Who is that, so insistently tapping at my chamber door?
Something suitably spooky is coming to https://inquisitivebiologist.com this #Halloween... For now, here is a quick progress shot while you all wait for the next #BookReview to drop. I'm about halfway in.
#Literature #Biography #Gothic #Horror #Scicomm #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
“Connection reaches into Rodge’s work not just as a responsibility, but through his writing method as well”
SNACK Magazine speaks to Rodge Glass about moving to Glasgow, first meeting Alasdair Gray, & his latest book Joshua in the Sky: A Blood Memoir
读过 Who Was Bob Marley? 
https://neodb.social/book/1iUVVgQMPLoVFAuNxVI67b
原来 Bob Marley 就是 Reggae 的始祖啊，这本小传写了他贫民窟的出身，单亲家庭的环境，还有宗教信仰和后来结识的音乐伙伴，但没有写到他那些经典歌曲的创作过程。三十六岁就早逝了（因为踢足球感染），但留下了十三个孩子（有些是收养），来自八个不同的母亲，渣是能遗传的，他白爹六十多岁“爱”上了少女时代的他妈，等到她十八岁时娶了她，没多久就抛妻弃子，知道这点对他音乐观感降低了些。这本是 Gregory Copeland 的插画。
#biography #children #gregory copeland #music
读过 Who Was Bob Marley? 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
原来 Bob Marley 就是 Reggae 的始祖啊，这本小传写了他贫民窟的出身，单亲家庭的环境，还有宗教信仰和后来结识的音乐伙伴，但没有写到他那些经典歌曲的创作过程。三十六岁就早逝了（因为踢足球感染），但留下了十三个孩子（有些是收养），来自八个不同的母亲，渣是能遗传的，他白爹六十多岁“爱”上了少女时代的他妈，等到她十八岁时娶了她，没多久就抛妻弃子，知道这点对他音乐观感降低了些。这本是 Gregory Copeland 的插画。
#biography #children #gregory copeland #music
读过 Who Is Nathan Chen? 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑
建议这个系列不要急着给这些刚成名、非常年轻且还活着的名人出传记，人家人生还有很长一段路要走呢，这么早给人立传是要预言人家不会再突破现今的成就啦？看完这本（很薄），印象只有妈妈开 10 小时的车送他到加州训练，他现在在耶鲁念统计与数据科学专业。这本是 Gregory Copeland 的插画。
#biography #children #gregory copeland #sports
读过 Who Is Taylor Swift? 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
作为 Who is ... 系列（还在生的人）的作品，这本明显多了很多细节，毕竟她能写的事迹也比同龄人多很多，该提及的大事件都有，而且有写到她如何从始至终想方设法（包括运用互联网技术）拉近与歌迷的距离，成就她坚不可摧的粉丝基础。这本是 Gregory Copeland 的插画。
读过 Who Was Salvador Dalí? 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
没想到达利还是蛮英俊的，出身很好，天赋很好，与缪斯 Gala Dalí 间充满争议的一生牵绊，与家族其他成员的决裂。传记里回顾一些二十世纪初的现代艺术思潮和那些代表人物跟他的交集，艺术圈果然很小。这本是 Gregory Copeland 的插画。
读过 Who Was Salvador Dalí?
https://neodb.social/book/7BOLSvvWzDCbXcfVPzVu97
没想到达利还是蛮英俊的，出身很好，天赋很好，与缪斯 Gala Dalí 间充满争议的一生牵绊，与家族其他成员的决裂。传记里回顾一些二十世纪初的现代艺术思潮和那些代表人物跟他的交集，艺术圈果然很小。这本是 Gregory Copeland 的插画。
#art #biography #children #传记
读过 Who Was Johnny Cash? 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
无感的一本，留一些感想：穷人家的孩子也还是逃不过名利的侵蚀啊，又是吸毒又是出轨的；Rockabilly 也是一种 fusion music 啊，融合了很多流派；跟猫王是同年代的人，两人和另外两名大咖一起录过即兴演奏会。
这本是 Gregory Copeland 的插画。
读过 Who Was Langston Hughes?
https://neodb.social/book/4Bpl1exm8i4ixNxeOk9YY6
这本好玩，学到不少新概念，爵士诗歌、哈林文艺复兴，年轻时被共产主义（作为美国种族隔离的替代）吸引去过苏联和中国，晚年逐渐远离且去政治化。这本是 Gregory Copeland 的插画。
#biography #children #jazz poetry #poem #传记
读过 Who Was Langston Hughes? 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
这本好玩，学到不少新概念，爵士诗歌、哈林文艺复兴，年轻时被共产主义（作为美国种族隔离的替代）吸引去过苏联和中国，晚年逐渐远离且去政治化。这本是 Gregory Copeland 的插画。
#biography #children #jazz poetry #poem #传记
How an Obscure German Noblewoman Influenced the Way Anne Frank Wrote Her Diary
Biographer Ruth Franklin on the Value of a Careful Eye and Fresh Perspective
https://lithub.com/how-an-obscure-german-noblewoman-influenced-the-way-anne-frank-wrote-her-diary/
How Four Literary Icons Chose the Pen Names That Made Them Famous
Kirsty McHugh and Ian Scott Explore the Reasoning Behind Some Very Well Known Pseudonyms
By Kirsty McHugh and Ian Scott
Reading deeper into Virginia Woolf’s vicious diary entry
Maggie Humm says the author’s recollection of encountering a group of learning-disabled people is surely a defence mechanism and projection
Virginia Woolf at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89
![The last known photograph of Anne taken in May 1942, taken at a passport photo shoot. (Photo collection Anne Frank House, Amsterdam. Public Domain Work)]](/proxy/post_attachment/598767/9106584499.jpg "The last known photograph of Anne taken in May 1942, taken at a passport photo shoot. (Photo collection Anne Frank House, Amsterdam. Public Domain Work)]")
![Photograph of Virginia Woolf with hand on face wearing a fur stole (10 x 15 centimeters).
This particular photograph is simply described as "Woolf Virginia [1927]". The verso of the photograph bears no mention allowing an identification of the photographer, but simply indicates - faintly pencilled - the portrait has been made in London.
The photograph was, according to the Smith College Library's web site, "used for promotion" by Harcourt Brace, the publisher of the American version of To the Lighthouse in 1927. In Virginia Woolf Icon (University of Chicago Press, 1999), Brenda Silver describes the photograph as an "(unidentified) studio photograph" and comments it "appear[ed] in in an number of Harcourt Brace ads and articles about Woolf and/or her works in the States during the late 1920s ans the 1930s" (p. 132).
It was in particular published with no copyright notice in a review of the book published by The New York Times on May 8, 1927 and another review published by The Bookshelf Review in June 1927. The photograph was exhibited in the show Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision at the National Portrait Gallery in London in 2014 with the following caption : "by Unknown photographer, 1927. Courtesy of the Mortimer Rare Book Room, Neilson Library, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf#/media/File:Virginia_Woolf_1927.jpg](/proxy/post_attachment/782040/218a299813.jpg "Photograph of Virginia Woolf with hand on face wearing a fur stole (10 x 15 centimeters).
This particular photograph is simply described as \"Woolf Virginia [1927]\". The verso of the photograph bears no mention allowing an identification of the photographer, but simply indicates - faintly pencilled - the portrait has been made in London.
The photograph was, according to the Smith College Library's web site, \"used for promotion\" by Harcourt Brace, the publisher of the American version of To the Lighthouse in 1927. In Virginia Woolf Icon (University of Chicago Press, 1999), Brenda Silver describes the photograph as an \"(unidentified) studio photograph\" and comments it \"appear[ed] in in an number of Harcourt Brace ads and articles about Woolf and/or her works in the States during the late 1920s ans the 1930s\" (p. 132).
It was in particular published with no copyright notice in a review of the book published by The New York Times on May 8, 1927 and another review published by The Bookshelf Review in June 1927. The photograph was exhibited in the show Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision at the National Portrait Gallery in London in 2014 with the following caption : \"by Unknown photographer, 1927. Courtesy of the Mortimer Rare Book Room, Neilson Library, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts\".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf#/media/File:Virginia_Woolf_1927.jpg")