Links for East Side Readers' discussion
Ron Charles reviews "Beatrice and Virgil," - (negative)
Yann Martel's videos at Goodreads
'Life Of Pi' Author's New Book Asks What Happened : NPR :: How are we going to talk about what happened to us one day when it's over? That question is at the heart of Beatrice and Virgil. Liane Hansen interviews Martel about his first novel since the Man Booker Prize-winning Life of Pi. (text & audio)
Books Mentioned
Guernica : painting by Pablo Picasso (wiki)
Additional links from Elizabeth: (Thank you!)
Behind the Name Henry
L'Hote: 1 hôte Noun, masculine
(a) host
(b) (Comput) host (computer)
2 hôte Noun, masculine/feminine
(a) guest; ~ payant paying guest; ~ de marque distinguished guest
L'Hote: 1 hôte Noun, masculine
(a) host
(b) (Comput) host (computer)
2 hôte Noun, masculine/feminine
(a) guest; ~ payant paying guest; ~ de marque distinguished guest
Michigan State U's Animal Studies has an extensive web site with an impressive bibliography of their role in literature, history, etc. Sample links:
Okapi at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo : "To people of the DRC, the okapi is a very special animal. It is now the symbol of conservation for the country. People who live near okapi respect them because of their elegant appearance and elusive ways. To these people, okapi represent the purity of the forest because okapi inhabit the deepest parts of it which have been undisturbed by humans."
- Center for Biological Diversity
- International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) publishes a Red List of Threatened Species and the 2009 version makes for sober reading. It shows that “17,291 species out of the 47,677 assessed species are threatened with extinction.”
- Biodiversity
- Extinction
- Biodiversity Hot Spots: The Florida Everglades
- Ringelblum Milk Can EXERPTED: Today I want to talk about other addresses in the ghetto. And other acts of resistance. Namely, the buildings at Nowolipki 68 and Swietojerski 34. Buried under these buildings was another form of Molotov cocktail, another type of weapon. The weapon of words. Their power is ultimately indestructible, for such is the power of truth. ==MORE== Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum, the project to document life in the ghetto was called Oneg Shabbat, Sabbath Joy. The buried archive included copies of the underground press, ration cards, letters, poetry, theater posters, ===MORE=== Ringelblum took great care to ensure the archive’s secrecy. When word of the mass deportations began in July 1942, he asked Israel Lichtenstein to bury it. Licthenstein recruited help, including 19 year old David Graber who penned this message: “What we were unable to cry and shriek out to the world we buried in the ground… I would love to see the moment in which the great treasure will be dug up and scream the truth at the world. So the world may know all. …
