Darwin’s Cipher by M.A. Rothman Fairly quickly into Darwin’s Cipher it became, if not a hate-read, then an amusingly frustrated read. I suspect that I was not the target audience. I’m studying graduate-level genetics. Mr. Rothman’s novel uses very, very incorrect genetics. The main bad-pop-sci-genetics element is also the novel’s premise. One of the main characters, a geneticist named Juan, cre…
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie (freely/legally available to read online) is the first novel featuring the detective duo Tommy and Tuppence. The latter is introduced as follows:
Miss Prudence Cowley, known to her intimate friends for some mysterious reason as “Tuppence.”
Is the reason f...
Gabriela Mistral's poem Meciendo contains the following stanza:
Dios Padre sus miles de mundos
mece sin ruido.
The translation on LyricsTranslate goes as follows:
God, the Father, your thousands of worlds
swing silently.
Ursula K. Le Guin's translation is a bit different:
The Father rocks hi...
