: a blank "Who?" or ane xcited outpouring of enthusiasm" (p.9). It's the sort of thing you feel as though you want to keep under wraps because it's got something special to it - something you want to hide from the world and make your own - and yet I'm willing to bet there are more Gorey afficionados than I would expect at first guess. Even just from mentioning Gorey at work, about half of my coworkers knew of him and were eager enough to talk about his books. Keeping in mind I work at a library though, so perhaps it's the perfect environment for Gorey lovers to gather? The topic of discussion at hand though was how The Epiplectic Bicycle (currently the only Edward Gorey item we own written by Gorey himself, as we do own The Jumblies and The Shrinking of Treehorn, among others) fits into the category in which it's been put: the Junior Picture books. The apparently adult themes (death, namely, and violence) don't seem like they should be meant for children reading picture books, nor perhaps as a bedtime story for those adults reading to their children, and yet I would be quite afraid for its life if it were to live in the adult section - I'm almost willing to bet it would be weeded out in a short while because it doesn't really look particularly like an "adult book", whatever that's supposed to be. And Wilkin addresses this ambiguity in her essay: who is the target audience, and what did Gorey himself say about it? (In fairness, Gorey was as contradictory in his own remarks about whom his books were meant for as they remain confusing in their ambiguity today, so I'd say he achieved, at least in this realm, the uncategorizability that he wanted.)
- I also very much appreciated those envelope drawings! It makes me want to write more letters out to people if just so that I can draw more on the envelopes! (That being said, I think there's a limit to how much you can mess around with the general layout of the envelope before the people working at the Post become confused or the machines misread which address is which.)
These below are what I'm either working on or have already borrowed, that are just waiting for me to get to them, preferably by the end of this month.
- The Extreme Life of the Sea by Stephen R. Palumbi & Anthony R. Palumbi
- It's a father-son duo! And they address the formulaic approach that I've also noticed in the above books about marine life: illustrate all the wonders of the sea that are relevant to the purported topic of discussion, then detail how human action has and is continuing to destroy what ecosystems exist that we both know about (and can thus measure the degree of our destruction, to a degree) and are as yet unaware of (and can thus only hope that we are doing less damage than we probably are), before finally exhorting the reader dear to please take steps to reduce their aquatic footprint. Which is all right and well - I absolutely agree that we should be protecting marine life, if even just so we can discover what other benefits they hold for us personally, although I do believe they are worth protecting in their own right - but after reading the same gist in maybe 3 books, by the 4th one, I'm starting to get a little weary of the entire formula everyone's adhering to so tightly. I have to say that Sex, Drugs and Sea Slime was probably the worst perpetrator in this regard, simply because Prager split up each of her chapters into subsections, one of which details what those animals have that can be used for our benefit (I think the section is called "Why We Should Care" or something like that, which kind of assumes the worst, or at least the most selfish tendencies, in her reader. Which is odd, because I'm thinking that the target audience and the readers that are willing to invest time in reading the book are already converted to lovers of marine life, or at least awe-struck spectators to their wonders, so it's kind of like preaching to the choir in a somewhat condescending manner?)
- The writing is easy to get into, though it stops short of being descriptive or tantalizing enough that it reads as the exhilarating fictionalization of events heretofore unseen that is suggested at the beginning in the disclaimer or preface. I forget whether it was promised, but it was a bit of a disappointment that the fictitious accounts hook me in no more than the hard facts or theories; myself personally, I feel as though if you're going to indulge in fictitious accounts to add flair to your writing and detail hypothetical situations extrapolated from evidence (e.g. Giant Squid v. Sperm Whale showdown as hypothesized from squid beaks found in sperm whale stomachs), then you go the whole hog, right? I didn't feel that writing the imaginary battle between the two added anything beyond what can be said in terms of "we think this showdown happens because we see squid beaks in sperm whale stomachs & also because there is evidence that suggests they both evolved at around the same time in startlingly similar ways (all giant squids very similar genetically, and same with sperm whales, though correlation does not equal causation, as always)" (not a quote). For some of the other sections that might be categorized as fictionalized accounts, some of them I would say are just descriptive passages of how things happen rather than a work of fiction.
- There's a sentence that's basically repeated from one page to the next (flipped) page, causing me to reread and flip back to make sure I hadn't actually read this page yet, talking about drag in water: the first page referring to flying fish, and the second to dolphins, both with respect to payoff.
- The Hunt for the Golden Mole by Richard Girling
- The Ocean of Life by Callum Roberts
- Reinventing Gravity by John F. Moffat
- I'm reading this in spurts right now during my breaks (at work), so it's not quite as easy to get into that mode as it should be, but Moffat is really good at breaking concepts down such that they're understandable for laymen! He makes sure to cover the ground that he wants to question, though I'm not yet at the reinvention of gravity just yet, which is great form (and really shouldn't surprise me, but the fact that it kind of does - that he covers Newton & Einstein in such detail - is sad because it suggests I've come to expect precious little).
- Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
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