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Monday, February 16, 2009

Information too good to miss

Jill Bolte Taylor has written a book that few people could attempt. At 35 she survived a massive stroke to her left hemisphere with an uncanny ability to remember what happened and the ability to record it for others. She was a Neuroanatomist, brain researcher, who had the opportunity to reach the brain as her stoke was happening. Amazed as she was as it happened, she was unable to fully understand the stoke at first; then as her abilities dwindled away she was an extrememly lucky person as she tried to call for help; we are only more blessed because she did succeed and survived, and she chose to share her insights with us. Pick up a copy of this book and learn more about your own amazing brain.

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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Read-a-Likes for Loving Frank

Loving Frank is a work of historial fiction, stressing the biographical fiction of the lives of Frank Llyod Wright and Mamah Cheney. Other novels of this type are now on display at the Tipp City Public Library:
Moon Rising by Ann Victoria Roberts- a novel of a love affair between Bram Stocker and a local photograph model
Sylvia and Ted by Emma Tennant- a novel about the courtship, marriage and separation of the poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.
The Photograph by Penelope Lively-explores a woman's beauty and its collision with her own happiness, sister's rivalry and lovers' cooling, a marriage in supreme crisis and the cost of professional "success"as life unfolds. (taken from the book jacket)
Pictures from an Expedition by Diane Smith-literary historical fiction set in 1876.
Wild Nights! Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James and Hemingway by Joyce Carol Oates-biographical fiction worked in the author's imagination.
Gatsby's Girl by Caroline Preston- imagines the life of F. Scott Fitzgerld's muse from his early attachment to Ginevra King whom he named Daisy in his great work of fiction.
Dewey Defeats Truman by Thomas Mallon-American fiction placed in the hometown of Dewey, Owosso, Michigan, with a love triangle that takes place on election night, 1948.