READ the 100 Best FIRST Lines from Novels
[americanbookreview.org/100BestLines]
{i especially like:
“The sky above the port
was the color of television,
tuned to a dead channel.”
—William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)}
The ten oldest books known to man: Typically of Egyptian, Sumerian, or Akkadian origin, the world’s first works of literature provide an integral glimpse into how the peoples who initially recorded their histories, stories, and religious beliefs lived out their daily lives. By educating oneself in humanity’s past, one does nothing but forge a deep understanding and awareness of the present. READ MORE: Vintage & Anchor Books. Books!
{i especially like #7 En-hedu-ana’s Hymns. the author worked as a high priestess in the service of the moon god Nanna. She wrote 42 “amazingly eloquent hymns,” and has long been held by feminists as an icon of women’s empowerment.~sb}
NEURO-SCIENTISTS have new help mapping brain’s intricate landmarks; like explorers mapping new planet>but probing brain! Developed in part through the HUMAN CONNECTOME PROJECT, scientists can now use MRI scanning data to do this~sb
“The brain is among the most complex structures known, with approximately 90 billion neurons transmitting information across 150 trillion connections,” says David Van Essen, PhD, Edison Professor and head of the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Washington University.
Perfect timing For Halloween, my rough and raggedy cat is black and looks like a vamp-cat.
I’m calling him “Dog” in memory of the first cat I remember naming, when I was 3, while we lived a block up from Lake Union.
{Since DOG is not an actual cat, and just exists in a painting, I won’t have to worry about him throwing up hairballs on my light colored carpet. Altho I may need a frame since the paint on the canvas goes around the edge and I don’t want it to rub off}
Anyway that’s all the news for now on my virtual nearly care-free pet.
;-)
~sb
#SCRIBAL: e-books push deeper into interactive territory …that’s what i’m developing alongside my traditional novel VxW (Vampyr X Wiccan: The Untold Tragedy of Romeus and Juliette)~sb
“Publishers are still trying to figure out how to best make e-books people want.
Despite all the buzz about devices, the Internet hasn’t gone away: It remains a destination.” ~ Carolyn Kellogg @latimes.com
sarah nean bruce ≈ living in urbia… 