5/24/2023 0 Comments Lying Eyes by Amy Atwell![]() ![]() About the history of electricity in London? That’s in there too. Want to know about the Kensal Green Cemetary? It’s in there. It’s lucid and beautifully written, and full of cool stuff. This tome – and I do mean tome – can tell you anything you ever wanted to know about London, seemingly from the dawn of time. The first is the revised edition of The London Encyclopaedia. ![]() I also got a few swell books under the tree, ones I had been hoping Santa would bring me to help with my research. ![]() The book has been getting great reviews, and it sounds both important and fascinating. Henrietta Lacks was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who, without her consent, made medical history. My step-mother has one particularly interesting book in her pile: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. I’ve already checked out everybody’s haul, and there are a few that I’m going to be “borrowing” for myself. My family loves giving and receiving books for Christmas. As you can see, he’s got quite the pile of presents there, and I can guarantee that some of them will be books. The handsome fellow posing with Santa is Yukon, the book-loving Norwegian Elkhound. ![]()
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