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...abandon it after a few pages. But I was drawn in by the lush portrayal of 19th-century aristocracy, the disturbed internal monologues of the protagonists, and the philosophical reflections on farming. For me, Anna’s romantic set-up was merely the framework upon which a richer novel could unfold...
Without the anomaly of an unscheduled summer, I would never have been able to read the novel. The British company Orion Books claims to have found a solution for busy people like myself. This spring, it began to publish ultra-abridged versions of classics like “Anna Karenina,” shortening them to about half their original size and advertising them as great books “in half the time.” The goal is to trim away all excess verbiage, jettison any pointless asides, and streamline prose so that it follows a more straightforward...
...arrangement. After watching a recording of a previous performance, members from the ensemble began throwing out suggestions, frequently conferring through a translator with Qasimov, the foremost singer of traditional Azerbaijani music and a recipient of the UNESCO Music Prize.Ideas ranged from reworking parts of the existing arrangement to entirely novel additions to the ancient work—one musician suggested collaborating with a director to introduce stage motions and acting to the role of the two soloists, for example.By the next rehearsal on Tuesday, products of the first day’s brainstorming session already started to be realized...
...react to critics who say romance novels are trashy? -Rachel Malaguit, Manila I think it is narrow-minded for anyone to say this entire genre is trash or fluff. In every genre you'll find trash. Not every romance [novel] published is wonderful-it would be very naive for me to say so. Some may edge over to trashy, but it really is in the eye of the individual reader...
...first author of the study—collected blood samples from over 40 malaria patients in Senegal and worked with her collaborators to isolate the parasites’ genetic material. By measuring the expression of every gene in the parasite, the authors found “completely novel states that are seen in patients that we never saw in the petri dish,” Daily said. While one group of parasites had patterns of gene expression like those seen in lab culture, the second group had patterns that were the mirror image of what is seen in culture...