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The week we asked
about the word nosh. Nosh is a term
that originated in 1957 and applied to eating and drinking, often specifically
to eating between meals. The term comes
from the Yiddish.
If you like tales of time travel and enjoy the short story
format then you couldn’t ask for a better book then The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF. This book, edited by Mike Ashley, is full of
excellent stories revolving around standard time travel tropes. Included are works by such authors as
Gregory Benford, Fritz Leiber, Robert Silverberg, Kage Baker (one of my
favorite writers), Michael Swanwick, John Varley, and many more.
Yuyi's books include the Belpre winner Niño Wrestles the World (2013) and Just in Case (2008).
Her illustrations are featured in many wonderful picture books including Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez (2003) and Georgia in Hawaii: When Georgia O'Keefe Painted What She Pleased (2012).
In April we will be reading My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte
Taylor. In this book Taylor, who by
profession is a brain scientist, explores the stroke she had when she was 37…
details of its occurrence, how she recovered, & what she learned from the
experience. She also educates the
reader about the phenomena of stroke as an illness. The book looks to be quite interesting and we will learn, at the
very least, how to recognize the symptoms of stroke in ourselves or the people
in our lives.
The week’s question
was what was Murder, Incorporated?
Murder, Incorporated was a group formed from tough Jewish kids from the
streets of Brooklyn in the 1930’s.
“These were men who readily killed with gun, knife, or whatever was
handy in order to make a crooked buck.”
It was estimated that the group was responsible for 400 to 500 murders
nationwide.
Kim Harrison has been writing a series set in Cincinnati and
revolving around the character of Rachel Morgan for a while now. Long enough for Rachel to go through some
seriously life changing events. Rachel
lives in a world that went through a catastrophic epidemic that decimated human
population. After it the “supernatural”
type creatures came out of the closet (so to speak) because they were
needed. At the start of the series
Rachel is a witch working for an investigative service with a pixie and a
living vampire (someone who’ll turn into a vampire once they’re dead) as
partners. Twelve books later, in The Undead Pool,
she has morphed into a day walking demon, with her original partners as her
business partners (& friends) and with a complicated romantic relationship
with an Elf. Here she must stop a plot
to kill all the undead vampires in Cincinnati, figure out what the story is
with the Elves’ Goddess, and cope with all manner of tricky issues.